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a sentient race of creatures found in the jungles near Tropis-on-Varont, they were intelligent, fifteen-meter-long lizard-slugs that excreted a nutrient-rich slime when they travel. Each Morodin had six short legs to support their bodies, and a pair of arms for holding things. They were not native to Varont, but instead traveled to the planet in organic starships of their own creation nearly 1,000 years before the Old Republic was formed. After their homeworld suffered an ecological disaster, the colony on Varont was left to fend for themselves. When humans first settled Varont, the Morodin were hunted by the colonists, who thought that the slime trails left in their vegetable and grain fields were detrimental. However, after seeing the results of the slime's intense nutrients, the colonists began to allow the Morodin to move through their fields. The creatures created huge, maze-like patterns as they move through the forests, which they use to confuse their prey as well as their attackers. When the Krish Gamgalon discovered the beneficial effects of their slime on Yagaran Aleudrupe plants, he began "hunting" them in order to herd them into his aleudrope beds. He paid off the local Imperial Moff for the rights to "hunt" sentient beings.