Chazrach
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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.
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.
[edit] Appearances
- 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
