Ruu'shorr's family fled Kashyyk when he was a child, on the eve of the CIS' invasion towards the end of the Clone Wars. Working jobs as engineers or mechanics wherever they could find work, they raised him as best they could in the traditions of Kashyyk and the skills of an engineer. However growing up in space, and hearing stories of his homeworld's subjugation and neverending conflict since he left, he has both grown into his own views on the galaxy and his culture's traditions, and a deep sense of anger, and survival guilt, about the situation on his homeworld. He was brought up as a builder but now that he has come of age he has decided to turn his skill to tearing down what the Empire has wrought on the ashes and pain of his people and others.

Abolition - the enslavement of his species may have fueled Ruu'shorr's anger at the practice of slavery, but he has seen enough suffering of slaves of various species around the galaxy that he does not restrict his passion for emancipation to his own world - though he clearly holds a special kind of anger against those who subjugate his kind.

Young (~35yrs standard, probably 18 in Wookiee years), gangly, his fur is steel gray with white points - which he has dyed a deep (not neon) blue - on his hands/wrists, feet/ankles, snout, and throat/upper chest. He enjoys experimenting with various bleeding-edge-of-fashion styles in his mane, but generally keeps it braided and out of the way on mission.