Crawler

The crawlers were 134 species of nearly two-dimensional life-forms that lived under high atmospheric pressures in the boundary between the atmosphere and core of the Outer Rim Territories gas giant Yavin Prime. Reaching sizes of several hundred kilometers across and no more than two decimeters in height, they constantly moved across the layer of frozen liquids that they inhabited, feeding on trace elements and reproducing by fission. Such activity led to the dislodgement of the valuable Corusca gems from Yavin Prime's core, followed by their rise to the higher levels of the planet's atmosphere. Although the crawlers were eventually discovered via long-range observations, no contact with the organisms had been made by 3 ABY.

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