Hermit spiders were dangerous arachnoid creatures living on the planet Naboo and its moon Rori.
Hermit spiders were large arachnid creatures native to the planet Naboo, that could also be found on its moon Rori. They were predatory, aggressive and poisonous spiders. These spiders were solitary creatures, but they had a rigid social structure, including specialized individuals such as guards and queens.
Hermit spiders were likely related to nightspiders, another arachnid species from Naboo.
Mutant hermit spiders on Naboo
After the Battle of Yavin, mutant strains of hermit spiders, larger in size, were discovered on Naboo.
In 1 ABY, the con artist Zeelius Kraymunder convinced Jaleela Bindoo, the organizer of the on Rori, that a nest of hermit spiders threatened the upcoming gala. Terrified by spiders, Bindoo accepted to fund Kraymunder to eliminate the creatures. The crook then hired a spacer to kill a hermit spider and collect the carcass. Zeelius Kraymunder later pretended that the spacer killed at least fifty spiders with a thermal detonator and brought back the dead queen.
Concept art for Star Wars Galaxies.
Hermit spiders appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts, prior to its closure on December 15, 2011. In the game, hermit spiders were virtually identical to nightspiders but no explicit relationship was established between the two species.
The hermit spider later had its own entry in the 2008 reference book The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. The illustration used in the book for the hermit spider was directly taken from the Wookieepedia article.
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