Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba wrote:So, how many worlds are no longer inhaboted by anbyone after the Vong occupied them?
The exact count is unknown, but the more prominent ones were already mentioned.
Coruscant has a 'world brain'? What is it?
The Vong's ships are all linked by a Yammosk. An essentially giant brain, the War Coordinator directs ships at the fleet commander's bidding utilizing subtle gravitivc and telepathic manipulations. It took the NR over two years to figure out how to jam the signals, giving them an edge until the end of the war when the Vong were able to, heh, adapt. They can also detect Jedi.
Now the World Brain is essentially a larger Yammosk. Known also as a Dhyudram, it coordinates the Vong-forming of a conquered world as directed by the Shapers (and in the case of Coruscant, the Supreme Overlord).
What is this 'Zonama Sekot'?
ZS is a living world, capable of achieving hyperspace jumps and growing organic ships. Obi-Wan and Anakin visited the world in the Prequel novel
Rogue Planet in search of a missing Jedi, one Vergere. They discovered that ZS had been attacked by an alien race from outside the Republic's borders that also used organic tech and that Vergere had allowed herself to be taken captive in order to save the world.
You can easily guess which race it was. More on that later.
Well, then-Gov. Tarkin (Yes, you heard me right) had taken an interest in ZS's ships and led a strike-force of 'decomissioned' Trade Fed ships to acquired them. ZS jumped into hyperspace and that was the last anyone saw of her for 50 years.
Vergere, having risen in the Warmaster's eyes for actions during the first two years on behalf of the Vong (and used methods unknon to Luke's Jedi on Force cloaking to avoid detection by Yammosk) passed the tale onto a captured Jacen Solo (
Star by Star,
Traitor). Bringing him back to the GFAA, Jacen passed the tale onto his uncle
Destiny's Way.
Following Vergere's death, Luke was determined to find the living world of Zonama Sekot, convinced that the planet held the key to containing and ending the Vong threat once and for all. Luke reasoned that because there had been no sightings of Zonama Sekot in known space, logic dictated that the planet was either gone from the galaxy or merely in an unexplored area - the Unknown Regions.
After months of searching, Luke and his team finally found the world on the edge of the UR. Although reluctant to join a cycle of violence -- which went against its ideals -- Sekot finally agreed to join the war effort. Jumping into the Core, the planet was used as a base of operations by the Jedi during the final assualt on Coruscant, in part to distract the Vong; the presence of a living planet in their religion marked doom for them.
It turned out that Zonama Sekot was the Vong's world of origin, Yuzzhan’tar, yet it was not Yuzzhan’tar. It was in fact a seed of the Vong’s homeworld, launched into the cosmos by the planet following the rampage launched by their ancestors which consumed their world.
30 jedi... That can't be good. Even assuming all of them were Masters...
They certainly have their work cut of for them.
