Post by Jëdî T¥ on Mar 13, 2007 7:19:25 GMT -5
Wookie
starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookies
Wookies are widely recognized as one of the strongest and fiercest intelligent species in the galaxy, but their homeworld of Kashyyk has predators so powerful that the Wookies must live in the tops of the world's giant wroshyr trees.
Wookies developed the ability to leave their homeworld only a few millenia before the Battle of Yavin. Even then, they acquired the necessary boost in technology from their spatial neighbors, the Trandoshans, who came to the forested planet in hopes of establishing colonies. The fierce Wookie natives drove them off, but the Trandoshans left behind a single ship that the inquisitive Wookies easily disassembled, analyzed, and replicated. Soon, the first Wookie explorerers set off into the black depths of space.
When the Republic first made contact with Kashyyk, the Wookies were engaged in a war against the Trandoshans. The Republic mediated the dispute, and the Wookies eagerly joined the galactic community. During the days of the Republic, the Wookies were admired as honorable, trustworthy warriors and technical experts, due to their knack for reparing all types of machinery. When the Empire came to power, however, the Trandoshans, for whom the war against the Wookies never really ended, gained ultimate victory when they convinced the Emperor to declare all Wookies slaves. Only when the New Republic was founded di the Wookies regain their freedom and once more again became active in the galaxy at large.
Wookies have a great many customs and traditions that revolve around honor and loyalty, including the special bond of friendship called the honor family, and the sacred pledge of honor called the life debt. Though arboreal, a Wookie never uses his or her climbing claws in combat; doing this is considered dishonorable and a sign of madness.
Typical Wookie personality: While they have a well deserved reputation for hostility (such as pulling the arms off of other beings especially droids), they also possess a great capacity for kindness. Wookies tend towards honorable, rash, loyal and short-tempered on the norm.
Description: Large humanoids covered in thick fur that ranges in colors from white, blonde, brown and black standing anywhere from 2 meters to 2.3 (roughly 6'1/2" by 7'1/2" feet) on average. It is said they can live to 600 years.
Homeworld: Kashyyk, located in the Mid Rim. starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kashyyk
Language: Shyriiwook which consists of grunts and growls. They can understand Galactic Basic but cannot speak it due to vocal limitations. selarips.free.fr/wookieetranslator/ (a language translator found by the member TK-1987)
- Sources are Wookiepedia and D20's Ultimate Alien Anthology pages 182-183
starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookies
Wookies are widely recognized as one of the strongest and fiercest intelligent species in the galaxy, but their homeworld of Kashyyk has predators so powerful that the Wookies must live in the tops of the world's giant wroshyr trees.
Wookies developed the ability to leave their homeworld only a few millenia before the Battle of Yavin. Even then, they acquired the necessary boost in technology from their spatial neighbors, the Trandoshans, who came to the forested planet in hopes of establishing colonies. The fierce Wookie natives drove them off, but the Trandoshans left behind a single ship that the inquisitive Wookies easily disassembled, analyzed, and replicated. Soon, the first Wookie explorerers set off into the black depths of space.
When the Republic first made contact with Kashyyk, the Wookies were engaged in a war against the Trandoshans. The Republic mediated the dispute, and the Wookies eagerly joined the galactic community. During the days of the Republic, the Wookies were admired as honorable, trustworthy warriors and technical experts, due to their knack for reparing all types of machinery. When the Empire came to power, however, the Trandoshans, for whom the war against the Wookies never really ended, gained ultimate victory when they convinced the Emperor to declare all Wookies slaves. Only when the New Republic was founded di the Wookies regain their freedom and once more again became active in the galaxy at large.
Wookies have a great many customs and traditions that revolve around honor and loyalty, including the special bond of friendship called the honor family, and the sacred pledge of honor called the life debt. Though arboreal, a Wookie never uses his or her climbing claws in combat; doing this is considered dishonorable and a sign of madness.
Typical Wookie personality: While they have a well deserved reputation for hostility (such as pulling the arms off of other beings especially droids), they also possess a great capacity for kindness. Wookies tend towards honorable, rash, loyal and short-tempered on the norm.
Description: Large humanoids covered in thick fur that ranges in colors from white, blonde, brown and black standing anywhere from 2 meters to 2.3 (roughly 6'1/2" by 7'1/2" feet) on average. It is said they can live to 600 years.
Homeworld: Kashyyk, located in the Mid Rim. starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kashyyk
Language: Shyriiwook which consists of grunts and growls. They can understand Galactic Basic but cannot speak it due to vocal limitations. selarips.free.fr/wookieetranslator/ (a language translator found by the member TK-1987)
- Sources are Wookiepedia and D20's Ultimate Alien Anthology pages 182-183