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Turmok

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this unusual space slug was discovered by a group of slug hunters more than fifty years before the Battle of Endor. Turmok had a basic level of sentience, and it believed that it was the only being to exist in the universe. That was, until the slug hunters showed up. When the hunters entered Turmok's mouth and began firing their blasters, Turmok swallowed them whole. Turmok later consumed the rescue team that was sent to find the hunters. It began to realize that it was not alone in the universe, and that all other creatures were out to kill him. In addition to its sentience, Turmok also had evolved a huge set of probing, tentacle-like cilia inside it mouth, which it used to examine its surroundings. It used these cilia to pull the hunters' ships into its mouth and explore them, until one day it triggered one of the ship's distress signals. When another rescue team arrived, Turmok ate them as well. Turmok learned to use the distress call to draw in unsuspecting rescue teams, then consumed them.