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Chewbacca

A huge fur covered warrior of great strength and loyalty, Chewbacca the Wookiee was a well known figure in both the underworld and in the Rebel Alliance. Chewbacca was a wise, sophisticated being with exceptional skills in starship piloting and repair. Wookies were enslaved by the Empire for use as labor for their brutish strength and technological know how. For a time, Chewbacca was a slave until an impudent Imperial cadet named Han Solo freed him.

Drummed out of the military, Solo had few options but to return to the fringe lifestyle he knew so well. Chewbacca swore loyalty to Han, and became his partner in crime. Their exploits became legendary after coming into ownership of the freighter Millennium Falcon.

Chewbacca had a compassionate nature that became Solo's conscience of sorts. Perhaps it was the ordeal suffered by his people at the hands of the Empire that caused Chewie to feel this way. Although Solo steered clear of any allegiance during the Galactic Civil War, Chewbacca supported the Rebel cause even though the two of them tried to avoid the struggle altogether.

What was supposed to be just a simple steerage assignment landed them in the heart of the Rebel Alliance. Desperate for cash, Chewie and Han took on a charter of two passengers and their droids from Tatooine to Alderaan. Little did the two smugglers realize that their cargo consisted of a legendary Jedi Knight, the son of the prophesied Chosen One in Jedi mythology, and a pair of droids containing information vital to both the Empire and the Alliance. This trip inextricably drew Chewbacca and Solo into the Rebel fold, and they continued flying missions for the Rebellion for years after that.