Neimoidian Padawan?

Does anyone know if this is a Neimoidian Padawan from the General Grievous comic mini series?

Boxed in red.

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I don't think that is a Neimoidian, I think that is a Duro. Remember, Neimoidians are an offshoot of the Duros. But it loks for like a Duro to me.

 

Maybe a Rodian.

 

I agree with galor4 , I think that's a Duro.

 

Blue skin, red eyes, it's a Duros.

 

You never know though....

 

Well he/she is the furthest one cowering in the back.

 

That proves it!

 

I would expect that it's a Duro. The Nemoidians we see in the movies are al wrinkly, and, although I doubt that manifests itself at youngling age, it seems as good an indicator as any that what we are looking at here is a non-Nemoidian.

 

Conversely, Duros don't have the little squiggly black line bisecting their eyeballs. Nemoidians do.

I have to go look at the comic now. I remember when reading it not thinking twice about anyone's species except for the Nautolan.

edit: I take it back. That padawan is probably a Duros

 

Aren't Neimoidian kids grubs anyway?

Or was that just a misnomer for the similar way they're raised? I never could figure that out.

 

A misnomer, more likely. I don't think that Neimodians would deviate that far from baseline Duros stock in only a couple ten thousand years.

 

It's a Duros. Neimoidians are green-skinned with more of a pink hue to their eyes.

 

I really thought I was killing the whole Zhug family in The Sith Lords game, until I realised it was a crime cartel name. They gave Duros in KOTORs Asian-style speech: short sentences, fast paced.

 

anzati zhug was very stupid he had bad grammar.

 

We see a Neimoidian baby in HoloNet News. He's kinda pinkish-white and grub colored, but we can't see his body. I've always wondered about that too...

 

According to this, that's a Near-Duros, unless all baby Neimoidians are pink.

http://starwars.wikicities.com/wiki/Near-Duros

 

OMG It's a chiss.

Seriously, it's a Duro

 

It's being held by a Nemoidian. Seems Nemoidian babies are pink.

Every time I hear about Duros hive life, I think the exact same thing. Why are Nemoidians so insectoid, as opposed to Duros? Unless the Nemoidians are some sort of de-evolution, a resurgence of latent, ancient genetic traits.

Makes sense, considering how the Nemoidians speak.

Why did the Duros/Nemoidian connection need to be made? It really is a pain.

EDIT: Got it. Duros are amphibious, correct? Thus it's reasonable to believe they begin life as tadpoles before maturing. Nemoidian life cycles, therefore, may not be directly insectoid, but merely similar to it. They are then, in fact, merely a terrestrial adaptation of an amphibian life cycle. The "grub" stage is the tadpole phase.

 

I'd say he/she's a Neimoidian because:

1) Grievous is holding a blue lightsaber up to the group so everyone, including the humans, are slightly bluish; therefore the color of the skin can't be taken into account.

2) As BobaMatt pointed out, the kid's got squiggles in his/her's eyes.

3) The author seems to have put a number of other Neimoidians in the story, and judging from past experience with other books/comics/games, once an author uses a species in their story they usually end up placing several of them in (for instance, the multiple Umbarans in Hard Contact or the Chagrians in Dark Rendezvous).

Interesting... brings a whole new meaning to the name "Nute" Gunray.

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I thought Neimoidian young were simply raised as grubs, modeled after the lifecycles of the bugs on their homeworld.

But anyways, the padawan could be a Neimoidian. The Force is in all life (except the Vong).

 

Other sources, as well as the existence of worker drones, seem to suggest a much more literal interpretation to "raised as grubs." Coupled with this info about the Duros being amphibian...

I dunno, I like my explanation lol.

 

Neimoidians are always described as reptilian, and I don't remember Duros being called anything specific... I do like the theory that their "grubs" are just a tadpole-like phase. Hive life doesn't necessarily imply a relation to insects, though-- there's a species of shrew on earth, for example, that lives just like bees or ants do.

It could even be a social model they adopted that the Duros don't have. It certainly doesn't seem the norm, since we have evidence of Neimoidian couples and so on.

 

Bingo. I recall it being said that they adopted it based on the ginourmous insects on their homeworlds. And I had always heard the Duros described as reptillians.

 

Random Question.

Do all Chiss speak like the one in Jedi Academy?

"No Jedis! Not in the faces!"