Nas Choka was a distinguished Yuuzhan Vong warrior who rose through the ranks of his caste to become the final warmaster of his species. Known more as a tactician and strategist than a martial warrior, Choka nevertheless actively participated in the Jamaane coup of 29 BBY, which saw the ambitious Shimrra of Domain Jamaane become Supreme Overlord of the Yuuzhan Vong. Having pledged his support to the winning faction, Commander Choka was escalated to the position of Supreme Commander of the flagship of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet, as the armada traveled to the galaxy which Shimrra vowed was a promised reward for millennia spent in the Intergalactic Void. When the Yuuzhan Vong finally prosecuted their invasion in 25 ABY, Choka was still with the main body of the fleet. The invaders witnessed several setbacks until Choka took command of the vanguard and managed, by manipulating an alliance with the Hutts, to mount a major offensive against the New Republic's vital Fondor Shipyards. The battle went awry, however, when Choka lost half his attack force to the destructive capabilities of Centerpoint Station, an ancient construct in the nearby Corellian system. The vengeful supreme commander descended with his warfleet upon the Hutts, who had betrayed the Yuuzhan Vong at Fondor, and over the next two years laid waste to Hutt Space, conquering the entire territory.
The lengthy campaign against the Hutts reaffirmed Choka's reputation, and thus when his superior,
Warmaster Tsavong Lah, met his
death at the
Battle of
Ebaq 9, the supreme commander was escalated to the rank of warmaster in Lah's stead. Proving to be a very different leader of the warriors than his predecessor had been, Choka made swift progress against the
reorganized New Republic with new tactics and agendas. The vendetta against the
Jedi was called off, and several threats against the Yuuzhan Vong, such as the
Imperial Remnant and the
Yevetha species, were attacked or neutralized. A strike against the enemy's
communications network also bore some success, but Supreme Overlord Shimrra desired a rapid end to the war. Forced, against his better judgment, to carry out a final, decisive strike against the Galactic Alliance's capital of
Dac, Choka departed
Yuuzhan'tar—formerly
Coruscant—with one of the war's largest armadas, tasked with finishing off the tenacious enemy. The warmaster soon returned, however, when news reached him that a living
world had emerged in the
Coruscant system, and that the enemy was planning to reclaim their lost capital. In the last
battle of the war, Choka conducted the defense of Yuuzhan'tar, all the while threatened by the presence of the living planet
Zonama Sekot. The battle came to an end when Choka was halted in his efforts by the news of the death of Supreme Overlord Shimrra. The warmaster chose not to join many of his fellow warriors in ritual
suicide, and acted as the spokesperson of the Yuuzhan Vong during the
Sekot Accords which ended the war.
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