Needlers first appeared in "Death by Triflexia," an Star Wars Legends adventure for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game written by Peter M. Schweighofer that was published in the magazine Challenge 76 in 1995. They were revealed to be canon by the novel Aftermath, which was written by Chuck Wendig and released in 2015.
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