Tsalok Tsalok was a male Yuuzhan Vong commander during the Yuuzhan Vong War . During the evacuation of Rychel in 25 ABY , Tsalok commanded the invasion force which included an army of Chazrach slave - soldiers and the warbeasts Tu - Scart and Sgauru . He slew the Pau ' an Jedi Master Lar Le ' Ung but was beaten in a duel with Padawan Finn Galfridian . However , Finn spared Tsalok and fled the planet . Unable to come to terms with the shame of his defeat and being denied an honorable death , he slaughtered several Human prisoners . Biography . In 25 ABY , Tsalok led the attack on Rychel with an army of Chazrach slaves . During the battle , he murdered the Pau ' an Jedi Master Lar Le ' Ung by stabbing him in the back with his amphistaff and then hurling him into the mouth of the serpentine warbeast Tu - Scart . Later , during the battle , Tsalok attempted to stop the young Human Padawan Finn Galfridian from saving some of Rychel ' s inhabitants from being enslaved . Finn , using the lightsaber of the downed master Le ' Ung , engaged Tsalok in a duel . The fight was cut short when another war beast , Sgauru , devastated the building that the confrontation was taking place in . When the dust settled , Tsalok was unscathed but pinned beneath a huge column of duracrete . As Finn urged the remaining survivors to get to the evacuation ships , he approached the massive Yuuzhan Vong commander . While raising the lightsaber he held in his hand , Finn related how the Yuuzhan Vong had taken his family , friends , and home . He then brought down the lightsaber to cut the duracrete in half ; freeing Tsalok in a strange gesture of mercy . Galfridian quickly fled Rychel on one of the evacuation ships . Unable to bear the shame of defeat and being denied a warrior ' s death , Tsalok slaughtered several weak and elderly Human prisoners . Tsalok later took command of the planet Rychel but his victory felt hollow as he reflected on why the Galfridian had spared him . He decided that he must seek out Galfridian and hurt him until he got the answers he sought . To learn more about Finn Galfridian Tsalok traveled to Dibrook to interrogate Yuledan , a captured Jedi . Tsalok placed a tizowyrm in his ear and a Spineray on his back to interrogate and torture him . Yuledan resisted for several days , relying on the Force to sustain himself . However , he eventually broke down and told Tsalok that he was in training on Yavin 4 . Tsalok then took Yuledan with him offworld when New Republic and refugee forces breached the facility , forcing the Yuuzhan Vong to evacuate the Shapers . Tsalok later took Yuledan and the shapers to Rychel . Yuledan continued to be experimented on , but Nagame and the other Shapers did not want him to break , or else their plans for him would not succeed . They allowed Yuledan to escape from his confinement in order to keep his spirit up , and he acquired a weapon and attempted to kill Nagame . Tsalok intervened , picking up Yuledan and throwing him against a wall , and was about to impale him upon an Amphistaff before Nagame stopped him . She explained to him the situation , but Tsalok was determined that Yuledan would not touch her . He advanced on Yuledan , who raised his arms in defense , but Tsalok cut off his right hand in punishment .