Raabakyysh Raabakyysh , or Raaba for short , was a Wookiee , and a friend of Lowbacca and his sister Sirrakuk , and it is thought that Lowbacca had thoughts of choosing her for a mate . Biography . Raabakyysh ( Raaba for short ) was the best friend of Sirrakuk , sister to Jedi Knight Lowbacca . Raaba was known for her rebellious style and attitude , often shaving her fur into unusual patterns in order to stand out - a trait which she passed on to Sirrakuk . As they grew older , it became apparent that there was an attraction between Lowbacca and the younger Raaba . In other ways , however , Raaba often showed a disdain for Wookiee traditions and often dreamed of leaving the planet to strike out on her own . Growing up , Raaba had always admired Lowbacca for his bravery , and therefore attempted to duplicate his Hrrtayyk ceremony by sneaking alone into the lower levels of Kashyyyk to capture fibers of the dangerous syren plant . Unlike Lowbaaca , however , Raaba never returned from her trip . Upon finding her bloody pack , her friends and family assumed she had died - an event which caused much grief for Lowbacca and his sister . Lowie and his friends traveled to Kashyyyk so that he could be with Sirra during her period of mourning . Unbeknownst to her friends , Raaba had miraculously survived her dangerous adventure . After being attacked and wounded by a jungle predator , Raaba had made her way back to the city and stowed away aboard a departing freighter . The captain of the freighter introduced her to the recently - formed Diversity Alliance organization , which she ended up joining . Working under the personal command of Twi ' lek Nolaa Tarkona , Raaba found herself in a position of some influence within the group . Two years later , she would again meet Lowbacca while he and his friends searched for Bornan Thul on the planet Kuar . Deciding to reveal herself to family and friends , Raaba returned to Kashyyyk with Lowbacca and completed her Rite of Passage . She then invited both Lowbacca and Sirra to join her on Ryloth where she hoped to recruit them into the Diversity Alliance . When the Solo twins and their friends arrived to check up on Lowie , Raaba helped Nolaa Tarkona to keep them away from Lowie & Sirra . Although she didn ' t trust the humans , she truly feared that she would again lose her friends - this time to the Solo ' s concerns over the Diversity Alliance . Later , Raaba participated in the Diversity Alliance attack on the secret storeroom of the late Emperor Palpatine . The storage facility - where the Emperor had kept his biological weapons - was the primary goal of Nolaa Tarkona , who wished to use one of the plagues in committing genocide of the human species . Commanding the Alliance fleet in space while Nolaa explored the facility , Raaba sighted a ship circling the asteroid and was dismayed to recognize it as the Rock Dragon , Tenel Ka ' s personal ship . Raaba knew that Lowie and his friends were also at the facility , and found herself conflicted between duty to Nolaa Tarkona and her concern for Lowbacca . When a New Republic fleet arrived to destroy the asteroid , Raaba personally descended to the facility to save Nolaa Tarkona . The pair ended up fleeing the battle in Raaba ' s personal ship , The Rising Star , although Nolaa - and possibly Raaba as well - had been exposed to multiple biological weapons on the asteroid . Before fleeing the system , Raaba sent a short coded message to Lowbacca : " If I survive , I ' ll find you . " Refusing to risk the spread of whatever diseases they had been exposed to , Raaba took herself and Nolaa to an uninhabited moon deep in the Outer Rim territories . Although both beings had been exposed to the plagues , Raaba recovered around the same time that Nolaa succumbed to her illness . Raaba vowed to return to the galaxy , but not until she was certain she wouldn ' t spread the plague to others .