Star Wars Question
Many aspects of the edited Original Trilogy are controversial, but where do you guys stand on old Sarlaac vs new Sarlaac
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Having no worm mouth makes it look like the entire thing is a terrible, gaping maw of teeth and feelers, like it is the mouth of some unfathomably huge creature.
In other words, the new one looks like it is in the sand landscape, the older one looks like it is the sand landscape.
Izzat a baby growing out of its left-hand leg? With the same little belly-scales?
If so, then the thing can reproduce, which is terrifying.
Also, eep. Not gonna sleep tonight, I guess.
When a male sarlacc, who starts off much smaller than a female made contact with a female, the male attached himself to her in a parasitic fashion. He gradually became larger as she became smaller. After several thousand years the female is digested into oblivion and he becomes the equivalent size of her, replacing the area where she once existed. The male then injected sperminto the spore production sac. Afterwards, the melded couple released the fertilized spores, which could leave theatmosphere and travel long distances through the Galaxy to other planets. Because of this fantastic ability to propagate, the species' point of origin was never accurately determined. Once the spore settled down, it attached itself to an organism and sucked blood from it to feed itself. After detaching, it developed into a more mobile larva and was able to hunt and consume prey.
As it grew, the voracious larva would eventually challenge larger creatures. If the sarlacc larva was consumed by a bigger creature, the larva would kill it and eat it from the inside, assuming its consumer had swallowed it in more or less one piece. During this stage, it developed into a large worm-like creature with many tentacles and a beak-like maw. Eventually, the larva would dig itself into a pit, growing roots to anchor itself in the ground while it grew into a full sized sarlacc, becoming largely immobile and more plant-like. The roots also functioned to absorb additional nutrients from the ground as a precaution against shortages of prey. A larger mouth formed around the beak, which became more like a tongue.
Nice knowing you, Star Wars Galaxy.
It was terrifying enough when it was THE Salacc in THE pit of Carkoon. Inexplicable like Yoda, or Jabba THE Hutt.
(when I was a little kid I thought that all the aliens in Star Wars were humans of some sort. Yoda was what happened when a person got old and wise, Jabba was what happened when a person got extremely greedy and gluttonous and fat, and so on)