CHARACTERS
PADME NABERRIE
BOBA FETT
LEIA ORGANA
MARA JADE
LUMINARA UNDULI

DARK SIDE
LUMIYA
DARTH VADER

TWI'LEKS
TWI'LEK ENCYCLOPEDIA
AAYLA SECURA
ANN & TANN GELLA
AXIA EUXINE
LYN ME

This section of my website is dedicated to those Lekku sporting aliens, (Alien if you're not a Twi'Lek of course) the Twi'Leks. I decided to dedicate a page to them becuase I find the female of the species fascinating. To be sporting however, coverage on this page will also include the other variety. This page will cover the Twi'Leks, both in general and noteable individuals as well as items related to Twi'Leks such as their home planet Ryloth.

Of course I found Oola as captivating for the three seconds of air time that she recieved in Return of the Jedi as everyone else did. But she was there and then a snack, not much time to develop an interest but the seeds were planted.

Then came Return of the Jedi Special Edition and the extended dance number. What's this? More Oola screen time? Another Twi'Lek of different pigmentation? Cool. To tell the truth I have a weakness for redheads and was much more interested in Rystall at this time. But again the seeds that had been sown were now taking root.

It wasn't until the Phantom Menace that the true attraction to Twi'Lek females occured. It was the blue twin massuses of Sebulba that did it to me. They are very sexy with that blue skin, those fishnet costumes and those collars of thiers.

By the way finding aliens attractive is a definite warning sign you watch too much science-fiction. But I knew that when I found that half Klingon/half Romulan lady on Nextgen appealing.

Twi'lek

A species of humanoids with twin head tentacles, they are sometimes dismissively called worm-heads. The dual taillike appendages called lekku grow out of the backs of their heads and can be used to communicate with other Twi'lek. Native to the planet Ryloth in the Outer Rim, they speak a language that combines verbal components with subtle head-tail movements. Twi'leks cultivate edible molds and fungi and raise cowlike rycrits for their meat and hides.
The species is generally nonviolent, preferring to use cunning instead of force. Twi'leks live in vast city complexes, located on their planet's dark side to escape the heat of the planet's surface. Each complex is autonomous, governed by a group of five Twi'leks, the head clan, who jointly oversee production, trade, and other daily endeavors. The leaders are born into their positions and serve until one of them dies. Then the others are banished to die in the Bright Lands of the planet's light side, making room for the next generation of leaders.
Twi'leks depend on neighboring systems, pirates, smugglers, and merchants for their contact with the rest of the galaxy. They attract these ships with their chief export, ryll, a mineral with legitimate medicinal uses that has also become a popular and dangerously addictive recreational drug, particularly in the Corporate Sector. Near defenseless, Twi'leks also face constant raids by off-world slavers. Bib Fortuna, top aide to criminal kingpin Jabba the Hutt, was a Twi'lek, as was Oola, the dancing girl killed by Jabba.

Twi'lek

A dry drink with a piquant bouquet and slightly sweet nose, it is ingested in abundance on Tatooine.

Ryloth

Located in the Outer Rim near Tatooine, it is the principal planet in the Ryloth system and home to the Twi'leks, a humanoid species with two large, fleshy head-tails growing from their skulls. The Twi'leks call these prehensile appendages lekku and can communicate through subtle lekku gestures, although they also speak Twi'leki.
Mountainous Ryloth rotates so slowly that its rotation is equal to the length of its orbit around the sun. One side of the planet always faces the sun and the only habitable areas are in the band of twilight separating the two sides. Heat storms in Ryloth's thin atmosphere help to distribute warmth throughout the twilight zone, where the Twi'leks live in a network of mountain catacombs. Wind-driven turbines power their primitive industrial civilization, and raw fungi and cowlike rycrits are raised for food. Ryloth's primary exports are the addictive ryll spice and Twi'lek females, who are desired for their seductive dancing skills.
The Twi'lek government is organized around a five-member head clan that is in charge of all community decisions. When one member of the clan dies, the remaining four are exiled into the day-side desert (the Bright Lands) and a new head clan is selected.
A major Twi'lek corporation, Galactic Exotics, developed orchards on the planet Belsavis. Ryloth is also home to Schaum Assoc., a Twi'lek advertising agency that pioneered media and public relations for the Corporate sector.
Years ago, a small Imperial refueling center and training outpost was established on Ryloth, supported by the Empire yet often used by smugglers. Tarkin, then a commander, had plans to turn the refueling station into an important base. jabba the Hutt's majordomo, Bib Fortuna, was one of the first to widely sell ryll spice off-planet, which attracted the Empire's attention and brought slavers to Ryloth. Fortuna was sentenced to death but escaped and returned later with an army of Jabba's thugs to exact revenge. Seven Ryloth cities were burned and Jabba took slaves and riches, while Fortuna rescued Nat Secura, the last son of a great Twi'lek family. Fortuna made plans to someday return with Secura and rule Ryloth as he saw fit. Not long before the Battle of Endor, For-tuna enslaved a clan chief's daughter named Oola, and trained her to serve as a dancer in Jabba's palace. Maw Installation scientist Tol Sivron, Rogue Squadron pilot Nawara Ven, and the ancient Jedi Knight Tott Doneeta were also natives of Ryloth.
After the New Republic retook Coruscant, Rogue Squadron flew a mission to Ryloth to obtain ryll kor, which was mixed with bacta to produce rylca, a cure for the Krytos virus. They landed at Kala'uun Starport, within one of the mountains known as the Lonely Five. The Twi'lek warrior Tal'dira and his pilots later joined with the squadron; they flew X-TIE hybrids called Chir'daks, or Deathseeds.

Rutian Twi'Leks

A race of Twi'leks identified by their blue skin. Rutian Twi leks are identical to most other Twi'leks in all other respects. The twins Ann and Tann Gella are Rutian Twi'Leks.

Lethan Twi'Leks

A race of very rare red skinned Twi'leks. Despite his corpulence the powerful senator Orn Free Taa can be often found with a red Lethan Twi'lek draped over his shoulders.