Tykaurra

Tykaurra was a ' ' living in ' before the '. She was an engineer by trade but had always dreamed of becoming a tailor. A few years after the end of the ', she'd earned enough money as a travelling engineer to pay for her tuition, allowing her to take a textiles course at the '.

Despite her natural talent for the art Tykaurra had trouble getting hired after she'd graduated, in part because she was a Wookiee and thus could not speak ' but also because of the increased xenophobia that accompanied the rise of the '. This situation lasted for several years.

When Benjamin Lambert encountered her in Kaadara a few years before the , the two immediately liked one another but parted ways after sharing a drink in the local cantina, seemingly the beginning and end of their temporary friendship.

However, Ben later came across a stolen , crashed by the criminal who'd taken it and left in a bad state. Ben received permission to salvage the wreck from his Imperial handler, which he then took to Tykaurra, remembering that she'd mentioned she was an engineer.

She accepted the job purely out of necessity, but when Ben invited her to tag along as a part of their crew she felt wanted after spending years travelling Naboo trying to get work and being rejected time and time again.

So Tykaurra accepted, joining the mismatched  crew on their travels around Naboo, making herself useful almost immediately by sharing her knowledge of the planet and its various cities.

By the time the crew had finished working on , they had more than enough cash to buy a used starship, making Tykaurra indispensable. Despite her value, Tykaurra was more than happy to teach her skills to the rest of the crew, taking Rita Odé on as her unofficial apprentice engineer.

Tykaurra was killed by Inquisitor Patrossa a year before the Battle of Yavin.