Uroth

The Uroths were a species of large, sentient bipedal cephalopods. They inhabited the planet of Wizar II, where they followed a primitive way of life in isolation from much of the galaxy at large. Their native religious beliefs incorporated several deities and a desire to enter the afterlife without fear of death.

Sometime during the Galactic Civil War, the Uroths encountered a strange being that had the power to kill any Uroth who approached it. Although it was actually a sophisticated StelProbe V Droid, they took it for the incarnation of their god of death and its presence as a sign that their world was coming to an end. They tracked the droid and eventually captured it. Nevertheless, a group of strange creatures, actually spacers hired by the droid's owner to recover it, took the Uroths' god for themselves and escaped into the heavens.

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