Yuuzhan Vong
The Yuuzhan Vong are a fictional race of sentient beings created as a threat for the New Republic in the Star Wars New Jedi Order series of novels.
The Vong are a race of religious zealot masochists. They genetically engineer and grow all of their organic technology and view mechanical technology as blasphemy. They endeavor to improve their physical capabilities through organ grafts from other species. The Vong function in a caste system, and those higher up in position have more body modification and mutilations. The lowest in the caste system are slaves, conquered species. Above slaves are the Shamed Ones, Vong whose bodies have rejected the modifications. Noteably, the Vong are not included in the Force, something the Jedi have found very mysterious, since all living things are supposed to have in some way or another, have a Force energy signiture.
Their economic system isn't really mentioned, but appears to be a command economy.
Proving the extent of their might, the Yuuzhan Vong were able to conquer Coruscant and renamed it Yuuzhan'tar. Following the conquest, the New Republic was reorganized as the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (or Galactic Alliance or GFFA for short). The Vong adjusted the orbit of Coruscant and attempted to terraform it into their ideal world. However, the invasion was defeated and the Vong were forced to withdraw. One of the terms the Alliance presented to the Vong was that they were to assist in the reconstruction of Coruscant. However, it remains to be seen if Coruscant will ever recover.
The cost of the actions of the Yuuzhan Vong was very dear to the galaxy. The number of deaths over the known galaxy that resulted from the invasion was estimated at about 365 trillion individuals. That would be equal to 61 thousand Earth-type worlds with a population of 6 billion each.
Technology
The Yuuzhan Vong (sometimes incorrectly abbreviated Vong, which implies insult) use only living ships and weapons. Some of the weapons that they use are listed below.
Ground Weapons
- Amphistaff
- Plasma Eal
- Rankmat
- Thud Bug
- Coufee
Atmospheric/Underwater Weapons
- Tsik-vru
Space Weapons
- Coralskipper
- Matalock
- Yorik-trema
- Grutchin
Other
- Villip
- Yammosk
- Dametuk
- Dovin Basal
- Voxyn
External links
hu:Yuuzhan Vong