Every Extinct and Endangered Alien Species in Star Wars

Overview

The video is a catalog of Star Wars species described as extinct, nearly extinct, or otherwise threatened. Its central theme is that species disappear for many reasons: imperial extermination and enslavement, wars of conquest, natural disasters, disease, ecological collapse, and the consequences of their own technology or social conflicts. Some accounts are uncertain or based on legends, and a few species have survivors, descendants, or possible refuges.

Species and Their Fates

Massacres, Enslavement, and Military Conquest

• Lasat: The Empire’s assault on Lasan killed nearly all of its inhabitants, using T-7 ion disruptors. Survivors were enslaved or killed; Garazeb Orrelios was among the few who escaped. He and other survivors eventually found Lira San, which became a refuge for the remaining Lasat.
• Tangrines: A peaceful, nomadic people enslaved by the Empire and forced to build a military base. After the work was completed, an Imperial officer ordered their annihilation, fearing rebellion.
• Geonosians: Forced by the Empire to help build the Death Star. Attempts to sabotage the project contributed to their near-total extermination, leaving only one known survivor. Their history also includes an earlier catastrophe in which debris from a comet impact killed about 99% of the population.
• Dreeden: The Empire wiped them out after they offered refuge to Jedi fugitives.
• Ikari: The Empire used a biological agent to exterminate them. Their unusual biology made them difficult to kill, but the last known survivor was eventually killed by Darth Vader.
• Palmians: Their population was annihilated during a stormtrooper training program’s final test.
• Telfreyans: Conflict with the Empire ended in an attack that killed all sentient life on their planet and left it uninhabitable for years.
• Yarkora: Their enslavement under Sith Lord Kurlock Forney led to the species’ extinction.
• Diesenites: Imperial forces exterminated them. Recordings of their dying screams were later used by an Imperial interrogator to distress prisoners.
• Merman: This aquatic species of Mon Calamari was exterminated when Darth Warlock ordered all life on the planet destroyed.
• M’arrans: Separatist forces attacked their world during the Clone Wars to seize its resources, exterminating the species.
• Bânkara: After their homeworld was destroyed by a meteor, the Republic gave them a sanctuary on Coruscant. The Empire later relocated them to a harsh world, where the species died out within 19 years.
• Gorgontell: The Hutts eventually conquered them after repeated failed invasions; the species became extinct within a decade.
• Navuta: They resisted the Mandalorian Crusaders for years but were ultimately defeated and became extinct.
• Telonians: These defensive, venomous arachnoids were exterminated by Mandalorian Crusaders.
• Fennelars: Renowned builders and technologists, they became extinct after Mandalorians raided their world and stole the design of their dreadnought.
• Areesi: Their participation in slave trading led to retaliation by the Argazdans, who joined the Republic and wiped out life on Areesius.
• Argazdans: Their history in the account is tied to Areesi slave raids and the retaliatory destruction of Areesius; the subtitles do not say that the Argazdans themselves went extinct.
• Porporites: Their addiction to ryl spice drove them into violent attacks on other worlds. The Gen’Dai eventually destroyed them.
• Slith and Gerb: These neighboring peoples lived peacefully together on Yavin 13, but the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the system annihilated both species.
• Massassi: Once warriors serving the Sith, many were ordered to sacrifice themselves for Naga Sadow. Others were transformed by Sith alchemy. By the Empire’s rise, scholars generally considered them extinct, though survivors or degenerated descendants might have remained.
• Taung: After losing their conflict with the Zhell on Coruscant, they fled and eventually became the first Mandalorians. The Taung later became extinct, but their Mandalorian culture endured.

Ancient Wars and Political Collapse

• Rakata: An advanced species that developed early hyperdrive technology, the Rakata became a cruel, expansionist empire. A plague, the loss of their connection to the Force, and internal conflict caused their decline; former subject species eventually erased them from galactic history.
• Kumumga: The Rakata enslaved them after they developed spaceflight. A failed rebellion was punished by bombardment that turned Tatooine’s fertile land into desert. The subtitles say the Kumumga eventually evolved into the Tusken Raiders or Jawas.
• Kwa: These ancient telepathic builders of Infinity Gates and Star Temples trained the Rakata and gave them advanced technology. When the Rakata turned against them, the Kwa retreated to Dathomir; those remaining there eventually devolved into the lizard-like Kwi.
• Zhell: Their conflict with the Taung ended with Zhell dominance on Coruscant. A volcanic disaster later nearly wiped them out, burying their city in ash.
• Molarians: The Hutts enslaved them, and they later established a republic. The Hutts regained control during the Zim Wars, driving the species to extinction.
• Zooman and Zolan Mon: A play claimed that the Zooman had gone extinct. The account connects their fate to the warlord Xim, who conquered the Zolan Mon and justified his actions by accusing them of slavery.
• Orinans: The subtitles say Xim also made the Orinans extinct. Other peoples listed as targets or victims of his conquests include the Viza, Clee, Izzy, Sith Sisters of Pellagrin, Cadell, and Ermi.
• Caridans: A Force-sensitive man, Kip Durron, destroyed Carida with the Sun Crusher after demanding information about his brother. He later realized his brother had been on the planet. Caridans offworld survived.
• Journey: This people once ruled a great empire, but had become extinct by the Galactic Empire era, leaving ruins. Darth Vader later used false claims about them in an unsuccessful attempt to lure Princess Leia.
• Kanda: The species reportedly destroyed itself in a large war after accumulating great wealth; its language also disappeared.
• Ayakashi: Their engineers built powerful weapons, but the species ultimately fell into civil war. One faction unleashed colossal droid weapons called the Six Gods, eliminating all organic life on their world.
• Sharu: Facing the Celestials, they hid beneath enormous pyramids. They later drained their own intelligence using crystalline life orchards, becoming the primitive Toka, or “Broken People,” who were exploited by human colonists.
• Zephronians: This peaceful, Force-sensitive people called the Force the “life wind” and had friendly relations with Wookiees. Corruption and dark-side influence contributed to their decline; many left their homeworld, and the species gradually approached extinction.

Disease, Environmental Disasters, and Self-Inflicted Destruction

• Keevans: Imperial scientists’ Project Starscream drained their life force and turned them into spirits bound to their planet. The spirits later confronted the scientist responsible.
• Solarions: A people attacked by the Rakatan Infinite Empire. Their planet’s location was lost, and when it was rediscovered, Han Solo destroyed the remaining powerful crystals to prevent the Empire from turning them into weapons.
• Shada’o Bi’borans: Their star began to die, depriving them of the radiation needed to produce essential enzymes. An attempted relocation failed; the last known member died in 38 BBY.
• Aqualish of Equanus: A Republic weapons test destroyed their sun, and a solar flare killed all life on the planet. Offworld Aqualish survived but were too few to repopulate the species.
• Malagarians: Their efforts to improve their resource-rich world turned it into a massive reactor, destroying the planet and the species.
• Buro: A human geological survey accidentally destroyed a forest on their homeworld, an event that ultimately caused their extinction.
• Gobindi: They built ziggurats to contain a virus, but it escaped and wiped them out. An antidote was found too late.
• Fere: A spreading plague wiped out the entire shipbuilding species around 192 BBY.
• Renvarites: An ice age made their planet nearly uninhabitable, leading to their extinction.
• Wasilci: Despite their strength and intelligence, they lacked immunity to the pathogens of the planet they inhabited and eventually died out.
• Thorbi: An ancient species and the first said to have joined the Republic, they became extinct; some remains were fossilized.
• Elaeon: This subterranean people lived on Polis Massa. The planetoid was destroyed, leaving only fragments and relics.
• Trawakis: Cave-dwellers on Rushon 9, they became extinct before the Imperial era.
• Silentium creators: These extragalactic beings created the sentient droids called Silentium. A radiation storm from a nearby supernova destroyed them, leaving their creations as their legacy.

Uncertain Histories and Residual Survivors

• Nightmare demons: A small species from Droxine with powerful telepathic abilities, they could immobilize people by exploiting their fears. Thought extinct before the Clone Wars, they may have survived: one attempted to kill Luke Skywalker in 3 ABY.
• Home mynocks: Sentient, silicon-based invertebrates evolved on an asteroid saturated with the dark side. Their inability to reproduce away from the asteroid may have contributed to their extinction, whose cause is otherwise unknown.
• Lodi: They vanished from Sulubas 4 before the Clone Wars. Their history was rumored to be preserved in a crystal structure called the Shu Wang Prism.
• Ssi’ruuk / Stass Chish: The subtitles say the species was reduced to one survivor after its homeworld was destroyed by the Empire. That last member, a soldier, sought revenge on Darth Vader.
• Rethal: Little is known of this species. A sensor-disruption field on their world is remembered, but records of the people themselves largely disappeared.
• Xaxax: A technologically advanced people whose inventions included medical cures, communications devices, and a space station. Their technology was entrusted to the Guardians, but greed among the Guardians led to looting; the subtitles do not clearly explain the species’ final cause of extinction.
• Andan host species: Known as necromancers, they were already extinct by the Clone Wars.
• Mynocks: These silicon-based parasites attach to spacecraft and drain power. The Rebel Alliance used them to distract Imperial fleets; after the Empire found hidden breeding facilities, it sent forces to destroy the beings there.
• Enzeen: A colony relocated by scientist Borborygmus Gog formed a symbiotic relationship with a bioengineered world that consumed tourists and returned their matter as food. The species later became extinct; the subtitles leave its original nature uncertain.
• Yalaran: Not described as extinct: Jedi Master Broden Kel Verdox hid their primitive society from the wider galaxy. Luke Skywalker later sent Jaden Korr to investigate after others discovered the planet; Korr destroyed the cloaking device to keep it from being misused.
• Zax X: The subtitles describe their technology and its theft by the Guardians, but do not clearly specify the exact cause or circumstances of the species’ extinction.

Promotional Segment

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Speakers and Sources Featured

• Narrator: A single narrator delivers the species histories and the promotional segment; the channel is identified in the video metadata as Stickman Anakin.
• Sponsor mentioned: Stickman Sabers, promoted by the narrator. No separate interviewees or other speakers are identifiable in the subtitles.