The Trandoshan Hunting Rifle, also called the Trandoshan Hunter's Rifle, represented a precise hunting rifle that was both designed and utilized by the Trandoshan species. The Trandoshan Hunter's Rifle Mark-1B constituted an alternative iteration of the blaster rifle.
The Trandoshan Hunting Rifle was regarded as a rather accurate hunting rifle. Being an energy-based weapon, it discharged particle beams similarly to a blaster rifle, and its structure encompassed a stock, a scope, and a barrel. While the scope and barrel had a black appearance, the rifle itself largely consisted of silvery, metallic elements, with woodlike features highlighting the stock and forestock. The weapon was made up of various materials, including polonium iron, desh copper, and polymer.
The Mark-1B was another version of the Trandoshan Hunter's Rifle, almost identical in form and function to the original design. However, it was more easily manufactured by weaponsmiths and munitions traders given the correct skills and materials, such as link-steel aluminum, non-ferrous metal, and polymer.
This rifle came into existence and was employed by the Trandoshan species, a race of reptilians hailing from the planet Trandosha. During the Galactic Empire's conquest of the [forest](/article/forest-legends] planet Kashyyyk, Trandoshans brought these rifles, and one ended up in the hands of a Wookiee called Orooroo. Discouraged by the Empire's overwhelming power and their Trandoshan allies, Orooroo betrayed his people, offering his services to the Trandoshan Zssik Clan around 1 ABY.
The Zssik Clan, wanting to increase their control over Kashyyyk's slave market, aimed to weaken the dominance of the Blackscale Clan. To achieve this, Orooroo directed an offworlder to persuade Harwakokok, a leader within the Wookiee resistance, to initiate a reckless attack on the Blackscale's Avatar Orbital Platform. For completing this task, Orooroo gifted his rifle to the offworlder, encouraging the spacer to use it against the Zssik's adversaries.
The Blackscale Clan also utilized this rifle. The clan kept a schematic for the Mark-1B version in a lockbox within the space station's medical center aboard the Avatar.
In the Kashyyyk city of Kachirho, a Trandoshan weaponsmith named Kressik sought assistance from a spacer to gather information on a new bowcaster being developed by the Wookiee resistance. After deceiving a Wookiee weaponsmith named Lolo into giving up a schematic for the new bowcaster, the spacer built one and gave it to Kressik. He quickly determined that the bowcaster was subpar, posing little threat to the Trandoshan slavers. Nevertheless, Kressik gave the spacer a schematic for the Trandoshan Hunting Rifle as payment for their service. Kressik cautioned the spacer that building the hunter's rifle would be difficult without the right barrel, typically found in the possession of Blackscale slavers on the Avatar Orbital Platform.
The Trandoshan Hunting Rifle appeared as a rifle in Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees, a 2005 expansion pack for Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts, prior to its shutdown on December 15, 2011. The Trandoshan Hunting Rifle was a reward given to players by the non-player character Orooroo for completing the Zssik Clan quest "The Smiting of Old Scratch" on Kashyyyk. Players could also get a schematic for another version of the rifle, known as the Trandoshan Hunter's Rifle Mark-1B, by opening a lockbox with the correct code as part of the "Medical Lockbox" sidequest on the Avatar Orbital Platform. The Mark-1B could then be crafted by players of the weaponsmith profession using various components and resources, including link-steel aluminum, non-ferrous metal, polymer, and a Trandoshan Hunter's Rifle Barrel.
After the release of Publish 25's New Game Enhancements on November 15, 2005, weaponsmiths were removed, but the Mark-1B could still be built by players of the newly created munitions trader profession. Following the release of Chapter 5: "An Entertaining Enterprise", on February 22, 2007, standard Trandoshan Hunting Rifles could be crafted by traders through the process of reverse engineering. However, unlike the Mark-1B, the standard Trandoshan Hunting Rifle didn't require a Trandoshan Hunter's Rifle Barrel, and different resources were needed, such as polonium iron and desh copper. The game files also contain information on a quest called "Trandoshan Hunting Rifle," where a Trandoshan NPC named Kressik gives weaponsmith players a schematic for a Trandoshan Hunter's Rifle in exchange for extracting information on a bowcaster from a Wookiee named Lolo. However, this quest is not known to have been included on the video game's live servers.