Slayers Slayers were elite Yuuzhan Vong soldiers , created at the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War to protect Supreme Overlord Shimrra and fight the Jedi Knights . Their creation was a violation of the Shaping protocol s and caste system , associating them with the heresy secretly encouraged by Shimrra . In fact , the Slayers originated as Force - sensitive slaves that had been grown from tissue samples of Jedi and then transformed and altered by the shaper caste . Origins and abilities . The Slayers were muscular , dark - skinned males , short and stocky by Yuuzhan Vong standards — they were even shorter than Warmaster Nas Choka , clad typically only in traditional waist - wraps , and bearing insignia of caste and elevation appropriate to both priests and warriors . When Shimrra presented them to the Elite , their appearance caused a scandal . Some denounced their creation as heresy and a violation of the Caste system , and Supreme Commander Chaan dared to say that they looked like Shamed Ones — but once a pair of Slayers managed to kill Chaan and his entire cadre of ten warriors , criticism was quickly silenced . As well as a practical means of securing their own position , this display of warrior skill also acted as a deterrent against challenges to Shimrra ' s authority within the Yuuzhan Vong , either from the Quorealist opposition , the " Jeedai " heresy , or any who were perturbed by decisions like the creation of the Slayers themselves . In reality , the Supreme Overlord was himself a heretic , and may have viewed the creation of the Slayers , by violating shaping protocols and caste systems , as the mean of declaring war against his own Yun ' o . The Slayers were in fact human slaves , Force - sensitives grown from tissue samples taken from Jedi , and then transformed by the shaper caste . The Slayers were equipped with a suite of combat biot s designed by Master Shaper Qelah Kwaad . Their skin — the black color of dried Yuuzhan Vong blood — was in fact supple , fast - healing armor bonded to their bodies , and they were equipped with the spiked close - combat implants known as Steng ' s Talons , as well as new variants of the amphistaff and coufee . They also flew a new type of coralskipper , heavy fighters that resembled voxyn in appearance , equipped with new weapon systems , better defense , and capable of hyperspace travel ; at least some of these ships were also outfitted with passenger compartments . The Slayers were introduced as " Shimrra ' s " Jeedai " " , designed to serve as bodyguards for the Supreme Overlord , and as warriors who could match the Jedi in combat . Reflecting this , Qelah Kwaad demonstrated their body armor with a slash of Anakin Solo ' s lightsaber across a Slayer ' s torso . They were called Slayers in honor of Yun - Yammka , the God of War , and in this context , it may be significant that the Supreme Overlord equated Yun - Yammka with Jedi Master Luke Skywalker ; Nom Anor had also once associated Luke Skywalker , the leader of the New Jedi Order with the rank of Warmaster , the servant of Yun - Yammka , during his report to Tsavong Lah . Their fighting style was very similar to that of the Jedi , concentrating on the use of bladed weapons , deflecting thud bugs and blaster bolts , and full of high leaps and rapid movements , in which it was comparable to the Force - boosted acrobatics the Yuuzhan Vong had seen Luke Skywalker and Anakin Solo perform , derived ultimately from the traditional Ataru style of fighting . Uncertainties . However , there is some question of whether the new implants and equipment created by Qelah Kwaad were the only thing that distinguished " Shimrra ' s " Jeedai " " from normal Yuuzhan Vong . The stocky physique of the Slayers was explained with the claim that the faster metabolic rate of shorter warriors aided the healthy grafting of the new implants , but in fact , stocky hominids do not typically have a faster metabolism . Inasmuch as basal metabolic rate is defined by physique , it is a short and " thin " physique , with a higher ratio of body surface area to volume , that typically correlates to a faster metabolism . Additionally , alongside Qelah Kwaad , an unidentified Shaper Adept was closely associated with the Slayers , supervising them on their introduction on Yuuzhan ' tar and during their first field deployment on Caluula , where she proved herself highly skilled and unselfconsciously heretical . Role in combat . In combat , the Slayers proved capable warriors , but they were unable to prevent the Yuuzhan Vong defeat , and no record exists of a Slayer defeating a Jedi Knight in open combat . Their first operational deployment was on Caluula , where they captured a Galactic Alliance team including the Jedi Kyp Durron and Leia Organa Solo , but most of them fell sick when Alpha Red caused them to reject their implants . When Luke Skywalker and Jacen and Jaina Solo faced Shimrra in his throne room , they encountered a second group of Slayers which Shimrra had kept close as bodyguards , and the three Jedi defeated them in a brief , but vicious battle . One survivor of the Caluula team remained , however — a warrior on whom the effects of Alpha Red had been somehow arrested by the Shaper Adept attached to the mission . During the closing stages of the Battle of Yuuzhan ' tar , he bravely mounted an attack run on Zonama Sekot in his coralskipper , which Wedge Antilles grimly likened to Luke Skywalker ' s X - wing trench - run thirty years earlier at the Battle of Yavin . In this encounter , however , the living planet used the Force to fling the ship out into deep space , preventing the attack . This Slayer ' s subsequent fate is unknown , and while he would certainly be the only unaccounted member of the cadres encountered in combat , it is possible that other warriors may have been created who did not see combat , or who were initially taken into the program but did not receive the full suite of biots . A warrior who may have been a failed Slayer led the followers of the " Jeedai " Heresy in their attack on Shimrra ' s palace : he appeared to be a warrior , and wore the shoulder spikes of a subaltern , but some of the upper joints of his fingers had been removed , something otherwise associated with the Priest caste . Curiously , given his leadership role among the heretics , and his knowledge of the way into private areas of the palace , it is not impossible that this warrior was in fact none other than Kunra . Master Shaper Qelah Kwaad certainly survived the war , becoming a member of the troika which took over leadership of the Yuuzhan Vong after their surrender — and with her , presumably , the knowledge to create the suite of Slayer biots was preserved . After the end of the war , one Slayer was captured by the Sith faction One Sith and was trained as a Sith apprentice , adopting the name Darth Vua . Behind the scenes . It is unclear whether the claim about a correlation between a fast metabolic rate and the Slayers ' stocky physique is simply a blooper , or if it means that the full truth about their origins has not yet been revealed . Some fans have speculated that the Slayers were in fact clones of Jedi , perhaps of members of the Myrkr strike team . There is also the distinct possibility that Yuuzhan Vong metabolism differs from humans . For all their similarities , they were , after all , an alien race . In the 2012 reference guide " The Essential Guide to Warfare " , it was revealed that the Slayers were not in fact Yuuzhan Vong at all — they were Force - sensitive human slaves grown from tissue samples taken from Jedi , and they were augmented and transformed by shapers .