How did chewy die???

i have been away from the old EU for a while and recently heard that chewy died. Can someone please tell me how this happened, and also let me know if any other key charaters died.

 

A moon fell on his head.

 

Anakin Solo is also dead. At least for now.

 

During the initial stages of Yuuzhan Vong invasion, Han, Anakin, and Chewbacca were on Sernpidal, helping Lando Calrissian with a shipment. They were on the planet when the Yuuzhan Vong used a dovin basal to draw the moon Dobido into an impact trajectory with Sernpidal, and were assisting with the evacuation effort when Anakin and Chewie were trapped on stony outcropping. Recognizing that Dobido was going to crash any second, Chewbacca flung Anakin onto the landing ramp of the Millennium Falcon, ensuring Anakin's survival. When Han realized Chewie didn't get onboard, he ordered Anakin to fly back while he searched for Chewie. Anakin, torn between his love for Chewie and the cargo hold full of refugees, was forced to retreat before the Falcon was destroyed. Chewbacca died on Sernpidal while giving the highest service to his life-debt. Han grieved for a long time before he could come to grips with the realization that Anakin hadn't killed Chewie, but that the Wookiee had saved them all.

All this happend in the first novel of the new jedi order series: Vector Prime.

 

Wow. That is a very detailed explanation. LOL. Mine was the Readers Digest version. HA!

 

Where are all the newbies coming from ???

 

Just cuz someone was lazy and never did "register" doesn't necessarily mean we are "newbies".... just lazy.

 

yes but it dose seem like we got alot of people these last couple months.



Yes chewie was killed by a moon saving anakin and a hole bunch of people.

 

Even, i have been here since i joined altough never found anything to post in here. Now i try to help people with questions.


with other words: get used to see me alot more often here .

 

AHHHH

attack of the newbies

 

muwahahhaha...i'm glad he's dead...muwahahahahahaha!!!!

 

I have the death "scene" saved on my computer:

On the planet Sernpidal, a Yuuzhan Vong weapon was pulling Dobido, the moon down, readying it to crash into the planet. Han, Chewie, and Anakin Solo (Han and Leia's son) were there. Once they had found out about the moon, they were trying to save as many people as they could.

From Vector Prime:

By the time Han got the Falcon back to Sernpidal City, the docking area was gone, broken apart by the tremendous upheavals, with all its walls flattened. A few people ran about, screaming, a few others remained prostrated on the streets, praying to Tosi-karu.

But most had been packed away, and dozens of shipts, everything from single-seaters, inevitably with two people crammed in, , to freighters, were in the air, preparing to fly away.

Han spotted Chewie almost immediately, the Wookiee waving one long arm and holding a pair of children under the other. "Help him," he instructed his son, and Anakin rushed away, pushing through the mob that packed the Falcon, to the lowe landing ramp. Han brough the ship in low and slow, compensating for the raoring winds. "Hurry, hurry," he muttered to himself. Debris was flying everywhere, and only luck alone had kept Chewie and those kids from being washed away in it.

He edged the Falcon down lower, to within a few meters of the ground, and moved over Chewbacca's position.

"The kids are in," Anakin called over the intercom. "I'm getting Chewie in now."

An explosion rocked the city, a few blocks to the side of the Falcon, and a small shuttle started to rise above the remnants of one wall, but quickly shut down and disappeared frmo view.

Han banged a fist on his console. "You got him, kid?" he called to his son.

"Chewie's going for the shuttle," Anakin called back. "I'm going, too. Meet us there." Even as Anakin finished, Han saw Chewie go running out from under the Falcon, drawing his bowcaster as he went.

Anakin came close behind, gaining ground as Chewie slowed to blow a hole in the wall between them and the downed shuttle.

"We've got to clear it," Anakin shouted as he came through that wall, to find the tail end of the shuttle buried under a pile of debris too thick about the lone ion drive for the ship to dare risk a takeoff.

Chewie charged right in, bowcaster firing, cutting up the bigger chunks. He grabbed pieces with one strong arm and send them flying aside.

"Hurry up!" came a cry from the open port on the shuttle's side, a woman standing inside. "I've got a packed ship. We'll all die."

Anakin studied the pile and hte Wookiee's progress. He heard hte Falcon's engines humming as the ship hovered over the wall behind him, and for a moment, he thought of instructing his father to vaporize that rubble pile with the laser cannons, as Chewie was trying to do with his bowcaster.

He shook the improbable plan away and utilized a different power source, an inner source, instead, reaching out mentally to the rubble, using the Force to lift it away, huge piece by huge piece. Another quake rocked the city, the falling moon making its appearance on the eastern horizon, seeming much larger than even on its last pass, and this time with a huge fire trail spewing out about it. IMmediately, the wind increased to deafening proportions.

But Anakin held his calm and worked with the pile methodically.

The Wookiee roared his approval and helped as much as he could with his conventional methods, and soon enough, Chewie fell back, hailing the woman inside with great and unrgent howls.

"Take her out!" Anakin cried to the woman, translating the Wookie's words. "Take her out fast!" He and Chewie fell back as the shuttle blasted away.

It rose only a dozen meters before being blown aside by a huge gust of wind that pummeled the area and sent Anakin and Chewie scrambling.

The more powerful Millenium Falcon held its ground, though, and the lower landing ramp was down, with Han perched on it, extending his hand to his son and his partner. "Come on!" he cried. "

 

I get so sad whenever I read that passage.

 

yes... but it's a fitting end for a warrior like the mighty Chewbacca...

 

Thanks for posting that. Now I don't have to try to read Vector Prime for the 4th or 5th time and not get even half way through it.

 

Vector Prime wasn't that bad; it was just slow for the first half.

 

um... are you supposed to be posting passages up like that?

 

What a lame death for a great warrior. Crushed by a frikkin moon.

 

His heart stopped

 

It was iconclastic; it took a moon to end his 200-year career.

But you never really saw the fella in action, when you think about it. Just backing up dialogue with Solo throughout the books, firing his bowcaster at times.

Tyrant's Test gave his character colour. Even though he dispatched those three Yevetha easily on the SSD rescue scene, it was one of the first time you'd see him going hand to hand in real Wookie combat.

And for all the talk about ripping arms off---a pasttime for irritated Wookies---how many times have we seen that? Just once, right, in COPL? I don't know any other ocassions of him "disarming" anyone, heh heh.

 

Why do the newbies always ask the same questions? No offense to the newbies of course! Maybe we need an "Introduce yourself thread?". Actually we shiuld be gald there is an increase in Completists! They could have become Purists!

 

What a lame death for a great warrior. Crushed by a frikkin moon.

Not really, it took a MOON to kill him, nothing else. Add on that he sacificed his life for hundreds of people, it's a honorific death.

 

Tyrant's Test gave his character colour. Even though he dispatched those three Yevetha easily on the SSD rescue scene, it was one of the first time you'd see him going hand to hand in real Wookie combat.

You obviously haven't read The Han Solo Adventures. That I can remember, Chewie goes hand to hand with a big ol' slaver and his big ol' Nek in Han Solo's Revenge, and takes a beating, (before dishing it out in the re-match ), from Egome Fass, a Houk, who is even bigger than Chewie!

EDIT: As to Chewie's death, I agree that it his "last pose of defiance" was fitting.

We'll miss ya', buddy.