Viqi provided Tsavong Lah with much information, but then the day came, when the Warmaster with his army conquered Coruscant. On the villip, Viqi until now had seen just his face, but when she was brought to his flagship and saw him in the flesh with his red scale armour, she liked him even more.

The Warmaster was pleased by her sight too and he felt her desire. Thus he ordered her a shoulder-free organic dress, that she might blend in better in the environment of the organic ship. When Viqi was dressed like his people was, he told her: "Prepare yourself!"

Viqi was brought to his private chamber and when the Warmaster had fulfilled his daily schedule, he came to this chamber too and the two of them mated.

"Viqi, I would like to see, if we could ever breed offspring", the Warmaster told her after the mating ended.

Viqi looked puzzled. "But I don't want children."

Tsavong Lah pondered for a moment: "Then you will go down to the newly conquered city and bring me Ben Skywalker, that we may mold the force-sensitive infant according to our goals and wishes."

But as much as Viqi strove, she wasn't able to tear little Ben away from his family. Instead, her Ooglithmasque was torn off her face, and thus Han and Leia saw, who the alleged acquaintance of their family really was.

Viqi could escape by the skin of her teeth but when she returned to the Warmaster's flagship, Tsavong Lah didn't rejoice at her return that much.

"Your scars from the torn off ooglithmasque make you even more attractive, Viqi", he flattered her, "but great look alone doesn't count. Thus you still have to prove yourself in my service. Go to the planet of Borleias and there kill the scientist Danni Quee, because with her heinous apparatuses she is disturbing our Yammosks and hence they can't coordinate our battles properly anymore."

Viqi left to recruit another human agent to mete out the murder, but this human withstood the mind control imposed on him by the coral Yorik-Kul implant and thus he told Danni Quee everything, what Viqi had ordered him to do. Hence this mission was a failure too and once again Viqi had to confess that to the Warmaster.

"You are good for almost nothing, Viqi!", Tsavong Lah rumbled. "You will get one last chance. You will hunt down the ominous Lord Nyax down there at newly christened Yuuzhan'tar. Lord Nyax killed many of our warriors already and he must be stopped. When you can fulfill that mission, I will honor you forever staying by my side, but if you fail once more, you will suffer the fate of shamed losers."

Hence Viqi with a platoon of warriors went to the capital planet, which had been named Coruscant before, to chase that Lord Nyax. But it came out, that the Jedi were after that force user too, who was absolutely out of box and line and then it happened that both parties reached their aim at the very same time. When Viqi saw the Jedi and how monstrous Lord Nyax was with all his crimson red blades, she clandestinely get far from the her accompanying Yuuzhan Vong troops. She found a good place to hide and from there she watched how her whole squadron was butchered by the three meter high giant, while the Jedi managed to get leverage on Lord Nyax finally. Viqi recognized Mara Jade, whose little son Ben she had tried to abduct almost two months ago. Fear crept up into her heart and thus she remained in her hideout, until all the fighting was over. Then she came out, stroke the villip of the dead commander and called Tsavong Lah, that he might send an organic Yorik-trema to the planet's surface to pick her up and bring her back to the command ship.

„Lord Nyax is dead, and you are the only survivor, whereas all my warriors had been killed?", Tsavong Lah raged. "Who killed Lord Nyax then?"

"They had killed each other simultaneously", Viqi lied.

"Liar!", the Warmaster roared. "The living light of our monitoring drones in the city has shown clearly, that it was the Jedi, who killed Lord Nyax! You have become useless indeed, Viqi!"

"And that after all, what I have done for you", Viqi lamented at the Warmaster.

The following words hit her like a blow. "But fortune has left you, Viqi."

"But … all the nights we spent together", stuttered the princess.

"And here too you had been replaced already", Tsavong Lah spoke couldly, "with a woman from my own species, who is able to bear me offspring, after my son did die over Hapes. You meanwhile will go with the first Shamed One, who comes along to pluck on my door membrane to ask about a female companion."

And thus the Warmaster let announce, that all Shamed Ones could suit for the hand of princess Viqi and the first who came along would get her. It didn't take long, and there came one Shamed One into the Warmaster's audience chamber. He was well-built, but awfully disfigured – dotted with unhealed scars, one could deduct rejected implants from. Not enough his eyes were sored that way, that Viqi dreaded just to look at him.

„You are not worth that I give you just one look, Shamed One, so tell me a good reason, why my guards let you in here", Tsavong Lah greeted the visitor.

"I'm Amorrn and here I am to suit for the offered princess Viqi."

„She shall be yours", the Warmaster spoke. "So go forth now with her and proceed with this traitor of her own people, devoid of any honor, just as you please."

"May Yun-Yammka never leave our Warmaster", Amorrn blessed Tsavong Lah.

An ill fate brought me under its hoof.
If only I'd taken Pedric Cuf!",

Viqi exclaimed.

„It is too late for that now", Amorrn said, then he grabbed Viqi roughly at her wrist and dragged her out of Tsavong Lah's audience room.

The odd couple boarded a Yorik-trema to bring them down to the planet once known as Coruscant, and hence Viqi became an outcast.


This chapter contains events from the New Jedi Order book series novels 9. Star by Star by Troy Denning (2001), 10. Dark Journey by Elaine Cunningham, 11. Rebel Dream and 12. Rebel Stand by Aaron Allston (all 2002), and 15. Force Heretic I: Remnants by Sean Williams and Shane Dix (2003).