Alien Encounters: The Shard

" Alien Encounters " is the title of several articles in the Star Wars Adventure Journal. Each details several new alien species in the format of Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races and Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens — Enemies and Allies. The species covered appear in reformatted form in the game supplement Alien Encounters. Shards were a silicon-based species native to the planet Orax, who took the form of irregularly faceted cylindrical crystals thirty to forty centimeters in length. Faint pulses of light—thought signals propagating through their "brains"—could be seen inside their bodies. Shards were immobile in their natural state, but could be installed in specially modified droids.