Why is there an alien in the garbage?
In the classic scene in Star Wars a New Hope our heroes are trapped in a rubbish press with a creature...
Given the Death Star is fairly new (it's only just been completed) how could such a creature have got on board and how could it end up in the garbage compacter? Is it actually part of the rubbish recycling process?
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The creature, called a Dianoga, is a pest found across the Galaxy, that originated on a planet called Vodran.
It likely arrived on the Death Star as a stowaway on a garbage ship removing trash from the Death Star. Their larva are apparently microscopic, and common enough to be considered a serious pest:
Over many millennia, dianoga migrated from Vodran by stowing away aboard garbage ships in their microscopic larval forms, and could be commonly found in trash compactors, garbage pits and sewers across the galaxy, living off any present organic matter
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The presence of a single dianoga was often cause for alarm, since the creatures were self-fertilizing hermaphrodites, and could quickly multiply to pose a larger problem.
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What was the creature in the garbage compactor?
A dianoga's central eye. One dianoga was known to have boarded the first Death Star, and made its home in one of the space station's garbage compactors. When Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Leia Organa, during the rescue of Leia, were forced into the trash compactor, the dianoga attacked Skywalker.Why did the dianoga let Luke go?
Enacting the belief of her people, Omi pulled Skywalker into the water, "baptizing" him, after she felt that he too was in "submission to It," and letting him go shortly thereafter. As the compression cycle was about to start, the dianoga disappeared deep underwater.What creature attacked wrecker?
A Dianoga was present on Bracca during Clone Force 99's mission to remove their inhibitor chips. The dianoga inhabited the murky waters that sat beneath the scrap of a decommissioned Venator-class Star Destroyer. The dianoga attacked Wrecker when he nearly fell into the contaminated water among the Venator's wreckage.What is dianoga?
Dianoga were large omnivorous cephalopods that hailed from the planet Vodran in the Si'Klaata Cluster. Although primitive, they were actually sentient, and some dianoga were sensitive to the Force.Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?
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