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Yuuzhan Vong in the Mandalorian Wars?
Canderous: Your stagnant Republic has never seen some of the strange creatures and races we fought on the Outer Rim in those years. Heh, and you never will now...

Revan: What do you mean?

Canderous: If a world isn't strong enough to defend itself, it's basically forfeit. But this story is about something a little different...

We were going through the asteroid fields of the Crispin system at the very edge of the galaxy, playing with the pirates and smugglers we found there. The main belt of the Crispin system consists of mainly small rocks covered in frozen methane gas shells, and the pirates were using them for cover. Ha -- I remember using a thermal generator to cause the outer layer of one of the asteroids to vaporize in a microsecond. It blew out and shredded the three smugglers using it for cover!

But... that was a mistake...

Revan: Why? What happened?

Canderous: The asteroid I had targeted was smaller than most, maybe a dozen meters on a side. On the outside, it looked the same as any other: just a ball covered in frozen gas. But something must have been inside it... something inactive in the cold. The heat of my blast might have triggered something or woken something up. After I had hit, spots of light and heat appeared all over the thin shell covering it, evaporating the gases.

What lay underneath looked like some sort of rocky growth... a deformed rock pitted by scores of micrometeorite scars. I think something even older might have been inside that.

Revan: An asteroid?

Canderous: Maybe...but maybe not. It started rotating -- faster and faster as we watched it. After a second, it started spraying fire -- thermal projectiles that melted our armor like wax. We were caught completely by surprise. Before we could counterattack, it fled at an incredible speed.

Revan: A ship!

Canderous: We couldn't catch it, but we could follow its hyperspace wake. We followed its trail as far as we could, heading away from the galactic core. When it finally led beyond the edge of our galaxy, we abandoned our efforts. Anything that wants to commit suicide in that great void is not worth our trouble trying to catch.

--Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords