The Er’Kit were a sentient race of humanoids that originated from the planet Er’Kit in the Outer Rim Territories. Er’Kit possessed large, elongated craniums and long, skinny legs with skin that came in various shades of blue, red, and purple. Er’Kit were well adapted to desert planets due to the environments of their homeworld.

The Er’Kit homeworld had a murky history of political scandals, slave trade, and violent militias. Shortly before the Clone Wars, Danry Ledwellow was an Er’Kit male senator who represented the planet Er’Kit in the Galactic Senate. After a complication with Thalassian slavers, Ledwellow was arrested, and his private army of IG-227 Hailfire-class droid tanks fell into the hands of the Blood Dawn slavers.