Myneyrsh The Myneyrshi ( singular , Myneyrsh ) were a sentient species native to the arboreal planet Wayland located in the Outer Rim Territories of the galaxy . Myneyrshi were tall , thinly built bipedal humanoids ; they had four arms , each pair corresponding to a torso one on top of the other , and also had a smooth layer of blue crystalline flesh . A primitive , warlike species , they were constantly at war with another of Wayland ' s sentient species — the Psadan s . A Myneyrsh lived an extremely ritualistic life , with rituals for everyday actions such as walking , eating , and sleeping . Myneyrshi were excellent hunters and trackers , and could move through forested areas without making a sound . Their awareness of their environment was so responsive that Jedi Master Luke Skywalker likened their perception skills to those of a Force - sensitive when he visited the planet in 9 ABY . During the Galactic Civil War , the Galactic Empire conquered Wayland , turning it into a secret storehouse for the Emperor . After the Emperor was deposed , the mad clone Joruus C ' baoth took over a secret Imperial storehouse inside Mount Tantiss , enslaving the Myneyrsh and other species of the planet . They were freed upon C ' baoth ' s death . Decades later , the Myneyrshi were nearly wiped out by the Yuuzhan Vong during the Yuuzhan Vong War , and survivors of the conflict were driven deep into the jungle . The Yuuzhan Vong later released a species of parasitic worms to make the planet uninhabitable , forcing most Myneyrsh to flee their homeworld entirely , though some stayed . One hundred years later , Wayland was designated as a planet that would be restored using Yuuzhan Vong terraforming technology as part of the Ossus Project . While it showed great success at first , the project was sabotaged , and the planet became inhospitable once again . At the same time , many Myneyrsh were mutated as a result , becoming hulking , gray - skinned beings with jagged protrusions all over their bodies . Biology and appearance . Myneyrshi were tall , thin , sentient , bipedal humanoids . They had two upper torsos , positioned in such a way that one was on top of the other . Females of the species had breasts far more pronounced than the males , and the males had nipples on theirs . Each torso had a pair of long , muscular arms , giving a Myneyrsh four arms . Myneyrshi had one primary hand and three off hands , although they could carry weapons in each hand , or use two hands to carry larger weapons such as a spear . Each had four fingers , one being an opposable thumb , with joints like a Human ' s . Having four arms also aided a Myneyrsh ' s ability to climb , and in one case it allowed a Force - sensitive Myneyrsh to utilize three lightsabers while dueling . They had small feet with several large toes . Myneyrshi had upward - pointing ears , which they often pierced and hung things from . Instead of a nose , Myneyrshi had a short , downward - pointing snout . Their twin eyes were white and lacked obvious pupils . Averaging almost two meters tall , Myneyrshi were covered in a layer of smooth , crystalline flesh , which made them look as if they were made of a type of glass . The skin came in shades of blue that ranged from greenish - teal to almost purple . The crystalline skin acted as a sort of armor to basic weapons similar to their own — arrows , spears , and knives . New Republic scientists theorized that this layer existed as a result of a chemical reaction to the moisture and oxygen in the air . Myneyrshi usually had long , dark hair that came in shades of brown , green , and blue . In the aftermath of the sabotaged Ossus Project , an attempt to restore the devastated surface of their homeworld , Wayland , many Myneyrsh were mutated . They became large , gray - skinned beings with sharp protrusions all over their skin . Myneyrshi aged and physically developed at a rate similar to most sentient species in the galaxy . Considered children until they were twelve standard years old , Myneyrshi became adults when they reached eighteen . By the time they were fifty standard years of age , Myneyrshi were regarded as middle - aged by society . They were thought old until they reached the age of eighty - five standard years , and those older than that was considered venerable . Society and culture . Culture and ritual . Myneyrshi were a highly superstitious species and much of their life was steeped in ritualistic behavior . They had rituals for all sorts of everyday activities , such as walking , eating , and sleeping . When Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and the smuggler Han Solo met a Myneyrsh tribe during their attempt to infiltrate an Imperial base in Mount Tantiss , which Wayland ' s inhabitants considered forbidden , they encountered Myneyrshi ritual and participated in the offering of a fowl as " satna - chakka , " or a peace offering . While the bird was elevated on a ritual staff , no physical or verbal conflict could be made . Once this ritual was completed , the Myneyrshi presented that staff to guests , a gesture to show unity and friendship . Skywalker received the staff , a sign signifying that his group had the Myneyrshi ' s permission to roam the planet freely . Myneyrshi were excellent hunters and trackers — they had the ability to move through a forest without making any noise whatsoever . Luke Skywalker once compared their perception and awareness of their surroundings to those of Force - sensitives . The Myneyrshi had enough spiritual mettle to combat severe mental manipulations . When Joruus C ' baoth , a clone of a Jedi Master that had gone insane , tried to force the Myneyrshi and the Psadan to cohabitate , the four - armed species resisted his rule long enough to form an alliance with their former enemies . Myneyrshi wore simple clothing , usually donning robes from the waist down or tying up them up over their shoulders . These robes varied in color from dark brown to white and light orange . The robes often had intricate , golden designs and patterns on them . Myneyrshi usually wore quiver s on their backs and pouches for storing items strapped to their waists . Members of the species did not wear footwear , and often wore gold bracelets around their arms . Several Myneyrshi sported tattoos on their bodies . They sometimes wore their hair short and spiky , in dense braids , or tied it back into a ponytail . Technology and inter - species relations . Due to their isolation from the galactic community , very little was known of the Myneyrsh by either the Galactic Empire or the New Republic . Myneyrshi never evolved past the stage of using weapons such as spears , daggers , and bows . Their only means of transport was the domesticated animals of their home planet , which also provided the small amount of power needed for local rudimentary agriculture . The Myneyrshi were obstinate beings , much like their Psadan rivals , especially when dealing with Humans and other offworlders . They had a long - standing aversion to technology , which was heightened by the Imperial occupation of Wayland during which the use of exotic technology by Humans forced them into servitude . After the departure of the Imperials , Myneyrshi became actively opposed to the use of technology because it was seen as a representation of their Imperial conquerors . Myneyrshi shamans declared anything technological in nature as an " item of shame , " and that they must avoid technology if at all possible . In contrast , Myneyrshi living offworld did utilize technology for their own benefit , fighting with blasters or piloting airspeeders . The Myneyrshi hated and were constantly at war with Wayland ' s other native species , the Psadan . The Psadan were a more primitive species who worshiped nature and were always eager to fight . When the Empire arrived on Wayland , the two species attempted to unify and defeat their oppressors , though the attempt failed . When the Empire departed from their homeworld , the Myneyrshi ratified treaties with the other indigenous species of Wayland , though they remained wary of their neighbors . Language . Myneyrshi spoke a primitive language of snorts , honks , and deep vocalizations known as Myneyrsh . While no written form of the language ever existed , the Myneyrshi passed on their knowledge and history orally . Most members of the species could also speak the Psadan . Although extremely rare , it was not unheard of for a Myneyrsh to speak Galactic Basic Standard . Sample Myneyrsh names included Chyresh , Eychani , Orychee , and Panaysha . History . Early history and contact with the galaxy . The Myneyrshi evolved on the planet Wayland , along with a second sentient species , the Psadan . The two species had a long history of inter - species hatred and violence . They engaged in many wars and bitter campaigns against each other . During the Galactic Republic ' s Expansionist Era , Human colonists were sent to Wayland and crash - landed on the surface . A clerical error in the Republic ' s planetary registry removed the planet Wayland , the colonists , and all knowledge of its native creatures from all known charts . For a short time , the forgotten Humans dominated the more primitive species , brandishing blasters and high - tech weaponry , which the Myneyrshi feared . However , with no way to replenish the power pack s in their weapons , the colonists took up bows and arrows after a few generations , and the struggle became less one - sided . Eventually , the three species formed an uneasy peace after years of warfare . When the Galactic Empire rose to power in 19 BBY , they built a secret storehouse for the Emperor on Wayland . The Myneyrshi and the Psadan once again joined forces to attempt to defeat the invaders ; however , they soon found out that their crossbow s , while powerful , were not strong enough to pierce Imperial Battle armor . The Empire conquered the planet easily , enslaving the Myneyrshi and their allies and putting them to work building an immense Imperial complex beneath Mount Tantiss . The Imperial occupation of Wayland ended shortly after the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY . The Emperor had taken a special interest in the world — he had installed a Guardian to protect his facility inside Mount Tantiss . After the Emperor ' s death during the Battle of Endor , Wayland was again lost to obscurity . Growing bored after five years without Imperial contact , the Guardian decided to create a small kingdom and brought the Wayland ' s three ruling species together to build city to the southwest of the mountain over which he ruled . Eventually , the insane clone Joruus C ' baoth defeated the Guardian and took his place . He used his mental manipulative powers to continue subjugating the city inhabitants , although the strong - willed Myneyrshi never truly submitted to his rule . During Grand Admiral Thrawn ' s visit to their home planet , the Myneyrshi watched the Imperials work at Mount Tantiss , rather than returning to their warlike ways . They had learned from their mistakes of attacking better - equipped adversaries in the past and waited out the suffering . In 9 ABY , Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and a New Republic team arrived to stunt Thrawn ' s attempt at reviving the Empire . After being stalked by Myneyrshi during their long trek through the Wayland jungles , the team met with a tribe of Myneyrshi . The Humans used the protocol droid C - 3PO as an interpreter and learned the species ' history . The natives were , at first , wary of Skywalker , seeing his group as merely invaders . Skywalker was able to persuade them that he wished to free them from the Empire and was given free passage on the planet ' s surface . Skywalker ' s party was able to destroy the Mount Tantiss storehouse and kill C ' Baoth in the process . After Thrawn was killed aboard his flagship during the Battle of Bilbringi , the Myneyrshi were free of their bonds to the Empire and were allowed independence . Shortly after the destruction of the Emperor ' s facility , the New Republic began researching the planet of Wayland and its history . Though it was true , New Republic researchers were unable to confirm Myneyrsh and Psadan tales of C ' Baoth ' s killing the Guardian and they regarded these stories as mythic . A well - regarded theory posited that the Guardian and C ' Baoth were the same person . At some point during the rule of the New Republic , the Shi ' ido anthropologist Mammon Hoole included an entry on the Myneyrshi in his publication , " The Essential Guide to Alien Species " . In 25 ABY , the extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong species invaded the galaxy and conquered worlds in the Outer Rim Territories , including Wayland , thus making the Myneyrshi one of the hardest - hit species during the war . Many Myneyrshi fled the war - torn planet , some to the squalid conditions of Refugee Facility 17 , but the bulk of the species refused to leave their homeworld . The invaders tried to exterminate the species , forcing survivors into the forests for safety . A group known as the Free People , led by a Myneyrsh named Txer , sought to remove the Yuuzhan Vong from Wayland . Among its members were not only the Myneyrshi but Psadans and native Humans , all focused on the same goal . They would use whatever weapons they could use , provided they were not technological , and their enemy ' s own bioform weapons were no exception . During their campaign , the Free People met rescue pilot Uldir Lochett . After they helped him find the Jedi Klin - Fa Gi , a Yuuzhan Vong force attacked them while activating a parasitic Vongspawn worm , a Chom - Vrone , which began digesting a portion of land . Rather than fight them , the Free People fled the area after helping Gi and Lochett gain entrance to the worm , where captured Jedi were being held . After the war ended , an infestation of the Chom - Vrone took root on Wayland and decimated the planet ' s ecology . With the world barely able to sustain life , most Myneyrshi fled as refugees . A few remained on the world , however , barely eking out an existence there . The Ossus Project . In 126 ABY , the Jedi Knight Kol Skywalker led a mission to Wayland to try to rehabilitate the planet as part of the Ossus Project . Using Yuuzhan Vong terraforming technology provided by the Shaper Nei Rin , Skywalker ' s team rendered Wayland habitable once again . The Myneyrshi Chieftain Roax was appreciative of Skywalker ' s efforts and had his people aid the project . Unbeknownst to the Ossus Project team , a rogue Yuuzhan Vong named Zenoc Quah had sabotaged the endeavor by introducing a Vongspawn virus on Wayland . A mere six months after the planet had seemingly been rehabilitated , its terrain was replaced by an inhospitable Vongformed landscape . The Myneyrshi , too , were affected , mutating into large , monstrous versions of themselves , covered in gray skin with jagged projections and now invisible to the Force . The Myneyrshi placed all blame for their misfortune on Nei Rin and demanded that she face their rite of punishment . Skywalker and his team fled the world to try to find a cure for the mutations and to save the shaper ' s life ; the Myneyrshi swore to kill them as they watched the ship depart . A female Human named Fionah Ti , trained in Yuuzhan Vong shaper technology , traveled to Wayland suspecting the sabotage there and seeking to reverse it . In 137 ABY , Cade Skywalker , son of the man who had led the Ossus Project team a decade earlier , led a cadre of bounty hunters to Wayland on a mission for a Feeorin pirate named Rav . There , they were attacked and overwhelmed by Vongformed Myneyrshi . Separated from the others , the Human crewman Jariah Syn encountered Fionah Ti , who revealed that she had had some success reversing the virus affecting the planet ' s lifeforms . Myneyrshi in the galaxy . Myneyrshi expressed no desire to leave their homeworld and communities . Their isolationism , their dislike of technology , and their unpleasant encounters with the Empire and the Yuuzhan Vong discouraged them from roaming the galaxy . Although extremely unlikely , Myneyrshi trapped away from Wayland could learn to overcome their fear of more technologically advanced civilizations , as well as their fear of technology , and live a life of adventure among the stars , often acting as scouts or fringer s . One offworld Myneyrsh supported the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars in 20 BBY . He piloted a landspeeder on the planet Drongar — which was bogged down in a stalemate with the Confederacy of Independent Systems over the control of the medicinal plant bota — transporting people to Republic Mobile Surgical Unit 7 . Likewise , at least one planet , Vaklin , had a sizable expatriate Myneyrshi population . These Myneyrshi lived as fully integrated members of society , mingling with the other species of the world and working in mundane occupations , such as bartending . There was also once a Myneyrsh Jedi Knight named Cho ' na Bene who wielded three lightsabers in tandem . Bene survived the enaction of Order 66 in 19 BBY and fled to the planet of Vaklin , where the populace still supported the memory of the Jedi Order despite the propaganda of the newly - risen Galactic Empire . Bene helped lead the Vaklin insurgency that acted against the Empire militarily . There was also a female Myneyrsh in the insurgency ' s ranks . She wielded a blaster rifle and wore a shift that covered most of her body . When Darth Vader , personal enforcer for the Galactic Emperor Palpatine , tried to capture Bene and crush his rebellion , he was unprepared for the public support the Myneyrsh Jedi enjoyed among the populace . Under the advisement of the Human Imperial Security Bureau Major Oniye Namada , Vader instigated a program of effacing traces of the Jedi from the planet . He lured Bene into public , where the cowed populace watched him be gunned down by Imperial stormtroopers . The rebellion ended soon thereafter . Many years later , during the Yuuzhan Vong War , the Myneyrsh Txer lead the Free People , a group that fought the Yuuzhan Vong after their invasion of Wayland . Txer was a devout believer in the Myneyrshi way of life , seeing technology as a despicable thing . His organization utilized Yuuzhan Vong bioforms and any other primitive weapons they could find to combat the " Cut - Up - People . " After Txer helped Uldir Lochett find Klin - Fa Gi , the group was attacked , and the Yuuzhan Vong began activating the Chom - Vrone of the planet . Instead of fighting the Yuuzhan Vong directly , Txer and his men tied off ropes to the worm nearest them and climbed away to avoid the battle , leading Lochett into the worm before departing . After the Yuuzhan Vong War , most Myneyrshi evacuated their homeworld due to its decimation at the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong . Behind the scenes . Although mentioned throughout the " " by Timothy Zahn , the Myneyrshi only appear in the final book in that series , the 1993 novel " The Last Command " . Their earliest graphical depiction , by artist David Plunkett , is in " The Last Command Sourcebook " , the adaptation of that novel to the West End Games " " . The book , written by Eric S . Trautmann , also expands on the species ' background and culture . The comic book mini - series adaptation of " The Last Command " , first published by Dark Horse Comics from 1997 to 1998 , includes a variant appearance for the Myneyrshi . The comic , penciled and inked by Edvin Biukovic and Eric Shanower respectively with Pamela Rambo responsible for coloring , portrays the species in the fifth issue with tan skin , a square jaw that juts out from the skull , and only three fingers per hand . The mini - series has since been reprinted as a trade paperback dedicated solely to " The Last Command " serial and , which includes all issues from the " " comics ; both reprints maintain the variant appearance for the species . Since then , as in the " Ultimate Alien Anthology " , the Myneyrshi ' s coloring has remained faithful to the West End Games sourcebook description . In the supplements to the West End roleplaying game , Myneyrshi suffer a distinct disadvantage to their Human counterparts , as they are intended only as non - playable characters . Myneyrshi in the game have a much lower maximum level of potential at the game ' s various attributes , half that of Humans and many other species . Myneyrshi do , however , receive a bonus to their strength to represent their glass armor , making them more resistant to various blows . They also have the ability to wield several weapons at once , though with a single dominant hand and three off hands . The Wizards of the Coast version of the roleplaying game depicts Myneyrshi in largely the same way , but in a more specific manner . As a primitive species , characters of this species have less aptitude than Humans at intelligence and knowledge , but more for perception and willpower . They retain their natural armor and ability to use multiple weapons , but they suffer major penalties when attempting to use technology of any kind . Their alert , stealthy manner is also depicted in this version , giving them advantages in certain situations . Myneyrshi begin with the ability to speak their native tongue and the Psadan language . In sources expanding upon Myneyrsh history , doubt is cast in - universe on whether or not Joruus C ' baoth actually killed the Guardian that controlled Wayland . Alternatively , the sources speculate that the two were one and the same . This ambiguity persists in materials released long after the original novels , appearing in C ' baoth ' s Databank entry . " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " of 2008 objectively establishes that the Mount Tantiss settlement had been controlled by two , separate regimes . " " , a 2004 novel by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry , includes a Myneyrsh offworld during the Clone Wars . At that time , Wayland ' s location had been removed from the registries for around 20 , 000 years , which creates continuity problems naturally . As yet , no explanation has been given for how a Myneyrshi found himself offworld ; why this offworlder wielded a blaster and drove a speeder , " items of shame " to his people ; or why a Republic Admiral , Tarnese Bleyd , knew about the species and its aversion to technology . The latter issue does show that the authors depicted that Myneyrshi as aberrant intentionally , however . Bleyd ' s knowledge of the Myneyrshi , treated as casual , also stretches greatly the premise that Wayland was hidden at that time . The comic books " " by Alexander Freed , released in December 2012 and January 2013 , depict several Myneyrshi offworld , all of whom accepted forms of weaponry more advanced than their ancestors . Further , one of these Myneyrshi is shown to be a well - known Jedi with knowledge of his homeworld and its culture , although his homeworld is not named . It is worth noting that there was a battle of the Mandalorian Wars fought in the Wayland system in 3963 BBY , which contains the planet of Wayland . Therefore , it is " possible " that the Thrawn campaign was not the first time the galaxy rediscovered the planet .