Rorworr (Naboo)

Rorworr, born in 49 BBY, was a male Wookiee who lived on Naboo with his father, an ambassador. With help from his translator droid TD0-2, Rorworr studied at the Royal House of Learning in Naboo's capital city, Theed, and often explored the wilderness areas surrounding the city. The Wookiee had a penchant for adventure, and assisted the Jedi Rann I-Kanu with the investigation and defeat of a group of veermok smugglers.

In 32 BBY, Rorwoor played a significant role in defending Naboo during the planet's invasion by Trade Federation forces as a member of the Naboo Underground, freeing several military and civilian prisoners and helping Queen Amidala's forces infiltrate Theed undetected. During the battle itself, the Wookiee assisted in diverting enemy troops from Amidala's forces, defeated a Vulture droid in Theed's Palace Plaza, and intercepted a counterfeit treaty forged by the Trade Federation.

After the battle, Rorworr continued to serve the people of Naboo by helping defeat a leader of dissident civilians and establishing a colony on Naboo's largest moon, Ohma-D'un. Rorworr later became an agent of the Galactic Republic, and served Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the Jedi Council as a scout in a variety of missions until the end of the Clone Wars.

After the formation of Galactic Empire, the Wookiee served as an agent and pilot for the Rebellion, gunrunning and gathering military intelligence. Rorworr eventually became known among the Rebellion as one of the Heroes of Skorrupon, alongside Arani Korden and Deel Surool, after intercepting High Inquisitor Volytar at the Battle of Skorrupon. Once the New Republic was founded, however, Rorworr left military service to become an independent explorer and an adventurer. He made a name for himself as he contested the exploitation of wilderness planets and their native species.

Youth on Naboo
"I have no idea what their names are, but I overheard their leader say they were planning to capture veermoks and sell them offworld. I'm quite sure that's illegal!"

- Tasrah Boh

A male Wookiee born in 49 BBY on Kashyyyk, Rorworr was brought to Naboo as a child when his father was assigned to act as an ambassador between the two planets. His father's station allowed Rorworr to attend the Royal House of Learning in Naboo's capital city, Theed, assisted by his translator droid, TD0-2. It was here that the Wookiee began learning to fly spacecraft, practicing with local N-1 starfighters. He also befriended several other students while attending classes, including Jedi Padawan Sia-Lan Wezz; Dané, a young girl who was secretly training to become a handmaiden; Galak, a volunteer in the Royal Naboo Security Forces; Arani Korden, Theed-born daughter of a House Korden noble; and Deel Surool, a Twi'lek whose wealthy parents set up a trading emporium on Naboo.

Young Rorworr had a love for exploring the wilderness beyond Theed, and would often slip away from school for several days at a time. The Wookiee's curiosity led him to explore many interesting places hidden away from the city. Occasionally, he came across equally curious Gungan explorers, a species he found interesting. While on a field trip, he found a particular friend in Toba Bari, a Gungan amateur scout who would later become a founding pilot of Iron Cesta Flight, a Gungan-exclusive starfighter squadron that operated as part of the Naboo Royal Space Fighter Corps. Rorworr also had a fondness for stargazing on his excursions.

At some point, Jedi Master Ali-Vor brought his Padawan, Rann I-Kanu, to Naboo in order to further his Padawan's training by enrolling him in the Royal House of Learning. Ali-Vor regularly assigned tasks to I-Kanu. While Ali-Vor was investigating poachers who were smuggling veermok off-planet, he asked I-Kanu to investigate rumors that some of the smugglers were operating out of a secret base near Theed, although Ali-Vor had not considered the rumors to be true. I-Kanu enlisted the aid of Rorworr, Galak, and Korden, friends he had made while at the Royal House of Learning, to help with the investigation. Using a map acquired by one of Korden's contacts, Rorworr guided the team to a ruined jungle shrine. The group infiltrated the hidden base found near the shrine, defeated the smugglers and their leader Saidle Frex, and rescued Tasrah Boh, a captured professor of archaeology from the House of Learning.

Invasion of Naboo
"Less tax equals more profit."

- Raymas Daal

In 32 BBY, the Galactic Senate passed legislation calling for the taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems. A trade dispute soon developed between the Trade Federation and the Galactic Republic, resulting in the blockade of Naboo. At an early point in the blockade, Rorworr and a few other students met with Raymas Daal, a small-time criminal, in Kwilaan. Daal had a new backer, and offered the team undefined10,000 to temporarily deactivate a Naboo sensor array. Daal told the students he simply wanted to evade taxes on a rare spice shipment in order to increase profits, and intended to land while the sensor was deactivated. In reality, Daal's unnamed backer was the Trade Federation, which wanted to move jamming satellites into Naboo space undetected in preparation for an invasion of the planet. The meeting was interrupted by plain-clothes members of the Royal Naboo Security Forces, who intended to apprehend Daal for questioning; Daal, however, escaped, as did Rorworr and his companions. Fulfilling Daal's task, the students located the target array using information provided by Daal, and, bypassing four Security Guards and a pair of technicians, successfully disabled it. They returned to Kwilaan to locate Daal and collect their fee.

A short time later, Rorworr and a group consisting of Sia-Lan Wezz, Deel Surool, Dané, Galak, and Arani Korden booked passage off-world on the freighter Crescent, captained by Nuun Pargen of Alderaan. Immediately after taking off from Theed, Trade Federation droid starfighters fired upon the freighter, wounding Nuun's daughter, Inea Pargen. Nuun was forced to perform an emergency landing on the Great Grass Plains. Captain Pargen tried to repair the freighter, and sent Rorworr and his friends back into Theed to procure medical supplies for Inea's recovery.

However, the Trade Federation Droid Army began to invade the palatial city just as the crew acquired their supplies. During the course of their escape from Theed, the team encountered resistance from B1 battle droids and droidekas. They helped a family of Naboo nobles balance luggage on an overloaded speeder to escape the city safely, freed a collection of civilians and Security Guards from a droid prison escort, and resolved a firefight involving outnumbered Security Forces. They avoided the Main Boulevard Bridge, where the bulk of the enemy forces were invading, as well as the Theed Royal Palace. Eventually, they encountered one Chee Mobok, a frightened Twi'lek textiles merchant that spoke very broken Basic. After calming Mobok down, the crew learned that he had crashed an airspeeder into a nearby pond. Together, they fished the speeder out of the pond and used it to effect the rest of their escape.

Rorworr piloted the speeder along a tributary of the Solleu River, over the occupied Main Boulevard Bridge, and out onto the river proper. The Federation forces on the bridge fired at the speeder, and three Single Trooper Aerial Platforms broke from the battle to pursue the group. During the chase, Rorworr's maneuvers caused one STAP to crash into a Multi-Troop Transport, disabling its cooling fins and sinking it in the river. After shaking the remaining STAPs, the group abandoned their battered speeder in Lianorm Swamp.

Mobok was soon mauled by a veermok. When the group defeated the creature, they found themselves surrounded by a Gungan patrol. Led by Sergeant Mokem, the patrol escorted Rorworr's group to the borders of Lianorm. They followed the edge of the swamp, intending to rendezvous with Captain Pargen; however, when the group arrived, they found that the Crescent had already departed. In its place, they found a group of Gran and Rodian pirates fighting a small force of Naboo Security. Rorworr's group intervened, defeating the pirates, but only a lone Security Guard, Mett Habble, survived the firefight.

Resistance and Underground
Habble was one of Governor Sio Bibble's disguised agents, and also the organizer of the recently formed Naboo Underground. Habble guided the group to the Underground camp, encouraging Rorworr to fly the speeder while he questioned the group about their escape from Theed. Rorworr's team parted ways with Chee Mobok when they arrived at the camp. Habble informed the passengers from the Crescent that although Theed and the Royal Palace had been captured by the forces of Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray, Naboo's Queen Amidala had escaped the planet in the company of a pair of Jedi Knights. After a brief respite, Habble invited the crew to a meeting with two other Underground leaders, Lieutenant Camaran and Oti Trinta, during which they joined the resistance.

Rorworr and several fellow students from the Royal House of Learning were placed in the charge of Lucos Dannt; the former headmaster of the school was now one of the Underground's leaders. Rorworr's first-hand knowledge of the Naboo countryside proved invaluable to the Underground as the group attempted to undermine the Trade Federation's occupation.

While scouting Theed, Rorworr, Galak, Surool, and Wezz encountered a patrol of four battle droids. The group attempted to flee, but became cornered in an alley containing STAP wreckage and containers of speeder parts. The group fought and defeated the droids, after which Rorworr discovered a datacard in the STAP wreckage that contained the location of a Trade federation internment camp and a list of the Naboo leaders imprisoned there.

Rorworr participated in several prison breaks over the course of the next week. Rorworr and a posse of other students first freed several newly captured RSF guards and pilots from a temporary prison camp near Theed's central plaza, arming the prisoners with confiscated weapons stored on-site. Later, Rorworr's team accepted a mission from Lialla Tane, an Underground operative, to liberate her parents from a prison camp on the Street of Glory near the Palace. During the mission, they freed not only Tane's parents&mdash;the Royal Naboo Minister of Culture and his wife&mdash;but also four other civilians and a wounded RSF pilot. During another mission, Rorworr's team was captured and were themselves placed in Prison Compound 32, where they came under very brief scrutiny by a Sith Lord, Darth Maul. During the team's subsequent escape, they rescued their cellmates&mdash;Ruto Graven, who was Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs for Queen Amidala; Private Boraso, a wounded RSF guard; and the artist Ela Sivel.

At another point during the occupation, Rorworr, Surool, Wezz, and Korden reentered Theed, sprung a Trade Federation trap, and took cover in an alley. Planning to escape through a door at the end of the alley, Rorworr, Korden, and Wezz provided a diversion while Surool attempted to slice the door's electronic lock. The fighters surprised a unit of B1 battle droids and held off their reinforcements. Rorworr's team began to retreat down the alley when a pair of droidekas rolled up. Surool opened the door, and all four students were surprised by what they saw on the other side.

Reclaiming Naboo
"Glad you're here. We got some good news: Queen Amidala has returned. Not only does she have a couple of Jedi Knights with her, but she's somehow convinced the Gungans to fight along side us&mdash;and she's got a plan. Captain Panaka has asked me to meet with her at a Gungan shrine out in the swamp for a planning session. She wants me to bring my best people, so right away I thought of you. What do you say? Want to meet the Queen?"

- Mett Habble

Queen Amidala, after failing to persuade the Galactic Senate to intervene and end the Trade Federation's invasion, returned to Naboo. When Amidala requested that Mett Habble bring his best people to a planning session, Habble summoned Rorworr and his team to participate. The group followed Habble through Lianorm Swamp to the landing site of the Queen's J-type 327 Nubian royal starship. They were greeted by the Queen and her handmaidens; Captain Panaka, head of the Royal Naboo Security Forces; Boss Nass, leader of the Gungans; Jar Jar Binks, a Gungan; two Jedi, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi; their Force-sensitive ward from Tatooine, Anakin Skywalker; and various Gungan and Underground generals.

During the planning session, Amidala announced her plan to enter Theed via a secret passage. The leaders decided that using a Trade Federation Troop Transport would be the ideal way to approach the passage undetected, but realized that acquiring one would be difficult. At this point, Rorworr's team spoke up, volunteering information on the MTT that sank into the Solleu during their initial escape from Theed. With this information, the leaders formalized the main attack plan.

Boss Nass volunteered his Gungan engineers, the Gungengineeren, to repair and salvage the submerged transport; however, his Gungan scouts were unable to locate the MTT. Queen Amidala tasked Rorworr's team with escorting the Gungengineeren to the site because the crew from the Crescent knew the exact location of the transport. The unit was also assigned to guard the Gungengineeren during the operation, since the Queen wanted to reassure the Gungans that the Naboo were committed to mutual cooperation. Rorworr and two others piloted three unfamiliar tribubble bongos, docking with a hydrostatic bubble to rendezvous with Koh Pa Wupps and his team of Gungengineers. Loading the engineers and their tools into the submersibles, Wupps directed the group around Lake Paonga, up the lower Solleu River, and through an underwater passage at the base of the Virdugo Plunge that lead to the upper Solleu, dodging a group of opee sea killers along the way.

When the group located the downed MTT, the Gungengineeren began work on transporting it upriver for repair while Rorworr's team patrolled the area in the bongos. The site was attacked by a young, orphaned colo claw fish, which Rorworr's team defeated through piloting skill with the unarmed submersibles.

Second Battle of Theed
"Transport seven-one-four: We have you listed as sinking into the river during the invasion. How did you get to the lower plateau?"

- PDA-2, puzzled and slightly annoyed by the reappearance of Transport 714

Rorworr piloted the retrofitted Transport 714 to the secret passage at the base of Theed's cliff wall, where the team unloaded Amidala (disguised as a handmaiden), the handmaiden Sabé (disguised as the Queen), Captain Panaka, the Jedi Jinn and Kenobi, Skywalker, the astromech droid R2-D2, and three dozen Naboo troops. Rorworr and his team were assigned to guard the transport and to monitor Federation radio traffic using its transponder.

When the Gungan Grand Army drew the Trade Federation forces away from Theed, Transport 714 was contacted by PDA-2, the OOM command battle droid assigned to remain behind and guard the Palace. Using a jury-rigged vocabulator, Rorworr's team tricked PDA-2 into believing that the transport was too badly damaged to move under its own power. PDA-2 overrode the transport's manual controls and remotely piloted it to Theed Hangar's repair bay, within the city. The unit ambushed the forces of ADO-8, a command battle droid guarding the repair bay. Rorworr's team once again briefly encountered Darth Maul, who quickly left the repair bay in search of Jinn and Kenobi.

The party found their way outside, in front of Theed's Royal Palace, where they encountered Sabé (still disguised as the Queen) and a small escort of Security Guards and soldiers. Sabé requested the crew's assistance in creating a diversion that would allow them to enter the Palace. The team engaged an Armored Assault Tank, a single STAP patrol, and a squad of eight battle droids, distracting them long enough to allow Sabé and her retinue to infiltrate the Palace directly. Rorworr and the other students escaped the Plaza as Royal Security Forces began engaging the Trade Federation Army throughout Theed.

The students evaded several battle droid patrols, and eventually found their way back to the Palace Plaza. A Vulture droid, supplemented by four battle droids, had replaced the previous patrol. The droids were firing at the occupants in the Plaza&mdash;four unarmed civilians, a pair of RSF Guards, and an RSF pilot with an R2-series astromech droid. Rorworr's unit intervened, eventually securing the Plaza. The pilot, severely wounded, claimed that the astromech droid contained vital information, and charged the students with seeing that it found its way to Queen Amidala. One of the wounded Security Guards likewise charged Rorworr's team with ensuring that a diplomatic pouch found its way to Ambassador Kron of Alderaan.

Returning to the Royal Hangar, Rorworr's team ambushed the escort of a Neimoidian counterfeiter, Gode Takrab. After interrogating Takrab, they learned that he had forged a treaty between Naboo and the Trade Federation, as well as doctored a holovid of Queen Amidala endorsing the phony document. Rorworr's team scoured Takrab's shuttle, and eventually discovered the fake agreement hidden within Takrab's protocol droid, TC-11. Nute Gunray sent a squad of battle droids led by RK-7 to secure the shuttle for his own escape. Rorworr's unit was nearly overwhelmed, but managed to hold the shuttle until the Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship orbiting the planet was destroyed, ending the battle and neutralizing the droid forces.

After the Invasion
"You will always be welcome in my home, wherever it may be. The people of Naboo owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude&hellip;"

- Queen Amidala thanks the crew from the Crescent

In gratitude for their services to Naboo during the weeks of occupation, as well as their exemplary performance during the Recapture of Theed, a grateful Queen Amidala bestowed the honorary title of Palace Guard upon Rorworr, Wezz, Surool, Korden, Galak, and Dané. Rorworr spent the rest of the day freeing prisoners from internment camps. The group was visited later in the day by Captain Pergan and his daughter, Inea. The Crescent had escaped the pirates and battle droids, set down under Lake Paonga, and was eventually rescued by Gungans.

That night, Rorworr and his friends attended a funeral for Qui-Gon Jinn, who had been slain by Darth Maul in the recent battle. During the ceremony, the students were approached by Lucos Dannt, Sabé, and Lialla Tane. Sabé asked the members of the defunct Underground to investigate a group of Naboo and Gungan refugees camped in some of Naboo's ancient ruins. The leader of the refugees was rumored to have plans against the throne, and intended to disrupt the Naboo-Gungan alliance. Tane, who had originally reported the camp, accompanied the team as a guide, and the unit set out in a speeder. When a large, falling tree forced the speeder to a halt, the craft and its occupants were assaulted by a large, powerfully built Naboo predator known as a grakkt. The venomous creature disabled the group's speeder before being driven off, forcing the team to continue their mission on foot. At one point, Tane tumbled into a large pool of quicksand, and had to be rescued.

The group soldiered on through the swamp, and came across a grove corrupted by the dark side of the Force. A mutated tangler tree at the center of the grove attacked the team with vines and projectile thorns until they were out of reach. Just outside the refugee camp, the group was attacked by a Force illusion of Darth Maul, secretly conjured by the renegade leader to deter the party from continuing. After overcoming the illusory Sith Lord, Rorworr and his friends discovered the refugee camp hidden among ancient Gungan ruins, and were confronted by several of the renegades. Three of the refugees in particular, a tough-looking woman, a Gungan warrior, and an angry young man, condemned Amidala while praising their leader, a charismatic man by the name of Savor Kibbs, who was secretly a rejected Jedi Padawan. Kibbs, finally determining that the intruders must be eliminated, attacked the group with Force powers and a reactivated droideka. The party defeated Kibbs, and ended the hypnotic influence he exerted over his followers.

Sometime after the invasion was settled, Rorworr joined a project spearheaded by Queen Amidala, Master Kenobi, and Boss Nass to help develop a Gungan colony on Naboo's water moon, Ohma-D'un. At the Civic Spaceport, Rorworr boarded a small Republic Sienar Systems shuttle, the Fair Gale, captained by Worlohp, an Ithorian. The other passengers&mdash;a pair of graduates of the Theed School of Technology and Engineering, Kharl Vanneb and Sakme Kelene; Professor Hallem Celaar, a renowned zoological and botanical expert; as well as a few of Rorworr's classmates from the Royal House of Learning&mdash;were also all part of the project.

Sixteen minutes after takeoff, the Fair Gale collided with an object in Naboo's ionosphere. The impact caused a failing in the ship's conduit, which had begun leaking Kyvalon-4, a gas used in many repulsorlift systems. The gas, while harmless to most humanoids, was known to cause temporary homicidal insanity in Ithorians. Captain Worlohp entered the passenger bay to report colliding with debris from the Trade Federation Droid Control Ship that had been destroyed during the invasion. After breathing the Kyvalon-4, the Ithorian flew into a rage and attacked his passengers. The ensuing melee damaged several of the ship's vital systems, including the ship's navigation computer and life support systems. The passengers managed to subdue Worlohp, repair the navigation, life support, and repulsor systems, and land the shuttle safely.

Rorworr stayed on with the Ohma-D'un project for an undisclosed amount of time, earning a monthly salary of undefined2,000 and joint-ownership of the Mystic Burn, a YT-1200 freighter stored at the colony's moonbase.

Republic service
As Rorworr grew into an adult, his heroism on Naboo eventually rolled him into serving with the Republic as a scout. He would often go wherever the Republic needed his help, and generally ended up on small wilderness planets due to his skills in survival and exploration. At one point in the Wookiee's career, the Supreme Chancellor's office assigned Rorworr and other students from Theed to investigate an island cove hidden on a jungle planet. Their goal was to discover who was supplying the Blue Star Pirates with military-grade weapons. After defeating a pair of pirates within the cove, the students discovered a datacard from the Hyperdrive Cantina, a floating bar on the water planet Vorusku. The students followed the lead and subdued a group of thugs within the cantina. Then, having learned that the supplier was a local Vorusku crime lord, they tried to ascertain his identity, which led them into an ambush in a volcano city by a bounty hunter. After Rorworr and his partners acquired the identity of the supplier, Jalla Spree, Spree sent a droideka to attack the students at a cliff-side slaver camp.

In the wake of the Invasion of Naboo, several planets and corporations formed an alliance known as the Confederacy of Independent Systems. These systems seceded from the Republic in protest over perceived corruption within the Republic Senate. This resulted in several brutal skirmishes across the galaxy, including the devastation of the Ohma-D'un colony, and by 22 BBY the galaxy was drawn into a full-scale conflict known as the Clone Wars.

Weeks prior to the Battle of Geonosis, the first official battle of the Clone Wars, Rorworr, Sia-Lan Wezz, and Deel Surool met Vor'en Kurn, a blue-skinned Human soldier, while in a spaceport cantina on Corellia, where the four foiled a Separatist assassination attempt on a Corulag Senator, Alastar Treen. Following this, the four frequently worked together. The team faced a variety of opponents and situations, such as the investigation of a bounty hunter operating out of the Royal Hutt Hotel, cantina brawls with Aqualish and Rodian gangs, a Jawa ambush in an abandoned armory, an escape from a Colicoid-run prison in the Spice Mines of Kessel, an escape from a battle droid garrison, and even mounted blasters in the corridors of the warlord Grumbog's space station fortress.

The team was so successful that they occasionally received orders directly from the office of the Chancellor and the Jedi Council. One such mission had the group investigating the disappearance of a Republic arsenal ship that had been tasked with decommissioning the Trade Federation Army defeated at Naboo. The investigation led the team to Kwenn Space Station, where they defeated several re-activated battle droids.

Another mission that the team was assigned to involved preventing Corann from being the first of the Core Worlds to withdraw from the Republic. Rorworr's team investigated rumors of Separatist activity on the small industrial planet, and discovered a droid manufacturing plant. Another mission saw Chancellor Palpatine personally assign the team to investigate a Sith temple on the snow covered planet of Puloorn. Along the way, they encountered marauders and navigated through challenging asteroid fields. Within the temple itself, they discovered dark side beasts and cultists.

Over the years, the Wookiee made many recommendations regarding the development of new worlds, which the Republic often ignored. On occasion, credit for some of Rorworr's discoveries went to more politically connected Humans. Rorworr also earned two official reprimands during his time with the Republic. He was issued one for disappearing from an exploration party, during which time he found a lost civilization. On another mission, he earned a second reprimand for not revealing a sentient species he discovered, at that life form's request. Rorworr grew increasingly disenfranchised with the Republic as a result, a sentiment that he noticed was mirrored by many other Wookiees and non-Human species. Rorworr kept quiet regarding his concerns. Instead, the Wookiee spent his spare time listening to stories and tales in spacer bars, trying to learn of unexplored worlds and territories.

Rebel Wookiee
"I knew it! You are smugglers! Troopers, arrest them!"

- Old Ezrim accuses Rorworr and his team at Tosche Station

The establishment of the Galactic Empire changed Rorworr's life dramatically. Most of his clan was lost in an Imperial raid, and the Wookiee's own father vanished after speaking out against the newly rechristened Emperor Palpatine, and Queen Amidala was slain. Anakin Skywalker, the boy Rorworr had met while recapturing Theed, became Darth Vader, Palpatine's apprentice. Many of the Jedi Rorworr had worked with were massacred in a synchronous, galaxy-wide execution known as Order 66. The surviving Jedi were pursued by Darth Vader, and many, including Rorworr's close friends, Sia-Lan Wezz and Rann I-Kanu, went missing.

In 4 ABY, Rorworr reunited with other members of the defunct Naboo Underground for a vacation to Bespin's Cloud City. At the conclusion of their holiday, while the friends waited for a shuttle to arrive and deliver them to an orbiting passenger liner, a group of thugs dragged an old man from the waiting lobby onto the landing platform. A small astromech droid disrupted the thugs, and the old man quickly asked for the group's help. After intervening, Rorworr and his friends learned that the thugs were hired by a Chevin working for Jabba Desilijic Tiure; that the old man was Doctor Shemza, a distinguished scientist wanted by the Empire for his research; and that the astromech, Shorty, belonged to Shemza's Rebellion contact. Shemza insisted that he had information vital to the Rebellion, and asked the group to accompany him to his contact's transport on Landing Platform 21. The voice of Lando Calrissian, Cloud City's Baron Administrator, broke over the city's loudspeakers, announcing that the Empire had occupied the city, and recommended that all citizens evacuate. Three stormtroopers appeared in the hallway, demanding that Rorworr's group halt. The team defeated the stormtroopers and escaped Cloud City with Doctor Shemza, his Alliance contact, and Shorty to join the Rebellion.

In the Rebellion, Rorworr was often tasked with monitoring Imperial ship and troop movements. Often, he flew a Rebel RZ-1 A-wing interceptor, having become adept at hiding the craft in asteroid fields. Other times, he dealt directly with Imperials, taking advantage of the stereotype of Wookiees as slow, simple creatures in order to be underestimated. On the ground, Rorworr spent time in cantinas pretending to be a fuzzy drunk, eavesdropping on soldiers that did not realize he understood Basic. In one case, he took a job as a freighter pilot running rare foods to Imperial forces on Varlinaar, and in the process brought with him a team of Rebels to steal Imperial battle plans. In another, he freed an imprisoned Rebel operative from an Imperial detention cell.

Rorworr's team participated in a mission to purchase blaster rifles for the Rebellion from a Duros smuggler, Hagk Baht, on Tatooine. The group arrived outside of the town of Anchorhead, but a particularly violent sandstorm forced the group to take shelter inside of Tosche Station while waiting for their contact. A squad of Imperial stormtroopers also took refuge within the mechanic's bar. A local Pacithhip spice dealer tried to hide his stash on the Rebels, while Old Ezrim, a local moisture farmer, began to insist that the group were spice dealers. The argument was interrupted when Baht broke over the team's comlink and explained that, although he had escaped an Imperial Customs ship by entering the sandstorm, he had little control over his starship inside the maelstrom. Baht's transmission was cut short as his ship, the Singing Savrip, crashed into the desert. The stormtroopers moved to arrest the Rebels, but were defeated with the help of the lounge's mechanic, Fixer, a pilot by the name of Verzon Tennd, and his droid, Deenine. When the team investigated the crash site of the Singing Savrip, they discovered that Baht had been killed in the impact, but fifty rifles remained intact. Rorworr secured the rifles for the Rebellion.

At some point, Rorworr, Arani Korden, and Deel Surool participated in the Battle of Skorrupon, intercepting High Inquisitor Volytar outside of his Star Destroyer. The three became known as the Heroes of Skorrupon among the Rebellion, but Rorworr was devastated to receive confirmation of Sia-Lan Wezz's death.

Independent explorer
After the Battle of Endor, Rorworr passed up service in the New Republic, the nascent government established by the Rebel Alliance, to become an independent explorer. Hoping to put some of his grief behind him, Rorworr quietly began exploring the galaxy alone, piloting a modified Svelte-class shuttle painted with a camouflage scheme.

The Wookiee retained several contacts from his time with the Rebellion, and often tapped them when he encountered problems that he felt needed attention. Occasionally, young Jedi or new generation Rebels were assigned to help Rorworr by their superiors. Rorworr gave the most attention to those that sought to desecrate the wilder planets or enslave their inhabitants. A great number of worlds produced stories about how Rorworr brought down a Corporate Sector Authority factory, helped evacuate a threatened animal population, foiled a Hutt slaving ring, or performed some other altruistic task. Ewoks had a particular fondness for the Wookiee, and Rorworr traveled to Endor, the Ewok homeworld, several times in his life.

Personality and traits
Rorworr was a confident, courageous, and intimidating Wookiee with an insatiable curiosity and wanderlust, who was eager to perform acts of heroism. "Rorworr" had become a household name across Naboo, and had produced stories of heroism on over fifty worlds. The Wookiee found humor in the fact that, despite looking and smelling completely different, he was often mistaken for Chewbacca, another famous Wookiee in the Rebellion. Rorworr, a very expressive Wookiee, was capable of letting out a mournful hoot or a displeased roar. He cherished his friendships, and was devastated whenever he lost any of his companions. Although Rorworr often took a liking to young, idealistic heroes, he rarely settled down.

In Shyriiwook, the name prefix "Ror" translated to "dark, hidden, marsh, swamp," while the suffix "warr" translated to "forest, guide, hunter, scout."

Skills and abilities
Rorworr was a strong and able-bodied scout. His natural Wookiee strength allowed him to dismember battle droids with his bare hands and hurl humanoids with a single arm. He was able to react quickly to danger and was quick to recover from it. Rorworr was an accomplished mechanic, slicer, pilot, astrogator, and pathfinder. The Wookiee was able to fly freighters with ease, while his starfighter training on Naboo allowed him to deftly maneuver starfighters.

Rorworr was proficient in martial arts, as well as the use of blaster pistols, blaster rifles, and most simple weapons, but he favored the bowcaster. As a Wookiee, Rorworr was only capable of speaking Shyriiwook, although he was able to easily understand Basic, Ewokese, Huttese, Mon Calamarian, and Twi'leki without the help of his translator droid.

Behind the scenes
"Adam came up with this early sketch which really captured what I wanted to see. He didn't look at all like Chewbacca, but he was definitely a Wookiee! My favorite feature is the "soul patch" on his chin. It really holds the youthful look together."

- Sean Glenn

Rorworr is a character created by Wizards of the Coast for their Star Wars Roleplaying Game. He was the iconic example for the Scout class. His early visual design was created by Adam Hughes. Doug Alexander Gregory was tasked with aging the design by a few years for inclusion in the Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, and accomplished the goal after asking questions like, "What does a Wookiee's skull look like?" TD0-2 was created by Bill Slavicsek, who saw the need to give Rorworr a way to speak to his party without breaking suspension of disbelief. Rorworr became one of Art Director Sean Glenn's favorite iconic characters.

Rorworr is often used in examples within Wizards of the Coast sourcebooks, and has been documented as having been played by "Penny," and, "Michael." Penny likely refers to Penny Williams, an editor at Wizards of the Coast, and wife of Skip Williams. Michael, likely refers to Michael Beeler, a Wizards playtester and staffer. During the Roleplaying Game's launch event in Seattle, Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca's costumed actor, played a demonstration game as Rorworr.

In the Roleplaying Game: Saga Edition Core Rulebook, the former fringer Kelko replaces Rorworr as the iconic Scout. Rorworr was pictured as the iconic Gunslinger, however, and was still often used as a Scout in examples of play.

A 4" Rorworr Hasbro action figure was included in the box for the Invasion of Theed Adventure Game as an exclusive part of Hasbro's Star Wars: Power of the Jedi toy line. Rorworr was the first Star Wars character from a non-computer based roleplaying game to be rendered as an action figure.

RPG elements
This article assumes Rorworr's participation as a player character in the Star Wars: Invasion of Theed Adventure Game and all supplemental Adventure Games that were designed to use characters, rules, game tokens, and other assets from Invasion of Theed. These adventures include The Predators, Smugglers of Naboo Fast-Play Game, Signal Interruption, The Fall of Cloud City, A Night at Tosche Station, Peril in the Ionosphere, and Battle in the Streets!

Rorworr is never mentioned by name in Secrets of Naboo or the included adventure, Peril on Naboo. However, an image appearing near the end of the adventure depicts the visually distinct Wookiee, alongside Sia-Lan Wezz and Deel Surool, interrogating Gode Takrab and examining his forged holovid, suggesting that Rorworr was one of the heroes in the adventure. Rorworr's participation was later confirmed by The Official Star Wars Fact File 91.

Roleplaying game adventures are, by design, typically written to either compensate for the unpredictable nature of player actions. For all roleplaying game adventures, this article assumes that the heroes successfully follow the general outline and specific goals described in the adventures, without deviating dramatically.

This article assumes that all example scenarios of Rorworr in the Star Wars Roleplaying Game's Core Rulebook, its successors, and their supplements are canon.

Rorworr is depicted in an illustration accompanying Shadows of Coruscant; however, the illustration appears to have no relevance to the adventure. Shadows of Coruscant is therefore ignored for the purposes of this article.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Invasion of Theed Adventure Game
 * Battle for Theed
 * Star Wars: Invasion of Theed Adventure Game
 * Battle for Theed
 * Star Wars: Invasion of Theed Adventure Game
 * Battle for Theed

Notes and references
Rorworr (Naboo) Rorworr (naboolainen)