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Cindel Towani was a female Human journalist during the time of the New Republic. When she was five standard years of age, her family crash-landed on the forest moon of Endor where her parents were captured by the native Gorax. Cindel, along with her teenage brother Mace and the Ewok tribe that included Wicket W. Warrick, managed to rescue the Towani parents.

It was in vain, however, as both of Cindel's parents and Mace were later killed by a group of Sanyassan Marauders. She and Wicket were eventually taken in by another stranded Human, an old man named Noa Briqualon. Together, they managed to defeat the Sanyassans, and the two Humans managed to leave the Endor moon using the power cell of the Towani family's star cruiser&mdash;which they managed to retrieve from the marauders.

Years later, a news story in which she leaked information about the Yevethan attack on Polneye helped garner public support for New Republic intervention.