Vodran ( species ) / Legends The Vodrans were a sentient species of egg - laying reptiles who evolved on the planet Vodran , in the Si ' Klaata Cluster . The Vodrans were humanoid beings who stood no taller than a Human , but who exhibited several physiological differences from that species : monochromatic eyes ; hard , leathery skin ; underdeveloped facial muscles ; and a ring of spikes around the face . While peaceful by nature , Vodrans made strong fighters . Most Vodrans considered the benefits of the collective before those of the individual , showing almost no individuality ; the few freethinking Vodrans were considered pariahs and rogues by their fellows . One example , who lived during the Galactic Civil War , was the unbalanced Vodran Xenon Nnaksta , who became an officer in the Alliance to Restore the Republic . Even before the establishment of the Galactic Republic , the Vodrans were slaves of the Hutts . The legendary Vodran warrior Kl ' ieutu Mutela signed his whole species into servitude through the Treaty of Vontor , and the Hutts imposed their own culture upon the Vodrans and eradicated the reptilian species ' independent civilization . The Vodrans believed that their partnership with the Hutts profited both sides , and as such the reptiles readily sacrificed their own lives in great numbers to preserve the ostentatious lifestyles led by their Hutt overlords , even though such wastrel - like activities were one aspect of Hutt culture that the Vodrans did not emulate . The Hutts initially recruited the Vodrans — along with the neighboring Klatooinian and Nikto species — to fight the forces of the Human warlord Xim the Despot at the Third Battle of Vontor . After their success at Vontor , the three species were kept on retainer by the Hutts , commonly for use as enforcers or thugs . The Vodrans proved to be the most loyal slave species in the Hutts ' retinue , and they never attempted any rebellion against their masters . Biology and appearance . The Vodrans were a sentient species who came from the planet Vodran . They were two - legged , warm - blooded reptiles , humanoid in shape , with five - fingered hands that featured thick nails . Their bodies were covered with leathery skin that varied in color from olive green to brown . The skin was hard enough to offer some protection from physical damage . The Vodran face featured a flat nose and two black eyes . Hard skin combined with underdeveloped muscles to restrict the range of emotions a Vodran could transmit through facial expressions . The face was ringed by horny protuberances that created a ridge of horns about the temples and on the chin . Vodrans were oviparous , with young born from egg clutch es ; a typical clutch produced two or three children . Vodrans began their adolescence at twelve years of age and reached maturity at age seventeen . The average height of an adult was 1 . 75 meters to 1 . 80 meters , a size that afforded the beings with long legs that allowed them to run as fast as Humans . At forty - five , age began to take its toll on a Vodran and , at sixty - five , a Vodran was considered old . The average Vodran lifespan was eighty years ; any Vodran who lived beyond that age was considered venerable . The Vodrans were a nimble , sturdy people with acute senses . Some of them had the capacity to become users of the Force . Society and culture . Vodrans had little sense of self and thus showed little individual personality . They instead believed in " the value of many , " seeing the whole species as a group . The physiological restrictions on their facial movements prompted them to convey wishes and emotions with only body language and vocal inflection . As they thought of the collective before themselves , they had trouble with advanced social conventions such as innuendo and etiquette . Although the Vodrans established an independent culture based on settlements made up of huts and inhabited by dianoga hunters and spinefish fishers , after contact with an outside species , the Hutts , the Vodrans served the aliens as slaves for millennia with unswerving loyalty , a devotion that made them the most dedicated of the Hutts ' servant species . While exceptions existed , the great majority of Vodrans were absolutely loyal to Hutt institutions , mostly represented as the kajidics — Hutt families that were in charge of criminal activities . Vodrans eschewed manifestations of individuality in their species , and they prioritized the well - being of their Hutt masters , no matter how many Vodrans had to die to protect their superiors ' way of life . Hutts who settled on the planet Vodran exploited their hard - working reptilian servants to keep up opulent activities . Vodrans believed that their association with the Hutts had been fruitful for their people , and the individual who made it possible , the warrior Kl ' ieutu Mutela , was revered by his species . The Vodrans developed their own culture before making contact with the Hutts . However , as soon as the Hutts began to deal with Vodrans , the master species imposed their own culture and replaced indigenous folkways . A new mythology was created that suggested the Vodrans had only existed from the moment they began their service to the Hutts . While this was historically untrue , Vodrans who lived afterward believed it wholeheartedly , and the Vodrans ' civilization , history , and art adapted to reflect that . The Hutts replaced the ancient language of the Vodrans with the Hutt tongue , Huttese , although from the time of the Galactic Republic onward , many Vodrans also learned to speak Galactic Basic Standard . The Hutts provided the Vodrans with advanced technology , including hyperdrives , but most Vodrans did not dare travel away from their homeworld without the blessing of their Hutt masters . Nevertheless , many Vodrans had a hard time mastering technology or scientific knowledge . Like their Hutt overlords , Vodrans organized themselves into miniature kajidic s , or Vodran clans . Each clan answered to a Hutt kajidic , and ultimately to the Hutt Clan of Ancients , which ruled over the Hutt species and its subordinates . However , one aspect of Hutt culture the Vodrans did not adopt was the Hutt fondness for lounging and leisure . Also unlike Hutts , Vodrans had two - part names , with examples including the names Meido Lycri , Kl ' ietu Mutela , Lakren Plooru , and Saran Vydek . Vodrans had a deep - rooted respect for authority figures , whether Hutt or otherwise . Individual Vodrans rarely tried to obtain personal power . They instead tried to serve Vodran social institutions and , through them , what they considered the greater good . Vodrans valued commitment and consensus , and they expected an individual to accept the ruling of the group , whether it be a Hutt kajidic , a state , a clan , or a union . A marginal minority of Vodrans showed enough individuality to reject their society and its principles , overcoming social conditioning and innate tendencies to obey authority . Such people tended to be loners and escaped from their Hutt masters . Other Vodrans considered such freethinkers to be pariahs , outcasts , and maniacs . While some Hutts cared little about losing the rogue servants , others turned to bounty hunters to track down such fugitives . In general , Vodrans were naïve , peaceful , and straightforward . However , they commonly served as enforcers after developing combat skills that drew upon their aggressive potential . Other commonly learned skills that aided survival in wild , hostile environments because most Vodrans grew up on Vodran , where they faced the threat of huge predators that roamed the steamy jungles and swamps . A mild psychosis affected some Vodrans and made them fearless daredevils . History . The planet Vodran , full of steamy jungles and swamps , was also rich in scavengers and huge predators . Local species had to evolve quickly to avoid extinction in such a hostile environment . While the dianoga learned to change color and scavenge , a species of insect - eating reptiles that lived in the colossal trees instead developed intelligence as a survival tool ; these primitive Vodrans learned to hunt and work together and to build settlements in the treetops . They managed to thrive in conditions that would have killed many other species . The Vodrans developed a society of fishers and dianoga hunters who used hanging trees to capture dianoga and spinefish from thatched huts over rivers . Xim Wars . Around 25 , 100 BBY , fire rained down from the skies of the planet Vodran , and entire huts were wiped out . Unable to counterattack , the Vodrans started rebuilding their settlements as they had been . Little did they know that their world had become a battleground in a war between the forces of the Hutts and those of a Human warlord named Xim the Despot , who were fighting over control of the Si ' Klaata Cluster in which Vodran was located . As the Vodrans rebuilt , emissaries approached them . Led by Dojundo the Hutt , the visitors used an old language convertor lexicon to communicate . They told of their master , a warrior called Kossak the Hutt . The strangers from afar tried to convince the Vodrans to join Kossak ' s armies . The superstitious Vodrans , in awe of the flaming , flying vehicles and advanced technology of the outsiders , viewed the Hutts as demi - gods , god - like demons , or even terrible deities . In fear , they bowed to the offworlders ' will and swore to fight against the enemies of the Hutts in exchange for the secrets of the Hutts ' " star - magic . " Kossak ' s other envoys recruited the Klatooinians from Klatooine and the Nikto from Kintan . Before the forces could join the war , the Hutts forged the Treaty of Vontor , a contract binding the three species of the Si ' Klaata Cluster in eternal servitude , as permanently indentured servants , to the Hutts . The greatest Vodran warrior , Kl ' ieutu Mutela , signed for his species . Xim , unaware of the Hutts ' new allies , prepared his janissaries and his new legions of Guardian Corps of reportedly invincible laser - resistant war - robots . Xim intended to deploy all of his forces on Vontor for a last battle , hoping to overwhelm and defeat the Hutts once and for all . Kossak gathered his fleet at Vontor and Xim sent his troops to the surface in massive landing barge s . He did not expect to find one million Klatooinian , Nikto , and Vodran berserkers waiting for them on the surface , along with a number of Weequays , another species affiliated with the Hutts . While Xim was sending his warships against Kossak ' s forces , the Vodrans and their new companions destroyed most of Xim ' s war - robots and then wrecked Xim ' s orbital platform s by bombing them . Xim ' s fleet was destroyed in orbit except for a few ships that escaped with the last war - robots . The Klatooinian skald Pupaku wrote a memorial of the battle . He provided an elegy for the warriors of the Si ' Klaata Cluster , including those he characterized as Klatooinian , Nikto , Vodran , and Weequay brothers - in - arms . According to Pupaku , the warriors resorted to a spice - induced berserker rage to refrain from withdrawing when their robot nemeses approached . The warriors then took the robots to the underground of Vontor to dismantle them , one by one , even as the warriors themselves were killed . The soldiers ' sacrifice turned the tide of the battle , the skald claimed : Xim ' s organic high - ranking officers understood that Xim could be defeated , and they mutinied . Nevertheless , in further generations , historians were unable to confirm Pupaku ' s claims . The Third Battle of Vontor resulted in Xim ' s final defeat to the Hutts , and the Klatooinian , Nikto , and Vodran army proved themselves essential to that outcome . The Vodrans came to perceive the battle as a holy war that involved weird beings , new weapons , and magical items that were awarded to them . After Xim . Once Xim was defeated , the Hutts added the planet Vodran , along with the whole of the Si ' Klaata Cluster , to their empire , which eventually came to be known as Hutt Space . The Vodrans started serving their new Hutt masters loyally , and the Hutts used the Vodrans , along with other indentured species , as enforcers , bodyguards , and lackeys to keep control over their domains . The Hutts eradicated Vodran culture and replaced it with beliefs more productive to the conquering species — including the false idea that the Vodrans existed only from the very moment they started serving the Hutts . Eventually , Hutt Space came into contact with a wider power , the Galactic Republic ; the Hutts then used the Vodrans and their other slaves to build a criminal empire for themselves within the borders of the Republic . As far as the Vodrans were concerned , they regarded their association with the Hutts highly , and they started revering their hero Mutela for signing the Treaty of Vontor . Circa 671 BBY , the thirteen - act theatrical play " Evocar " , written by Direus ' pei the Hutt , was posthumously published by his Nikto scribe , Ro Vacca . The work presented Xim as a sympathetic character who prompted slaves to rebel against their Hutt masters . In the third act , Xim was charged with the murders of people of several worlds , including the planet Vodran , but Xim replied then that he did not recall that world at all . While the Hutts tried to restrict access to " Evocar , " it inspired several species , including the Evocii , Klatooinians , and Nikto , to rebel against them . The Vodrans , however , spurned the play and staged no major insurrections . Through the years , Hutt inter - clan rivalries exploded commonly as brush - fire wars among the species serving the Hutts , including the Vodrans . Around the first years of the Galactic Empire , a violent urban uprising known as the Thruncon Insurrection destroyed several of Vodran ' s cities soon before the start of the Galactic Civil War . During the time of the Galactic Empire , Vodrans were officially recognized as sentient beings , and thus gained the legal right to own and manage corporations . Later , after the Alliance to Restore the Republic started military activities against the Empire , the renegade Iyra sentientologist Tem Eliss traveled to Hutt Space to study the species indentured to the Hutts , including the Vodrans , to prove his hypothesis about millennia of genetic and cultural eugenics . The Galactic Empire made an attempt to seize the planet Vodran and rule its native species , but the Vodrans opposed the takeover . As a consequence , much of the Vodran population was slaughtered , with only a small percentage surviving . When the anti - Imperial New Republic was created in 4 ABY , most Vodrans offered their support to it , although they clearly stated that the Vodrans ' first allegiance was to the Hutts . A later conflict known as the Yuuzhan Vong War prompted the Hutts to attempt to outsmart the Yuuzhan Vong species and play both sides of the war . The discovery of the Hutts ' double - dealings damaged their reputation . Once the war was over , species associated with them , such as the Vodrans , lost prestige and credibility in the greater galaxy . Vodrans in the galaxy . Vodrans commonly dealt with the galaxy only through the Hutts : Vodrans rarely traveled without the authorization of their masters . Other species tended to see Vodrans as enforcers and thugs who inevitably represented the interests of the Hutts . Such a belief was not unfounded ; for instance , in 4000 BBY , Vodrans served alongside Klatoonians , Nikto , and Weequays , as boarding troops and crew hands for the crime lord Bogga the Hutt . Grimorg , Bogga ' s Weequay chief enforcer , had the job of controlling them . Accordingly , some enemies of the Hutts targeted Vodrans as part of larger schemes to harass the reptiloids ' masters . For example , the Nikto pirate Ga ' p ' tashi attacked Vodran - run vessels for such reasons during regime of the Galactic Empire . Although Vodrans were rarely seen beyond the borders of Hutt Space , Hutts sometimes sold Vodran slaves to other criminals . Such transfers represented the only real opportunity for a Vodran to leave Hutt Space . Indeed , the Sith Lord Daiman employed Vodran soldiers to help defend his territory , which was known as the Daimanate . During a battle on the planet Gazzari , a Vodran soldier aided in Daiman ' s defenses against a rival territory known as the Odionate and a female Human Jedi named Kerra Holt . After being injured and maimed in the fighting , the Vodran was killed by Holt ' s lightsaber . The planet Vodran had no exports , although a native creature known as the dianoga spread throughout the galaxy as larva e for millennia , to the Vodrans ' chagrin . The infamous and individualistic Vodran Xenon Nnaksta , born in the Kudor province of Vodran , rejected his species ' traditions and became first the manager and owner of the Greel Wood Logging Corporation , then a survival expert , and lastly a member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic . Promoted to Lieutenant , Nnaksta joined the undercover Eclipse Team and was still an officer during the days of the New Republic . Nnaksta was also a victim of a slight dementia , particularly noticeable because he drove recklessly and because he used a vibrosaw intended to fell trees as his weapon of choice . Behind the scenes . The planet Vodran has been part of " Star Wars " canon since the roleplaying guide " " was published in 1989 by West End Games for its " " . " The Greel Wood Haven , " an article written by C . Robert Carey and published in May 1995 as part of " Star Wars Adventure Journal 6 " , introduced the Vodran species in relation to that world . The book establishes that a character from an earlier article , Xenon Nnaksta , was a Vodran from the planet Vodran . An illustration by David Day in the article marks the earliest illustration of the species . Another publication from the same year , " " , provides a full description of the Vodrans written by Pablo Hidalgo , as well as an image of them by Mike Vilardi . Since their debut , the Vodrans have featured primarily in roleplaying material — the one major exception being " Knight Errant " , a novel by John Jackson Miller published in 2011 . The roleplaying book " Galaxy Guide 12 " includes game rules for the species : Vodrans loyal to the Hutts receive a bonus to their willpower to resist betrayal of their masters , so players may role - play loyal Vodrans who enjoy the bonus or outcast Vodrans who do not . A later role - playing guide written for Wizards of the Coast ' s " Star Wars Roleplaying Game " and published in 2003 , " Ultimate Alien Anthology " , adapts this rule : loyal Vodrans receive a loyalty bonus whenever someone attempts to blackmail or seduce them , but non - loyal ones instead get a bonus to their intelligence abilities . The two books disagree on the height of an adult Vodran : " Galaxy Guide 12 " and " The Essential Guide to Alien Species " make the average Vodran 1 . 80 meters tall , while " Anthology " reduces the number to 1 . 75 meters . The roleplaying supplement " Pirates & Privateers " , published in 1997 , misspells the species ' name " Vodron " . " Galaxy Guide 12 " says that the Hutts made the Vodrans sign themselves into eternal servitude " after " their victory in the Third Battle of Vontor . However , the timeline in " The Essential Guide to Alien Species " , published in 2001 , mentions the treaty being signed before the Hutts defeated Xim . 1999 ' s " The Essential Guide to Droids " says that the Hutts and the Vodrans " made a pact " before the battle — although the treaty is not mentioned by name . 2005 ' s " The New Essential Chronology " says that " two more battles followed [ the Second and Third Battles of Vontor ] , but by that point , the Hutts had forged the Treaty of Vontor . " It does not specify whether the treaty was signed before or after the battle . The 2010 novel " " by Christie Golden details the 44 ABY attack on the Fountain of Ancients on the planet Klatooine that nullifies the Treaty of Vontor for at least the Klatooinians and the Nikto . However , the source makes no mention of the Vodrans , so it is unclear whether the treaty remains in place for them after the attack .