Knalharr

Knalharr was a Wookiee Bounty Hunter during the Alsakan Crisis.

Early life
Born deep in the Shadowlands of Kashyyyk, the Wookiee village in which he was born reared high above the forest floor like a great spider, crouched over the Shadowlands below like some kind of parasite ready to drink the blood of those stranded in the Shadowlands. Knalharr was born to one of the deep forest clans, the Hal'harri, hence the 'harr' at the end of his name, deep in the Shadowlands, forced to rely on their war like ways to survive, against the other clans and against the beasts of the forest, the dangerous predators which roved outside. Born into one such village, Knalharr was born into a house of war, with a life of war pre-decided for him and the rest of his siblings.

The village in which he lived was forced to fight to hold its own against the other roving clans in the deep Shadowlands, defending itself against the marauders that raided, and then mounting assaults of their own in the times of relative peace that dappled the war filled times like holes in an apple. At the age of three, Knalharr was taken by his father into the Shadowlands to be trained how to fight on the Katarns that inhabited such areas of forest. At three, Knalharr was given a bowcaster, and set onto a batch of Katarn younglings, newly born, in an attempt to bring him to the age of fighting much earlier than he could have done normally. That time, he killed his first Katarn with a bowcaster, albeit the fact that it was a young one, and was accepted as a young warrior into the tribe.

Whilst the tribe grew prosperous and continued on, many such ones of these trips occurred between Knalharr and his father, with Knalharr travelling out to hone his skills in the Shadlowlands, and, by the age of six, he had killed his first adult Katarn with the bowcaster, and proceeded to wear its hide as a belt in which to store his ammo cartridges. It was then that he learnt to train with vibroblades, a weapon much used by Wookiees, practicing his skills upon the Katarns once more. By the age of sixteen, he was declared to have reached the level of manhood and allowed to set forth in the wars of his clan, raiding north. When the clan managed to extend its borders by a massive distance, Knalharr was there at the frontline, fighting on with his clan for glory.

Trandoshan Wars
As the clan grew in numbers from their successes, so theur land grew bit by bit, with more and more tribes and villages falling under their jurisdiction, with a brand of military law in Wookiee style being enforced upon the conquered villages, with the Hal'harri ruling over a large proportion of land. Whilst Knalharr joined the military, he fought with the older members of his clans, despite the age difference between him and them; in Wookiee culture, Knalharr was still considered very young. His battle exploits led to him gaining fame and success throughout his tribe, known as the 'Young Warrior', due to the age difference between him and the other Wookiees. Eventually, the Hal'harri had extended their borders enough that, should they conquest any further, they would no longer be able to reliably man garrisons inside their provinces, and so settled down, only fighting in uprisings or the occasional border skirmish.

With this done, a time of peace fell upon that particular area of the Shadowlands, with little happening amongst those times, until the Trandoshans raided from their planet in a mass exodus, due to a plague that had infested their planet, and landed on Kashyyyk. Whilst they attempted to negotiate with the Wookiees, they had little success, the cultures soon finding enmity amongst each other, and the negotiations soon broke down into all out warfare, with the Trandoshans making no more attempts at negotiations, and the Wookiees deciding to drive the Trandoshans off their planet. The Trandoshans, being a species similar to the Wookiees in terms of power and numbers, returned the fighting, and the battles were long and fierce. In these times, Knalharr joined his tribe in setting forth, and soon rose to the rank of the High Council, becoming an Honor Guard to the tribe chieftain, only a few ranks behind chieftain.

Marauding against the Trandoshans, the Trandoshans soon realized they were fighting a losing battle in the Shadowlands, with the feral beasts and feral Wookiees being too powerful for them, and Knalharr and his tribe set forth to scour them from their planet for good, driving through the Shadowlands and dashing them against their forces, fighting long, hard battles, but, nonetheless, victorious battles. When the Trandoshans were driven from the Shadowlands, they found reinforcments by the sea areas, and managed to hold many coastal forts against the Wookiees, bunkering themselves in and using guerilla tactics for the main part to fight against the Wookiees. However, when the Wookiees eventually retreated back to the Shadowlands, the Trandoshans believed that Wookiee numbers had fallen, and mounted an attack on them. The Wookiees, who were in much larger numbers than they fought, surprised and, subsequently, massacred them.

It was only a matter of time before they were driven from Kashyyyk, and, eventually, they were, forced off the planet to return back to their planet, despite the plague that had infested Dosha. Returning back to the Shadowlands, Knalharr and his tribe returned to putting down the rebellions and uprisings that had occurred during their absence against the Trandoshans, and the ribe set forth re-establishing their superiority. However, back at the tribe, Knalharr discovered the death of his father against the Trandoshans in the war, and was filled with a lust for revenge. Because of this, Knalharr took leave from his tribe, in the aftermath of the war, to set forth to join a larger clan, in an attempt to travel to Dosha and wage war against the Trandoshans there; Knalharr wanted revenge, as the Trandoshans had killed his father.

Quest of revenge
Travelling via a route by the sea to larger tribes, he eventually reached other villages and proposed his quest of revenge, attempting to play upon their sorrow of losing loved ones. Despite his passionate proposal, five of the largest seven tribes refused to allow him to take their forces and wage war on Dosha; many of their forces had been lost when the Trandoshans invaded Kashyyyk, and they refused to allow more to die in a useless quest for revenge. Filled with anger, Knalharr stole a ship and decided instead to travel to the main of the galaxy, to Kalist IV, where he began to ply his trade as a bounty hunter, whilst maintaining a hate of Trandoshans. When the Alsakan Crisis started, Knalharr had no interest in either faction, and in no one, bar himself, Continuing on as a bounty hunter, he travelled to see becoming a bounty hunter in the mainstream galaxy.