Mairan, also referred to as mind flayers, or as Bors, were a sentient multi-tentacled multipod species that were native to Maires. They had the unique ability to read minds, and as a result, they were often used as a form of torture by the Galactic Empire and the Partisans.
Mairan, sometimes known as Bors, were a sentient multi-tentacled multipod species hailing from Maires. They were unique for being able to read minds and erase, or alter, memories. It was known for some individuals, such as the Imperial shuttle pilot Bodhi Rook, to lose their minds after having their mind plundered by a Mairan.
Saw Gerrera's Partisans kept a Mairan named Bor Gullet. During the Galactic Civil War, the Galactic Empire kept three Mairans in ice, occasionally defrosting them to interrogate prisoners, with Bor Ifriem being used to interrogate Chelli Aphra in Accresker Jail. Decades later, Harra the Hutt kept a Mairan at her stronghold on Vodran. At one point it was used on Cost Niktur.
Mairan first appeared in the Gareth Edwards' 2016 anthology film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Although the canon novel Join the Resistance: Escape from Vodran, written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, identified them as Bors, Doctor Aphra (2016) 21, a canon comic written by Simon Spurrier and penciled by Kev Walker, identified the Mairans for the first time. In Star Wars legends, the Mairan first appeared in the novel Young Jedi Knights: Lightsabers, written by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta.
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