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Kerrithrarr (meaning "tall swimmer" in Shyriiwook ) was a male Wookiee politician in the Rebel Alliance. Active during the last years of the Galactic Empire, he became a key signatory on the New Republic Provisional Council. When the Provisional council became the New Republic Senate in 7 ABY, Kerrithrarr continued to represent the interests of Kashyyyk as senior Senator until 17 ABY.

Biography
In the days after the Battle of Endor, Kerrithrarr signed the Declaration of the Alliance of Free Planets alongside other important leaders of the Alliance like Leia Organa, Admiral Ackbar, Borsk Fey'lya and Mon Mothma. One month later, he signed the Declaration of a New Republic.

Some months after that, the New Republic was really (not only officially) created. Kerrithrarr and the other signatories of the Declaration of a New Republic became the mobile New Republic Provisional Council, with Mon Mothma as the Chief of State. This Inner Council would be active until the capture of Coruscant by the New Republic, 7 ABY, to be replaced by the first New Republic Senate. Kerrithrarr then became the new senator of Mytaranor sector. In 10 ABY he was one of the signatories of Why Do We Fight the Empire?.

Kerrithrarr was still the Senator of Mytaranor sector twelve years after being named, during the Black Fleet Crisis and the end of Leia Organa Solo's tenure as Chief of State of the New Republic. He was replaced that year by Kybacca.

Appearances

 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Mandatory Retirement
 * X-wing: Wedge's Gamble
 * X-wing: The Krytos Trap
 * Shield of Lies
 * The New Rebellion

Primary notes

 * Heir to the Empire Sourcebook = signed Declaration of a New Republic
 * Dark Empire Sourcebook = signed Why Do We Fight the Empire?
 * Truce a Bakura Sourcebook = Pictured? at Report to the Provisional Council of the Alliance of Free Planets? / Signed Declaration of the Alliance of Free Planets.
 * Databank = "Under the guidance of Kerrithrarr, a Wookiee official, Kashyyyk entered the New Republic, becoming a key signatory and member world of the Republic's Inner Council. The planet welcomed trade and its city of Thikkiiana became a major exporter of computer technology."

Mandatory Retirement
Attended meetings of the NRPC Quote: Kerrithrarr:Aroo ronarn sooru res... 3po:Councilor Kerrithrarr says... Borsk: I know what he says, and I bow to his wisdom, in granting Petage Freedom, we prove ourselves greater than the empire ever was...

Wedge's Gamble
"Doman Beruss, a flaxen-haired woman who represented the Corellian exiles on the Council, stood. "I believe we are heading toward the focus for this meeting, but I would prefer to cut directly to it instead of watching my colleagues scratch and claw their way there. Zsinj knows, as do we, that whichever force is able to wrest Coruscant from the grip of the Imperial government will be seen as the legitimate, or at least strongest, claimant to governance. The Pyria system was taken to be a stepping stone to Coruscant, and Zsinj now knows we do have it."
 * ch:4

The Wookiee and Sullustan representatives nodded in agreement with Doman. Mon Mothma looked up. "Admiral Ackbar, if you are prepared to give your presentation.""

They discuss taking Coruscant. ch:5 Leia looked at him with a mixture of surprise and pity in her eyes. "Oh, Wedge, you wouldn't believe how well Fey'lya has orchestrated things to work against Admiral Ackbar."

"Try me."

"You're on." Leia swept a hand out to take in the nearly treeless landscape. "Fey'lya arranged for this meeting to be held here, on Noquivzor. He is right at home here-these savannahs closely resemble his home range on Bothawui. Mon Mothma, you, me, and the other humans find the climate and setting pleasant enough that we are at ease. Kerrithrarr, the Wookiee Councilor, does not like a world with wide blue skies and a lack of trees. Asking him to live underground is to come within millimeters of violating his personal honor, and you know how touchy Wookiees are about that."

"Yeah, now that you mention it, Noquivzor and Kashyyyk have very little in common. Admiral Ackbar and the other Mon Calamari don't like the dry air here."

"Sian Tevv and his Sullustans find it a bit hot here." Leia shrugged. "As a result, most of those who oppose Borsk Fey'lya are ill at ease here. It will be easy for tempers to flare and people to decide someone ..."

"Admiral Ackbar ..."

"Right, someone is being stubborn. This could influence votes and could go against Ackbar and his plans." Ch: 8 Borsk Fey'lya tapped a button on the datapad in front of him. "A more logical course would have been to identify the greatest problem preventing our conquest, would it not?"

The Mon Calamari nodded solemnly in the Bothan's direction. "We have done this as well. Clearly the overlapping planetary shields are the primary impediment to achieving our goal."

The large black Wookiee seated to Princess Leia's right growled a question that Leia's gold 3PO unit translated. "Oh, my, Councilor Kerrithrarr wishes to know if you have found a way to bring the shields down?"

The Wookiee snarled and the gold droid's arms flapped for a second. "I conveyed the meaning of your message, Councilor, without using the colorful analogy you suggested. For clarity, sir."

"I understand the question." Ackbar held a hand up to forestall further elaboration from the Wookiee. "In reply, perhaps an analogy is appropriate in that Coruscant can be likened to the first Death Star." Ch: 8 Borsk Fey'lya stood. "Kessel was one of the detention centers the Empire used to house dissidents as well as hardened felons. When the inmates took control of the center they chose a Rybet by the name of Moruth Doole to administrate. He was a minor official at the prison and appears to have been connected to the spice trade, hence his easy alliance with the prisoners. The Imperials and the political prisoners were sent to work in the spice mines. A few of each have been released, but only after off-world friends and family have paid a substantial ransom."

Threepio again translated for the Wookiee Councilor. "Kerrihrarr wishes to know what criminals and Kessel have to do with Coruscant?"

"Coming to that point directly." The Bothan smiled, but Wedge read a hint of threat in the toothy grin. "On Coruscant there are substantial remnants of the Black Sun organization. As did many of you, I thought Prince Xizor's grab for power was doomed from the start, but it was the Black Sun organization that allowed him to contemplate opposing the Dark Lord of the Sith. I propose selecting and freeing certain Black Sun officers from Kessel and bringing them into Coruscant. There they would bring the disparate parts of Black Sun together and work to sabotage the Empire."

Ackbar sat down slowly and gave Fey'lya a wall-eyed stare. "You want to revive the scourge of the Black Sun?" ---

The Krytos Trap
Leia smiled. "It's the same morale-building technique that kept us going during the dark days after Derra IV and Hoth."

The black-furred Wookiee councilor's bark flowed into a murmur, and Leia's gold protocol droid translated. "Am-bassador Kerrithrarr suggests treating the virus as an enemy against which everyone is enlisted. With discipline and direc-tion the spread can be minirealized." Ackbar nodded at the Wookiee. "An apt analogy." Borsk Fey'lya's eyes narrowed. "A military model might well be sufficient to deal with the virus, but do you suggest we use it to curtail black market trading? Having storm-troopers breaking into private homes to deprive people of bacta supplies will hardly endear us to our people."

Shield of Lies
"Alderaan's membership is neither a courtesy nor a violation of the Charter. The New Republic is an alliance of peoples, not planets."

Leia nodded an acknowledgment. "Something often forgotten, even here."

"Then I will presume to remind you that the structure of the New Republic was crafted to avoid dominance by the most populous worlds--to prevent what Kerrithrarr called a tyranny of fecundity," Ackbar said.

Leia laughed tersely, tossing her hair. "I remember that argument."

The New Rebellion

 * ---"Even the dead," Leia said softly. "We can't overlook anyone or anything here."

"So you're being investigated as well," Senator Meido asked.

Leia started. Of course she wasn't being investigated. She knew she wasn't involved.

"She said everyone." ChoFi spoke without judgment as he reminded them to listen, and as he got Leia off the hook.

Kerrithrarr, the senior Wookiee senator, growled from the back of the room.

"My Wookiee colleague has a good point," ChoFi said. "The best way to survive this crisis is to work together."

"We can't work together when we're being investigated," said another junior senator.

"We're all being investigated," said Nyxy, a senator from Rudrig.


 * ---Both she and the page recorded the vote as it occurred. A protocol droid also listened, double-checking the tally. She had expected the vote to go in her favor. At the least, she expected to break the tie on a close vote. But as she ran through the list, skipping the missing and the dead, she realized that her voting block, which had been the majority, was now in the minority. Most of the uninjured were the junior senators. The senior senators, those with long ties to the Republic, had somehow received the brunt of the blast.

By the end of the list, Leia's throat was dry and her eyes burned. Her shoulders were stiff from tension. Fifteen senators voted against the independent investigation. Fifteen. The rest abstained or voted in favor. The measure won by an overwhelming majority.

Across the room, she met Kerrithrarr's gaze. The Wookiee senator believed, as Leia did, that the former Imperials would destroy the Senate. Kerrithrarr's hair stood on end, and when he noticed Leia, he shook his head in despair.

Leia checked her results against the page's. Then the droid confirmed their numbers. "By a clear majority," Leia said, "the measure to provide for an independent investigation passes." The junior senators cheered while the rest of the room looked on in astonishment. Leia picked up a wooden cup and pounded it on the buffet table as she called for order. As the room quieted, she said, "I realize that we are not meeting in the Hall. Due to the informal setting, I will let this breech of etiquette pass. In the future, though, any senator showing undue partisanship will be expelled from the room and his vote will not be counted. This rule is in the Senatorial bylaws. I suggest you read them." Her voice echoed back to her, and she could hear the thread of anger below it. Usually she prided herself on her restraint, but her patience was wearing thin. Didn't these so-called leaders understand the effects of their actions? Didn't they know that this kind of partisanship would divide the Republic?

CSWE

 * Kybacca: "The senior Wookiee New Republic Senator, she opposed the introduction of former Imperials to the Senate." Vol 2, p 237
 * Kerrithrarr is the Senior Wookiee NR Senator in The New Rebellion, and Kerrithrarr opposed this vote.
 * Kerrithrarr: "A Wookiee leader within the Rebel Alliance, Kerrithrarr was instrumental in the development of the New Republic. His signature helped validate the Declaration of a New Republic." Vol 2, p 213