S ' yito S ' yito was a Yuuzhan Vong male and a member of the warrior caste . During his species ' invasion of the galaxy , S ' yito was assigned to the prison planet Selvaris , holding the rank of subaltern . Although a subordinate of the penal colony ' s chief officer , Malik Carr , S ' yito nevertheless oversaw much of camp ' s affairs , devoted as he was to his position . He took time to attempt to understand the prisoners under his care , and learnt to speak fluent Basic . As well - versed as he was in their language , S ' yito was often derided and fooled by the prisoners , most notably when Galactic Alliance veterans Pash Cracken and Judder Page joined the body of captives and organized a successful prison breakout . S ' yito ' s guards pursued the four captives who managed to escape the Selvaris camp , but failed to prevent one , a Jenet , from vanishing off - world with vital data . Commander Carr had S ' yito ' s warriors punished for their failure , although the Subaltern himself was spared execution . On the commander ' s orders S ' yito took a group of warriors to execute those in the surrounding villages , who were thought to have aided the escapees . Biography . Life on Selvaris . The Yuuzhan Vong male S ' yito served in the Warrior caste . During the Yuuzhan Vong War , a conflict that affected the entire galaxy , S ' yito went to Selvaris , located in the Tantara system in the Inner Rim , with the disgraced former commander , Malik Carr . Carr had been demoted and dispatched to Selvaris , an isolated backwater , following the disaster sustained by his forces at Fondor . Although the former officer was in overall command of the prison , it was S ' yito who oversaw the internal regulation of affairs in the penal colony , which had been set up to house prisoners for their eventual use as sacrifices in grand ceremonies . The Subaltern entertained the notion that the captives being collected at the camp — including several notable enemies following the failure of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances ' s Operation Trinity — should have been executed . S ' yito believed that the fact that a full complement of warriors were required to guard a world such as Selvaris was proof that the invasion was floundering . Still , S ' yito maintained a keen interest in his enemy . He learned Galactic Basic fluently , mastering the language of the infidels almost as well as Malik Carr himself . He became well acquainted with the customs and routines of the prisoners , guarding the captives as they worked , often drawn into debates with them . On one occasion , as the prisoners grudgingly threw their dead into a maw luur , S ' yito expressed his disbelief at the idea that the captives still did not understand that the Yuuzhan Vong worshiped pain and death on behalf of their gods . Daubed head to toe in blood , as was the custom of many Yuuzhan Vong , S ' yito made a point of demonstrating the intractable situation of the infidels by snatching from the air a small native insect , and crushing it against his chest . The escape attempt . S ' yito believed that the complaints put forward by the prisoners on Selvaris — that they could not stomach Yuuzhan Vong food — were false ; a means by which he could be antagonized . Commander Malik Carr , however , had ordered that food be brought in from the surrounding settlements , and it was in this way , weeks before the reshaped galactic capital was liberated from S ' yito ' s people , that the prisoners under his charge received the impetus to stage a break - out . On one hot day , a Ryn came from one of the settlements bearing food ; S ' yito and his lieutenants searched the supplies , but did not find anything amiss ; the Ryn in fact disarmed the Subaltern ' s suspicions slightly by speaking of his faith in Yun - Yuuzhan , and referring to S ' yito as " Fearsome One " , an honorific reserved for commanders . S ' yito allowed the Ryn to enter , unaware that the food - bearer was carrying vital information in a holowafer , and was a member of his species ' intelligence network . During the captives ' lunch hour , S ' yito was on patrol while Judder Page , Pash Cracken , Thorsh and several other captives found the Holowafer in their food and had four of the prisoners commit the binary code inside the wafer to memory . However , S ' yito was alerted that something may have been amiss by the fact that a sabacc game , staged as cover for Cracken and Page while they examined the holowafer , was taking place during the midday meal hour . With his guards , S ' yito burst into the eating shelter , demanding answers . Page merely mocked the Subaltern until S ' yito left , unsuccessful in determining the cause of the unusual behavior . Hours before sunrise , the prisoners staged their break - out . Three Bith and the Jenet Thorsh left through a secret tunnel and escaped on swoops hidden by the same Ryn months earlier , with the vital data for the Alliance command memorized . The prison camp ' s guards soon began the chase , some flying in coralskippers , some on Tsik vai , others on foot with bissop hounds to track the prisoners . Only one prisoner , Thorsh , eventually made it to freedom . The surviving Bith was brought back to the camp , where Malik Carr awaited with a furious S ' yito , along with the guards and the prisoners . Page , Cracken and the others were forced to assemble in the midday sun , and watched as S ' yito dragged the Bith out before them and dumped the wounded alien in the sand . Before the Bith could be punished , Commander Carr ordered that , as punishment for their failure , six of S ' yito ' s warriors should execute the other half - dozen present ; the slain were randomly chosen , though S ' yito , other than giving the order , was uninvolved . The Subaltern watched as Carr interrogated and choked the Bith to death with a tkun . Carr ordered S ' yito and his men to escort the prisoners to an immolation pit which had been dug outside the prison walls ; there , Carr ushered the captives into its stifling depths . S ' yito was then told to take a complement of his guards and slaughter everyone in the surrounding villages for their complicity in the break - out . Personality and traits . S ' yito was shrewd and able , but failed to appreciate the spirit and courage of his prisoners , or ultimately understand them . He believed strongly in the religion of his species , but held no great enthusiasm for the indoctrination and subjugation of those he considered infidels ; he felt that the prisoners should have been executed , and claimed that there was no " middle way " between being a Yuuzhan Vong or being dead . S ' yito held no regard for the lives of those who were not of the Yuuzhan Vong , but was also restrained , silent and understanding as Malik Carr ordered the death of several of his guards . The loyalty and devotion to his life as a warrior allowed him to act violently and without remorse , though S ' yito harbored a desire to see himself escalated beyond his position . Behind the scenes . Subaltern S ' yito appears only in the opening chapters of James Luceno ' s " " , published in 2005 . The novel served as the final installment of " " series .