Dhuryam

The Dhuryam were a Yuuzhan Vong bioengineered lifeform that are used as world coordinators. Related and quite similar to the yammosk, except being much larger and more powerful, these thirteen irreplaceable creatures were trained to become much more than a war coordinator: the pazhkic Yuuzhan'tar al'tirrna, or World Brain. One of them would manage the thousands of biological processes that go into terraforming and maintaining Yuuzhan'tar, the Yuuzhan Vong homeworld. Because the World Brain must be of the highest quality, it was selected through a special process called the tizo'pil Yun'tchilat: the Day of Comprehending the Will of the Gods. All thirteen dhuryams were severed from their telepathic link with their slaves by the Shreeyam'tiz, which were a smaller sub-species of the Yammosk that existed only for that task. When one dhuryam remained, from either killing its siblings or by some other method, it assumed direct control over Yuuzhan'tar. The World Brain was chosen by Jacen Solo after he killed all twelve of the other dhuryams. Jacen convinced it to sabotage the Vongforming of Coruscant. The dhuryam remained after the Liberation of Coruscant.

Years later, the dhuryam would again help Jacen Solo. During the Second Corellian Insurrection, Solo was appointed the leader of the Galactic Alliance Guard. He covertly used the World Brain to detect and round up Corellian insurgents on Coruscant. When Alema Rar returned to Coruscant to exact revenge on the Solo family, she followed Jacen to the World Brain. When she attempted to kill him with a blowdart, Lumiya, Jacen's Sith mentor, force pushed him out of the way of Alema's attack and the dart instead hit the World Brain. The World Brain began to thrash violently. Jacen and Lumiya then began an attempt to save the World Brain. Unfortunately the World Brain succumbed to the toxins and Jacen was upset by the loss of his friend.

Appearances

 * Traitor
 * The Unifying Force
 * Bloodlines
 * Tempest

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