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The Yuuzhan Vong were a sentient extra-galactic species native to the planet Yuuzhan'tar. Members of the species had sloped foreheads and often heavily mutilated and tattooed themselves in devotion to their gods. A warlike species, the Yuuzhan Vong were also extremely religious, and everything they did was for the gods; the species believed it was their duty to convert or kill all non-believers, who they termed "infidels." The Yuuzhan Vong disdained machine technology, instead using organic devices and weapons known as biots. Their society was made up of several distinct castes, which determined a being's place in life.

At some point in their history, the Yuuzhan Vong were attacked by a race of droids. They fought back, and gained new weapons and technology, with which they conquered their foes. The increasingly aggressive Yuuzhan Vong began to cleanse their galaxy of species they termed foes, using the weapons they believed had been given to them by their gods to eliminate all who opposed them. The Yuuzhan Vong then fought an intra–species war which saw the destruction of much of their galaxy. Their living homeworld of Yuuzhan'tar was destroyed in this conflict, and as punishment, it stripped the species of their connection to the Force. The Yuuzhan Vong began worshiping pain and became even more aggressive.

They eventually departed their galaxy in search of a new home, and spent millennia traveling the Intergalactic Void before stumbling across a new galaxy. Under Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane, they launched an invasion in 25 ABY. The Yuuzhan Vong made many gains in the first two years of the war, greatly weakening the existing galactic government, the New Republic. The species was also able to capture the galactic capital, Coruscant. However, the tide would begin to turn, as the Yuuzhan Vong suffered several losses in battle. In 29 ABY, the Yuuzhan Vong War came to a close with the Battle of Coruscant, with the Yuuzhan Vong surrendering after the death of Shimrra. The defeated species promised the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances&mdash;the New Republic's successor government&mdash;that they would abandon their violent ways, and their weapons were destroyed. They then settled on the planet Zonama Sekot, which was been revealed to be a seed of Yuuzhan'tar produced before the planet's destruction.

Biology and appearance

 * Mutilations
 * Forehead
 * Long black hair, not much, often bald
 * Force immunity
 * Nervous system liked pain
 * Skull-like faces
 * Taller
 * No kidneys
 * Heavier?
 * Life span?

Society and culture

 * Gods
 * Technology
 * Fanatics
 * Pain
 * Ferocious

History
===Early The Yuuzhan Vong believed that they were created by Yun-Yuuzhan, who sacrificed pieces of his body to create both the species and the gods. The Yuuzhan Vong were native to Yuuzhan'tar, a living planet. At some point in their history, the species was attacked by a race of droids. Threatened, the Yuuzhan Vong prayed to their gods. Yuuzhan'tar created

LECG

 * Kol proposes Ossus Project
 * Vong agree, use about 100 plaets
 * 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 heh 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

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

Gamer 8 (Some from I Vong, some just from the mag)

 * 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
 * Uneasy truce falls apart
 * 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
 * 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

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 * Not hit by push, but can be hit by lightning and stuff Force-thrown at them?

Quotes
"All living creatures serve the Yuuzhan Vong. And we serve the gods."

- Tsavong Lah

"They were brutal, merciless, and unstoppable. They killed for the pleasure of it and seemed fulfilled by it."

- Garqi refugee

"Knowledge cannot be created; that is the stuff of heresy."

- Yal Phaath

"We do not live side by side with impurity. Your civilization is built on abominations. Your galaxy is polluted. We have come to cleanse it, so that others besides our warrior caste may occupy it and live cleanly here. It is our destiny, according to Supreme Overlord Shimrra and the priests."

- Warmaster Tsavong Lah to Leia Organa Solo

"We are from another galaxy, Jedi Horn. We crossed the starless night for age upon age."

- Yu'shaa

"It is as if the Yuuzhan Vong want to inflict pain and suffering just to see how long it takes for their slaves to break and run. If that is true, this invasion is going to be worse than any war of political or economic gain. Victory for the Yuuzhan Vong demands that every sentient creature live in pain."

- Corran Horn

"We shall teach the New Republic the glory of the gods."

- Shimrra Jamaane

"For all the evil the enemy do, they aren't dark, exactly&mdash;the enemy are entirely outside the Force."

- Jacen Solo

"The Yuuzhan Vong was tall, muscular, and humanlike, but his face and body were horribly scarred and disfigured. He had no hair, and his nose was practically missing. He was horrible to behold."

- Garqi refugee

"The ancient texts are unclear. It appears we were invaded by a race that was more technological than animate. We called on the gods for protection, and they came to our aid, providing us with the knowledge we needed to convert our living resources to weapons. We defeated the threat, and, empowered by our victory, we gradually became conquerors of other species and civilizations."

- Harrar

"There's an invasion coming. A massive assault force of dark ships, shadowy figures, and weapons of great power, based on organic technology of a sort we've never seen before. We believe these Far Outsiders, as we call them, already have a foothold at the far edge of the galaxy, and even now have scouting parties seeking information on worlds and peoples to conquer."

- Kinman Doriana

"I made an alliance with the reborn Empire at Bastion. We manufactured a cause for war, making the Vong seem responsible. Split, the Galactic Alliance began to fight itself. And so died."

- Darth Krayt

"They've got technology, sweetheart. They just build it in different ways."

- Han Solo, to Leia Organa Solo

"The Yuuzhan Vong are coming. I do not give you this warning so that you can prepare to face them. You cannot fight the Yuuzhan Vong. I tell you simply&mdash;run."

- Arbeloa

"We will take your whole galaxy. We will destroy your machines. They are an abomination. We will share our ways. We will share our beliefs. We will share pain."

- Sha'kel

also known as the Great War by the Yuuzhan Vong Star Wars: Legacy 44: Monster, Part 2


 * Ur-Yuuzhan Vong


 * Third guide thing


 * Arbeloa's species


 * Vongerella
 * Slave Pits of Lorrd Vong

Major sources

 * NJO books (and Ylesia and Practical Man), duh
 * NJO sourcebook
 * Ultimate Adversaries
 * Legacy 0 and .5
 * Legacy: Ghosts
 * Legacy: Claws of the Dragon
 * Legacy: Monster
 * Invasion
 * The Joiner King
 * Crimson Empire
 * NJO TUF interview

Also removed scrollboxes

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Rogue Planet
 * Outbound Flight
 * Shatterpoint
 * Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd
 * Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood
 * Vision of the Future
 * Survivor's Quest
 * Boba Fett: A Practical Man
 * Vector Prime
 * Star Wars: Invasion: Refugees
 * Star Wars: Invasion: Rescues
 * Star Wars: Chewbacca
 * Revenants
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Dark Tide II: Ruin
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
 * Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
 * Balance Point
 * Recovery
 * Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Emissary of the Void
 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * The Apprentice
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * Traitor
 * Destiny's Way
 * Ylesia
 * Equals and Opposites
 * Force Heretic I: Remnant
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
 * Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
 * Betrayal
 * Bloodlines
 * Tempest
 * Exile
 * Sacrifice
 * Inferno
 * Fury
 * Revelation
 * Invincible
 * Crosscurrent
 * Millennium Falcon
 * Outcast
 * Omen
 * Abyss
 * Backlash
 * Allies
 * Star Wars: Legacy 8: Allies
 * Star Wars: Legacy 1: Broken, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Legacy 4: Noob
 * Star Wars: Legacy 5: Broken, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Legacy 9: Trust Issues, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Legacy: Ghosts
 * Star Wars: Legacy: Claws of the Dragon
 * Star Wars: Legacy 27: Into the Core
 * Star Wars: Legacy 29: Vector, Part 10
 * Star Wars: Legacy 30: Vector, Part 11
 * Star Wars: Legacy 37: Tatooine, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Legacy 39: Tatooine, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Legacy 41: Rogue's End
 * Star Wars: Legacy 43: Monster, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Legacy 44: Monster, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Legacy 45: Monster, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Legacy 45: Monster, Part 3

Notes and references
Cats and things