BLADE HEIR.

since i gotta do this before 4/20 is over: CHŪZAR (click for pronunciation), THE GALRA CATNIP WEED

(some of these hcs previously discussed with @polycoria​ whom i absolutely love thank you for inspiring me aaaaaaa)

chūzar is a plant native to daibazaal that has been used by the galra to get high since time immemorial, and is still grown today–thankfully (or not), there were enough illegal offworld space weed gardens to continue breeding healthy strains many eons into the future. much like marijuana on earth, it can be rolled into a blunt and smoked for maximum potency, although the mere scent of the leaves is enough to send most galra into a cat-encountering-catnip-like frenzy. 

chūzar has great use as a stimulant: it causes people to feel a rush of energy and excitement, and in some cases to hyperfocus (although in some galra, the “hyperfocus” just becomes hyperfocusing on rolling around in the plant). common behaviors of those high on chūzar are similar to those exhibited by cats: rolling around, making excited chirping cat noises, rubbing their face all over it. some breeds of chūzar, on the other hand, have a calming effect more like marijuana. like catnip, it makes the cat obsessed with it, want to roll around in it and also rub their face all over it–but in a more lethargic and relaxed manner. it wasn’t uncommon for galra to use both at the same time, particularly when they wanted to regulate the effects of one chūzar strain by counterbalancing it with the other.

in the days before the empire started giving death penalties for drug dealers, wealthy teenage galra parties often featured “chūzar bathing,” where everyone dumped boxes of crushed chūzar leaves on the floor to roll around in–or even got into the boxes themselves. if you want to know what that’s like, picture this, except the box is full of weed and the cat is very, very stoned: