Mummy

"Yes, my mummified flesh sleeps in stone."

―Freedon Nadd^[src]

The name mummy was given to any corpse where the fleshy parts had been somehow preserved. Some cultures would intentionally mummify the dead so that their bodies would not decay further.

Mummies in historyEdit

The Sith species would embalm the corpses and wrap them in inked shrouds before entombment.^[1] This ritual was still being observed even after the majority of Sith Lords were of other species (several Humans like Freedon Nadd or Darsin were mummified). Charms and amulets were placed in and around the mummy, and the deceased's personal weapon were sometimes laid in the sarcophagus as well. When Meetra Surik and her companions explored the Sith tombs on Korriban and Onderon, they found several mummies, including those of Ludo Kressh and Freedon Nadd.

Warning: The following section is ambiguously canon. It contains information that originates in a source, possibly unlicensed, that has not been deemed definitively canon.

An ancient civilization living on Tatooine around one thousand centuries before the Galactic Civil War would also mummify their dead. Those mummies were wrapped in strips of metallic cloth, then put into 3 ton sarcophagi, before being entombed in huge tumuli. One such mummy was revealed to ba an abomination, a monster that could take over the mind and body of any being. This mummy had been created to rule the galaxy, and it intended to do so by taking over Palpatine's body.^[2]

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The Duros also practiced mummification to some extent in the distant past (as exemplified by Vardovin IV).^[3] Later in history, at the time of the Galactic Civil War, Palpatine's third cousin Volpau was embalmed and wrapped in strips of cloth.^[4]