A capital ship used by the Yuuzhan Vong. Coralskippers attach themselves like barnacles to the spindly arms of Yuuzhan Vong carrier analogs. They are launched and recovered from these elongate and branchlike projections. (Jedi
Eclipse) A Yuuzhan Vong fighter-carrier is one of the Yuuzhan Vong reinforcements that joins the Battle of Duro.

 

Coralskipper (Plural: Coralskippers):

A Yuuzhan Vong bioengineered starfighter. Length: 13 meters. The living coralskipper is made of yorik coral. The relationship between pilot and coralskipper is more like that
between rider and beast rather than pilot and starfighter. To
attack, the coralskipper draws very close, and a small appendage on the front erupts like a miniature volcano, spewing forth a burst of fire and a single glob of molten rock, which can melt through a spacecraft. None looks exactly like
another, but they all share some features, such as a tapered nose and aerodynamic sides. A coralskipper is roughly triangular in shape, resembling a miniature version of an Imperial Star Destroyer. The canopy resembles mica more than it resembles transparisteel. A coralskipper can cause starfighter shields to go down, perhaps through some type of magnetic or supergravity field. At the front is a thumb-sized dovin basal, an added piece that looks like a breathing, pulsing
creature, a disembodied heart. A coralskipper moves along much as it fires its guns, using the opposing force of that “spitting.” It refuels and rearms by eating rocks. Within a circle of enemies, a coralskipper spins, faster and faster,
bending laser blasts into a field of tremendous gravity. The enemies can’t break free and begin to orbit the coralskipper until they come crashing together, at which point the coral-skipper’s gravity well dissipates and they all go up in a
tremendous flash of brilliant energy. In Dark Tide: Onslaught, the pilots in Rogue Squadron determine that the dovin basal functions much like a black hole. It also serves as a shield for the Yuuzhan Vong craft by containing proton torpedoes and the like. The pilots learn that boosting the sphere of the inertial compensator can prevent their shields from being taken down. Cycling low-power shots through the
lasers also forces the coralskippers to expend a lot of energy creating the black-hole shields, thus degrading their maneuvering ability. Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo discover coralskippers growing on Belkadan. A green leafy vine has carpeted the entire area, but has left circular openings of black sand at various points. In the center of these circles are infant coralskippers, all pointing needle-sharp noses toward the sky. The vines function like solar collectors, channeling
energy and nutrients to the coralskippers. The sand is black because of a nectar the vines flood into it. Lando captures a coralskipper after the initial attack on Dubrillion. From it, they learn that the pilot wears a mask that serves as a connection to the living ship. Luke enters the cockpit of the coralskipper and realizes that the mask is part of the larger organism. When he wears the mask, he hears a voice speaking in the Yuuzhan Vong tongue. Skips do not perform well in gravity. Coralskippers attach themselves like barnacles to the spindly arms of Yuuzhan Vong carrier analogs. They are launched and recovered from these elongated and branchlike projections. At the Battle of Fondor, the Yuuzhan Vong resort to flinging the coralskippers themselves directly at their targets.

Coralskipper weapons do not set off torpedo-lock alarms. Flying at full power distracts the dovin basal as much as projecting full shields.

 

Cruiser Analog,Yuuzhan Vong:

A Yuuzhan Vong capital ship analogous to a cruiser. During the Battle of Duro, one of the ships, a multicolored hunk of coral, is used to ram an unshielded Duro orbital city. Three more cruiser-sized ships, with broad red and green arms capable of deploying coralships, are part of a battle group whose objective is to contain fleeing refugee ships.

 

Destroyer Analog,Yuuzhan Vong:

A Yuuzhan Vong capital ship capable of launching coralskippers that are attached on the outside of the ship. Two destroyer analogs participate in the space battle with Talon Karrde’s fleet at Yavin 4. One of the ships is destroyed after being rammed by the Idiot’s Array. The other is destroyed after the Errant Venture and its complement of X-wings arrives in the system.

 

Escape Pod,Yuuzhan Vong:

Escape pod used by the Yuuzhan Vong. The Yuuzhan Vong escape pod is composed of black yorik coral and propelled by a dovin basal with rudimentary dovin basal retros and attitude control. The escape pod is no bigger than a landspeeder and is unarmed. It has a faceted but transparent canopy. Gauntlet Three from the Soothfast discovers the Yuuzhan Vong escape pod containing Elan and Vergere near Exodo II. Gunship Analog,Yuuzhan Vong: A midsized Yuuzhan Vong starship often used to escort Yuuzhan Vong cruiser analogs. Gunships are capable of spraying volleys of plasma.

 

Spawn Ship,Yuuzhan Vong:

A large Yuuzhan Vong cruiser. The spawn ship has the likeness of an enormous, faceted polyhedron, black as onyx. A spawn ship is sacrificed in order to place Elan and Vergere in the hands of the New Republic.

 

Spiral-Armed Worldship:

A Yuuzhan Vong bioengineered vessal. At Runaway Prince, Nas Choka is brought to the Yuuzhan Vong warship Yammka via a massive and sinister worldship that looks like a flattened lapidary orb of gloss black, from the dense center of which spiral half a dozen arms.

 

Transport Carrier,Yuuzhan Vong (Crates):

Vehicle used to transport Yuuzhan Vong warriors to the surface of Ithor. The Yuuzhan Vong transport carriers are bloated floaters sprouting hornlike projections that spit plasma bolts at incoming fighters. The New Republic refers to them as “crates.”

 

Tsik Vai (Yuuzhan Vong Flier):

A Yuuzhan Vong atmospheric flier used on Yavin 4 in their search for Anakin Solo. Tsik vai have gills on the side.

 

Warship,Yuuzhan Vong:

A capital ship. The Yuuzhan Vong warship is about as long as an Imperial Star Destroyer, but is an ovoid shape and masses a great deal more. The ship’s flesh alternates between strips of smooth, glassy, black rock and rougher, craggier patches that house pits for weapons emplacements and dovin basals. Long, huge deep red and dark blue coral arms grow near the nose, along the spine, and at the aft of the ship. Coralskippers dot these arms like buds on a plant. Some of the larger unoccupied holes in the arms house plasma projectors. The plasma projector has a triskele valve at the tip, which opens for a second or two to eject the plasma, then closes again, sealing the firing tube. The warship’s dovin basals can create a unified gravity well to act as an interdiction field.

 

Worldship (Plural:Worldships):

A Yuuzhan Vong bioengineered vessel. The living worldship is made of a huge, ten-kilometer chunk of yorik coral and can carry more thanfive thousand warriors and supporting coral-skippers. It is propelled by dovin basals. The trailing tendrils
of a worldship are huge membranous creatures anchored at the end by dozens of piloted coralskippers. At times of weak-gravitational-pull fields, such as between galaxies, those membranes can be extended wide as cosmic sails, riding interstellar winds. These sails are also used to help the world-ship land. The coralskippers invert the sail into a semicircle, with the worldship at its apex. The dovin basals release their grip on the planet’s gravity and focus instead on opposing fields, slowing the vessel. The worldships carry another gigantic creature, a brownish tubular worm that can be used as a lifeline and a communications line on icy worlds. It extends one end out from the worldship and down into the icy water. The creature is too warm for the ice to re-form around it. Some Yuuzhan Vong, like Nen Yim, have lived their entire lives aboard worldships like the Baanu Kor. Before their arrival in the known galaxy, there was much infighting between Yuuzhan Vong castes and domains and the worldships were dying. Indeed, the worldships are continuously dying, and some shaper domains are charged with the task of maintaining them

 

Yorik-Trema Landing Craft:

A Yuuzhan Vong landing craft thatis smaller than a cruiser but larger than a coralskipper. The yorik-trema landing craft looks like a flattened oval with ultrasensitive eyes moving constantly to track other craft like its coralskipper escorts. When he goes to the surface of Duro, Tsavong Lah stands behind his pilot in the small forward compartment of the lead lander. The ships have ablative, regenerative ventral surfaces. Landing claws reach the ground when the ships touch down on the surface. Molleung worms then extend from the ship’s sides to unload passengers.