Vonduun crab

For other uses, see crab.

"The creatures we were using are a strain related to vonduun crabs. We employed another device while doing forensic examinations of the searchers that had failed. The searchers had inflammations of their respiratory systems, and with the new scanning creatures, we discovered pollen grains. The searchers died of an allergic reaction to the pollen. Vonduun crab armor had a more immediate and violent reaction to the pollen."

―Deign Lian^[1]

The vonduun crab was a crab-like organism in the galaxy. They were used to shape the armor suits of the Yuuzhan Vong.

History

During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Jacen Solo and Corran Horn discovered that the bafforr trees of the planet Ithor could be used against the vonduun crab armor worn by the Yuuzhan Vong, as the crab was allergic to the pollen produced by the tree. This reaction would cause the vonduun crab to swell, killing the crab and anyone wearing it.^[1]

Vonduun crab armor was protected by the same energy field that an amphistaff carried, generated by a power gland. For this reason, it could withstand the atomic-diameter edge of an amphistaff, and even a lightsaber.

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Behind the scenes

The vonduun crab living shell first appeared as part of the Vonduun Skerr Kyrric armor of the Yuuzhan Vong in the 1999 novel The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime, written by R. A. Salvatore.^[2] The creature made its first appearance in the 2000 novel The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide II: Ruin written by Michael A. Stackpole.^[1]