The scurrier was a rodent native to Tatooine, and was considered a pest by the locals of Mos Eisley, Mos Espa and Mos Gamos. Scurriers had horns on their heads. Those of a male were thick and curved, while those of a female were thin and straight.
Characteristics[]
Named for their swift gait and skittish temperament,[4] scurriers were small omnivores with an appetite for garbage. They would scavenge in trash heaps in search of food and material for their nests. They were known to find their way aboard docked freighters and transports, thus propagating the scurrier population across the galaxy; they were even found on stations like Outland Transit Station. Worse, scurriers had a penchant for picking apart machinery, a trait that was hardly welcome on a cargo- or passenger-filled transport.
Apart from this dangerous habit, scurriers posed only a marginal threat to sentients. Though they would fiercely defend their territory, scurriers usually fled at the first sign of danger (say, a passing landspeeder),[1] able only to call upon a high-pitched squeak and a painful bite[4] to use against advancing predators like anoobas and womp rats.[2] Their bite sometimes carried an unusual disease known as Scurrier Disease.[5] In spite of this, scurrier tips were a Hutt delicacy, referred to as "scuzzi spits" in their language.[6]
Scurriers traveled in packs of around thirty, and were often found hanging out with jakrabs and known to appropriate burrows of abandoned profogg towns. Occasionally, they would steal from food storage chambers in unabandoned profogg-occupied profogg towns, intent on taking the profoggs' collected underground molo seeds.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
- "What was that? Guess it was a scurrier."
- ―Stormtrooper
The scurrier was a new creation for the Star Wars Special Edition.[8] The scurrier design was refined through sketches by TyRuben Ellingson. The computer-generated models of the scurrier were heavily modified models loosely based on velociraptor studies developed for Jurassic Park.[4]
In LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy and LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, scurriers are mistakenly called womp rats.[9][10]
In Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, when you approach a stormtrooper who doesn't immediately see you, he might rationalize Kyle's sounds as a scurrier.[11]
Appearances[]
- Episode I Adventures 7: Capture Arawynne (Game Book)
- Episode I Adventures 8: Trouble on Tatooine (Game Book)
- Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier (bonus content only)
- Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars: Republic Commando (cut content, Unreal Editor only)
- "Sandbound on Tatooine" — Star Wars Galaxy Magazine 10
- "The Hovel on Terk Street" — Star Wars Tales 6
- Empire 8
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance) (Introduced in Special Edition)
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
- "There's Many a Slip Betwixt Cup and Lip" — Mos Eisley Adventure Set
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (Mentioned only)
Non-canon appearances[]
- "Sandstorm" — Star Wars Tales 15 (Mentioned only)
- "Oh!! Jawajawa" — Star Wars Manga: Silver
- "Best Birthday Ever" — Star Wars Tales 16
- LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (falsely identified as womp rats)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (falsely identified as womp rats)
Sources[]
- The Art of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1997 edition)
- Star Wars Trilogy Sourcebook, Special Edition
- Star Wars: Behind the Magic
- Star Wars Customizable Card Game — Special Edition Limited (Card: Scurrier) (backup link) (First identified as Scurrier)
- Secrets of Tatooine
- Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide
- The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide
- Star Wars: Power of the Jedi (Pack: Tessek) (backup link)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 114 (TAT60, Tatooine Wildlife)
- The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game — The Shadow Syndicate (Card: Scurrier Pet) (backup link)
- The Unknown Regions
- scurrier in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars: Behind the Magic
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 scurrier in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Core Rulebook
- ↑ Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide
- ↑ Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
- ↑ The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition
- ↑ LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
- ↑ LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
- ↑ Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast