Vaadwaur
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| Four Letter Code | VAAD |
| Federation Status | Noncommunicative |
| Planet of Origin | Delta Quadrant |
| Encountered | VOY: "Dragon's Teeth" |
| T/E Rating | T0/E0 |
| Current Tech Level | Unknown |
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The Vaadwaur are a warlike humanoid race from the Delta Quadrant. The ridges on the Vaadwaurs' faces give them very sharp features.
They have small ridges on their chin and two horizontal ridges just above their nose. A large fin like crest runs across the center of their foreheads and gets wider as it reaches the top of their skulls. Their hair grows from around the mid-region of their skull, just were their fin ridge seems to end. Neck ridges extend from their ears, along down along their neck and onto their shoulders where the ridges c url towards the center of their chest. This gives the neck ridges an cobra-like appearance overall.
The Vaadwaur used a secret network of subspace corridors to wage war on their enemies, and were also masters of deception. Their name meant 'foolish' in old Talaxian, due to the fact that those duped by the Vaadwaur were considered foolish.
In 1484, the Vaadwaur homeworld was rendered uninhabitable by an alliance of their enemies, led by the Turei. A group of approximately 600 Vaadwaur (a single batallion) had taken refuge below the planet's surface, intending to remain in stasis for twenty years, but due to a malfunction of their equipment they actually spent 892 years in stasis. They were encountered by USS Voyager in 2376, in a state of suspended animation.
A small number of these Vaadwaur escaped the surface of their planet in a fleet of ancient starships, having failed in an attempt to take over control of Voyager. They left through one of the subspace corridors known only to themselves. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
A heavily-modified Vaadwaur ship was later encountered by Voyager in The Void. (VOY: "The Void")
