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LECG

 * Kol proposes Ossus Project
 * Vong agree, use about 100 planets
 * Ossus, the first test, starts well
 * It then expands to other worlds
 * Then it is sabotaged by a disease and the Vong are blamed
 * It was a renegade Vong and the Sith
 * Many planets and the Empire are angry
 * War!
 * When Sekot moved to the Unknown Regions at the start of the Sith-Imp War after the Vong lived there, it left many Vong behind
 * Most went to Sekot after the YVW, but a few stayed behind
 * Some used their biots to make illegal altercations to others
 * Immune to Force, as is their tech
 * Some help the Jedi terraform, but are blamed, so they hate the Sith sabotagers as well as the pirates who attacked Ossus
 * More introspective after YVW, but still fierce warriors
 * Many feel that they will forever be ostracized by the galaxy
 * Strict, though foreign to most, honor code
 * Rarely learn other languages
 * + strength, - wisdom, strong but rash
 * Child 1-11 young adult 12-17 adult 18-40 middle age 41-60 old 61-75 venerable 76+
 * Avg height and weight for male is 1.9 m, 70 kg
 * Avg height and weight for female is 1.7 m, 60 kg
 * Shapers are "engineers of biot"
 * Not nearly as strict about heresy after YVW
 * Vong away from their species operate as they wish, generally
 * Still no Force connection
 * Some non-Vong learned how to use biots
 * Vongspawn now means person affected by Sith-sabotaged Vong coral seeds

UR

 * Made deal with Vagaari around 23 ABY, who gained biots and benefited after the Vong lost the war

GORW

 * Attacked Bandomeer system
 * Made Garqi a slave place
 * Hit Makem Te
 * Attacked Muunilinst
 * Got Sriluur and Hutt Space
 * Razed Columex

UAA

 * Can improve standing through marriage though rare
 * Warriors and priests drop to workers or intendants
 * Shapers create everything from clothes to ships
 * Warmaster, supreme commander, commander, subcommander, subaltern, warrior
 * Intendants also doing spying frowned upon by warriors
 * Workers don't sacrifice body parts or get tattoos
 * By worker, UAA generally means shamed one
 * Scouts laid groundwork for invasion around foundation of NR
 * Greatest aspiration is to die honorably for the gods
 * Dark, coarse hair
 * Named for Yun-Yuuzhan
 * He created everything from his body
 * Yun-Yammka wants blood
 * Yun-Harla is deception
 * Yun-Ne'Shel the Modeler
 * Yun-Shuno the Pardoner
 * Yun-Txiin and Yun-Q'aah the Lovers are demigods portrayed as whimsical enemies of the Twin Gods and are worshiped by lovers

NEGVV

 * Scary-looking ships
 * Slaves tended to ships
 * Vessels more resilient than NR durasteel
 * Yorik-et coralskipper, cognition hood, shoots molten rock, bad in gravity
 * Vangaak
 * Yorik-trema
 * Miid ro'ik
 * Koros-strohna
 * I'frill ma-nat
 * Kor chook
 * Legacy of Torment
 * Ro'ik chuun m'arh
 * Sh'rip sh'pa
 * Suuv ban d'krid
 * Tsik vai
 * Uro-ik v'alh
 * Uumufalh
 * Yorik-strohna
 * Yorik-ta

NEWT

 * Scary-looking tech
 * Thud bugs
 * Amphistaff
 * Claws
 * Grutchin
 * Yaret-kor
 * Vonduun crab
 * Yorik-kul
 * Villip
 * Embrace of pain
 * Spineray

CSWE

 * Went to Bimmiel about 50 years before the invasion as an advance team
 * Confirms the void trip took millennia
 * Yun-Harla-never visible to the Vong and was never portrayed
 * Her body was believed to be formed from borrowed parts
 * Some believed her eyes to be villips, others thought they were the discarded eyes of Yun-Yuuzhan
 * Clothing was made to deceive
 * Yun-Ne'Shel was hermaphrodite who represented life and governed art, design, innovation and birth
 * Undying Flame-religious movement that worshipers of the Lovers belonged to (Yun-Txiin male)
 * Yun-Shuno-grotesque, 1000 eyes
 * Believed to be able to plead with Yun-Ne'Shel and Yun-Yuuzhan to improve a Shamed One's lot
 * Yun-Yammak-every warrior kept a statue of him
 * Large brain, one eye, a mouth, and many tentacles
 * Vong planned to turn Borleias into a shrine for his priests after the fall of Coruscant
 * Statues of Yun-Yuuzhan often appeared incomplete to represent his sacrifice
 * Shamed Ones who followed the heresy thought that the Force was the remnant of his soul

NEGAS

 * Taller
 * Heavier
 * Less head hair
 * Face looks like pulsing sacks of flesh
 * Droopy eyes
 * Bluish eyesacks under
 * Sloped forehead
 * Lots of mutilation
 * Barbaric appearance
 * Attack on pride leads to a death duel
 * Take pleasure in pain of their own or others
 * Most species are unworthy of slavery
 * Sekot took them in to save the galaxy

I Vong

 * Not inherently evil, just misguided, follow a crazed religion
 * Calling them just Vong offends Yun-Yuuzhan and is insult of highest order
 * Scouts entered the galaxy around 30 BBY
 * Warriors are very loyal to Shimrra and the gods, drilled into them since birth
 * Shapers stay from front lines, generally
 * Warriors-amphistaff, coufee, thud bug, blorash jelly
 * Priest-villip, tizowyrm
 * Shaper-villip, tizowyrm
 * Intendant-villip, tizowyrm, ooglith masquer
 * Shapers most likely to suspect truth about cortex
 * Priests are generally devoted to a particular god
 * Mongei Shan was among the first in the galaxy
 * Stayed to the OR in that time, scouts did
 * A few agents began infiltrating organizations during the Rebellion era, inventory enemy's military
 * Sabotage under the NR, Nom is the most notable and one of the leaders
 * Initial stages are left to the Praetorite Vong
 * They were meant to establish a base on Helska and carve out an invasion corridor
 * Praetorite mostly led by Intendants
 * Main force enters after Helska
 * Kavaavik
 * Tokhlor tallow
 * Clan rivalries are common
 * Vagh rodiek
 * Yammosk

EGAS

 * Heavier than Humans
 * Remake themselves in gods' image
 * High rank = more mutilation

NEC

 * Slivilith
 * Yun-Harla-priests
 * Intendants and workers could call any gods their own

EGAS

 * Planned to weaken invasion corridor, secure undefended worlds, regroup their forces, plow to the Core, and then turn to the capital

Databank-Vong, among others

 * Refuse to acknowledge the Force, see it as Jedi trick

NJO sourcebook

 * Gods gave them tech
 * Gods encouraged them to become god-like
 * They fought over who should rule
 * Cremlevian War emerged from this
 * After the Cremlevian War they learned from the gods how to build worldships
 * Vong must cleanse their flesh after handling machines and then cut it off
 * Yun-Yuuzhan promised that the lesser gods would take his place if they found others to fill their places
 * He created the universe and gods out of his body
 * Gods created the Vong
 * Lived in symbiosis with their homeworld
 * Blood sacrifice needed to appeal to Yun-Yammka
 * Festival of Twin Gods-day when Vong play jokes on superiors without reprimand, for Yun-Harla
 * Pregnant women pray to Yun-Ne'Shel
 * Warriors dislike Yun-Harla often
 * Yun-Harla observes sacred changing ritual
 * Yun-Ne'Shel designed living things appearances, and hoped to create a peaceful paradise, but was interrupted by the Twin Gods
 * Many see her as idealistic fool
 * Loosened caste structure slightly during journey through the Void
 * Overlord was formerly hereditary
 * Now senior priests and shapers determine the succession (generally)
 * Shapers face rigorous schooling and painful rituals to stay in the caste
 * Advancement based on tests and shaping accomplishments
 * Occasionally go to warrior or priest caste, and more flunk out
 * Behind only the Overlord in social status
 * All gods but the creator have their own sect in the priest caste
 * Funded by donations or payment from services rendered
 * Priests are very respected
 * Study holy texts
 * Undergo tough ritual at age 16 and receive vision from god that determines who they will serve
 * Those judged a slacking as sacrificed on holy days
 * Many holy days and sacrifices in this culture
 * Two sects in the highest level (well, below high priest)
 * Some go to war, others head worship
 * High priests are advisors to Overlord and Warmaster, very respected and act on visions
 * Warriors and subalterns are front line troops
 * Subalterns command 12 to 300 soldiers
 * Commanders command 4 to 250 subalterns
 * Intendants run trade
 * Supervise slaves
 * Work with priests to keep society going with minimal blood
 * Priests help watch over captured worlds
 * Workers do all kinds of stuff, managed by Intendants
 * Manipulate blorash jelly, getting it to move by tempting it with food
 * Supreme Commanders and Warmaster wear heavier armor than other troops
 * Glistaweb
 * Vong are trained from birth to use biots
 * Most biots are mildly painful to use, fitting the Vong's pain creed
 * Gnullith
 * Chilab
 * Rhommamool is a mining world
 * Its neighbor, Ossarian, invests heavily in it and is a rich world
 * Nom's Red Knights of Life hate technology, from droids to shuttles, and Jedi and kill anyone using tech
 * Praetorite Vong-highly specialized group in the military led by Intendants and warriors
 * Warriors in this take orders from Intendnats, which they find insulting
 * Skilled high prefects lead
 * Chooses suitable locations and launches task force
 * Worldship houses 5000 warriors plus thousands of civilians and slaves
 * Many ships tethered to worldships, many people live in these tethered ships
 * Mature dovin basal is at the center of the ship
 * Vong would always rather kill a skilled opponent
 * Ships are not more dangerous than normal fighters, but are different, and new
 * Do not believe in wasting resources, and so use Belkadan as a factory
 * Implanter
 * Brave captives are sacrificed to the gods
 * Those who beg for mercy become slaves
 * Minshal
 * Ngdin
 * Chazrach have been bred for many, many generations as slaves
 * Mindless warriors controlled by Vong
 * Not very good, often used solely as a distraction so the Vong-the real soldiers-can kill their enemies
 * Thrall-slave controlled by surge coral
 * Thrall herder
 * Warkeeper
 * The Jedi are an unknown element, and thus dangerous, so they form a plan to remove them
 * Elan, priestess of Yun-Harla, chosen to deliver bo'tous
 * The NR thought she was a defector and hid he ron Wayland
 * A Vong agent came to "assassinate" her, but was stopped by the NR
 * She wants to meet with Jedi
 * Han saves her from the Peace Brigade on Queen of Empire
 * The Vong study the Obroa-skai library
 * Dread weapon
 * Peace brigade is mainly made up of smugglers, slavers, and other rogues
 * See NR as oppressive, but mostly, just want to be on the winning side
 * Fire breather
 * Capture beast
 * A-vek iiluunu
 * Ally with the greedy Hutts
 * Centerpoint goes boom at Fondor thanks to Thrackan
 * Vong hide their greatest atrocities to recruit the Peace Brigade and Hutts
 * 10 months into the invasion the Vong are entering the Core
 * Duro goes down
 * A number of species want to surrender in hopes of being spared
 * They fail at understand that the Vong don't know mercy, and seek only to destroy
 * As they push towards the Core, the Vong meet real resistance for the first time
 * Hutts betrayed the Vong by giving the NR info and so Nal Hutta was terraformed
 * Rodians fight furiously on their homeworld, and Vong develop a respect for them
 * Ylesia is Peace Brigade HQ
 * Tsavong wants Jedi, especially the Solos
 * On Duro, Vong agitators stir up tension
 * Lizard Mount
 * Tkun
 * Cuffs
 * Capture Leia, Jacen rescues her and defeats Tsavong
 * The Duros agree to let the Vong have the refugees if they spare the orbital cities
 * Angry from losing to Jacen, the Warmaster orders them destroyed
 * He issues a decree: give us Jedi and we spare you
 * Vong halt war, letting the NR destroy itself and hunt down Jedi
 * Infiltrators travel to Coruscant
 * Viqi points them to Yavin
 * Bounty placed on Jedi
 * Mezhan is commissioned by Warmaster to test the Jedi's strength, but instead her and Nen shape Tahiri
 * She hopes to prove that they do not need the Supreme Overlord's communications from the gods and can build their own biots
 * The Vong come to Yavin not to hunt Jedi but to create a research colony for shapers
 * Vua Rapuung allies with Anakin and they save Tahiri and she kills Mezhan
 * Vua dies, sacrificing himself to save the Jedi, and thus the heresy is born
 * Relationships forbidden to Master Shapers
 * Vua'spar
 * Vong place bounty on Hutts
 * After months of being gone since Elan's death and her failed plan, Vergere returns
 * She becomes the Warmaster's aid
 * They try and fail to capture the Falcon
 * Sunulok
 * Lungworm
 * They capture Yag'Dhul
 * The NR destroys a new worldship being grown at Sernpidal
 * Uneasy truce falls apart after Yag'Dhul
 * Heresy-both Jeedai and otherwise, such as Nen-grows
 * FOUND IT! AT SOME POINT ANOTHER SPECIES GAVE BIOTS AND GENETIC ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE TO THE VONG. KNOWLEDGE OF THEM WAS COMPLETELY WIPED FROM THE RECORDS! THE GODS AND THE OVERLORD'S CONNECTION TO THEM IS A LIE!
 * Knowledge stored in the qang qahsa and dispensed as the Overlord feels it is needed
 * The eighth cortex is empty
 * Shimrra recruits Nen to make new tech
 * Vornskrs bred with fero xyn to produce voxyn beasts
 * NR has figured out how to jam yammosks
 * Some refugee ships are destroyed by the Vong, although many are ignored unless they have a reason for attacking them
 * Advance image as of SBS is in my pics, Atlas has good maps of advance
 * They destroy some Talfaglio refugees ships and threaten to destroy the rest unless the Senate reveals the Jedi's secret hiding spot
 * Jedi do strange, strange things, like save lives
 * However, they are threatening foes
 * Warmaster plans to use the Peace Brigade to hunt down Jedi, while Nom tries to get them to surrender
 * Smuggler Plaan tries to smuggle some voxyn onto Coruscant, but fails thanks to the Han and Leia
 * Warmaster sends Nom to negotiate with the Senate after Borsk requests a Vong negotiator
 * He's booed off the floor
 * YVH droids save Borsk after Vong infiltrators try to assassinate him in a test run on the advice of Viqi
 * Lando gives the Vong a strike team of Jedi, deceiving them
 * They take over the Vong ship and infiltrate Baanu Raas
 * The kill the voxyn queen, but many die, and few escape
 * Deciding that the Jedi are more concerned with saving lives than winning the war, Tsavong strikes at the Core
 * Borleias is taken
 * The Vong attack Coruscant, using refugee ships from Ralltiir and Rhinnal as a screen initially
 * In a fierce battle, the planetary shields are breached
 * Borsk dies
 * Coruscant falls
 * The Vong hate living or worldships, and being forced to work on one is serious punishment
 * Believed that the entire galaxy was uninhabitable after the Cremlevian