Givin

"Whatever you do, don't harm the Givin! Jabba wants him alive."

―Greedo attempting to capture a Givin codebreaker^[3]

Givins were a sentient species from Yag'Dhul. They had the appearance of an animated skeleton, and were renowned for their mathematical genius. During the Galactic Civil War, the Givin cryptographer Drusil Bephorin was recruited into the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

Biology and appearance[]

The Ante-DV9 — The Ante, a Givin infochant

Givins were a species of white-skinned, hairless humanoids who, to human eyes, looked like animated skeletons.^[1] Their facial features included sharp downward angles, large triangular eye sockets,^[4] and sloped-up brows that met together in the middle, lending them an appearance of permanent anguish.^[1] The average height of Givins was 1.8 meters.^[2]

Because of the harsh environment of their homeworld, the Givin's organs were sealed away from the atmosphere. Thanks to that, they could survive for a short while in vacuum.^[1] The Givins had a natural gift for mathematics.^[3]

Society and culture[]

Mathematics were central to the Givin culture. Because of that, many of them became experts in a number of scientific fields. It was polite to address a Givin with an equation for them to answer, a custom known as greeting maths. The Givin would respond with an equation of their own. When dealing with other, less mathematically minded species, Givins would ask an equation with an answer of three for convenience.^[1]

History[]

Givins hailed from Yag'Dhul, a world located in the galaxy's Inner Rim region.^[2]

Givins in the galaxy[]

"With your species gift for mathematics augmented by our cybernetics, there is no code we can't crack—"

―Anolo, to a hybroid Givin^[3]

ClosingIn-Transformations — A Givin points Boba Fett towards his bounty.

Because of their skeletal-looking faces and seemingly anguished expressions, the Givins' appearance was unsettling to certain other species, including humans. However, their innate mathematical ability gave them employment in a number of scientific fields.^[2]

Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, a Givin was among the barflies attending the cantina of Mos Eisley the day Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker met Han Solo and Chewbacca.^[5] Later, Skywalker went on a dangerous mission to free Drusil Bephorin, a renowned Givin cryptographer, so she could join the Alliance to Restore the Republic.^[1]