- «But then, centuries later, came an invasion by a merciless enemy. Our outer worlds were overrun and the Defense Force pushed back, until only Csilla remained unconquered. The enemy gathered all its ships and armies, preparing for what is now known as the Final Assault on Csilla. We knew there was no way we could stand against them, and we knew that if we lost the Chiss faced extinction. And then, the Stybla Patriarch remembered Starflash.»
- ―Patriarch Stybla'mi'ovodo
An enemy of the Chiss Ascendancy, the nation of the Unknown Regions Chiss species, once fought the Asendancy in a war[1] centuries after 5019 BBY.[2] The enemy of the Chiss species was able to capture all the Chiss worlds but their homeworld of Csilla before pushing the Chiss, who knew they could not fight back, back to their homeworld and bringing together their fleet and armies for one final assault. The Chiss, facing extinction, decided to use the alien superweapon known as Starflash, bringing it aboard a starship in the middle of the enemy fleet before activating it, sending tachyonic energy at Csilla's sun while returning a powerful blast at the enemies of the Chiss.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
The enemy of the Chiss was mentioned in the 2021 novel Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil, the last volume in the Star Wars: The Ascendancy Trilogy written by Timothy Zahn.[1]
Appearances[]
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil (and audiobook) (First mentioned)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil
- ↑ Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil dates the Final Assault on Csilla to several centuries after 5,000 years before Thrawn and Thrass' mission to Pleknok, which occurred prior to the Vagaari pirate operations. The Vagaari pirate operations occured before the main events of Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising, which took place around 19 BBY per Star Wars: Timelines.