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Merumeru's battle staff
Production information
Type	Melee weapon[1]
Culture	Wookiees[1]
Owners	Merumeru[1]
Known locations	Kachirho[2]
Physical and technical specifications
Height	Roughly half that of Merumeru[1]
Usage and history
Era(s)	Rise of the Empire era[1]
Affiliation	Merumeru's volunteer soldiers[1]

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Merumeru, a Wookiee Elder, wielded a battle staff in combat. The staff was brown and roughly half the height of Merumeru. He used the staff in 19 BBY during the Clone Wars, when the Confederacy of Independent Systems invaded the Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk. Merumeru gathered a group of soldiers and, holding the staff aloft, he roared for his soldiers to charge into battle against the Separatists.

DescriptionEdit

The battle staff that the Wookiee Elder Merumeru owned was brown in color and roughly half of the Wookiee's height, and could be wielded as a melee weapon with one hand.^[1]

HistoryEdit

Merumeru's staff was used in battle in 19 BBY during the Clone Wars, when Merumeru led a group of volunteer soldiers in the defense of his homeworld, Kashyyyk, against an invasion launched by the Confederacy of Independent Systems. During the battle, Merumeru and his volunteer soldiers waited behind a barricade on the beachfront of the city Kachirho for the Separatists to attack. When the Separatists arrived, Merumeru stood atop the barricade, waved his staff in the air, and roared, and he and the volunteer soldiers charged into battle.^[2]

Behind the scenesEdit

Merumeru's battle staff first appeared in the 2005 film Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.^[2] A promotional picture of Merumeru wielding the staff was later printed in several sources.^[3][4] The weapon was eventually identified as a battle staff in Merumeru's entry in the StarWars.com Databank,^[1] and was mentioned in The Clone Wars Campaign Guide as a weapon that could be used by players of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game.^[5]

During the filming of Merumeru's scenes for Revenge of the Sith, Axel Dench, who played the Wookiee, used a prop that looked like a long wand in place of the staff. The wand was later altered using computer-generated imagery to look like a battle staff.^[6]

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (First appearance)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith PhotoComic
• Episode III: Revenge of the Sith: The Movie Storybook

SourcesEdit

• Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary (Picture only)
• Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith: Illustrated Screenplay (Picture only)
• Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Scrapbook (Picture only)
• Star Wars Revenge of the Sith: MasterWorks Lithographic Art Print Collection (Picture only)
• Star Wars Chronicles: The Prequels (Picture only)
• The Wookiees Are Back!—Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith DVD
• "The Saga is Now Complete"—Star Wars Insider 85 (Picture only)
• "Unknown Origins"—Star Wars Insider 92 (Picture only)
• The Clone Wars Campaign Guide
• Star Wars: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection 30 (Picture only)
• "Ask Lobot"—Star Wars Insider 119 (Picture only)
•  Merumeru in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org) (First identified as battle staff)

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