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- "It's those womp rats again. Are they trying to chew up all the cables on the planet or what?"
- ―Luke Skywalker, after shooting a womp rat
Womp rats were creatures native to Tatooine.[1] Considered to be a pest, they nested in the desert and would sometimes gather in swarms to attack the inhabitants of Tatooine. The smell of dead womp rats was known to attract krayt dragons.[2] During the Clone Wars, when Anakin Skywalker was having trouble getting information out of Dr. Nuvo Vindi, Obi-Wan Kenobi told him to have patience, as there was "more than one way to skin a womp rat."[3]
Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, when Col Takbright protested that the two-meter target on the Death Star was impossible to hit, even for a computer, Luke Skywalker countered that he used to "bulls-eye" womp rats in his T-16 Skyhopper back home and that they were not much bigger than two meters.[1] Luke Skywalker could hit the most of the creatures of any of his group of friends on a T-16 Skyhopper run through Beggar's Canyon, though he considered them hairy, monstrous pests.[4]
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- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures – "Trouble on Tibalt" (Mentioned only)
SourcesEdit
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- Star Wars: Complete Locations
- Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded
- Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy From A To Z
- Star Wars: Alien Archive
- Wedge Antilles in the Databank (backup link)
