Bursa
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| Bursa | |
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| Designation |
Semi-sentient |
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| Hair color |
Brown |
Bursas were carnivorous quadrupeds native to the planet Naboo. Bursas had tusked snouts and feathery tufts of hair on their thick-skinned bodies, and were known to build and live in mud huts in the planet's swamps.
Bursas were thought to have pre-dated even the Gungan race on Naboo, and early Gungans were attacked by wild bursas while exploring their world. Such behavior was not uncommon in the bursas, who were known to mercilessly destroy Gungan settlements. Bursas led by the warlord Boss Rogoe destroyed Boss Gallo's village, Otoh Sancture, 3,000 years before the Battle of Naboo. However, Gallo's forces healed an injured bursa chief, and a clan of bursas allied with Gallo in the siege of Rogoe's Keep.
Since then, bursas appeared across the galaxy, mostly as pets to the Hutts or in circuses. On Naboo, however, it was believed wild bursas were driven to extinction by the Gungan Grand Army, though a tamer variety survived into the era of the Clone Wars. The Amaran species took to capturing, breeding, and selling these creatures, which could be trained to dance on their hind legs.
[edit] Behind the scenes
Amy Pronovost originally designed the bursas for The Essential Guide to Episode I, a product that was ultimately never published, at the request of its intended author Dan Wallace. They were to be based on a reference Wallace found in George Lucas's notes that the Gungans had once fought against "bear-like creatures." When the Essential Guide was cut, the bursas later appeared in Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.[1] .The name Bursa is a fairly obvious portmanteau of the English bear and the latin Ursus or ursa ,both words for the same quadrupedal omnivore native to Earth's larger landmasses with the exception of Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
[edit] Appearances
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
- Sacrifice (Mentioned only)
[edit] Sources
- The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide
- Coruscant and the Core Worlds
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Galactic Hunters (Card: Gungan Hunter)
- Galaxy at War
