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Gyylghrard

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this Wookiee was imprisoned on the planet Kessel during the height of the Galactic Civil War. He became something of a legend among the prisoners who worked Kessel's spice mines, after he stood up to his oppressors and eventually destroyed them. A journal was discovered by Lando Calrissian, some years after the Battle of Endor, which collected Gyylghrard's thoughts, and shed some light on the Imperial operation of the mines. In the journal, Gyylghrard wrote that his enslavement hopefully saved his family from indenture or execution at the hands of the Empire. While on Kessel, he helped a group of Wookiee children celebrate Life Day, but their festivities turned to tragedy when they tried to rush the guards and escape. The Imperial stormtroopers were ordered to shoot to kill, and the children were massacred. Although it was Gyllghrard who provided the children with sparksticks - ostensibly as candles, but they overloaded their electronic shackles - he was never implicated in the riot. He did, however, feel responsible for the deaths of the children, and vowed to exact revenge on Warden Dewt Kluskine. His injuries, which included the loss of a leg, forced him into a kind of retirement: Gyylghrard was shipped off to work as a janitor on the Garrison Moon. His good behavior eventually led to a position on Warden Kluskine's honor guard, an appointment that was orchestrated by Moruth Doole himself. After scouting the Warden's meeting rooms, Gyllghrard saw his chance to exact a measure of revenge. When he was armed with a vibroaxe, in an effort to intimidate the Toydarian Fossco, Gyylghrard was able to behead Kluskine prior to being shot to death by stormtroopers.