Snake

Snakes (also called serpents) were creatures with a long and limbless body, slitted eyes, a forked tongue allowing them to smell, and sharp fangs. They could grow as long as three meters and become as thick as the arm of a Kiffar. Snakes slithered smoothly over surfaces with a distinctive twisting motion. When angered, they started hissing and thrashing. Some snakes were venomous, and their bites were painful. The Anacondans were a snakelike sentient species.

During her time as a bounty hunter, Asajj Ventress wore shoulder plates that bore an illustration of a black, twisted snake due to its symbolism as a oft-misunderstood creature. Ventress herself was likewise often misunderstood, having been held by pirates as a young child, learning the Jedi ways only to lose her master, being trained as a Sith acolyte before being abandoned in the heat of battle, and rejoining her Nightsister brethren only for them to be massacred. At one point, Ventress also wore a necklace crafted to look like a snake.

The swamp-covered planet Dagobah was home to at least two species of snake, the vine snake and the Dagobah Python. Some small Vine Snakes resided in Yoda's hut; one such creature startled Luke Skywalker while he was preparing to leave Dagobah to rescue Han Solo and Leia Organa. The swamps of Rodia were home to countless varieties of snakes; Skywalker notably encountered one when he opened the door to Huulik's mausoleum. Black snakes could be found on Dathomir, and Moraband was home to a giant Sith serpent that, on closer inspection, was made of hundreds of smaller snakes.

"Snake" could be a term for an individual one held in low regard. General Akenathen Tandin called King Sanjay Rash a snake when he finally took the Onderon rebels side. Leia Organa considered Bevicard, a senator of the New Republic, to be a snake, but nevertheless an honest one, and Rey once called Kylo Ren a "murderous snake" during a Force-bond connection on Ahch-To. A Vexis was called a "serpent" by C-3PO.

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