Arbeloa Arbeloa , also referred to as Arb , was a male member and sole survivor of the Cilare , a species of warriors whom the extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong exterminated around 25 ABY at the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War . He was able to transmit a message warning others of the threat of the invaders before being taken captive . His transmission was intercepted by the crew of the " Pythea " , an exploratory ship that was traveling along the edge of the galaxy , to whom he relayed his story . However , the crew of the ship was killed during an encounter with Yuuzhan Vong vessels before they could warn Artorias , a peaceful planet located in the Outer Rim Territories that the Yuuzhan Vong later captured . Arbeloa went on to join forces with the Artorian princess , Kaye Galfridian , and other slaves in a revolt on the " Tsam P ' ah " , the slaveship aboard which they were being help captive . He then accompanied the Galfridians aboard the former Yuuzhan Vong ship , now renamed the " Heart of Artorias " , in their quest to rescue the refugees from Artorias . During his travels on the " Heart of Artorias " , he participated in battles on Dibrook and Shramar . Biography . Early life . Arbeloa was a male warrior who lived on Vonak , a primitive feudal world in isolation to the rest of the galaxy . His warlike people , the Cilare , valued martial skills from infancy , and their scientists disdained medicines in favor of war matériel . His people regularly hunted and subdued various fierce animal species . Consequently , they believed themselves to be strong and impregnable to any threat . They possessed primitive semi - industrial technology including tanks . Early in the Yuuzhan Vong War , a potent invasion force from the extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong species , who were attempting to conquer the galaxy , landed on the Cilare homeworld and waged war on the warrior species . Despite their valor and arsenal , the Cilare were easily wiped out by the onslaught of Fire Breather s . These deadly war beasts had flexible proboscises that spewed streams of gelatinous flame and pores that exhaled anti - laser aerosols . The Cilare were quickly exterminated as the Yuuzhan Vong pacified their homeworld . Though he was the last of his species and near capture , Arbeloa was still able to transmit a signal into space — a warning to anyone who would listen . He urged recipients of the message to flee from the oncoming Yuuzhan Vong invasion force while they still could , as attempting to fight the species was futile . This message was eventually picked up by the two - person crew of the exploratory ship " Pythea " — the Chiss Panha and her Wookiee companion Sarkkin . The two spacers watched in horror as the warrior related the nature and culture of his species before warning them of the depredations of the Yuuzhan Vong . Given that Panha ' s species , the Chiss , had fought the Yuuzhan Vong before , she understood the nature of their threat to the galaxy . Picking up the presence of a Yuuzhan Vong fleet close by in hyperspace , they powered up the " Pythea " and fled toward the nearest world , Artorias , in an attempt to warn the Artorian s . The crew of the " Pythea " made contact with the planet Artorias , but they were intercepted and attacked by the Yuuzhan Vong fleet . Before their destruction , the crew of the " Pythea " passed Arbeloa ' s warning to Dulac , an inhabitant of Artorias . However , Dulac was a Yuuzhan Vong infiltrator and did not warn the populace . The Yuuzhan Vong captured Artorias shortly thereafter . Captivity . Arbeloa was taken captive aboard a Yuuzhan Vong slaveship , the " Tsam P ' ah " , and was bound to a wall . There he met the Artorian princess , Kaye Galfridian , who had been captured by the Yuuzhan Vong alongside other Artorians , including her mother , Queen Nina Galfridian . Arbeloa observed the princess standing up to several Yuuzhan Vong warriors and volunteering to serve Commander Sha ' kel . Kaye pretended to be subservient to Sha ' kel to learn more about her captors ; Arbeloa caught onto her plan and concluded she was a formidable warrior herself . He pledged to the princess that if she freed him from his restraints , he would fight for her . He also vowed to take the commander ' s head . After returning from being with the commander , Kaye revealed to Arbeloas that Sha ' kel would be sending more of the ship ' s guards to Artorias and decided that the opportunity to revolt was nearing . Arbeloa responded that he had almost worked his way free from his restraints and observed how the Yuuzhan Vong opened the prisoners ' cages with a device on their arms . Soon thereafter , Arbeloa grabbed Kaye in a headlock and yelled for the guards . When they arrived , he threatened to kill the princess if he was not let free . However , it was just a ruse to force the two Yuuzhan Vong warriors guarding the prisoners to enter the cage so they could be overwhelmed by the sheer number of captives . After Kaye led a revolt and freed Arbeloa , he pledged his service to her . He broke off a piece of his cage and used it as a melee weapon to attack the guards , while Kaye released more prisoners to join the revolt . Arbeloa accompanied Kaye as she confronted Sha ' kel . The Yuuzhan Vong commander was killed and beheaded , and Arbeloa later took the decapitated head of the Yuuzhan Vong commander to use as a hat . It was at this time that Kaye gave Arbeloa his nickname of " Arb . " Dibrook . Arbeloa was on board the " Tsam P ' ah " , which had been rechristened as the " Heart of Artorias " , as it traveled through the galaxy in its quest to assist refugees from the Yuuzhan Vong invasion . During these travels , the " Heart of Artorias " encountered a Yuuzhan Vong attack on a space station in orbit of the inhospitable planet Dibrook , located in the Outer Rim Territories . After the " Heart of Artorias " assisted the defenders of the station in destroying the attacking Yuuzhan Vong ships , Arbeloa accompanied Kaye Galfridian and boarded the facility , which was loaded with survivors of recent Rim - world battles . They were confronted by Captain Ogden , a member of the New Republic military , and four soldiers . Ogden tried to commandeer their ship , but Arbeloa stated he wouldn ' t allow that and pinned the officer up against a wall . Later , Arbeloa attended a strategy meeting with Kaye , Captain Ogden , and Bylsma , the commander of the Dibrook station . After receiving an enviro - suit from Dibrook station , Arbeloa accompanied Kaye to the surface of Dibrook with an invasion force comprised of New Republic soldiers and refugees in an attempt to rescue prisoners of the Yuuzhan Vong . When Ogden tried to usurp command from Kaye , Arbeloa was directed to take the captain somewhere and bind him tightly to keep him out of the way . Ogden was returned to the " Heart of Artorias " and tied to an outcrop in a corridor of the ship . As the invasion force approached the shaper research facility that held the captured sentients , Kaye ordered Arbeloa to give the order to halt . He deferred , thinking that she was afraid to give orders and lead her troops , but she pointed out that she had ordered him to announce the command due to the fact that he was larger than her and more likely to be seen . The invasion force ' s rear guard was attacked by a group of thrall s , sentients who had been enslaved via surge - coral implantation and forced to fight for the Yuuzhan Vong . Arbeloa helped subdue a Twi ' lek thrall whom the invasion force had surrounded . Soon after , a group of Yuuzhan Vong led by a commander , Tsalok , engaged a recon force sent to scout ahead of Kaye ' s main forces . Arbeloa and his comrades witnessed the commander ' s cruelty when Tsalok tore the leader of the recon mission in half with his bare hands . A large group of thralls gathered in the valley below the invasion force , and Arbeloa stood by Kaye as she communicated with her mother , Queen Nina Galfridian , who was controlling the " Heart of Artorias " via a cognition throne aboard the ship . The queen convinced Kaye that there was nothing that could be done to save the converted sentients . Arbeloa explained to Kaye that they had to eliminate the thralls in order to rescue the prisoners who could be saved . When the attack began , Kaye ordered Arbeloa to clear a path through the army so they could reach the Yuuzhan Vong compound as quickly as possible . He grabbed a large , shoulder - mounted multi - barrel gun and used the heavy firepower to clear a path . Upon reaching the Yuuzhan Vong shaper research facility , Arbeloa and Kaye were confronted by a group of shapers whom Tsalok had ordered to fight a holding action due to his suspicions that they were spying on him . Arbeloa and Kaye quickly killed them and entered the compound , where they found a group of prisoners being held in a large bubble . Before they could free them , gas started to pour into the container and caused the prisoners to mutate into thralls . Arbeloa was able to rip open one of the membranes and rescue a single child . They managed to escape before Nina Galfridian obliterated the Yuuzhan Vong compound with the weapons of the former Yuuzhan Vong slaveship . Shortly thereafter , Kaye faltered due to feeling the death of her father — Arbeloa went to her aid and helped her recover . After the battle , Arbeloa put the rescued child in an enviro - suit and supervised the recovery operation with Kaye . They disagreed on whether they could have saved the prisoners from annihilation . She revealed to him that she had somehow felt her father die . Arbeloa sympathized with her , telling her how he felt when his father died . Kaye went to inform the queen of the results of the mission , while Arbeloa stayed behind to assist with the burial of the dead . He was present at the memorial service that was held later at the mass grave , and he boarded the " Heart of Artorias " before it departed for the planet Shramar to meet up with some refugees from Artorias . Shramar . Upon landing on Shramar , an Outer Rim planet controlled by the Imperial Remnant , Arbeloa disembarked with Kaye from the " Heart of Artorias " and faced the large force of stormtroopers who were sent to ensure that there would be no problems . When a young girl broke through the line of stormtroopers and rushed toward Arbeloa and Kaye , she was shot . Arbeloa retrieved her body and discovered she was still alive . He whispered to the girl to play dead so he could safely bring her aboard the " Heart of Artorias " . He was present when the girl revealed the truth about what was happening on the planet : the refugees were being forced into slavery to produce food that was being shipped off - world . When the New Republic forces arrived , Arbeloa escorted Bylsma to the control room of the " Heart of Artorias " , but Kaye asked Arbeloa to stay outside . Shortly thereafter , the Yuuzhan Vong arrived and attacked the planet . Yuuzhan Vong forces managed to break through the blockade around the planet and landed troops on the surface . Arbeloa was sent with Kaye to marshal the defenses so that the 500 , 000 refugees on Shramar could be safely evacuated . During the fierce battle , a strafing run by Yuuzhan Vong ships destroyed an Imperial AT - ST walker . Arbeloa saved the journalist Cianba — who was reporting on the battle — by knocking her into a ditch , which prevented her from being smashed by the wreckage of the walker . When all the refugees were aboard the " Heart of Artorias " , Arbeloa signaled for a full retreat . After the " Heart of Artorias " retreated from Shramar with the New Republic fleet , Arbeloa stood behind Queen Galfridian as she addressed the people who had survived the battle . The queen vowed to fight the Yuuzhan Vong and promised to show them how . She then revealed herself as being a member of the Yuuzhan Vong by removing her masquer . The warrior gaped in surprise but stood quietly behind her as the queen announced the formation of the Outer Rim Alliance , a group dedicated to defend the Outer Rim and take the fight to the Yuuzhan Vong . Personality and traits . Arbeloa was a fierce and deadly warrior , able to to defeat multiple Yuuzhan Vong armed only with a club . He was also very proficient with modern weapons such as blasters . He was extremely loyal , pledging to serve Kaye Galfridian after she freed him from his captivity by the Yuuzhan Vong and standing by Queen Nina Galfridian even after she revealed herself to be a Yuuzhan Vong . He was ruthless in battle and was willing to decapitate an enemy and take the head as a trophy . He could be merciful when needed , saving innocent life at great risk to his own , but was pragmatic when realizing that there could be nothing more done to prevent casualties . Arbeloa was very attached to his father and mourned him greatly when he died . Arbeloa was tall with fair skin and black eyes . He had a thin strip of brown hair running down the center of his otherwise bald head and often wore rustic clothes made of fur . Equipment . Arbeloa often wore a fur tunic from his homeworld and the skull of Commander Sha ' kel as a hat . During the revolt on the " Heart of Artorias " , he wielded a club made out of material that made up the interior of the ship . While on Dibrook , he employed various blasters , including a shoulder - mounted , multi - barreled blaster that he used to clear a path to the Yuuzhan Vong compound that he was attacking . Behind the scenes . On February 7 , 2009 , the official " Star Wars " website announced that Dark Horse Comics would be releasing a new comic series titled " " , revolving around the events of the Yuuzhan Vong War , which itself had been the focus of Del Rey ' s nineteen - book . The comic was released in July of the same year , with two eight - page previews released online in the months of May and June , respectively , as a prelude . Arbeloa was created by the series ' writer Tom Taylor and was introduced in the first of these installments , " Invasion 0 , Part 1 " , which was was released on May 8 . His name was revealed in " " . The character was featured in all three story arcs of the series , in which he was drawn by artist Colin Wilson and colored by Wes Dzioba .