Villip Villips were the primary method of communication amongst the extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong . Overview . Basic features . Like all Yuuzhan Vong biot s , villips were fully organic and were biogenetically engineered , not manufactured . Low , water - filled paddies were seeded with villip plants , which would grow into long , fleshy stalks recognizable by their triad of blue leaves . Two to five berries would bud from the stalks , feeding symbiotically and developing telepathic communication channels originally meant to scan for predators on the villip plant ' s home planet . Soon the berries grew to about the size of a Yuuzhan Vong ' s head , and Shapers would pluck the matured villips from their stalks . Fully - grown villips resembled distended bags of flesh with a hanging gut sack . Sensory tendrils drooped from the main body , and a furrowed ridge reminiscent of an eye socket sat within a short groove - the outer and eversion stomas . The communicatory relays between the ' sister ' villips , however , would not be lost . Telepathic networks would persist between the stalkmates , allowing them to communicate instantaneously across infinite distances . Yuuzhan Vong took advantage of this natural predilection and utilized villips as the ultimate form of long - range correspondence . Should someone stroke the green Eversion Stoma , the villip would pucker and invert itself around this focal point . A signal instantly reached all the sister villips ( though typically only two bud berries ) and suddenly vibrations channeled down the others ' outer stomas . The quaking would alert the holder of the other villip , who would stroke the eversion stoma in kind . Both villips , when inverted , would become flawless three - dimensional representations of the other holder ' s head and speak in their master ' s voice . In this manner , two Yuuzhan Vong could communicate face - to - face ( figuratively ) from opposite ends of the galaxy without fear of interception , for technology could not deduce telepathy . When the conversation was finished , a second touch to the eversion stoma returned the villip to its original fleshy state . Through the use of villips , the Yuuzhan Vong had the ability of creating " living light " for centuries . Uses . Due to their stable abilities and infinite range , villips were widely used by the Yuuzhan Vong . Warriors affixed them into shouldermounts for easy communication during pitched combat and were known as Tactical Villips . In addition , coralskipper pilots used them to denote enemy positions and tactical information as necessary . Shapers were the ones who grew the villips to start with , and thus were the root of every villip deployed throughout the Yuuzhan Vong forces . Priests and Intendants conversed with allies as they plotted what next to do to both further the invasion and bring the Yuuzhan Vong as a whole closer to the gloriousness of the gods . Certain chambers possessed a villip fixed on either side of the door allowing for a person inside to determine who was on the other side by stroking the villip . Villips were also used as a potent espionage tool and were implanted in flying organisms which were used to track targets by spying on them . Variations . As with much Yuuzhan Vong biotechnology , a slew of branches hung from the villip ' s genetic tree . Some were ancient , some modern ; some were created specifically during the invasion to enhance the Eighth Cortex . Master Villip . Enormous master villips could override and speak to other , dedicated villips ; a Warrior commander could speak into his lone villip and the message would be relayed to all those in the web . This chain worked in one direction only ; subordinates could not talk to their superior through his master villip . Villip Choir . Villip choirs were very similar to normal villips , but transmitted a three - dimensional image of a scene instead of simply voices and the communicator ' s head . Typically two individual villips were required for such a task . Villip Beacon . Similarly , villip beacons transmitted images alone , and in only two dimensions . These were very appropriate for subtle espionage , as agents beneath ooglith masquer s could hide the villip beacon against their body , where the living flesh would curl against the skin and become almost unnoticeable . Gnullith Villip . When invading watery worlds or areas choked with deadly gas , Yuuzhan Vong wore a starfish - like breather , the gnullith , that extended a tendril down the throat . As speaking through vacuum environments is impossible , a hybrid of the gnullith and the villip was created in order to allow warriors to command their legions through hostile territory , whilst still keeping their gnullith in place . Oggzil . Following the invasion of the galaxy , the Yuuzhan Vong often wished to communicate with the infidels upon whom they warred . To this end much experimenting occurred , eventually producing the oggzil , an attachment to the standard villip that would allow the Yuuzhan Vong ' s voice to transmit electronically across spectral frequencies . This freed the invaders from the shame of utilizing dead machinery . Villid . These specialized form of villips were flattened gelatinous lifeforms which were used in groups to create light shapers . This made them similar to a villip - choir field but used instead to send and receive bioluminescent holographic images over vast distances . Ol - Villip . The ol - villip was a minute version of the villip beacon that could be attached to the head of a provoker spineray as it scanned a being ' s nervous system , allowing the Shapers to see images of their neurological targets . Implanted Villip . When Jedi defector Bey Gandan returned to the New Republic as a Yuuzhan Vong agent in a bid to sabotage bacta production , Master Shaper Viith Yalu equipped him with a small villip implanted directly in his brain . This enabled him to communicate silently and covertly with a normal villip like that used by Tsaa Qalu . It is not known exactly what form outward transmissions from this villip took , but communications using it seems to have manifested outwardly as moments of pain , and the coma - like state in which Klin - Fa Gi initially encountered Gandan may have been the outward appearance of a longer villip discussion with Viith Yalu . Vacuum Villip . At least some villips — perhaps a distinct subspecies — could also survive in the vacuum of space . When Danni Quee , Bensin Tomri , and Cho Badeleg , the first native denizens of the galaxy to encounter the Yuuzhan Vong directly , arrived in the orbit of Helska IV aboard the ExGal - 4 outpost ' s Spacecaster shuttle , Prefect Da ' Gara of the Praetorite Vong contacted them by means of a villip which struck the main forward viewport of their ship ' s flight - deck and somehow extruded itself through the center of the pane to hang inside the cabin . It is not clear how different this " see villip " ( as the early tizowyrm translation protocols named it ) was from a standard villip , but it may have been a significantly modified type . History . Upon the Yuuzhan Vong ' s invasion of the galaxy , they terraformed the planet Belkadan in order to turn the world into a garden which would breed villips . After the conquest of the world of Obroa - skai , the electronic databases of the planet ' s library were translated into an organic format through the use of villip memories . Jedi Healer Cilghal of the New Jedi Order attempted to study villips at Eclipse Station but was unable to discover its secrets or breed more of them .