Topic: The Chazrach

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INFO: We have reports that the Yuuzhan Vong are using a slave species called Chazrach which have been bred by the Yuuzhan Vong to be a killing machine. They're not as formidable as the Vong, but they will keep coming. They have no free will, so do not try to reason with them


RACE: Chazrach
HEIGHT: 1.5 Meters Tall
SKIN: Variable
DISTINCTION: A presence in the Force unlike their Masters
LANGUAGE: Chazrachian

HOMEWORLD:
Zonama Sekot (Ferroan for "World of Body and Mind") was a living, sentient world capable of traveling through space. Zonama was the planet itself, while Sekot was the living intelligence of Zonama. It was also the seed of the original Yuuzhan Vong homeworld, Yuuzhan'tar, which had been destroyed during one of their civil wars.

Geography
Zonama Sekot was unique from other worlds. Its north polar region, a spot of pearl white, was surrounded by an entire hemisphere of tropical jungles. Its southern hemisphere was covered with impenetrable silvery clouds. Along the equator there were several rivers, lakes, and small seas. The edge of the southern hemisphere was also covered by elegant wisps of wind which frequently broke free to form spinning storms.

History
Zonama Sekot's first settlers were black-haired humanoid Ferroan colonists and red-skinned Langhesi colonists, and the living world was ruled by Magisters. The Ferroans were believers in the Potentium view of the Force, which denied the existence of both the light and dark sides. The Langhesi and Ferroans settled the planet in 89 BBY.

During the time of the old Galactic Republic, Zonama Sekot was rumored to be home to the fastest ships in the galaxy. Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, traveled there to find fellow Jedi Vergere and to purchase one of the planet's  living ships. Anakin bonded with a record twelve seed-partners, Obi-Wan bonded with an additional three. While Zonama Sekot was under attack from the Yuuzhan Vong (32 BBY–30 BBY), it was able to defeat them. Later Wilhuff Tarkin, then a Republic commander, declared war on the living world and attacked it in 29 BBY. Zonama Sekot unveiled its hyperdrive system and escaped into the Unknown Regions.

In the following years, stories of the "rogue planet" that had once made living ships circulated among many in the Outer Rim.

Many years later during the Yuuzhan Vong War, Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade Skywalker, Jacen Solo, R2-D2, and several other Jedi traveled to Zonama Sekot, which harbored the long forgotten secrets of the galaxy's invaders. Recognizing a glimmer of Anakin Skywalker in Luke and Jacen, Sekot allowed them to land and tested them. Sekot offered to destroy the Yuuzhan Vong entirely, but both Luke and Jacen refused. Nevertheless, Sekot decided to help them, in another way. Later, Nom Anor, disguised as Yu'shaa, the leader of the underground Jeedai heretics, tried without success to destroy the living world.

Zonama Sekot traveled to Yuuzhan Vong-held Coruscant, which had been renamed Yuuzhan'tar, and forged a peace between the Yuuzhan Vong and the Galactic Alliance. Converted and surrendered Yuuzhan Vong came to call Zonama home, and a number of communities were established. One such village was La'okio, created as an experiment to break down the walls dividing the Yuuzhan Vong castes by grouping the beings into mixed groups.

Reh'mwa, a leader of the Bothan ar'krai against the Yuuzhan Vong, provisioned the Avengeance for searching for Zonama Sekot in the Unknown Regions.

At the start of the Sith-Imperial War, it retreated further into the Unknown Regions, stranding the Yuuzhan Vong who remained in the galaxy as part of the Ossus Project. As of 130 ABY it was located in the Unknown Regions, roughly halfway between Lwhekk and Lehon. It has also demonstrated several times to have remarkable Force powers, though fairly untrained.

BIOLOGY AND APPEARANCE:
The Chazrach (also known as "reptoids") were a short, stocky, reptilian humanoid race with snubbed snouts who served the Yuuzhan Vong as slave soldiers. They resembled Trandoshans but were much smaller. Like the Yuuzhan Vong, the Chazrach were not native to the galaxy, having been enslaved during the Yuuzhan Vong's conquest of their galaxy. Unlike the Yuuzhan Vong, however, they had a presence in the Force.

CULTURE AND HISTORY:
For thousands of years, the Chazrach were bred in large numbers as expendable support troops. A pair of dome-like calcifications protruded from the forehead of each Chazrach, inhibiting their autonomy and allowing their Yuuzhan Vong masters to control them. However, this proved to be a disadvantage in battle since they could be easily killed. In battle, the Chazrach were controlled by warbeasts such as Thrall herders and Rakamats. If a warbeast was destroyed, the Chazrach associated with it would attack anything that moved, including each other.

Any form of cognizance and initiative that was possessed by the base species vanished over the generations of genetic tampering by the Shaper caste. This flaw, combined with their small, stocky statures made them incapable of mastering the use of the standard Amphistaff used by the Warrior caste as a whip. The reptoids instead use the inflexible Coufee, which was better suited to their body form, and an inferior breed of the Amphistaff. A few Chazrach served the Yuuzhan Vong so well over the generations that they were permitted to join the Warrior caste at its most basic levels.

It is possible that the Chazrach could regain their intelligence if the surge-coral implants were removed. The fate of the Chazrach after the Yuuzhan Vong War is unknown, though they may have gone with the Yuuzhan Vong to Zonama Sekot.

APPEARANCES:
Star Wars Invasion 3: Refugees, Part 3
Dark Tide I: Onslaught (First appearance)
Dark Tide II: Ruin (First identified as Chazrach)
Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
Star by Star
Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
Force Heretic III: Reunion
The Unifying Force

SOURCES:
The New Essential Chronology
Last Call at Leatherback's on Wizards.com (article)
The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

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