Yuuzhan Vong

The **Yuuzhan Vong** "***Children of Yun-Yuuzhan***", also called the **Chosen Race**, known to some as the **Far Outsiders**, and sometimes incorrectly abbreviated to ***Vong*** (which implied that one was disowned by their family and their gods) were among the few sentient species known to originate from outside the galaxy. A typical Yuuzhan Vong resembled a Human in form, though they were taller and heavier than the average Human and had less hair on their heads. The Yuuzhan Vong were religious zealots, who viewed mechanical technology as blasphemy. Their technological innovations were genetically engineered and purely organic. Additionally, the Yuuzhan Vong deeply respected pain to the point of masochism, and strove to improve their physical capabilities through organ grafting. Such grafting was a status symbol within Yuuzhan Vong society. Perhaps most notably, the Yuuzhan Vong were unable to be sensed through the Force, however they were susceptible to some Force based attacks.

## History

### Earliest Records

Little is known about the early history of the **Yuuzhan Vong**, but it became known that they were refugees from a distant galaxy. Their original homeworld, Yuuzhan'tar was a tropical planet that had a large asteroid belt around it. It was destroyed thousands of years before they would make first contact with the galaxy of the Jedi. In Yuuzhan Vong, Yuuzhan'tar translated to "Crèche of the gods", and the living planet was a template for the Yuuzhan Vong deities. Yuuzhan'tar may have been the basis for Yun-Yuuzhan, the creator god of the Yuuzhan Vong.

### Conflict with Machines

Little was known about their early history, but the Yuuzhan Vong had apparently once lived as symbiotes with their homeworld and at one point they were able to tap into a separate variation of the Force originating from a planet similar to the one located in the heart of the galaxy home to the Jedi. Their technology was also largely organic. At some point in their history, the Yuuzhan Vong were caught in the midst of a devastating galactic conflict between a extragalactic robotic faction, which solidified their hatred of mechanical technology and xenophobia towards other sentient lifeforms.

The Yuuzhan Vong's living homeworld aided them in the war against the machines by bestowing upon them the knowledge of creating living weapons. However, as the war dragged on, the Yuuzhan Vong as a species became increasingly violent and warlike, making them more dependent on traits that are common with users of the dark side. Eventually, they were able to defeat their enemies, and forced the robotic forces to flee their galaxy. Following the conflict against the robots, the Yuuzhan Vong went on a crusade to cleanse their galaxy of all forms of mechanical technology. During the Yuuzhan Vong's crusade they conquered much of their galaxy and either wiped out or enslaved species that they had conquered, one among them being the reptilian Chazrach.

### Desolation of their Galaxy

When the much of the galaxy fell under the control of the Yuuzhan Vong, the various Domains (what the Yuuzhan Vong called clans or families) having been consumed by their dark side, turned against one another and enacted a form of civil war called the Cremlevian War. During the war between the rival Domains, much of the Yuuzhan Vong's galaxy was destroyed, including the planet from which the Midi- Chlorians of their galaxy originated. Without that planet in addition to the mass destruction caused all throughout the galaxy, the Midi-Chlorians of their galaxy began to die, causing the Yuuzhan Vong to be separated from their Force quite painfully.

In addition to losing the Force, their homeworld Yuuzhan'tar was destroyed in the chaos. With the culmination of their painful separation from their Force and the loss of their homeworld, the species saw the pain that they had endured as the only way to return to the symbiosis they once knew, and so the Yuuzhan Vong practiced body modifications on themselves. In place of their homeworld, the Yuuzhan Vong took up belief in several deities, which subsequently governed nearly every aspect of their civilization.

### Unification of the Yuuzhan Vong

Towards the end of the Cremlevian War, Steng emerged as the first Warmaster. A rival Warmaster, Yo'gand, invented the Yo'gand's Core tactic, which he used to destroy the planet Ygziir and its moon. The destruction of Ygziir resulted in the death of Steng and the end of the war. Eventually, Yo'gand united the Domains into a single socio-political entity and became the first Supreme Overlord of the Yuuzhan Vong. With much of their galaxy ruined beyond repair, the Yuuzhan Vong followed the guidance of the last Force vision that was had amongst their people before the great separation, a vision which foretold a fragment of their original home being lost to the stars and becoming one with a world in a galaxy far far away.

With the hopes of finding a new home, the Yuuzhan Vong began a long trek to another galaxy in search of the world that held a portion of their old home. For a long period, perhaps from centuries to thousands of years, the species was forced to travel through the Intergalactic Void in massive ships the size of planets. During this period, the Yuuzhan Vong nearly destroyed themselves. Violence and competition had been inevitably built into their society and, without an external target, they focused their aggression against each other. Though there were no all out wars in the magnitude of the Cremlevian War, the Domains continued to fight each other for the favor of the Supreme Overlords.

### Voyaging to the New Galaxy

When the Yuuzhan Vong left their galaxy, how long their voyage took, or if they even knew what their destination would be, was unclear because all they had was the vision of a new home, with most among them believing it would take countless millennia. It would appear that at a point at least four thousand years before the Battle of Yavin at a point where the Sith and the Jedi were still at war with one another, that one of the Yuuzhan Vong scouts had reached the Wild Space region of the known galaxy.