Lucogen was a gelatinous chemical catalyst that was a common ingredient in some Rodian food pastes. Lucogen could be combined with the substance Lithium Magna to form a binary explosive and in 19 ABY, the Hutt crime lord Popara Anjiliac Diresto was fed traces of the two chemicals during a banquet in his penthouse on the moon Nar Shaddaa, which caused him to explode.