The Vagh Rodiek (Yuuzhan Vong for "Rodian Slaves") were Rodians shaped by the Yuuzhan Vong Shaper caste to be deadly war beasts during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Rodia was one of the countless worlds that fell to the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong invaders during the war's first year. After destroying the cities of Rodia, the Yuuzhan Vong Warmaster, Tsavong Lah, ordered the Master Shaper in charge of the Rodia project, Taug Molou, to created a controllable slave species that would be comparable with their reptilian Chazrach servitors.[1]
Unwilling to simply control them with surge-coral implants, but quite willing to strain the limits of the Shaper caste's protocols, Molou vivisected thousands of Rodians,[1] reassembling the Rodians' genetic code with bits from other creatures,[2] until his experiment resulted in the first Vagh Rodiek emerging from its birthing blister. These animalistic warbeasts scuttled about on four crab-like legs, and had sharp, half-meter-long scythes of bone in place of arms. Their natural head-spines had also been mutated into razor-sharp quills. These drones were mindless without commands from their Yuuzhan Vong masters. The armored beasts were made available to Yuuzhan Vong commanders when Chazrach were unavailable, particularly those commanders in and around Hutt Space; a typical strike unit was composed of three to twelve drones.[1]
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"I, Yuuzhan Vong" — Star Wars Gamer 8 (First mentioned)- The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- The Essential Atlas
