title: Star Wars: The Chewbacca Story
author:  Benjamin Harper 
description: Benjamin Harper worked as an editor at Lucas Licensing. He edited many Wizards of the Coast roleplaying publications, including <i>Star Wars Gamer</I> magazine, <i>Rebellion Era Sourcebook</I>, <i>The Dark Side Sourcebook</I>, and the <i>Living Force Campaign Guide</I>. During his time at Lucasfilm, he also wrote several news articles about Star Wars celebrities for the recurring <i>Star News</I> and <i>Star Sightings</I> features in Star<i> Wars Insider</I> magazine. Harper has published more than 40 titles, including four Star Wars trivia books.
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  ![Star Wars](starwars.jpeg)
  
  
  A Forest Apart
  
  
  By Troy Denning
  
  
  A Chewbacca Adventure
  
  
  ![New Republic Era](era-new.png)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  Across the skylane from Chewbacca’s quarters rose Sasal Center, its forty
  spires ringing an open-air mezzanine as large as the Well of the Dead back on
  Kashyyyk. Beside the center stood Wauth Complex, more massive than
  Korrokrrayyo Mountain itself. On the other side loomed the mirrsteel needles
  of Ooe’b Towers, as tall as wroshyr trees and webbed together by a tangle of
  pedestrian bridges that always reminded Chewbacca of the mazes down in the
  Shadow Forest. It would have been wrong to say that he enjoyed living here on
  Coruscant, but he had come to think of it as home—perhaps even to see the
  shape and mystery of the forest in its soaring lines and durasteel depths.
  
  
  At Chewbacca’s side, his life-mate, Mallatobuck, was staring down through the
  transparisteel, mesmerized by the great rivers of traffic flowing along the
  skylanes be