Lohgarra Lohgarra was a female Wookiee who was captain of the cargo transport known as the " Mighty Oak Apocalypse " ( " Moa " for short ) . Lohgarra transported only legal cargo , but she operated on the fringes , where Imperial oversight was rarely an issue . Seven months after the Battle of Yavin , Logharra hired Thane Kyrell as a co pilot and navigator . Some time after Thane had joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic , Logharra decided to assist the Rebellion as well . The " Mighty Oak Apocalypse " joined the Alliance Fleet and docked aboard the " Liberty " before the Battle of Endor . After the destruction of the second Death Star , Lohgarra was seen celebrating the victory over Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor . After the Battle of Endor , she used credit s that were given out by the newly formed New Republic to species affected by war crimes to upgrade her ship . Biography . Lohgarra was known to have spent two centuries serving as a ship captain who owned a freighter called the " Mighty Oak Apocalypse " ( or " Moa " for short ) . By the time of the reign of the Galactic Empire , she was one of the few Wookiee s to have escaped the enslavement of her homeworld of Kashyyyk at the hands of the Empire . She recalled that Kashyyyk had once been a paradise but that the Empire had turned the planet into a " hell . " Her crew members included a purple and black JJH2 model astromech droid JJH2 , the Tarsunt engineer Brill , and the Ithorian maintenance officer Methwat Tann . Lohgarra and her crew spend much of their transporting legal cargo through the Outer Rim Territories and the Expansion Region . Seven months after the Battle of Yavin , the former TIE fighter pilot Thane Kyrell found work as a copilot and navigator . Thane had left the Empire after witnessing the Empire ' s destruction of Alderaan and the maltreatment of Bodach ' i slaves on Kerev Doi . While Kyrell never told Lohgarra that he was an Imperial deserter , she realized who he was but did not hold it against Thane . For several months , Thane worked for Lohgarra . After Thane found that they could not recharge the ship ' s power cell , she allowed him to buy a new power cell on Zeitooine but warned him that the planet was not known as a cheap place . While visiting Zeitooine , Thane witnessed the Empire arrest of a local family and forgot to buy the power cell . Eighteen months after the events on Yavin , Lohgarra and her crew delivered medical supplies to the planet Oulanne , which had been struck by a massive earthquake . As they entered the planet ' s atmosphere , Thane reported that they were approaching a megahurricane covering a good quarter of the land area . Despite the rough conditions and the " Moa " being heavily laden with cargo , Thane managed to convince Lohgarra to let him land the ship . Against the odds , Thane managed to land the " Moa " . Lohgarra congratulated Thane for his efforts and hugged him tightly . As a sign of praise and affection , she also started grooming him . While on Oulanne , Thane met the Rebel Alliance pilot Wedge Antilles , who convinced him to join the Rebel Alliance . After some discussion , Thane managed to convince Lohgarra to let him leave and join the rebel group . While Lohgarra was initially hesitant to lose her copilot and navigator , she relented after recalling that her own people had been enslaved by the Empire and that Kashyyyk , so beautiful in her youth , had been turned into a literal hell . When Thane told her about his lover Ciena Ree who was still in the Imperial Navy , Lohgarra remarked that the Force had a way of bringing people together when the time was right . Thane then took it that Lohgarra was happy for him to join the Rebellion . Shortly before the dogfight in the Hudalla system , Lohgarra and her crew decided to join the Rebel Alliance . She landed the " Moa " on the planet 5251977 . While Lohgarra hugged Thane , Brill informed the rebel pilot that they had refitted the " Moa " with new shields , dampeners , and guns . Prior to the Battle of Endor , Lohgarra and her crew met with Thane at the hangar of the MC80a star cruiser " Home One " . She also lent her astromech droid to the rebel pilot Yendor , who was a member of Thane ' s Corona Squadron . Lohgarra and her crew took part in the Battle of Endor , which saw the death s of Emperor Darth Sidious and Darth Vader , and afterwards joined the mass celebration in Bright Tree Village , where she was observed to be " outdrinking an entire squadron " . Following the establishment of the New Republic , Lohgarra received reparations from the new government as part of a program to compensate species enslaved by the Empire . Lohgarra used these funds to buy new engine s for the " Mighty Oak Apocalypse " . Personality and traits . Lohgarra was an elderly female Wookiee with white fur . Her eye s were once dark blue but had gone slightly milky white by the time of the Battle of Endor . As a Wookiee , Lohgarra spoke only Shyriiwook . Despite her old age , Lohgarra ' s vision and mind remained sharp . Unlike most freighter pilots and owners , her shipping jobs were never motivated by a quest for riches but by her character ; a lucrative run of luxury goods could be followed by a zero - sum haul of emergency generators to a troubled outpost or medical supplies to a devastated region . Lohgarra viewed her ship and crew more like a home and family , refusing to make big decisions without first consulting them and receiving their support or dissent . She hired crew that she could trust and was known to be maternal towards crew members that she took under her wing including Thane Kyrell , indeed treating him with more affection than his own mother . Lohgarra took a liking to Thane and was able to overlook the fact that he was a former Imperial pilot . Lohgarra developed a deep respect for Thane after he successfully landed the " Moa " on the planet Oulanne despite a megahurricane . Per the Wookiee custom , she hugged him and began grooming him , also regularly complaining that he looked too thin at least by her standards . While Lohgarra was reluctant to lose her copilot and navigator , she allowed Thane to join the Rebel Alliance due to her dislike of the Empire for enslaving her people . Lohgarra and her crew later joined the Rebel Alliance and took part in the Battle of Endor . Like others who led long lives in the galaxy , Lohgarra believed in the Force and respected its power . When Thane was agonizing to her about his fear of losing Ciena , she consoled him by stating her belief that the Force would allow their paths to cross when the time was right . Behind the scenes . Lohgarra appeared in the Claudia Gray ' s 2015 junior novel " Lost Stars " , which was released as part of " " . Her lines were told from the point of view of one of the two major protagonists , Thane Kyrell .