Yorik-Et Coralskippers (more commonly referred to as coralskippers) are vehicles in the fictional world of the Star Wars Expanded Universe that are mainly dedicated to interstellar dog fights by the Yuuzhan Vong. They are a type of bioship made of coral, as their name implies. They are grown on planets that have been biomodified by the Yuuzhan Vong and contain only biological forms of control, as technology is seen as blasphemy to the Yuuzhan Vong, as is the phrase "biotechnology." The Expanded Universe (or EU for short) is a collection of fictional background material from the Star Wars universe that is derived from official novels, comic books, and various other media besides the movies themselves. ... Dog fight is a common term used to describe close-range aerial combat between two or more military aircraft. ... Nom Anor, a Yuuzhan Vong, as depicted on the cover of Vector Prime. ... A bioship is a type of spacecraft described in science fiction. ...

Use

Coralskippers are mainly used for close-range combat with small space crafts such as X-wings or A-wings. Their weaponry is completely biological in nature. Their propulsion device is a Dovin Basal that is also used as a shield. The pilot uses a cognition hood to mentally control the space craft. This hood also connects it to the yammosk, a creature bio-engineered as a battle controller, preventing collisions between the crafts and allowing "pack tactics" to be used by wings of coralskippers (a wing normally consists of six coralskippers.) Coralskippers are not designed for long-range travel and must often rely on larger vessels for transportation. Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta probe on 2nd of March, 2004. ... X-wing fighters on their way into battle in a still from Star Wars. ... The A-wing, a fictional interceptor starfighter in the Star Wars universe, is used by the Rebel Alliance. ... Dovin Basals are creatures in the fictional world of Star Wars used by the Yuuzhan Vong that are able to generate powerful gravitational fields. ... Science fiction works such as Star Trek and Star Wars have popularized the concept of shields in the form of energy fields used to absorb hostile weapons fire. ... Yammosks are fictional creatures from the Star Wars universe. ...

Appearance

Descriptions vary, but they are usually described as being shaped like apple seeds and being black or purple in color. The front of the craft is usually drawn with a series of wrinkly tubes that lead to a barrel at the front of the craft. An eliptical structure wraps around the top with the back of it pointing back and slightly upturned. In the embedded elipse, there is a cockpit. A coralskipper does not appear on standard scans from a starship: scanners must be tuned towards biological targets to identify any Yuuzhan Vong ships.

Weapons and Defense

The primary weapon is a conical extrusion that fires streams of plasma that are highly destructive to the Republic and Imperial starfighters. The dovin basal can also be used as a weapon or a shield. When used for defense the Dovin Basal creates a singularity that absorbs all local energy and matter. In effect a minature black hole, the gravitational pull also diverts missiles. This use can exhaust a Dovin Basal leaving a ship vulnerable after heavy use. To attack ships that stray too near, the Dovin Basal creates a focused singularity that draws in shield energy, rapidly draining power cells in the enemy starfighter as it attempts to compensate for the loss. A black hole is a concentration of mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping from it except through quantum tunneling behavior. ...