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Yarua

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this Wookiee served as the planet Kashyyyk's primary Senator to the Old Republic, during the years leading up to the Battle of Naboo. He despised the corruption of his fellow Senators, but found himself unable to stem the tides. Shortly before the Clone Wars, Senator Yarua agreed to meet with Trandoshan representative Hadocrassk, in an effort to negotiate a peace between their peoples. Yarua had ordered that all trade to Trandosha be blockaded after 215 Wookiees were killed aboard a transport ship near one of Trandosha's moons. The Trandoshan government refused to return the bodies of the dead to Kashyyyk. Senator Yarua threatened to secede from the Republic if reparations were not made to the Wookiee people. The peace talks were mediated by the Jedi Master Oppo Rancisis, but were interrupted by the onset of the Clone Wars. As the Clone Wars dragged on, Senator Yarua remained allied with the Old Republic, but his support of Chancellor Palpatine was anything but ringing. Despite the fact that Yarua refused an offer from the Confederacy of Independent Systems to join the Separatists, Yarua explained that the Wookiees would take the path that led to the best outcome for the Wookiees.