Master Chief Cook Shalkaraykishpardivonne

It was a time of peace for Kashyyyk when Shalkaraykishpardivonne was born. Her people lived undisturbed in their towns over giant trees, hunting and trading, as they had done generation after generation, in harmony with Nature and their own traditions. But that was about to change. 

Some Wookie warriors attended the Republic's call to fight in the Clone Wars when Shalkaraykishpardivonne was a cub, eager to earn a name in combat, win battles that would be remembered and told around the fires for centuries, and bring that honor to their families. Her father was one of those, and he also was one of those who never came back. They were still mourning him (and celebrating, because his father had died fighting, the highest privilege a Wookie can hope to) when the human troops came. Thousands of parsecs from Kashyyyk, Senator Palpatine had taken the power and the Empire has begun. One of his first actions was ordering to take slaves from those races not enough human before his eyes, specially the strongest ones, to work in his megalomaniac projects. Wookies fought with courage, and the desperation of knowing what would happen with their families after their defeat. Many died, and many others were taken away. The survivors found shelter in the deepest of their jungles and forests, where the Emperor's legions did not dare to go.

Shalkaraykishpardivonne lost her whole family, but she survived with the help of some neighbors, who adopted her as their true daughter. But the memories of what had happened never left her, the screams of her mother and all her brothers dying before her eyes but the youngest one, slightly older that her. She had seen how he was trapped in a fiber-rubber net and kidnapped by several soldiers. They ignored her, probably considering that she would not survive wherever they were bringing her brother.

Since that day, Shalkaraykishpardivonne waited for a chance to leave the planet and revenge her family. She had no hope to find his lost brother, convinced that he had found a way to die like a Wookie and make his captors pay. The opportunity she was looking for came from the hands of the more famous Wookie of all times, the one whom the humans call Chewbacca. She learnt that Chewbacca was in Kashyyyk visiting his relatives and took her decision. When she went to him asking for a trip off-planet in the Falcon, and a chance to become a warrior, he patiently heard her history and her reasons, and promised her to do what he could. That was a position as cook in a New Republic ship, the Wolf's Lair. When she protested, he explained her that this would be a place to learn what has to be learnt before becoming a warrior, and that she was very young yet (for a Wookie) as to be sent to the Infantry or the Commandoes. Finally, Shalkaraykishpardivonne accepted Chewbacca's offer, considering that a warship was not a bad place to start with.

Captain Gen'yaa had not asked for a cook, nor the ship needed one, but the rare times when Chewbacca decided to use his influences, he always got what he wanted, and that was how Wolfshead Squadron found that they had their own cook (Gen'yaa thought that they had that concession very well deserved). Unable to pronounce her name, they called her simply Ivonne, and soon some of them started to appreciate her exotic plates... and to visit the medical facilities quite often.

No droids are allowed in Ivonne's kitchen, and the food processors have suffered unrecoverable modifications to accomplish her requirements. Ivonne (she decided that she could live with that name) likes her work, but even more the opportunities she has to hang around with Lynx commandoes, or with Wolfshead's armory officer, Granite, and now she is able to manage every weapon that can be found on board. From time to time, when Lynx goes out in a short mission, nobody seems to be able to find Ivonne nowhere, while her kitchen is secured and closed. Those times, it's better not to ask, and use the opportunity to use a normal food processor.