Gormak The Gormak were sentient humanoids native to the planet Voss , a world in the Voss system of the Allied Tion sector in the Outer Rim Territories . They were the more populous of their homeworld ' s two native sentient species — and they were extremely hostile toward the other , a species known as the Voss , as well as the off - worlders , whom they viewed as allies of the Voss . The Gormak possessed an innate comprehension of technology , although they did not develop flight capability prior to contact with off - worlders . When the planet Voss was discovered by non - natives shortly after the end of the Great Galactic War in 3653 BBY , the Gormak were exposed to the technology of the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic , gaining the capabilities to construct more advanced weapons and even attempt to build their own starship . During that time , the Voss learned that they were actually descended from Gormak and began an attempt to reconcile between two species . By the time the Eternal Empire of Zakuul invaded Voss in 3630 BBY , the Voss and Gormak ended their hostilities , uniting to defend their homeworld against the invaders . Biology and appearance . The Gormak were sentient humanoids with green skin . They had flat , noseless faces adorned with frills that swept away from their eyes and mandible , collecting in whorls on the sides of their heads behind the jaw . The eyes of a Gormak varied in color , with red , orange and blue varieties observed . The Gormak had clawed , three - fingered hands — also adorned with frills — and tended to possess a muscular build . The Gormak possessed a sexual dimorphism , with females being slightly shorter than males and lacking a whorl located above their nose . The Gormak also had a natural mental acuity for understanding and employing technology . Society and culture . An aggressive species , the Gormak held an innate love of warfare and competition , and were extremely hostile toward the other natives of their planet , the Voss species . The Gormak held a cultural belief that in order for them to prosper , the Voss — whom they viewed as an unnatural plague on the planet — must be destroyed . To achieve that goal , Gormak warriors repeatedly assaulted the Voss capital city of Voss - Ka over the course of centuries ; however , despite their far greater numbers , they were never successful as their warlike nature has kept them from uniting against their enemy . After the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic established embassies in Voss - Ka , the Gormak viewed both factions as enemies , seeing the off - worlders as no different from the Voss . Although their tribal society and basic speech patterns were considered primitive by galactic standards , their innate talent with technology rivaled the capabilities of the top minds of the Republic . From bits of scavenged electronics and discarded equipment , the Gormak constructed advanced tools , heavy machinery , specialized weapons and even cybernetic implants . However , despite their incredible affinity for technology , the Gormak remained a pre - spaceflight culture confined to their homeworld , which caused them to be viewed as a backward species despite being perfectly capable of repairing , modifying and improving tech created by more advanced cultures . The Gormak population was numbered in millions and their society was tribal in structure , with Gormak spread throughout the wilderness of Voss in numerous nomadic clans numbering roughly a hundred individuals each . Within each tribe the position of responsibility to maximize the value of all salvaged equipment was held by a Shaman with a particularly strong affinity for technology , to whom the other Gormak looked for guidance not just in matters of technology , but in their daily lives . By far the most populous sentient species on the planet , the Gormak settled in camps , sometimes fortified by stolen off - world technology and actively avoided the forest known as the Nightmare Lands due to its mysterious corruptive influence . The largest Gormak settlement on the planet was Gorma - Koss in the Gormak Lands , where tens of thousands of Gormak have united their tribes at the base of an unnamed mountain under the leadership of Jokull , the Gormak King . The Gormak constructed mines to strip the land of valuable resources for the construction of their machines and weapons , leaving desolation and monolithic structures behind . Apart from working with existing technology , the Gormak also experimented heavily with organic - cybernetic hybrids , using Voss fauna as test subjects . Gormak hunting parties set out at regular intervals to trap mawvorr s , shaclaw s and even the deadly vorantikus alive so that the creatures could be implanted with cybernetic upgrades . These monstrous cyberbeast s became faster , stronger and far more dangerous and could be programmed with specific instructions , making them into excellent guardians . The Gormak considered the meat of the insectoid shaclaw a delicacy , and became skilled at capturing and cooking them alive since the giant insects ' flesh would become contaminated with toxins within minutes after death . The Gormak would only dine on the shaclaws during special coming of age feasts , and the capture and preparation of such meal was considered an essential part of the ritual celebration . The Gormak revered the local alpha predator vorantiki for their power and fearlessness , often depicting them in crudely scrawled pictures found inside Gormak domiciles . History . In ancient times , the Sith came to Voss , where the Gormak were the only one native sentient species . The Sith viewed Gormak as primitive and ignored them as they began to harvest the world ' s resources . However , the planet and the Gormak were irrevocably changed when the Jedi arrived and attempted to drive the Sith off Voss . Seeking allies among the natives , the Jedi agreed to teach some of the Gormak tribes on how to use the Force , but the Gormak were unprepared for the knowledge . Those tribes underwent radical evolutionary changes in the course of a few generations , becoming a new species named the Voss . The Jedi attempted to teach the Voss how to control their emotions and new powers , but the Voss instead attacked the Sith on the planet , bringing the new species in contact with the dark side of the Force . This caused the dark side to become manifest in a Sith structure on the planet , and this entity came to take the name Sel - Makor as it gained intelligence . Sel - Makor began to feed on violence and suffering , fueling its dark side powers and spreading corruption across the surrounding area , which became known as the Nightmare Lands , and the ancient Sith complex that the entity inhabited was known as the Dark Heart . Not long after his creation , Sel - Makor captured the spirits of two of the Gormak who had been taught by the Jedi , Damek - Ol and Nemok - Ta , and imprisoned their spirits in slave bodies . Damek - Ol was imprisoned in the body of a Dashade , while Nemok - Ta was placed in the body of an Abyssin , and the two became avatars of Sel - Makor ' s power . After the extermination of the Sith , the Voss forgot their origins and founded the city of Voss - Ka atop the planet ' s highest peak , while the Jedi eventually died out or departed . Sel - Makor , meanwhile , influenced the Gormak ' s bloodlust and drove the far more numerous species to attack their cousins throughout the centuries so that he could feed off of their dark emotions . For centuries between the sundering of the species and the re - discovery of Voss by non - native off - worlders , the Gormak settled across the planet and engaged in a seemingly endless war against the Voss species . Though restricted at the time to pre - flight technology , the technological aptitude , viciousness , and superior numbers of the Gormak made them a formidable opponent to the Voss . Despite that , the Gormak were held at bay by the training of the Voss commandos , the Force visions of the Voss Mystics , and the fortifications of the Voss mountain - top city of Voss - Ka . Following the Treaty of Coruscant that ended the Great Galactic War between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic , Voss was accidentally rediscovered by the larger galaxy several years before 3641 BBY . An operative of the Star Cabal named Albathius arrived on Voss shortly after its discovery , and gained great influence among the Voss Mystics , becoming known as the " Shining Man " and convincing the Voss to stay neutral from the Cold War between two governments . The Shining Man soon died , but his starship remained in the Chamber of Ashes of the Dark Heart , where it was guarded by a Gormak named Xanar for years afterwards . At some point during the Cold War , a Gormak by the name of Jokull entered the Nightmare Lands and traveled to the Dark Heart , entering the cave known as the Dark Hollow where Sel - Makor was most powerful . Instead of consuming the Gormak ' s mind like he had done to so many others , Sel - Makor instead chose to awaken within Jokull his species ' natural ability — the power to see visions as the Voss did . Horrified that he had been corrupted and seeing all Voss as being marked with evil because of their powers , Jokull returned to the Gormak Lands and became king of his people in order to wage war upon the Voss — so that the Gormak would never be corrupted like he was . Under his leadership dozens of Gormak tribes united in Gorma - Koss , where thousands of Gormak set to work together on a massive project . Using pieces and equipment salvaged from the offworlders and the Voss , the Gormak constructing a Gormak cannon to threaten Voss - Ka and a starship named " Gormegan - 1 " which they intended to use to travel to the stars . These constructions were supported by the Tela Mining Operations , while Jokull stored treasures and trophies from his conquests in the underground vault known as the King ' s Hall . In the Pelath - Ri Marches the Gormak settled on the Fest Otur Island and began to cut down many of the trees in the region . Trying to gain an alliance with the Voss , both the Republic and the Empire lent them aid in their fight against the Gormak . The Sith aided the Voss in destroying " Gormegan - 1 " while the Republic helped the Voss to destroy the Gormak cannon . In the process , Jokull was captured , and the Voss discovered Jokull ' s ability to see the future . They enlisted the aid of outsiders in retracing the Gormak king ' s steps in the Nightmare Lands , soon learning the truth of their species ' creation . After Jokull and neutralized , a new leader named Raklann took charge of Gormak in the Pelath - Ri Marches , trying to destroy the Shrine of Healing from below and attempting to excavate and repair the ancient starship named " Evuk - Nosk " . In 3637 BBY the galaxy was invaded by the Eternal Empire of Zakuul , who after defeating both the Republic and the Sith Empire , placed dozens of massive battlestation s called Star Fortress es in orbits of subjugated worlds to watch for possible uprisings . Voss Star Fortress was protected by a shield bunker located in the Pelath - Ri Marches , and the Gormak saw it as a source of the disease that affected their young , old and weak . In the face of a larger threat , the Voss and Gormak soldiers had united to defend their homeworld during the Invasion of Voss , ending the centuries - long war between two species . Their alliance has proven surprisingly effective , with the meditative reserve of the Voss complimenting the ferocious strength of the Gormak to form a formidable army . Gormak in the galaxy . In 3641 BBY a Gormak named Hadrik , who was tired of the fighting between Voss and Gormak , learned the art of the Dream - walking . While traversing the Spirit World , Hadrik met with the Sith Lord Kallig and in exchange for freeing his physical body from captivity and the passage offworld agreed to perform the Forbidden Ritual to heal Kallig ' s mind . Hadrik traveled with Kallig into the Nightmare Lands , where they found the dream - rock , containing the spirit of a Voss named Dal - Rin . Dal - Rin instructed Hadrik on how to use the rock on the ghosts inside Kallig ' s mind and defeat them . The pair proceeded to strip away the ghosts ' disguises and bested them one - by - one , after which Kallig used the rock to heal themselves . Upon returning to the Voss Orbital Docking Station , Kallig and Hadrik found Voss commando Sor - Nak waiting for them , who declared that for taking a Gormak off Voss , his people would reject the Empire . To preserve Imperial interests , Kallig used a mind trick to make Sor - Nak forget about Hadrik , with Hadrik becoming the first known Gormak to leave his homeworld . In 3632 BBY a Gormak warrior Rokuss teamed up with the Commander of the Alliance that opposed the Eternal Empire of Zakuul to take down the Star Fortress in orbit of Voss . Rokuss assembled a strike team of Gormak and joined the Commander in an assault on the shield bunker protecting the Star Fortress , after which they traveled on the Alliance base on Odessen . From there , the Commander infiltrated the Voss Star Fortress and destroyed it by overloading the Sun Generator , after which Rokuss and his warriors remained to fight for the Alliance ' s cause in gratitude , though they later returned to Voss to fight in the defence of Voss - Ka during the assault by the Eternal Fleet . Behind the scenes . The Gormak are a new species created for " " , an MMORPG video game by BioWare , and were first mentioned in The Holonet , a promotional media web feature . The Gormak are found only on Voss , where multiple quests and codex entries elaborate on their society and culture . " " expansion later introduced the Gormak Rokuss as a companion character for players , available through the Star Fortress missions .