Mairan

Mairan, also referred to as mind flayers, or as Bors, were a sentient multi-tentacled multipod species that were native to Maires. They had the unique ability to read minds, and as a result, they were often used as a form of torture by the Galactic Empire and the Partisans.
==Biology and appearance==
Mairan, sometimes known as Bors, were a sentient multi-tentacled multipod species hailing from Maires. They were unique for being able to read minds and erase, or alter, memories. It was known for some individuals, such as the Imperial shuttle pilot Bodhi Rook, to lose their minds after having their mind plundered by a Mairan. The Imperial Security Bureau conducted "Kadiopa experiment 9484-2"Star Wars Outlaws sometime before or during 3 ABY where they used a bor to exude false intel provided by a plant from a group of prisoners. The ISB noted that several of the prisoners were left with permanent neurological damage. 
==Mairans in the galaxy==
Saw Gerrera's Partisans kept a Mairan named Bor Gullet. During the Galactic Civil War, the Galactic Empire kept three Mairans in ice, occasionally defrosting them to interrogate prisoners, with Bor Ifriem being used to interrogate Chelli Aphra in Accresker Jail. Decades later, Harra the Hutt kept a Mairan at her stronghold on Vodran. At one point it was used on Cost Niktur.Join the Resistance: Escape from Vodran
==Behind the scenes==
Mairan first appeared in the Gareth Edwards' 2016 anthology film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Although the canon novel Join the Resistance: Escape from Vodran, written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, identified them as Bors, Doctor Aphra (2016) 21, a canon comic written by Simon Spurrier and penciled by Kev Walker, identified the Mairans for the first time. In Star Wars legends, the Mairan first appeared in the novel Young Jedi Knights: Lightsabers, written by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta.Young Jedi Knights: Lightsabers
==Appearances==
*Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 
*Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization 
*Star Wars: Rogue One: A Junior Novel 
*Rogue One Adaptation 2
*Doctor Aphra (2016) 21 
*Doctor Aphra (2016) 22
*Doctor Aphra (2016) 23
*Doctor Aphra (2016) 24
*Doctor Aphra (2016) 25
*Doctor Aphra (2016) 26 
*Doctor Aphra (2016) 33 
*Star Wars Outlaws 
*Doctor Aphra (2020) 22 
*Join the Resistance: Escape from Vodran 
*Join the Resistance: Attack on Starkiller Base 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
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*Star Wars: Alien Archive
*Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
*Star Wars: Book of Lists
*The Star Wars Book
*Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion: The Visual Guide 
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*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Category:Cephalopods
Category:Creatures of unspecified diet
Category:Sentient species