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Kashyyyk is the lush, tree-filled home planet of the Wookiees in the fictional Star Wars universe. Its ecology can be politely described as a "layered deathtrap", the planet's surface being covered with trees that are multiple miles high. The dangerous and hostile animals increase as you descend to the forest floor. The frame story of The Star Wars Holiday Special was set on this planet. The original scripts for Return of the Jedi called for the Death Star to be built in orbit around Kashyyyk by Wookiee slave labor. It wasn't until later drafts that the setting and characters were changed to Endor and Ewoks.
Kashyyyk's runaway plant growth is the result of a malfunctioning terraforming machine left by the Rakata.
The planet will finally appear in a feature film in 2005, when Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith airs.
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