After being spat out of the unseen maw of a large aquatic beast on the remote bog planet of Dagobah, R2-D2 landed violently among tree root on solid peat. He came to rest against a bare partial skeleton belonging to some kind of large animal. Sections of spine and several ribs are visible. Their size indicates that the living animal was at least two metres in girth. Unfortunately the ribs are broken short. The impossibility of determining their natural length and taper prevents us from guessing at the length of the creature, but it should be at least as long as it is wide. It might have been over five metres long, weighing several tons.
Unfortunately very little can be determined about the more specific characteristics of the beast, beyond the fact that it is a vertebrate, it died in a swamp and it probably died less than a year before R2-D2 encountered it. (Decomposition works rapidly in a swamp environment, and objects eventually sink into even what looks like firm ground.)
R2-D2 teeters upended between a gnarled root and the ribcage and spine of a long-dead Dagobah beast.
Luke Skywalker races to the site of his droid's impact, near an intriguing partial skeleton.
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