The Yuuzhan Vong - Species, which are different from anything I’ve read about so far. That is why I decided to do my assignment about them, as they are interesting in some way, even tho they may sound a bit creepy. Yuuzhan Vong are humanoid race, however, they have less hair, next to being heavier and taller build. Another difference from average human would be longer life-span, they usually had two or three times longer life-span than humans. Another rather interesting fact was, that they are ‘absent’ in the Force, or to be more exact, the Force exists within them, but on another level, for lack of better words. A Jedi would be unable to determine their intentions, truthfulness or motives with the Force.

The Yuuzhan Vong originate from another galaxy and their existence was unknown to us for very long time. Their original homeworld was called Yuuzhan’tar, which means “Créche of the Gods, the planet and name being a ‘template’ for Yuuzhan Vong deities. Althought, the planet was destroyed thousands of years before Yuuzhan Vong even invaded our galaxy.

Informations onto Yuuzhan Vong’s history are a bit vague, but it seems that they used to live in true symbiosis with their homeworld, and they even were Force-sensitive. Their technology was organic for most part. It is believed that being caught in the middle of war of two droid civilizations kind of made them hostile towards any non-organic technologies, next to becoming very xenophobic against other sentient beings. During conflicts, the Yuuzhan Vong became very war-like.

Culture

Yuuzhan Vong were religious zealots. Everything was centered around their deities, their warriors took huge importance of pain and suffering. Apparently, it was not the motive of pain itself, they accepted pain as common state of existence. Then there was importance of sacrifice. Their belief was, that their gods had to sacrifice their bodies in order to create the galaxy, so the Yuuzhan Vong sacrificed their bodies for a greater purpose. It was pretty common that the Yuuzhan Vong were scarred and heavily tattooed. The more elite warrior it was, the more graft organs from other creatures they had. Although, it ocassionally happened, that the body rejected such implants, and these yuuzhan Vongs would either die or become a Shamed One.

Families held huge importance for Yuuzhan Vongs. These families were called ‘Domains’ and some Domains were more powerful than the others. Additionally, due to Yuuzhan Vongs being rigidly caste-based, relationships between two castes were considered forbidden.

Society

The Yuuzhan Vong society worked on caste-system. Each caste has specific tasks, for lack of better words.

Supreme Overlord

The highest caste, which would be in control of lower castes. Only one, single individual would have this ‘function’

Shaper caste

Shapers would be closest to engineers and technicians in the society of Yuuzhan Vong. They were supervising the biotechnology of the Yuuzhan Vong, with main focus on creation and development of their organic technology.

Priest caste

Considering the fact that the Yuuzhan Vong were strictly theocratic society, the Priest caste had huge impact on the society. They contained several sects, each of them worshipping a different Yuuzhan Vong deity. On personal note, I’m slightly curious if they had any rivalry among them, as I didn’t find any informations regarding this.

Warrior caste

The main body of the Yuuzhan Vong’s military. Members of Warrior caste would train from early age, in order to be able to fulfill their further duties in combat. It is known that members of this caste were far more agressive than the average Yuuzhan Vong, even tho I personally think that their society, as it worked was quite agressive in itself.

Intendant caste

This caste worked to keep the society of Yuuzhan Vong fully functional, economy-wise. They could be seen as traders, bureucratic, and they were in charge of commerce and things related to that. What is interesting, all other castes had their own deity and war-cry, however this one lacked both of those aspects. This caste was one of the smallest ones.

Worker caste

This caste was the largest, but also on the bottom of the Yuuzhan Vong caste system. Those contained of workers, slaves and also the Shamed Ones, which I mentioned earlier. It would be those, whose’s bodies rejected implants - as without them, they would be seen as weak and thus worthless in the eyes of average Yuuzhan Vong.

Technology

It is interesting to note down, that entire Yuuzhan Vong technology was purely organic. from starships, weapons to even simply, every-day objects, everything was organic. I have to admit it sounds a bit creepy. The Yuuzhan Vong were very hostile against droids, electronics and basically anything manufactured, anything which didn’t have the organic origin.

I hope that this brief summary will do for the assignment. On personal note, this subject was interesting, and I certainly enjoyed reading about Yuuzhan Vong.