Claatuvac Guild

The Claatuvac Guild was an organization of Wookiee cartographers, hyperspace scouts and navigators based out of the city of Kachirho on Kashyyyk. Over the centuries, they had mapped and gathered information on a number of hyperspace routes known only to them. The Guild maintained a base in Tree Vikkilynn in Kachirho; a sealed vault contained the guild's navigation data center, powered independently by a generator. The vault included data input and analysis stations as well as data stacks with information stored in indigenous manufactured HoloGrids.

During the Clone Wars, rumors of the Wookiees' knowledge of secret hyperroutes drew the Confederacy of Independent Systems to attack Kashyyyk in 19 BBY in an effort to claim the data. The Galactic Republic counterattacked to protect the Guild's information, but the Guild chose to dissolve itself rather than hand over their data to the new Galactic Empire. The Claatuvac data was distributed to the Guild's most trusted scouts who went into hiding as the Empire subjugated Kashyyyk, and it was not until the Galactic Civil War, nearly twenty years later, that a legitimate source of Claatuvac data came to light in the hands of Chewbacca.

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