Kintan strider/Legends
The Kintan strider was a ferocious creature with incredible self-healing abilities. Extinct on their homeworld of Kintan, they were used as guard beasts by many Hutt gangsters.
Biology and appearance
Physically, these creatures were considered an ugly sight to behold, with notably bizarre features. Despite this appearance, Kintan striders were noted for ferocious, aggressive, and vicious behavior with a relentless blood-lust. Quick and agile, their exceptional healing capabilities made them formidable opponents, allowing them to survive seemingly mortal blows whereupon they swiftly recovered enough to bring like aggression to their attacker.[1]
White-colored, with large shoulders and arms dragging nearly to the ground, striders commonly carried sticks and large poles to use for weapons and as implements for eating.
Kintan striders were represented in dejarik games with a holomonster playing piece. One of the piece's tactics was the kintan strider death gambit.
History
Kintan striders were originally native to the Endless Wastes of Kintan. Their ferocity made them a respected adversary to generations of ancient Nikto orders. On their homeworld, striders became extinct due to a combination of pollution and over-hunting. It proved to be one of the last creatures to have died at the hands of the Nikto on Kintan. The creatures had been transported, bred, and domesticated on other worlds long before their demise on Kintan, however, thus preserving the species offworld.[1]
Appearances
- Star Wars: The Old Republic (Codex entry)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Math: Jabba's Game Galaxy (As Holochex piece)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Deserter" (As dejarik piece)- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Assassin" (As dejarik piece)
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance) (As dejarik piece)
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope junior novel (As dejarik piece)
- Star Wars: Assault Team (As dejarik piece)
- Star Wars Galaxies (As dejarik piece)
- The Star Wars Holiday Special (In flashback(s)) (As dejarik piece)
- The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
- The New Jedi Order: Star by Star (As dejarik piece)
- Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen (As dejarik piece)
- Millennium Falcon (As dejarik piece)
- Millennium Falcon audiobook (As dejarik piece)
- Fate of the Jedi: Ascension (As dejarik piece)
- Fate of the Jedi: Ascension audiobook (As dejarik piece)
Sources
Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Premiere Limited (Card: Kintan Strider) (backup link)- Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
"Race for the Tessent"—Star Wars Gamer 9- The Official Star Wars Fact File 2 (DEJ1–2, Dejarik Hologame)
- Threats of the Galaxy
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Millennium Falcon Owner's Workshop Manual
- The Art and Making of Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide
- Lords of Nal Hutta
