What a better way to start off a Star Wars blog about obscure topics and characters than with Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. They are the band inside the cantina Luke and Obi-Wan visit during "A New Hope." And they play that same song, over and over.
Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes is an all Bith (that's their race) band famous for their somber looks, and even more somber hit "Mad About Me" which plays here in this cantina.
Just in case you do not know, Bith are a peaceful and highly evolved species from the planet Clak'dor VII. They are an intellegent race that tend to take to professions involving science or technology. Their large heads make them stand out and often have pale pink or yellow skin. They have large bulbous black eyes that can see even the minutest of details in an object. As a result they are very short sighted.
An average Bith is between 1.5-1.7 meters tall. Due to their dependency on technology, Bith do not reproduce na
turally. Instead they bring their genetic material to a DNA computer and children are "grown" for a gestation period of a year.Bith do not sleep as they have evloved past the need for sleep. Instead they enter a light medatative state and get enough rest in 4 hours that a human or other race would get in 8.
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