Ryyk Blades

Weapon Classification: Use: Model: Legallity: Rate of Classification: Rate of Fire: Manufactured By: Price: Modifications: Designed For: Powered By: Range: Power Classification:	Melee Weapon Killing Ryyk Blade Unknown No Shots No Shots Wookiees Unknown None Wookiee Hunters Nothing Optimum Range: None Maximum Range: None Can Slice Through May Things
The Ryyk blades are the traditional hand weapons that are carried by the Wookiees of Kashyyyk. The warriors ryyk blade is a prized personal possession, and like the bowcaster is an extention of his or her personal being. Any Wookiee that manages to hunt with only a ryyk blade is regarded with great respect by his or her clan mates. The ryyk blades weigh at least fifteen kilograms, and were first developed when the Wookiees were still technologicaly primitave. They used the ryyk blades to hunt and carve paths through the trees. Even with the addition of technology into the Wookiees life they still carry and use ryyk blades. Predators such as katarns and webweavers can seemingly materialize from the trees and attack without warning, which makes the ryyk blade a perfect weapon because most of the time the warrior wouldn't have time to draw and fire the bowcaster. When the Imperial Forces occupided the planet of Kashyyyk and forced the Wookiees to work for them, the Wookiees would use ryyk blades to carve new paths through the forest to make amubshes on the Imperial Troops.