Snoova

Snoova was a Wookiee bounty hunter and mercenary active during the Galactic Civil War. He was ostracized from Wookiee society and faced the death penalty on his homeworld, Kashyyyk, due to his violation of the Wookiee injunction against the use of his species' natural claws for anything other than climbing, which rumors indicated Snoova broke when slashing at an opponent in a brawl over the affections of a female Wookiee paramour. Snoova escaped Kashyyyk and turned to a life of bounty hunting—an unusual profession for a member of his species—and mercenary work. Because Wookiees were an enslaved species under the regime of the Galactic Empire, Snoova specifically pursued bounties posted by the galactic government, and his successes gained him such renown that he was able to travel through the Empire with impunity.

Snoova had a unique appearance: brown fur splotched with black, head-hair cut into a flat-topped spacer's style, and a monocle ocular enhancer worn over his right eye until he had it surgically rooted in his eye socket to replace his right eye. Snoova preferred to work alone, but he occasionally teamed up with associates from Aurodium Sword and the Black Sun criminal organizations, as well as with fellow bounty hunters, such as the Ubese Boushh. Snoova's fame inspired the Human replica droid Guri to disguise another well-known Wookiee, the Rebel Alliance operative Chewbacca, as Snoova in an effort to smuggle him past customs in Imperial City, where Chewbacca was a wanted Rebel agent.

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