Star Wars/V

Vanden Willard
Vanden Willard was a human male from the planet Alderaan. He became a high-ranking officer in the Alliance to Restore the Republic, holding the rank of General. General Willard worked alongside General Jan Dodonna and General Bob Hudsol at the Rebel base on Yavin IV in the early days of the Galactic Civil War. When Willard heard the news that Alderaan had been destroyed, he feared that Princess Leia Organa may have died as well. He was elated to see her when she arrived at the base with the data plan schematics for the Death Star. General Willard helped to coordinate the orbital battle against the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin and also helped to put together an emergency evacuation plan.

Vedain
Vedain was a member of the Kajain'sa'Nikto race of the Nikto species of the planet Kintan. Like many of his breed, Vedain was a slave in service to the notorious underworld gangster Jabba the Hutt. Vedain worked out of Jabba's Palace on Tatooine where he served as a scout and desert skiff pilot. Four years after the Battle of Yavin, Vedain was assigned to pilot the Bantha-II cargo skiff that was to take Jabba's prisoners Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca to the Great Pit of Carkoon, where they were to be fed to the ever-hungry and tentacled Sarlacc. Just as the execution was to take place, Luke turned the tables on his captors, brandishing a lightsaber and setting his friends free. One of the skiff guards, Tamtel Skreej, was actually Luke's ally Lando Calrissian in disguise. Lando grappled with Vedain at the rear of the skiff until a shot from a cannon blaster from Jabba's luxury sail barge, the Khetanna, forced the skiff to lurch forward. Vedain fell from the deck onto the sloping sands and was one of the first individuals to be consumed by the Sarlacc.

Vibro-ax
A vibro-ax is a two-handed melee weapon approximately 1.5 meters in length. It included a double-bladed head, which was connected to a power cel that when activated, would cause the blade to vibrate rapidly, the benefit of which was to yield a greater damage capacity.

Several of the hired and/or enslaved underlings of Tatooine gangster Jabba the Hutt used vibro-axes as their preferred weapon of choice. Even Lando Calrissian, who had infiltrated Jabba's cartel under the alias Tamtel Skreej carried a vibro-ax.

During the Skirmish at Carkoon, a Weequay guard named Queequeg used a vibro-ax to prod the captive Luke Skywalker off the plank of a Bantha-II cargo skiff. Luke forward-flipped his way back onto the skiff and began battling his captors. On the second desert skiff, he fought against an unnamed human assailant (who was partnered with Klaatu) who also brandished a vibro-ax.

Another type of vibro-ax was the Clan Groogrun vibro-ax, which was the preferred weapon of choice amongst many Gamorreans, who were likewise in the employ of Jabba the Hutt. At a glance, these weapons appeared little different than that of a medieval battle axe.