Freighter crews fired at while responding to emergency

Date: 080911
Planet: Kashyyyk System

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC.)

Two days ago two YT-1300 class light freighters escorted by a Dunelizard picked up a weak distress call shortly after entering the Kashyyyk system, The signal was traced to a space station built on and into an asteroid in one of the systems asteroid fields. Both freighters landed, intent on rendering assistance to the station's crew, but found themselves shot at by trandoshans and had to withdraw from the station.

The origin of the signal and the nature of the emergency is not known at this point, though usually well-informed sources from the planet claim that the station serves as a processing facility for trandoshan slavers preying on the planet's native population and that the captive wookiees may have tried to sabotage it or break out.

The wookiee resistance used the opportunity to remind the galaxy that several trandoshan slaver clans are still raiding Kashyyyk for wookiee slaves, often killing most of the warriors and the elderly of a village and enslaving the rest. Reports of horrible abuses up to trandoshans eating their captives also keep surfacing.