Katarn/Legends

A katarn was a predatory quadruped reptomammal native to the planet Kashyyyk.
==Overview==
Katarns had slender bodies with rodent-like tails, and narrow faces leading back to a cartilaginous ridge protecting their neck and shoulders. Their paws had opposable digits, and their lower limbs were covered with sharp spurs, both of which allowed them to climb and hang from the branches of the giant wroshyr trees and feed on tree-burrowers.
Katarns were creatures of great importance in the Wookiees' culture. The Wookiees, who called the katarn the "Old Prince", hunted them in their hrrtayyk ceremony. Wookiees said the katarns were born by a wound to Kashyyyk that fell from the sky ages ago and made a home for the katarn. The katarns then hunted the Wookiees, thus unlocking the Wookiees' "inner fire". To thank the katarn, the Wookiees hunted them. They believed that someday it would be the katarn's turn to hunt the Wookiees again.
Katarns were ferocious and merciless predators which would track their prey for long periods before choosing an opportune moment to strike. They had been described as "silent, shadowy, and deadly," qualities which made them the mascot of Judder Page's Katarn Commandos.
Some katarns were domesticated as the war-mounts of Wookiee dragon troopers. On another note, there was a small subspecies of katarn that populated the Shadowlands. These katarns had no climbing abilities, as evidenced by their four large trunk-like legs. They also had two small dangling manipulator arms. They had more rounded out edges than the main katarn species and two large tusks. The reformed Revan battled several of these in his second trip to find the Kashyyyk star map.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
*Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
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*Republic Commando: Hard Contact 
*The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: The Way of the Jedi
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*Republic 82
*Star Wars: The Force Unleashed novelization 
*Rebel Dawn 
*Imperial Double-Cross
*Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees
*Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor 
*A Forest Apart 
*Heir to the Empire 
*Tyrant's Test
*Young Jedi Knights: Diversity Alliance 
*The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
===Non-canon appearances===
*Jedi Academy
==Sources==
*Heir to the Empire Sourcebook
*Alliance Intelligence Reports
*The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook
*The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
*Star Wars: Behind the Magic
*Alien Anthology
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*Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Prima's Official Strategy Guide 
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*Star Wars Galaxies: The Total Experience: Prima Official Game Guide
*Star Wars: Empire at War: Prima Official Game Guide
*Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption Expansion: Prima Official Game Guide
*Threats of the Galaxy
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
*Jedi Academy Training Manual
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Category:Arboreal creatures
Category:Creatures of Kashyyyk
Category:Domesticated creatures
Category:Predatory creatures
Category:Reptomammals
Category:Species of undefined sentience