Dybbuk

The Dybbuk Silencer also known as simply the Dybbuk was a fleshy, star-shaped yellow-green parasitic creature used by the Galactic Republic to subdue violent criminals in the High Republic Era. The silencer was a genetically modified from an atmospheric glider native to Dybrin 12 by Chiewab Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals. Measuring 0.25 metres in width, the parasite would affect the user's mind by latching onto another organism's mouth with its adhesive pseupod pad and induce an altered state of consciousness while making a squelching sound, feeding off the host’s neural energy while transmitting euphoric alpha waves. Some subjected to the silencer reported nightmares while under its effects which Chiewab scientists denied.

In 132 BBY, aboard the Republic prisoner transport Palwick heading to the galactic capital Coruscant, the parasite was used to subdue a human convict, Melo Tolicus. During an escape attempt aboard the ship causing the ship to drop out of hyperspace near the snowy planet Carlac, meknek Osha Aniseya used her repair droid Pip to electrocute the parasite latched to the convict. The electric shock caused the dybbuk to release its grip on the convict, freeing him and leaving the dybbuk chittering while escaping the ship into space before the ship entered Carlac's atmosphere and crash-landed.

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