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'''Tuskettes''' were a [[Sentience/Legends|non-sentient]] [[Species/Legends|species]] of [[Tooth/Legends|tusked]] [[Mammal/Legends|mammals]] that lived feral on the [[Planet/Legends|planet]] [[Courkrus]]. Members of the [[Hutt/Legends|Hutt]] species ate tuskettes raw as palate cleansers. On at least one occasion, the Hutt [[Shala]] forced a pair of tuskettes to fight each other to the [[Death/Legends|death]] for [[Gender/Legends|his]] entertainment.

==Description==
A [[Sentience/Legends|non-sentient]] [[Mammal/Legends|mammal]] [[Species/Legends|species]], tuskettes were small enough in size that a [[Hutt/Legends|Hutt]] could bite off one's head. They possessed [[Tooth/Legends|tusks]], [[Blood/Legends|blood]], and a [[Bone/Legends|spine]] and were also capable of screaming.<ref name="I,J" />

==History==
In [[11 ABY/Legends|11 ABY]], when the [[Jedi/Legends|Jedi]] [[Corran Horn]] visited the Hutt [[Crime lord/Legends|crime lord]] [[Shala]]'s [[Shala's base|base]] on the [[Planet/Legends|planet]] [[Courkrus]] to gather information about the Hutt, [[Gender/Legends|he]] found two tuskettes fighting, unaware that one of them would be [[Death/Legends|eaten]]. As Horn watched, one of the animals emerged victorious, splattering tuskette blood on the Jedi's cheek, after which it screamed as Shala snapped its spine and bit off its head. The Hutt then offered a [[Foodstuff/Legends|raw haunch]] of the animal to Horn and, when Horn refused, threw it to his men to fight over, resulting in a [[Unidentified Rodian (Shala's base)|member]] of the [[Rodian/Legends|Rodian]] species eating it. Horn later reflected that if he wished to, he could use [[The Force/Legends|the Force]] to perform a census of all the feral tuskettes living in the planet's [[City/Legends|city]] of [[Vlarnya]].<ref name="I,J" /> In [[19 ABY/Legends|19 ABY]], during a feast at the Hutt crime [[Lord/Legends|lord]] [[Popara Anjiliac Diresto]]'s [[Popara's penthouse|penthouse]] on the planet [[Nal Hutta/Legends|Nal Hutta]], live tuskettes were kept in cages for the Hutt guests to eat as palate cleansers.<ref name="Sc">[[Scourge (novel)|''Scourge'']], chapter 9</ref>

==Behind the scenes==
Tuskettes were first mentioned in the [[1998]] novel ''[[I, Jedi]]'', written by [[Michael A. Stackpole]], and then again in the [[2012]] novel [[Scourge (novel)|''Scourge'']], written by [[Jeff Grubb]]. ''Scourge'' is a novelized version of the [[Wizards of the Coast]] ''[[Star Wars Roleplaying Game]]'' adventure ''[[Tempest Feud]]'', although the animals are not mentioned in the original [[Roleplaying game|RPG]] material.

==Appearances==
*''[[I, Jedi]]'' {{1st}}
*[[Scourge (novel)|''Scourge'']]

==Notes and references==
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