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Chapter Five:
Armor and Biotech
"We have our ways, Danni Quee. You will learn."
-Prefect Da'Gara, Vector Prime
The Yuuzhan Vong's biotech is a strange and impressive form of technology that remains a mystery to New Republic scientists. As more and more is studied, an increased catalogue of their technologies will be established and new means of fighting off this deadly menace will become evident. While much of their equipment is also genetically engineered creatures, they are treated as equipment in this section for statistics purposes.
Vonduun Crab Armor
While the Vong embrace pain and battle, they are not above creating armor to protect themselves in combat. While it is noble to take wounds in the service of the Yuuzhan Vong, accomplishing the mission at hand is also honorable. Typically, standard troops will not wear the Vonduun armor, as it is reserved for special missions and high-ranking commanders. A strong cerulean armor is grown from the shell of the Vonduun crab, which remains alive after detaching from the crab and being placed on the body of the Vong. The chemicals in the outer coating of the armor are strong, and as such suits of Vonduun Crab Armor can turn blaster bolts and take damage from lightsabers as though they were any other weapon. One weakness was discovered, however: vonduun crabs seem to be allergic to the pollen of the semi-intelligent bafforr trees, native to Ithor.
Vonduun Crab Armor
Model: Custom Vong Armor
Type: Combat Armor
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: vonduun armor
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: +2D physical, +3D energy (torso and thighs), -1D Dexterity
Vonduun Crab Helmet
The helmet of the Vonduun armor is an especially rare item, and is only given to the most honorable and high ranking warrior commanders. It is specially designed to fit over the wearer's head, and is menacing to look upon. It protects the head and face from attacks as the armor does, though its very design makes it slightly weaker than full torso armor.
Vonduun Crab Helmet
Model: Custom Vong Helm
Type: Combat Armor
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: vonduun helmet
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: +2D physical, +2D energy (head)
Armor Scales Implants
Common soldiers and other infantry are outfitted with the Vonduun armor, however for the highest-ranking warriors in the Vong army, such as the warmaster Tsavong Lah, a special biological implant is granted as a sign of rank. This implant is in the form of scales, similar to that of an aquatic creature, though hard as almost any known metal. This “gift from the gods” is implanted under the skin of the torso, and over the course of months grows into a full chestplate, shoulder and upper arm guards, and back covering made of these thick scales.
Armor Scales Implants
Model: Custom Vong Armor
Type: Combat Armor
Scale: Character
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: +4D physical, +3D energy (torso only)
Ooglith Cloaker
The ooglith cloaker is a creature which attaches to the bearer like a second skin. The fleshy, tendril-laden creature is placed on the body where it attaches by encompassing the bearer completely from head to toe. The part of the cloaker which covers the face is transparent, allowing the wearer to see without impairment. Once the joining is complete, the bearer is immune to the effects of heat, cold, pressure (such as that experienced while deep underwater), and even some forms of radiation.
Ooglith Cloaker
Model: Custom Vong Bodysuit
Type: Bodysuit
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: ooglith cloaker
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: +1D physical, immune to effects of heat, cold, radiation, and pressure.
Ooglith Masquer
The ooglith masquer belongs to the same family as the ooglith cloaker, but performs a different function. Rather than protecting the bearer from the effects of outside stimuli, the masquer takes on the physical form of another being of roughly the same physical makeup as the bearer. Typically, this allows the bearer to disguise himself as a member of his own or a similar species; interspecies impersonation is incredibly difficult.
Ooglith Masquer
Model: Custom Vong Bodysuit
Type: Bodysuit
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: ooglith masquer
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: Gives the wearer +4D to a con: disguise roll.
Gablith Masquer
Where the Ooglith Masquer helped the Vong masquerade as humans, the newest breed of masquer allows Vong to disguise themselves as other species, such as Duro and other aliens. Since the Yuuzhang Vong physiology isn’t as similar to other species as it is to humans, the gabliths do not work quite as well, but they are still very effective.
Gablith Masquer
Model: Custom Vong Bodysuit
Type: Bodysuit
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: gablith masquer
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: Gives the wearer +3D to a con: disguise roll as a nonhuman species.
Ooglith Decloaker
The ooglith decloaker is a special creature employed by the Vong and their allies to expose spies using ooglith masquers and cloakers in their midst. They are vaguely similar to a quillarat in appearance, bristly and bad-tempered, and oogliths are absolutely terrified of these natural predators. When a decloaker is brought within 10 feet of an ooglith of either type, the ooglith will automatically peel away from its owner in an attempt to escape.
Ooglith Decloaker
Model: Custom Vong Anti-ooglith Device
Type: Handheld Weapon
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: ooglith decloaker
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Gnullith
The gnullith is a small, starfish-shaped creature which fits over the mouth of its wearer, extending a long tendril down the throat and attaching there. While worn, the gnullith acts as an oxygen filter, allowing the character to breathe oxygen while underwater, or in environments where oxygen is not the dominant gas present, such as on Type II atmosphere worlds. Recently, it has been discovered that the gnullith is something of a weak point for the Vong, as shooting one while worn by an enemy soldier causes the gnullith to die, and seriously wound its wearer.
Gnullith
Model: Custom Vong Breather
Type: Breath Mask
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: gnullith
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: Allows the character to breathe underwater, or on Type II worlds. Some gases can penetrate the gnullith's filters, though it is unknown which ones.
Villip
The villip is the standard method of communication for the Yuuzhan Vong. They are fleshy globes, covered in a thin layer of film which invert when activated and mimic the physical appearance of the being at the other end of the connection almost perfectly, even mimicking the colors. Once the connection has been established, the villips "speak" back and forth using their operators' voices, with almost flawless impersonation. Villips can be grown anywhere from 4 inches in diameter, to almost as tall as a Yuuzhan Vong warrior. They are grown in pairs or groups, and only those villips grown in that particular group can communicate with each other. Additionally, they can communicate over vast expanses of space, several light years apart, and it is unknown if they do, in fact, have a range limitation (it is theorized this is done through some sort of psychic link). Warriors in a particular strike team often carry a shoulder-mounted villip to communicate with the rest of the team, and most high-ranking commanders have their own villips for personal communications.
Villip
Model: Custom Vong Communicator
Type: Communicator
Scale: Character
Skill: communications: villip
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Oggzil
Oggzil are a special creature bioengineered by Yuuzhan vong shapers as a means of broadcasting over the same frequency as most Imperial/New Republic communications frequencies. It contains a special type of metal in its system which, when paired with a specially-grown villip, will do a broad-range broadcast over most general frequencies.
Oggzil
Model: Custom Vong Communicator
Type: Communicator
Scale: Character
Skill: communications: oggzil
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Tizowyrm
Tizowyrms were creatures bred by Yuuzhan Vong alchemists to help Vong warriors and explorers learn a new language in a short amount of time. They are small, worm-like creatures which burrow into the ear canal of a being and attach themselves there. They then begin to absorb aural communications, and piece them together into a complex series of subliminal (possibly psychic) emissions, sending essentially a "language lesson" to the bearer. These worms can tire easily, though, and it is not recommended that they be left in for long periods of time, as they could literally work themselves to death.
Tizowyrm
Model: Custom Vong Translator
Type: Translation Device
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: tizowyrm
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: For every standard day that the tizowyrm is worn in the presence of beings speaking a particular language, the bearer gains a +1 bonus to their languages specialization in that particular language while wearing the tizowyrm, starting at a base of 1D. Example: after having the tizowyrm in the presence of someone speaking Huttese for 5 days, that character is said to have the languages: Huttese specialization at 2D+1 while using the tizowyrm.
Restraint Growths
Restraint growths are used on Yuuzhan Vong captives in order to break their will and transform them into mindless slaves. They begin as small, pebble-like objects, but once embedded in a captive's skin they begin to feed off their life force and grow to hard calcifications. It is also speculated that the growths feed on midi-chlorians, which is why captives bearing these growths slowly begin to lose their connection with the Force, becoming more and more muted every day.
Restraint Growths
Model: Custom Vong Restraint
Type: Restraint Device
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: restraint growth
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: For every day the growth is implanted in the skin of a captive, it gains 1D to roll against the captive's willpower roll. If the roll is failed, the captive cannot disobey the commands of its captives for the remainder of the day. Additionally, for every three days the growth is implanted in the skin, add one difficulty level to any Force power being used on the captive.
Inhibition Fields
The Vong have bioengineered a special version of a dovin basal which manipulates gravity and, effectively, generates a one-way forcefield. These inhibition fields are often used to hold prisoners, so that new prisoners can simply be forced through the field and left inside. The shield is faintly colored, and seems slightly membranous due to its organic origins.
Inhibition Field
Model: Custom Vong Restraint
Type: Restraint Device
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech: inhibition field
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Rank Implants
The warrior culture of the Yuuzhan Vong centers around pain, but also around elevation for deeds that deserve reward. One such reward and mark of rank is a pair of implants on the shoulders of the warrior being honored. These implants are a pair of finger-length horns, slightly curved at the tip, on which are hung the cloak of command.
Rank Implants
Model: Custom Vong Enhancers
Type: Rank device
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: In a grappling situation, these horns can add +2 to damage to grappling attacks by the Vong using them.
Wrist Binders When a captive must be able to walk, but the Vong captors do not with her to have her arms free, a creature similar to a pair of binders is used to hold their arms behind their backs. This creature resembles two large pairs of claws, which curl around the wrists of the captive and hold her arms in place.
Wrist Binders
Model: Custom Vong Binders
Type: Restraint Device
Scale: Character
Skill: Vong biotech
Cost: Not Available for Sale
Availability: 4
Game Notes: Holds a captive’s hands behind his or her back with an effective Strength of 7D.
Paladin - D20 19 March 2001, 05:09 pm EST
Could you give D20 statsw on the Chazrach please. Thank you, and May the Force be with you.---.---.213.82 |
Paladin - D20 19 March 2001, 05:11 pm EST
Could you include D20 stats for the Vong types listed here. Again thank you.---.---.213.82 |
Rhett Butler 25 March 2001, 04:33 pm EST
How about a D20 conversion of this document? That would be very valuable, at least to me.
[Admin: To be honest, before I undertake a conversion that massive, I'm trying to cover the rest of my stats first. I know it'd be valuable, but I'm struggling to get individual conversions done and still provide new material.]
This message edited on 25 March 2001, 06:11 pm by the administration.---.---.111.112 |
Travis - Yuuhzan Vong Guide 30 June 2001, 05:28 pm EST
Is it just me, or is this guide somewhat incomplete? The document just ends on the second sentence of the Coombs section in chapter eight. Anyway, just wanted to let you know in case you didn't. Love the site! Thanks for all the work devoted to it!---.---.21.47 |
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