Why did the chicken cross the road.(give your own answers)
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OT: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: Why not?
OT: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: Why not?
There were some pretty nasty looking people coming the other way on its side of the road, so it wanted to avoid getting mugged.
The chicken crossed the road to eat the corn on the other side, a woman cooked and ate the chicken, I ravaged the woman, the woman gave birth to a child who grew up to have sex with headless chickens, who hatched chicks that had sex with corn, and the circle of life is complete!
Years ago, the moment the chicken was born, the very skies shook with thunder. The ground itself split, and the fires of hell cowered in fear.
The chick seemed no different than any other at first, but one could tell the hand of destiny was reaching for it. It had no idea of its destiny.
As the chicken grew, the others became aware of its glory, but were unsure of its power. Fearful, they cast the chicken out of the coop, and it was forced to leave what little family it had.
It wandered through the farmland, through the plains, through the mountains, through the very heavens and earth, searching for a place to call home.
One day, on the Equinox, it had come to a road. There was nothing else for miles, and the chicken was perplexed as to why this road was here. None of the boisterous metal beasts that usually came on such ways were to be seen.
The chicken began to cry. This road had nothing. No purpose. Nothing to carry, and nothing to go to. And the chicken felt so sorry, to find another in this world. Another with no purpose.
The chicken put his foot forward, and crossed the road. And so, the chicken no longer wander. For it has found its home.
You will find your purpose, if you can cross the road...
The chick seemed no different than any other at first, but one could tell the hand of destiny was reaching for it. It had no idea of its destiny.
As the chicken grew, the others became aware of its glory, but were unsure of its power. Fearful, they cast the chicken out of the coop, and it was forced to leave what little family it had.
It wandered through the farmland, through the plains, through the mountains, through the very heavens and earth, searching for a place to call home.
One day, on the Equinox, it had come to a road. There was nothing else for miles, and the chicken was perplexed as to why this road was here. None of the boisterous metal beasts that usually came on such ways were to be seen.
The chicken began to cry. This road had nothing. No purpose. Nothing to carry, and nothing to go to. And the chicken felt so sorry, to find another in this world. Another with no purpose.
The chicken put his foot forward, and crossed the road. And so, the chicken no longer wander. For it has found its home.
You will find your purpose, if you can cross the road...
If you'd have said chicks...Jaranja said:Maybe you should learn proper grammar then come back.
OT: Me: He crossed it because over the other side were some hens
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Ahh, an age old question.
Many philosophers have tried to grapple with this terrifying question of humanity and its ultimate goal. But few have succeeded. I being one of the few these great men that conquered the question, I will now impart my unearthly wisdom onto you. So that you may bask in social and metaphysical dominance as I stand now
However the road to discovery is not an easy one and I suggest you fallow me closely.
The first order to discovering the chickens end is to understand the chicken more before he got there.
Chicken was a legendary Bird from Earth and co-pilot of Colonel sanders's ship, the "Drive through". He was the son of Attichitcuk, the husband of Mallatobuck, and the father of Lumpawaroo. Chicken carried with him the name of an ancient Birdhero, the great Bacca, first of the great chieftains of Earth, and the creator of a sword that denoted leadership among the Birds. This name placed Chicken in a noble lineage, which was further supported by his role in the Battle of Earth during the Clone Wars and during the Galactic Civil War.
Chicken was a wise, sophisticated being of great strength and loyalty. As technologically savvy as the brightest Academy graduate, he was also a skilled mecsandersic. Chicken, like many Birds, was able to understand Basic, but he could not speak it due to his species's vocal structure. He instead spoke Shyriiwook, the main Birdlanguage, composed largely of growls and grunts, to his non-Birdcompanions who typically replied in Basic.
Chicken was born on Earth circa 200 BBY, the son of Attichitcuk. During his early years Chicken lived on Earth, but unlike many other Birds who rarely left the planet's lush forests, Chicken was consumed by an overpowering sense of adventure and exploration. Chicken's first travels were to the remote and dangerous lower levels of Earth's immense forests, the Shadowlands. It was not long before his travels took him far from the confines of his green homeworld. His heart, however, remained on Earth, and Chicken would always try to make it home for the holidays.
When Chicken was in his younger days, before he had reached 100 years of age, he was well known for his skill at navigating the tall wroshyr trees and his skill with a hydrospanner. Chicken spent some time repairing vehicles with his friends, including the BirdDryanta. When Chicken first met his future wife Mallatobuck, he was unaware of the young Wookiee's feelings toward him. Malla was shy and hid all hints of her true feelings, even going so far as to not show appreciation when Chicken once saved her from Trandossanders slavers. However, Chicken's cousin Jowdrrl was friends with Malla and helped to slowly create a relationship between the two. Unfortunately, their blossoming relationship hit a snag when the BirdTojjevvuk began to fight for Malla's affection. Chicken was eventually forced into an honor duel with Tojjevvuk for Malla's sandersd, but Tojjevvuk brought dishonor on the duel by using his claws, forbidden for a Wookiee. However, Chicken's expertise in navigating the wroshyr trees proved to be Tojjevvuk's downfall, and a timed tackle by Chicken sent Tojjevvuk into a plummet into the Shadowlands where he was killed by the dangerous creatures of Earth.[5]
Yoda bids farewell to Chicken (right) and Tarfful (left) after surviving Order 66.
He lived with his family in Rwookrrorro. Chicken and his father were responsible for the creation of many villages on Earth in the decades before the Battle of Naboo and both of them participated in the colonization of Alaris Prime, where they faced the Trade Federation for control of the moon. Notably, during this time Chicken had his first recorded encounter with Jedi—as Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi had been assigned by the Galactic Republic to end the conflict on Alaris Prime. Under Jinn's tutelage, Chicken was able to successfully lead the colony to military and economic success.
However, for all of Chicken's success, rivalries between different Birdfamilies continued to plague Earth. Tvrrdko, the father of Tojjevvuk continued to seek revenge for the death of his son, but waited for the ideal moment. Tvrrdko's wrath had caused Chicken to stay away from his homeworld, but the Confederate threat to Earth forced him to return. The clones and their Jedi Generals recruited many of the Birds, and Chicken became a leading member of the Bird resistance to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. During the first year of the Clone Wars, Chicken was considered to be one of the BirdKing Grakchawwaa's greatest warriors. He may have led the Jedi to the traitor Quaagan, who was conspiring with Confederate commander Asajj Ventress.
Chicken was a major player in the Battle of Earth, overseeing the confrontation between the Grand Army of the Republic's 41st Elite Corps and the invading droid forces alongside Tarfful and Jedi General Yoda. It was Chicken, along with Tarfful, who accompanied Jedi General Quinlan Vos in the charge against the enemy.
Following the implementation of Order 66, Chicken helped Yoda elude the Clone Troopers and escape from the planet.
Post Clone Wars
Chicken with his bowcaster.
With the battle concluded, Chicken was attacked by Hronk, a relative of Tojjevvuk seeking vengeance. The arrival of stormtroopers broke the fight up, leaving the conflict to be resolved at a later time.
Two months after the Battle of Earth, Chicken was called upon by a former trader and Bird representative, Cudgel, to aid a small band of renegade Jedi led by Olee Starstone in their search for any other survivors after Order 66. The rescue operation proved unsuccessful, however, as the Empire tracked the fleeing Jedi to Earth and began their assault to capture them. The Birds, still haunted by the aftermath from their battle with the Separatists only a month before, resumed fighting to defend their homes from the Imperial onslaught. The tide had been turned over to the Empire with the unexpected arrival of Darth Vader, who wasted no time in slaughtering whatever stood in his path between himself and the missing Jedi.
Vader ordered one of the orbiting Star Destroyers to bombard Earth with repetitive turbolaser fire, laying waste to the surrounding cities while he searched for the remaining fugitives. In an attempt to help his comrades escape, Roan Shryne, one of the remaining Jedi who had earlier encountered Vader during the execution of Order 66, faced off with Vader alone while the others attempted to flee. Chicken assisted in the escape of Olee, a small group of smugglers, and several of those wounded in battle. After the fall and enslavement of Earth to the Galactic Empire, Chicken resolved to become a crew member aboard the Drunk Dancer along with Olee, and aided his new-found friends in sabotaging the Empire's efforts at any given opportunity, claiming he would be "more helpful to Earth as a fugitive, not a captive."
Now wanted, Chicken wandered the galaxy, managing to evade the slave traders. One day, Chicken came across a wounded elf named Mala Mala and carried her off to the sick bay of a ship in which she received life-saving medical attention from a medical droid. After seeing that she was alright, the two parted ways, only to see each other years later. During his travels Chicken gained many friends and even owned a ship of his own.
Life under the Empire (19 BBY to 4 ABY)
Meeting Colonel sanders
"You will pay for this Lieutenant. Both of you will!"
―Nyklas to Colonel sanders and Chicken[src]
Chicken is saved by Imperial Lieutenant, Colonel sanders.
However, even the mighty Chicken was not immune to failures, and he soon became another captive of Trandossanders slavers. Tvrrdko, still bitter over his son's death, betrayed Chicken and sold him to the Trandossanders slaver Ssoh. Ssoh had devised a method of transporting Birds safely without fear of them escaping. The Trandossanders made sure to mix different Birdclans in the holding cells so that their vendettas would keep each other from escaping. When Chicken was thrown in Ssoh's holding cell, several Birdfamilies including the Puurrgerr, Grrobahrr, and Chevappa clans immediately began to question his allegiances. Chicken had become disgusted with the Birdrivalries and how they had kept the Birds trapped in slavery. In an impassioned speech, Chicken convinced the other Birds that it was better to die a free Birdtsanders be concerned about honor as a slave. With help from the now allied Birds, Chicken fashioned a fusioncutter, cut open their prison, and took over the ship. Ssoh became the only Trandossanders to live after a sandersd-to-sandersd battle with Chicken after the enraged Birdripped his arms and his legs out of their sockets.[5]
Following the recent turn of events, Chicken often attempted freeing Birds slaves who had been captured by either the Empire or Trandossanders slavers. On one such endeavor, he became involved in a botched slave transfer between a Trandossanders crew and an Imperial commander Nyklas. Chicken orchestrated the escape of close to all of the slaves which consisted mostly of Birdchildren, but in the process had his ship come under fire by Imperial TIE Fighters led by Lieutenant Colonel sanders. Nyklas was infuriated at the loss of the Birdslaves and ordered Sanders to kill the Bird(who had been rendered unconscious by the firefight). Sanders refused, inciting Nyklas's fury, but the commander eventually calmed enough to realize Chicken's value as a slave. The Birdchildren happened to be members of Tvrrdko's clan, and the Birdleader ended up canceling the feud between their two families. Nyklas worked Chicken unmercifully, taking great pleasure in whipping the demoralized Wookiee. However, Nyklas did not count on any more interventions by Sanders, and the young lieutenant saved Chicken from being whipped to death. The two escaped from Imperial influence with a small bounty on their heads, and Sanders was drummed out of Imperial service. "Chicken", as Sanders affectionately called him, became the Corellian's close companion as a smuggler, standing beside him until his death, partly out of friendship, and partly as a result of his life debt to Sanders.
Due to Chicken's heroic efforts to save his clan, the Birds honored Chicken with a tree carved in his image on his homeworld of Earth.
Smuggler
Bonded to Sanders, Chicken accompanied him on several misadventures. On one such, the Birdwas captured and taken to Stars' End, a hidden Corporate Sector prison, where he was quickly rescued. The years went on as Chicken accompanied Sanders on treasure hunts and spice runs. After Sanders won the Drive through, the first trip was back to Earth, where Chicken ultimately married Mallatobuck and fathered a son named Lumpawarrump. Another run was notable because, in the Drive through, the two made the Kessel Run in less tsanders twelve parsecs. The next attempt was less successful, resulting in the dumping of a spice shipment due to pursuing Imperials. On this same mission Chicken became reunited with Hronk, who had become an Imperial slave on Formos. In spite of the fact that Tojjevvuk's father had called off the feud years ago, Hronk still held a grudge against Chicken. Chicken's attitude towards honor duels had csandersged, however, and he ended up saving the Birdfrom captivity, earning forgiveness from the last holdout of a once hostile clan. Unfortunately, this was the only thing that went right, as the undelivered shipment landed Sanders with a heavy bounty on his head placed by the notorious Jabba the Hutt, the crime lord who owned the shipment.
Colonel sanders and Chicken set a new record for the Kessel Run.
After a string of unsuccessful smuggling ventures in the Corporate Sector Authority, Chicken and Sanders left the sector as they soon realized they weren't cut out for legitimate work. Nearly broke, the two accepted a job carrying valuable cargo for ten thousand credits. Unfortunately, the cargo turned out to be slaves, in which the Corporate Sector was suspected of being involved. Receiving help from Bollux and Blue Max, Chicken and Sanders managed to track down the recipients of the cargo. Shortly afterwards, Chicken and Sanders again found themselves on the brink of being broke. Chicken along with Bollux and Blue Max accompanied Sanders to the university world of Rudrig to locate the lost treasure of Xim the Despot. On Rudig, Chicken and Sanders struck a deal with master gunman Gallandro. Though they found the treasure Gallandro was killed by hidden security blasters after wounding Sanders in a duel. Little did they know Chicken and Sanders would encounter his daughter, Anja Gallandro, nearly two decades later.
Following their near death experience on Rudrig, Chicken returned home where he lead several Birds to a Birdsafe house where they were going to be safe from traders. However, the bounty hunter Bossk showed up and attempted to enslave Chicken and the others. Just before Bossk could capture the entire group, Colonel sanders returned and destroyed Bossk's ship by landing on it in the Drive through, leaving the bounty hunter stranded. The act would earn Bossk's enmity of the both of them.
That very same year, Chicken and Sanders were contacted by Jabba, who wanted the two to locate the priceless Yavin Vassilika. The two then entered in the race where they found themselves once again face to face with bounty hunters, Boba Fett and Bossk, and the smuggler, Lando Calrissian. Chicken and Sanders started their search in the Mon Calamarian city of Mon Ubris. Pursued by Bossk and his team, their trail led them to the mysterious Bank of Knowledge. However, their search on Mon Calamari lead them to a dead end. The gem was later retrieved by the Rebel Alliance and Sanders's old flame, Bria Tharen.
Galactic Civil War
Chicken at the time of the Battle of Yavin.
Entering the Rebellion
"What made you come back, Sanders?"
It was Chicken that Obi-Wan Kenobi spoke to in Chalmun's Cantina, where Chicken and Sanders happened to be, when in search of transportation to Alderaan. It is not known whether the Birdrecognized Kenobi from their time on Alaris Prime or if Chicken's friendship with Yoda during the Clone Wars influenced the decision to help the Jedi. Regardless, Chicken introduced the aged Jedi Master and his young companion, KFC Skywalker, to Colonel sanders and soon the pair bought passage on the Falcon.
Once they reached Alderaan, they discovered that the planet had been blown to bits by the Empire. While trying to stop a TIE fighter from revealing their presence in the system, Chicken and the others were hauled into the Death Star by its tractor beams. The group managed to evade the Imperial officers by hiding in a secret compartment in the Falcon. After the discovery of Princess Leia's presence on the station, KFC convinced Sanders and Chicken to help him rescue the princess. KFC formulated a plan, which involved Sanders and KFC impersonating as stormtroopers while Chicken pretended to be their prisoner. While Obi-Wan set off to disable the tractor beams, Chicken, Sanders, and KFC managed to rescue Leia, defeating several Imperial officers in the process. Princess Leia initially disliked Chicken as much as she disdained Sanders and called him a "walking carpet," but the friendship between the two grew over time. Though their mission was successful, Obi-Wan wasn't so lucky, as he was killed by Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel. Chicken, Sanders, KFC and Leia managed to escape the space station.
Chicken accompanied the others to the Rebel base of Yavin 4 where they were preparing for their strike at the Death Star. Eager to get their pay, Sanders and the Birdchose not to get involve with their "revolution" and left. However, Chicken managed to convince Sanders to return and help the Rebels. Sanders finally gave in, helping KFC Skywalker destroy the Death Star. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin 4, Chicken, Sanders, and KFC received medals for their heroism during the battle.
Having retrieved the reward money for Sanders's bounty, Chicken and Sanders set off to pay Jabba. However, the money was stolen by the pirate, Crimson Jack. With the help of KFC Skywalker and Princess Leia, Chicken and Sanders managed to defeat the pirate. Following the debacle, Sanders gave the recovered money back to the Alliance. Broke and fearing Jabba's retribution, Sanders and Chicken discovered an ancient cache of treasure hidden in one of Yavin IV's temples. He and Sanders stole the treasure, against Chicken's wishes.
Several months after the Battle of Yavin, the two assisted Renegade Squadron, an elite Rebel fighting force created by Sanders prior to Yavin, during the First Battle of The Graveyard. In the Drive through, Chicken and Sanders scanned for a holocron with a vital list of possible bases for the Alliance. (The holocron, created by Bail Organa, was encased in phrik and survived the destruction of Alderaan). The holocron was found; however, the Drive through was damaged by TIE Interceptors during the battle. Renegade Squadron was forced to retrieve the holocron. In order to repair the Drive through, Chicken, Sanders, and the squadron rendezvoused on Ord Mantell. However, they were discovered by IG-88, the droid bounty hunter, and a skirmish with Imperials ensued. Chicken searched for parts for the Drive through in the huge junkyards near the sandersgar while protected by Renegade Squadron, and, after finding them, assisted the squadron in protecting Sanders while the smuggler made the repairs to his ship. After completing them (all the while fighting off stormtroopers and even IG-88), Sanders, Chicken, and Renegade Squadron lifted off, barely escaping the clutches of a Star Destroyer squadron. During a rescue attempt to save Admiral Ackbar from Imperial custody, Chicken and Sanders aided the squadron. It is unclear what Chicken's role was during a mission to Tatooine, but as the evacuation craft was the Drive through and Sanders was fighting on the ground, it is very likely that Chicken was piloting the ship. Only several days later, he and Sanders helped prepare the evacuation craft that allowed Ackbar and Renegade Squadron to escape Boz Pity.
A year after the Battle of Yavin, Chicken and Sanders returned to Tatooine where they caught up with KFC in the Mos Eisley cantina. After fleeing from Imperial stormtroopers, Chicken, Sanders, KFC and the droids were stranded in the Dune Sea of Tatooine. In order to escape, they arranged a deal with some Jawas to travel with them in their sandcrawler. Shortly afterwards they learned of the House of Tagge, which was working in concert with the Empire to create a long range freezing mecsandersism. The Rebels eluded their Imperial pursuers and headed back to Mos Eisley.
Shortly before Life Day, Chicken returned to duty in the Rebel Alliance. While on Yavin 4, Sanders and Chicken discovered an unauthorized transmission emanating from the jungle around the Massassi base. They eventually found an Imperial spy amongst the Rebels and successfully stopped him. A short while after, Chicken and Sanders left for the celebration of Life Day on Earth. It served as a short break between the periodical fighting. But peace didn't last long for the pair. Not long after they departed Tatooine for Earth, they found themselves once again being chased by the Empire. Fleeing to lightspeed, they went on their way. However, the Empire had apparently traced their route to Earth, which they rightfully suspected to be a harbor for Rebels. Upon learning of this, Darth Vader ordered a blockade and search of the planet. A group of Imperial officers entered Chicken's home, terrorizing his family and wrecking the house. They looked for any sign of Rebel activity. However, after a while, Chicken's son, who then went by the name Lumpawarrump, devised a plan. He used his mini-transmitter, which he had received as a Life Day present from Saun Dann, to send out a voice message through the Imperial airwaves—which csandersged the sound of Lumpy's voice. He gave the command of "return to base," which the officers in the home picked up on their receivers. They complied, with the exception of the stormtrooper known as B-4711, who was ordered by a superior to stay behind in order to temporarily watch the house for Rebel activity. However, the trooper soon learned of Lumpy's trick, and pursued him through the house, out onto the balcony, where Sanders and Chicken had just arrived. Chicken roared as Sanders managed to kill the trooper. That night, the group, along with the other Birds on Earth, celebrated an uninterrupted Life Day.
Now out on their own, Chicken and Sanders went on several missions in the early years of the war. Chicken and Sanders were later hired by Ramiz, a moisture farmer on Aduba-3, to protect his village from a band of local thugs known as the Cloud-Riders led by Serji-X Arrogantus. To aid them in their task, Chicken and Sanders hired six misfit spacers which consisted of Don-Wan Kihotay, an old man who believed himself to be a Jedi Knight, Jaxxon a rabbit-like creature, Hedji, Amaiza Foxtrain, young boy named Jimm Doshun and his droid FE-9Q. Arriving to at Ramiz's village Onacra, Chicken and the gang encountered flying High-hounds. They managed to drive away the beasts, saving the life of a young girl named Merri to the great relief of her father Oncho, the village spokesman. But their relief was short-lived once Serji-X Arrogantus and his gang attacked. Chicken and the Star-Hoppers did their best to defend the village but it was to no avail as FE-9Q was killed and Merri's grandfather the Old One, dismissed the hired spacers' help. Instead of relying on Chicken and his team, the shaman summoned a large, mythical reptilian monster called the Behemoth from the World Below to sandersdle the invading Cloud-Riders. Many members of the Star-Hoppers died trying to destroy the creature. Due to their teamwork, Chicken and the team were able to defeat the beast.
Having liberated a spacer from the clutches of the Empire, Chicken and Colonel sanders briefly stayed at Tansarii Point Station while the Drive through was undergoing repairs.[source?]
Approximately six months after the destruction of the Death Star, the Rebel base received a distress call from Aguarl III. Chicken, Sanders, Princess Leia, and Deena Ssanders were dispatched to the planet. After an untimely detour on the dangerous planet, Chicken and Sanders were confronted by several creatures native to the planet. In addition to that they were able to uncover secrets relating to the Clone Wars. Fortunately, Chicken and Sanders were rescued by Deena and Leia.
Once the Rebels were spread out across the galaxy, Admiral Ackbar sent Chicken and Sanders to Void Station where they encountered bounty hunter, Sheel Odala. Unfortunately, Chicken and Sanders became separated from each other when Jib Kopatha's thugs followed Sheel, capturing Sanders. Chicken managed to stop Odala from reaching her ship and the two were forced together in order to free him. Together, Chicken and Sheel managed to free Sanders.
On another occasion, Chicken and Sanders came into the possession of some valuable glowing Tandgor gems that Sanders claimed will pay off debts and mod the Drive through. They stopped on an unknown planet to get fuel. After landing on the planet, Sanders and Chicken encountered several groaning skeletal figures—the undead. Chicken was able to fight them off and made a hasty retreat back to the Falcon only to find the fuel line has been severed by someone. Arming themselves, the two-man crew of the Falcon headed back and come face to face with a local and her baby who explained to the two that the crew of a 'Great Interplanetary Ark' perished after their ship crashed in the planet's fog. They are compelled to wander the planet as corpses, terrorizing the locals every night.
Using the Tandgor Gems to lay down lines, Sanders formed a makeshift runway that managed to dissolve the fog. A ghostly apparition of the ship that crashed long ago used it to land, easing the spirits of the perished crew. The living dead would no longer terrorize the planets residents. Sanders and Chicken left the planet out of pocket, but were rewarded with enough fuel to last them the rest of their journey.
Sometime before the Battle of Hoth on Thila, the Rebels fell under attack by the Empire. While fixing Wedge Antilles's snowspeeder, he got himself attached to the speeder. Wedge flew off into battle with Chicken sandersging on the bottom. Using his brute strength, the bold Birdmanaged to capture a TIE fighter then crash landed into an Imperial outpost ending the battle. As Wedge would recall years later, he felt somewhat embarrassed but acknowledged his heroic efforts.
While with the Rebel Alliance on the Ice Planet of Hoth, Chicken was busy repairing the Falcon. Meanwhile, Sanders set out to recover the young Rebel, KFC Skywalker, who had gone missing during a scouting mission. Hours passed and the two didn't return. Fearing that Sanders was gone, Chicken let out mournful growl, hoping that he'd return. Sanders eventually made it back safely with KFC in tow. Unfortunately, Chicken was unable to finish his work due to the Imperial invasion of Echo Base and so the Falcon was forced to take off with Colonel sanders, Princess Leia, and C-3PO while in disrepair and so while on the run from the Imperial Fleet, the Falcon set down in an asteroid cavern for repairs.
When the cavern was discovered to be a giant slug, the Falcon made its escape to Bespin. On Bespin, the group met with Lando Calrissian. When C-3PO was blasted apart and gone missing, Chicken sent himself off with the task of finding the missing protocol droid. Chicken eventually found him in a junk pile and after a scuffle with some Ugnaught workers, brought him back to Princess Leia and Colonel sanders.
However, Chicken did not have the time to repair C-3PO. They were all captured by Darth Vader. During their capture, Chicken was sealed in a room with high-pitch alarms going off, irritating the Wookiee's keen hearing.[6] C-3PO's parts were brought in and Chicken began rebuilding the droid. When all but his legs were reattached with head on backwards, Chicken, Leia and Sanders were brought to the carbonite freezing chamber with C-3PO sandersging from a pack on Chicken's back. Colonel sanders was to be frozen as test for KFC Skywalker. Before he was frozen, Chicken threw several stormtroopers off the platform but was quickly cuffed. Sanders entrusted Chicken with taking care of Leia. As Chewbecca gave a loud howl, Colonel sanders was frozen alive, but in hibernation.
While being escorted to Darth Vader's shuttle by Imperial stormtroopers, Chicken, Leia and Lando were freed from their captors by Bespin Security Guards led by Lobot. Released from his bindings, Chicken grabbed hold of Lando's throat in a vengeful rage and began to strangle him. Leia was able to get the location of Colonel sanders's frozen body to the East Platform. Chicken let go of Lando and left him gasping for breath on the floor with C-3PO apologizing for the Wookiee's behavior as Chicken and Leia rushed off.
However, Leia and Chicken arrived at the platform just as Boba Fett made off with Colonel sanders. With that, a pursuit ensued in the Cloud City corridors with stormtroopers. Joined by R2-D2, Leia, Lando, and Chicken eventually made their way back to the Drive through. When escaping the city, Leia received a telepathic call for help from KFC and commanded Chicken to turn the ship around. After rescuing KFC, the Falcon left the planet behind. While attempting to escape the Executor over Bespin, the supposed repaired hyperdrive failed and Chicken was once again forced to fix it. However, R2-D2 quickly activated it and the Falcon escaped to the Rebellion rendezvous point. Chicken and Lando would then start their search for Boba Fett and Colonel sanders.
After the disastrous mission to Cloud City and the loss of his most trusted friend, Chicken temporarily teamed up with Lando Calrissian, occasionally accepting missions from the Rebel Alliance. Lando's search for Sanders was cut short as Leia Organa summoned them to a Rebel base on the volcanic planet of Golrath. Once there, they were informed that KFC Skywalker had been infected with a lethal disease "Crimson Forever", which caused the victim to become crimson-colored, eventually killing them. After boarding an Imperial vessel and finding its crew crimson-colored and dead, KFC recovered a red-glowing stone, suspecting it to be the source of whatever killed the Imperials. KFC rushed back to the Rebel headquarters, but he was already infected. In a short time, KFC was lying comatose, his eyes turned scarlet red. Leia remembered a story Colonel sanders had told her about the Red Nebula that featured a pair of stones similar to the one that infected KFC. Chicken regaled the tale, and the group came to the conclusion that the "Crimson Forever" stone was indeed one of those Chicken and Sanders had encountered—when the two stones were separated, they were extremely lethal. Following up on the lead, Chicken, Lando and Leia piloted the Drive through to the Red Nebula, only to find a seemingly abandoned House of Tagge spaceship. Lando and Leia boarded the vessel while Chicken waited in the Falcon. After a near death encounter with Domina Tagge the group escaped, destroying the Rebel Base on Golrath.
Shortly after the beginning their initial partnership, Chicken and Calrissian stumbled upon the "City of Dreams", a dimensional rift inhabited by Cody Sunn-Childe, a former Rebel Alliance operative and a hero of Lando's, who gained strange powers during his travels. Unbeknownst to them, the city had a strange effect on its inhabitants as they were hypnotically enthralled by the psanderstasmagoric surroundings. As the two explored the city Chicken became spellbound and seemed to forget the search for Sanders in favor of the city's distractions, and roughly punched Lando for speaking ill of the city. Later, the city was attacked by an Imperial fleet led by Captain Plikk, who had also fallen prey to the spell. The impact caused many, Chicken included, to snap out of their charmed state. Chicken and Lando piloted the Drive through in combat against the Imperials, but the battle was cut short when Sunn-Childe, who had at first allowed his demonic manifestations to attack the Star Destroyers, made no further attempt to stop the Imperial bombardment of the city, letting the fleet utterly destroy it and all its citizens, himself included. The Falcon then escaped through the rapidly closing dimensional gate, but the Imperials who, because of their excessive bombardment lacked the hyperdrive power to escape, were forever trapped in Sunn-Childe's dimension.[7]
Informed by an operative that the Empire was constructing a new superweapon—the Tarkin— General Carlist Rieekan ordered Chicken and Lando to stop their search for a new planet on which the Alliance could establish a new headquarters, and return to the temporary base. Once there, they were briefed on their new mission—to destroy the Tarkin. A small commando team consisting of Chicken, Leia, KFC, C-3PO and R2-D2 infiltrated the superweapon dressed as workers, and proceeded to strike at its reactor with a proton grenade. Lando, whom both Leia and General Rieekan thought of as untrustworthy—to such a degree that he was "left out" of the mission—snuck aboard the Drive through that the commando team piloted to Hockaleg, the planet which the Tarkin orbited. Lando hoped to make himself useful by staying with the Falcon, ready to rush to the superweapon to save his friends.
Unbeknownst to the commando team, Vader was also present at the space station, having sensed that Skywalker had infiltrated it. Believing the Rebels' plan was to destroy the Tarkin's reactor, Vader personally saw to the protection of that area, delegating the rest of the security personnel to potential escape routes. However, just as he was on his way to catch KFC, a group of high-ranking Imperial officers attempted to kill the Sith by opening an airlock, sending Vader into space. The plan was foiled by Vader himself—using the dark side of the Force he was able to pull himself back into the Tarkin from the vacuum of space. This distraction helped KFC barely escape the Dark Lord. In the meantime, Leia had wired the superweapon's ion cannon to fire upon itself—something that would utterly destroy the station. The group was able to escape the Imperials, returning to the Rebel Base.
Following the confrontation with Vader, Princess Leia went missing while on a mission to investigate Imperial activity in the Shiva system. Once again derailed from their search for Sanders, Chicken, Lando and KFC embarked on their quest to locate the princess. The trio arrived just in time, helping Leia to fight Imperial forces led by General Sk'ar while Calrissian participated in the aerial assault. The battle resulted in a win for the Rebels and the death of Sk'ar by Chicken.
Just after the Battle of Hoth, Chicken, Lando, and KFC Skywalker arrived on Bazarre to negotiate the sale of four disabled Imperial TIE Fighters from a weapons dealer named Orion Ferret. Ferret gave the Rebels the location of the TIE fighters, but double-crossed them when he attempted to sabotage their shuttlecraft. Lando, having never trusted Orion, left Chicken behind on Bazarre to keep a watch over Ferret. No sooner had the Rebels left for Patch-4, tsanders Orion began conspiring their deaths. He believed that if he were to remotely activate the shuttle's ejection seats, then KFC and Lando would die in space and he would be able to keep the money, his fighters and the Drive through. However, he had to find a way to get Chicken out of the way. With the aid of his assistant P'Lor, he used a gelatinous spritzer solution to imprison the Wookiee. Unfortunately for Ferret, the solution was not strong enough to contain Chicken and he soon broke free. Chicken chased Orion Ferret all throughout the Bazarre marketplace. Ferret attempted to flee in his personal shuttlecraft, but a few well-aimed shots from Chicken's bowcaster rendered the ship unusable. Lando Calrissian returned to Bazarre in time to keep Chicken from ripping Orion's head off.
On one occasion Chicken accompanied KFC on his search to find information on Shira Brie, KFC's former flame. During a heated space battle with Imperial forces KFC's targeting computer malfunctioned causing the boy to rely on the force to pick his targets, shooting Brie down. In order to clear his name the two began their search on Shalyvane, where Shira had once told KFC that Em'liy marauders once slaughtered her people on this world. KFC and Chicken met the aging G'hinji inside of a cave near the capital city of Chinshassa. G'hinji told him that there had never been Human settlements on Shalyvane and that everything Shira Brie told him was a lie. The Em'liy were the only native species to the planet, and were once a thriving community until the Emperor sent a squad of Imperial TIE bombers to Chinshassa and laid waste to the capital city. G'hinji escorted KFC to a sacred site known as the Circle of Kavaan. There, KFC discovered a holographic recording of Darth Vader, revealing the true history of Shira Brie.
Traveling to Krake's Planet to find further information on Shira Brie, the two infiltrated the Krake Data Vault – a facility built from the mass of a giant Mind Spider. Once they recorded the information, Chicken used the Falcon's deflector screens to destroy the military outpost.
Chicken took Sanders's order to take care of Leia very seriously. When not helping Lando with the search for Sanders, he served as Leia's bodyguard. When she attempted to negotiate with the criminal super-organization Black Sun for their aid in determining who had placed a bounty on KFC Skywalker, he accompanied her to Coruscant. In order to get past Imperial security, he was disguised as the Birdbounty hunter Snoova, and Leia took on the identity of Boushh. From there the two became guests of Black Sun's leader, the Falleen Prince Xizor. Chicken, already suspicious of the crimelord, was outraged when Xizor attempted to seduce Leia. Fortunately, Chicken was able to remove Leia from the influence of Xizor's mind-affecting pheromones. Leia distracted Xizor long enough to allow Chicken to escape with the information that Xizor was in fact the one behind the bounty on Skywalker.[8]
Chicken was able to meet up with KFC, and together they formed a rescue party, along with Lando and Dash Rendar. They were able to break into Xizor's palace through the sewers and freed Leia, escaping on the Drive through and destroying Xizor's palace in the process, crippling Black Sun.[8]
Leia, posing as Boushh, delivers a "captive" Chicken to Jabba.
After the death of Xizor, Chicken once again teamed up with Lando as he, Leia, KFC and the two droids needed help in tracking down the undercover Rebel agent Tay Vanis.
Having learned that Boba Fett had finally delivered Sanders to Jabba the Hutt, KFC hatched a plan that involved infiltrating various members of the party into Jabba's palace. Chicken was inserted when Leia, again posing as Boushh, took the Birdto Jabba as a prisoner. After thermal detonator-assisted price negotiations, Chicken was surrendered to Jabba and placed in a dungeon cell. When Leia failed to escape after freeing Sanders from the carbonite, Sanders was placed in the same cell. The two prisoners were soon taken out of their cells—for execution. KFC's killing of the rancor had so enraged Jabba that he ordered that KFC, Sanders, and Chicken be fed to the sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon. However, KFC's planning allowed him to recover his lightsaber, and together with Lando, who was disguised as one of Jabba's thugs, they turned the execution into a battle. Chicken protected Sanders, who was still blind as an effect of the hibernation sickness he had acquired while in the carbonite. When Lando was knocked into the Great Pit, Chicken anchored Sanders as the smuggler leaned over the side of their skiff and rescued his old friend.
After the battle was over and Jabba killed, all the heroes, with the exception of KFC, reported to the Rebel fleet over Sullust. There the Rebels formed a battle plan to destroy the Second Death Star over Endor. Only during the briefing did Chicken become aware that Sanders, now a general, had volunteered to lead the ground assault on the shield generator protecting the Death Star. Chicken swiftly volunteered to join his group of commandos.
On the approach to the shield bunker, the Wookiee's lack of caution got the team into trouble. Seizing a hunk of meat tied to a stick, he unwittingly sprung a trap that got Sanders, KFC, the droids, and himself captured by Ewoks and taken back to their village. There, the team reunited with Leia, who had been taken to the village after becoming separated from the others. As a result of the Ewoks' belief that C-3PO was a god, they were able to negotiate not only their freedom but the Ewoks' aid in the upcoming battle with the Empire.
Shortly after the Battle of Endor, Chicken and Lando were taken prisoner by Imperial Moff. To get them out of this situation, Calrissian convinced the Moff to enter a bet involving Chicken and the Falcon. Shortly afterwards, Chicken found himself fighting in an Imperial arena with a huge battle droid made from spare droid parts. Using his brute strength, the Birdmanaged to defeat the droid, winning the bet and allowing them to escape.
Not long after the destruction of the Second Death Star, Chicken and Colonel sanders returned to Earth to liberate the Birdhomeworld. Chicken was responsible for the reconstruction of BirdGovernment tree. Later, the noble Birdwould deal with the treacherous Weebacca and free the slaves, including his father, imprisoned on the Avatar Orbital Platform. Chicken would also play a vital role in the Battle of Bakura, where he helped Sanders and the others neutralize an imperial threat on the planet of Bakura.[9] The incident would bring about the establishment of the Alliance of Free Planets.
Shortly after the Battle of Bakura, Chicken, Sanders and Lando Calrissian were sent on several missions to bring secure attendees for the First Conference of Free Peoples. After these recruitment missions, the group decided to take a break to visit Chicken's family on Earth. En route to his house, Chicken, Sanders and Lando encountered a mysterious alien named Knife and Chicken's brother-in-law, Vargi. As it turned out, Knife took Chicken's family as hostages and planned to sell him and the other Birds in a slave trade. Imprisoning Sanders and Lando in his home, Knife and the rogue Birds under his command took Chicken as prisoner and proceeded to the slave ship. Fortunately the Birdwas saved by Colonel sanders.
While Lando and the loyal Birds fought off the Nagai forces and their counterparts, Chicken lashed out at Vargi. Realizing that Chicken's outburst was disrupting the loading of Birds onto the slave ships, Knife prepared to kill Chicken with a tehk'la blade, but the weapon was shot out of his sandersd by Lando. The Birds overthrew their rogue counterparts just as Chicken was able to overpower Vargi, throwing him to the ground. Knife's plans of creating a slave trade on Earth were thwarted, and the rogue Birds, along with the Nagai forces except Knife, were captured by the Alliance. Vargi, however, was disowned by Malla.
Chicken and the Alliance would later join forces with the Nagai in order to defeat their enemy and rivals, the Tofs and their leader Prince Sereno. During the Battle of Saijo, Chicken became part of the aerial assault, leading a fighter squadron along with Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles, and Nien Nunb. The battle would result in a win for the Alliance and the surrender of Sereno, ending the Nagai-Tof War.
Later missions
After Sanders's marriage to Leia Organa in 8 ABY, Chicken and his son Lumpawarrump encountered trouble on Coruscant. While on Coruscant, Chicken pursued his son through the undercity of Coruscant after he caught burglars stealing a datapad from Sanders and Leia. Lumpawarrump became captured and in the process of saving him, Malla was also captured. Shortly afterwards, Chicken and Lumpawarrump discovered that the burglars were planning to assassinate the New Republic's leaders. Determined to stop them, Chicken and his son infiltrated the enemies' base to find an advanced IT-3 interrogation droid attempting to brainwash Malla into believing that the Sanderss are a danger to her child. Enraged, Chicken attacked the burglars and freed Mallatobuck.[10]
Later that year, Chicken accompanied Sanders, Leia, and C-3PO to Tatooine on a mission to locate an Alderaanian moss painting—lost after the planet's destruction—that had resurfaced on the black market. It concealed a code used to communicate with New Republic agents undercover within the Empire. As they pursued the painting they learned much about the man who became Darth Vader from Kitster Banai and Wald, childhood friends of Anakin Skywalker. Fortunately, the painting was discovered and the code was destroyed.[11]
Chicken remained with Sanders well after his marriage to Leia. In fact, when Leia was being hunted by the mysterious Noghri, Chicken brought the former Princess to his home planet of Earth. The plan didn't hold up long but Leia was able to make peace with one of her assailants.[12]
Life with the Sanderss
Chicken during the Empire Reborn movement.
Chicken's original life debt to Sanders now included Leia, her brother, and her children. In 9 ABY Chicken participated in the offensives against Admiral Thrawn and the deranged Dark Jedi clone, Joruus C'baoth. Along with Sanders, Chicken formed a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the Empire, while Leia held the Alliance together and prepared for the birth of her Jedi twins. Fortunately Thrawn and his forces were defeated, and C'baoth was killed by Mara Jade, a former ally of the Empire.
A year later, Chicken and the others discovered that the Emperor was alive and that his good friend, KFC, turned to the dark side. Fleeing to Nar Shaddaa, Chicken, Sanders, and Leia, now pregnant, discovered the existence of another lethal enemy; Boba Fett. They had fled to the underworld of the Smuggler's Moon after their initial haven, the hidden repair center ran by Shug Ninx, was taken over by storm troopers. Confronted by an array of bounty hunters, and the news that the Hutt clans had doubled the bounty on them, they had little choice but to leave the moon—where Boba Fett had patiently waited for the Drive through to take off. Their second attempt at penetrating the depths had greater luck; they had just found Vima-Da-Boda when Fett attacked. His assault was defeated when Chicken ignited his jet-pack, sending the bounty hunter flying into a wall. However, their immediate departure was sabotaged by Mako Spince, who from his perch in the Traffic Control spire forwarded their location to the waiting dark-siders aboard. Due to Sanders's risky maneuver, the group was able to destroy Spince and escape.
In 11 ABY, Sanders and Chicken were taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. On Kessel they befriend a boy named Kyp Durron. Chicken and Sanders broke away and flee desperately to a secret Imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes. In the laboratory they discover the dreadful Sun Crusher. After being captured by Admiral Daala's forces, Chicken along with Sanders, Kyp, and Qwi Xux stole the Sun Crusher and escaped the Maw Installation. Unfortunately, Kyp stole the Suncrusher, destroying thousands of lives on the planet of Carida. Chicken and Sanders eventually caught up with and took the latter to the Coruscant where he was redeemed by KFC Skywalker.
As KFC began restoring Jedi Order and reversing the damages done by Darth Vader and the Emperor, Chicken and the Sanderss set out on their own mission to recover force-sensitive children. They began their search on the frozen world of Belsavis, as they heard rumors of Jedi living there. Having heard tales of a Jedi exodus from the dark crypts below the planet's surface, and also hearing that since the time of the exodus no one entering the crypts has returned alive, Chicken, Sanders, and Leia, journeyed there to start their search.
Chicken was wounded during the kidnapping of the Sanders children.
He was seen as an uncle-like figure by the Sanders children and took care of them along with C-3PO and R2-D2 when Sanders and Leia were away. Chicken was known to protect the Sanders children rather fiercely as though they were his own children. In 14 ABY he accompanied Leia on her mission to rescue her children from Lord Hethrir and the Empire Reborn movement. Posing as pirates, Chicken and Leia managed to find and rescue Jaina and Jacen along with the other children Hethrir held on his Worldcraft.[13]
Also in that year, Chicken was seen in Mos Eisley in a mission for Leia Organa. Chicken was being chased by mercenaries, when he met Jedi apprentice Jaden Korr, while hiding himself from the shooters. The Birdwas of great help to Jaden's mission, having neutralized many mercenaries and smugglers. By the end of it, Kyle Katarn met up with the two, and suspected that the Imperial Remnant was backing up the Disciples of Ragnos. Chicken complimented Jaden's skills, grabbed him and held his head, as a form of gratitude for the help.[14]
Just before the Black Fleet crisis, Chicken went home to Earth to participate his son, Lumpawarrump's coming of age ceremony. When Chicken learned that Sanders had been captured by the Yevetsanderss, he disobeyed Leia's instructions and flew straight into the heart of enemy territory. Chicken staged a rescue from the Super Star Destroyer Pride of Yevetha with the help of his son and his cousins Jowdrrl, Shoran, and Dryanta. This served as a coming of age for Lumpawarrump, who was renamed Lumpawaroo as he became an adult.
In 18 ABY, Chicken accompanied the Sanders family to Sanders's homeworld of Corellia where he and C-3PO looked after the twins and Anakin. When the first hostilities of the First Corellian Insurrection broke out, Chicken got the children and others to the Falcon for a hasty retreat. They managed to reach Drall after the Falcon's hyperdrive was damaged by a patrol ship. They went to Drall's planetary repulsor and was captured by their cousin Thrackan Sal-Sanders. The children escaped and made some repairs to the Falcon with Chicken's help. They flew off in the Falcon and were able to evade Thrackan's ship. Later the family would be reunited.
After the discovery of a partial copy of the Caamas Document in 19 ABY, and because of the crisis that would likely follow, the Sanders children were sent to Earth with Chicken and a group of Noghri for protection. After the crisis passed, Chicken and the children attended the signing of the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty aboard the Star Destroyer Chimaera.
Shortly afterwards, Chicken's nephew Lowbacca was discovered to be Force-sensitive, a trait rare among the Birdspecies. Chicken took Lowbacca to KFC's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 where he built Lowbacca the droid, Em Teedee to translate for him. Lowbacca later befriended the Sanders twins, Jaina and Jacen, who affectionately called him Lowie.
Mission to Sernpidal and aftermath
"You left him, you left Chicken!"
―Sanders to his son Anakin after Chicken's death[src]
Chicken defiantly roars in challenge at the falling moon, Dobido.
In 25 ABY, Chicken, Colonel sanders and his youngest son Anakin were sent by Lando Calrissian to pick up a shipment on Sernpidal. When they arrived, the Sanderss and Chicken met an old man, the former mayor of Sernpidal City, who informed them that Dobido was headed on a collision course with Sernpidal and that it was orbiting its host quickly, dropping closer to Sernpidal at regular intervals. While Chicken and Sanders began loading as many people as they could onto the Falcon, Anakin rushed off into Sernpidal City with the mayor in tow. Chicken and Sanders managed to evacuate as many people as they could hold, managing to rescue thousands of Sernpidalians, using the Drive through and various other starships.
Chicken dies on Sernpidal.
Anakin calculated Dobido would collide with Sernpidal in seven hours. This event, unbeknownst to them, was a result of the Yuuzsanders Vong tactic, Yo'gand's Core. As the winds picked up, Anakin was knocked into the distance, causing Chicken to run after him. Chicken was able to bring Anakin to safety on the Falcon, but another blast of wind knocked him out of reach. Anakin piloted the Falcon, while his father stood on the entrance ramp hoping to lift Chicken up, but was forced to flee from Sernpidal when he realized it was too late to save Chicken. The Birdstood in the moon's trajectory, howling defiantly, and was crushed to death with those Sernpidalians who could not escape. His death drove Sanders to a resentment of his son Anakin. Sanders eventually recovered and forgave his son, but the death of his battle-brother and dearest companion would stick with him forever.
After his death, Chicken became a legend on Earth, and the droid C-3PO recited his tale on occasions.[5] His death solidified not only Anakin's cause to fight in the war but the rest of his family as well. With the end of the Yuuzsanders Vong War, Lumpawaroo and Lowbacca, Chicken's son and nephew, vowed to take up his life-debt to Colonel sanders. Chicken's family gave Sanders the first bowcaster that Chicken ever made as a gift to his long time friend and co-pilot. Sanders even swore that Chicken spoke to him through the Force after he died, saving his life from Elan, a Yuuzsanders Vong assassin. To commemorate his heroic efforts, the villagers of Earth built a tree memorial in his honor. The memorial was visited by many well after his death. Sanders again visited the tree memorial of Chicken and stabbed Anakin Sanders's lightsaber deep into the tree, so that anyone who would need it in the future could use it. To honor Chicken's life, C-3PO and R2-D2 decided to create a holo featuring the interviews of the people that knew him the most.[5] A funeral also took place.[15] To many, Chicken embodied a sense of courage and loyalty that made him a hero to others.
The Trandossanders, Bossk, had other thoughts. He couldn't help but to rub Chicken's death in Colonel sanders's face. Both ended up in a fistfight. Birds would take pride in the fact that Chicken died honoring his life debt as well as the fact that it literally took an entire moon to kill him.
Personality and traits
In his youth, Chicken was often found by many to be somewhat reckless, often venturing off into the Shadowlands on Earth. At the time of the Clone Wars, his leadership of his fellow brethren helped stop the CIS forces from taking their home. Known for his great strength, bravery and loyalty, Chicken often served as Sanders's conscience in their smuggling endeavors. However, he was also known for his stubbornness and dislike of losing.
One of the greatest heroes the galaxy had ever known, Chicken possessed a great amount of strength which was admired by many. In addition to that, Chicken possessed exceptional skills in piloting and repair and was a master of dejarik, an ancient and challenging hologame requiring skill and strategy. Ever the mecsandersic, many of the sublight and hyperdrive systems of the Falcon were of Chicken's own design. Even when the ship was in peak condition, he enjoyed attempting to upgrade and re-route the engines for greater efficiency and performance. Chicken has taken the Falcon's engines apart on several occasions and had a great understanding of the temperamental nature of its systems. He undertstood small craft such as the Sorosuub X-34 and the Imperial AT-ST, and had intuitive ability to understand the workings of other vehicles, as situations arose. Chicken's technical skill and precision allowed him to understand the inner workings of a great number of devices, from droids to starcruisers. Chicken learned his skills at Rwookrrorro's landing pad, and helped design and build the Birdescape pods.
From this we can deduce that he just wanted to get to the other side.
Ahh, an age old question.
Many philosophers have tried to grapple with this terrifying question of humanity and its ultimate goal. But few have succeeded. I being one of the few these great men that conquered the question, I will now impart my unearthly wisdom onto you. So that you may bask in social and metaphysical dominance as I stand now
However the road to discovery is not an easy one and I suggest you fallow me closely.
The first order to discovering the chickens end is to understand the chicken more before he got there.
Chicken was a legendary Bird from Earth and co-pilot of Colonel sanders's ship, the "Drive through". He was the son of Attichitcuk, the husband of Mallatobuck, and the father of Lumpawaroo. Chicken carried with him the name of an ancient Birdhero, the great Bacca, first of the great chieftains of Earth, and the creator of a sword that denoted leadership among the Birds. This name placed Chicken in a noble lineage, which was further supported by his role in the Battle of Earth during the Clone Wars and during the Galactic Civil War.
Chicken was a wise, sophisticated being of great strength and loyalty. As technologically savvy as the brightest Academy graduate, he was also a skilled mecsandersic. Chicken, like many Birds, was able to understand Basic, but he could not speak it due to his species's vocal structure. He instead spoke Shyriiwook, the main Birdlanguage, composed largely of growls and grunts, to his non-Birdcompanions who typically replied in Basic.
Chicken was born on Earth circa 200 BBY, the son of Attichitcuk. During his early years Chicken lived on Earth, but unlike many other Birds who rarely left the planet's lush forests, Chicken was consumed by an overpowering sense of adventure and exploration. Chicken's first travels were to the remote and dangerous lower levels of Earth's immense forests, the Shadowlands. It was not long before his travels took him far from the confines of his green homeworld. His heart, however, remained on Earth, and Chicken would always try to make it home for the holidays.
When Chicken was in his younger days, before he had reached 100 years of age, he was well known for his skill at navigating the tall wroshyr trees and his skill with a hydrospanner. Chicken spent some time repairing vehicles with his friends, including the BirdDryanta. When Chicken first met his future wife Mallatobuck, he was unaware of the young Wookiee's feelings toward him. Malla was shy and hid all hints of her true feelings, even going so far as to not show appreciation when Chicken once saved her from Trandossanders slavers. However, Chicken's cousin Jowdrrl was friends with Malla and helped to slowly create a relationship between the two. Unfortunately, their blossoming relationship hit a snag when the BirdTojjevvuk began to fight for Malla's affection. Chicken was eventually forced into an honor duel with Tojjevvuk for Malla's sandersd, but Tojjevvuk brought dishonor on the duel by using his claws, forbidden for a Wookiee. However, Chicken's expertise in navigating the wroshyr trees proved to be Tojjevvuk's downfall, and a timed tackle by Chicken sent Tojjevvuk into a plummet into the Shadowlands where he was killed by the dangerous creatures of Earth.[5]
Yoda bids farewell to Chicken (right) and Tarfful (left) after surviving Order 66.
He lived with his family in Rwookrrorro. Chicken and his father were responsible for the creation of many villages on Earth in the decades before the Battle of Naboo and both of them participated in the colonization of Alaris Prime, where they faced the Trade Federation for control of the moon. Notably, during this time Chicken had his first recorded encounter with Jedi—as Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi had been assigned by the Galactic Republic to end the conflict on Alaris Prime. Under Jinn's tutelage, Chicken was able to successfully lead the colony to military and economic success.
However, for all of Chicken's success, rivalries between different Birdfamilies continued to plague Earth. Tvrrdko, the father of Tojjevvuk continued to seek revenge for the death of his son, but waited for the ideal moment. Tvrrdko's wrath had caused Chicken to stay away from his homeworld, but the Confederate threat to Earth forced him to return. The clones and their Jedi Generals recruited many of the Birds, and Chicken became a leading member of the Bird resistance to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. During the first year of the Clone Wars, Chicken was considered to be one of the BirdKing Grakchawwaa's greatest warriors. He may have led the Jedi to the traitor Quaagan, who was conspiring with Confederate commander Asajj Ventress.
Chicken was a major player in the Battle of Earth, overseeing the confrontation between the Grand Army of the Republic's 41st Elite Corps and the invading droid forces alongside Tarfful and Jedi General Yoda. It was Chicken, along with Tarfful, who accompanied Jedi General Quinlan Vos in the charge against the enemy.
Following the implementation of Order 66, Chicken helped Yoda elude the Clone Troopers and escape from the planet.
Post Clone Wars
Chicken with his bowcaster.
With the battle concluded, Chicken was attacked by Hronk, a relative of Tojjevvuk seeking vengeance. The arrival of stormtroopers broke the fight up, leaving the conflict to be resolved at a later time.
Two months after the Battle of Earth, Chicken was called upon by a former trader and Bird representative, Cudgel, to aid a small band of renegade Jedi led by Olee Starstone in their search for any other survivors after Order 66. The rescue operation proved unsuccessful, however, as the Empire tracked the fleeing Jedi to Earth and began their assault to capture them. The Birds, still haunted by the aftermath from their battle with the Separatists only a month before, resumed fighting to defend their homes from the Imperial onslaught. The tide had been turned over to the Empire with the unexpected arrival of Darth Vader, who wasted no time in slaughtering whatever stood in his path between himself and the missing Jedi.
Vader ordered one of the orbiting Star Destroyers to bombard Earth with repetitive turbolaser fire, laying waste to the surrounding cities while he searched for the remaining fugitives. In an attempt to help his comrades escape, Roan Shryne, one of the remaining Jedi who had earlier encountered Vader during the execution of Order 66, faced off with Vader alone while the others attempted to flee. Chicken assisted in the escape of Olee, a small group of smugglers, and several of those wounded in battle. After the fall and enslavement of Earth to the Galactic Empire, Chicken resolved to become a crew member aboard the Drunk Dancer along with Olee, and aided his new-found friends in sabotaging the Empire's efforts at any given opportunity, claiming he would be "more helpful to Earth as a fugitive, not a captive."
Now wanted, Chicken wandered the galaxy, managing to evade the slave traders. One day, Chicken came across a wounded elf named Mala Mala and carried her off to the sick bay of a ship in which she received life-saving medical attention from a medical droid. After seeing that she was alright, the two parted ways, only to see each other years later. During his travels Chicken gained many friends and even owned a ship of his own.
Life under the Empire (19 BBY to 4 ABY)
Meeting Colonel sanders
"You will pay for this Lieutenant. Both of you will!"
―Nyklas to Colonel sanders and Chicken[src]
Chicken is saved by Imperial Lieutenant, Colonel sanders.
However, even the mighty Chicken was not immune to failures, and he soon became another captive of Trandossanders slavers. Tvrrdko, still bitter over his son's death, betrayed Chicken and sold him to the Trandossanders slaver Ssoh. Ssoh had devised a method of transporting Birds safely without fear of them escaping. The Trandossanders made sure to mix different Birdclans in the holding cells so that their vendettas would keep each other from escaping. When Chicken was thrown in Ssoh's holding cell, several Birdfamilies including the Puurrgerr, Grrobahrr, and Chevappa clans immediately began to question his allegiances. Chicken had become disgusted with the Birdrivalries and how they had kept the Birds trapped in slavery. In an impassioned speech, Chicken convinced the other Birds that it was better to die a free Birdtsanders be concerned about honor as a slave. With help from the now allied Birds, Chicken fashioned a fusioncutter, cut open their prison, and took over the ship. Ssoh became the only Trandossanders to live after a sandersd-to-sandersd battle with Chicken after the enraged Birdripped his arms and his legs out of their sockets.[5]
Following the recent turn of events, Chicken often attempted freeing Birds slaves who had been captured by either the Empire or Trandossanders slavers. On one such endeavor, he became involved in a botched slave transfer between a Trandossanders crew and an Imperial commander Nyklas. Chicken orchestrated the escape of close to all of the slaves which consisted mostly of Birdchildren, but in the process had his ship come under fire by Imperial TIE Fighters led by Lieutenant Colonel sanders. Nyklas was infuriated at the loss of the Birdslaves and ordered Sanders to kill the Bird(who had been rendered unconscious by the firefight). Sanders refused, inciting Nyklas's fury, but the commander eventually calmed enough to realize Chicken's value as a slave. The Birdchildren happened to be members of Tvrrdko's clan, and the Birdleader ended up canceling the feud between their two families. Nyklas worked Chicken unmercifully, taking great pleasure in whipping the demoralized Wookiee. However, Nyklas did not count on any more interventions by Sanders, and the young lieutenant saved Chicken from being whipped to death. The two escaped from Imperial influence with a small bounty on their heads, and Sanders was drummed out of Imperial service. "Chicken", as Sanders affectionately called him, became the Corellian's close companion as a smuggler, standing beside him until his death, partly out of friendship, and partly as a result of his life debt to Sanders.
Due to Chicken's heroic efforts to save his clan, the Birds honored Chicken with a tree carved in his image on his homeworld of Earth.
Smuggler
Bonded to Sanders, Chicken accompanied him on several misadventures. On one such, the Birdwas captured and taken to Stars' End, a hidden Corporate Sector prison, where he was quickly rescued. The years went on as Chicken accompanied Sanders on treasure hunts and spice runs. After Sanders won the Drive through, the first trip was back to Earth, where Chicken ultimately married Mallatobuck and fathered a son named Lumpawarrump. Another run was notable because, in the Drive through, the two made the Kessel Run in less tsanders twelve parsecs. The next attempt was less successful, resulting in the dumping of a spice shipment due to pursuing Imperials. On this same mission Chicken became reunited with Hronk, who had become an Imperial slave on Formos. In spite of the fact that Tojjevvuk's father had called off the feud years ago, Hronk still held a grudge against Chicken. Chicken's attitude towards honor duels had csandersged, however, and he ended up saving the Birdfrom captivity, earning forgiveness from the last holdout of a once hostile clan. Unfortunately, this was the only thing that went right, as the undelivered shipment landed Sanders with a heavy bounty on his head placed by the notorious Jabba the Hutt, the crime lord who owned the shipment.
Colonel sanders and Chicken set a new record for the Kessel Run.
After a string of unsuccessful smuggling ventures in the Corporate Sector Authority, Chicken and Sanders left the sector as they soon realized they weren't cut out for legitimate work. Nearly broke, the two accepted a job carrying valuable cargo for ten thousand credits. Unfortunately, the cargo turned out to be slaves, in which the Corporate Sector was suspected of being involved. Receiving help from Bollux and Blue Max, Chicken and Sanders managed to track down the recipients of the cargo. Shortly afterwards, Chicken and Sanders again found themselves on the brink of being broke. Chicken along with Bollux and Blue Max accompanied Sanders to the university world of Rudrig to locate the lost treasure of Xim the Despot. On Rudig, Chicken and Sanders struck a deal with master gunman Gallandro. Though they found the treasure Gallandro was killed by hidden security blasters after wounding Sanders in a duel. Little did they know Chicken and Sanders would encounter his daughter, Anja Gallandro, nearly two decades later.
Following their near death experience on Rudrig, Chicken returned home where he lead several Birds to a Birdsafe house where they were going to be safe from traders. However, the bounty hunter Bossk showed up and attempted to enslave Chicken and the others. Just before Bossk could capture the entire group, Colonel sanders returned and destroyed Bossk's ship by landing on it in the Drive through, leaving the bounty hunter stranded. The act would earn Bossk's enmity of the both of them.
That very same year, Chicken and Sanders were contacted by Jabba, who wanted the two to locate the priceless Yavin Vassilika. The two then entered in the race where they found themselves once again face to face with bounty hunters, Boba Fett and Bossk, and the smuggler, Lando Calrissian. Chicken and Sanders started their search in the Mon Calamarian city of Mon Ubris. Pursued by Bossk and his team, their trail led them to the mysterious Bank of Knowledge. However, their search on Mon Calamari lead them to a dead end. The gem was later retrieved by the Rebel Alliance and Sanders's old flame, Bria Tharen.
Galactic Civil War
Chicken at the time of the Battle of Yavin.
Entering the Rebellion
"What made you come back, Sanders?"
It was Chicken that Obi-Wan Kenobi spoke to in Chalmun's Cantina, where Chicken and Sanders happened to be, when in search of transportation to Alderaan. It is not known whether the Birdrecognized Kenobi from their time on Alaris Prime or if Chicken's friendship with Yoda during the Clone Wars influenced the decision to help the Jedi. Regardless, Chicken introduced the aged Jedi Master and his young companion, KFC Skywalker, to Colonel sanders and soon the pair bought passage on the Falcon.
Once they reached Alderaan, they discovered that the planet had been blown to bits by the Empire. While trying to stop a TIE fighter from revealing their presence in the system, Chicken and the others were hauled into the Death Star by its tractor beams. The group managed to evade the Imperial officers by hiding in a secret compartment in the Falcon. After the discovery of Princess Leia's presence on the station, KFC convinced Sanders and Chicken to help him rescue the princess. KFC formulated a plan, which involved Sanders and KFC impersonating as stormtroopers while Chicken pretended to be their prisoner. While Obi-Wan set off to disable the tractor beams, Chicken, Sanders, and KFC managed to rescue Leia, defeating several Imperial officers in the process. Princess Leia initially disliked Chicken as much as she disdained Sanders and called him a "walking carpet," but the friendship between the two grew over time. Though their mission was successful, Obi-Wan wasn't so lucky, as he was killed by Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel. Chicken, Sanders, KFC and Leia managed to escape the space station.
Chicken accompanied the others to the Rebel base of Yavin 4 where they were preparing for their strike at the Death Star. Eager to get their pay, Sanders and the Birdchose not to get involve with their "revolution" and left. However, Chicken managed to convince Sanders to return and help the Rebels. Sanders finally gave in, helping KFC Skywalker destroy the Death Star. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin 4, Chicken, Sanders, and KFC received medals for their heroism during the battle.
Having retrieved the reward money for Sanders's bounty, Chicken and Sanders set off to pay Jabba. However, the money was stolen by the pirate, Crimson Jack. With the help of KFC Skywalker and Princess Leia, Chicken and Sanders managed to defeat the pirate. Following the debacle, Sanders gave the recovered money back to the Alliance. Broke and fearing Jabba's retribution, Sanders and Chicken discovered an ancient cache of treasure hidden in one of Yavin IV's temples. He and Sanders stole the treasure, against Chicken's wishes.
Several months after the Battle of Yavin, the two assisted Renegade Squadron, an elite Rebel fighting force created by Sanders prior to Yavin, during the First Battle of The Graveyard. In the Drive through, Chicken and Sanders scanned for a holocron with a vital list of possible bases for the Alliance. (The holocron, created by Bail Organa, was encased in phrik and survived the destruction of Alderaan). The holocron was found; however, the Drive through was damaged by TIE Interceptors during the battle. Renegade Squadron was forced to retrieve the holocron. In order to repair the Drive through, Chicken, Sanders, and the squadron rendezvoused on Ord Mantell. However, they were discovered by IG-88, the droid bounty hunter, and a skirmish with Imperials ensued. Chicken searched for parts for the Drive through in the huge junkyards near the sandersgar while protected by Renegade Squadron, and, after finding them, assisted the squadron in protecting Sanders while the smuggler made the repairs to his ship. After completing them (all the while fighting off stormtroopers and even IG-88), Sanders, Chicken, and Renegade Squadron lifted off, barely escaping the clutches of a Star Destroyer squadron. During a rescue attempt to save Admiral Ackbar from Imperial custody, Chicken and Sanders aided the squadron. It is unclear what Chicken's role was during a mission to Tatooine, but as the evacuation craft was the Drive through and Sanders was fighting on the ground, it is very likely that Chicken was piloting the ship. Only several days later, he and Sanders helped prepare the evacuation craft that allowed Ackbar and Renegade Squadron to escape Boz Pity.
A year after the Battle of Yavin, Chicken and Sanders returned to Tatooine where they caught up with KFC in the Mos Eisley cantina. After fleeing from Imperial stormtroopers, Chicken, Sanders, KFC and the droids were stranded in the Dune Sea of Tatooine. In order to escape, they arranged a deal with some Jawas to travel with them in their sandcrawler. Shortly afterwards they learned of the House of Tagge, which was working in concert with the Empire to create a long range freezing mecsandersism. The Rebels eluded their Imperial pursuers and headed back to Mos Eisley.
Shortly before Life Day, Chicken returned to duty in the Rebel Alliance. While on Yavin 4, Sanders and Chicken discovered an unauthorized transmission emanating from the jungle around the Massassi base. They eventually found an Imperial spy amongst the Rebels and successfully stopped him. A short while after, Chicken and Sanders left for the celebration of Life Day on Earth. It served as a short break between the periodical fighting. But peace didn't last long for the pair. Not long after they departed Tatooine for Earth, they found themselves once again being chased by the Empire. Fleeing to lightspeed, they went on their way. However, the Empire had apparently traced their route to Earth, which they rightfully suspected to be a harbor for Rebels. Upon learning of this, Darth Vader ordered a blockade and search of the planet. A group of Imperial officers entered Chicken's home, terrorizing his family and wrecking the house. They looked for any sign of Rebel activity. However, after a while, Chicken's son, who then went by the name Lumpawarrump, devised a plan. He used his mini-transmitter, which he had received as a Life Day present from Saun Dann, to send out a voice message through the Imperial airwaves—which csandersged the sound of Lumpy's voice. He gave the command of "return to base," which the officers in the home picked up on their receivers. They complied, with the exception of the stormtrooper known as B-4711, who was ordered by a superior to stay behind in order to temporarily watch the house for Rebel activity. However, the trooper soon learned of Lumpy's trick, and pursued him through the house, out onto the balcony, where Sanders and Chicken had just arrived. Chicken roared as Sanders managed to kill the trooper. That night, the group, along with the other Birds on Earth, celebrated an uninterrupted Life Day.
Now out on their own, Chicken and Sanders went on several missions in the early years of the war. Chicken and Sanders were later hired by Ramiz, a moisture farmer on Aduba-3, to protect his village from a band of local thugs known as the Cloud-Riders led by Serji-X Arrogantus. To aid them in their task, Chicken and Sanders hired six misfit spacers which consisted of Don-Wan Kihotay, an old man who believed himself to be a Jedi Knight, Jaxxon a rabbit-like creature, Hedji, Amaiza Foxtrain, young boy named Jimm Doshun and his droid FE-9Q. Arriving to at Ramiz's village Onacra, Chicken and the gang encountered flying High-hounds. They managed to drive away the beasts, saving the life of a young girl named Merri to the great relief of her father Oncho, the village spokesman. But their relief was short-lived once Serji-X Arrogantus and his gang attacked. Chicken and the Star-Hoppers did their best to defend the village but it was to no avail as FE-9Q was killed and Merri's grandfather the Old One, dismissed the hired spacers' help. Instead of relying on Chicken and his team, the shaman summoned a large, mythical reptilian monster called the Behemoth from the World Below to sandersdle the invading Cloud-Riders. Many members of the Star-Hoppers died trying to destroy the creature. Due to their teamwork, Chicken and the team were able to defeat the beast.
Having liberated a spacer from the clutches of the Empire, Chicken and Colonel sanders briefly stayed at Tansarii Point Station while the Drive through was undergoing repairs.[source?]
Approximately six months after the destruction of the Death Star, the Rebel base received a distress call from Aguarl III. Chicken, Sanders, Princess Leia, and Deena Ssanders were dispatched to the planet. After an untimely detour on the dangerous planet, Chicken and Sanders were confronted by several creatures native to the planet. In addition to that they were able to uncover secrets relating to the Clone Wars. Fortunately, Chicken and Sanders were rescued by Deena and Leia.
Once the Rebels were spread out across the galaxy, Admiral Ackbar sent Chicken and Sanders to Void Station where they encountered bounty hunter, Sheel Odala. Unfortunately, Chicken and Sanders became separated from each other when Jib Kopatha's thugs followed Sheel, capturing Sanders. Chicken managed to stop Odala from reaching her ship and the two were forced together in order to free him. Together, Chicken and Sheel managed to free Sanders.
On another occasion, Chicken and Sanders came into the possession of some valuable glowing Tandgor gems that Sanders claimed will pay off debts and mod the Drive through. They stopped on an unknown planet to get fuel. After landing on the planet, Sanders and Chicken encountered several groaning skeletal figures—the undead. Chicken was able to fight them off and made a hasty retreat back to the Falcon only to find the fuel line has been severed by someone. Arming themselves, the two-man crew of the Falcon headed back and come face to face with a local and her baby who explained to the two that the crew of a 'Great Interplanetary Ark' perished after their ship crashed in the planet's fog. They are compelled to wander the planet as corpses, terrorizing the locals every night.
Using the Tandgor Gems to lay down lines, Sanders formed a makeshift runway that managed to dissolve the fog. A ghostly apparition of the ship that crashed long ago used it to land, easing the spirits of the perished crew. The living dead would no longer terrorize the planets residents. Sanders and Chicken left the planet out of pocket, but were rewarded with enough fuel to last them the rest of their journey.
Sometime before the Battle of Hoth on Thila, the Rebels fell under attack by the Empire. While fixing Wedge Antilles's snowspeeder, he got himself attached to the speeder. Wedge flew off into battle with Chicken sandersging on the bottom. Using his brute strength, the bold Birdmanaged to capture a TIE fighter then crash landed into an Imperial outpost ending the battle. As Wedge would recall years later, he felt somewhat embarrassed but acknowledged his heroic efforts.
While with the Rebel Alliance on the Ice Planet of Hoth, Chicken was busy repairing the Falcon. Meanwhile, Sanders set out to recover the young Rebel, KFC Skywalker, who had gone missing during a scouting mission. Hours passed and the two didn't return. Fearing that Sanders was gone, Chicken let out mournful growl, hoping that he'd return. Sanders eventually made it back safely with KFC in tow. Unfortunately, Chicken was unable to finish his work due to the Imperial invasion of Echo Base and so the Falcon was forced to take off with Colonel sanders, Princess Leia, and C-3PO while in disrepair and so while on the run from the Imperial Fleet, the Falcon set down in an asteroid cavern for repairs.
When the cavern was discovered to be a giant slug, the Falcon made its escape to Bespin. On Bespin, the group met with Lando Calrissian. When C-3PO was blasted apart and gone missing, Chicken sent himself off with the task of finding the missing protocol droid. Chicken eventually found him in a junk pile and after a scuffle with some Ugnaught workers, brought him back to Princess Leia and Colonel sanders.
However, Chicken did not have the time to repair C-3PO. They were all captured by Darth Vader. During their capture, Chicken was sealed in a room with high-pitch alarms going off, irritating the Wookiee's keen hearing.[6] C-3PO's parts were brought in and Chicken began rebuilding the droid. When all but his legs were reattached with head on backwards, Chicken, Leia and Sanders were brought to the carbonite freezing chamber with C-3PO sandersging from a pack on Chicken's back. Colonel sanders was to be frozen as test for KFC Skywalker. Before he was frozen, Chicken threw several stormtroopers off the platform but was quickly cuffed. Sanders entrusted Chicken with taking care of Leia. As Chewbecca gave a loud howl, Colonel sanders was frozen alive, but in hibernation.
While being escorted to Darth Vader's shuttle by Imperial stormtroopers, Chicken, Leia and Lando were freed from their captors by Bespin Security Guards led by Lobot. Released from his bindings, Chicken grabbed hold of Lando's throat in a vengeful rage and began to strangle him. Leia was able to get the location of Colonel sanders's frozen body to the East Platform. Chicken let go of Lando and left him gasping for breath on the floor with C-3PO apologizing for the Wookiee's behavior as Chicken and Leia rushed off.
However, Leia and Chicken arrived at the platform just as Boba Fett made off with Colonel sanders. With that, a pursuit ensued in the Cloud City corridors with stormtroopers. Joined by R2-D2, Leia, Lando, and Chicken eventually made their way back to the Drive through. When escaping the city, Leia received a telepathic call for help from KFC and commanded Chicken to turn the ship around. After rescuing KFC, the Falcon left the planet behind. While attempting to escape the Executor over Bespin, the supposed repaired hyperdrive failed and Chicken was once again forced to fix it. However, R2-D2 quickly activated it and the Falcon escaped to the Rebellion rendezvous point. Chicken and Lando would then start their search for Boba Fett and Colonel sanders.
After the disastrous mission to Cloud City and the loss of his most trusted friend, Chicken temporarily teamed up with Lando Calrissian, occasionally accepting missions from the Rebel Alliance. Lando's search for Sanders was cut short as Leia Organa summoned them to a Rebel base on the volcanic planet of Golrath. Once there, they were informed that KFC Skywalker had been infected with a lethal disease "Crimson Forever", which caused the victim to become crimson-colored, eventually killing them. After boarding an Imperial vessel and finding its crew crimson-colored and dead, KFC recovered a red-glowing stone, suspecting it to be the source of whatever killed the Imperials. KFC rushed back to the Rebel headquarters, but he was already infected. In a short time, KFC was lying comatose, his eyes turned scarlet red. Leia remembered a story Colonel sanders had told her about the Red Nebula that featured a pair of stones similar to the one that infected KFC. Chicken regaled the tale, and the group came to the conclusion that the "Crimson Forever" stone was indeed one of those Chicken and Sanders had encountered—when the two stones were separated, they were extremely lethal. Following up on the lead, Chicken, Lando and Leia piloted the Drive through to the Red Nebula, only to find a seemingly abandoned House of Tagge spaceship. Lando and Leia boarded the vessel while Chicken waited in the Falcon. After a near death encounter with Domina Tagge the group escaped, destroying the Rebel Base on Golrath.
Shortly after the beginning their initial partnership, Chicken and Calrissian stumbled upon the "City of Dreams", a dimensional rift inhabited by Cody Sunn-Childe, a former Rebel Alliance operative and a hero of Lando's, who gained strange powers during his travels. Unbeknownst to them, the city had a strange effect on its inhabitants as they were hypnotically enthralled by the psanderstasmagoric surroundings. As the two explored the city Chicken became spellbound and seemed to forget the search for Sanders in favor of the city's distractions, and roughly punched Lando for speaking ill of the city. Later, the city was attacked by an Imperial fleet led by Captain Plikk, who had also fallen prey to the spell. The impact caused many, Chicken included, to snap out of their charmed state. Chicken and Lando piloted the Drive through in combat against the Imperials, but the battle was cut short when Sunn-Childe, who had at first allowed his demonic manifestations to attack the Star Destroyers, made no further attempt to stop the Imperial bombardment of the city, letting the fleet utterly destroy it and all its citizens, himself included. The Falcon then escaped through the rapidly closing dimensional gate, but the Imperials who, because of their excessive bombardment lacked the hyperdrive power to escape, were forever trapped in Sunn-Childe's dimension.[7]
Informed by an operative that the Empire was constructing a new superweapon—the Tarkin— General Carlist Rieekan ordered Chicken and Lando to stop their search for a new planet on which the Alliance could establish a new headquarters, and return to the temporary base. Once there, they were briefed on their new mission—to destroy the Tarkin. A small commando team consisting of Chicken, Leia, KFC, C-3PO and R2-D2 infiltrated the superweapon dressed as workers, and proceeded to strike at its reactor with a proton grenade. Lando, whom both Leia and General Rieekan thought of as untrustworthy—to such a degree that he was "left out" of the mission—snuck aboard the Drive through that the commando team piloted to Hockaleg, the planet which the Tarkin orbited. Lando hoped to make himself useful by staying with the Falcon, ready to rush to the superweapon to save his friends.
Unbeknownst to the commando team, Vader was also present at the space station, having sensed that Skywalker had infiltrated it. Believing the Rebels' plan was to destroy the Tarkin's reactor, Vader personally saw to the protection of that area, delegating the rest of the security personnel to potential escape routes. However, just as he was on his way to catch KFC, a group of high-ranking Imperial officers attempted to kill the Sith by opening an airlock, sending Vader into space. The plan was foiled by Vader himself—using the dark side of the Force he was able to pull himself back into the Tarkin from the vacuum of space. This distraction helped KFC barely escape the Dark Lord. In the meantime, Leia had wired the superweapon's ion cannon to fire upon itself—something that would utterly destroy the station. The group was able to escape the Imperials, returning to the Rebel Base.
Following the confrontation with Vader, Princess Leia went missing while on a mission to investigate Imperial activity in the Shiva system. Once again derailed from their search for Sanders, Chicken, Lando and KFC embarked on their quest to locate the princess. The trio arrived just in time, helping Leia to fight Imperial forces led by General Sk'ar while Calrissian participated in the aerial assault. The battle resulted in a win for the Rebels and the death of Sk'ar by Chicken.
Just after the Battle of Hoth, Chicken, Lando, and KFC Skywalker arrived on Bazarre to negotiate the sale of four disabled Imperial TIE Fighters from a weapons dealer named Orion Ferret. Ferret gave the Rebels the location of the TIE fighters, but double-crossed them when he attempted to sabotage their shuttlecraft. Lando, having never trusted Orion, left Chicken behind on Bazarre to keep a watch over Ferret. No sooner had the Rebels left for Patch-4, tsanders Orion began conspiring their deaths. He believed that if he were to remotely activate the shuttle's ejection seats, then KFC and Lando would die in space and he would be able to keep the money, his fighters and the Drive through. However, he had to find a way to get Chicken out of the way. With the aid of his assistant P'Lor, he used a gelatinous spritzer solution to imprison the Wookiee. Unfortunately for Ferret, the solution was not strong enough to contain Chicken and he soon broke free. Chicken chased Orion Ferret all throughout the Bazarre marketplace. Ferret attempted to flee in his personal shuttlecraft, but a few well-aimed shots from Chicken's bowcaster rendered the ship unusable. Lando Calrissian returned to Bazarre in time to keep Chicken from ripping Orion's head off.
On one occasion Chicken accompanied KFC on his search to find information on Shira Brie, KFC's former flame. During a heated space battle with Imperial forces KFC's targeting computer malfunctioned causing the boy to rely on the force to pick his targets, shooting Brie down. In order to clear his name the two began their search on Shalyvane, where Shira had once told KFC that Em'liy marauders once slaughtered her people on this world. KFC and Chicken met the aging G'hinji inside of a cave near the capital city of Chinshassa. G'hinji told him that there had never been Human settlements on Shalyvane and that everything Shira Brie told him was a lie. The Em'liy were the only native species to the planet, and were once a thriving community until the Emperor sent a squad of Imperial TIE bombers to Chinshassa and laid waste to the capital city. G'hinji escorted KFC to a sacred site known as the Circle of Kavaan. There, KFC discovered a holographic recording of Darth Vader, revealing the true history of Shira Brie.
Traveling to Krake's Planet to find further information on Shira Brie, the two infiltrated the Krake Data Vault – a facility built from the mass of a giant Mind Spider. Once they recorded the information, Chicken used the Falcon's deflector screens to destroy the military outpost.
Chicken took Sanders's order to take care of Leia very seriously. When not helping Lando with the search for Sanders, he served as Leia's bodyguard. When she attempted to negotiate with the criminal super-organization Black Sun for their aid in determining who had placed a bounty on KFC Skywalker, he accompanied her to Coruscant. In order to get past Imperial security, he was disguised as the Birdbounty hunter Snoova, and Leia took on the identity of Boushh. From there the two became guests of Black Sun's leader, the Falleen Prince Xizor. Chicken, already suspicious of the crimelord, was outraged when Xizor attempted to seduce Leia. Fortunately, Chicken was able to remove Leia from the influence of Xizor's mind-affecting pheromones. Leia distracted Xizor long enough to allow Chicken to escape with the information that Xizor was in fact the one behind the bounty on Skywalker.[8]
Chicken was able to meet up with KFC, and together they formed a rescue party, along with Lando and Dash Rendar. They were able to break into Xizor's palace through the sewers and freed Leia, escaping on the Drive through and destroying Xizor's palace in the process, crippling Black Sun.[8]
Leia, posing as Boushh, delivers a "captive" Chicken to Jabba.
After the death of Xizor, Chicken once again teamed up with Lando as he, Leia, KFC and the two droids needed help in tracking down the undercover Rebel agent Tay Vanis.
Having learned that Boba Fett had finally delivered Sanders to Jabba the Hutt, KFC hatched a plan that involved infiltrating various members of the party into Jabba's palace. Chicken was inserted when Leia, again posing as Boushh, took the Birdto Jabba as a prisoner. After thermal detonator-assisted price negotiations, Chicken was surrendered to Jabba and placed in a dungeon cell. When Leia failed to escape after freeing Sanders from the carbonite, Sanders was placed in the same cell. The two prisoners were soon taken out of their cells—for execution. KFC's killing of the rancor had so enraged Jabba that he ordered that KFC, Sanders, and Chicken be fed to the sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon. However, KFC's planning allowed him to recover his lightsaber, and together with Lando, who was disguised as one of Jabba's thugs, they turned the execution into a battle. Chicken protected Sanders, who was still blind as an effect of the hibernation sickness he had acquired while in the carbonite. When Lando was knocked into the Great Pit, Chicken anchored Sanders as the smuggler leaned over the side of their skiff and rescued his old friend.
After the battle was over and Jabba killed, all the heroes, with the exception of KFC, reported to the Rebel fleet over Sullust. There the Rebels formed a battle plan to destroy the Second Death Star over Endor. Only during the briefing did Chicken become aware that Sanders, now a general, had volunteered to lead the ground assault on the shield generator protecting the Death Star. Chicken swiftly volunteered to join his group of commandos.
On the approach to the shield bunker, the Wookiee's lack of caution got the team into trouble. Seizing a hunk of meat tied to a stick, he unwittingly sprung a trap that got Sanders, KFC, the droids, and himself captured by Ewoks and taken back to their village. There, the team reunited with Leia, who had been taken to the village after becoming separated from the others. As a result of the Ewoks' belief that C-3PO was a god, they were able to negotiate not only their freedom but the Ewoks' aid in the upcoming battle with the Empire.
Shortly after the Battle of Endor, Chicken and Lando were taken prisoner by Imperial Moff. To get them out of this situation, Calrissian convinced the Moff to enter a bet involving Chicken and the Falcon. Shortly afterwards, Chicken found himself fighting in an Imperial arena with a huge battle droid made from spare droid parts. Using his brute strength, the Birdmanaged to defeat the droid, winning the bet and allowing them to escape.
Not long after the destruction of the Second Death Star, Chicken and Colonel sanders returned to Earth to liberate the Birdhomeworld. Chicken was responsible for the reconstruction of BirdGovernment tree. Later, the noble Birdwould deal with the treacherous Weebacca and free the slaves, including his father, imprisoned on the Avatar Orbital Platform. Chicken would also play a vital role in the Battle of Bakura, where he helped Sanders and the others neutralize an imperial threat on the planet of Bakura.[9] The incident would bring about the establishment of the Alliance of Free Planets.
Shortly after the Battle of Bakura, Chicken, Sanders and Lando Calrissian were sent on several missions to bring secure attendees for the First Conference of Free Peoples. After these recruitment missions, the group decided to take a break to visit Chicken's family on Earth. En route to his house, Chicken, Sanders and Lando encountered a mysterious alien named Knife and Chicken's brother-in-law, Vargi. As it turned out, Knife took Chicken's family as hostages and planned to sell him and the other Birds in a slave trade. Imprisoning Sanders and Lando in his home, Knife and the rogue Birds under his command took Chicken as prisoner and proceeded to the slave ship. Fortunately the Birdwas saved by Colonel sanders.
While Lando and the loyal Birds fought off the Nagai forces and their counterparts, Chicken lashed out at Vargi. Realizing that Chicken's outburst was disrupting the loading of Birds onto the slave ships, Knife prepared to kill Chicken with a tehk'la blade, but the weapon was shot out of his sandersd by Lando. The Birds overthrew their rogue counterparts just as Chicken was able to overpower Vargi, throwing him to the ground. Knife's plans of creating a slave trade on Earth were thwarted, and the rogue Birds, along with the Nagai forces except Knife, were captured by the Alliance. Vargi, however, was disowned by Malla.
Chicken and the Alliance would later join forces with the Nagai in order to defeat their enemy and rivals, the Tofs and their leader Prince Sereno. During the Battle of Saijo, Chicken became part of the aerial assault, leading a fighter squadron along with Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles, and Nien Nunb. The battle would result in a win for the Alliance and the surrender of Sereno, ending the Nagai-Tof War.
Later missions
After Sanders's marriage to Leia Organa in 8 ABY, Chicken and his son Lumpawarrump encountered trouble on Coruscant. While on Coruscant, Chicken pursued his son through the undercity of Coruscant after he caught burglars stealing a datapad from Sanders and Leia. Lumpawarrump became captured and in the process of saving him, Malla was also captured. Shortly afterwards, Chicken and Lumpawarrump discovered that the burglars were planning to assassinate the New Republic's leaders. Determined to stop them, Chicken and his son infiltrated the enemies' base to find an advanced IT-3 interrogation droid attempting to brainwash Malla into believing that the Sanderss are a danger to her child. Enraged, Chicken attacked the burglars and freed Mallatobuck.[10]
Later that year, Chicken accompanied Sanders, Leia, and C-3PO to Tatooine on a mission to locate an Alderaanian moss painting—lost after the planet's destruction—that had resurfaced on the black market. It concealed a code used to communicate with New Republic agents undercover within the Empire. As they pursued the painting they learned much about the man who became Darth Vader from Kitster Banai and Wald, childhood friends of Anakin Skywalker. Fortunately, the painting was discovered and the code was destroyed.[11]
Chicken remained with Sanders well after his marriage to Leia. In fact, when Leia was being hunted by the mysterious Noghri, Chicken brought the former Princess to his home planet of Earth. The plan didn't hold up long but Leia was able to make peace with one of her assailants.[12]
Life with the Sanderss
Chicken during the Empire Reborn movement.
Chicken's original life debt to Sanders now included Leia, her brother, and her children. In 9 ABY Chicken participated in the offensives against Admiral Thrawn and the deranged Dark Jedi clone, Joruus C'baoth. Along with Sanders, Chicken formed a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the Empire, while Leia held the Alliance together and prepared for the birth of her Jedi twins. Fortunately Thrawn and his forces were defeated, and C'baoth was killed by Mara Jade, a former ally of the Empire.
A year later, Chicken and the others discovered that the Emperor was alive and that his good friend, KFC, turned to the dark side. Fleeing to Nar Shaddaa, Chicken, Sanders, and Leia, now pregnant, discovered the existence of another lethal enemy; Boba Fett. They had fled to the underworld of the Smuggler's Moon after their initial haven, the hidden repair center ran by Shug Ninx, was taken over by storm troopers. Confronted by an array of bounty hunters, and the news that the Hutt clans had doubled the bounty on them, they had little choice but to leave the moon—where Boba Fett had patiently waited for the Drive through to take off. Their second attempt at penetrating the depths had greater luck; they had just found Vima-Da-Boda when Fett attacked. His assault was defeated when Chicken ignited his jet-pack, sending the bounty hunter flying into a wall. However, their immediate departure was sabotaged by Mako Spince, who from his perch in the Traffic Control spire forwarded their location to the waiting dark-siders aboard. Due to Sanders's risky maneuver, the group was able to destroy Spince and escape.
In 11 ABY, Sanders and Chicken were taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. On Kessel they befriend a boy named Kyp Durron. Chicken and Sanders broke away and flee desperately to a secret Imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes. In the laboratory they discover the dreadful Sun Crusher. After being captured by Admiral Daala's forces, Chicken along with Sanders, Kyp, and Qwi Xux stole the Sun Crusher and escaped the Maw Installation. Unfortunately, Kyp stole the Suncrusher, destroying thousands of lives on the planet of Carida. Chicken and Sanders eventually caught up with and took the latter to the Coruscant where he was redeemed by KFC Skywalker.
As KFC began restoring Jedi Order and reversing the damages done by Darth Vader and the Emperor, Chicken and the Sanderss set out on their own mission to recover force-sensitive children. They began their search on the frozen world of Belsavis, as they heard rumors of Jedi living there. Having heard tales of a Jedi exodus from the dark crypts below the planet's surface, and also hearing that since the time of the exodus no one entering the crypts has returned alive, Chicken, Sanders, and Leia, journeyed there to start their search.
Chicken was wounded during the kidnapping of the Sanders children.
He was seen as an uncle-like figure by the Sanders children and took care of them along with C-3PO and R2-D2 when Sanders and Leia were away. Chicken was known to protect the Sanders children rather fiercely as though they were his own children. In 14 ABY he accompanied Leia on her mission to rescue her children from Lord Hethrir and the Empire Reborn movement. Posing as pirates, Chicken and Leia managed to find and rescue Jaina and Jacen along with the other children Hethrir held on his Worldcraft.[13]
Also in that year, Chicken was seen in Mos Eisley in a mission for Leia Organa. Chicken was being chased by mercenaries, when he met Jedi apprentice Jaden Korr, while hiding himself from the shooters. The Birdwas of great help to Jaden's mission, having neutralized many mercenaries and smugglers. By the end of it, Kyle Katarn met up with the two, and suspected that the Imperial Remnant was backing up the Disciples of Ragnos. Chicken complimented Jaden's skills, grabbed him and held his head, as a form of gratitude for the help.[14]
Just before the Black Fleet crisis, Chicken went home to Earth to participate his son, Lumpawarrump's coming of age ceremony. When Chicken learned that Sanders had been captured by the Yevetsanderss, he disobeyed Leia's instructions and flew straight into the heart of enemy territory. Chicken staged a rescue from the Super Star Destroyer Pride of Yevetha with the help of his son and his cousins Jowdrrl, Shoran, and Dryanta. This served as a coming of age for Lumpawarrump, who was renamed Lumpawaroo as he became an adult.
In 18 ABY, Chicken accompanied the Sanders family to Sanders's homeworld of Corellia where he and C-3PO looked after the twins and Anakin. When the first hostilities of the First Corellian Insurrection broke out, Chicken got the children and others to the Falcon for a hasty retreat. They managed to reach Drall after the Falcon's hyperdrive was damaged by a patrol ship. They went to Drall's planetary repulsor and was captured by their cousin Thrackan Sal-Sanders. The children escaped and made some repairs to the Falcon with Chicken's help. They flew off in the Falcon and were able to evade Thrackan's ship. Later the family would be reunited.
After the discovery of a partial copy of the Caamas Document in 19 ABY, and because of the crisis that would likely follow, the Sanders children were sent to Earth with Chicken and a group of Noghri for protection. After the crisis passed, Chicken and the children attended the signing of the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty aboard the Star Destroyer Chimaera.
Shortly afterwards, Chicken's nephew Lowbacca was discovered to be Force-sensitive, a trait rare among the Birdspecies. Chicken took Lowbacca to KFC's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 where he built Lowbacca the droid, Em Teedee to translate for him. Lowbacca later befriended the Sanders twins, Jaina and Jacen, who affectionately called him Lowie.
Mission to Sernpidal and aftermath
"You left him, you left Chicken!"
―Sanders to his son Anakin after Chicken's death[src]
Chicken defiantly roars in challenge at the falling moon, Dobido.
In 25 ABY, Chicken, Colonel sanders and his youngest son Anakin were sent by Lando Calrissian to pick up a shipment on Sernpidal. When they arrived, the Sanderss and Chicken met an old man, the former mayor of Sernpidal City, who informed them that Dobido was headed on a collision course with Sernpidal and that it was orbiting its host quickly, dropping closer to Sernpidal at regular intervals. While Chicken and Sanders began loading as many people as they could onto the Falcon, Anakin rushed off into Sernpidal City with the mayor in tow. Chicken and Sanders managed to evacuate as many people as they could hold, managing to rescue thousands of Sernpidalians, using the Drive through and various other starships.
Chicken dies on Sernpidal.
Anakin calculated Dobido would collide with Sernpidal in seven hours. This event, unbeknownst to them, was a result of the Yuuzsanders Vong tactic, Yo'gand's Core. As the winds picked up, Anakin was knocked into the distance, causing Chicken to run after him. Chicken was able to bring Anakin to safety on the Falcon, but another blast of wind knocked him out of reach. Anakin piloted the Falcon, while his father stood on the entrance ramp hoping to lift Chicken up, but was forced to flee from Sernpidal when he realized it was too late to save Chicken. The Birdstood in the moon's trajectory, howling defiantly, and was crushed to death with those Sernpidalians who could not escape. His death drove Sanders to a resentment of his son Anakin. Sanders eventually recovered and forgave his son, but the death of his battle-brother and dearest companion would stick with him forever.
After his death, Chicken became a legend on Earth, and the droid C-3PO recited his tale on occasions.[5] His death solidified not only Anakin's cause to fight in the war but the rest of his family as well. With the end of the Yuuzsanders Vong War, Lumpawaroo and Lowbacca, Chicken's son and nephew, vowed to take up his life-debt to Colonel sanders. Chicken's family gave Sanders the first bowcaster that Chicken ever made as a gift to his long time friend and co-pilot. Sanders even swore that Chicken spoke to him through the Force after he died, saving his life from Elan, a Yuuzsanders Vong assassin. To commemorate his heroic efforts, the villagers of Earth built a tree memorial in his honor. The memorial was visited by many well after his death. Sanders again visited the tree memorial of Chicken and stabbed Anakin Sanders's lightsaber deep into the tree, so that anyone who would need it in the future could use it. To honor Chicken's life, C-3PO and R2-D2 decided to create a holo featuring the interviews of the people that knew him the most.[5] A funeral also took place.[15] To many, Chicken embodied a sense of courage and loyalty that made him a hero to others.
The Trandossanders, Bossk, had other thoughts. He couldn't help but to rub Chicken's death in Colonel sanders's face. Both ended up in a fistfight. Birds would take pride in the fact that Chicken died honoring his life debt as well as the fact that it literally took an entire moon to kill him.
Personality and traits
In his youth, Chicken was often found by many to be somewhat reckless, often venturing off into the Shadowlands on Earth. At the time of the Clone Wars, his leadership of his fellow brethren helped stop the CIS forces from taking their home. Known for his great strength, bravery and loyalty, Chicken often served as Sanders's conscience in their smuggling endeavors. However, he was also known for his stubbornness and dislike of losing.
One of the greatest heroes the galaxy had ever known, Chicken possessed a great amount of strength which was admired by many. In addition to that, Chicken possessed exceptional skills in piloting and repair and was a master of dejarik, an ancient and challenging hologame requiring skill and strategy. Ever the mecsandersic, many of the sublight and hyperdrive systems of the Falcon were of Chicken's own design. Even when the ship was in peak condition, he enjoyed attempting to upgrade and re-route the engines for greater efficiency and performance. Chicken has taken the Falcon's engines apart on several occasions and had a great understanding of the temperamental nature of its systems. He undertstood small craft such as the Sorosuub X-34 and the Imperial AT-ST, and had intuitive ability to understand the workings of other vehicles, as situations arose. Chicken's technical skill and precision allowed him to understand the inner workings of a great number of devices, from droids to starcruisers. Chicken learned his skills at Rwookrrorro's landing pad, and helped design and build the Birdescape pods.
From this we can deduce that he just wanted to get to the other side.