Coralskipper

The Coralskipper or Yorik-Et is the Yuuzhan Vong version of a starfighter during their invasion of the Star Wars galaxy. The Coralskipper is a bioship made from Yorik Coral since the Yuuzhan Vong despise technology as an abomination. It is grown instead of manufactured and no two coralskippers look alike. However every Coralskipper shares some basic features such as a dark canopy, tappered nose and aerodynamic, triangular body. The Coralskipper's weapon is a small appendange at the front of the vehicle which releases a flaming magma rock that can seriously damage enemy craft. The Coralskipper refeuls and rearms by eating rocks, small asteroids and stellar debris. However like any living organism, a Coralskippers ages and die. The Coralskipper's pilot can communicate with the craft via a special mask called a cognition hood at the cockpit. Also hidden beneath the front of a Yorik-Et, is a small creature that resembles a heart called the Dovin Basal. The Dovin Basal is the most important part of the bioship because it functions like a miniature blackhole creating a powerful supergravity field when activated. This field can be used to overload the shields of an enemy starfighter and can also act as the coralskipper's own shield by deflectin laserfire and missiles. Coralskippers are strictly space vehicles and perform poorly in planetary atmospheres. Coralskippers are not capable of travelling for long-range travel in space and have to rely on a larger vessel to transport them across space. These starfighters appear in the New Jedi Order novels.