Oil/Legends

"Does anyone have any oil? I'm a little stiff..."

―A B1-Series battle droid

Oil was a slippery substance used as a lubricant for mechanical devices as well as for medicine, nourishment, and cooking. Droids were often given oil baths to remove contaminants from their mechanical parts. At times, oil could get clogged in a droid's photoreceptors. When C-3PO was treated to an oil bath that used this particular type of oil, he remarked that his olfactory sensors were strangely affected by it. Petroleum was a type of oil that was used in the processing of plastics.

On Drexel, Governor Quarg's band of marooned pirates procured oil by extracting it from the planet's native fish population. On Maridun, the Lurmen colonists extracted oils from enormous seedpods for use as nourishment and medicine.

Types of oils used in cooking included Aola, Foyvè oil, Groundnut oil, Levsh oil, Pepper oil, and Zaffa oil.

Passel Argente, Magistrate of the Corporate Alliance, possessed an orange cloak in 19 BBY that was covered in some type of oil.

Appearances

• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Star Wars Episode I: Watch Out, Jar Jar! (Picture only)
• Outbound Flight
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Evil Plans"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "R2 Come Home"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Point of No Return"
• "Deadly Allies"—Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.51 (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
• "Memory Loss"—Star Wars Comic 13
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novel (First appearance)
• Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
• File:FantasyFlightGamesLogo.png "Takeover at Whisper Base" – Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Beginner Game
• "A Boy and His Monster: The Rancor Keeper's Tale"—Tales from Jabba's Palace (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars (1977) 13
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (novel)
• "Hasty Exit" – Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook
• "Taster's Choice: The Tale of Jabba's Chef"—Tales from Jabba's Palace
• Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (Mentioned only)
• Jedi Search (Mentioned only)
• "Murder in Slushtime" – Star Wars Adventure Journal 14
• Fate of the Jedi: Outcast (Mentioned only)
• Fate of the Jedi: Outcast audiobook (Mentioned only)

Sources

• Cynabar's Fantastic Technology: Droids
• Gundark's Fantastic Technology: Personal Gear
• Lords of the Expanse
• Player's Guide to Tapani
• Star Wars Trilogy Sourcebook, Special Edition
• Alien Encounters
• Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
• Lurmen in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Beginner Game
• Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook