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During the Clone Wars, Chewbacca was captured by a band of Trandoshan game hunters and brought to the moon of Wasskah. There, the immense, furry Wookiee aided in the escape of a group of Jedi younglings and Ahsoka Tano, which led to a long friendship with the Jedi.

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    • During the Clone Wars, Chewbacca was captured by a band of Trandoshan game hunters and brought to the moon of Wasskah. There, the immense, furry Wookiee aided in the escape of a group of Jedi younglings and Ahsoka Tano, which led to a long friendship with the Jedi.
    • Chewbacca and Ahsoka led the youngling assault on the airborne Trandoshan hunting lodge, putting an end to the capture of innocents for the purpose of hunting for sport. A transmitter built by Chewie called in Wookiee reinforcements that saved the day, and rescued those stranded on the moon.
    • Chewbacca, along with Tarfful and Jedi Master Yoda, commanded the joined forces of the Wookiees and Republic Army's 41st Elite Clone Trooper Corps during the Battle of Kashyyyk in the final days of the Clone Wars.
    • Following the execution of Order 66, Chewbacca helped Yoda elude the clone troopers and escape Kashyyyk.
    • After the Clone Wars, the Empire occupied Kashyyyk, breaking up tribes and families and using Wookiees as slave labor. Chewbacca was separated from his people, became a fugitive, and was betrayed by a bounty hunter. He wound up in Imperial captivity on Mimban, shackled in a makeshift prison and tormented by soldiers who called him “the Beast.” One day, the Imperials threw a young deserter, Han Solo, into the muddy pit with the Wookiee.
    • After brief fisticuffs, Han and Chewie agreed to work together to escape -- an encounter that marked the beginning of their long friendship. Fleeing the Empire, they found a ride off Mimban with Tobias Beckett’s gang of ship thieves.
    • Chewbacca and Han signed on for the Beckett gang’s next job: stealing a shipment of coaxium from an Imperial conveyex on Vandor. Chewie and Han fought side by side atop the speeding train, but the coaxium was lost, leaving Beckett’s gang in debt to the dangerous Crimson Dawn crime syndicate.
    • To make things right with Crimson Dawn, Han proposed a daring raid to steal coaxium from Kessel. Chewie joined his new friend on the mission, during which they met a dashing rogue named Lando Calrissian and traveled aboard his ship, the Millennium Falcon. After the Kessel raid, Han won the Falcon from Lando in a game of sabacc. He and Chewie became smugglers, making the freighter their home.
    • Years later, while looking for safe passage to Alderaan, Obi-Wan Kenobi met Chewbacca in the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine. Chewie introduced Obi-Wan and his young companion, Luke Skywalker, to Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon.  Chewie was first-mate aboard the ship, and Solo's loyal companion.
    • When the Falcon was captured by the Death Star, Chewbacca posed as an Imperial prisoner to help Han Solo and Luke Skywalker rescue Princess Leia from her prison cell. Together the group managed to escape the Death Star and journey to the secret Rebel Alliance base on Yavin 4.
    • Chewbacca and Han Solo initially chose not to get involved with the Alliance, instead deciding to take their reward money and leave before the Rebel's strike on the Death Star.
    • In the final seconds of the Death Star assault, Luke Skywalker's X-wing was in Darth Vader's sights and the fate of the Alliance seemed sealed. Just then the Millennium Falcon, piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca, came out of nowhere to place a glancing blow on Darth Vader's TIE fighter, knocking him off course and allowing Luke the extra time he needed to launch the proton torpedo that destroyed the Death Star.
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