Owool Interceptor The Owool Interceptor was a heavy , single - pilot starfighter that was designed by the Wookiees of the shipyard KashyCorp after the end of the Swarm War in 36 ABY . Operational during the Second Galactic Civil War , the interceptors were intended for use by the Galactic Alliance , but when the New Jedi Order withdrew from the Galactic Alliance , the Wookiees withdrew their support as well , leaving the Owool Interceptors to be taken up by Wookiee pilots instead . Some Wookiees flew the heavy starfighters for the Jedi when the Galactic Alliance set portions of the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk ablaze , and later at the culminating battle of the war near the planet Shedu Maad . Characteristics . Owool Interceptors were twin - engine heavy starfighters that featured an armament of four laser cannons and two ion cannons , and had the ability to launch Jedi shadow bomb s if required . Operated by a single pilot , the Owool had enough cockpit room for a 2 . 26 - meter - tall Wookiee , with the cockpit situated in the tapered fuselage of the hyperdrive - equipped brown starfighter . With a pair of engine mounts — each of which also housed the laser cannons — that were connected via a spar to either side of the fuselage and rose slightly above the cockpit , the starfighter looked like a fork - prowed wedge when viewed from the front . Military observers described the fighters as tough , fast , and ferocious like the Wookiees who built them . Role . The Owool Interceptor was used both to attack enemy capital ships and in a starfighter - versus - starfighter capacity , and it was capable of flying fighter escort for other starships . History . Protecting a homeworld . Owool Interceptors were designed and developed in the years following the events of the Swarm War — which ended in 36 ABY — by the Wookiees of the new shipyard KashyCorp . The first Owools were finished circa 40 ABY , when the Galactic Alliance was fighting the Confederation in the Second Galactic Civil War . Although KashyCorp was supposed to deliver a shipment of the heavy starfighters to the Galactic Alliance , the Wookiee Rock Council stopped supporting the Alliance when the New Jedi Order withdrew its support , preventing the Owools from being delivered . In 40 ABY , the Galactic Alliance ' s Chief of State , Sith Lord Darth Caedus , took the Galactic Alliance Fifth Fleet to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk , which was a member of the Alliance . There , Caedus demanded that the Wookiees turn over his parents , Han Solo and Leia Organa , as they were aligned with the Jedi who had abandoned the Galactic Alliance , to give Caedus a pretense to attack Kashyyyk when they refused ; Caedus aimed to force the Confederation Fleet to aid the Wookiees instead of continuing its drive for the Galactic Alliance ' s capital planet of Coruscant . With the Fifth Fleet over Kashyyyk , a squadron of Wookiee - flown Owool Interceptors , led by the Wookiee Jedi Knight Lowbacca , was dispatched to meet the capital ships . When the Wookiees refused to hand over Solo and Organa , Caedus ' flagship , the " Imperial " - class Star Destroyer " Anakin Solo " , opened fire upon the forests of Kashyyyk , setting Wroshyr trees ablaze . In response to the attack , the Owool squadron , whose fighters amounted to half the number of capital ships in the Fifth Fleet , attacked the " Anakin Solo " . Led by Lowbacca , the Owools rode the " Anakin Solo " stripe , flying up the larger vessel ' s firing lane toward the bridge and using the flash - static of the Star Destroyer ' s turbolasers to shield them from its sensors . Although some of the Owools fell prey to the capital ship ' s anti - starfighter weapons , Lowbacca scored a direct hit on the bridge with a shadow bomb , causing significant damage . In the fighting that followed , the Jedi attacked Caedus ' forces for the first time in defense of Kashyyyk , and the fleet elements of the Jedi and their allies , as well as those of the Confederation , drove the Fifth Fleet away . End of a war . In 41 ABY , Wookiee - flown Owools were present in the Hapes Cluster within the hangar of a Hapan Battle Dragon warship that was serving as a launch point for an upcoming Jedi Coalition operation in the Roche system designed to have Caedus ' sister , Jedi Knight Jaina Solo , assassinate the Sith Lord . The Owool Interceptors were meant to fly fighter escort for Skipray 24r Blastboat s in the mission , but Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker deemed them unnecessary and told them to stand down , as he predicted a fighter escort would be present in the Roche system for the blastboat s . After Caedus survived the attempt on his life and the Galactic Alliance emerged victorious in the Roche system , Caedus tracked the Jedi to their secret base on the planet Shedu Maad in the Hapes Cluster ' s Transitory Mists , bringing with him the " Anakin Solo " and the " Super " - class Star Destroyer " Megador " , as well as an Imperial Remnant fleet . With Uroro Station — a space station located near Shedu Maad — acting as a decoy for the Jedi base , a squadron of Owool Interceptors launched from the station as part of the starfighter group that struck at the inbound " Anakin Solo " and " Megador " . However , the Owools and the other Jedi Coalition fighters met resistance from the two capital ships ' starfighter complements , resulting in a concentrated dogfight forming near the " Anakin Solo " and the " Megador " . In the end , Caedus was slain by his sister , while the Jedi Coalition forces prevailed over Caedus ' fleet elements , bringing an end to the Second Galactic Civil War . Behind the scenes . Owool Interceptors first appeared in " " , the sixth novel of the " Legacy of the Force " series , written by Troy Denning and released in 2007 . They later appeared in Denning ' s " " , the last installment of the series , published in 2008 . The heavy starfighters were first illustrated in 2012 ' s " The Essential Guide to Warfare " .