Name: Chewbacca
Sex: Male
Race: Wookiee
Height: 2.28 meters

As a young Wookiee on Kashyyyk, Chewbacca excelled at most mechanical skills per taining to and not excluding piloting. He was seen as gifted among his peers and topped that o ff by being in excellent physical condition as well. His hand-to-hand technique was matched only by his accuracy with a bowcaster. By the time he was 80, still young by Wookiee standards, he felt the call of th e stars and decided to visit a few strange new worlds. Sixty years of intergalactic experience collected un der his belt and he was happy.

While he was away, Kashyyyk was overtaken by the Empire and the entire Wookiee r ace was declared fair slave trade. This meant that any Wookiee caught roaming free could be cap tured and sold. Chewbacca learned of this from within the belly of a slaver's tug and he spent the next th irty years performing heavy labor.

Decades after his capture, Chewbacca met a young Imperial officer named Han Solo . Solo felt for this demoralized creature and, despite strict rules forbidding interference, helped the Wookiee e scape. In return for sacrificing his career, Chewbacca offered the Corellian a life debt. And after quite a few years of shadowing the officer-turned-freelance, Solo broke down and accepted the offer.

The two have run smuggling routes ever since, dodging the Empire for more charge s than they can recall. Chewbacca, or Chewie as his friends call him, is quite often the voice of reas on, tempering their rash suggestions with years of wisdom and honor. Not that he is all that philosophic al, however. He has been known to get cranky over losing a game of cards or holo gameboard, and has even gone so far as to dismember droids out of shear frustration. As a rule, if he can't shoot it or r ip it apart, he'll leave it alone.