User:SinisterSamurai/Rorworr

"No, I'm not the Wookiee you're looking for."

- 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 Theed's Royal House of Learning and would often explore Naboo's wilderness areas. In 32 BBY, he played a significant role in defending Naboo from Trade Federation forces as a member of the Naboo Resistance and the Naboo Underground, freeing several military and civilian prisoners and helped to insert Queen Amidala's forces into Theed undetected. During the battle itself, the Wookiee diverted enemy troops from Amidala's position and intercepted a counterfeit treaty forged by the Trade Federation. Rorworr later became an agent of the Republic, and served as a scout in a variety of mission roles until the end of the Clone Wars. After the formation of Galactic Empire, the Wookiee served the Rebellion as a scout and pilot, eventually becoming known as one of the Heroes of Skorrupon. Once the New Republic was founded, however, Rorworr left military service to become 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. While on a field trip, he found a particular friend in Toba Bari, an amateur Gungan explorer who would later also become member of the Naboo Underground and a founding pilot of Iron Cesta Flight. 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 veermok 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 soon discovered the local base hidden in a ruined, jungle shrine. The group defeated the smugglers and their leader Saidle Frex, and rescued Tasrah Boh, a captured professor of archeology from the House of Learning.

Invasion of Theed
In 32 BBY, a group consisting of Rorworr, Sia-Lan Wezz, Deel Surool, among others, booked passage off-world on the freighter Crescent, captained by Nuun Pargen of Alderaan. Immediately after take off, Trade Federation Droid starfighters fired upon the freighter, wounding Nuun's daughter, Inea. Nuun was forced to perform an emergency landing on the Great Grass Plains.

While the Captain Pargen tried to affect repairs on the freighter, he sent Rorworr and his friends back into Theed to procure medical supplies for Inea's recovery. The Trade Federation Droid Army began to invade the palatial city just as the group acquired their supplies.

.During the course of their escape from Theed, the group encountered resistance from B1 battle droids and droidekas. They helped a family of Naboo nobles escape the city, freed a group of civilians and Security Guards from a droid prison escort, and resolved a firefight involving outnumbered Security Forces. They avoided the Main Boulevard Bridge, where the bulk of the enemy forces were invading, as well as the Theed Royal Palace. Eventually, they encountered one Chee Mobok, a frightened Twi'lek textiles merchant that spoke very broken Basic. After calming Mobok down, the group learned that he crashed a speeder into a nearby pond. The group fished the speeder out of the pond and used it to make the rest of their escape.

As Rorworr piloted the speeder along the Solleu River, over the occupied Main Boulevard Bridge and out onto The forces on the bridge fired at the speeder, and three STABs break from the battle to pursue the group. During the chase, Rorworr's maneuvers caused one STAB to crash into a Multi-Troop Transport, disabling it's cooling fins and sinking it in the river. After shaking the remaining STABS, the group abandoned their battered speeder in Lianorm Swamp.

Chee Mobok was soon mauled by a veermok. When the group defeated the creature, they found themselves surrounded by a Gungan patrol. Led by Sergeant Mokem, the patrol escorted Rorworr's group to the edge of the swamp. The group followed the edge of the swamp, intending to rendezvous with the Captain Pargen. When the group arrived, they found that the Crescent had departed. Instead, they found a group of Gran and Rodian pirates fighting a small force Naboo Security. Rorworr's group intervened, defeating the pirates. A lone Security Guard, Mett Habble, survived the firefight.

Resistance and Underground
Habble was one of Governor Sio Bibble's disguised agents, and also the organizer of the recently formed Naboo Resistance. Habble guided the group to the Resistance camp, encouraging Rorworr to fly the speeder while he questioned the group about their escape from Theed. The group parted ways with Chee Mobok when they arrived at the camp. After a brief respite, Habble invited to a meeting with two other Resistance leaders, Lieutenant Camaran and Oti Trinta, in which they joined the Resistance. Around this time, Rorworr also joined the Naboo Underground with several fellow students from the Royal House of Learning. Lucos Dannt, their former headmaster was one of the Underground's leaders. Rorworr's accumulated first hand knowledge of the Naboo countryside proved invaluable to the Underground as the group attempted to undermine the Trade Federation's occupation.

Rorworr participated in several prison breaks over the course of the next week. Rorworr and a team of other students first freed several newly captured RSF guards and pilots from a temporary prison camp near Theed's central plaza, arming the prisoners with confiscated weapons stored on-site. Later, Rorworr's team accepted a mission from Lialla Tane, an Underground operative, to liberate her parents from a prison camp near the Palace, on the Street of Glory. During the mission, they freed not only Lialla's parents, the Royal Naboo Minister of Culture and his wife, but also four other civilians and a wounded RSF pilot. During another mission, Rorworr's team was captured and were themselves were placed in Prison Compound 32, where they came under very brief scrutiny by Darth Maul. During the team's subsequent escape, they rescued their cellmates Ruto Graven, who was Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs for Queen Amidala; a wounded RSF guard, Private Boraso; and the artist Ela Sivel.

At another point during the occupation Rorworr, Deel, Sia-Lan and Arani reentered Theed, sprung a trap and took cover in an ally. Planning to escape through a door at the end of the alley, Arani, Rorworr, and Sia-Lan provided a diversion while Deel attempted to slice the door's electronic lock. The fighters surprised a group of B1 battle droids and held off their reinforcements. The group began to retreat down the alley when a pair of droidekas rolled up. Deel opened the door, and all four students were surprised by what they saw on the other side.

Reclaiming Naboo
After failing to move the Galactic Senate, Queen Amidala returned to Naboo. When Amidala requested that Mett Habble bring his best people to the planning session, Habble summoned the Rorworr and his team to participate. The group followed Habble through Lianorm Swamp to the Queen's landing site. They were greeted by the Queen, her handmaidens, Captain Panaka, Boss Nass, Jar Jar Binks, Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Anakin Skywalker, as well as various Gungan and Resistance generals.

During the planning session, Amidala announced her plan to enter the Palace via a secret passage. The leaders decided that using a Trade Federation Troop Transport would be the ideal way to approach the passage undetected, but realized that acquiring one would be difficult. It was at this point that Rorworr's team spoke up, volunteering information on the MTT that sank into the Solleu during their initial escape from Theed. With this information, the leaders formalized the main attack plan.

When Gungan scouts were unable to locate the MTT, Rorworr's team was tasked to escort a group of Boss Nass's Gungengineeren to the site. Rorworr and two others piloted three unfamiliar tribubble bongos, docking with a hydrostatic bubble to rendezvous with Koh Pa Wupps and his team of Gungengineers. Loading the engineers and their tools into the submersibles, Koh Pa directed the group around Lake Paonga, up the lower Solleu River, and through an underwater passage at the base of the Virdugo Plunge that lead to the upper Solleu, dodging a group of opee sea killers along the way.

When the group located the downed MTT, the Gungengineeren began work on transporting it upriver for repair while Rorworr's team patrolled the area in the bongos. The site was attacked by a young, orphaned colo claw fish, which the group defeated through piloting skill with the unarmed submersibles.

Second Battle of Theed
Rorworr piloted the retrofitted Transport 714 to the secret passage at the base of Theed's cliff wall, where the team unloaded Amidala (disguised as a handmaiden), Sabé (disguised as the queen), Captain Panaka, the two Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, R2-D2, and three dozen Naboo troops. Rorworr and his team were assigned to guard the transport and monitor TFA radio traffic using it's transponder.

When the Gungan Grand Army drew the Trade Federation forces away from Theed, Transport 714 was contacted by PDA-2, the OOM command battle droid assigned to remain behind and guard the Palace. Using a jury rigged vocabulator, Rorworr's team tricked PDA-2 into believing that the transport was too badly damaged to move under it's own power. PDA-2 overrode the transport's manual controls and remote piloted it to Theed Hangar's repair bay, within the city.

The group ambushed the forces ADO-8 within the repair bay, creating a diversion that allowed the Queen's forces to enter Theed Palace. Rorworr's team once again briefly encountered Darth Maul, who quickly left the repair bay in pursuit of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan.

While in the hanger, Rorworr's team ambushed the escort Neimoidian counterfeiter, Gode Takrab. After interrogating Takrab, they learned that he had forged a treaty between Naboo and the Trade Federation, as well as a doctored holovid of Queen Amidala endorsing the phony document. Rorworr's team scoured Takrab's shuttle, and eventually discovered the fake agreement hidden within Takrab's protocol droid, TC-11. Nute Gunray sent a squad of droids to secure the shuttle for his own escape. Rorworr's team held the shuttle until the Droid Control Ship was destroyed, ending the battle.

After the Invasion
In gratitude for their services, a grateful Queen Amidala bestowed the honorary title of Palace Guard upon Rorworr, Sia-Lan, Deel Surool, and the rest of his team. Rorworr spent the rest of the day freeing prisoners from internment camps. The group was visited later in the day by Captain Pergan and his daughter, Inea. The Crescent had escaped, set down under Lake Paonga, and was eventually rescued by Gungans.

After the funeral of Qui-Gon Jinn, Sabé asked the heroes to scout a camp of renegade citizens and gungans, rumored to have plans against the throne. Overcoming falling trees, quicksand, and Grakkt, the group tracked the renegades through the swamp to a grove corrupted by the Dark side. The Rorworr's friends battled a Dark side illusion of Darth Maul, a reprogrammed droideka, and eventually Savor Kibbs. Rorworr and his friends defeated the failed Jedi padawon, ending the hypnotic Dark side influence he held over his followers.

Republic service
As Rorworr grew into an adult, his heroism on Naboo eventually rolled him into serving with the Republic as a scout. He would often go wherever the Republic needed his help, and generally ended up on small wilderness planets due to his skills in survival and exploration.

In 22 BBY, while in spaceport cantina on Corellia, Rorworr, Sia-Lan Wezz, Deel Surool, and Vor'en Kurn foiled a Separatist assassination attempt of a Corulag Senator, Alastar Treen.

Since then, the four would work together often. The team would face a variety of opponents and situations, such as the investigation of bounty hunters operating out of the Royal Hutt Hotel, cantina brawls with a Aqualish and Rodian gangs, a Jawa ambush, an escape from Colicoids in the Spice Mines of Kessel, an escape from a battle droid garrison, and even mounted blasters in the corridors of Grumbog's space station fortress.

The team was so successful that they would occasionally receive orders directly from Chancellor Palpatine and the Jedi Council. One such mission had the group investigating the disappearance of Space Station Kwenn, a Republic arsenal ship that had been tasked with decommissioning the Trade Federation army defeated at Naboo, which they discovered with active battle droids inside. To prevent Corann from being the first of the Core Worlds to withdraw from the Republic, Rorworr's team investigated rumors of Separatist activity on the small industrial planet, and discovered a droid manufacturing plant. Chancellor Palpatine once personally assigned the team to investigate a Sith temple on the snow covered planet of Puloorn. Along the way, they encountered marauders and asteroid fields. Within the temple itself they discovered Dark side beasts, and cultists.

Over the years, the Wookiee had 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 quite regarding his concerns. Instead, the Wookiee spent his spare time listening to stories and tales in spacer bars, trying to learn of unexplored worlds and territories.

Rebel Wookiee
The establishment of the Galactic Empire changed Rorworr's life dramatically. Most of his clan was lost in an Imperial raid, and the Wookiee's own father vanished after speaking out against the newly rechristened Emperor Palpatine. Anakin Skywalker, the boy Rorworr had met while recapturing Theed, became Darth Vader. Amidala was slain, and many of the Jedi Rorworr had worked with were massacred. Sia-Lan Wezz, one of Rorworr's closest friends, had gone missing in the wake of Order 66. Feeling betrayed by the Republic he once served, Rorworr quickly joined the Rebellion.

In the Rebellion, Rorworr was often tasked to monitor Imperial ship and troop movements. Often, he flew a rebel A-Wing, having become adept at hiding it in asteroid fields. Other times, he'd deal directly with Imperials, playing on the stereotypes of a slow, simple Wookiee in order to be underestimated.

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. In another, he freed an imprisoned Rebel operative from an Imperial detention cell. On the ground Rorworr often spent time in cantinas pretending to be a fuzzy drunk, while he eavesdropped on soldiers that did not realize he understood Basic.

At some point, Rorworr participated in the Battle of Skorrupon, intercepting High Inquisitor Volytar outside of his Star Destroyer. Rorworr became known as a Hero of Skorrupon, but was devastated to receive confirmation of Sia-Lan's death.

Independent explorer
After the Battle of Endor, Rorworr passed up a service in New Republic to become an independent explorer. Hoping to put some of his grief behind him, Rorworr had quietly begun exploring the galaxy alone, piloting a modified Svelte-class shuttle painted with a camouflage scheme.

The Wookiee retained several contacts from his time with the Rebellion forces, and often tapped them when he encountered problems needing attention. Occasionally, young Jedi or new generation rebels were assigned by their superiors to help Rorworr. Rorworr gave the most attention to offenders that sought to desecrate the wilder planets or enslave their inhabitants. A great number of worlds produced stories about how Rorworr brought down a Corporate Sector Authority factory, helped evacuate a threatened animal population, foiled a Hutt slaving ring, or performed some other similar task. Ewoks had a particular fondness for the Wookiee, and Rorworr returned to Endor several times in his life.

Personality and traits
Rorworr could only speak Shyriiwook, but could understand Basic, Ewokese, Huttese, Mon Calamarian, and Ryl. In Shyriiwook, "Ror" translates to "dark, hidden, marsh, swamp", while "warr" translates to "forest, guide, hunter, scout."

Behind the scenes
Rorworr is a character created by Wizards of the Coast for their Star Wars Roleplaying game. He was the iconic example for the Scout class. His early visual design was created by Adam Hughes, who was assigned with creating a young character that, "...didn't look at all like Chewbacca, but he was definitely a Wookiee!" Doug Alexander Gregory was tasked with aging the design by a few years for inclusion in the Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, and accomplished the goal after asking questions like, "What does a Wookiee's skull look like?" TDO-9 was created by Bill Slavicsek, who saw the need to give the character a way to speak to his party without breaking suspension of disbelief. Rorworr became one of Art Director Sean Glenn's favorite iconic characters.

A 4" Rorworr action figure was included in the box for Invasion of Theed Adventure Game. Rorworr was the first Star Wars character from a non-computer based RPG to be rendered as an action figure.

Rorworr is never mentioned by name in Secrets of Naboo or the included adventure, Peril on Naboo. However, an image appearing near the end of the adventure depicts the visually distinct Wookiee, alongside Sia-Lan Wezz and Deel Surool, interrogating Gode Takrab and examining his forged holovid, suggesting that Rorworr was one of the heroes of the adventure.

Appearances

 * Battle for Theed
 * Star Wars: Invasion of Theed Adventure Game
 * Battle for Theed
 * Star Wars: Invasion of Theed Adventure Game
 * Battle for Theed
 * Star Wars: Invasion of Theed Adventure Game

Notes and References
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