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I have been searching Wookieepedia to try and find what medal this is, but i have not found it, does anyone know what this medal/award was and why it would be given (eg- bravery, serving in the battle of Yavin)?
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2http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Royal_Award_Ceremony – JohnP Jan 22 '18 at 15:20
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33Chewie never got a medal :( And he didn't get to eat the meat in ROTJ :( And he never got to eat his roast Porg in TLJ. Poor Chewie! – DVK-on-Ahch-To Jan 22 '18 at 15:24
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1@DVK-on-Ahch-To It appears Chewie was also given a medal according to the wiki - > "Chewbacca was also presented with such a medal, though not during the public ceremony." – Boolean Jan 22 '18 at 15:30
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15To me, the only canon ceremony will always be when Chewbacca was presented with his medal by Carrie Fisher at the 1997 MTV Movie Awards, as part of his lifetime achievement award. – vynsane Jan 22 '18 at 16:42
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@DVK-on-Ahch-To - There's evidence that he got to eat at least one porg before the others guilted him into eating fish – Valorum Jan 22 '18 at 20:21
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@Valorum - i remember seeing him NOT eating that one he was holding. Did you get an unpublished early copy of junior novelization or something? :P – DVK-on-Ahch-To Jan 22 '18 at 20:58
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@DVK-on-Ahch-To - The Visual Dictionary indicates that Chewie ate enough to have a preference over which part is the tastiest; https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/176501/why-didn-t-chewie-dine-in-universe-explanation/176510#176510 – Valorum Jan 22 '18 at 21:21
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5Participation trophies. – Möoz Jan 23 '18 at 03:57
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1@Möoz - Yay. Everyone's a winner! – Valorum Jan 23 '18 at 08:46
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@DVK-on-Ahch-To, interesting fact: in the novelization, Chewbacca gets his medal. See https://www.tor.com/2013/01/24/weird-differences-between-the-first-star-wars-movie-and-its-preceding-novelization/. – Martín-Blas Pérez Pinilla Jan 23 '18 at 09:22
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@Möoz And they made Han Solo a general after his "little maneuver" at the Battle of Yavin – Machavity Jan 23 '18 at 14:04
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The (canon) storybook Princess Leia: Royal Rebel names it as the
"Medal of Bravery"
Interestingly, the old Star Wars Encylopedia names it as the
"Medal of Yavin"
And it's also been called the medal of valor (note the small m and v) and medal for bravery in various (now Legends) stories.
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4@Möoz - If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing with a book written for toddlers. – Valorum Jan 23 '18 at 08:47
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Thanks to JohnP, I have found the answer. The medal is the Medal of Bravery-
As quoted from Wookieepedia:
The Medal of Bravery was an award given for heroic efforts by the Rebel Alliance.
Chewbacca, Han and Luke are the only receivers of the medal.
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2Hey, do you recall those five big, shinny, expensive medals I told you to build just in case ? Well, we need three of them ASAP - who was just wasting the kingdom's budget, once again? – mgarciaisaia Jan 22 '18 at 17:32
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4@mgarciaisaia For all we know these were made of scrap metal. Even if they weren't, it's rather unlikely that the material and production costs of the medal were in any way significant compared to the cost of the actual festivities surrounding the awarding of the medal, unless they were made out of unobtainium or something. – Cubic Jan 23 '18 at 11:01
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They thought it was made of space-chocolate, but alas it was not. (Chewie ate his anyway.) – SexxLuthor Jan 23 '18 at 13:56