Attichitcuk/Legends

Attichitcuk, also known as Itchy for short, was an influential Wookiee Chieftain during the last centuries of the Galactic Republic. He also sired two children, a female named Kallabow and a male named Chewbacca, the latter of whom became a fabled hero of the Rebel Alliance that fought the authoritarian Galactic Empire. A supportive father, Attichitcuk had allowed his only son to leave the household to travel all over the galaxy in search of adventure around the year 150 BBY.

In his prime, Attichitcuk played a leading role on his homeworld of Kashyyyk, a planet covered in immense forests. It was he who represented his Wookiee brethern in the Galactic Republic negotiations for colonization rights to the moon of Alaris Prime. With the help of both his son and the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, the chieftain drove out invasion forces of the Trade Federation that occupied Alaris Prime illegally.

When the Clone Wars broke out in 22 BBY, Attichitcuk was already an old, retired warrior, but he still joined in at least one fight. When the Confederacy of Independent Systems invaded Kashyyyk toward the end of the three-year conflict, Attichitcuk engaged in combat along his fellow warriors and the Republican forces led by the Jedi Master Yoda. That event, known to future generations as the Battle of Kashyyyk, was one of the last conficts fought during the Clone Wars.

However, shortly afterwards, the Republic fell apart and was replaced by the Galactic Empire, an autocratic regime led with an iron hand by Emperor Palpatine. Following the new government's xenocentrist policies, the Wookiees were enslaved. Deemed too old to be useful, Attichitcuk was left behind on Kashyyyk while his son Chewbacca was still travelling offworld. Living with his daughter-in-law Mallatobuck, the old Wookiee focused on raising his grandson Lumpawarrump.

Nearly two decades later, in 1 ABY, the Empire proclaimed a blockade on Kashyyyk. On the Life Day, a most sacred family holiday, the former Chieftain Attichitcuk and his family were visited by Imperials who were investigating for ties between the Wookiees and the Rebel Alliance. Three years afterwards, the gray Wookiee was captured by Ozrei N'takkilomandrife, a Nagai slaver and subsequently freed by Chewbacca and Solo. A few months later that same year, Kashyyyk was taken over once again when the Imperial Moff Darcc combined forces with the Trandoshan slaver Pekt. Attichitcuk shouldered the responsibility of calling Chewbacca and his Rebel allies for help, but he was kidnapped by the Trandoshan, who planned on having him skinned. One more time, Chewbacca and Han Solo saved Attichitcuk from certain death.

In his late years, Attichitcuk had become an elder statesman retired to his family treehouse in the city of Rwookrrorro, enjoying his wood carving and the company of his kin. However, his peaceful existence was stricken by misfortune two decades later, when Chewbacca found his doom during the Yuuzhan Vong War, a pan-galactic conflict that was fought between 25 and 29 ABY. Attichitcuk expressed his deep dismay when he retold the tale of Chewbacca to C-3PO, the famous protocol droid.

Early life
Born on the planet Kashyyyk in the year 350 BBY, Attichitcuk was a male Wookiee of the common, brown-furred rwook subspecies. In his youth, Attichitcuk became noticed for the audacious hunting raids he made at the very bottom of the dangerous wroshyr tree forests. On Kashyyyk, warriors were expected to take part in such expeditions to protect the civilians from the predators roaming below the treehouses. As a consequence, skilled hunters like Attichitcuk were held in high regard in the Wookiee culture. Once, he slaughtered a pack of twenty ferocious katarns with only a ryyk blade, collecting their claws after killing them. However, despite his outstanding abilities, Attichitcuk was no braggart, and he long kept that particular exploit a secret. In addition to his mastery of edged weapons, he was also proficient with the bowcaster, the traditional ranged weapon of the Wookiees.

At some point, the warrior found a mate, and the couple conceived two children named Kallabow and Chewbacca, a female and a male respectively. Attichitcuk and his wife encouraged their offspring to explore the differences that manifested in their youths. It was Attichitcuk that gave his son Chewbacca a wooden starship toy that inspired his wanderlust. When his son turned thirteen in 187 BBY, Attichitcuk took him on his hrrtayyk ceremony, the Wookiee coming-of-age ritual. During his successful hrrtayyk, Attichitcuk's son built his first bowcaster and shot down his first katarn in the Well of the Dead, which filled his father with pride. One day, Chewbacca found the claws of the twenty katarns his father had collected, lifting the veil on Attichitcuk's past as an ace hunter.

At the height of his powers, Attichitcuk took the mantle of Chieftain, leading troops to war. As his children grew older, Attichitcuk settled down into a leadership role in the community, advising the disparate Kashyyykian councils and tribes. He had the role of a peacemaker and even-handed referee during inter-tribal conflicts. In 150 BBY, Attichitcuk allowed his only son to leave for adventures in the vast universe, as he had succumbed to the wanderlust of Wookiee adolescence. The young adventurer would make occasional stopovers on Kashyyyk to visit his father and Mallatobuck, a beautiful female he had once saved from the clutches of Trandoshans, a species from the neighboring Dosha. On one such occasion, Chewbacca married Mallatobuck, giving Attichitcuk a devoted daughter-in-law that would stay with him in the city of Rwookrrorro.

The colonizing of Alaris Prime
"An unexplored world is a hostile world. I must help the Wookiee leader Attichitcuk to learn the lay of the land."

- Qui-Gon Jinn

Around 59 - 56 BBY, Wookiee explorers discovered Alaris Prime, a green moon of the Kashyyyk system. Following that discovery, the Wookiees expressed their interest in colonizing the moon before the Senate, the main legislative body of the Galactic Republic. Still considered a leader amongst the Wookiees, Attichitcuk represented Kashyyyk in the subsequent negotiations. At some point between the years 39 BBY and 36 BBY, the Wookiees were finally awarded the colonization rights on the moon after twenty years of debates.

As a reward for his efforts in negociating with the Senate for the past two decades, Attichitcuk was awarded the honor of leading the colonization of Alaris Prime. However, in spite of his long experience, Attichitcuk had never been confronted to new, potentially hostile environment. To help the Chieftain carry out his new mission, he was offered the help of the renowned Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. The Chieftain set foot on the moon, establishing a primary settlement with only a few carbon prefab shelters and a command center. The Chieftain stayed on guard duty at the camp, waiting for the first settlers to arrive, while Chewbacca and his cousin Shoran were tasked with exploring the surrounds. When the two younger Wookiees reached the camp, Attichitcuk was told that a damaged power core had been found on the surface of the moon, indicating illegal presence on Alaris Prime. Immediately afterwards, the camp was attacked by a group of four gundarks, a species of red, four-armed predators. The creatures were no match for trained Wookiee warriors, however; Attichitcuk and the youngsters got rid of the intruders in next to no time.

The Wookiees found out the identity of the power core builders when they came across a group of B1 battle droids belonging to the Trade Federation battling gundarks in their nest. Now they had seen the face of their foe, the Wookiees prepared themselves to combat. While Chewbacca and Master Jinn were working on improving the camp’s technology level, Chieftain Attichitcuk conducted a handful of troops on a reconnaissance mission in hopes of locating the Trade Federation’s landing area without being detected. However, on their way back to the village, the scouting patrol faced the Federation troops, and Attitchicuk fell into an ambush at the very doors of his camp. His soldiers were shot, and the Chieftain himself fell under enemy fire, Chewbacca, who had been close enough to witness the ambush but too far to intervene on time, released a cry of grievance. Qui-Gon Jinn, who felt that a spark of life remained in the recumbent body of Attichictuk, suggested immediate action. Taking a squad of bowcaster troopers and a newly-built medical droid marched toward his father’s attackers, destroying the battle droids on his way. Thanks to that quick intervention, the Chieftain was saved. Attichitcuk received enough medical care to keep him on his feet and keep him walking, and he was garrisoned in the command center for a period of convalescence.

A prolonged campaign ensued, during which a secondary Jedi Temple and a stronghold were built on the Wookiee territory. Once Attichitcuk had fully recovered from his wounds, he and his allies planned on an attack that would allow them to remove the Trade Federation forces for good. During the Battle of Alaris Prime, the Chieftain led his troops on the battlefield, along with Chewbacca, Shoran and Qui-Gon Jinn. Their war efforts met with complete success when the enemy fortress was razed to the ground, forcing the Federation to leave Alaris Prime in a panic.

The Clone Wars
"It is settled then. Yoda will take a battalion of clones to reinforce the Wookiees on Kashyyyk."

- Mace Windu

On the fifth month of the year 22 BBY, the Galactic Republic engaged in war with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, a separatist alliance led by the former Jedi Master Dooku, Count of Serenno. The resulting Clone Wars, which started on the planet Geonosis, soon turned into a galaxy-wide conflict involving thousands of other worlds. For the most part of the war, the leaders of Kashyyyk chose to remain non-aligned. In fact, the Wookiees criticized the Republic for toying with the idea of giving senatorial representation to the Trandoshans, their eternal enemies. They also disagreed with the project of stationning military assets in Wookiee space. In an attempt to pour oil on troubled waters, the Jedi Order sent the Human Kai Justiss to Kashyyyk, appointing him as the new Jedi Watchman of the forest planet. Attichitcuk and Chewbacca were among the delegation that welcomed Justiss during his first journey on the Wookiee planet.

In 19 BBY, but an unexpected event pressed the Wookiees to take sides more clearly: the Confederacy forged an alliance with Trandoshan slavers and imposed a naval blockade on the planet Kashyyyk. Soon thereafter, the Republic tasked High Jedi General Yoda with defending the Wookiee world from the droid armies of the Confederacy. In spite of his advanced age, Attichitcuk joined in the defense of his homeworld. Too old to fight alongside the younger Wookiee warriors on the ground, the former chieftain served as a gunner aboard an Oevvaor jet catamaran during the Battle of Kashyyyk. Seated at the back of the catamaran, Attichitcuk's role was to throw thermal detonators at the enemy tank droids in hopes of melting sizeable holes in them. The elderly chieftain's throwing accuracy was extremely high because he had long practiced in virtual-reality games played on an addictive "mind evaporator" headset. Against all expectations, the allied Wookiee and Republican troops emerged victorious.

The Galactic Civil War
When the Clone Wars were brought to an end, the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic Palpatine revealed his true colors, to the great surprise of the galactic community. The Chancellor officially dismantled the Republic, transforming its dying carcass into an authoritarian Galactic Empire. With the rise of that new regime, Kashyyyk was once again blockaded and the Wookiees enslaved. Like most of his fellow Wookiees, Attichitcuk was trapped on Kashyyyk, forced to watch his beloved forests burned and tortured by the cruel Imperial overseers. Chewbacca himself, the flesh of his flesh, had been assigned to forced-labor projects on Coruscant, under the thumb of the Imperial officer Pter Nyklas. However, in 5 BBY, a young Corellian lieutenant named Han Solo ended up killing Nyklas and freeing the Wookiee. The two escaped, becoming inseparable companions, partly out of friendship, and partly as a result of the life debt Chewbacca owed to Solo&mdash;following an old Wookiee tradition. Years later, Attichitcuk warmly welcomed Solo into his "honor family." Solo took to calling Attichitcuk "Itchy", a name that the elder Wookiee proudly accepted. Ostensibly, Attichitcuk resumed his role as a leader after the liberation of Kashyyyk while he aided in the raising of the younglings of his family. In the meantime, several pockets of resistance against the Empire started to emerge in the galaxy. In 2 BBY, many of those groups merged together, forming the Alliance to Restore the Republic, better known as the Rebel Alliance.

Two years later, Attichitcuk's son and Han Solo were drawn reluctantly into the affairs of the Alliance. The duo ended up saving the day by helping destroy the Death Star, an Imperial planet-killing battlestation, during a battle over Yavin Prime. Shortly afterwards, Attichitcuk and Malla organized a surprise birthday party for the bicentennial of Chewbacca, who had not visited home in three years. Upon the hero’s imminent arrival, Attichitcuk decided to tell his grandson Lumpy the story of how Chewbacca and Solo teamed together and became rising stars of the Rebellion. Inspired by this tale of many adventures, Lumpy travelled to the dangerous "Nother World"&mdash;the the lower levels of Kashyyyk&mdash;in order to search for wasaka berries, a type of food that his father loved. Back at the house, Malla and Attichitcuk became worried of Lumpy's absence, but the young Wookiee was finally rescued from the Nother World's swamp by none other than his father. The birthday party was held with its dancing, games and fireworks, and Attichitcuk attended it. The old Wookiee was even offered a pink balloon during the feast.

Recovering the Vor'Na'Tu
"Princess, another spaceship is landing beyond the ridge. Its is a Wookiee transport.''" "''I thought we might need some help on this operation. So I sent a transmission to my old friend Attichitcuk. He’s a very powerful Wookiee chief."

- C-3PO and Leia Organa

Around 0.5 ABY, Attichitcuk briefly returned from retirement at the request of Leia Organa, Princess of the defunct planet Alderaan and leading figure of the Rebellion. The Princess needed help in retrieving the Vor'Na'Tu, an ancient and powerful artifact that had been stolen from the exiled Jedi Master Echuu Shen-Jon. Clothed in his old Chieftain battle armor, Attichitcuk joined Organa and Shen-Jon on the desolate asteroid of Geddes, where the Imperials kept the Vor'Na'Tu hidden in a Sith temple. When Attichitcuk landed on Geddes in his starship, he was accompanied by a contingent of nine warriors, three Kas tanks, two catapults and one HummBike. The Wookiee Chieftain's timely arrival with reinforcements proved decisive in the battle that ensued.

Once the allied forces reached the Imperial research compound, they split into two groups. One was tasked with drawing the attention of the enemy while the other approached the base from behind. The Wookiees, the Rebels and Master Shen-Jon then found a group of explosive droids which the research facility had built, and the Jedi used his Force powers to convert them for the Rebel's use. The explosion of the droids added to the general turmoil, allowing Princess Leia's Energy Pummels to bring down the walls of the Sith temple in which the Vor'Na'Tu was hidden.

Although Organa, Shen-Jon and Attichitcuk did recover the object of their quest, their victory was short-lived: upon returning to their spacecraft, the faced Darth Vader, the Emperor’s right-hand man, who had been waiting for them. Refusing to hand over the relic to the enemy, Shen-Jon destroyed it instead. Vader and the Jedi then engaged in a lightsaber duel, which ended in the death of Echuu Shen-Jon. While the Wookiee and the Princess had been able to escape, the mission itself was an overall failure.

An agitated Life Day
"Itchy, you look wonderful. Doing well, huh? Your son's been doin' you proud. He's saved my tail more'n a couple of times."

- Han Solo

Sometime later, Chewbacca and Solo also attempted to return to Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day with the former's family. However, the Empire, who had been tracking them down ever since their role in rescuing Rebel leader Princess Leia Organa as well as the destruction of the Death Star on Yavin 4, had instituted a blockade. Attichitcuk, alongside his grandson and daughter-in-law, was eventually reunited with his son, and they celebrated Life Day together.

New governments and slaving rings
"I love family reunions."

- Han Solo, after helping rescue Attichitcuk

In 4 ABY, the Emperor Palpatine was killed at the Battle of Endor, and the second Death Star was destroyed. What remained of the Imperial Navy scattered, and the Galactic Civil War was brought to an end. The Rebel Alliance was reorganized into the Alliance of Free Planets. With the Empire gone from Kashyyyk, the Nagai Commander Ozrei N'takkilomandrife&mdash;known to the Wookiees as "Knife"&mdash;plotted to take over the Wookiee slaving ring. Knife allied with Vargi, Mallatobuck's treacherous brother, who hoped to enslave all of Attichitcuk's family. Vargi informed Knife of Chewbacca's legendary status to the Wookiee people and the new galactic government, which prompted the Nagai to kidnap his family as a bait. By capturing the planet's child prodigy, Knife sought to demoralize local resistance to the new slave trade. Attichitcuk was taken into custody, along with his daughter-in-law and grandson. Fortunately for the old Wookiee, his son Chewbacca arrived on Kashyyyk with Alliance Generals Han Solo and Lando Calrissian. Although Chewbacca himself was captured, his Human escaped, and Calrissian managed to free Attichitcuk and the others. The old Wookiee and his family followed Calrissian to the starship the ensalved Chewbacca and other captives were boarding, and they found Chewbacca and Solo in a pitched fight with Vargi. Lando Calrissian then used his blaster to create a diversion, allowing Chewbacca to overpower his foe. The Wookiee's fellow captives rose up against Knife and his minions. With his plans ruined, Knife fled Kashyyyk without further ado.

A few months later, the ambitious Imperial officer Hindane Darcc proclaimed himself Moff of the Mytaranor sector, and took over Kashyyyk, which he intended to turn into his personal domain. The Wookiee homeworld was being overrun, and its cities under heavy fire. The Wookiees were proud, but they knew they couldn't overcome this situation on their own, so Attichitcuk sent a call for help to his son. The grey-furred Wookiee hoped Chewbacca would convince the Rebel Alliance to send a strike force to fight off the Imperials, but to no avail. Solo and Chewbacca traveled alone to Kashyyyk, unsure of what they might find. In fact, the situation was even worse than they had imagined: the self-appointed Imperial Moff had hired the Trandoshan Pekt to gather a shipment of Wookiee slaves for use in Kessel mines. Organizing the Wookiee resistance, Chewbacca and Solo were successful in retaking the city of Chenachochan. However, both Darcc and Pekt were able to escape in a Lambda-class shuttle full of Wookiee prisoners, and Attichitcuk was among them. The old chieftain was held captive by Pekt aboard the Avatar Orbital Platform to be skinned, but was eventually freed by Han Solo and Chewbacca.

Under a New Republic
In 25 ABY, the Yuuzhan Vong&mdash;a race of warlike aliens&mdash;invaded the galaxy, and a major conflict ensued. During the initial stages of the war, Han Solo and Chewbacca were on Sernpidal when the Yuuzhan Vong used a creature known as a dovin basal to draw the moon Dobido into an impact trajectory with the planet. Chewbacca helped Solo evacuate thousands of Sernpidalians, but the Wookiee was lost when he couldn't board the Millennium Falcon on time. After the death of his son, Attichitcuk reluctantly accepted that Solo was not prepared to accept an extension of Chewbacca's life debt by Lumpawaroo, and his other grandson through Kallabow, the Jedi Knight Lowbacca. The old chieftain eventually understood that the Human was still clinging to his memory of Chewbacca and needed time to mourn him properly.

Following Chewbacca's heroic end, his droid friends C-3PO and R2-D2 were tasked with collecting memories of his life. They travelled to Rwookrrorro, where they spent some time discussing around the fireplace with a very weakened Attichitcuk. The old Rwook told the droids how his son once fought the albino Wookiee Tojjevvuk for the love of Malla. Aching with grief, the elderly chieftain confessed that burying his own son was the most terrible ordeal of his life, even compared to the destruction of the forests or slavery under the Galactic Empire.

Personality and traits
In his prime, Attichitcuk was a brown Wookiee with a squat face and a broad nose. He used to be tall like all members of his race, but he began shrinking over the years, a common phenomenon in older Wookiees. When his son's relationship with Mallatobuck started, Attichitcuk had already began to shrink. By, then, he was one head shorter than Chewbacca, but still retained the brown color of his fur. Like other members of his species, including the rogue Gargachykk, Attichitcuk used to style his facial hair into long braids. However, while most of his brethern would not wear any clothes at all, Attichitcuk was known to have worn a crimson waist wrap at the time. As a Wookiee Chieftain, he donned a battle dress consisting of a wide cape, a pair of shoulder armor and a crested helmet.

Many years later, during the time of the Galactic Civil War, Attichitcuk appeared as a large, white-haired and quite short Wookiee, measuring only 1.7 meters. However, even at more than three hundred and fifty years of age, Attichitcuk was still capable of putting up a decent fight. He was still as accurate as ever with his bowcaster and still qualified to lead troops on the path to war. He also still displayed crafting talents, and he would make wooden small-scale replicas of starfighters for the benefit of his grandson. He used to put heart in this activity, and he disliked to be interrupted when carving wooden models, even by Lumpawarrump himself. Despite their great complicity, Attichitcuk would never spoil his grandson, neither would he go against the authority of Mallatobuck.

The old Wookiee also had an uncommon attraction for Human-looking females, as exemplified by his excitement when seeing Mermeia's image in Saun Dann's mind evaporator.

Creation
"Star Wars' first foray into the world of TV was unforgettable for all the wrong reasons. See the Wookiee homeworld for the first time! Meet Chewie's family! What could possibly go wrong?"

- Star Wars Insider 106 takes a retrospective look at The Star Wars Holiday Special

The grey-furred Attichitcuk first appeared as one of the main characters of The Star Wars Holiday Special, a two-hour variety show aired by CBS on November 17, 1978. However, there are traces of a proto-Attichitcuk as far back as the May 1973 rough draft of Star Wars, in the form of Chewbacca's father "Auzituck". This early incarnation appeared in scene 135, which was set in the "Wookee camp" on Yavin—Yavin being an early version of "Kazyyyk", which would ultimately evolve in spelling into "Kashyyyk". The script says: "Chewbacca enters the largest of the lodges. He is greeted by his father, AUZITUCK, Chief of the KAAPAUKU tribe; an old and feeble Wookee dressed in royal skins and headdress." The old Chief only appeared in this scene, and was mentioned in passing later in the script, when a proto-Han Solo introduced "Chewbacca, son of Auzituck, Prince of the Sawas, a very powerful tribe."

In the fourth draft script of the Holiday Special, dated October 13 1978, Chewbacca's father was called "Old Attchituck" and described as a "gray-haired, cranky, 400-year-old cuss." This version of the script differs only slightly from the final cut of the TV special and features Wookiee dialogues translated in all caps. In early story treatments, Attichitcuk's role was much less developed, with him being mentioned only three times in a five-page rough draft. In this early story treatment, Itchy's "big scene" with the mind evaporator was attributed to Chewbacca instead, although it did not feature the erotic entertainer Mermeia.

The old Wookiee's appearance was designed by Joe Johnston, who worked as head storyboard  artist on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In his conceptual drawings, Johnston called Attichitcuk a "350-375 years old" Wookiee. The 350 figure was finally retained and confirmed many years later. At some point after the airing of the Holiday Special, the American toy company Kenner envisioned an action figure line of Chewbacca's family. Prototypes were constructed of Chewbacca, Mallatobuck, Attichitcuk, and Lumpy, but the idea was ultimately dropped. The Attichitcuk prototype was in fact a modified Chewbacca figure with the bandolier strap removed and gray paint sprayed around the head and beard.

Portrayal
"Well, the grandpa was very articulated. I don't know if they took advantage of all the articulation in it in the actual show, but it was probably the most. It was funny, it was kind of toothless looking, it had a lot of gum action and was very funny."

- Thomas R. Burman about Attichitcuk's mask

In The Star Wars Holiday Special, Attichitcuk was portrayed by actor Paul Gale. Although makeup supervisor Stuart Freeborn had designed the original Chewbacca costume, he had no hand in creating additional Wookiee suits seen in the TV special. Attichitcuk's hairy bodysuit was produced by special effects artists Stan Winston and Thomas R. Burman. Burman and his brother Ellis provided Winston with a a large amount of "Wookiee fur" mined from dozens of human-hair wigs, while Chewie's suit was made out of knitted mohair and straight yak hair. Winston also designed very articulated face prothestics for the special. Attichitcuk's mask was made of overlaying vacuum forms and springs so it would would fit up tight against the actor's eyes. According to creature effects artist Don Bies, Attichitcuk's costume and mask were still housed in the Lucasfilm Archives as of 2005.

The members of Chewbacca's family were also given distinguishable voices. In his Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide, sound designer Ben Burtt recalls spending two days at the Olympic Games Farm in Sequim, Washington, to collect bear sounds. Out of the dozen captive bears of various species that were kept at the Farm, Burtt chose grizzlies to provide a basis for Attichitcuk's voice. In 2005, sound clips of Itchy's growls from The Star Wars Holiday Special were reused for a few of Tarfful's growls in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Specifically, they were used during Yoda's "goodbye" scene to Chewbacca and Tarfful.

Character development
Following its only diffusion in 1978, The Star Wars Holiday Special was heavily criticized. Part of the criticism focused on the opening scenes of the special, which featured Attichitcuk and his kin addressing each other in unsubtitled Wookiee-speak for fifteen minutes. Despite the overall failure of the Holiday Special, Attichitcuk was reused in the Expanded Universe of Star Wars, although not as often as Lumpawarrump or Mallatobuck.

In 2001, Attichitcuk was given an important role in the video game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds as the main character in the Wookiee training campaign, which revolved around the colonization of Alaris Prime. An older Attichitcuk also appeared in the Princess Leia and Chewbacca campaigns later in the game. It should be noted that if Attichitcuk dies in any of the campaigns he appears in, the player loses the level.

As of October 2002, Attichitcuk was to be reinvented during production of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. According to Sang Jun Lee, who worked as concept artist at Skywalker Ranch, "Chewbacca's father" was to be killed during the course of the movie, which would have prompted to run away and meet Han Solo. This concept, however, did not make it into the final film. While Attichitcuk did not appear in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, he was stated to have taken part in the Battle of Kashyyyk in the reference book Revenge of the Sith: Incredible Cross-Sections.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns
 * The Hutt Gambit
 * Death Troopers
 * Rebel Dawn
 * The Star Wars Holiday Special
 * The Wookiee Storybook
 * Star Wars 91: Wookiee World
 * Star Wars 104: Nagais and Dolls
 * Tyrant's Test
 * Star Wars: Chewbacca 1
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
 * The Unifying Force
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
 * The Unifying Force