Star Wars Space Slug

Space slugs are a staple of cantina tales told by pilots but these monstrous creatures are more than legends as han solo and the crew of the millennium falcon discovered while seeking refuge from the empire in hoth s asteroid belt.

Star wars space slug. The exogorth colloquially known as the space slug was a gigantic species of toothed gastropod. Space slugs reached full maturity at ten meters and reproduced by splitting into two smaller separate bodies. At least one such creature lived in the hoth asteroid belt.

They are silicon based lifeforms that survive in the vacuum of space by making their homes in the caverns and craters of asteroids. Han hid his ship in a cave but became suspicious of his surroundings after the cave turned out to be infested with mynocks curiously damp and oddly spongy underfoot.