The nineteen-year-old nephew of Star Wars Chewbacca, Lowbacca was discovered to be Force-sensitive and sent off to learn the Jedi ways at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy. Through his adventures at the Academy, he gained many new friends and his power in the Force grew.
Lowbacca (or "Lowie") is the nephew of Chewbacca,
a Wookiee from the Star Wars universe. Lowbacca studied to
become a Jedi at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy.
He was a companion of Jaina Solo, Jacen Solo, and Tenel Ka.
Since most of the people with which he would have to interact were not fluent
in the Wookiee dialect, he used a small translating droid that he carried at
his waist named Em Teedee. Later it was modified so as to hover,
and follow him around, flying. Being a Wookiee, Lowbacca is a rarity among Jedi
as Force-sensitives are less common among Wookiees than among other species,
one being born only every century or so. He wields a bronze-bladed lightsaber. Lowie has a love of computers and their programming.
After being left at the Jedi Academy, Lowie was left an air speeder as a present
from Chewbacca. While flying in the air speeder, he discovers a crashed TIE Fighter
which he, Tenal Ka, Jaina and Jacen Solo proceed to repair and then install a hyperdrive into.
However just before completing the repairs on the TIE Fighter, the pilot who survived
the crash attacked them and Lowie took the air speeder back to the temple, which was damaged
during the escape. This forced him to run to the temple and dropped EM Teedee (but recovered him later).
He, Han, Lando, Chewie and Tenel Ka rescued the Solo twins from the TIE pilot.
During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, Lowie was one of the Jedi to go on the assault
on the voxyn-creating worldship near Myrkr.
Five years later after the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War, he and other Myrkr strike team survivors
were summoned away by Raynar Thul's Force call. They joined the Killiks and became Joiners—which
resulted in possessing a Killik hive-mind. After the Killik conflict, Luke Skywalker sent Tesar,
Tahiri Veila, Lowbacca to stay in Dagobah until he felt they were ready and no longer a threat to
the Jedi security by his force call. There, Tahiri acted as a spy for Jacen, spying on Tesar and
Lowbacca, who tells them that she thought Jacen was not to be trusted, though she might have been
stating this to gain their confidence.
Having been convinced by his friend Raaba that Humans had never atoned for their atrocities committed under the New Order, the Wookiee Lowbacca goes to Ryloth to join the anti-Human Diversity Alliance.
Lowbacca was taken captive, and was overcome with despair and hatred and turned, albeit briefly, to the darkside. He become Lowbacca the Sith, and took no other name. The annals report: ' His Jedi cloak and robes had turned black steeped in the dried blood of his enemies. Stinking and filthy he emerged with his lightsaber gleaming red with the power of hate, all who saw him were appalled and fled.'
However Luke Skywalker heard of Lowbacca's plight and travelled to the Ryloth found Lowbacca the Sith and called him back ' to the good side', extinguishing the bitterness in him through loving kindness, cleaning and recladding him, finally reinstating him as a Jedi knight in great glory
Details of the Extended Universe Fiction featuring Lowbacca:
The Shadow Academy and the Second Imperium were the villains faced in the first six books of Young Jedi Knights series.
Book one, Heirs to the Force (1995, Berkley) has Jaina, Jacen and Lowbacca find a salvageable TIE fighterwreck in the jungles of Yavin 4. Brakiss' dark siders strike at GemDiver Station in book two, Shadow Academy (1995, Berkley). Book three, The Lost Ones (1995, Berkley) has the Jedi twins return home to Coruscant and meet Zekk. The students begin their lightsaber training -- and Tenel Ka loses her arm -- in the fourth book, Lightsabers (1996, Berkley). The attack on Kashyyyk is in book five, Darkest Knight (1996, Berkley). The assault on Yavin 4 takes place in the last book of this story-arc, Jedi Under Siege (1996, Berkley).
The series continued, but with new threats for Jacen and Jaina to face. The Diversity Alliance was the
focus of the next arc, starting with Shards of Alderaan (Book 7, 1997, Berkley). The book featured Boba Fett
-- but little did readers know at the time that it was actually an impersonator, Ailyn Vel, who may be Fett's daughter.
This is new information posited by the Chronology, based on Vel's history revealed in "The History of the Mandalorians,"
Star Wars Insider #80 (2005, IDG Entertainment). The next book, Diversity Alliance (Book 8, 1997, Berkley) brought Nolaa Tarkona into the picture. Delusions of Grandeur (Book 9, 1997, Berkley) brings the kids to Mechis III, while Jedi Bounty (Book 10, 1997) takes them to Ryloth. This arc culminates in Book 11, The Emperor's Plague (1998, Berkley), which chronicled the final defeat of the Diversity Alliance.
Three more books filled out the Young Jedi Knights series, telling of The Return of Black Sun. Return to Ord Mantell, Trouble on Cloud City and Crisis at Crystal Reef (1998, Berkley) conclude these adventures of Jaina and Jacen Solo. They would be light-spirited romps compared to the darkness that would next engulf the galaxy.
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