Unidentified Wookiee base (Attichitcuk's rescue)

Unidentified Wookiee base
General information
Constructed	Between 39 BBY and 36 BBY
Builder	Wookiee workers
Location information
Moon	Alaris Prime
Societal information
Population	At least 18 Wookiees
Affiliation	Alaris Prime colonists

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"Now, assemble your warriors and your medic at the edge of town and go find Attichitcuk."

―Qui-Gon Jinn to Chewbacca and his party

A base was built by Wookiee colonists on the moon Alaris Prime between 39 BBY and 36 BBY. It was established for the purpose of training bowcaster troopers to combat the Droid Army of the Trade Federation. The base also had access to multiple sources of food, which were harvested to support the Wookiee forces. When the colony's leader Attichitcuk was badly wounded by the Trade Federation's battle droids, his son Chewbacca led party of troopers from the base on a rescue mission. After the party returned to the base with Attichitcuk in tow, the Trade Federation sent three droidekas there in an attack that was unsuccessful.

Description

"If you build a food processing center close to a source of food, your workers won't have to walk as far to deliver their food."

―Qui-Gon Jinn, advising the Wookiees to expand the base

During the colonization of Alaris Prime, a moon of the planet Alaris in the Kashyyyk system, Wookiee workers constructed a base—one of several on the world—near a river that flowed from the north to the eastern border of it. The base was also near a forest and had plentiful sources of food including muja fruit bushes, wild animals such as nerfs, mynocks, and fish from the river.

When the base was first built it contained four structures; a command center, a troop center for training bowcaster troopers, a prefab shelter for housing the Wookiees, and a power core to provide energy to each building. Following Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn's recommendations more buildings were constructed at the base, including two food processing centers near the muja fruit bushes, multiple farms, an animal nursery, and enough prefab shelters to house at least eighteen Wookiees. Two markers were placed at the north-western edge of the base as a rallying point for the Wookiee troops.

History

Food and defence

"We are in no position to challenge the Trade Federation army. For now, we must concentrate on defending ourselves if they challenge us."

―Qui-Gon Jinn to the colonists at the base

The construction of the first food processing center

The base was constructed between the years 39 BBY and 36 BBY, during the colonization of Alaris Prime by a group of Wookiees. Following an encounter with the Droid Army of the Trade Federation, who sought to illegally claim the moon, the Wookiees' adviser Qui-Gon Jinn was motivated to help train more soldiers in preparation for further conflict. While the colony's leader Attichitcuk went to investigate the Trade Federation's activities, Jinn began guiding a group of eight Wookiees at the base. These included four workers and four bowcaster troopers, one of whom was Attichitcuk's son Chewbacca. Their goals were to train more soldiers for defence and upgrade the technology level of the colonists.

Jinn firstly showed the Wookiees how to strengthen the armor of their workers before instructing them to gather muja fruit from the nearby bushes. To store food more efficiently the workers built a food processing center in close proximity to the bushes, which also allowed for the creation of farms. While exploring the base's surroundings one of the bowcaster troopers found a herd of nerfs to the south. In response Jinn had a worker construct an animal nursery to put the creatures to use. A second food processing center was also built near another crop of fruit bushes to the southwest after the initial ones were picked dry.

Battlegrounds

"I sense another attack coming. Gather your forces and be ready."

―Qui-Gon Jinn's warning to the Wookiees at the base

The base under attack by droidekas

Once a certain threshold of food was reached the Wookiees were able to upgrade their technology level, and around this time Attichitcuk was ambushed and nearly killed by B1 battle droids of the Trade Federation. Jinn sensed the chieftain's survival through the Force and had the Wookiees assemble a medical droid at the base's command center in preparation for a rescue mission.

Once up to ten bowcaster troopers were ready, with stronger armor as a result of the increased technology level, Chewbacca gathered them and the medical droid at the base's markers and set out to save Attichitcuk. In their absence at least two more bowcaster troopers were trained at the base's troop center in case of any further Trade Federation attacks. As Chewbacca's party journeyed back to the base with Attichitcuk the extra troopers set out to meet them, helping to destroy a group of battle droids. At the base Attichitcuk was immediately sent to the command center to recover, and shortly afterwards the Trade Federation droid DRN-38 sent three droidekas to attack the base, which were quickly defeated by the Wookiees.

Behind the scenes

"You'll need 500 food and two buildings from your current tech level to advance to a new technology level."

―Qui-Gon Jinn instructing the player to expand the base

The Wookiee base was first mentioned in Prima Games' strategy guide for the 2001 LucasArts video game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, before appearing in the game itself. The base is run by the player in "Researching Technology," the fourth level of the Wookiee tutorial campaign. The base starts out with only four buildings and the player is only able to add more power cores, prefab shelters, food processing centers, animal nurseries, and troop centers. Any two of these buildings along with five-hundred units of food are required before the player can upgrade their technology level, which is necessary to progress through the game.

Appearances

• Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (First appearance)
• Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns

Sources

• Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (First mentioned)