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I made a Wookiee when I started over a year ago, and once I figured out up from down in my first MMORPG, I made her an Imperial. I had a story that fit it, I thought, which is currently part of Moya's story contest over on Intrepid here.

Someone from one of the profession forums I frequent sent me to her post explaining why her Wookiee was going the Imperial route, and I started thinking about the other Imperial Wookiees I've seen. Why is it done? I think it's safe to say it's not for the cheap faction perks or the ability to be the tallest Stormtrooper around.

I've seen reasons given for trying to better Wookiee life by working from within the Empire, trying to ferret out traitor Wookiees who sold other Wookiees into slavery, Wookiees manipulated by the Empire ... so now I'm curious.

For those to whom it applies: why are you an Imperial Wookiee?

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"I'm not a Wookiee. I'm an Imperial."

I was very happy to finally see this question posed.

When I started my account the day after launch (since not many accounts actually started on launch day) I created a wookiee. Several weeks into the game I thought it would be fun to get other wookiees together into a wookiee-only guild. At first we were a mix of factions, but mostly reb. I started as imperial because I thought it might be interesting to roleplay an evil wookiee.

Over time we grew to one of the larger guilds on Corbantis, the Army of Wookiee Liberation (AoWL). Of the approximately 75 members we had, I was 1 of 3 imperial wookiees. I justified it as spying for the rebellion within the imperial system which had taken my family hostage. When we as a group decided to take a more active role in the GCW and added bases to our city, it became necessary to switch factions. At this point in my story I discovered that the empire had slaughtered my family.

I find it disturbing however that I still see so many imperial wookiees. Perhaps they, as I did, wanted to play an evil wookiee. Maybe they are unaware of the history of wookiees in the Star Wars story and the natural antipathy we should have towards the empire (and Trandoshans). Hopefully, with the release of the next SW movie next year and its prominant wookiee role, we will see an influx of reb wooks. For any wookiees out there on Corbantis, rebel or imp, come visit us in Kashyyykur on Rori, or if you're interested in joining us send an ingame mail to our leader, Baacta or visit our website at aowl.guildportal.com.

Grrrbacca

Founder, Army of Wookiee Liberation

Corbantis

For the challenge!

Though it is harder than I imagined. I have written my profile saying that my family was caught in a crossfire blah, blah, blah and in the fight my parents were killed by Rebels (original huh?) - and a Stormtrooper took me in and saved my life.

My Stormie friend then went to work as a security office on the deathstar and was slaughtered by rebels when they destroyed it!

Therefore it is my quest to bring down the rebellion and bring justice to TK-471 (my late Stormtrooper friend).

Its more for fun, than anything else -I like being in the minority.

Droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that."

because as a starwars fan i love the empire, but also love wookies. those r my reasons, and that i am a rare breed.

You need to walk up to the krayt there and give him a big ol slap in the face, then you get the badge, and then consequently run like hell.

"Flying against Tycho was probably the most difficult thing I'd ever done, and I had an edge in the Force. What he did, what Wedge did, without being able to use the Force made them far more special than any Jedi. They flew with their heart and brains and their entire being."
- Corran Horn