User:SinisterSamurai/Rorworr

Rorworr was a young male Wookiee who lived on Naboo with his father. With help from TD0-9, his translator droid, Rorworr studied at the Theed Royal House of Learning and would often explore Naboo's wilderness areas. In 32 BBY, he played a role in defending Naboo from Trade Federation forces as a member of the Naboo Underground, and later became an agent of the Republic. After the Empire came to power, he served the Rebellion as a scout and pilot. When the New Republic was founded, Rorworr left military service to became an independent explorer and adventurer.

Youth on Naboo
Rorworr, born on Kashyyyk, was brought to Naboo as a child when his father was assigned to act as a diplomat between the two planets. His father's station allowed Rorworr to attend the Royal House of Learning in Theed. It was here that the Wookiee began learning to fly, practicing with local N-1 starfighters.

But young Rorworr had a love for exploring the wilderness beyond Theed, and would often slip away from school for days at a time. The Wookiee's curiosity led him to explore many interesting places hidden away in from the city. Occasionally, he would come across equally curious Gungan explorers, a race he found interesting, and discovered a friend in young Toba Bari. Rorworr also had a fondness for stargazing, and many of his excursions lead him beneath Naboo's star-dappled dome.

Poachers
Jedi Master Ali-Vor and his Padawan, Rann I-Kanu arrived on Naboo to investigate Poachers who were smuggling Naboo's wildlife off-planet. Ali-Vor asked Rann and his friends Rorworr, Galak, and Arani Korden to investigate rumors that some of these smugglers were operating out of a secret base near Theed. Though Ali-Vor had not considered the rumors to be true, the group discovered the local base hidden in a ruined shrine; defeated the smugglers and their leader, Saidle Frexx; and rescued a captured professor of archeology from the House of Learning, Tasrah Boh.

Invasion and The Underground
In 32BBY, Rorworr and several fellow students from the Royal House of Learning escaped arrest by a squadron of battle droids when Naboo was invaded by the Trade Federation. The students joined the Naboo Underground, lead by Lucos Dannt, their former headmaster. Rorworr's accumulated first hand knowledge of the Naboo countryside proved invaluable to the Underground as the group attempted to undermine the occupation.

Rorworr participated in freeing several RSF guards and pilots from a prison camp. Later, at the request of Lialla Tane, he assisted with a prison break that freed Lialla's parents, the Royal Naboo Minister of Culture and his wife; Ruto Gravin; Ela Sivel; Private Boraso; and a wounded RSF pilot.

Towards the end of the occupation, Rorworr and his friends encountered Sabé, disguised as Queen Amidala, trying to enter Theed Royal Palace. The young resistance fighters managed to distract several Battle Droids long enough Sabé and her retinue to enter the Palace.

Savor Kibbs
After the funeral of Qui-Gon Jinn, an undisguised Sabé asks the heroes to scout the camp of renegades citizens and gungans, rumored to have plans against the throne. The group tracks the renegades through a swamp, overcoming both Quicksand and Grakkt, to a grove corrupted by the Dark Side. The heroes battled a Dark side illusion of Darth Maul, a reprogrammed Droideka, and eventually Savor Kibbs, the force sensitive leader of the renegades. Rorworr and his friends defeated Savor, ending the Dark side influence he held over his followers.

No Satisfaction
By the time Rorworr was an adult, his participation in the Naboo Underground eventually rolled him into serving the Republic as a scout. He would often go wherever the Republic needed his help, generally ending up on small wilderness planets due to his skills in survival and exploration.

The Wookiee has made many recommendations regarding the development of new worlds, which the Republic often ignored. On occasion, credit for some of Rorworr's discoveries would go to more politically connected Humans. Rorworr also earned two official reprimands during his time with the Republic. He was issued one for disappearing from an exploration party (during which time he found a lost civilization). On another mission, he earned a second reprimand for not revealing a sentient life form he discovered (at that life form's request). Rorworr has been growing increasingly disenfranchised with the Republic as a result, a sentiment he noticed was mirrored by many other Wookiees and non-Human races.

Rorworr kept his concerns to himself, though. He entertained the idea of becoming a bounty hunter, but lost interest after meeting several. Instead, the Wookiee spent his spare listening to stories and tales in spacer bars, trying to learn of unexplored worlds and territories.

Rebel Wookiee
During the Rebellion era, Rorworr is more mature and, to some degree, more cynical than in his youth. He lost most of his clan in an Imperial raid, and his father disappeared after speaking out against the rising power of the Emperor. Embittered and feeling betrayed, he quickly hooked up with the Rebellion Forces against the growing tyranny of the Empire.

Rorworr flies a rebel A-wing and uses it to monitor Imperial ship and troop movements. He's become adept at hiding in asteroid belts and even under the noses of the Imperials themselves. In one case, he took a job as a freighter pilot running rare foods to Imperial forces on Varlinaar, and in the process brought with him a team of Rebels to steal upcoming battle plans for the fleet. When dealing with Imperial forces, he projects the Empire's image of a stereotypical Wookiee -- large, slow, savage, and simple - so that he'll be underestimated.

Rorworr is busy on the ground as well. Wookiees seem invisible to the Empire at times, and many soldiers in cantinas appear to forget that while Wookiees can't speak Basic, they understand it just fine. As a result, the large, furry drunk in the corner is ignored until it's too late.

At his heart, though, Rorworr is tired of fighting. He sees the danger the Empire poses and yearns to find out what happened to his father, but he'd rather be out among the stars, far away from the squabbles of the Rebel and Imperial armies. He admires the idealism of the leaders of the Rebellion, but he wishes only the freedom to go and explore on his own.

On occasion, Rorworr's been mistaken for another famous Wookiee working in the Rebellion, Chewbacca. However, he won't correct others as to their mistake as long as it helps him and the Rebellion. Indeed, he finds it amusing, since the two of them look and smell radically different.

Spacer Legend
Rorworr has gone from a young Wookiee listening to spacer legends to becoming a legend himself. With the fall of the Empire, Rorworr passed up a position within the New Republic to set himself up as an independent explorer. Flying a modified Svelte-class shuttle (painted in camouflage colors), Rorworr has quietly been exploring the galaxy on his own. When he encounters problems that need attention, he often recruits other like-minded individuals. His contacts with the old Rebellion forces are still good, and occasionally young Jedi or new generation rebels are instructed by their elders to show up at this starport or that backwater world to help "an old friend."

Rorworr knows that while there are myriad worlds in the galaxy, the number of planets is still finite, and as each gets tamed and put under the plow and encased in concrete, there is less land for natural species and sentient races that make their homes there. As a result, he's struck out against the most egregious of offenders that seek to despoil the wilder planets and enslave their inhabitants.

Half a hundred worlds have a story of how Rorworr brought down a Corporate Sector Authority factory, helped evacuate a threatened animal population, foiled a Hutt slaving ring, or performed some other such noble task. Ewoks seem to have a particular fondness for the Wookiee, and he has returned to Endor a number of times.

In the end, Rorworr relishes his solitude, never remaining with any particular group or planet for long. He remembers his own time as a youth and has a soft spot for young heroes with glowing ideals and great potential.

Behind the scenes
Rorworr is a character created by Wizards of the Coast for their role-playing game. He was the iconic example for the Scout class.

The Invasion of Theed Adventure Game was notable in coming with a 4" Rorworr action figure in the box, the first character from a non-computer based RPG to have one.