

With the help of Yoda and Jedi Master Luminara Unduli, the Grand Army of the Republic managed to get the upper hand over the Separatists. Eventually, the Confederacy's invasion fleet was driven off by Jedi General Master Yoda's taskforce, but a massive force of LM-432 crab droids, droid tanks, and gunships remained and occupied the Wawaatt Archipelago. During the battle for their homeworld, hundreds of the Wookiee's catamarans were deployed. Due to its status as a major navigational point, Kashyyyk was of prime strategic importance to the Galactic Republic, which led the Confederacy of Independent Systems to attack the planet toward the end of the Clone Wars. In the years following the Invasion of Naboo, the rogue Jedi Count Dooku fomented political turmoil on the planet. Yoda will take a battalion of clones to reinforce the Wookiees on Kashyyyk." ― Jedi Master Mace Windu Īided by the clone forces of the Galactic Republic, the Wookiees defended their homeworld from a Separatist invasion. That painful episode left lasting scars in the Wookiees' hearts. Using superior technology, the company managed to enslave the Wookiees until an uprising drove the invaders away. In its early history, Kashyyyk was invaded by the Czerka Corporation. Kashyyyk was in the same star system as Trandosha, the home of the Trandoshan species, who were traditional enemies of the Wookiees. The growing forest was still littered with the remnants of Imperial machinery, including an AT-ACT walker. Two years after the planet's liberation by the New Republic, much of the Black Forest had grown back. By the Imperial Era, it had been defoliated by a poisonous black mold. Mount Arayakyak was once a rainforest orchard known as the Cultivating Talon, which provided Wookiees with fruits such as shi-shok. The Empire also established undersea mining platforms. By 5 ABY, sections of Kashyyyk's forests had been deforested and several rivers had been drained. Wookiees believed that the Black Forest was cursed and haunted by bad spirits.


The crash site of the prison ship Ashmead's Lock was known as the Black Forest. The Kashyyykian wilds could be dangerous to many, thanks to dangerous animals such as wyyyschokk spiders and carnivorous plants like the jaw plant and saava. Native fauna such as Can-cells would influence the design of starships by the Wookiee inhabitants, while great cities such as Kachirho would be built into the planet's trees. Ĭovered in wroshyr trees, Kashyyyk served as homeworld to the Wookiee species. The center of the planet was covered with a tropical ocean belt, which contained a number of islands and large coral reefs. The planet had no axial tilt and a perfectly circular orbit, causing it to lack seasons. The planet had a complement of three moons, one of which was orange. Kashyyyk was a temperate jungle planet orbiting around a single star located in the Mytaranor sector of the Mid Rim.
