Voorpee

Voorpee was a male voorpak, on loan from the Naboo Zoo to the Jedi academy on Coruscant during Roan Novachez's second year of attendance.

Students at the academy were encouraged to care for Voorpee at the academy's care center, feeding him a preferred diet of live insects and keeping his soft fur clean. Gaiana was excited about caring for Voorpee, as she once visited Naboo and saw a lot of voorpaks, but Roan was scared by the bugs, which Gaiana found "cute." Voorpee soon became a favorite of students at the academy, written up in an article in the school's newspaper, The Padawan Observer. The article described the "class pet program" started by Gaiana, which offered the opportunity to study Voorpee's behavior and mannerisms, while also learning about the diets and natural habitats of voorpaks. He did not actually answer to the name "Voorpee," but was responsive to "cute noises."

Cronah and Cyrus, the class bullies, saw Voorpee merely as an opportunity for amusement. They poked at him with a pencil, causing him to hiss and puff out his fur, and threatened to hide him in someone's locker. Later, they took him for a "walk," placing him on a leash and yanking him around, despite it being against class rules to take him out of the care center. By this time, Roan had joined Cronah & Cyrus and when Gaiana & Pasha chastised them for having Voorpee out, he said that they would go do something "fun" instead.

Soon afterward, The Padawan Observer reported that Voorpee had gone missing. Roan was suspected, but per his own journal, he was not the culprit. Having become disillusioned with the two bullies, he decided to try to rescue the voorpak. Using the Force, he sensed a disturbance in Cronah's locker and discovered that the two bullies had made good on their threat, stuffing Voorpee in the locker. Fortunately, he knew Cronah's combination and was able to rescue a hungry Voorpee, but Gaiana discovered him with the creature and blamed him for what had happened. Roan, not wanting to argue with her, went to tell Master Yoda what had happened, taking the blame for the theft himself. Yoda made him write a letter of apology to the Naboo Zoo, though he suspected that Yoda may have realized that there was someone else involved. Despite this, both Cronah and Cyrus suspected Roan of reporting them. At the end of the semester, Yoda placed both Cronah and Cyrus on academic suspension for the next year's first semester because of the theft of Voorpee. Roan thought that he might have used the Force to figure out what happened.

Appearances

 * Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan