Yarua/Legends

Yarua was the Wookiee Senator representing Kashyyyk during the waning days of the Old Republic, as well during the Clone Wars. He was assisted by two Wookiee aides, and for the time of the battle of Naboo, yarua had at least 100 years in his senatorial place. He was one of the senators who supported Finis Valorum's sanctions against the Yinchorri.

Before the Clone Wars, several peace negociation meetings between the Wookiees and the Trandoshans took place on Hsshkhor, but none reached profitable results. Senator Yarua and Trandoshan Speaker-Above-All Hadocrassk met up with the diplomat Jedi Oppo Rancisis, trying to find peace between the two cultures. Unfortunately, serious attacks from the Trandoshans agaist the Wookiees, including the destruction of a transport with 215 Wookiees, made it almost impossible. The negotiacions finally stopped when was learnt that the trandoshans had Support from the Trade Federation, and finally declared themselve as Republic's opposers.

During the Clone Wars, Yarua stayed on the Republic's side by his King's order, and of course because of his natural sympathy for the Jedi Order and the Republic itself. Following the Battle of Kashyyyk, Yarua and the other members of the Kashyyyk Senatorial delegation were arrested and removed by the Galactic Empire, because the government on Kashyyyk was helping to hide Jedi Knights.

His fate remains unknown, but probably he was excecuted or enslaved.

Behind the scenes

 * The costume used for Senator Yarua was actually the Chewbacca costume from the Original Trilogy. It was altered slightly, so that he would not look exactly like Chewbacca.


 * Yarua is also the name of a small city in Peru.

Appearances

 * Jedi Council: Acts of War
 * Cloak of Deception
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace


 * Star Wars Republic 63: Striking from the Shadows