The Gungans and the Human inhabitants of Naboo did not get along, as the Gungans believed the Naboo to be pompous cowards while the Naboo believed the Gungans to be barbarians. Once they arrived, however, they became slave laborers. Bartyn wanted amphibian fishermen to settle a new city in Lamaredd and tempted these poverty-stricken individuals with promises of untouched seas in a new frontier. Gungans from various cities migrated to a new large city, Otoh Gunga, which was the major and capital city of Naboo (as far as Gungans were concerned).Īround five hundred years before the Battle of Naboo, a number of needy Gungan locals were approached by recruiters sent by Hugo Bartyn. They dominated Naboo for millennia afterwards, though largely keeping to the swamps and waterways the mountains and grasslands were considered 'desert-like'.Ībout 3000 BBY, Gungans were separated in tribes that fought against each other (War of the Gungan tribes), until united under Boss Gallo. The Ankura and Otolla branches of Gungans united, forming a symbiotic relationship. Undoubtedly, the presence of healthful underwater plants and tasty gumfish did much to solidify their change in lifestyle. They engaged in warfare with the Gungans, forcing them to retreat underwater, giving rise to modern Gungan civilization. The reason most commonly accepted for their flight to the water revolves around an alien civilization of reptilian humanoids remembered as the "Elders", who colonized Naboo.
Their technology was peculiar in that everything, from tools to structures is not constructed, but "grown", each device being therefore organically unique.Īncient starfarers told tales of great Gungan migrations across the plains of Naboo prior to their shift to more aquatic environments. The Gungans assembled a "Grand Army" to meet this threat, eventually driving the bursas into extinction. However, the primary reason they developed warfare technology was the threat of the bursas that often attacked their settlements. On Naboo, evidence of Gungan habitation extended for ages, as there are records of battles of survival with the woolly veermoks during an ice age. Biologists believe the Gungans, wherever their original home, evolved originally as land-dwellers. The Gungans were believed to be indigenous to Naboo, but this is uncertain. They lived in large bubble-like domes under water.Īt some point in Galactic history, there was at least one Otolla Gungan who was a Sith. They were able to combine machinery with biology. Prior to the Invasion of Naboo, an event that took place in 32 BBY, the Gungans were a largely isolationist society. The Gungans, a sentient, amphibious humanoid race native to the terrestrial planet known as Naboo.