Zewkie grew up on the wookiee home world of Kashyyk, in a relatively remote tree village that was insulated from the worst of Imperial oppression. Zewkie was a cheerful, bright, curious boy and from a relatively young age was interested in all things technical, especially computers. Wanting to learn more than he could at home, he set off into the wider Galaxy, seeking an education. His parents and other elders warned him that he was taking a considerable risk by doing so, given the harsh Imperial treatment of wookiees, but Zewkie naively disregarded their warnings.

Zewkie had saved up a fair sum of money from doing repair jobs and was able to use this money to get himself smuggled off-world. He had hoped to get to the university of Mrlsst, but before he could do so his funds ran out and he found himself in Hutt space. He got along as well as he could, trading his abilities with mechanics and computers to piece together both a general education and learn more about computers. He found himself learning not just how to repair computers, but how to hack them and earning a living by working for the criminal gangs that dominate Hutt space, something that left his deeply uneasy. While he kept his curiosity and love of machines and even some of his good cheer, he found his initial naivety being worn away by force of circumstances.

Eventually, deciding he had enough of working for crime lords, he tried to find a way to get back to Kashyyk, hoping to return to his home village. This proved disastrous as, despite all he had learned in the school of hard knocks, Zewkie was still a fundamentally honest lad and no good at deceiving people--including his employers. He soon found himself in chains and working as a slave for the Empire. Fortunately for him, he was freed in a raid by Rebel forces. Having seen the worst the Galaxy had to offer, he found himself drawn to the Rebellion and began working for them, using his skills with computers to try to make the Galaxy a freer place.

Freedom

Bounty (5): The Hutt crime lords Zewkie used to work for are not pleased to learn he’s been freed from slavery. They’re not terribly worried about anything he might do to them--it’s the principle of the thing. They’ve placed a modest bounty on his head.

Duty-bound (10): Zewkie has a Life Debt to Vashu, the Mon Calamari Rebel commander who freed him from slavery.

Responsibility (10): Having been both a pawn of crime lords and a slave of the Empire, Zewkie feels a need to help all others whose lives controlled by others in similar way.

Zewkie is a somewhat gangly young wookie, whose deep brown fur still has a deep luster and whose brown eyes still shine. He generally has a cheerful expression on his face, though he can grow sad and angry in the face of the evils of the Empire and the Hutt’s crime empire. He wears a utility belt, with various computer and repair tools hanging from it, as well as a light blaster.