Unidentified Wookiee base ( gundark attack ) Workers of the Wookiee species constructed a base between 39 BBY and 36 BBY on the moon Alaris Prime . It was one of the early settlements built on the moon during the Wookiees ' colonization effort there . The base comprised a single command center , several prefab shelter s , a troop center , an animal nursery , and a power core . At the base , Jedi Master Qui - Gon Jinn aided the Wookiee Chewbacca in training warriors to attack a nearby nest of predatory gundarks . Description . Wookiee laborers built multiple bases on Alaris Prime , a moon of the gas giant Alaris . One such base initially contained only a single building , the command center , but was later expanded to include several prefab shelter s to house more Wookiees , a troop center for training warriors , an animal nursery , and a power core for supplying energy to the buildings in the settlement . The base was constructed in close proximity to a large forest and near several muja fruit bushes , and it was also a short distance south of a nest of gundarks , a non - sentient predatory species on Alaris Prime . History . The Wookiees constructed the base during their colonization effort on Alaris Prime between the years 39 BBY and 36 BBY . The base was initially only home to three Wookiee workers and one of the colonists ' leaders , Chewbacca . Another worker soon arrived at the base , and , acting on advice from Jedi Master Qui - Gon Jinn , who was supervising the colonization on behalf of the Jedi High Council , the Wookiees began gathering food from the nearby fruit bushes and carbon from the trees . The workers then built prefab shelters to allow more Wookiees to come to the base , and Jinn afterward instructed Chewbacca on how to catch nerfs and herd them into the Wookiees ' animal nursery in order to produce more food . More workers began to assist at the base until ten of them were gathering resources . Jinn then had the workers construct a troop center in order to train warriors to eliminate the gundarks at their nest , as the creatures had been attacking the Wookiees upon their arrival on Alaris Prime . At least ten warriors were trained to wield bowcasters , a Wookiee projectile weapon , at the troop center , and the workers simultaneously built a power core to give more energy to the buildings in the base . With the troops prepared , Chewbacca led an attack on the gundark nest , where the Wookiees also encountered battle droids of the Trade Federation , a galactic corporation that was illegally trying to colonize Alaris Prime . Behind the scenes . The Wookiee base was first mentioned in the 2001 " " and later appeared in the accompanying PC video game " " , released a week later . The base also appeared in the 2002 expansion pack for the game , " " . In " Galactic Battlegrounds " , the base appears in the third level of the Wookiee tutorial campaign , " Building an Army , " in which the base originally starts off with just a command center and the player is instructed to build the prefab shelters , a troop center , and a power core throughout the level . The strategy guide instructs the player to train ten workers and ten troopers , which this article uses to determine the canon ical number of Wookiees at the base . The guide also instructs the player to construct an animal nursery , which is optional in the game .