Vaecta Vaecta was a priestess of Yun - Yammka , the Yuuzhan Vong god of war , and was attached to Warmaster Tsavong Lah during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion . Wizened and elderly , Vaecta counseled Lah on the manner by which he should retain favor with the Yuuzhan Vong Pantheon , often advocating sacrifices and , on a few occasions , attempting to influence the warrior ' s strategy . The priestess presided over sacrifices at the captured world of Duro , as well as during the push on the galactic capital , Coruscant . Vaecta also ordained at the ceremony in the course of which a radank claw was grafted onto Tsavong Lah ' s arm prior to the warmaster ' s assault on Coruscant ; by this stage in her dealings with the warmaster , however , Vaecta was often coming into veiled conflict with the headstrong warrior . Biography . Ordaining at Duro . Warmaster s such as Tsavong Lah had a habit of devoting their religious faith solely to Yun - Yammka , the Yuuzhan Vong god of war , and Vaecta , along with a host of other priests , was attached to Lah ' s flagship , the " Sunulok " , in order to prevent this from occurring . Due to this role — and beholden as she was to Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane himself — Vaecta had the ability to influence and shape the warmaster ' s decisions , and a power struggle of sorts was constantly playing out aboard the " Sunulok " . Vaecta thus was attached to Tsavong Lah throughout his campaigns in the galaxy , and accompanied him as the warmaster ' s fleet conquered the planets of the Corellian Run . She was , even to Tsavong Lah , particularly bloodthirsty in her demands for sacrifices , and she often forced the warmaster to accommodate her wishes . In 26 ABY , aboard the " Sunulok " , Vaecta departed conquered Rodia and traveled with the fleet to Duro , the first of the bases Lah wished to establish as platforms to the Core . The priestess traveled with Lah and his warriors in yorik - trema down to Duro ' s poisoned surface as the battle raged in space above them . With a troupe of religious musicians , Vaecta accompanied Lah to the main refugee hub of Gateway , and there gave him a tkun with which to sacrifice the researchers who had been attempting to terraform the planet . The black - robed priestess watched over the affair . As Yuuzhan Vong forces battled the New Republic presence on the world , Vaecta stayed with the warmaster in the offices of Leia Organa Solo , who had been presiding over the habilitation of refugees onto Duro . When the administrator was captured by warriors and brought with a young Hutt , Randa Besadii Diori , before the priestess and the warmaster , Vaecta ordered her musicians to prepare to sacrifice Organa Solo . A slow beat was hammered out on a living drum , and two harp players plucked their instruments ' tendons as Vaecta uncoiled a tkun and approached the helpless woman . Vaecta , however , was taken aback when Lah interrupted her ceremony to question Organa Solo , but at a nod from the warmaster she continued , only to have the proceedings interrupted again by the Hutt Randa , who lashed out with his tail , knocking the warriors aside and giving Organa Solo a chance to escape . Reacting quickly , Vaecta hurled her tkun around Randa ' s massive neck , which throttled the life out of the Hutt as Organa Solo was restrained . Randa ' s massive corpse was taken to the kitchens and , forming a circle around Organa Solo once more , Vaecta brought forth another tkun and watched as the warriors began to beat the woman ' s legs . Yet again , the ceremony was curtailed ; this time the Jedi Jacen Solo , the son of Vaecta ' s captive , burst into the office . While Solo and Lah clashed in a duel , Vaecta and her musicians huddled against the wall , but the Jedi sooned lifted a maelstrom of objects into the air with the Force , which he spun around himself to protect his mother . The flying objects overwhelmed the Yuuzhan Vong . The warmaster himself was knocked out of the window , permanently crippling his left foot , and Vaecta was rendered unconscious along with one of the musicians — Solo had killed the other with a heavy iron sconce . Fortunately for the priestess , she survived the ordeal as Solo quickly departed with his mother . During the Coruscant campaign . Vaecta remained with Tsavong Lah , though she was not of high enough station to preside over the grafting of a vua ' sa claw onto the foot Lah had lost fighting Jacen Solo . Aboard the " Sunulok " , the priestess and the warmaster soon entered into more petty conflicts ; Lah claimed that the priest caste was fallible and that only the gods were unquestionable . Vaecta later presided over another sacrifice , that of an Ithorian , in order to determine the gods ' will with regards to the warmaster ' s next military action ; during such occasions she did not need to offer deference even to Tsavong Lah . When the slave died silent , Vaecta counseled Lah against destroying a mass of refugee convoys , which were being held at Talfaglio , in response to a Jedi victory at Arkania ; bristling at Vaecta ' s imposition , the warmaster informed the priestess that the decision was his alone . Lah ordered that the priestess ask Yun - Yammka to punish the commanders who had failed him at Arkania ; she demanded that twenty thousand captives — instead of the eight thousand Lah offered — should be sacrificed . The new logistics , therefore , forced Lah to devote escort vessels to guard the ships carrying the sacrifices , resulting in military setbacks elsewhere . The divide between Vaecta and the warmaster grew more apparent as the readers , sacred to the priest caste , refused to honor with salutes and genuflections the warriors , intendants and shapers aboard the vessel , reminding the warmaster and his subordinates that the loyalty of the priests and readers attached to the " Sunulok " was to Vaecta , not to Tsavong Lah . In return , the Warmaster insulted one of Vaecta ' s subordinates , Kol Yabu of the Undying Flame , over the matter of the planned sacrifice of the Solo twins . Vaecta and Tsavong Lah were next brought into close contact during the grafting of a radank claw onto the warmaster ' s arm . Lah planned to sever his limb on a cutting block and sacrifice it to Yun - Yammka in return for Coruscant , and although the Warmaster wished his long - time friend , the priest Harrar , to preside over the ceremony , he felt that it would not do well to insult Vaecta by favoring Harrar at a time when he asked so much of the gods . As the " Sunulok " orbited Borleias , Vaecta blessed the radank claw , and was satisfied when the Warmaster , faced with the opportunity to communicate with his subordinate coordinating the attack on the planet , Supreme Commander Maal Lah , forwent interrupting the ceremony . Once the claw had been blessed , Vaecta awaited Lah ' s readiness as she excised a chunk of flesh from the thigh of shaper Ghithra Dal , who would attach the claw to the warmaster ' s wrist . The atmosphere grew strained as Maal Lah ' s updates postponed the ceremony , though Vaecta continued , entwining a strip of her own flesh with Dal ' s and presenting it to the warmaster . To the horror of Vaecta and those others present , including the priest Harrar and the tactician Seef , Lah halted the ceremony entirely to give orders to his supreme commander , before offering his entire forearm to the gods . Personality and traits . Utterly loyal to the gods of the Yuuzhan Vong over all others , Vaecta was devoted to her role as a priestess . She had no regard for the lives of those who were sacrificed by her or on her request , however , this trait was typical of her species . Bold and certain in her dealings with Tsavong Lah , Vaecta made no attempts to act as the Warmaster ' s equal , reflecting a streak of stubbornness and pride . Behind the scenes . Vaecta appears in both " " and " " , though she only emerges as an actual — if mild — antagonist of Lah ' s in the latter novel . It is possible she died aboard the " Sunulok " at Coruscant , or at the Battle of Ebaq 9 , during which Tsavong Lah ' s command vessel , " Blood Sacrifice " , was destroyed along with much of the Battle Group of Yun - Yuuzhan .