Large creatures called Orrays were indigenous to the world of Geonosis. The Geonosian picadors utilized them as riding animals.
Orrays, powerful four-legged reptilian beings, were native to the Geonosis desert regions. Their defining features included elongated snouts and tails. The Geonosians would remove the tails of orrays they had tamed and replace them with metallic coverings for the remaining stumps. Orrays, reaching heights of two meters and lengths of three meters, were well-known and valued for their strength, which, combined with their resilience, made them perfect riding animals. They would use their long snouts to burrow into nests and their teeth to break open eggs.
The Geonosians tamed and domesticated many orrays, employing them for various tasks, such as riding animals and pack animals. Their great strength allowed them to transport significant loads. Orrays that worked in the Geonosian Petranaki Arena had their tails amputated, and the resulting stumps were covered with metal caps. These orrays served as mounts for the picadors, who used their stun poles to shock unruly spectators, or to pull the prisoner-filled execution carts into the arena. They were fitted with saddles for Geonosian drones to ride. Following the collapse of the New Republic, the Orray species was believed to have died out.
The initial designs for the orray, developed for Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, depicted a more aggressive and threatening creature. However, these characteristics were later incorporated into the massiff on Tatooine, which was itself based on an early concept for the orray. The orray has been characterized as a hybrid of an alligator and a horse.