Menahuun The Menahuun , unofficially known as " little buggers " and sometimes believed to be gremlins , were a furry anthropomorphic species from the planet Lamaredd — known as " Great Menahua " in their native Menahu language — . These arboreal mammals initially had a peaceful culture of hunters - gatherers but , in later times , they changed to become more competitive and aggressive . Biology and appearance . The Menahuun were an anthropomorphic species of arboreal mammals with morphology : They had long arms almost reaching the ground when they stood , lean legs that allowed them to climb and run — although they could not run as fast as a Human . They also had opposable digits on both hands and feet to increase their tree - climbing ability . Like many mammals , they had , meaning that males were different from females . Standing about 120 centimeters during adulthood , Menahuuns were covered with coarse , short fur whose color ranged from rust to olive green . Because Menahuun had a poor sense of smell , they depended on their acute sight for survival . They had two big black eyes , as big as a Bith ' s , that allowed them to see shapes , but not colors , up to twenty meters away without any apparent source of light . Although the Menahuun were not as strong as a Human , they were faster in both trees and water . Not exactly amphibious , the Menahuun could hold their breath for many minutes when underwater . The Menahuun had a lifespan of only fifty - five standard years , and they started feeling the ill effects of age around thirty , becoming severe at around forty - six . They were considered adults at ten , and their adolescence started at six . Society and culture . The Menahuun evolved on the planet Lamaredd , which was rich in flora and fauna . Not having a scarcity food , they created a pacifist society of nomadic hunter - gatherers who respected sentient life . They banded together in several tribes that did not compete with each other , although they did fight natural predators . Each tribe had a well - defined leadership . Sometimes tribes met and performed metaphorical fights as a show . Five centuries before the time of the Galactic Empire , the Menahuun were hunted almost to extinction and forced into exile from their ancestral lands . In that time , their society changed and they became combative and antagonistic . They became used to duels and even open wars as a means to solve a conflict . They also developed their resolution and cunningness , as well as a hatred towards any uninvited intruder on their planet . However , the Menahuun were not anxious to jump to war without looking for a less bloody alternative . Continuing the centenary tradition , a disagreement between two tribes could be solved with a public duel of champions from both tribes ; only if the losing tribe did not fill the conditions of the agreement would then a war be waged . For a Menahuun to be considered a champion , he had to steal the " holy mark " — which was the insignia from Outer Rim Oreworks that many aliens on Lamaredd wore . Although the Menahuun became familiar with Republic - level technology during their stay at Hua ' Bal , they still resorted to more primitive items for their everyday life , including a simple loincloth for all clothing — no matter the sex of the wearer — , a leather pouch with a knife and primitive tools , and sometimes other personal belongings . The Menahuun commonly learned the skills that could be useful in a natural environment , including survival , hiding , and searching . They also commonly learned a profession . Only rarely was a Menahuun familiar with advanced technology or even with any language except for their natural Menahu . Lamaredd was rich in the energy field The Force , known as " Pa ' ela " in Menahu . A certain caste of Menahuun , the respected shamans , learned how to use Pa ' ela and attributed its effect to magic . Each Menahuun used a single name instead of a first name and a surname . Example names included Chylla , Henecho , Keycho , Suka , Teetch , T ' kol and Uucheyek . History . First Contact . The Menahuun species evolved to create a culture of errant hunter - gatherer on the planet they called " Great Menahua " . At that time , Lamaredd was a savage world , never touched by the galactic community . Initial scans performed by galactic scouts revealed that Lamaredd was not worthy of attention , lacking any useful resources . However , circa 529 BBY , Hugo Bartyn , a scout employed by the Outer Rim Oreworks corporation , using more advanced technology , discovered that Lamaredd had a good amount of metals , minerals , and seafood that could be exploited . Bartyn also noticed the native , sentient species and decided that they should be removed to avoid further complications . Hugo Bartyn and their team claimed Lamaredd for ORO and then they landed on the planetary surface . The Menahuun were astonished at the sight of people coming from the sky , and the species received Bartyn with all the honors they could show . Bartyn answered by killing the Menahuun , calling them " little buggers " and , when they tried to escape , Bartyn used his experience as a big - game hunter to track them through the coasts and forests . Bartyn and his team pursued the Menahuun while ORO ' s droid built a mine in the local mountain range , later known as Krakana ' s Maw . The Menahuun , who had felt little need to fear or hate until that moment , began fearing and hating Hugo Bartyn , whom they nicknamed " the Slayer . " Bartyn annihilated the tribes living on the coastline , but most of the tribes were instead living in the dense forests . Survivors of the coastal tribes simply crowded the forest tribes as immigrants and warned them about Bartyn . The tribal leaders then decided to retreat to the northern woods and learn about the invaders from afar . They would attack only once they had learned about Bartyn ' s secret and weaknesses ; otherwise , they would probably be wiped out . Suddenly isolated for centuries and without the resource - rich habitat they had grown accustomed , the Menahuun turned into a competitive society . Conflicts between tribes became common . Eventually , the Humans decided that the Menahuun species had been utterly annihilated . Indeed , further settlers of the city Bartyn ' s Landing . assumed that the Menahuuns were extinct . Only Bartyn noticed that the jungles were too dense to find all the Menahuuns that could hide there , but he decided to keep his suspicions to himself . Eventually , even Bartyn decided that the Menahuun were no longer present , and even Republic xenoscientists listed them as extinguished . Nonetheless , the Menahuun became a constant myth in Bartyn ' s Landing . Approximately twelve years after the disappearance of the species , most of the fishing trawlers that were essential for the local economy disappeared in the open sea without any warning . Some people in Bartyn ' s Landing blamed the Menahuun and created rumors about the savages murdering the crew to eat their bodies . Actually , the trawler captains were creating a union and had disappeared to put pressure on Bartyn . C . 499 BBY , the Menahuun had not been seen for decades . Suddenly , several trawlers from Bartyn ' s Landing suffered sabotage leading to their utter loss , mothers from Bartyn ' s Landing talked about strange creatures stealing their babies , hunting teams disappeared in the mountains , and strange altar - like piles appeared around the town . The Menahuun were believed to have returned . Bartyn , by then an octogenarian and father of several children , gathered twelve trusted experienced partners as a hunting team , including his older son Traggat , and went to the jungle to track the cause of the mystery . Bartyn and his men died horribly , and neither their bodies nor their technology was ever found . There was enough proof of Bartyn ' s death , but not of Menahuun implication in it . From that moment on , the supposed Menahuun presence faded for centuries . Return to the ancestral lands . Unbeknownst to the Menahuun , they had settled near the end of the waste pipeline from ORO Mining Station LM0228 , which had spilled pollution into the oceans for centuries . This eventually affected the local plants . Circa 194 BBY , the Menahuun shamans discovered that the pipeline was the cause , and the Menahuun leaders misinterpreted it as a conscious attack from the Humans . The Menahuun then decided to migrate south again and return to the land of their forefathers . While traveling through the mountains into the Krakana ' s Maw , the Menahuun accidentally discovered an entrance to the fully - automated ORO Mining Station LM0228 . The Menahuun sent in scouts , and these scouts found mining droid s who did their best to ignore the intruders — they were busy with their work and had not been programmed to react to the presence of organics . The Menahuun entered the mine and discovered that it had been Bartyn ' s headquarters when he was hunting them . Noticing that Humans and other aliens did not enter the mine — Bartyn ' s descendants had bribed ORO officials to avoid the visit of ORO inspectors — , the Menahuun settled in the mine and named it " Hua ' Bal " , meaning " Hidden Glory " in Menahu . The Menahuun adapted the mine to their needs . They turned storage areas into dungeons , built huts in the upper levels , and learned to use the streams of water entering the mine . Nonetheless , they still had insufficient food to create a real army . They found the great tunnel - dwelling predator Cavehopper s and fought it to use its skin for clothing or simply to survive its attacks . The Menahuun learned to hide whenever they suspected that intruders or predators had entered , but they were ready to fight to their death protecting their new home . For decades , the Menahuun stole technology to learn about the aliens . They discovered a lot from the available mining lasers and datapads , and they learned to develop their own weapons . The ORO insignia , carried by many aliens , was considered somewhat totemic , and any Menahuun who achieved the feat of stealing one was widely respected . The reactor core control room of Hua ' Bal included advanced technology that was beyond the technical skills of the Menahuun , although the shamans did know that it was dangerous . C . 69 BBY , many Menahuun scouted the outskirts of Bartyn ' s Landing , going as near as 100 kilometers to the north of the city . They found a fugitive , the dark Jedi Byrch Dyshkava , who was fleeing from the local constable Mix Liddell . As a crowd , the Menahuun attacked Dyshkava and captured him ; Dyshkava resisted , but he was overwhelmed . The Menahuun put Dyshkava in a bag and later threw him in a pit , where he remained for twenty years . During this time , Dyshkava learned to fear the Menahuun and discovered their plans of war . C . 36 BBY , Guther Bartyn , Hugo ' s descendant and later Administrator to the family mine , tried to visit his Mining Station while hunting in the Maw . He was received with laser fire from the defenses . Bartyn escaped , assuming that a gang of outlaws were hiding in the mine , but never suspecting that his mine was full of Menahuun . Gremlin presence . During their stay at Hua ' Bal , the Menahuun solved their tribal conflicts and instead decided to prepare for a war against Bartyn ' s Landing . Following the tradition , the Menahuun would give the Landing a chance to avoid an open conflict by allowing them to choose several champions who could defeat several Menahuun champions in a traditional , non - fatal duel . The Menahuun champions were chosen among great warriors who had stolen the holy mark ; foremost among them Eeytch , a shaman . The Menahuun rabble was ordered to stay far from the alien eyes until the duel , because the community still needed to be hidden while preparing the army and learning as much as they could . However , several young , impulsive Menahuun began to raid outlying farms and trawlers . A number of Menahuun had gathered a small armada and sank any civil boat approaching the area known as The Rank . However , no inhabitants of the Landing still had seen the Menahuun and lived to tell it . The poverty - stricken , superstitious " Half Under " population gave ear to rumors about gremlin s that were more believed than they would had been in other times ; dockmaster Howe Walwahd also claimed to have seen those mythical creatures ; and Administrator Guther Bartyn was worried enough about the security of his personal yacht " Tria Blue " to assign extra security personnel to protect it from the " gremlins " . Times of Reckonings . C . 29 BBY , Byrch Dyshkava escaped from his Menahuun prison , reached Bartyn ' s Landing and warned his former enemy , Security Chief Mix Liddell , about the impending Menahuun threat . Liddell recruited a number of new Seconds to discover the truth behind Dyshkava ' s words , and he provided them with ORO insignias and other gear . These new Seconds and a more veteran policeman , Boom Boom the Gungan , used swoops to check the coastline area where Dyshkava claimed to have been captured by Menahuun . Eight Menahuun scouts , who had the honor of wearing ORO stars , were on duty there and received the police with laser fire , severely injuring Boom Boom and escaping to the jungle . The Seconds then investigated the reports about gremlin attacks in the docks , particularly the threats to the " Tria Blue . " At that point , two Menahuun had sneaked into the yacht , murdered all the guards and horribly maimed their bodies to use them as a warning . While the Menahuun were preparing an explosive to destroy the boat , they were found by the Seconds and forced to escape , but the Seconds grabbed the Menahuun laser weapons . Liddell noticed that the armament was similar to the mining laser technology used in Bartyn ' s mine and the Seconds investigated this new lead by meeting with Bartyn and , later , going to the mine . This people ' s visit to Hua ' Bal had been predicted by shaman Eeytch , who identified the Seconds as the champions of the Landing . Eeytch informed the other Menahuun that the duel would be impending and the Menahuun community gathered in the arena of Hua ' Bal , with the Menahuun champions preparing . Eeytch welcomed the Seconds , explained their plight and took them to the field . Once there , Eeytch joined the Menahuun champions and the duel began . The duel ended with the defeat of the Menahuun . The Seconds then conducted diplomatic negotiations with the Menahuun and reached a peaceful agreement between the Menahuun and Bartyn ' s Landing . Constable Liddell was happy to protect the rights of the newly - appointed Menahuun citizens wanting to join the galactic community and , although civil unrest was felt , all the community leaders accepted to work together for peace . However , ORO decided that the Menahuun culture was a living proof of Hugo Bartyn trying to perpetrate a genocide against a sentient species with ORO ' s at least implicit support . Wanting to avoid any potential scandal due to that , ORO retreated from Lamaredd , abandoning all its assets and destroying most of the influence of the Bartyn family . Mix Liddell became the new Administrator of the mines , with his former Senior Second Grubber Vapps replacing him as Security Chief . Guther Bartyn then went insane and reprogrammed two MMV security droid s to attack Menahuuns in Bartyn ' s Landing . Administrator Liddell , Chief Vapps and several other people did their best to protect the Menahuun and fortify the city . Menahuun in the galaxy . After joining the galactic community c . 29 BBY , the Menahuun would have , for the first time in their history , a chance to visit places beyond Lamaredd . Most of them felt no desire to do so , although a few of them admitted that they wanted to be scouts among the stars . Few of them had a real skill to perform any activity requiring a great knowledge of technology , and no known Menahuun joined the original Jedi Order , as it would require to cut any link with a planet they did not want to abandon . Behind the scenes . The Menahuun were created by writer Cory J . Herndon and featured in the article " Bartyn ' s Landing " and in the role - playing adventure " Reckonings " , both of them published in the magazine " Star Wars Gamer " # 7 ( 2001 ) . The species also had an entry in " Ultimate Alien Anthology " ( 2003 ) . " Star Wars Gamer " and " Ultimate Alien Anthology " provide different RPG statistics for the Menahuun . The later source adds a previously - unheard penalty to their physical strength and charisma , ignores their ability to see in the dark and to hold their breath , reduces the bonus they received for cultural reasons such as swimming and listening — although giving them a feat to compensate partially this change — and , more strangely , considers the Menahuun to be a primitive species — which would preclude them from using laser weapons without a very important handicap . Alternate endings . The article assumes that the player characters of " Reckonings " achieve the best possible ending but , should they fail , the adventure offers an alternative path . If they cannot form at least a cease - fire pact with the Menahuun , then the Menahuun perform opening attacks against Bartyn ' s Landing . Guther Bartyn organizes the defense , mounting heavy weapons in the outer wall of Bartyn ' s Landing and recruiting most sailors and policemen to fight in the battles . This stops the suddenly - understaffed trawlers that formed the backbone of the local economy , catapulting the city into a recession and instigating a high crime rate . Many civilian citizens try to leave for other ports , only to discover that the Menahuun have already crowded other areas of the planet , including the small speck known as Bartyn ' s Retreat . Liddell ' s significant other , Miss Mylla , tries to reach Little Mon Cal but her boat runs aground in The Rank ; as he discovered her trouble before the Menahuun did , he tries to send some help to rescue her — he could not go himself because he was busy in open battles with the Menahuun . Eventually , Guther Bartyn asks ORO for corporate shock troops who could clean the mines of the Menahuun presence . The troops are then permanently assigned to Lamaredd to stop any further infestation of Menahuun .