Kashyyyk

Kashyyyk

Kashyyyk (pronEng|ˈkæʃik or IPA|/ˈkæʃɪk/), also known as Wookiee Planet C, is a planet in the Star Wars universe. It is the lush, tree-filled home planet of the Wookiees, who live in villages constructed in the trees similar to that of the Ewoks.cite web |date=2005-01-09 |first=Jeff |last=Dillon |work=San Diego Union-Tribune |title=On managing expectations, the San Diego Chargers and George Lucas |url=http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/weblogs/brain/archives/001029.html]

Films

Although Kashyyyk is the home world of the character Chewbacca, it is not named or mentioned during the events of original Star Wars trilogy. It was first seen in "The Star Wars Holiday Special" (1978), as the program's frame story takes place there. [cite news |work=ABC News |title=Holiday Specials Gone Bad; The 'Star Wars Holiday Special' Flop Lives On |url=http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=4034365&page=1 |date=2007-12-20 |first=John |last=Berman |coauthors=Ted Gerstein] The original scripts for "" called for the Second Death Star to be built in orbit around Kashyyyk by Wookiee slave laborFact|date=June 2008. It wasn't until later drafts that the setting and characters were changed to Endor and Ewoks. The planet was more elaborately seen in "," in which Jedi Master Yoda goes to Kashyyyk to oversee the battle between the Wookiees and the Droid Army. [cite news |work=Wired |title=Star Wars Ends With Solid Sith |url=http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2005/05/67526 |date=2005-05-17 |first=Christopher |last=Null]

Books

The planet's unique biosphere was first detailed in "The Wookiee Storybook". The planet was revealed to be a densely forested planet, on which one can encounter vast plains and island areas suitable for large, sweeping battles. It was in this book that the family of Chewbacca once again appears in a situation similar to that of the Holiday Special. The planet appears in several other books, as well. Among them are:
*"A Forest Apart" by Troy Denning
*"The Han Solo Trilogy", by Ann C. Crispin. While the reader actually visits Kashyyyk for the first time in Book Three- "Rebel Dawn"- we hear about it (and meet Chewbacca) in Book Two- "The Hutt Gambit".
*"The Black Fleet Crisis" trilogy by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
*"Heir to the Empire" by Timothy Zahn
*the Young Jedi Knights series
*the "New Jedi Order" series by various authors

Comics

Kashyyyk also features in issue #91 of the Marvel Comics "Star Wars" and in the newspaper comic strip "The Kashyyyk Depths", by artist Russ Manning. In the "Chewbacca" comic series, set during the New Jedi Order era, many scenes are set on Kashyyyk as well. It is written as 'Kazhyyk' in "Way of the Wookie" in the Marvel Illustrated Books. November 1981. ISBN 0-9604146-8-1

Video games

Kashyyyk also appears in the video games ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ' and "". The latter takes place 4000 years before the Galactic Empire, with the Wookiees being oppressed by the slavers of Czerka Corporation.

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