Kashyyyk

The Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk is a vertiginous world of kilometers-high treetops and bottomless depths. The natural beauty of Wookiee settlements leads some to form assumptions about their technological primitivism, but Wookiees are engineers at heart and produce some of the finest machinery in the galaxy.

Grid Location: P-9
Region: Mid Rim
Terrain: Forests, seas, coastline
Diameter: 12,765 km
Length of Day: 26 standard hours
Length of Year: 381 local days
Population: 45 million
Sentient Species: Wookiees
Species Mix: Wookiees (100%)
Languages: Shyriiwook
Government: Wookiee council
Major Exports: Electronic components, natural resources
Major Imports: Processed metals, machines
System/Star: Kashyyyk/Kashyyyk

Planets in the System:

Planets	Type	Moons
Takacarro	Searing rock	1
Kallalarra	Toxic hothouse	3
Kashyyyk	Terrestrial	3
Grqyy'l	Asteroid belt	–
Trandosha	Terrestrial	1
Alaris	Gas giant	8
Shur	Gas giant	14
Kuhurikk	Gas giant	25

Detailed History

Kashyyyk's continents are ringed by open beaches, but less than a kilometer inland the terrain becomes impassible. Here wroshyr trees take root, and their columnar trunks and shaky branches provide support for horizontally layered ecosystems. Beginning at the treetops, the canopy becomes more dangerous the deeper one penetrates. The middle levels are prowled by katarns and webweavers, and in the thick of Kashyyyk's growth the surface is as black as a cave. Only the phosphorescent glow of predators and prey illuminates this shadow forest.

Wookiees live in high-level tree cities and in beachfront coastal settlements. Rowoorroko is the planet's capital, Thikkiiana its high-tech hub, and Kachirho the center of hyperspace mapping. Wookiees are on par with the Duros, Givins, and Sullustans for their expertise in hyperspatial theory, with the thinkers of the Cularuav Guild among the most brilliant practitioners of the art.

Kashyyyk counted itself a member of the Rakatan Infinite Empire circa 30,000 BBY, and Rakatan terraforming is believed to have contributed to Kashyyyk's inimitable flora. The Wookiees had developed an advanced tribal government by 4600 BBY, when the Czerka Corporation laid claim to the planet and renamed it Edean. A Wookiee uprising in 3956 BBY unseated Czerka, paving the way for the species' integration into galactic society.

Wookiees planted their flag on the moons of Alaris while representing the Mytaranor sector in the Senate, and carried on a blood feud with the lizard-like Trandoshans who inhabited a neighboring planet. In 19 BBY one of the final battles of the Clone Wars took place at Kachirho, where Master Yoda led an army of clone troopers and Wookiee warriors to victory over a droid landing force.

After the establishment of the Empire, Kashyyyk became a slave world. Imperial occupiers pressed its citizens into construction gangs, and the Trandoshans received special dispensation to track down escaped laborers. The planet became a key member of the New Republic and Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. It slipped through the Yuuzhan Vong War unscathed and blossomed after that, but was the site of a showdown during the Corellia-Galactic Alliance War, with Jacen Solo setting vast swaths of the planet ablaze.