- "Ortolan secretions are quite distinctive."
- ―Inspector Thanoth
Ortolans were a sentient species of squat, blue-skinned bipeds with large, floppy ears, beady black eyes, and a trunk-like nose that were native to the cold planet Orto. They consumed large amounts of food in order to develop a warm layer of blubber due to the frigid temperatures of their homeworld.[5] Maximilian Rebo, founder of the Max Rebo Band, was a male Ortolan.[2]
Biology and appearance[]
Ortolans were a sentient species of squat, blue-skinned bipeds with trunk-like noses and two beady black eyes.[1] They also possessed small mouths filled with blunted teeth behind their noses[7] and a pair of large, floppy ears,[1] which were sensitive to sound[2] and used to store fat.[3] Ortolans fended off the cold of their icey and snowy habitat by eating their way to a blubbery body.[6] Their articulated digits were able to absorb food and drink as well as play musical instruments.[3] According to Inspector Thanoth, their secretions were "quite distinctive." Ortolans were capable of speaking Galactic Basic Standard[7] and their average lifespan was 71+ years.[4]
Behind the scenes[]
Ortolans have been inconsistently depicted with and without arms in several pieces of canon media, with some Ortolans resembling the armless depiction described in Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know while others resemble their previous Star Wars Legends depiction. In a post on StarWars.com detailing behind the scenes for Star Wars Resistance "The High Tower," an Ortolan doll matching the Legends depiction is described as, "an Ortolan doll (with extra limbs)".[8]
Appearances[]
Non-canon appearances[]
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "A Hero Discovered"
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "The Mines of Graballa" (Appears in hologram)
- LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales — "Gambit on Geonosis" (In flashback(s))
- A Vader Family Sithmas
- The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
- LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation (In flashback(s))
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Sources[]
Non-canon sources[]
- LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation | Official Trailer on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
- 5 Things We Love About the LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation Trailer on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ultimate Star Wars
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: Alien Archive
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Darth Vader (2015) 10
- ↑ Star Wars Resistance — "The High Tower"