Yuuzhan Vong empire The Yuuzhan Vong empire was the interstellar empire formed by the Yuuzhan Vong during their invasion of the galaxy . History . The empire did not technically exist until Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane took formal possession of the captured galactic capital of Coruscant and named it the new homeworld of the Yuuzhan Vong called Yuuzhan ' tar . Despite the victory achieved in taking the enemy ' s capital , the warrior caste had suffered horrible casualties at this point which forced them to consolidate their newly acquired territory . In order to compensate for the loss in man power , they forced a reorganization of their forces as ordered by the Supreme Overlord and placed slave troopers as well as auxiliaries to defend these positions . The empire was destroyed during the Battle of Yuuzhan ' tar , when the Galactic Alliance retook Coruscant from the invaders and killed Supreme Overlord Shimrra . Government . The head of the empire was the Supreme Overlord who was aided by the Great Council which consisted of the heads of the four castes . The Warmaster , High Prefect , and Most High Priest were known to sit on the Council . In the event of the Supreme Overlord ' s death , there was typically an heir present who would ascend to the leadership of the Yuuzhan Vong empire . Amongst their politics , it was considered a duty to punish insubordination of lower ranking individuals . In fact , it was expected that a newly risen leader typically killed their predecessors . Local planets were ruled by the Intendant caste with Prefect s administering the worlds under their command . However , a few systems were known to have been granted to select Domain s . The members of the Priest caste were noted for managing ceremonies and ensure the loyalty of the masses . As events in the war progressed , they noted a disturbing rise in clandestine meetings among the lower castes such as the Shamed Ones who began to venerate the Jedi . The Order of Yun - Yuuzhan were noted as being a powerful political force within the Empire until their ranks were executed by Tsavong Lah . Military . Overview . The Yuuzhan Vong empire military consisted of the Warrior caste who led both their fleets as well as their ground forces . Support elements included the servitor race the Chazrach . as well as slaves who were converted into Thrall s through the use of Surge Coral . There were certain elite elements within the military of the empire which included the Praetorite Vong . The warriors of the Yuuzhan Vong were noted for being brave , having little fear of death , rarely retreated and never surrendering . This made them potent warriors who were obedient ; following the chain the command as well as being disciplined . However , these same strengths were also weaknesses as they rarely employed other tactics than those planned , the fact that they were obedient meant that they were not flexible and only obeyed their superiors and their bravery meant that they can be foolhardy as well as charging into situations that might require second thought . This changed somewhat during the rule of Warmaster Nas Choka who began to encourage his subordinates to change their thinking and allowed them to retreat in engagements in order to preserve their forces . Communications from outsiders that contacted a Yuuzhan Vong fleet typically spoke to the lowest ranking warrior within the fleet . If the speaker managed to convince this individual of their worth then the warrior would alert a superior of their find . Thus , the speaker would end up speaking to a higher ranking warrior and had to prove their worth once more . Through this , a person speaking to a Yuuzhan Vong fleet often had to convince their worth through the various warrior ranks . This was noted as being a tiring process but with every success , a speaker was getting closer to the commander of the fleet . It was noted that this was a way of alerting the commander of the fleet of the most worthy finds that demanded the commanding warriors attention . Military analysis and communication was often handled by the yammosk war coordinators and Battle Tactician s . There were a number of different military units within the military . These included Pod Trooper s who were deployed from orbit in Yorik coral shells onto a planetary environment . There were also the Yuuzhan Vong Paratrooper s who dropped from ships in the atmosphere of a planet on membranous parachutes . Another aerial unit included warrior caste soldiers who were carried in the air by large Mynock sized creatures to be deployed in various locations in the battlefield . There were also highly trained warriors known as Hunters that were employed by the Yuuzhan Vong for stealth attacks and tracking missions . In addition , there were an elite sect of Yuuzhan Vong warrior caste called Nuun who made use of the Cloak of Nuun to camouflage themselves in their surroundings . Near the end of the war , the Yuuzhan Vong Shapers were also involved in breeding a new type of soldier called Slayers for use against their enemies . New Republic Intelligence noted that in the initial stages of the war , that the Yuuzhan Vong possessed thousands of capital ships that traveled in flotillas of up to seventy five vessels . Amongst their ranks were warships that were the equivalent of Super Star Destroyers with firepower levels that were the equivalent of the heaviest turbolasers and ion cannons . Strategies . During the war , the Yuuzhan Vong were involved in numerous tactics that were used against the " " infidels " " of the galaxy . These included : Tactics . In addition to these , the Yuuzhan Vong made use of their various biots for specialist tactics for use against the enemy . This included the devastating Yo ' gand ' s Core tactic , which involved dropping a moon onto the planet as well as the deployment of planetary shielding teams who inserted a dovin basal onto a planet , which stripped a world of its orbiting defenses . Yuuzhan Vong interdiction vessels were also fond of waiting outside their assigned locations and suddenly appearing at them in order to ambush any vessels passing through that region of space . After the defeat of Warmaster Tsavong Lah at the hands of Jacen Solo , the Yuuzhan Vong began a program aimed at sacrificing the Jedi in order to curry favor with the gods . This became known as the Solo Project and was an attempt by the Yuuzhan Vong to capture Jacen Solo along with his twin Jaina Solo in order to pit them against one another . The band of collaborators known as the Peace Brigade were used extensively by the empire who used them to subvert the planetary governments , provide them with information and to serve as escorts for their supply lines . They also made use of the Red Knights of Life as another supporting element in their forces . Foreign relations . At the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War , the empire had tense relations with all its neighbors due to the fact that they were waging a holy war to cleanse the galaxy of " " infidels " " . They believed that the galaxy or promised land was rightfully theirs , and that they owned all of known space . To that end , they attempted to educate the inhabitants in the ways of the Yuuzhan Vong and their gods . They had also noted the wide diversity of races within the Promised Land which they themselves had eliminated in their home galaxy long ago , though the act was costly and saw the destruction of countless worlds . During the invasion , they sought to destroy simply what they needed to in order to accomplish their goals . They regularly dispatched spies wearing Ooglith masquer s allowing them to infiltrate galactic society and subvert it from within . In at least one operation , the Deception sect was used to deploy a bioweapon against the " " Jeedai " " . Furthermore , as part of the far - reaches destabilization program , the Yuuzhan Vong attempted to encourage conflict between the various governments in the galaxy . This included an attempt to frame the Chiss for an attack on the Esfandia base . Though they made use of their own war fleets and legions , the empire also made use of bands of collaborators to support them . This included the Peace Brigade though ultimately the Yuuzhan Vong would have discarded them once they had succeeded in conquering the galaxy . Territory . The territory of the Yuuzhan Vong consisted of the planets that were conquered during the battles before the conquest of Coruscant . This stretched from the invasion corridor starting with Vector Prime all the way from the Outer Rim down to the Core Worlds . During the later stages of the War , the Yuuzhan Vong were also making incursions into the Unknown Regions with a number of skirmishes with the Chiss government . During the initial invasion , the Yuuzhan Vong made use of the central part of the Tingel Arm as a way of moving their forces in the direction of the Core Worlds . By the latter stages of the War , the Yuuzhan Vong empire began to suffer from some of the same problems as the New Republic and its successor the Galactic Alliance . This was the fact that they had attained so much territory and resources that it was difficult to adequately protect all their space .