Rwookrrorro Rwookrrorro was the capital city of the planet Kashyyyk . Founded thousands of years before the Galactic Civil War , this metropolitan center of the Wookiee homeworld was a kilometer - wide platform nested high atop a tangle of huge trees . Among Rwookrrorro ' s most famous citizens were Zaalbar , who aided the former Sith Lord Revan in his quest to find the Star Map s , and Chewbacca , one of the Heroes of Yavin . History . Jedi Civil War . During the Jedi Civil War the city was run by Chuundar , who was involved with Czerka slavers . During Revan ' s search for the Star Map s he entered a Czerka spaceport not far from the city . As he prepared to enter it he was stopped by a guard and his Wookiee companion Zaalbar was captured . Chuundar held Zaalbar captive until Revan could journey into the Shadowlands to kill a Madclaw . During his journey into the Shadowlands he met Jolee Bindo , a Jedi who helped him find the Star Map , and the madclaw , who turned out to be Freyyr . When Revan returned to the city , Freyyr was confronting Chuundar , as they argued , Revan convinced Zaalbar to side with Freyyr , together they teamed together to defeat Chuundar , his followers , and his Czerka allies . After the battle , Zaalbar left with Revan to continue his life debt and was rewarded with Bacca ' s Ceremonial Blade . The Wookiees drove the Czerka slavers out of Rwookrrorro , and the city was freed from slavers . Galactic Civil War . During the time of the Jedi Civil War , Rwookrrorro was little more than a tree - top village , but over time it expanded to become Kashyyyk ' s most prominent settlement and spaceport . Rwookrrorro , as of the Galactic Civil War , comprised a kilometer - wide platform supported within a tangle of wroshyr trees . Thanks to their knowledge of technology , the Wookiees further supported this natural nest with repulsorlifts . Primitive - looking huts lined the edges of Rwookrrorro ' s streets , while a huge , hollowed - out branch served as a hidden hangar for offworlders looking to evade Imperial entanglements . Lift cars were used to traverse the levels of the Wookiee trees . The Rryatt Trail led from the city to the Well of the Dead . During the Battle of Kashyyyk following the end of the Clone Wars , Rwookrrorro was severely damaged by orbital bombardment from Star Destroyers . The tree - city was also the home of Chewbacca and his family . Behind the scenes . Chewbacca ' s home city first appeared in the 1978 TV movie " The Star Wars Holiday Special " , albeit unnamed . A shot of Han Solo ' s " Millennium Falcon " flying over the canopy of the city was included in the special . The forests of Kashyyyk featured in the movie were in fact that of the Tikal site , a ruined city of the . The same location had been used one year earlier to portray the landscape of the jungle moon Yavin 4 in the first " Star Wars " movie , . Tikal can be spotted in the background of the shot . When writing " Heir to the Empire " , author Timothy Zahn planned Rwookrrorro to be the name of the Wookiee homeworld . When he was told that it had already been named " Kashyyyk " , he suggested that Rwookrrorro could be the indigenous Wookiee name , but this idea was rejected . Zahn re - appropriated the name for a city on Kashyyyk instead . Rwookrrorro later appeared in additional " Star Wars " media . Rwookrrorro was also mentioned in the 2001 comic " What They Called Me . "