The tutakan, a creature employed in Redhaven on Rhommamool, was a quadrupedal lizard possessing eight legs and prominent tusks. These tusks curved upwards beyond its eyes, then inward toward its head, giving the impression of oversized eyebrows. The Red Knights of Life, the fanatical adherents of the "Rhommamoolian tyrant" Nom Anor, utilized these beasts. Nom Anor, secretly a Yuuzhan Vong operative and executor dispatched to instigate conflict within the New Republic, directed these knights to confront anyone using mechanical transportation like landspeeders, compelling them to instead ride tutakans.