Yinchorri

"The Yinchorri believe that if they're strong enough to take something and hold onto it, it is, by rights, theirs."

- Mace Windu

The Yinchorri, or Yinchori were a species of corpulent reptilians with an inherent immunity to telepathic uses of the Force, including mind tricks. Native to the planet Yinchorr, the Yinchorri were divided into two castes: the Intelligentsia, who governed through the Council of Elders of each city-state, and a highly aggressive warrior caste. Yinchorri culture was best characterized by the expression "might makes right;" they considered anything they were able to take and hold by force to be rightfully theirs.

During the times of the Galactic Republic, the Yinchorri joined the galactic community and, secretly motivated by Darth Sidious through his minion Vilmarh "Villie" Grahrk, unleashed an attack on the galaxy that was only stopped when the Jedi Order became involved. Afterward, an Embargo was placed on their homeworld.

Later, the Galactic Empire took control of the Yinchorri system and betrayed the Yinchorri, killing their elders in a failed scheme to capture Leia Organa. Enraged, the Yinchorri rebelled against the Empire. The galactic government answered their uprising by destroying the reptilians' civilization. Although the New Republic later helped the surviving Yinchorri retake control of their planet, the species refused to ever join another galactic government. Their planet eventually came under the control of the Empire of Darth Krayt.

Biology and appearance
The Yinchorri, also known as Yinchori, were reptilian humanoids with sturdy constitutions. Members of the species were turtle-like in several respects, such as the head; however, they were anthropomorphic with regard to limb position. Although they were born in clutches from eggs, women showed natural breasts. There were no other appreciable differences between male and female Yinchorri. The Yinchorri body was covered by thick skin, which was dark green or brown in colour.

Adult Yinchorri could reach a height from 2.4 to 2.7 meters. They did have a greater endurance than Humans, allowing them to resist pain, and they were more resistant to heat because of their cold blood. They started adolescence at 8 years of ago and were considered biologically mature at 15. The first ill effects of age appeared at 41 years of age, with seniority being reached at 60, or 20 years before the end of their life expectancy.

The species was divided into two breeds: The Intelligentsia, who performed governing tasks, and the warriors, who were known to use violence in response to threats.

The Yinchorri had a natural resistance to the mind-controlling uses of the Force, but this did not extend to those Force powers that did not directly affecting the will of the target, such as telekinesis. A small percentage of the Yinchorri could also manipulate the Force, theoretically being able to mind-control non-Yinchorri.

Society and culture
The Yinchorri were known for their character strenght and utilitarianism. Covetous and domineering, they considered themselves worthy of anything that came within their clutches&mdash;provided they could keep it from others&mdash; using the expression "might makes right" as their motto and moral authorization. Those things that they disliked or had no need for were worthy only to be destroyed. Yinchorri became only more fierce and adamant when confronted by opponents; should such rivals prove a threat to Yinchorri or their loved ones, the reptilians' demeanor could explode into physical violence &mdash;although direct threats were not always necessary to inflame a Yinchorri's temper to the point of physical confrontation.

The Yinchorri lived in city states on the planet Yinchorr. Each community had its own military and governors. Most city-states were ruled by a Council of Elders headed by a single leader. Thus, the Yinchorri had no planet-wide ruler. The Council was particularly respected by the Yinchorri. Each city-state also had smaller communities around it providing the city-state with resources such as minerals and farmed food; the number of these settlements was used to measure the polity's influence.

To the Yinchorri, social structure was a natural part of their existence, as each Yinchorri was always part of several communities: First the childhood family, then the city-state where they grew up, then the work environment, and finally the new family they formed with a mate. Yinchorri particularly valued the institution of marriage; the Yinchorri mated for life. In some cases, a widow or widower suffered so much that she or he might die of sorrow only days after the mate's death. Marriages were frequently arranged by the parents of the couple to increase the power of the family; and polygyny, the form of polygamy in which a male had several wives, was not unheard of. Neither was marriage among a Yinchorri and a non-Yinchorri alien. Yinchorri were known to distrust aliens as they were not born among their clans, but this taboo could be broken through inter-species marriage. For example, in 33 BBY, the daughters of several Yinchorri Elders married the same Devaronian for political reasons. For that point on, the Yinchorri Elders considered that Devaronian and his family to be part of their families.

The Yinchorri had their own language, also known as Yinchorri, which was used to christen native fauna such as the rolk-mangir. Many Yinchorri learned to speak Galactic Basic Standard as a second language, but few learned to read it. Yinchorri tended to use one-word names. Some examples were names like Denrak, Emterrk, Jetar, Merzok, Qayayir, Solhek or Varuk.

Technology
The Yinchorri developed technology adapted to their own needs and environment. An example of this is the Yinchorri flutter-pack, a backpack with four insect-like wings whose fluttering allowed the user to fly for one hour. The device was capable of carrying a cargo of 200 kilograms; its flight ceiling was 1,000 meters. The user, commonly a Yinchorri, used a gauntlet to control speed and direction, with a hand-held weapon in the free hand and often protective googles. Upon draining of its power, the flutter-pack had to be re-charged for eight hours before it could be used again.

History
The Yinchorri evolved on a rocky, desert world known as Yinchorr, which might had been in the Outer Rim Territories, in the Expansion Region or in the Mid Rim. The Yinchorri evolved a thick skin as a means of protection against the arid environment of their homeworld. Yinchorr had little in the way of natural resources. It was, however, rich in predators, including the rolk-mangir.

In the most ancient epochs of Yinchorr's history, Tol-Kachorn was the strongest city-state, with almost one hundred small communities providing it with resources and five lesser city-state serving as its assistants. Several other city-states tried to challenge the supremacy of Tol-Kachorn, confrontations that sparked wars of conquest that always ended in the defeat of the contender&mdash;and the reign of chaos.

Circa 475 BBY, Yinchorr was charted by the Galactic Republic. Alien scouts decided that the Yinchorri were too underdeveloped to be useful to the Republic, and the planet was deemed too deficient in resources to be useful for a settlement. On the scouts' advisement, the Republic disregarded the world.

Around 58 BBY, the Yinchorri joined the galactic community, but most planetary representatives assumed that the species would go unnoticed in the grand scheme of galaxy-wide politics. The Yinchorri officially became members of the Republic the year after their entrée into the greater galaxy, and they were eventually given representation in the Galactic Senate.

The Yinchorri were introduced to interstellar travel through unclear means that, according to rumor, involved stolen technology. The species began to work offworld in violent occupations, making good use of their natural drive. They soon adapted to the galaxy and developed a love for the latest military technology, including starships. Even then, few Yinchorri felt the need to settle in another, less inhospitable system. Those who did so had to take with them all of their relatives and their relatives's families, which usually meant the relocation of an entire town or city-state. The Yinchorri colonized three other planets in the Yinchorri system: Yitheeth, which had only a 7% of the surface covered in land and was otherwise a shallow sea; Yibikkoror, characterized by its dense atmosphere; and Uhanayih, a rock with no life except for the settlers. The word Uhanayih was related to myths and legends about living in the "spiritual world". The galaxy however, understanding that the Yinchorri were aggressive, restricted the sale of starships to the species.

The Human Jedi master Tharence Wo researched the Yinchorri and wrote interesting reports for the use of future Jedi. Wo mistakenly believed that Uhanayih was a mythical place instead of a real colony.

Slavers raided the planet Yinchorr, trying to capture and sell the locals. They discovered that Yinchorri groups were more likely to fight to their deaths than face the fate of slaves; even those uncooperative Yinchorri that were captured would rather be executed or starve to death than obey a new master. Eventually, slavers realized that this spirit of resistance was embedded in the species' social structure; such traffickers subsequently avoided Yinchorr's population.

The Yinchorri Uprising


"This is Mayvitch Seven! We need help! If you receive this transmis skvt... tact the Senate--warn them about the Yinchoreeeee."

- Last transmission from an Immalian officer to Jedi Council before his death

During the last years of the Old Republic, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious concluded that the Yinchorri were a threat to his plans of galactic domination due to their stubborness and their resistence to Force mind tricks. Sidious was also threatened by the power of the Jedi, and he decided to manipulate the Yinchorri so that they became an apparent hazard to the Jedi Order. The Sith wanted the Yinchorri to attack and wage a war, against the Jedi. Sidious hoped that such a conflict would weaken both groups and destroy one of them. As Sidious's political ambitions clashed with the power of then-Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, the Sith also intended to politically weaken Valorum.

Sidious needed an agent to incite the Yinchorri to act first. While he had a willing and efficient apprentice in the Zabrak Darth Maul, Sidious chose not to use Maul so as to avoid detection. Instead, he sent Maul to recruit a Devaronian smuggler, Vilmarh "Villie" Grahrk, who would not compromise Sidious's operations. Sidious's scheme included a timetable, which Maul passed on to Grahrk along with whatever resources the Devaronian needed. Sidious kept his motives shrouded in mystery, but Grahrk later claimed that Sidious was interested in the Secret Treasure of the Jedi, a small but valuable item hidden in the Jedi Temple.

Sidious also sought to use the outbreak of war to discredit Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum's government, paving the way for his own rise to power.

Grahrk was provided with a blaster-resistant personal shield and was sent to Yinchorr to meet with the leaders of the Yinchorri. As he was uninvited, the Yinchorri guards greeted Grahrk by firing on him, but the Devaronian was unhurt and he answered with naval fire. Having impressed the Yinchorri, he was granted an audience with five important Yinchorri leaders, including Jorek, Kardek and Sothek.

Although Grahrk did not explain his reasons, he convinced the Yinchorri that they could increase their prominence in the galaxy by stealing several ships from the nearby Golden Nyss Shipyards. The Golden Nyss was a shadowport used by smugglers, and Grahrk offered to take some Yinchorri there, an idea that caught Sothek's attention in particular. Grahrk even promised that the Republic would overlook the theft and not respond with a military attack.

One of the Yinchorri leaders refused to trust Grahrk as he was a stranger, and Kardek offered to sponsor Grahrk by marrying his daughter Vooma to the Devaronian. The other leaders also had daughters of marriageable age, and each demanded that Grahrk marry them. The women were not to Grahrk's liking, so he offered his son to marry them in his stead, thus making him a peer to the Yinchorri leaders in this way. In reality, Grahrk had no legitimate sons, so he lied and offered his nephew, Olmar, son of his brother, the mercenary Holmar, as his son. In exchange, Holmar asked to be in on it, whatever "it" was that Villie was involved in. Olmar was married, and the Grahrks became honorary Yinchorri.

Raid on the Golden Nyss shipyards


The first Yinchorri attack involved five ships ferrying Yinchorri soldiers, led by Vilmahr Grahrk through slave circuits&mdash;the Yinchorri still did not know how to pilot their ships. The Devaronian guided the Yinchorri to the shipyard, where they unleashed havoc and stole many ships. Before leaving, the Yinchorri also blew up the shipyard. According to Grahrk's own dubious retelling of the events, Grahrk tried to reprimend the Yinchorri for this final move, as the shipyard would have been useful for many beings, including himself. The Yinchorri, not intimidated, felt that their duty was to destroy whatever they did not need.

The loot from the attack, particularly the ships, became the core of the Yinchorri's arsenal during the uprising. Over the next few years, the Yinchorri learned how to pilot their craft, probably with the help of Vilmahr Grahrk, and they became at least mediocre spacers on board these attack ships and starfighters. &mdash;the later of which included other technology stolen from twelve systems. The Yinchorri were also provided with armor made of cortosis, a material resistant to Jedi lightsabers.

First attacks and Battle of Mayvitch 7
The Yinchorri began an assault on several planets near Yinchorri, which satisfied their aggressive urges; the Devaronians kept the plunder of the campaign. Pushed by Sidious, Grahrk incited the Yinchorri to increase their assault.

Eventually, the Yinchorri went to the Chalenor system to attack a mining colony of Immalian Humans in the moon of Mayvitch 7. The defenders were unprepared and utterly defeated. However, one of the Immalians contacted with the Jedi Temple in Coruscant and warned them of the imperialistic tendencies of the Yinchorri, thus achieving to get the attention of the Jedi Order.

First Jedi intervention
Jedi Master Mace Windu met with Supreme Chancellor Valorum, but not with the Jedi Council, and decided to send two Jedi, Naeshahn and her padawan Ebor Taulk, at Valorum's request. Neither Naeshahn or Taulk were familiar with the Yinchorri traits, including resistance to mind control, or with their gear, including cortosis. Both Jedi were killed and mutilated by the Yinchorri, and then sent to Valorum's office.

After this event, the Jedi decided to invest in intelligence and learned about the Yinchorri use of cortosis, about their unusual physiology and about the rumored existence of a supposed main command center of the Yinchorri. The Yinchorri did indeed had built a secret command center, hidden in the inconspicuous world of Uhanayih. The leaders of the Uprising correctly believed it would be hard to spot.

Second Jedi intervention
Only four days had passed since the battle of Mayvitch, and Windu, admitting his mistake, met with the Jedi Council. He proposed to travel alone to Yinchorr, but was convinced to accept willing help.

Three unarmed Consular-class space cruisers, each with a Jedi team, would be sent to Yinchorr; this would allow each of the teams to cover one inhabited planet in the Yinchorri system searching for the command center. Windu, Saesee Tiin, Qui-Gon Jinn and and his padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi were sent to Yinchorr. Adi Gallia, Eeth Koth, Tsui Choi and his padawan Theen Fida went to Yitheeth. Micah Giiett, Plo Koon, Lilit Twoseas and her padawan K'Kruhk went to Yibikkoror. Yoda and other Jedi would remain in Coruscant, researching in libraries and in almost-constant contact with the teams.

As soon as the three cruisers arrived to the Yinchorri system, they were attacked by Yinchorri pilots. Resourcefully, Jedi Tsui Choi tricked two pilots to bring down each other, and a third pilot, witnessing this, retreated. Choi was considered to have fight with distinction for this. Saesee Tiin jumped to hyperspace near a planet, avoiding its gravity field, and appeared in the other hemisphere, evading his pursuers. Giiett and K'Kruhk used the Force to launch the escape pods, misleading the Yinchorri to believe that the Jedi had left the ship and leading them to chase the empty pods.

Yinchorri Raid on the Jedi Temple


This mission took some of the most powerful Jedi from the Temple, and distracted the Jedi that were still there. This followed Sidious's next step: With the Temple partially empty, several Yinchorri were to stealth in and kill helpless Jedi children. This was strategically a bad move for the Yinchorri, as it would reduce their strenght while gaining them nothing. Grahrk suggested that Sidious wanted to use this chance to steal the Jedi treasure, entering the Temple himself with a single Yinchorri as his escort, but again this could be false.

The Yinchorri believed the would find the Jedi flat-footed, but some contradictory messages from the teams in the Yinchorri system had already made the Jedi suspicious. Yoda in particular felt the danger through the Force. Thus, the Jedi prepared for an ambush and evacuated the Younglings.

The Yinchorri commandos knocked down the lone Jedi watchman, Jude Rozess, and entered the Temple. They had specific orders to kill of the Jedi children, being at the same time watched in secret by Darth Maul. But the Yinchorri did not find Younglings, only a Jedi force led by Yoda. The Yinchorri put up resistance, and managed to kill Rozess and a second Jedi, Tieren Nie-Tan, but they were utterly defeated. Yoda and Jedi Master Soon Bayts questioned a surviving Yinchorri soldier who had not been provided with any important information; instead, the soldier tried to escape and Yoda was forced to defeat him.

Yoda and fellow Jedi Master Oppo Rancisis understood, after this attack, that the Yinchorri had been manipulated by an as-yet-unknown third party, as they would have not organized the raid themselves. They did not identify Sidious's implication at this point. Yoda and the Jedi also believed that the Galactic Senate would then immediately approve punitive measures against the Yinchorri but the deliberations in that arena continued because of Sidious's political influence.

First Battles in the Yinchorri system
Adi Gallia and her team visited the only permanent settlement in Yitheeth. Olmar Grahrk and a military contingent of Yinchorri had been waiting for the Jedi and immediately attacked. As the Jedi were unrivalled in combat, Gallia and Koth captured Olmar Grahrk and finished the skirmish ordering Grahrk to order a cease fire. Grahrk was questioned, but he did not know that the command center was in Uhanayih. Sidious was unhappy with the capture of the Devaronian, and warned Vilmahr Grahrk: Vilmahr would die should Olmar talk. However, the Jedi were again mistaken: They initially believed that the Devaronians were the party manipulating the Yinchorri.

The Yibikkoror team were having more trouble, constantly attacked by Yinchorri infantry and light air forces. Giiett asked Gallia to rescue them, something that was done in due time. As the command center had not been found in Yitheeth or Yibikkoror, Gallia's and Giiett's teams would join Windu's in Yinchorr.

The Battle of Yinchorr
In Yinchorr, scouts Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi confirmed that there was no command center in the planet, only a staging area. The Yinchorri found the Jedi cruiser and destroyed it, but the Jedi team was already in hiding. Eventually finding them, the Yinchorri attacked with flutter-packs and customized tanks, initiating a battle.

The Yinchorri began to be harashed with the arrival of eight new Jedi in one cruiser. Five Jedi formed a wedge and fought through the Yinchorri lines, diverting the attacks on Windu's team and allow the other reinforcements to come, attacking the Yinchorri in two fronts. Saesee Tiin killed the driver of a Yinchorri tank with a lightsaber.

Several Yinchorri, including a tank driver, attacked the Jedi cruiser, forcing the Jedi to regroup to save the ship. By doing this, K'Kruhk put himself in the line of fire, and had to be saved by Twoseas. At the same time, the Yinchorri were already attacking the Jedi in the cruiser and, although the Yinchorri had been defeated and killed, they also took the life of Padawan Fida. Soon afterward, Twoseas died because of her wounds.

The Jedi were then contacted by Master Yaddle, who had researched on Tharence Wo's teaching and discovered that a fourth moon in the system, Uhanayih, was inhabited. Mace Windu also obtained intelligence about the command center being there. Windu asked the Jedi to tell Valorum about this. The Chancellor used this information and all of his influence to negotiate with several politicians, including Onaconda Farr, Tikkes and Yarua, and was able to pass the Yinchorri Embargo Act, an official sanction against Yinchorr. Valorum also sent four navy attack groups of the Judicial Forces to reinforce the Jedi.

At the same time, Olmar Grahrk attempted to contact with his uncle to ask for help, not understanding that the Jedi would trace the signal &mdash; indeed, he was caught red-handed by a griefing Tsui Choi. Understanding that their position was compromised, Vilmahr and Holmar Grahrk escaped the system, deserting without even telling the Yinchorri or Sidious.

Micah Giett was fatally wounded by the Yinchorri. Giett asked the Jedi to keep on with the mission, and then he attracted a squad of Yinchorri, promising to reveal secrets of the Jedi. Once the Yinchorri were near, he used his lightsaber and a nearby tank to create an explosion, blowing away his enemies along with himself. Understanding what was happening, Sidious ordered Maul to track Grahrk.

Final stand in Uhanayih
The unarmed Jedi cruiser joined with the naval reinforcements and, together, cut through the Yinchorri naval defenses in Uhanayih. The Yinchorri destroyed only one Republic cruiser, Acceptance, with several of her crewmen surviving.

Once most of the Yinchorri ships had been disabled or destroyed, the Republic admiral escorted the Jedi cruiser to the planet. The cruiser crashlanded in the Yinchorri war room. Overwhelmed in front of a superior force, the Yinchorri leaders surrendered and ordered the other Yinchorri to surrend.

Consequences
The Chancellor then quarantined the Yinchorri system, forbidden transport to and from there. Grahrk was tracked as a fugitive, and captured by the Jedi, who nevertheless failed to obtain useful information from him and eventually released him.

Sidious had managed to end with the potential threat of the Yinchorri for his plans. He had also reduced Valorum's influence, as he had to ask for important favors, and also because Valorum's term was suddenly tainted with the greatest intergalactic conflict in eleven years since the end of the Stark Hyperspace Wars and the Mandalorian Civil War.

The Jedi had lost several Knights, including a member of the Council, Micah Giett. Tsui Choi and Qui-Gon Jinn were considered to take Giett's place, but eventually Ki-Adi-Mundi was chosen. Giiet's death also left padawan Bultar Swan masterless, until Plo Koon took her under his wing.

Ten years after the conflict, Armand Isard, director of the Senate Bureau of Intelligence, publically talked about the Yinchorri Uprising and several other disasters that should have been anticipated.

The Yinchorri under the Empire
In 19 BBY, Darth Sidious, using his public persona of Chancellor Palpatine, became Emperor and created the Galactic Empire to replace the Old Republic, with the help of his apprentice Darth Vader, also a Dark Lord of the Sith, and an army of clone troopers.

In 17 BBY, Yinchorr hosted an Imperial training center where the clones of Sa Cuis, a former Emperor's Hand, were instructed by Sheyvan, and Lieutenant Erv Lekauf &mdash; who disliked his stay in the waste planet &mdash; trained his own clones. Palpatine and Vader visited Yinchorr to see the Cuis and the Lekaufs fight, and then took them from the planet, leaving behind the facility.

Besides this, the Empire left Yinchorr unmolested, following the same reasons that led the Old Republic to do the same. Several rolk-mangirs were hunted and exported to hunt reserves in the Core Worlds and the Corporate Sector, even unleashing a fashion of rolk-mangir cubs used as guard animals among high-ranking Imperial officers; but the rolk-mangirs proved to be loyal only to their trainers and to attack everyone in sight should the trainer be unable to control them. Eventually, possession and import of rolk-mangirs was forbidden in many worlds.

As of 3 ABY, the Empire had named Marcellin Wessel Governor of Yinchorr. Wessel considered Yinchorr to be a useless system that was burdening his career. He decided to use it as a bait in a scheme to capture Princess Leia Organa, a high-ranking member of the anti-Imperial Alliance to Restore the Republic. Firstly, Wessel captured several important members of the Council of Elders and kept them hostage, offering their lives to Yinchorri people in exchange of Organa's capture. Wessel never really intended to honor his word, but the Yinchorri were unaware of this.

The Yinchorri felt that the life of a Human stranger was less important than the lives of their leaders and prepared a trap for Organa. They asked Organa to travel to Yinchorr as an ambassador, pretending to be eager to join the Alliance. Organa jumped to this chance, but her friend Luke Skywalker, aware of the important Imperial activity in the area, gave Organa an emergency beacon to call him should anything go wrong.

Indeed this happened. Organa boarded a Yinchorri ship and, once they were in the atmosphere of Yinchorr, TIE fighters sent by Wessel joined them. The Yinchorri explained the situation and assumed that the fighters were sent to escort them. But the fighters shot down the Yinchorri ship, something that surprised the naïve Yinchorri. Only Organa survived the crash and, eventually, joined a stormtrooper to survive the desert. The trooper captured Organa and brought her to Wessel.

Wessel then ordered to kill the Elder Yinchorri in front of Organa's eyes. Organa had called for Skywalker, and he arrived in time to save her, although not to save the Yinchorri. The stormtrooper helped Organa escape by disarming Wessel, but was killed in the skirmish.

Enraged, the Yinchorri attacked Wessel and his forces and overthrew him. The replacing Elders of Tol-Kachorn gave its support to the Alliance and allowed them to build bases in the Yinchorr system. Other city-states offered warriors and ships to the Alliance.

The local Moff asked the Imperial High Command for permission to punish the Yinchorr. The planet was bombed, destroying both the Rebel bases and the city-states, including Tol-Kachorn. Governor Wessel's son Redd was among the Imperial officers responsible for this. The surviving Yinchorri became nomadic tribes in what would be considered one of the greatest tragedies of the planet. The Yinchorri considered that Marcellin Wessel was directly responsible of their shortages.

One month after the bombing, Yinchorr attracted Palpatine's personal attention. The Emperor wanted to unify all of the training centers of his personal Royal Guard, and chose Yinchorr as the place. Eventually, the Empire cleaned Yinchorr of its original inhabitants, transforming it in a waste land lacking any life, except for the four dozen Imperials that trained in The Squall for years under Master Instructor Ved Kennede. This training center was an Imperial secret where candidates trained for years. Imperial Royal Guards Kir Kanos and Carnor Jax finished their training on Yinchorr, under the eyes of Palpatine and Darth Vader.

After the Empire
After the death of Palpatine, Yinchorr saw a civil battle among stormtroopers sent by Carnor Jax and Royal Guards wanting to oppose him. Later, as of 11 ABY, Kir Kanos returned to Yinchorr to fight and kill Jax, with several colateral victims. At that point, Yinchorr was utterly devoid of Yinchorri.

Later, during the times of the New Republic, Yinchorri and rolk-mangirs returned to Yinchorr. Several criminals and wealthy people wanted to obtain rolk-mangir pets, which generated a community of hunters capturing cubs and smugglers transporting them.

Although Yinchorr remained under Imperial control until 13 ABY, it was eventually claimed by the New Republic during a campaign to recover a terrain theoretically seized by a clone of Palpatine. The surviving Yinchorri unified under the banner of the last surviving son of the leader of the Council of Elders of Tol-Kachorn, and settled in the fortress once used by the Imperial Guard. They began to re-build their civilization, but, although friendly to the New Republic, they refused to joined it. As of 25 ABY, they only accepted to host a New Republic military base and a starship repairing center.

In 130 ABY, the Galactic Empire under the control of Darth Krayt recovered Yinchorr and used it as a training field for stormtroopers. Krayt still had control over Yinchorr as of 137 ABY, with at least one Yinchorri serving among his stormtroopers.

Yinchorri in the galaxy
Although the Yinchorri did settled in other planets in their own native system, they rarely felt the need to live further. Certain Yinchorri did move their extended families to other planets, however.

Several Yinchorri tried to have a career in the galaxy. They commonly succeeded as bodyguards, mercenaries, pirates or privateers, and smugglers. They were considered poor slaves, so slavers rarely bothered with Yinchorri. These extra-system activities were restricted during part of their history, as the Old Republic initially restricted the sale of starships to the Yinchorri and, after the Yinchorri Uprising, approved an official Embargo to the system. In 137 ABY, at least one Yinchorri had become a stomrtrooper for Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire.

Although some Yinchorri could use the power of the Force, none of them had become a Jedi as of 28 ABY.

The Yinchorri were bad strategists and easily tricked by manipulative people that could take advantage of their naïvety. As such, they were led by Sidious and his minions not only to an Uprising, but also to a very bad tactic move by raiding the Jedi Temple. During the times of the Empire, the Yinchorri could not predict that Governor Wessel would betray them, as exemplified by the commander and the pilot who took Leia Organa to Yinchorr.

Behind the scenes
The Yinchorri first appeared in Star Wars #86: The Alderaan Factor, a comic-book published by Marvel comics in 1984. It was written by Randy Stradley and drawn by Bob McLeod, with inks by Tom Palmer. At that point, the Yinchorri were identified as Yinchori. Due to discrepancies with editor Ann Nocenti, Stradley did not work in successive Star Wars comics for Marvel.

In 1997, the planet Yinchorr (although not the Yinchorri) re-appeared in the comic Crimson Empire, also written by Stradley and this time published by Dark Horse Comics. Crimson Empire explicitly states that there were no lifeforms in the planet Yinchorr except for the main characters of its story, but Ultimate Alien Anthology mentions the Yinchorri inhabiting Yinchorr both before and after this event, with no source explaining where the Yinchorri had been between those events. The Yinchorri returned, now with this name, in the comic Jedi Council: Acts of War, by Stradley, published in 2000. Yinchorr re-appeared as an Imperial planet in the Star Wars: Legacy series, and a Yinchorri was seen among the alien stormtroopers serving Darth Krayt. While the species of that stormtrooper was not identified by name, author Jan Duursema confirmed that the person was a Yinchorri through a web board.

Inconsistencies
The role-playing game guide Alien Anthology made several claims about the Yinchorri that were contradicted by later sources: It claimed that an adult Yinchorri had a height between 170 and 220 centimeters, while the later Ultimate Alien Anthology suggested 240 to 270 centimeters. Alien Anthology also suggested that a Yinchorri was middle-aged at 51 years old, while Ultimate Alien Anthology updates the number to 41 years old. Alien Anthology and Ultimate Alien Anthology also have different skill values for the average Yinchorri commoner. Lastly, Alien Anthology fails to provide rules for the natural resistance to mind control, something that Ultimate Alien Anthology corrects.

Ultimate Alien Anthology claims that Yinchorr is in the Outer Rim Territories, but the story A Two-Edged Sword by Karen Traviss places Yinchorr in the Mid Rim. The most recent source, The Essential Atlas, places Yinchorr in the Expansion Region.

A Two-Edged Sword also mentions an Imperial training center in Yinchorr as soon as 17 BBY, even when other sources including Ultimate Alien Anthology say that the Empire was not interested enough in Yinchorr to use the surface for anything like that.

Appearances

 * Jedi Council: Acts of War
 * Star Wars: Republic: The Devaronian Version
 * Star Wars 86: The Alderaan Factor
 * Crimson Empire
 * Star Wars Legacy 4: Noob
 * Star Wars Legacy 31: Vector, Part 12
 * Star Wars Legacy 31: Vector, Part 12