Algae/Legends

Algae were a group of organisms that typically grew underwater and liked to cover the surfaces of objects. Once thought to be plants, they were classified separately as far back as 32 BBY.Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier Algae could also be airborne, living on water droplets and chemical vapors floating in the atmosphere.Young Jedi Knights: Trouble on Cloud City Additionally, algae grew on objects out of water, sometimes dangling from structures in strands up to several hundred meters in length and creating virtual "forests" of algae.Boba Fett: Crossfire
==Colors==
Algae ranged in colors across the spectrum, including blue,Dark Apprentice brown,The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide I: Onslaught green,The New Rebellion orange, pink, and purple,Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen and was sometimes luminescent.I, Jedi
==Uses==
While it was preyed upon for sustenance by some plants and animals, some species of algae thrived in a commensal relation with other species, including the Melodies of Yavin 13, to which the algae provided life-sustaining oxygen. Furthermore, varieties such as the bestrum algae from Baralou were broken down and processed into foods for consumption,Planets of the Galaxy, Volume One and dried algae extracts were used to create algae sugar for use in alcohol fermentation.Planet of Twilight Algae-bread was especially favored by Herglics, who also made algae ice cream.Lords of the Expanse
Sometime before the P'w'eck Emancipation Movement in 28 ABY, the process of Ssi-ruuk entechment was improved upon by harvesting the life energy emitted by algae to prevent the decay of captured souls.
A more advanced form of algae could be found in the Cygnus B system. It contained a planet with oceans inhabited by giant sapient algae beds. Similarly, the planet Paulking XIV of the Corporate Sector had oceans filled with talking algae.
==Types of algae==
*Bestrum algae
*"Glower" algae
==Behind the scenes==
Algae, a photosynthetic organism in real life, was introduced into Star Wars lore by author John Chesterman in his 1979 article "Cantina Communications," from Star Wars Official Poster Monthly 16.
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Category:Sauvax food