Nei Rin Nei Rin was a Yuuzhan Vong female who rose to the rank of Master Shaper before 122 ABY . As a crafter of Yuuzhan Vong biot echnology , she was highly respected among her species . The Yuuzhan Vong were seen as pariahs throughout the galaxy after having ravaged many planets in a war fought a century prior , and when members of the New Jedi Order invited them to use their terraforming technology to restore those worlds and win redemption , Rin was named the Master Shaper of what became known as the Ossus Project . While shaping coral seeds and restoring ecosystems , she worked alongside and grew close to the Jedi Master Kol Skywalker , who had conceived of the project . The two traveled to Wayland in 126 ABY and transformed the planet ' s devastated surface into a thriving floral landscape , which gave hope to the native Myneyrsh i people . Agents of the One Sith covertly sabotaged the Ossus Project in that same year , mutating the coral seeds that Rin had shaped and infecting the inhabitants of the terraformed worlds with a lethal plague . The Myneyrshi screamed for Rin ' s blood as she , Skywalker , and their companions escaped from the mutated surface of Wayland . Rin was overcome with guilt and attempted to discover the cause of the mutations while a galactic war erupted over the resulting public outrage . She remained at the Jedi Temple on Ossus over the course of the war but left the planet to perform research in 130 ABY with Choka Skell and Liaan Lah , two Yuuzhan Vong warriors who had been assigned to protect her from the galaxy ' s wrath . The war concluded during their absence , and the Jedi Temple was attacked by the Sith . Rin and her bodyguards returned to find many Jedi , including Skywalker , slain . The surviving Jedi were scattered across the galaxy ; Rin and her warriors performed funeral services for the fallen at Ossus and brought every remaining Jedi artifact into a hidden sub - basement of the temple . They felt indebted to the Jedi and remained there for seven years as protectors of the Jedi legacy . When Skywalker ' s son , Cade , returned to Ossus in 137 ABY to complete his training , Rin prepared to turn the Jedi legacy over to him . A stubborn Cade refused , however , and departed the planet after requesting that the Jedi Master K ' Kruhk be charged with protecting the artifacts instead . Over the next several weeks , Rin and her warriors , along with K ' Kruhk and his Jedi brethren Wolf Sazen and Shado Vao , remained hidden under the temple as patrols of the Sith Lord Darth Krayt ' s Galactic Empire searched the planet for signs of life . They were able to escape to lower levels within the temple when the Imperials bombarded the compound , but Sazen and Vao took an injured K ' Kruhk off - planet to be healed . Biography . Architect of hope . The Yuuzhan Vong female Nei Rin lived in the years leading up to the Sith – Imperial War . She was a member of her species ' s shaper caste and ascended to the rank of Master Shaper prior to 122 ABY . The Yuuzhan Vong were a species that regarded mechanical technology as religious blasphemy ; as a shaper , Rin was a highly - regarded crafter of biot echnology among her people . An unsuccessful war of conquest initiated by the extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong against the galaxy in 25 ABY had left the species largely hated and feared by the galactic community for nearly a century , but in 122 ABY , members of the New Jedi Order approached Yuuzhan Vong across the galaxy with an offer of redemption . The Jedi hoped to use the Yuuzhan Vong ' s advanced terraforming technology to restore many of the planets that had been ravaged during the war . The Yuuzhan Vong agreed , and Rin was appointed the Master Shaper of the project . The project was championed by Kol Skywalker , a leading member of the Jedi Council . Skywalker believed strongly in assimilating the Yuuzhan Vong into galactic society and hoped that the project could transform the galaxy ' s perception of them . As such , Rin came to greatly admire him for his vision and his efforts . In 122 ABY , the project was tested on a desolate portion of the planet Ossus , where the Jedi housed their primary academy , and barren terrain was successfully transformed into a landscape of lush flora . Other star systems began vying for the opportunity to have their worlds restored , and Rin and Skywalker convinced the Galactic Alliance to allow Yuuzhan Vong shapers to terraform one hundred additional planets in what became known as the Ossus Project . Nei Rin set to work shaping yorik coral seeds , which grew into Yuuzhan Vong plant life on various worlds and helped restore entire ecosystems . Her efforts saw her work closely with Jedi such as Skywalker and the healer Hosk Trey ' lis , as well as scientists from the Galactic Alliance . In 126 ABY , Rin and Skywalker arrived on Wayland , a world whose surface was still pocked with plasma - spewing Chom - Vrone s from the war . Wayland was home to the Myneyrsh i , some of whom had refused to leave the planet and had been living on its devastated landscape without hope for decades . Rin crafted new coral seeds and worked with Skywalker and other shapers to restore the world to full floral health . Skywalker brought two Jedi Padawans to Wayland — his son , Cade , and the Twi ' lek Shado Vao — and one day walked hand - in - hand with Rin through Wayland ' s new greenery as the children played . The Mynersh chieftain Roax thanked them , and Skywalker shared his belief that the will of the Force had brought them to the planet to give hope to its people . Searching for answers . Six months after Rin and Skywalker spoke with Roax , agents of the One Sith sabotaged the Ossus Project . The Sith had been hiding for nearly a century and were aware that many in the galaxy still distrusted the Yuuzhan Vong ; they hoped to frame them for the sabotage and manufacture a cause for galactic war . Wayland was their first target and was corrupted by the Sith scientist Darth Maladi as well as the renegade Yuuzhan Vong shaper Zenoc Quah . The coral seeds that Rin had shaped began to mutate , and the Myneyrshi became infected with a plague that caused coral growths to sprout from their skin . None of the Yuuzhan Vong or Jedi on - world were affected , and the Myneyrshi blamed the mutations on them . Mutant creatures and vines began to attack those who were on - world ; Skywalker , the Jedi Master Wolf Sazen , and several Yuuzhan Vong warriors battled the flora and fauna back from Rin and the children while clearing a path to an escape ship . As Rin and Skywalker stood on the ship ' s loading ramp , a furious Roax demanded Rin ' s blood as retribution for what he believed to be a curse she had placed upon them . Rin suspected sabotage , and Skywalker Force - pushed Roax and his warriors off the ramp before promising to return and right the wrong that had been committed . Sazen and Cade piloted the ship away , but damage inflicted by the vines left it stranded in orbit . Shortly thereafter , Moff Nyna Calixte of the Galactic Empire received their distress signal and brought their ship aboard her Star Destroyer . Similar situations began to occur on other worlds that had been terraformed and caused lethal mutations to their populations . Rin was shocked , and when every terraformed world save Ossus became infected , she struggled to understand why . She returned to Ossus with the Jedi and began to tend to some of the infected beings . The Jedi convinced the Galactic Alliance to back the Yuuzhan Vong in the face of public outrage , but the Empire called for retribution and declared war on the Alliance . Jedi and Yuuzhan Vong alike began to be hunted , and Rin was assigned two Yuuzhan Vong warriors as bodyguards — Choka Skell and Liaan Lah , who were both fiercely dedicated to protecting her and saw everything else as secondary to her survival . As none of Rin ' s preliminary experiments on Ossus had shown any signs of mutation , she dedicated herself to discovering what had gone wrong and why . One year into the war , the Sith emerged from hiding and entered the fighting on the side of the Empire . Rin immediately suspected that the sabotage had been at their hands . She stayed on Ossus with the Jedi and attempted to determine how , hopeful that the truth could discredit the Sith and end the war . Protector of a legacy . In 130 ABY , Rin , Skell , and Lah left Ossus to perform field research pertaining to their investigations . The war concluded while they were away , and the Sith attacked the Jedi Temple . Many Jedi died , and the rest were scattered across the galaxy . When Rin returned , she found dead Jedi as well as Yuuzhan Vong warriors and shapers strewn about a burning temple . Skywalker was among the dead , and Rin and her warriors gave him a proper funeral . They performed similar services for all of the fallen Jedi . All three Yuuzhan Vong felt indebted to the Jedi and gathered every remaining Jedi artifact they could . They brought the treasures deep beneath the temple and dedicated their lives to protecting what they saw as the Jedi ' s legacy . While living in the temple ' s sub - basement , the Yuuzhan Vong serviced the astromech droid R2 - D2 , who had served the Skywalker family for decades , in honor of Kol Skywalker . Rin also fitted Skywalker ' s lightsaber , which she had recovered from the battlefield , with a lambent crystal of her own shaping . Lah ' s coralskipper starfighter remained hidden with the Yuuzhan Vong in case they needed to flee , but they chose to remain and protect the Jedi treasures . They avoided detection whenever starships of the Galactic Empire , now under the rule of the Sith Lord Darth Krayt , patrolled Ossus and scanned for signs of life . During her time under the temple , Rin found proof that the Sith had sabotaged the Ossus Project . The revelation freed her of her guilt , and she began to hope that she could one day clear her people of any blame . Seven years after the Sith ' s attack on the planet , several Jedi returned to Ossus and began to train Cade Skywalker , who had been working as a bounty hunter for the past seven years , in the ways of the Force . Cade and Shado Vao crashed through the temple ' s floors during a sparring session and were attacked by Skell and Lah until Rin realized that the two were Jedi and ordered her warriors to stop . Rin recognized Masters Sazen and K ' Kruhk but not Cade , who had grown into a young man ; Cade did , however , recognize her . Rin then told the group the story of how she and her warriors had come to protect the Jedi ' s legacy on Ossus . When Sazen revealed Cade ' s identity to her , Rin was pleased that she could pass the legacy over to Kol Skywalker ' s son . The younger Skywalker was stubborn and independent and refused the responsibility ; he offered to sell the artifacts before storming away . Rin wondered if the Jedi ' s honor had sunk so low , but Sazen assured her that Cade ' s actions were not representative of the Jedi Order . The following morning , Cade prepared to depart Ossus in order to rescue Hosk Trey ' lis , whom he had captured during his bounty hunting career , from the Temple of the Sith on the galactic capital of Coruscant . He asked Rin to allow K ' Kruhk to care for the Jedi legacy , and she agreed . She presented Cade with his father ' s lightsaber before he left , and K ' Kruhk assigned R2 - D2 to him as a mechanic . K ' Kruhk , Sazen , and Vao remained with Rin and her warriors over the next several weeks , and concealed their presence in the Force when an Imperial patrol arrived at the planet . When several Imperial stormtroopers searched the temple on foot and discovered the hidden chambers below , Vao used a mind trick to persuade them to leave . The troopers reported no signs of life to their superiors , but the Imperial Star Destroyer in orbit bombarded and destroyed the temple regardless . K ' Kruhk used the Force to hold back the collapsing rubble as Rin , her warriors , Sazen , and Vao escaped to even lower levels , and he was severely injured in the process . Rin attempted to heal the Jedi Master but was unable to sufficiently treat him , even with the aid of bacta . K ' Kruhk then told Sazen and Vao about a Hidden Jedi Temple on Taivas , and the two took him there to be healed by other Jedi . Personality and traits . Nei Rin was a highly skilled shaper and a specialist in Yuuzhan Vong biotechnology . She excelled at crafting coral seeds and villip s among other Yuuzhan Vong biots , and as the Master Shaper in charge of the Ossus Project , she helped restore entire ecosystems of devastated planets . Rin also had a talent for healing . Shapers were highly regarded among the Yuuzhan Vong for their abilities , and when they were invited by the Jedi to participate in the Ossus project , Rin was placed in charge of the project and believed herself worthy of the task . Rin greatly admired Kol Skywalker for his initiative and conviction to integrate the Yuuzhan Vong into galactic society . She thought of him as a hero . While working alongside Skywalker , Rin grew close to the Jedi and would at times hold his hand while walking through restored landscapes . She was deeply saddened by his death and retained fond memories of him over the following years ; she continued to refer to him by his first name seven years later . Together with Choka Skell and Liaan Lah , she gave Skywalker , along with all of the Jedi who had fallen during the Sith ' s attack on Ossus , proper funerals in the wake of the massacre . Rin felt very indebted to the Jedi for the help they had given her species , and she dedicated her life to honoring their legacy by hiding and protecting Jedi artifacts beneath Ossus ' s Jedi Temple . She remained on the planet for seven years , honoring the Jedi even while Imperial vessels searched the planet for signs of life . When Cade Skywalker returned to Ossus in 137 ABY , Rin was pleased that she had the opportunity to turn the Jedi legacy over to the son of the man she had admired . Cade requested that she give the responsibility to K ' Kruhk , however , and she acquiesced without argument . When the Ossus Project was corrupted , Rin was shocked and could not understand what had gone wrong . As the project ' s Master Shaper , she felt responsible and guilty until she was able to prove that the sabotage had been the work of the Sith . After discovering proof of the Sith ' s machinations , she retained faith that the project could one day become a success in spite of everything that had happened . Rin had initially hoped that the truth could end the Sith – Imperial War but was unable to prove her suspicions about the Sith until after the war ' s conclusion . By that point , she was still hopeful that the truth could one day acquit her species of any blame . Custom and ritual were very important to Rin . Her respect for the Jedi and their customs prompted her to perform funeral services for all of the fallen Jedi on Ossus . When K ' Kruhk asserted that the responsibility of protecting the Jedi ' s legacy should not be given to just one person , Rin disagreed with him , citing the Yuuzhan Vong ' s tradition of honor . She believed that Skywalker had been the Jedi ' s greatest warrior , and that as such , the responsibility should fall to his son . In addition to steadfastly holding to Yuuzhan Vong traditions , Rin also believed in the Yuuzhan Vong gods . She felt that the eyes of Yun - Ne ' Shel , the Modeler , shone brightly on Kol Skywalker , and when the Ossus Project was sabotaged , she wondered if Yun - Harla , the trickster goddess , was laughing at her . Rin ' s left hand was a Yuuzhan Vong shaper hand , and she often carried a personal villip . Although most of her Yuuzhan Vong contemporaries did not bother to learn any languages other than their native tongue , Rin could speak Basic , Bocce , High Galactic , Huttese , Mon Calamarian , Shyriiwook , and Zabraki , in addition to the Yuuzhan Vong language . Behind the scenes . Nei Rin was created by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema for the comic series " " and first appeared on the final page of its , released in May 2007 . She was named and given a backstory in the in addition to appearing on its cover . The two issues formed a story arc called " " , which included the first appearance of the Yuuzhan Vong in " Legacy " . The Yuuzhan Vong had previously featured as the primary antagonists for " " series of novels , in which they had laid siege to the galaxy before being defeated and exiled at the of the series . With their first appearance in " Legacy " , set more than one hundred years after " The New Jedi Order " , Ostrander and Duursema hoped to use Nei Rin as a model to illustrate how much the species had changed in that time . Since then , Rin ' s character and her role in the Ossus Project have been expanded upon in subsequent " Legacy " issues , 2009 ' s " Legacy Era Campaign Guide " , and 2012 ' s " The Essential Guide to Warfare " .