YVH 1 Droid
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In the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe New Jedi Order novel Star by Star, the Yuuzhan Vong Hunter One combat droid or YVH 1 was a deadly battle droid constructed by the New Republic company Tendrando Arms (a business venture of entrepreneur Lando Calrissian) as a response to the ruthless extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong invaders. They were activated two years after the Yuuzhan Vong invasion began. The YVH 1 droids were equipped with the latest technology including search-and-identity-engineering which could seek out Yuuzhan Vong even in their ooglith masquers. These deadly automatons were also programmed to react to all Yuuzhan Vong tactics and could speak via vocoders several war cries and taunts in the Yuuzhan Vong language, one of them being : "We are machines! We are greater than the Yuuzhan Vong!"
Their robust, skeletal frames and skull faces are designed to resemble Yuuzhan Vong body structure. Circuits were on show in the droids' largely proportioned limbs and photoreceptors shone bright red from their deep eye sockets. As the Yuuzhan Vong were extremely opposed to all forms of machinery, the obvious circuits demoralized and angered the Yuuzhan Vong warriors, causing them to become incautious. Their blackish greyish camouflage armour which covered their artificial joints resembled the Yuuzhan Vong voduun crab armour. This armour was even more advanced than the voduun crab armour of the Yuuzhan Vong warriors because it was fitted with layers of self-healing laminanium armour. Their left arms could be fitted with a variety of blaster cannons while their right arms could be fitted with 50 different weapons, from heavy laser cannons to sonic rifles and projectile launchers.
These deadly YVH 1 Droids, whose appearance was blasphemous to the Yuuzhan Vong, were successful in demoralizing the Yuuzhan Vong. YVH 1 Droids served the New Republic and its successor government the Galactic Alliance in many battles including the Fall of Coruscant, the occupation of Borleias and the liberation of Coruscant. Specialized versions of the YVH 1 droids were created including adaptable camouflage and aquatic versions. The identification software from the YVH 1 droids was adapted and implanted into MSE-series mouse droids just after the fall of Coruscant; these YVH-M series droids were used to track infiltrating Yuuzhan Vong, along with the traitors they associated with.
[edit] Post-Yuuzhan Vong War
After the accords between the Yuuzhan Vong and the Galactic Alliance, the YVH-1 chassis was modified to produce several other droids, including the BD-series of bodyguard droids.
Four YVH-1s were loaned to Han Solo by Tendrando Arms during the first 'Dark Nest' incident; the anti-Yuuzhan Vong combat data was rewritten to be effective against the Killik. These four droids were nicknamed bugcrunchers by Han Solo.
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