Rathtars

Rathtars are a breed of fictional alien creature featured in the Star Wars multimedia franchise. They appeared in the 2015 film sequel, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

Rathtars are large non-sentient animal creatures with cephalopod bodies, with bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head, large teeth and numerous tentacles. Smuggler Han Solo accepted a job transporting three Rathtars aboard the freighter ship Eravana to King Prana. While traveling through the Western Reaches, the Eravana picked up several new passengers. Solo found the scavenger from Jakku, Rey and a refugee First Order Stormtrooper named Finn, who had been piloting Solo's former ship, the Millennium Falcon. After bringing them on board, Solo then found his ship boarded by two rival criminal cartels, Kanjiklub and the Guavian Death Gang - both of whom had business with Solo over debts owed to them.

While Han tried to finagle his way out of this dangerous situation, Finn and Rey crawled to the engineering section of the ship. Rey tried to seal off Han from the gangs by switching out the fuses in that section of the vessel, but she switched the wrong ones and accidentally released the Rathtars. The creatures immediately began attacking the others, devouring several members of Kanjiklub and the Guavian Death Gang. One of them wrapped a tentacle around Finn and began dragging it towards its maw, but Rey managed to activate one of the seals, cutting the tentacle in half, and saving Finn.

Another Rathtar succeeded in latching onto the front of the Millennium Falcon, which had been pulled into the Eravana 's docking bay. Han, Rey, Finn and Han's partner, Chewbacca, managed to get on board and they made a hyperspace jump as the thing was still attached to its hull. This likely killed the rathtar, and the other two presumably perished on the Eravana as there was no one left aboard the ship to take care of them.