Ghest

Ghests were a predatory serpentine species native to the jungle swamps of the planet Rodia. With long, green bodies; claws; and sharp teeth, they preferred to ambush prey on swamp shorelines by pouncing on them from the water, rarely if ever hunting on land. Ghests were occasionally hunted by teams of the sentient Rodian species native to their homeworld, although the hunting parties usually sustained casualties, and the practice had become less common by the time of the Galactic Civil War. The Jedi Luke Skywalker and the Rodian Taneetch Soonta encountered and killed a ghest on Rodia while trying to visit the mausoleum of the Jedi Knight Huulik.

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