Flitterbat

Flitterbats were a type of bat with broad wings. They could be found on the ecumenopolis Coruscant and in the first year of the Empire's reign after its formation in 19 BBY, Senator Mon Mothma saw several broad-winged creatures that she thought might be flitterbats clinging to the underside of a pedestrian bridge in the Federal District of the planet and tucking themselves away for morning. Moments later, Mothma caused the detonation of a speeder near the bridge in order to kill the Separatist assassin Soujen Vak-Nhalis. As the blast knocked her to the ground, her final thoughts before falling unconcious were hopes that she had caused the explosion swiftly enough to spare the flitterbats and pedestrians on the bridge from its effects.

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