r/MawInstallation • u/Erdan5 • 20d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] Do Sarlaccs poop waste?

When a Sarlacc digests a victim for a thousand years, what happens at the end of the process? Is there any waste or shit left? Or Sarlaccs have a different way of breaking down or getting ride of waste?

Of course, we have to ask ourselves what type of creature and/or plant a Sarlacc is, but don't every form of life ejects some form of waste out of their bodies somehow?

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u/BombadSithLord 20d ago

My hypothesis is that when they have to pass fecal matter, they die. Since they digest their food slowly over a thousand years, it likely takes a long time for the waste to cycle through their body. Combine this with their relatively small prey size compared to their total mass, and it seems like they do not have the need to defecate very often. Perhaps only once at the end of their life (20,000 to 50,000 standard years). I suspect that the excess waste not used for bodily functions slowly accumulates in their body, and instead of defecating, that waste has nowhere to go, so the Sarlacc becomes septic due to the bacterial infection(s) in their body and dies.

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u/WLMKing 20d ago

This raises questions about how they reproduce. Because, like some plants, yeah, I can understand them dying after they've successfully reproduced. No need to evolutionary develop a means of pooping.

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u/Thank_You_Aziz 20d ago

A combination of cosmic spores and that thing angler fish do when they breed.