Kashyyyk
aka Wookiee Planet
Coordinates: Canon (Star Systems of the Galaxy, 2025)
Expanded Dossier
⬢ CURATED RECORDKashyyyk is the Wookiee homeworld, a planet of continent-spanning wroshyr forests whose ecosystems stack vertically: civilization in the sunlit canopy, increasingly lethal fauna in the shadowed levels below, down to the 'Shadowlands' of the forest floor where even Wookiees go armed and in parties. Cities like Kachirho are grown and carved into single colossal trees.
During the Clone Wars its strategic hyperlane junctions made it a Separatist target; Yoda commanded its defense at the Battle of Kashyyyk, and it was here Order 66 found him. The Empire subsequently enslaved the Wookiee population for labor - Chewbacca's people - renaming the world 'Wookiee Planet C.' Its liberation after Endor was among the New Republic's hardest-fought campaigns.
First appearance: Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Planetary Data
Terrain
Native Species
Languages
Economy
Primary sector: Trade
Major Exports
Major Imports
Points of Interest
- ⬢Kachirho, the tree-city on the Wawaatt Archipelago
- ⬢The Shadowlands forest floor
- ⬢Wroshyr lined coastal battlegrounds of the Clone Wars
- ⬢The Origin Tree sanctuary
Major Events
Notable Residents
Affiliation History
Archive Annotations
- ⬢Wookiee 'life debts' - like Chewbacca's to Han Solo - are sacred cultural bonds
- ⬢Wroshyr trees grow kilometers tall with interlocking branches
- ⬢Yoda escaped Order 66 here with Wookiee help