Grakchawwaa

Grakchawwaa was a Wookiee who served as King of Kashyyyk, the Wookiee homeworld, in the last years of the Galactic Republic. During the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the king wielded a Klorri-clan battle shield and fought alongside Wookiee warriors such as Alrrark on Kashyyyk. When Separatist forces invaded the planet in 19 BBY, Grakchawwaa stood beside Jedi General Luminara Unduli in the tree-city of Kachirho as Wookiees and Republic forces prepared to jointly repel the invaders. While the invasion was thwarted, the Republic's clone troopers turned against their Jedi leaders and the Jedi's Wookiee allies; the clones remained loyal to the Republic's successor, the Galactic Empire, and Kashyyyk fell into the Empire's hands, which enslaved the world's Wookiee population until they were liberated by the New Republic in 5 ABY.

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