While the Wookiees and Ewoks are arguably the most well-known furry-like species in Star Wars (and among the most well-known Star Wars species whatsoever), there are many more species that can be classified as of "furry interest". This entry concentrates on known "furry-like" characters and/or species.
There are over 1,200 known species, although the majority of them are only briefly mentioned and have no known visual depiction. In an unlikely event of parallel evolution, humans (apparently identical to those of Earth, although generally believed to have originated on the galactic capital of Coruscant) and near-human species coexist with a wide variety of species: humanoid (most common), aquatic, arachnoid,, botanical, equine, feline, insectoid, mineral-based, reptilian, rodentine, and others. In comparison, the Expanded Universe, which consists of all Star Wars media except the films, covers more than five millennia, the earliest story in the in-universe chronogy taking place in circa 5,000 BBY ( Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith) and the latest in circa 137 ABY ( Star Wars: Legacy).ĭespite the artificial separation of the films and the Expanded Universe, all Star Wars stories, regardless of the media (films, books, comics, games, cartoons, toys, and others), are parts of the same shared continuity, except for material explicitly deemed non-canon by Lucasfilm. The six films cover a relatively short 36-year period of galactic history ( 32 BBY to 4 ABY, where BBY and ABY stand for "before/after the Battle of Yavin" (which can be interpreted as "before/after the events of Episode IV). Star Wars is set in a unknown galaxy roughly modeled after the Milky Way, only known as the " Star Wars galaxy" or the "galaxy far, far away".