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"I could find the Lost Citadel of Garn! Restore the Knights of the Ordu Aspectu! They could bring light to this dark galaxy!"
"Uh-huh. I bet they'll help us pay the Imperial Peace Tax and stop the tooka from crapping on the carpet too."
―Korin and Lona Aphra[1]

A tooka was owned by the Aphra family as a pet by 18 BBY. The tooka often defecated on the carpet of the family's home on the Second Moon of Thrinittik. That year, the cat slept next to the girl Chelli Lona Aphra as she packed for a trip with her mother. Around 1 ABY, Aphra recalled her pet tooka while speaking with the crime lord 0-0-0 on the Outer Rim planet Son-tuul about the genetically modified tooka Flufto.

Biography[]

Living on the Second Moon of Thrinittik[]

"So what do you want to do? Stay here and play with your tooka? Or go on an adventure with your dad?"
"Adventure!"
"Then adventure it shall be!"
―Korin and Chelli Lona Aphra[2]
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The Aphra family tooka slept as Chelli (left) picked her things.

By 18 BBY,[3] the Aphra family owned a tooka as a pet while they lived together in a house within the University Quarter of the Second Moon of Thrinittik. The cat was prone to defecating on the family's carpet in the house.[1] That year,[3] the girl Chelli Lona Aphra overheard her father Korin arguing with her mother Lona as Korin wanted to take the girl with him to the Fifth Moon of Thrinittik to recover records of the Ordu Aspectu[2]—a splinter cell of the Jedi Order.[4] After her father asked her if she wanted to accompany him or stay at home and play with the tooka, Aphra chose to go with Korin.[2]

One evening[1] later that year,[5] after Korin neglected to keep watch over Chelli, she cut her finger. Lona arrived and told[1] her husband[2] what had happened and that he should have been watching over her. In response, Korin told Lona he could have found a way to restore the Ordu Apsectu, to which Lona sarcastically remarked that if they were restored, the Aspectu could stop the cat from soiling on the carpet. Afterward, Lona told Chelli to pack for a trip, and as she did, the family's tooka slept next to her on the carpet.[1]

Inspirations[]

"No, I don't know why the doctor has a hairy outgrowth. If you want to dissect it, you'll have to ask yourself."
"I…I was testing a relic splicer rig, that's all. C-cloned a tooka. I had one as a pet when I was little."
"There, you see? Origins!"
―0-0-0 and Chelli Lona Aphra[6]
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Chelli Aphra (center) holding one of the Flufto clones as she tells 0-0-0 (left) about the pet tooka she had as a child

In 0 ABY,[7] now a rogue archaeologist and doctor, Chelli created a recording for her former lover—the smuggler Sana Starros—that she intended Starros to hear after her death. During the recording, Aphra recounted a number of events in her life, including when her father had offered her the choice of joining him on a mission to the Fifth Moon of Thrinittik or staying to play with the tooka.[2]

Around 1 ABY,[8] while working for the droid crime lord 0-0-0, Aphra cloned a tooka[6] into a batch of sixty[9] genetically modified cats[10] called Flufto. While on[6] the Outer Rim planet[2] Son-tuul carrying one of the Fluftos, 0-0-0 asked the archaeologist why she was carrying him. In response, Aphra informed the droid of her cloning and mentioned she had kept a tooka as a pet before. The mention of the tooka caused 0-0-0 to return to an earlier point he had made about obsessing over one's origins.[6]

Personality and traits[]

The Aphra family's orange-pelted tooka had paler fur on their face, front legs, and the tips of their ears. The tooka had a tendency to defecate on the family's carpet.[1]

Behind the scenes[]

The Aphra family's tooka was first mentioned in the fifteenth issue of the 2016 comic series Star Wars: Doctor Aphra. The issue was written by Kieron Gillen and Si Spurrier and published by Marvel Comics[6] on December 20, 2017.[11] The tooka later made its first appearance, in flashbacks, in the series' thirty-second issue. The issue was written by Spurrier, illustrated by Caspar Wijngaard, and published by Marvel[1] on May 8, 2019.[12]

Appearances[]

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Doctor Aphra (2016) 32
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original
  3. 3.0 3.1 The flashback in Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original in which the tooka is mentioned takes place when Chelli Lona Aphra is six years old. As Star Wars: Timelines dates Aphra's birth to 24 BBY, the scene must take place in 18 BBY.
  4. Star Wars: Timelines
  5. The flashbacks of Doctor Aphra (2016) 32 that take place on the Second Moon of Thrinittik occur on the day that Chelli Lona Aphra and Lona Aphra leave the moon for Arbiflux. Doctor Aphra (2016) 32 also establishes the two lived on Arbiflux for two years before Lona was killed. As Star Wars: Timelines dates Lona's passing to 16 BBY, the flashback scene on the Second Moon of Thrinittik must take place in 18 BBY.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Doctor Aphra (2016) 15
  7. The events of Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original are presented as a recording Chelli Lona Aphra made beginning directly before the events of Darth Vader (2015) 3 and concluding during the events of Darth Vader (2015) 25. Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of the aforementioned comics to 0 ABY.
  8. Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of issues 9 to 31 of the Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic-book series to around 1 ABY. Therefore Doctor Aphra 15 must take place around 1 ABY.
  9. Doctor Aphra (2016) 16
  10. Doctor Aphra (2016) 17
  11. Marvel-TemplateLogo Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2016) #15 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
  12. Marvel-TemplateLogo Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2016) #32 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
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