[wiggen]

i don’t recall any specific story but H Beam Piper wrote numerous stories about settlement and the difficulties it might encounter. Could be in his body of work.

[LonePalm]

No, I am intimately familiar with Piper's work. My first thought on seeing the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi was that they had plagiarized Piper's Little Fuzzy down to their clothing, spears, and sound.

I still think that they were the basis for the Ewoks. Given the time period in which the scripts were written, I don't see how Lucas could have been ignorant of Piper's work.

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