#wookiees

[star-wars-forever]

Shadows of the Empire 4 (1996) cover art by Hugh Fleming

[fox-trot]

MANDALORIANS & SLAVERY

Sources: The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett / Comics: Open Seasons, The Search Begins, Death in the City of Bone, Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice, 501st: Imperial Commando, Star Wars Insider # 96 online supplement, The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

But slavery is something that seems to haunt them: it must have played a painful role in their own history. They obviously fear it.

They don't fear death, though. They don't embrace it, but they say that you live for as long as someone remembers your name.

They never remove those helmets, so I can't judge from their ex-pressions, but the tone of their voices tells me that the erasure of their culture by ours will be worse than death for them.

I suspect this is the key to keeping them loyal. Mandalore will remain untouched for as long as I need them. But enslavement will be the only way to handle them in the end.

-Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice

A loose confederation of bounty hunters, the Slaver Syndicate is controlled by the Zygerian Clan Prollerg. It dictates which bounties to hunt, how much to pay for slaving rights, and when and where to act.

The Syndicate generally pursues modest bounties, mostly acquisitions guilty of minor infractions. Such individual acquisitions are typically overlooked or dismissed by more experienced hunters because they aren't profitable, but what the syndicate loses in per capita bounty collections they make up for in sheer volume.

Furthermore, live captures are usually brought to systems with liberal slaving laws, where they are purchased and resold as slaves.

The slave types most heavily trafficked by the Slaver Syndicate include native Mandalorians and the Twi'lek. The Syndicate occasionally deals in the transport of Wookiees, but not to any great extent, as the Trandoshans have a near monopoly on the market for Wookiees.

- The Bounty Hunter Code

Does she know about Jango? How do I even broach the subject? Good news, Arla, your brother survived the massacre. Bad news, he saw everyone he cared about slaughtered, he spent years in slavery, and he got killed by a Jedi in the end. Sorry about all that, Arla.

-Imperial Commando

mythosaur-An extinct, gargantuan mon-ster-some nearly the size of a small city by a few accounts—the mythosaur was the stuff of Mandalorian legend. They were all destroyed by the first Mandalor. But the City of Bone, a slave quarters on Mandalore, was built out of the bones of the beast by an alien named Suprema during the Galactic Civil War.

-The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

Taking the name "Suprema," his title among his own people, Ampotem Za was installed as overlord of Mandalore with the objective of enslaving the population of the planet. Having seen Jango Fett and an army of his clones in action, the Emperor knew just how useful Mandalorians could be. As a trained and organized soldiery, the Mandalorians were now all but extinct, but many hardy specimens with raw talent remained among the planet's populace. The Suprema's task was to round them up for Imperial conscription.

His slavery ring on Mandalore proved especially successful for the Empire, for in only a few short months, nearly all remaining Mandalorians had been shackled in energy-links that bound their wrists and their souls. Among those captured was Tobbi Dala, a Mandalorian Protector with close ties to fellow Clone Wars survivor Fenn Shysa.

The slaves were put to work inside a skeleton several stories high and 400 meters in length, which had been converted into a hard-labor penitentiary. The City of Bone was a carcass-prison, all that remained of a mythosaur unlucky enough to have crossed paths with ancient Mandalorian conquistadors. To the Mandalorian people, it was a constant reminder of the eventual death they faced, both individually and as a race.

-Star Wars Insider # 96 online supplement

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Yes, regardless of whether they have a Wookiee-sona or not

Yes, but only if they have a Wookiee-sona

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[trooperst-3v3]

Well, well, well. . .

Turns out, all it took was one and a half days of the sounds of Wookiees joyfully growling out "A Day to Celebrate" for one of the navigators to admit he had stolen my mix tape and would give it back if I just "promise to make it stop".

Obviously, I was super miffed and ready to knock some Life Day cheer into him, when he reminded me that Life Day is, in fact, a season of love and forgiveness, so I shouldn't send him to medbay over some music.

First of all, how dare he use the spirit of MY OWN FAVORITE HOLIDAY against me on MY OWN SHIP!?

Second of all. . . he was right, dammit.

I got my tape back (with the promise that I wait at least two weeks before playing it again), we hugged it out (at my insistence), and all is well.

He'd better hope I don't draw his name for this year's Secret Santa gift exchange, though.

[auntierayeraye]

[ahsoka-its-all-of-us]

Random Lasat headcanons for reasons

Lasan has always mostly kept to itself. They never joined the Republic or the Separatists, keeping a more lowkey contact with other systems through trade and occasional tourism. When the Empire took over, the Lasats thought their millenia old neutrality would remain respected. They were wrong.

Despite their neutrality, they weren't isolated. Lasan had an old and tight alliance with the Wookiees of Kashyyyk, and most young Lasats learned Basic next to Lasati and Wookiee in school, to be able to communicate with the rest of the galaxy. Some went on to get interplanetary jobs, travelling the galaxy outside of their own homeworld, though the majority chose to live their lives on Lasan.

Because of this, Lasat technology is quite different from most in the galaxy, despite the occasional import. Droids, though not unheard of, were uncommon, as were spaceships, with speeders and hovercrafts being the preferred method of transport for the average Lasat.

With the Lasat being a warrior species, combat technology was extremely advanced, with the bo-rifle being the culture's point of pride. An honour-bound culture, combat was still seen as something between people, not technology, and therefore all of it is meant to enhance a warrior's performance, not replace it. Tanks, fighters and the like did not exist on Lasan; instead they relied on heavy shields to force the opposition to take the fight up close into a direct confrontation; long distance weapons covering a bigger range than a rifle were seen as a war crime.

This is why the Empire was forced to send armies down there instead of bombing the planet from orbit, which they could only do after having disabled the shield generators from within. By doing so, they committed a war crime in the eyes of the Lasat even before the actual genocide.

Gender works differently for Lasat than it does for humans and many other species. All Lasat are born agender; as they start maturing, secondary sex characteristics appear corresponding to the gender they choose to exhibit the most characteristics of: male, female, a blend of both, or neither. These characteristics are purely cosmetic, like growing out hair in a human: any Lasat gender expression is equally capable of siring, bearing and weening children. As such, gender expressions and their associated secondary sex characteristics are flexible and capable of changing if a Lasat chooses to express their gender differently. Pronouns are similarly in flux; Lasats who work with other species tend to pick one so as not to confuse others, but most Lasats will respond to any pronoun.

Therefore, there are no traditional gender roles on Lasan. The head of the royal family is referred to as the Crown of Lasan instead of a gendered term like king or queen, no matter what their gender expression is. Their children aren't princes or princesses, but simply the Children of the Crown.

Lasats tend to mate for life. Dating around is not uncommon, but in general the end goal is to find someone to settle down with. This mostly happens in pairs, although throuples are common enough to not be seen as outside of the norm.