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Yevetha

Category: Alien Races
Planet of Origin: N'zoth

This humanoid alien race, originally from the planet N'zoth, resembled animated skeletons. Their facial structure was highly colored, with a white nasal ridge and scarlet cheek and chin ridges surrounding dark black eyes. The Yevetha had six clawed fingers on each hand, and a wicked dewclaw could be extended from their wrists.

It was believed that the Yevetha achieved sentience some 50,000 years before the Galactic Civil War. Having evolved in the Koornacht Cluster and never seeing other stars beyond their own, the Yevetha became a very self-important race, considering themselves the masters of their universe. All other races were simply vermin. The Yevetha developed a hierarchical society, with the males being dominant. There were castes of males and females, and the higher classes alway dominated the lower. Lower-ranking Yevethan males were required to bear their necks in deferrence to their superiors.

Yevetha were also extrememly quick to learn new things, and were particularly adept at assimilating technology. They never ate in mixed company, and detested the smell and feel of other races. They installed specialized bathing stations on their embassy ships, to wash away the scent of other races.

The Yevetha had moved beyond N'zoth and either conquered of populated the nearest worlds when the Empire subjugated them and used the Koornacht Cluster as a base of operations for the Black Sword Command, during the early years of the New Order. Rather than simply submitting to Imperial rule, the Yevetha took the opportunity to insinuate themselves into all aspects of Imperial technology and process, learning everything they could about starships and space combat. Under the guidance of Nil Spaar, the Yevetha overthrew the Imperials following the Galactic Civil War, and created plans to purge the Koornacht Cluster - and eventually the galaxy - of non-Yevethans. This plan became known as the Great Purge, and was initiated about twelve years after their defeat of the Empire.

The New Republic eventually put a halt to the Yevethan aggression, and the Yevetha were forced to retreat to N'zoth. They remained a formidable threat, however, so much so that the Yuuzhan Vong traded a momentary freedom to the Fia in exchange for information on the Yevethan military. The Fia, who had been among the many races plagued by the Yevetha, were only too eager to agree. In an attempt to eliminate any threat along its rearward borders, the Yuuzhan Vong utterly destroyed the Yevethan homeworld of N'zoth, killing every last Yevethan individual and wiping the Yevethan civilization from the galaxy. It was reported by Jaina Solo that the last of the Yevethans crashed his starship and committed suicide, rather than accepting the help of an outsider.

Source Abbreviations Listing - BTS, SOL, FH1, CCW, NEGA

For more information, please read or view the following material(s):

Before the Storm, by Michael P. Kube-McDowell, copyright 1996, from Bantam Spectra Books

Coruscant and the Core Worlds, by Craig R. Carey, et al., copyright 2003, from Wizards of the Coast

Force Heretic I: Remnant, by Sean Williams and Shane Dix, copyright 2003, from Del Rey Books

Shield of Lies, by Michael P. Kube-McDowell, copyright 1996, from Bantam Spectra Books

Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Alien Species, by Ann Margaret Lewis and Helen Keier, copyright 2006, from Del Rey Books

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