Drengir
The Drengir are a species that feature in Star Wars.
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History
The Drengir were a species of sentient carnivorous plants that existed a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Thousands of years before the High Republic Era, before large swathes of the galaxy were unified by the Galactic Republic, the Drengir were encountered on a marshy planet located between Coruscant and the Galactic Frontier by the Amaxine warriors. Seeking to expand their conquest, the warriors built a relay system on the planet to fight the plant-like carnivores and take their world.
The Amaxine station eventually became a waypoint for Byne Guild pilots during the High Republic Era. The station's central sphere was an arboretum, an exotic jungle where grass, moss, and vines littered the ground. While the station's atrium was dark and shadowy, it boasted a gathering of life forms so great that the station was filled with vitality. An area of the biosphere contained a set of rock stairs that ascended from the ground up to a dark, stone-carved throne, which was guarded by the four binding statues. The station's upper ring stored Byne Guild lockers, which had handwritten symbols that indicated a hyperspace disturbance and suggested a diversion in the hyperspace lanes. Other lockers and bay doors also had handwritten symbols.
During an unexpected hyperspace deviation, a group of stranded travelers took refuge on an ancient, abandoned Amaxine space station where four dark side warding statues held the local flora in a state of deep hibernation. Unaware of the structural function, the Jedi removed the statues to cleanse the location of dark side corruption, which immediately broke the containment field and awakened the dormant entities. The newly awakened Drengir promptly infiltrated the central control pod, using their roots to physically manipulate the machinery and isolate a Jedi Padawan named Reath Silas inside a failing chamber. They utilized an internal pod system to transport their forces, suddenly materializing on a marshy planet below to ambush an escaped pathfinder. The creatures wrapped their thorny vines tightly around the target, injected a paralytic toxin directly into his bloodstream to immobilize him, and actively prepared his body for consumption. They subsequently established a telepathic connection with the Jedi on the station above, broadcasting malevolent thoughts, intense mental distress, and a collective intent to harvest and consume all non-botanical lifeforms in the sector
Overview
In appearance, the Drengir were amorphous carnivorous sentient species that resembled plants. Their skin tones varied from hues of green to brown with their bodies decorated with an array of teeth, they possessed numerous tentacles and thorns. These carnivores were monstrous and hulking figures, with their jaws seen as wicked and their face pale in the moonlight. With manes of leaves and vines and horrific spurs of wood for limbs, the creatures seemed like sentient trees, and were were easily mistaken as such by other sentients. Their bodies were primarily configured as large, twisted mounds of dense botanical growth, consisting of various shades of green and brown. They lacked standard mammalian facial features or specialized sensory organs such as eyes, instead featuring a distinct, prominent maw arrayed with multiple sharp, jagged teeth. Numerous thick, elongated tentacles, tendrils, and snaking vines extended directly from their central mass, serving as highly mobile, prehensile limbs used for movement and interaction. The entirety of their botanical appendages and outer surfaces was covered in a dense layer of sharp thorns. These thorns were structurally designed to secrete potent, internal liquid toxins upon physical contact. Their cellular tissue possessed a unique density and elasticity that allowed them to rapidly regenerate lost matter, shift their overall shape, and survive significant physical trauma.
With a voracious hunger, the ancient and twisted mounds of greenery perceived all other life-forms as food, preferring to consume their prey alive. With innately warlike ways, the plant-like sentients fed life-forms such as wampas directly into their maws. The Drengir also captured sentients, strangling them with tentacles that reached into their bodies through their ears, nostrils, and mouth, and took children's vitality, draining away their very life.
The thorns on the Drengir secreted deadly poisons.
The Drengir demonstrated the biological ability to survive inside a deep, century-long state of hibernation induced by specialized warding statues without sustaining cellular decay or permanent loss of consciousness. They possessed rapid, near-instantaneous cellular regeneration capabilities, allowing their severed or damaged limbs to grow back fully functional immediately after sustaining severe physical trauma. Their prehensile vines and tentacles exhibited high physical strength and dexterity, which they utilized to forcefully constrict targets, burst through structural barriers, and manipulate complex, technological mechanical systems such as space station control pods. They showed the ability to synthesize and secrete a highly potent paralytic toxin through their thorns, which instantly immobilized non-botanical organisms upon physical puncture. They also displayed advanced telepathic and empathic communication skills, enabling them to establish direct mental links with sentient beings over long distances to project collective thoughts, sensory feelings, and malevolent intent directly into the minds of others. Furthermore, they possessed a high level of physical resilience, enabling them to withstand extreme environmental shifts, deep space vacuums, and atmospheric transitions without the use of protective gear.
The mere presence of the Drengir inspired dread, casting an intent and focused 'shadow' that was perceivable by sentients, even those not attuned to the currents of the Force. Plants were also affected by the Drengir's presence; the branches of plants near the creatures curled away, tainted and blackened.
As with plants, the Drengir spawned from seeds, taking root and growing to towering masses within only a couple of days of being planted.
The species were able to heal from most wounds inflicted by blasters or lightsabers quickly, although they were killed when exposed to the vacuum of space. When cut in half by a lightsaber, a single Drengir could survive with two bodies.
Notes
- The Drengir were created by Cavan Scott where they featured in the setting of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
- The design was created by Iain McCaig, a concept artist for the Star Wars prequel trilogy of films.
In other media
Other
- In Star Wars, the Drengir received an entry as part of the viral marketing for the High Republic series on the Youtube channel. They were described as sentient plant-like creatures with a strong connection to the Dark Side of the Force where they thrived on chaos and imbalance. The Drengir were said to see all other life as food and preferred it to be alive when they consumed them.
Appearances
- Star Wars: The High Republic:
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