Kinrath

Kinraths, or Netcasters were yellow spider-like creatures found deep within the forests of the planet Kashyyyk, where they weaved sprawling webs amongst the tall woodland trees. These arachnids each possessed six eyes, which sat above a flower-shaped organ on their heads, and four long legs with claws or fangs at the end. Netcasters distinguished between hostile and peaceable encroachers upon their territory and responded based upon this judgment. Hostile trespassers would be attacked, enveloped in webbing, and lifted into the netcaster nest for consumption; peaceful passersby were allowed passage unharmed.

By 18 BBY, a colony of netcasters had nested on Kashyyyk near a remote Wookiee village which had once been the home of the Jedi Gungi. Gungi—who had survived Order 66 and the initial stages of the Great Jedi Purge—returned to his homeworld with the assistance of Clone Force 99 in hopes of rediscovering his native village. As the group trekked through the Kashyyykian wilderness, they encountered the netcasters' dense webbing and began to slice through it; the arachnids promptly descended and confronted them but ultimately allowed the non-hostile intruders to proceed. Later, the same colony found their territory aflame when a conflict was ignited between Gungi's allies and an association of Trandoshans and Imperial troops. During the fight, the Trandoshans, who showed no similar amicability toward the creatures, provoked the wrath of the netcasters and were quickly overrun by their numbers. Meanwhile, the Trandoshan commander Babwa Venomor was captured, wrapped in silk, and lifted into their web for consumption.

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