Vagh Rodiek

The Vagh Rodiek are Rodians shaped by the Yuuzhan Vong Shaper Caste to be deadly war beasts. Rodia was one of the countless worlds that fell to the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong less than a year into the invasion. After decimating the urban areas of the planet, the Yuuzhan Vong landed their damuteks upon the rich, tropical floors. The shapers viewed the verdant jungle world as a banquet table ripe with new life forms to experiment with, starting with the sentient Rodians. The overseer of the Rodia project, Master Shaper Taug Molou, set upon the unfortunate Rodians with religious fervor after receiving Warmaster Tsavong Lah's orders to create a tractable slave species to enhance the Chazrach armies. Not content with controlling the Rodians through coral implants, the master shaper took apart the Rodians on a cellular level, reassembling their genetic code with bits from other creatures. Any violation of the protocols of Yun-Ne'Shel was overlooked as the Vagh Rodiek came into being.

Through the deaths of thousands of Rodians the Vagh Rodiek were born. These drones retained enough sentience to receive commands from their Yuuzhan Vong masters, but nearly all sense of their former species was erased. The Vagh Rodiek scuttle on four pointed, crab-like legs. Half-meter scythes of bone emerge from the sockets that previously held arms and their natural head-spines have been mutated into razor-sharp quills. The armored beasts have already devastated many battlefields; particularly those in Hutt Space.