This Is The Most Obscure Piece Of 'Star Wars' Lore You'll Want To Know
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In the last 45 years, creators of Star Wars content conceived a variety of races and organizations. Today we will look at three of the more obscure ones that you probably have never heard of.
Jeby
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The Jeby were a species of merry aliens living on the planet Rainboh in the Hapas Cluster. They had three heads on top of long colorful necks. They stood on four white legs with pink or red stripes and had six white and red/pink tentacles protruding from each side of their white bodies that were covered with pink and red spots. Whenever a Jeby laughed, these spots began to fall off, and the Jeby had to use its tentacles to reattach them.
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Jeby was conceived by the then seven-year-old Paul Rice Topps' Galaxy Magazine competition "Design an Alien" in the mid-90s. Leland Chee, Lucasfilm's keeper of the Holocron, stated in 2006 that both the Jeby and the planet Rainboh were officially canon. The planet was now included in Daniel Wallace’s The Essential Atlas.
The Charon Death Cult
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Looking faintly similar to the Jeby, but not as merry-looking, we had the Charon, a species with both humanoid and arachnid features. They had four arms, four powerful legs, an insectoid body, and several eyes.
At some point in the past, the Charon moved to another dimension called otherspace, which lay beyond realspace and hyperspace. As their planet was located near a black hole that would eventually consume their world, the Death Cult believed that the destiny of all lifeforms was to return to the Void of Death. This led them to kill all other lifeforms they encountered. Shortly after the destruction of the second Death Star, a splinter group of the Charon that did not believe that the Death Cult was able to return to realspace and many became scientists and worked on bioorganic technology.
The Charon, their Death Cult, and otherspace only appeared in “Otherspace” and its sequel “Otherspace II: Invasion,” two adventures from Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game in 1989.
The Sorcerers Of Rhand
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Though the Charons could have wreaked some havoc on the galaxy had they been able to return to realspace in large numbers, the Sorcerers of Rhand were an even more dangerous group. Living on a cluster of the Unkown Regions called Nihil retreat (which has nothing to do with the Nihil from the High Republic era), the sorcerers believed in the Dark, a power beyond the Force, and that the only way to find the truth was utter destruction.
By following the Way of the Dark, the Rhandits were able to gain the Darksight, a Force power that creates the future, by seeing all possible outcomes and then choosing the one that suited the user best.
The Sorcerers of Rhand were created by Mathew Stover for his novel Luke Skywalker and the Shadow of Mindor.
In April 2014 with Disney’s rebranding of the Expanded Universe, the Charon, and the Sorcerers of Rhand are now part of Legends. As pointed out previously, only the Jeby has become part of the current canon.
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Source(s): YouTube, The Book of Sith, The Essential Atlas