Psychic Tree Gods Ruled the Ithorians (and made the Halo Flood in SW)

foreign what's up meta nerds to completely understand the etherians we'll be pulling from every Source available from Legends in Canon covering their biology history insane influence from a telepathic tree that made them a staple of the galactic Community from the Old Republic on through the uzon vong where they meet a horrifying end and then we'll end on some behind the scenes facts The Story begins at grid coordinates M6 in the mid-rim within the otega sector the otega solar system has a single sun in six planets with either being in the fourth orbital position itself having three moons and this sector as a whole was home to 69 rogue planets not orbiting their Sun but a more complicated gravitation effect that kept them all in the otega sector ether was covered in large oceans and dense rainforests no deserts or ice caps in sight barely any mountain ranges just humid green expanse planet-wide teeming with life from canopy to the deepest underwater caves the I Thor's evolutionary ancestors came to domesticate some of these creatures and learned which of the billions of plant combinations were useful as medicines food spices and poisons which could be used against the predatory creatures the modern etherian would stand 1.8 to 2.3 meters or about 6 foot 7 inches the females having two humps on their head and males only having one they had two mouths one on each side of this horizontal neck section and four throats in total allowing them to speak in Stereo a strange sensation when spoken in their native language and even when passing through vocoders the order of the night winds are not allowed to operate outside of Hut in space thank you for turning him in if this man his reward this massive lung and air sacks throughout the next section and down into the more humanoid chest were so strong and contain so much air that A Primitive self-defense move was to release a violent scream that had enough concussive force to death in an attacker and even do some physical damage perhaps not enough to kill but certainly to stun though later Jedi etherians were able to develop this scream to be powerful enough to shatter iron and even shred plastiel not the stronger Dura steel used in ships but would still be deadly on an unarmored opponent they are mammals despite their slow look and when they get older they tend to get hairier when they're born they have no appendages and look just like a little slug with a big head and eye stalks forming first then the Nubs of Limbs forming over the following months eventually resulting in hands with five very long fingers and thicker toes each with fleshy membranes that created a light suction effect helping for climbing trees and Swinging From branches which also explains their lanky but muscular limbs as one poet wrote happily reflecting on his earliest memories quo I was such a promise sing Pupa glassy-eyed appendageless able to move my body at will the world was a titillating surface an endless glistening Horizon that I had only to track across to let slip under my underbelly to feel satisfied oh the joys of Youth once they molted out of the pupa State they lost their oral flap and the tube-like roller muscles that helped the pupa move the craters in their head deepened and they developed a ravenous appetite for ant flies the next detail is unclear but either the females were popping them out like crazy but they were far from a monogamous species as it was normal for males to Father thousands of Offspring this would also point to there being a much greater female population it is said that their average age is 85 years but some are confirmed to be in the mid-200s in proportion to the thick head neck and chest their arms and legs do look skinny this effect is because of how it Narrows towards the joint at the elbow and knee but if you look they are quite muscular it's just because they are so peaceful and their people found ways to live at Harmony with the abundance in the lush jungle homes as soon as they developed the plant Tech toward Predators there wasn't much need for violence there are no wars in the recorded history get out of here you goggle-light freak you're two of two other where you came from we don't want your kind up here yeah thank you and their culture is so peaceful that most never realize that they are in the presence of something with a strength that Rivals a Wookie though admittedly over several thousand years of living off world in cities this musculature does seem to fade with the later average I thorian looking a lot more like this because the old ones had farmer strength even when faded out of primitive hunting and Gathering tribes when they were still living in cities on world they avoided becoming too specialized wanting to make sure that each authorian worked their own land and maintain jungle Gardens even the philosopher and politician would work jungles even if at a lesser rate than a professional farmer something like the difference between a professional bodybuilder and someone who works hard four days a week but might be an accountant by trade they still know the in and outs of the gym or in this analogy the jungle even if not at the same depth as a pro and I say that because they are very conscious of the physical and mental benefits of maintaining your own little plot of jungle to them it worked as Church Gym doctor's office Grocery and even graveyard let me pause to thank betterhelp for sponsoring this video betterhelp is the world's largest therapy service and it's 100 online with better help you can tap into their network of over 25 000 licensed and experienced therapists that can help you with a wide range of issues to get started you just answer a few questions about your needs and preferences when it comes to therapy that way better help can match you with the right therapist from their Network then you can talk to your therapist however you feel comfortable whether it's through chat text or a video or phone call 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called herds this is where things get really interesting because I have laid it out as if the etherians are obviously the dominant and most advanced species on this world but there is an argument that these people were being cultivated by the holy mother also known as mother jungle comparative religion researchers would have had a field day here seeing how similar the themes and beliefs were across I Thor and although at first the religion worked more like a regional and individual pagan-like nature worshiping practice with more advanced civilization expanding we get official titles like high priest oracles and elders and it's at this time that they develop native Repulsor Tech used to make gravity-defying machines that float off the ground divine inspiration is cited in much of the technological advancement the purpose of moving to floating cities was to prevent deforestation on rare occasions the living force would awaken an individual in the form of psychic conversations with the mother jungle if one heard the call they would descend into the jungle to commune with this intelligence eventually coming to the base of a baffour tree these were crystalline plants with blue glassy bark and black leaves It is believed that each individual tree was not sentient rather like a cluster of neurons that were able to communicate with countless other bat fours throughout the planet creating massive neural networks the brain of the Green Man or Mother Nature at first it was individual forests and patches of bath Forest had achieved super Intelligence being such a large and intelligent entity their presence in the living Force allowed them to speak telepathically with other beings these are the gods of individual tribes in the past but as their root systems became more connected the many gods became one a hive mind system grew stronger and mother jungle had a greater influence on the mind of the etherians once they decided on their own to go live up in repulsar platforms or herd cities after several Generations even taking these off-world and colonizing their system they start to lose their connection into nature and we see a lot of Dogma from the centralized globally organized religion now they asserted that no I thorian should ever set foot in the forest to touch the trees would be the greatest sin while still retaining a love for cultivating plants but just on their ships and those other colony Worlds the nature of their Homeworld became like the holy of holies no common eitherian could step in there or be in the presence of the True Green Goddess even the oracles that were drawn back to the baffours were considered Renegades by the rest of their society and once they went into the city they were not allowed to return to the herd ships it's as if going back and forth would be unclean though because this species had such a strong mystical tradition and connection with the living Force each heard within a herd ship was led by a force-sensitive individual who had the role of both priest and healer that high priest and the elders that served on his Council seemed to understand that these oracles were being called to serve the mother but that the public had to be shunned from trying it themselves perhaps to prevent people from claiming that the forest was talking to them it makes some sort of bureaucracy see between them and the goddess they created a social stigma it made it look like punishment to become an oracle that way nobody would fake a call to the Wild and defile the sacred grounds as their population grew and this system was working really well as the Green Goddess then helped them unlock the mysteries of hyperspace travel heard ships became massive circular platforms one thousand meters across nearly the size of a venator and even the peace-loving mother knew that as her children traveled across the Stars they would meet with violent species so these herd ships are proper warships being operated by a crew of three thousand a city population of ten thousand protected by 20 laser cannons and four tractor beam projectors while still having majority of space allocated to gardening with the main skyscraper filled cities in the core Botanical Dome circling it with things like hydroponic systems and different environments and then layers of relatively more wild natural spaces as the layers go out docking tubes line this area and this whole bottom section is a massive hanger since at their Peak the population of either was 2 billion and this means the population living in herd ships not the at most couple hundred of oracles living on the surface then there had to be at least two hundred thousand of these hyperdrive enabled warship Hanging Gardens which must have made quite an impression as they floated through the atmospheres of neighboring worlds eventually coming into contact with the Republic around 12 000 BBY the Jedi were fascinated with their connection to the force and to this strange tree intelligence neitherans quickly became a staple of the order with countless Jedi Masters and many Council seats being taken over the next 12 Millennia now they had three diplomatic groups with powerful either and influence the Jedi Order the Senate and allies in the senate in each of the herd ships throughout the Galaxy and though each was intended to be self-sufficient they would all get together every three years for an event called a herd meet an amazing festival and praise of life in all its many forms with exotic flora fauna and Tech but on display donated from other alien allies many were able to speak basic and most species found their accent and stereo projection via the four throats to have a musical quality While others would opt for a translator are mounted on the side of their mouth most of the galactic Community had a great relationship with the ithorians as they were known as seeds of the mother jungle helping others to develop technology and develop a green thumb many of famine were averted due to eitherian advice and intervention same goes for helping aliens Sprout New Colony worlds which of course grew the strength of the Republic it would be the herd of choto habat that rebuilt the devastated Telos 4 suffering from the effects of the Mandalorian and Jedi Civil Wars while a few like the bounty hunting Momo brothers were exiled by their people and worked as bounty hunters in the Mandalorian Wars but these two were definitely an exception as the centuries turn into Millennia with thousands of hardships sowing peace and prosperity from the core to the outer rim they couldn't even keep track of all their philanthropic efforts and Engineering Marvels it wasn't until the cold war between the Sith and Republic that Republic researchers finally solved the mystery of the Heffron aqueducts this Marvel Criss-Cross massive continents and was considered the creation of a lost alien people but the ithorian senator and high priest was happy to hear that all evidence pointed to some herd eons ago just doing their thing and spreading Prosperity an odd detail from this era was that they imported reeks to either where they would eat the leaves of the baffour trees which did not hurt the plant and in fact must point to that green superintelligence learning through its psychic connection peeking into the minds of eitherians that had studied the Flora and Fauna across the Galaxy and learning that reeks were the perfect animal to promote growth eating just enough for the low-hanging leaves having beneficial chemicals in their manure and working as natural Guardians for these scarred forests but eventually the dark side came to I Thor Seth's saboteurs snuck into herd ships floating above the jungles of I Thor and were able to turn them into flaming wreckage that smashed into the jungles instantly killing thousands of holy trees lobotomizing the brain of God this did work to turn the Arthurian efforts to rehabilitating their own world for once reducing their positive impact on the Republic war effort but as is often the case the greatest power of the dark side is its ability to spread through contact through a want for revenge and many would step into the dark to strike back against those that attacked them from the shadows and around 439 BBY we see the first malevolent plotting by the scarred mother officially the Spore project was undertaken by Rogue thorian scientists but remember all scientific advancement throughout their history had always been Guided by psychic bath force and always with the main goal being to preserve the jungles only after the Sith attack do we see eitherians using their science to genetically alter baffour trees something that must have been considered sacrilegious for a people that thought going down and touching the trees was the most grave of sins the only thing that could excuse this would be if the order came from the mother herself and the experiment would splice baffour genes with vesavig trees carnivorous plant species and several other unnamed plant species in order to create something new called simply the Spore the vesaveg was a horrifying creature on its own able to move across the jungle and actively hunt its prey by using a surface-laying root system as its fee and being able to rapidly grow their roots several meters in a few seconds like a nightmarish combination of spider webs and pythons the prey would get wrapped up and strangled until it stopped fighting whereupon The Roots would burrow into the body and absorb its nutrients by combining this with the baff4s the Spore had the networked psychic powers of the hive mine and was now able to hunt prey but instead of killing it and devouring the body it used the psychic control to hijack the mind making the victim a zombie under the utter control of the mother turning a sentient individual into just another node in the green supercomputer the name spores a reference to how small these were through the combo of those unnamed plants splice into their genome as well and they could spread like a virus contacted just by touching these spores before they rapidly grew dug in and took over this blight in their history was remembered as the I thorian Spore crisis and would see millions of sentience from countless different species incorporated into mother jungle since this psychic connection Works through the living Force this would make it one of the most powerful force wielders in history but because it's so odd not a Jedi or Sith nobody knows what the make of this being and more importantly for the historic record nobody wanted to raise a fear of eitherians in the general public permative species might turn away any help from these already odd looking people and when the Jedi intervened to stop the spread of these spores both Jedi researchers and etherians maintained but the Spore was a rogue Consciousness claiming that it was not connected to the mother believe that which you will but also keep in mind the ethorians did not completely destroy it they kept the sample alive and placed it in a tomb on a remote asteroid it is said that because it is deprived of oxygen the Spore is dormant but clearly they did not eradicate this option when they could have and as it stands there is the possibility that this lost Spore floating through the Galaxy on an asteroid could be discovered by an alien species if they brought it back to their colonies it would unleash a flood of hive mind monsters that would wipe these people out perhaps not entirely unconnected we start to see more Exiles from the herd ships there were always a few I thorian each year that showed a flash of a violent side and were ordered to leave their community and live amongst alien people to be fair even at their worst their crime rate was still around zero percent but we do see a relative spike in Exiles around this era an era where the power of the dark side was growing in this final Century of the Republic leading up to the Clone Wars more of them were being found in the Underworld like Anka and boduga who might just have been distant relatives of the Mandalorian Wars Bounty Hunters they certainly kept up the tradition being Fallen brothers that Rose in that dangerous profession baldogo would lose his life over a hat to the greatest hunter of the time cat Bane and his brother would be quickly eliminated in Dooku's competition in the Box all over on Tatooine gardulo the Hutt's pleasure Garden near the Dune sea was filled with a horrifying menagerie of exotic Flora including the vesavag that violent genetic parent of the Spore would be used as a sick form of entertainment where she would force prisoners to be fed to it and other times give out a sort of perverse golden ticket to people living in Moss Eisley saying they won a day in the pleasure Garden like a resort spa to these people where they would unwittingly eventually walk into the path of the vesave being slowly strangled and devoured while gardula and her Entourage laughed this Garden would fall into the hands of Jabba and he surely would have kept this tradition alive also on Tatooine is the Exile momon addon he was an elder on the herd ship to Fonda Bay and when the Empire came to I Thor the transition of power was simple with a fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers they demanded that the elders immediately turned themselves in a countdown was made before they would open fire on the ships and then said they would turn the turbo lasers to the holy mother jungle if they tried to escape with the green goddess and the Stranglehold of a dark lord of the Sith the elders had no choice but to turn over their secrets on the force and the databases that stretched back to the Old Republic knowing that this would betray the mother but also seeing that there was no other option momon nadon stood up to sacrifice himself he worked with the Empire to facilitate the transfer knowing and still respecting his brothers and sisters in leadership as they did uphold their laws and traditions nadome was set to be executed but through the help of a close friend he got away with just Exile he was sure to bring plenty of tools and specimens and set out to the remote and challenging world of Tatooine finding a perfect Canyon he was able to establish his own green Oasis his secret garden Oasis outside of mos Eisley it was a masterful combination of plant traits and needs creating a vibrant symbiotic Emerald floating in the Dune sea he was even able to commune with what felt like an avatar of the mother's Mind by cultivating a Grove of baffour trees and having roving Security in the form of vesive eggs which he was able to control being an elder meant he would have some deeper than normal force connection which may have helped with The Taming of these plants and this entire operation local police and Stormtroopers would occasionally harass him but nothing really came of this until his lover a fellow I thorian whose backstory on how she ended up with him is a bit of a mystery was killed by stray blasterfire caught in the crossfire of a bounty hunter and his Mark then one day a space battle erupted over Tatooine in an escape pod landed near his Hidden Cove Captain olima would investigate this very out of place Canyon and pulled a blaster demanding that the etherian helped him find the Astro Max he explained that he didn't know anything about them now he was a pacifist one the Imp threatened to kill the Baff Force nadan realized that peace wasn't the only option but when he tried to turn the blaster on him his lack of martial arts skills and knowledge of blasters caused the man to Simply laugh and quickly regain control days later he would find himself sitting in Shaman's Cantina when he sends the presence in the force the old hermit Obi-Wan Kenobi and a farm boy drew his attention curious he eavesdropped on the conversation but a quick escape with some droids he followed them and watched as the stormies tried to stop the Millennium Falcon from escaping the Imperial prefect was Furious and looking to blame someone for this failure knowing this Mission involved Darth Vader and nadan was quick to step forward saying that he had told Captain of Lima where those droids were days ago before he complete his innocence the previous effect ordered the troops to execute the captain the only way he could make amends with the living force was prescribed in the law of Life the code handed down by the goddess which said that if you needed to destroy you must replace you must replace one with two so he took cell samples and was able to contact cloners to spin up two copies of elima he would raise them like his children steeped in his culture so that this human could make amends for his transgressions against the Baff force and natin can make sure that the life of alimo was not snuffed out over the next couple years this Grove would serve as a rebel Hideout during the Civil War in 4aby the Battle of Endor would scatter the Empire and the new Republic would take the mantle I Thor was free and Nathan was invited back For an upcoming herd me during what would be the largest Collective celebration in the history of these people it would be restored as an elder of tafanda bay though he would spend the rest of his life in constant repentance to the green mother in 9aby mayor Moksha is of mas espa would be hanged by Boba Fett with this eitherian likely being one of those rare exiled criminals though he could have came from one of the famous cities like hammertown which likely came from the Empire forcing these people off of their hardships once the empire fell the etherians would have to make a difficult decision whether they wanted to leave this place called home for decades and Luke Skywalker's Jedi Order likely paid this place a visit as even during the war there was at least one force sensitive that was detected here and just as it seemed like they might have a happy ending the story quickly turns dark the elders were outraged to find them in this period of diaspora mercenary groups led by their own people were training against the reeks in the jungles in big game Hunting Expeditions we're drawing people from all over the Galaxy for a people who found themselves to be too Unholy to set foot in these Woods this blasphemy was unfathomably outrageous the new Republic sector Rangers were able to eradicate them but did have to work with other mercenary groups to do so and by 25 ABY the uzon vong would invade the Galaxy most worlds were vong formed turned into massive farms for generating materials of war with everything from ships and weapons being living creatures special especially designed through bioengineering though normally they would have loved a lush world like this they completely destroyed it far worse than a mandalorian's worst nightmare about their Homeworld the Republic was able to engage the vong fleet over I Thor trying to prevent this destruction it even defeated their leader but on his death an immediate order went out to release biotoxins worldwide the vong had realized that pollen from the baffour tree caused a reaction in their living crafted crab armor that rapidly expanded the armor and killed the vong inside it could not let this threat stand it wasn't long before the toxin turned the forest into a Mudslide of black sludge that spread to kill all complex life on either a vibrant ancient Nexus in the living force was nothing more than a bubbling scum Pond all this organic death turned the atmosphere into a dangerous mix of gases so when the Republic did finally destroy the vong ships they fell to I Thor and set its atmosphere Ablaze in a blink this world went from a planet-wide sacred century jungle to a flaming lifeless hellscape and from then on the people that every other alien species loved and welcomed with open arms the great peacemakers and civilizers of the Galaxy would never recover the Divine was destroyed and attempts to accumulate bath forests from across the Stars would be attempted for Generations but even a hundred years later there was no success on this front we can only hope that one day the goddess may be resurrected on another adoptive Homeworld that's it for the breakdown as for behind the scenes facts it is said that in either in mythology trinta was the name for the realm of demons and there was a world they came across in their travels that they hated so badly they named it Trenta but I didn't want to work that into the breakdown because that sentence is the entire lore on that idea there's nothing else outside of a religious concept besides the mother jungle and that priesthood all I can think of is that it was made up to scare people from going into the jungle just like we saw was saying that the oracles were exiled that law of Life principle mentioned goes really deep could be its own video but I felt they went on enough tangents but it applies just even non-sentient creatures any plant you destroyed had to be replanted twice which must have led into their philanthropy across the Galaxy as they grew and ate they had to keep doing so for others so you would run out of space on your Homeworld and then herd ships and go out to have to plant for other alien species a benevolent green snowball that gets bigger and bigger as it rolls across the Stars the baffours aren't the only species with this odd psychic connection to their people mon calamari had the knowledge Bank a group of sentient telepathic clams the autogun species is a genetic offshoot of the etherians but there is barely a paragraph on their lore or how this happened my guess is since they're named after the larger area containing either it must be the descendants of the earliest off-world colonies in a line from the Star Wars radio drama where Luke comments on seeing a mirian hammerhead spawned a whole separate species in lore the same puppet was used for nadon and deneb and had four fingers while all later depictions show five in the original sketches show that as funny as lore can be at times the creators really did take it seriously with the shape of the head being designed as an aquatic creature with breathing holes up top for the head simple eyes on the side like prey animals and then hunting eyes facing forward more like a predator there are even lines on how it would eat plankton the brain is in the hump at the base of the neck they would speak to others via a translator located on the chest or very gentle they had a religion based on tying and untying knots which seemed to be used for its clothing too so while a lot has changed a lot has also stayed the same all these years and shows that down with the concept art there was this really rich World building and storytelling through the visuals a lot of this info comes from the essential series from the atlas species his books like Galaxy of fear Spore and the new Jedi Order series please hit that like button it's the best way to 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Published: Thu Mar 30 2023