Having always had an affinity with the Force, Luke Skywalker was hardly surprised when Chewie offered his nephew, Lowbacca, for training at the Jedi Academy on Yavin Four.
At nineteen Lowbacca was very young by Wookie standards, but his Force potential was great. Like almost all Wookies Lowie, as he likes to be called, did not speak Basic, and most beings could not understand the growls of the Wookie language. Therefore he carried a small robotic device named Em Teedee, which is an egg-shaped Miniature Translator Droid. Programmed by Threepio, Em Teedee has the personality of the prissy golden droid, but makes it possible for Lowie to be understood by his fellow students and the Jedi instructors.
While at the academy Lowie became close frieds with the Solo twins, Jacen and Jaina. The three also befriended the Dathomirioan girl Tenel Ka. Together they travelled the jungles of the Yavin Four, quite often in Lowie’s T-16 Skyhopper. It was during one such flight that they discovered a crashed TIE Fighter, a remnant of the Battle of Yavin. They managed to fix it, but did not realise that the pilot, Qorl, was still alive and waiting for just such an opportunity to escape the jungle planet.
The pilot surprised them, and was successful in capturing Jacen and Jaina; Tenel and Lowie escaped, but Em Teedee was knocked off the Wookie’s belt. This made it impossible for anyone to understand Lowie back at the Great Temple, so he contacted the Falcon and told Chewie and Han what had happened. Luckily they arrived in time to stop Qorl from escaping, and rescued the Solo twins.
Once again the Lowie and the twins would find themselves in danger, for several weeks later they were visiting Lando and his GenDiver Station. The Station was suddenly attacked by a of Imperial Skipray Blastboats and a shuttle under the command of a Dathomir Nightsister named Tamith Kal. She was planning to train the young Jedi at her Shadow Academy, seeing as they were young enough to forget their Light Side training and embrace the Dark Side.
Knowing that Wookies are quick to anger, Kal separated him from the twins, taking away Em Teedee and subjecting him to high-pitched sonics and cold-water blasts. Eventually Lowbacca destroyed the sonic generator in a show of anger, and received Em Teedee as a ‘reward’. But Tamith had done her work well, and had had Em reprogrammed with a message telling Lowie that Empire was his friend. But Tamith had underestimated her subject, who turned the droid off knowing that to embrace the Dark Side was to destroy all he stood for.
After a while the young Jedi did escape, and returned to Yavin Four where they continued with their studies, seemingly unfazed by all they had gone through. Sick and tired of hearing how nice the Empire was, Lowie reprogrammed Em Teedee, and is now working his way up to becoming a fully-fledged Jedi.