Morseerian / Legends The Morseerians were a sentient species distinguished by four arms and methane - based respiration . Most of a Morseerian ' s body was covered in semitransparent skin that showed the underlying internal organs . The exception was the elongated head , which featured large , black eyes , a small nose , and a thin , triangle - shaped mouth . When found on planets with an oxygen - rich atmosphere , Morseerians wore full environment suits and breath masks that provided the methane they needed to survive . They usually flew ships that supported methane environments and employed crew members who could survive in such conditions . Morseerians carefully guarded the identity and location of their homeworld from outsiders , and little was known about their history or culture except that they were a reserved and secretive people who had several colonies — including the world Morseer , for which they were named . The Morseerians were clients of the Drackmarian s of Quelii sector ; after that species was defeated by the Galactic Empire , Morseer came under the dominion of the Empire . During the Galactic Civil War , Imperial investigations into the location of the species ' homeworld drove many members of the species to secretly support the Alliance to Restore the Republic . A few Morseerians gained fame in the galaxy at large , including the fighter pilot – turned – smuggler Nabrun Leids . Biology and appearance . Morseerians were a sentient , bipedal species whose bodies were essentially humanoid . With rare exceptions , though , Morseerians had four arms where humanoids had two . While the upper two limbs were similar or slightly larger in size to those of a comparable Human , the lower pair , which extended from a second set of shoulders , were slightly smaller . These extra arms made them adept climbers and multi - taskers and aided them while grappling in combat or wielding multiple weapons . While all Morseerians had opposing thumbs , individuals had varying numbers of digits on their hands : some had five per hand , others had four , while still others made do with three . Morseerians had oblong , conical heads covered in overlapping scales of brown , gray , white , green , purple , or tan . The rest of their bodies were covered in greenish , translucent skin that revealed the inner workings of their organs and the flow of their blood . Their large , black eyes lacked pupils and were located above a tiny nose and a triangular mouth slit . Some members of the species had keen hearing . Both males and females had slender builds similar to those of Humans in their early teens , although breasts distinguished adult females from males . Morseerians stood from 1 . 5 to 1 . 7 meters tall . They entered adolescence at age thirteen and adulthood at eighteen , and their life expectancy was eighty standard years . In standard atmospheres , Morseerian biology required them to take special measures that made them look bizarre to strangers . Members of the species required methane - rich gas for respiration ; exposure to an oxygen - rich , methane - poor atmosphere suffocated a Morseerian in minutes . Accordingly , those Morseerians encountered by outsiders almost always appeared in full environment suits . A typical example of this protective gear was form - fitting — although looser suits were also found — and included a complex breath mask . It used an incorporated supply of methane to create an atmosphere similar to that of the Morseerian home planet . Masks featured goggles to protect the eyes and straps to attach to the head ; a side effect was that they made the wearer ' s voice sound mechanical , similar to a droid ' s vocoder . The durable suits rarely needed repairs or replacement and were built with redundant air pockets and filtration systems so that they still offered protection in the event of a tear or a puncture . Although inconvenient , such suits provided additional protection against airborne toxins . On the other hand , they made their wearers vulnerable to fire , which could ignite the methane supply . Society and culture . Morseerians were introverted , laconic , and secretive . They preferred to keep to themselves , talking to strangers only to obtain information from them . This loner nature prompted Morseerians to avoid confrontation , although they were more than willing to defend themselves if targeted by others . The Morseerian obsession with secrecy was perhaps most pronounced with regard to the name and location of their homeworld . The planet was uncharted by any but the Morseerians themselves , although rumor placed it in the Outer Rim Territories . A Morseerian would rather die than give up the location of the world . As a result , little was known about their native culture and customs . The Morseerians were at least nominally under the protection of the Drackmarian species . Although the details of the relationship were unclear to outsiders , at least some Morseerians entered into individual contracts with Drackmarian overlords . Breaking such an agreement earned not only the enmity of the Drackmarian master but also a price on the Morseerian ' s head . Morseerians spoke a language of the same name . Many learned to speak Basic or Huttese , although these were by no means universal skills . Morseerians had two - part names . Examples included Chall Bekan , Myor Devker , Shalthan Leeru , Nabrun Leids , Bargeth Relb , Nilek Rillion , and Flyrl Sacorbel . The species had access to galactic - standard technology and manufactured hyperspace - capable starships . Morseerian craft were oval - shaped vessels that ranged in size from small shuttles to bulk freighters . Such ships provided their crew and passengers with a methane - rich atmosphere so that their occupants could move about freely with no need for environment suits . History . The Morseerians evolved on a world known only to them , rumored to be somewhere in the Outer Rim . They lived on the fringes of galactic community for more than 12 , 000 years before the Battle of Yavin . At some point , they learned the workings of hyperspace technology and spread from their homeworld , whose location they were able to protect from outsiders . They also perfected their own starship designs . Morseerians found a niche just on the edges of galactic society , many taking up employment as galactic traders . At some point , they encountered merchants from the Squib species and established favorable trading status . The Morseerians founded colonies , the locations of which were not as closely guarded as that of their homeworld . The species came to be known as Morseerians after the colony world of Morseer , in the Morseer system of the Outer Rim Territories . They preferred environments conducive to their physiology ; Morseer had a methane - rich atmosphere , for example , with vegetation beyond recognition to species only familiar with the flora of worlds with nitrogen – oxygen atmospheres . At some point , the Morseerians came into conflict with a fellow methane - breathing species , the Drackmarians . The reptilians conquered the colony of Morseer , and the Morseerians became a client species under the protectorship of the Drackmarians as part of the greater Quelii sector . During the Galactic Civil War , the Drackmarians opposed the Galactic Empire but were defeated and subjugated . Morseer was among the worlds claimed by the Empire as spoils of war , although the species officially remained clients of the Drackmarians . The new government instigated an initiative to locate the Morseerian homeworld , and the four - armed species began to secretly report to the Rebel Alliance on Imperial troop and fleet deployments . Nevertheless , few Morseerians openly supported the Rebellion , and a few even aided the Empire instead . In the end , the efforts of the Rebel sympathizers paid off , and the species ' home system remained shrouded in secrecy . Following the Battle of Endor of 4 ABY , Morseer and the Quelii sector came under the control of the Imperial warlord Zsinj , only to be annexed by the remnants of the Empire upon Zsinj ' s death . By 137 ABY , Morseer had fallen within a region of space controlled by Darth Krayt as part of his Sith Empire . Morseerians in the galaxy . Although far from common and rarely seen further Coreward than the Expansion Region , Morseerians were encountered on their colonies and at the fringes of society on other worlds . Morseerian spacers preferred ships of their own design or outdated freighters from other manufacturers that had been modified to provide a methane atmosphere . Crews of such vessels tended to be other Morseerians or members of species comfortable in such conditions , such as Chadra - Fan and Gand . Because many Morseerians in the greater galaxy took up trading , merchants were in many ways the public face of the species . They preferred to deal with partners with whom they had enjoyed good relations and a bit of luck in the past , particularly Squibs . Morseerians were spotted in cantinas and spaceports across the galaxy , including one in Mos Espa on Tatooine , Void Station , the Lazy Bergruutfa Cantina on Betha II , StarForge Station , the Power Dive on Ord Mantell , and Chalmun ' s Spaceport Cantina on Tatooine . At least a few Morseerians ventured into the Unknown Regions and joined the roving Ebruchi pirates , an adoption that involved them accepting Ebruchi culture as well . A Morseerian guard served the Black Sun Vigo Darnada in 33 BBY ; like the rest of Darnada ' s entourage , the Morseerian was killed in a strike by the Sith Lord Darth Maul . A pair of Morseerian pirates had a base on Tatooine ; when on the planet , they sometimes traded with the Toydarian trader Watto for spare parts . In 32 BBY , the pirates had accumulated a large stash of hard currency in various denominations . While in the next room , they heard someone in the treasure chamber , but upon investigation it seemed like nothing more than a womp rat . Later , though , they heard the unmistakable sound of someone going through their treasure chest . There , they found a young Human boy — unbeknownst to them , a nine - year old slave named Anakin Skywalker , who was leading a group of escaped slave children to a rendezvous with smugglers who would take them from the planet . The child attacked them with a beamdrill , the flame of which would have ignited the methane supplies in their suits . When the boy escaped with a portion of their loot into the sewers , the narrow entrance would not permit the Morseerians to follow him , and he got away . During the Clone Wars , a Morseerian orphan was one of ten younglings kidnapped from the planet Abregado - rae by the Twi ' lek woman Kuvuta Pindi for transport to the Neimoidian criminal Dool Pundar on the planet Foless , where they were to be sold into slavery . The Twi ' lek conned the Jedi Knight Nuru Kungurama and his partner , Big Gizz , to help her by claiming she was transporting the children to a placement center for the Republic Children ' s Aid organization . However , upon arrival at Foless , Foless Spaceport Authority alerted Kungurama and Giz to Pindi ' s scheme . The two rescued the Morseerian and the other orphans , who were then placed with families . Another Morseerian spacer of note was Nabrun Leids . Although more than qualified as a fighter pilot , he broke his contract with a Drackmarian warlord named Omogg who operated in the Quelii sector . Leids earned a bounty for his trouble and fled into the Outer Rim . There he traded a life of high - speed dogfights for one of smuggling . Leids flew a modified Ghtroc Industries 720 freighter called the " Scarlet Vertha " and specialized in moving cargos between the Sisar Run and the Triellus Trade Route that led to Tatooine . For the right price , he offered his services to transport passengers anywhere they needed to go . At some point , Leids began a partnership with the Bimm smuggler Rycar Ryjerd . Although the two eventually parted company and found themselves competing for the same cargos , they maintained a competitive camaraderie . In fact , Leids and Ryjerd were both present at the Mos Eisley Cantina in 0 BBY when Obi - Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker chartered the services of Han Solo and Chewbacca for transit to Alderaan . In 3 ABY , Leids and his crew entered a smuggling race against Ryjerd and others . They took on a cargo from the Shistavanen Mal Biron on the planet Sriluur with the understanding that the team who delivered their cargo first would win a larger and more profitable cargo later . Chall Bekan was another Morseerian who lived on Tatooine . During the Galactic Civil War , he became the leader of a cadre of non - Human informants . Bekan and his associates reported on the activities of both Jabba the Hutt and the Rebel Alliance . Some time after the establishment of the New Republic , two Morseerians were present in a cantina patronized by smuggler Han Solo on an unidentified planet . The first was sitting at the bar , but the second burst into the cantina and seized a young Human who had been playing sabacc with Solo . The boy was the son of Senator Amara and the Morseerian claimed that he would be taken hostage for the Black Sun criminal organization . Nevertheless , the Morseerian was killed when Solo shot him with his blaster and freed the prisoner . No known Force - using tradition existed among the Morseerians , although some were rumored to have been Force adepts capable of tapping into the energy field . No Morseerian was ever known to have become a Jedi , nor were there any records of encounters between the species and the Jedi Order . Nevertheless , the fact that few outsiders ever saw a Morseerian without an environment suit meant that the presence of a Morseerian Jedi could not be ruled out . Behind the scenes . The Morseerian species was designed as one of the background characters of the cantina scene of , released in 1977 . A production sketch shows that the species was at one point envisioned with no gas mask , pointed ears , and two double - jointed arms instead of four Human - like ones . Two Morseerian characters were created . During production and principal photography in London , England , the four - armed aliens were known as the " Plutonians " or " Squid Heads , " the latter nickname later being applied to another squid - like alien during the filming of . The four - armed alien ' s official name was slated to be " Quidultii . " One of the characters is visible in the film near the bar , while the other sits in a booth . The Morseerian at the bar was played by a female extra . In 1995 , the game company Decipher , Inc . established the character to be a male pilot named Nabrun Leids and a member of the newly dubbed Morseerian species . " The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook " by Kathy Tyers and Eric S . Trautmann in 1996 added a few new details about the species , such as the connection between the Morseerians and the Drackmarians . The species ' background was more fully fleshed out in " Alien Anthology , " a 2001 release by Steve Miller and Owen K . C . Stephens . Other appearances of the species have either been cameos ( including the non - canon stories " The Emperor ' s Court " and " Smuggler ' s Blues " ) or recreations and flashbacks of the " A New Hope " cantina scene . In 2010 , author Daniel Wallace included a reference to the Morseerians in the Wizards of the Coast book " The Unknown Regions " . In his blog , Wallace revealed that this was because the Morseerians are an " Unknown Regions species . " He also lamented not taking the opportunity to flesh the species out more fully in the book . Although Morseerian characters appeared in West End Games ' " , " the species was never presented in a format useful to players who wished to portray such characters . In the game ' s rules , Morseerians receive an extra action each turn due to their four arms . The Wizards of the Coast version of the game , the " Star Wars Roleplaying Game " , explicitly allows Morseerian characters . Such individuals have no appreciable differences from Humans except for their four limbs and dependency on methane . Special rules govern Morseerians who wish to grapple foes in combat , as their four arms give them advantages over two - armed species . " " allows a player to take the role of one of the characters of as the children make their way through the sewers of Mos Espa . The player may choose to portray Anakin Skywalker or his friends , Arawynne , Dorn , Kitster Banai , or Pala Kwi ' teksa . The main sequence of events is identical to the novel version , although details may vary depending on whether the player succeeds or fails at various tasks . The choice of character also changes whom exactly the Morseerian pirates encounter . This article assumes that the novel version of the events is canon ical . Morseerian - like characters appear in two issues of the Marvel " Star Wars " comic book , but neither is conclusively identified by species . is seen running from Han Solo and Chewbacca after a blaster fight on Aduba - 3 . The second is the boyfriend of a woman Solo dubs " Pig - face , " who gets into a bar fight with the smuggler on Aduba - 3 to defend his girlfriend .