Unidentified wampa

In 3 ABY, a male wampa lived with a clan in a cave system that became Echo Base. The establishment of Echo Base threw out the clan while the wampa was out hunting, forcing the wampa to relocate to another cave on his own. The wampa attacked Luke Skywalker and his tauntaun shortly before the Battle of Hoth,Star Wars: Complete Locations killing the tauntaun and dragging the unconscious Skywalker into its cave. As the wampa devoured tauntaun meat, Skywalker was eventually able to regain consciousness and free himself using his lightsaber, slicing off the wampa's right arm just before it could strike him. The wampa eventually recovered enough strength to venture out of its cave once more. After deciding he was strong enough, the wampa returned to the valley of Echo Base, where he found the caverns abandoned in the wake of the Battle of Hoth. The wampa thus reclaimed his home and was filled with a hope that his clan would be reunited.
An image of the wampa was later included in "Species From A to Z," a survival compendium sent out by Carson Teva during the New Republic Era, which mentioned Skywalker's encounter with it.
==Behind the scenes==
The wampa first appeared in the 1980 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. In the Star Wars Legends reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy, this wampa was identified as two separate creatures, a female wampa called One-Arm and an unidentified male.Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy This wampa is the Canon counterpart to both of these creatures.
When filming the scene, Mark Hamill was under the impression that Luke would merely scare off the wampa with a lightsaber and was horrified to see the amputation in the final product, believing that Luke wouldn't do something so cruel.
While the Star Wars Day-at-a-Time Calendar 2020, released in 2019 by Trends International,Star Wars Day-at-a-Time Calendar 2020 states that the wampa was killed, the 2020 short story "Hunger," written by Mark Oshiro and published in the book From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, establishes that the wampa eventually recovered enough strength to leave its cave once again.
==Appearances==
*The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem
*Star Wars Treasury: The Original Trilogy
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*The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? 
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Screen Comix
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*Star Wars (2020) 43 
*Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! 
*The Princess and the Scoundrel 
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*Créatures et peuples de la galaxie
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*Star Wars Day-at-a-Time Calendar 2020
*Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge – Adventure Awaits
*Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – The Official Collector's Edition
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==Notes and references==
Category:Individuals with he/him pronouns
Category:Unidentified individual creatures
Category:Unidentified males
Category:Unidentified wampas