Jenet The Jenets , or Jenet , were a species of sentient , humanoid rodents , best known for their exceptional memories and scavenger nature . Other species often regarded Jenets as ugly and quarrelsome . They had pink skin , red eyes , and wiry fur , which grew sparsely on the body but more thickly on their heads . Their prominent whiskers twitched as they spoke . As adaptations to aid scavenging , they could digest almost any form of organic matter , and could rely upon keen eyesight , hearing , and smell . The species were excellent runners , climbers , and swimmers , and their flexible bodies allowed them to squeeze through openings as narrow as twelve centimeters by disjointing their long limbs and separating their cranial plates . Jenet reproductive biology encouraged rapid population growth , as both gestation and maturation occurred rapidly in comparison to those processes in many other species . Originally from the planet Garban in the Tau Sakar system , the Jenets evolved into cunning survivalists who systematically drove into extinction those species that preyed upon them , an event they remembered as the Great Conquest . The exception was the danchaf , a clever arboreal species whose presence in Garban ' s forests prevented the Jenets from fully dominating such areas . As their technology progressed , the Jenets colonized the six other habitable planets that orbited Tau Sakar to ameliorate conditions on their increasingly overcrowded homeworld . Their communities across the system were distinguished by the species ' tortuous bureaucracy , made up of Jenets whose jobs were simply to commit to memory as many facts about their fellows as possible . Jenet eidetic recall influenced social relations , as a Jenet ' s name contained a long list of his or her deeds and accomplishments and informed others of that individual ' s status in Jenet society . The rulers of the species were the Council of 127 and the premier . Jenet populations maintained Community Heap s , cooperatively owned landfills replete with scavenged and discarded items . With the ascension of Galactic Emperor Palpatine and the institution of the New Order , the Galactic Empire found the Jenets to be useful as slaves , because the rodents ' high reproductive rate allowed their masters to pay little attention to the detrimental effects of poor labor and living conditions . Those Jenets who migrated beyond the Tau Sakar system often found employment in fields that made use of their infallible memories , such as government , administration , and business . For example , a Jenet named Losh worked in the civil service divisions on Coruscant and helped Captain Gregar Typho of Naboo investigate the death of Padmé Amidala . However , other Jenets ventured into the galaxy ' s criminal element . The Invisible Shell , for instance , was a crime ring operated by a clan of Jenets on the planet Pavo Prime under the leadership of a male named Lorimar Lebauer . The species ' ability to remember even minor details of things they had seen or heard also made them excellent spies . Despite their mistreatment by the Empire , few Jenets supported the Alliance to Restore the Republic or joined its successor state , the New Republic . After the Republic transitioned to the Galactic Alliance , at least some Jenets allied with the government ; two such were Thorsh , a Jenet espionage agent during the Yuuzhan Vong War , and Reeqo Swen , a Jenet Jedi - in - training . Biology and appearance . Jenets , or Jenet , were a species regarded as unattractive — if not repulsive — by Humans . They were sentient rodents who stood between 1 . 4 and 1 . 6 meters tall . Although a few individuals exhibited a highly muscled or corpulent physique , the average Jenet had a gaunt build characterized by long , thin limbs . Jenet locomotion involved a bipedal gait whereby they walked on their toes , with the long , wedge - shaped feet jutting upward at an angle . Their forelimbs terminated in four attenuated fingers and an opposable thumb , and their hindpaws in four elongated toes . All of these digits ended in sharp claws . Although Jenet physiology made them adept at running , jumping , swimming and climbing , their general form of movement was to scurry from place to place . They also exhibited extreme flexibility : a Jenet could fit through an opening as small as twelve centimeters across by dislocating his or her limbs and separating the individual bones of the cranium to squeeze through . A Jenet ' s pale , oily , pink skin was covered in coarse , thin fur . It grew more thickly on the top of the head , where a mass of hair of a different color from the main coat might have manifested . Fur colors ranged from white or gray to red . Some individuals sported a short beard as well . The rounded Jenet muzzle could grow quite long , terminating in a wet nose surrounded by stiff whiskers that grew to a length equal to the smallest opening through which a Jenet could fit . The beings had a keen sense of smell , developed to help them find food . A cleft upper lip lay below the nostrils , only partially covering a pronounced set of sharp , yellowish teeth . Jenets had small , red eyes set under thick brow ridges . The rodents were noted for their keen eyesight , another food - finding adaptation ; they could see well even in low - light conditions . Their pointed ears lay flat against the head , providing most members of the species acute hearing — although not all Jenet shared this trait . Jenets were omnivorous . They were able to digest virtually any organic matter , and their diet ranged from wild fruit to necrotic flesh . At least some members of the species slept with their arms and legs held tight to the body and the muzzle nestled near the hindlimbs . Jenets had two sexes and reproduced sexually . Pregnant females carried their offspring in the womb for ninety standard days before bearing a litter of four to six young . Jenets matured rapidly ; they learned to walk by two months of age and entered adolescence at four standard years . Jenets reached sexual maturity at nine and had a life expectancy of seventy standard years . Jenets were particularly fecund , so that a female rarely went more than a standard year before giving birth to another litter . Society and culture . Jenets were temperamental and obsessed with trivialities , which led many other species to regard them as irksome and obnoxious . Despite their dominance over their homeworld both politically and technologically , Jenets were unabashed scavengers by nature . They never discarded anything : whatever they acquired was kept in their homes or in large piles in their community ' s warrens . These Community Heap s , filled with broken tools , leftover food , empty containers , and the like , were common property , and Jenets enjoyed rummaging through them to find items of use . Although they were omnivores , they did not hunt or raise animals ; rather , they ate only meat they found from an animal that had already died . The species practiced animal husbandry to ensure that the wild creatures of their worlds did not overpopulate . The Jenets themselves had to contend with creatures that might try to eat them , so they kept an ear out for such attacks while working . The sentient rodents were adept at fleeing in an emergency , running and leaping to safety . A notable Jenet trait was their extraordinarily accurate and detailed memories ; members of the species never forgot even the most trivial datum . One manifestation of this characteristic was a tradition of ballad singing about ancient heroes , poems beloved by the rodents but considered doggerel by non - Jenets . This infallible memory also meant that Jenets never forgot slights and insults , and therefore could hold grudges indefinitely . In Jenet society , rumors and reputation were of paramount importance : Jenets could hold actions against even people whom they had never met , based merely on hearsay . Jenets cared little for what other species considered tact , so they were not shy about airing these opinions and grievances in public . Since they could easily recall any bit of information about another person , Jenets freely insulted each other , even when among close friends and family . Exchanges of excoriation were so common as to be a form of greeting , since an upbraided Jenet could usually recall some embarrassing fact about his or her interlocutor . Jenets took pride in being denigrated , for it proved they had gained enough notoriety to be worth the effort . However , few non - Jenets found such treatment enjoyable . Members of other species usually considered the Jenets ' temperament to be argumentative , pedantic , dull , and uncouth . Some non - Jenets even accursed the rodents of fabricating memories so as to influence others . These widely held beliefs meant that many species simply chose to avoid Jenets when possible . Nevertheless , the Jenets had no tolerance for ignorance or duplicity . The Jenets had access to all aspects of galactic technology , including hyperspace - capable starships . Nevertheless , their homeworld of Garban boasted only a limited - service spaceport . Most Jenets had a healthy work ethic , and their obsessive attention to detail made them useful employees . However , they tended not to learn technological skills and preferred to automate as much of their production as possible in lieu of mass labor . Members of the species particularly hated working as miners . Despite their fur , Jenets tended to wear clothing . The style of this varied with the individual ; some males preferred loose - fitting tunics with trousers , while others sported a more militaristic look , with button - down jacket and epaulettes . Each member of a group led by Ludlo Lebauer wore an elaborate and expensive noron doublet and tunic suit with a blaster sidearm . Some females wore backless blouses with shorts that reached the knees and were slitted up the hip , a look considered provocative by male members of the species . Others had clingsilk skirts . Language . The species ' native language , also called Jenet , consisted of soft , short bursts of high - pitched chittering , squeaking , squealing , and barking . Different sounds indicated different concepts ; one type of squeak showed approval , for example , and a certain sniff showed scorn . Due to the species ' long memories , there was no written form of the language ; things that other species might write down were simply committed to memory . Some Jenets learned Basic , but this was not a species - wide skill . Rodent - like mannerisms accompanied Jenet speech . A Jenet ' s nose , whiskers , and snout could twitch and jerk to convey emotions such as amusement , condescension , concern , disgust , or unease . This was accompanied by expressive movements of the ears , eyes , lips , and head . Jenets laughed to show that they found something funny . Others developed habits of caressing or pulling on their whiskers while communicating . Males and females flirted with one another . At their core , Jenet names generally consisted of one or two segments , such as Shan ' Gredor Chirr ' t Ferr , Rhet H ' rrr , and Ch ' irrk Felt . However , over time , Jenets expected others to recognize them with longer appellations that recounted their accomplishments and exploits . For example , a Jenet named Channik might eventually be known as Channik Who Built a starfighter and Flew to Ryloth , a member of the species called Lezarn might be called Lezarn Who Deals in Spice , while a third named Rish might come to be known as Rish Who Slew Vahgar the Drunken Houk . When Jenets were introduced to each other , a complete record of their achievements was given as part of their names . With this information , Jenets could tell where another Jenet was placed in their complex social hierarchy . Accomplishments that increased status required two other Jenets as witnesses . To avoid conflicts of interest , Jenets were never allowed to introduce themselves . Pairs of Jenets could work together for years without knowing each other ' s name , simply because a third Jenet acquainted with them both was unavailable . This did not entirely prevent Jenets from dishonesty , as they frequently exaggerated the accomplishments of their friends and downplayed the exploits of Jenets they disliked . This complex system of requesting and giving names sometimes led to confusion when Jenets dealt with members of other species , whom the rodents might have expected to also follow this custom . Government and demographics . The Jenets lived on Garban and six other habitable planets in the Tau Sakar system of the Outer Rim Territories . They were divided into clans and tended to live only among their own kind . Female Jenets had little role in society other than to bear young . Due to their rapid reproduction , however , their enclaves could easily lead to all members being related to one another and the introduction of genetic defects from inbreeding . Jenets thus set up ties with other Jenet groups to exchange children — whom they called " sub - adults " — and thus increase the gene pool . Jenet children could walk and scavenge their own meals at two months of age . Jenets put their children in school s to educate them . The Jenets shared Garban with the danchaf , or tree goblins , a creature they held to be highly intelligent but which many scientists considered non - sentient . Still , the Jenets claimed that the danchaf were simply too intelligent — and dangerous — to be observed by scientists in the field . Jenet oral histories spoke of the danchaf with great trepidation , and the Jenets avoided the tree goblin ' s forest habitat . Instead , their communities were subterranean warrens dug deep into the surface of their worlds . Such burrows were cramped and claustrophobic , but to Jenets , they were normal — although the conditions caused Jenets to misunderstand the importance of personal space to members of other species . Life in such enclosed spaces led to generalized acrophobia ; Jenets much preferred subterranean environments to elevated ones . They exhibited utmost cooperation with one another due to the exacting social stratification that their photographic memories afforded . Another practical application of their recitation of names and histories upon meeting one another was that when a Jenet heard the background of another Jenet , it allowed him or her to gauge whether the new acquaintance was a social superior or inferior , and thus whether or not he or she was worth dealing with . Despite the social stratification this system engendered and upheld , deeds were the ultimate determiner of status , so Jenet society allowed for social mobility . The Jenets were ruled by a premier or premiere , assisted in his or her duties by the Council of 127 . These positions were selected via an opaque process poorly understood among non - Jenets , although all members of the species knew who their rulers were based on the accomplishments listed in their names . The council oversaw a huge , byzantine bureaucracy , which they ran like a corporation . The bureaucracy ' s job was to oversee resources and secure the homeland . Millions of Jenets served as functionaries in the government , their task to memorize details about as many other Jenets as they could . This information was then used to assign jobs , resolve disputes , and distribute resources . Group deposits of goods known as Community Heaps fell under the bureaucracy ' s administration . The prevalence of red tape in Jenet society meant that members of the species were seldom bothered by such matters even when dealing with the bureaucracies of other cultures . History . The Jenets evolved from rodent prey animals on Garban . Using the remains of ancient trash piles , archaeologists hypothesized that after the species had developed sentience , early Jenets lived in caves underground . They stayed in such cramped confines for much of their day , only stepping out to the surface to scavenge for food . Experts agreed that thousands of years before the Battle of Yavin , ancient Jenets organized against their predators and began an onslaught against the species they had once feared . Jenet legend revered this period , which they called the Great Conquest , as a time of heroes and warriors , immortalized in epic poetry . According to such tales , the danchaf of Garban were once a sophisticated and cunning species who ruled Garban ' s woodlands in packs and prevented the Jenets from penetrating the forests . The Jenet rulers Chirr ' t Ferr and Rhet H ' rrr formed armies to drive back the danchaf hordes . H ' rrr , according to legend , developed attacks to target camale danchaf — one of the species ' four genders — and thus disturb the tree goblins ' reproductive abilities . An epic titled " The Ballad of Shan ' Gredor " told of the Jenet Ch ' irrk Felt , who created a giant trap of pots , pans , and bright phospowder ; the noise and blinding lights dazzled the danchaf and allowed the Jenet soldiers to slay them . Although such wars were unsuccessful in eradicating the danchaf from the planet , legend claimed that the Jenet attacks forced the danchaf to devolve into a primitive state and allowed the Jenets to spread out and dominate Garban . With the exception of a xenobiologist named Xemlorn , scientists dismissed any notion of a more sophisticated past for the danchaf , thus doubting the veracity of the Jenets ' heroic tales . To the Jenets , however , the legends were key elements of oral history . Jenet society came to be organized into clans and oriented around life in warrens . The Jenet bureaucracy developed , as did the positions of premier and the Council of 127 . Jenets also learned to manage the animals on their world without resorting to widespread eradication . The species advanced technologically , eventually reaching spaceflight by their own innovation or scavenging a stardrive from another source . Over time , Jenet fecundity and lack of predators caused the species to overpopulate Garban . The Jenets sent settlers to the other worlds of the Tau Sakar system , where they found conditions very similar to those on Garban — a fact that led scholars to postulate that an unknown intelligence once terraformed the planets . The Jenets eventually founded colonies outside the Tau Sakar system as well , and over time they reached technological parity with other advanced worlds in the galaxy . Their system became part of the Abrion sector in the Outer Rim Territories . The Jenets ' spread to other worlds inevitably brought them into contact with pan - galactic government . During the Galactic Civil War , the Galactic Empire took over the Tau Sakar system . Imperial sentientologist and propagandist Obo Rin included the Jenets in his " Catalog of Intelligent Life in the Galaxy " , a project commissioned by Lord Darth Vader to detail those sentient species of most interest to the Empire . Rin claimed that the galactic regime protected the Jenets from marauding members of the Rebel Alliance ; in exchange , the Jenets gladly served the Emperor as laborers , mining ore from the planets of their home system . In the Jenets ' view , however , they were mere slaves , forced to live in labor camps and undertake a task that they collectively deplored . The Empire found the Jenets to be useful workers on other planets as well due to their high reproductive rate , which rendered any worries about mortality levels moot . Accordingly , enslaved Jenets often operated in perilous work conditions . The Empire set up breeding facilities for the species in an effort to select for traits that increased their pacifist tendencies and compliance and decreased their intellects . Jenets willing to fight back against the Empire were rare , and few members of the species joined the Rebel Alliance . After the collapse of the Empire in 4 ABY , the Jenets still had to contend with the after - effects of a generation of Imperial breeding programs and enslavement . The species never joined the New Republic , the successor state of the Rebel Alliance , due to their preference for being among only their own kind , although individual Jenets did serve in various capacities in the new government and its successor , the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances . The Shi ' ido anthropologist Mammon Hoole included an entry on the Jenets in his publication " The Essential Guide to Alien Species " . Jenets in the galaxy . Jenets away from the Tau Sakar system preferred to live in Jenet - only colonies , isolated from any further integration with other species . Due to their species ' prolific reproductive rate , such an arrangement was easily achieved . However , to prevent inbreeding , even Jenet communities away from their home system maintained the tradition of swapping children with other groups to widen the available gene pool . The preference for other Jenets encouraged the species to travel in groups ; when an outsider encountered a Jenet , he or she could expect other Jenets to be nearby . The Dark Jedi Alema Rar encountered two Jenets sleeping in a private chamber in the lower levels of Coruscant in 40 ABY , for example . For income , many Jenets capitalized on their memories to work as administrators , bureaucrats , and merchants . For instance , in 13 BBY , a middle - aged Jenet named Losh was employed at the headquarters of the civil service divisions on Coruscant . When a Human named Gregar Typho came looking for information about Human Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and the mysterious death of the Human Senator Padmé Amidala , his knowledge of Jenet customs endeared him to the bureaucrat and prompted Losh to set him on the correct trail . The Jenets had established an embassy to the Uvena system , home of the Shistavanen species , by the Galactic Civil War . During that period , the Shistavanens Yurdak Fav and Lak Sivrak found their species ' Alpha Premier , Korta Sac , dead at the embassy . Under the tyrannical regime of Emperor Palpatine , many Jenets in administrative positions were forced to work as slaves of the Empire . After the New Republic and its successor , the Galactic Federation of Free Alliance , rose to prominence , some Jenets found work for the latter government in bureaucratic and administrative occupations . During the Swarm War , the Human Chief of State Cal Omas employed a Jenet personal assistant named Salla at Unity Green ; one of her tasks was to refuse to schedule meetings with individuals whom Omas did not wish to see . Other Jenets sided against the New Republic and Galactic Alliance ; during the Yuuzhan Vong War , a Jenet joined the Peace Brigade , an organization that supported the invading Yuuzhan Vong and fought against the galactic government . He attacked the Jedi Knights Jaina Solo and Lowbacca when they penetrated a bunker used by Peace Brigade members of the Ylesian Senate during a battle on the planet Ylesia , but Solo dispatched him with a kick to the face . During the later Second Galactic Civil War , the Human Sith Lord and Galactic Alliance Chief of State Darth Caedus employed a Jenet administrative aide and lieutenant named Orlopp . Other Jenets operated within the galactic underworld as criminals and scoundrel s . For instance , Tols Vengra had cyborg surgery to implant a Borg Construct Aj ^ 6 implant to enhance his memory even beyond Jenet standards . Despite earlier ambitions to enter his species ' bureaucracy and serve in government , the surgery removed all desire to help others . Vengra eventually found work with Opun Mcgrrrr , a Human crime lord . Vengra ascended to become Mcgrrrr ' s personal assistant , but in reality , the Jenet had control of most of the organization ' s affairs . Rather than challenge his nominal boss ' s leadership , however , Vengra siphoned off funds to prepare for his retirement at a later date . In 0 BBY , Mcgrrr ordered Vengra to track down CZ - 3 , a wayward CZ - series communications / business droid on the planet Tatooine . The assignment brought Vengra into conflict with the Snivvian bounty hunter Snaggletooth — after the same droid for its owner , Jabba Desilijic Tiure — and his brother Takeel and brought about the destruction of the droid . Snaggletooth then used the droid ' s photoreceptor recording to show Vengra ' s involvement in the incident and thus implicate Mcgrrrr ' s organization . The Lebauer clan of Jenets was involved in the gambling industry on the planet Pavo Prime , with investments in the Seahorse Casino and ownership of the Pearl Island Casino . Jenets served the Pearl Island as clerks , overseers , security guards , bartenders , porters , and pit bosses . However , these gaming interests were simply cover for the Invisible Shell , a criminal organization run by Lorimar Lebauer and other elders of the clan ; the various Jenets employed there were also trained as brawlers who could be called upon to defend the organization ' s interests if the need arose . After Lorimar Lebauer was arrested by the Thyferrans for selling counterfeit bacta — a product over which they controlled supply and distribution — Lebauer ' s organization fell under the nominal control of his nephew , Ludlo Lebauer . In 8 ABY , a New Republic delegation consisting of the Humans Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo , the Wookiee Chewbacca , and the protocol droid C - 3PO visited Pavo Prime to bargain with Ludlo Lebauer for boasa statues from the planet Alderaan that he had in his possession . Although Lebauer tried to squeeze the New Republic delegation for lucrative salvaging contracts , two other Jenets — whom Organa Solo dubbed Moonface and Tall — seemed more willing to part with the artwork . Organa Solo eventually offered to have Lorimar Lebauer freed from jail in exchange for the statues , something she knew Ludlo Lebauer did not want — but which he could not refuse without revealing his animosity for his imprisoned uncle . After a heated standoff with Lebauer and his assistant , a Jenet named Verm , the Solos talked their way out of danger by revealing that they had recorded Ludlo Lebauer speaking favorably about his uncle ' s incarceration , and in exchange for burying that information , the younger Lebauer allowed the New Republic representatives to depart with the boasas . Eight Jenet guards protected a factory that manufactured Human replica droid s on the planet Onadax in 28 ABY . When Jedi Knight Jaina Solo arrived there , she used the Force to cloud the guards ' perception and pass herself off as a mynock . When she later escaped , the perception had faded , and the Jenets tried to shoot her ; nevertheless , she made it out of the compound . Another Jenet criminal received visitors in a cantina near the Killik Lizil nest in 35 ABY , during the Dark Nest Crisis . Other Jenets operated as fringer s . For instance , Jenets sometimes patronized the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine ; in 5 ABY , Zorba the Hutt learned that Leia Organa had killed his son , Jabba , from one of these Jenets . Jenets made excellent spies . One , a slave who had been named " Jen " by his master , Bwahl the Hutt , observed the Hutt ' s meetings and remembered the goings on , thus providing Bwahl insight into details that the Hutt may have missed . The Twi ' lek Tavri caught a Jenet spying on him in a Mos Eisley docking bay during the Galactic Civil War . Before Tavri could discover who the Jenet worked for , the spy went for a weapon , and Tavri was forced to kill him . In 29 ABY , during the Yuuzhan Vong War , a Jenet named Thorsh — short for his full Jenet name — worked as a New Republic reconnaissance and espionage expert . He was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong at Bilbringi and incarcerated in a Yuuzhan Vong prison camp on the planet Selvaris . Thorsh became the de facto leader of a group of prisoners who planned and dug a tunnel to escape ; he went by the codename " Garban . " Fellow prisoners , Humans Pash Cracken and Judder Page , had Thorsh and three Bith inmates memorize a mathematical equation on a holowafer so that the non - Humans could smuggle the information out past the guards . During the escape attempt , Thorsh reached freedom and fled on a swoop , but the Bith were killed . Thorsh rendezvoused with the New Republic freighter " Millennium Falcon " and escaped to the planet Contruum to debrief General Airen Cracken on the information from the holowafer . Some Jenets could manipulate the Force . One of these was the Jedi Grand Master Fae Coven , who lived during the New Sith Wars and helped write " " . Centuries later , the Jenet Reeqo Swen also studied to be a Jedi . While still an apprentice in 43 ABY , Swen served as a guard at the New Jedi Temple on Coruscant , when Han Solo turned over the prisoner Yaqeel Saav ' etu to the Jedi . The Jenet and his partner , the Duros Melari Ruxon , both resigned from the Jedi Order in protest over the political policies of Natasi Daala , the Galactic Alliance Chief of State . The move spooked Daala , who feared the consequences of allowing Jedi — or former Jedi — to become independent of the central government . Behind the scenes . Author Troy Denning introduced the Jenets in the book " " , published in 1989 as part of " " from West End Games . The book provides statistics to allow players to portray Jenet characters ; they are described as more dexterous and perceptive than Humans , but deficient in intelligence , piloting potential , physical strength , and technical prowess . The species ' background was later expanded slightly by Chuck Truett for the book ' s , published in 1994 . Their revised statistics bring them more into line with other species , with only a deficit in technical aptitude . They receive bonuses when climbing , listening , and swimming , and they gain extra skills due to their eidetic memories . They can also fit through small openings . An entry in the 1994 gaming supplement " Creatures of the Galaxy " details another chapter of the Jenets ' history — their early battles and conquest of the danchaf . The danchaf creature and its relationship to Garban ' s sentient rodents was designed by Phil Brucato . Jenets have since featured in various minor roles in " Star Wars " fiction . With the release of " Ultimate Alien Anthology " in 2003 , the species was adapted to the " Star Wars Roleplaying Game " from Wizards of the Coast . Their statistics for this system make Jenets deficient in their physical power , agility , and intelligence , and much lower in their likability in comparison to Humans . However , they receive the ability to remember everything they see or hear , as well as bonuses to climbing , escaping bonds , jumping , and swimming . Sources disagree about the age of maturity for the species . According to both editions of " Galaxy Guide 4 : Alien Races " , and " The Essential Guide to Alien Species " , Jenets are mature at one standard year of age . However , " Ultimate Alien Anthology " makes this nine standard years . This article follows the more recent source , as it was published last .