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Jowdrrl was a female Wookiee mechanic and ship systems engineer from the planet Kashyyyk. She grew up on the Wookiee homeworld with her extended family, which included her cousins Chewbacca, Kallabow, and Shoran, as well as with her friend Mallatobuck. Jowdrrl helped Chewbacca and Mallatobuck develop a romantic relationship, and at one point before 100 BBY aided Chewbacca and his cousin Dryanta in rescuing Mallatobuck from Trandoshan slavers. Over a century later, the Galactic Empire turned Kashyyyk into a slave world, and Jowdrrl joined a resistance movement that opposed the Empire's occupation of the planet. During Jowdrrl's time with the group, Chewbacca and Mallatobuck wed. Kashyyyk was liberated from the Empire several years later.

In 16 ABY, Jowdrrl and Dryanta were entrusted with the care of the Millennium Falcon&mdash;a famous starship belonging to Chewbacca's friend, Han Solo&mdash;while Chewbacca guided his son Lumpawarrump through a coming-of-age hrrtayyk ceremony. They took up residence within the freighter, and Jowdrrl analyzed and discovered several flaws with the Millennium Falcon systems. She and Dryanta then modified the vessel so as to eliminate several blind spots that the ship's pilot suffered while in flight. When Chewbacca learned that Solo had been kidnapped by the Yevethan Duskhan League and thus prepared to hastily depart the planet, he reluctantly allowed Jowdrrl, Dryanta, Shoran, and Lumpawarrump to accompany him on a rescue mission.

The strike team took the Millennium Falcon to a smuggler's sanctuary on Tholatin to gather information about their enemy, and Jowdrrl used their time to modify the freighter's quad laser cannons. When they arrived in the Yevetha's Koornacht Cluster, Jowdrrl served in the quad turrets as they assaulted the Yevethan Star Destroyer Pride of Yevetha. She then guarded the Millennium Falcon hatch while the others entered the Destroyer, and she briefly flew the freighter when the time came to retrieve Solo and make an escape. Nine years later, Jowdrrl attended Chewbacca's funeral after he was killed by the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong, and after another four years, she was part of a large group that returned to the site of the funeral to celebrate the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War.