V.3-C.58│Empyrean Victorious III│

War.

It was not so much a foreign concept anymore to many people, and perhaps it had become somewhat of a staple among many cultures and religions.

Certainly war is bad, with two sides, or more, competing for something in someway, whether that be for resources in the form of land or people. Money or simply because those higher up in the chain of command don't like each other.

In every single way, war is a conflict that could happen due to the most important of reasons to the most mundane and downright idiotic reasons possible.

People have died for less after all. People have gone to war for way less than their freedom, or for protecting their homes from intruders that also wanted their homes for whatever reason it was to begin with.

Conflict in the end is essential.

Crunching sounds could be heard, as droid, drones to their overlord walked over the charred corpses of many. The droids didn't care for the sunken flesh waste that is the waste of organic beings, decomposing and wasting their material essence as they fold into nothingness.

Their ineffective use of their bodies giving way to the droids more stable, and reusable parts that can be used much more efficiently in the creation of better creations. Of course, it wasn't like organic lifeforms are backwards or even bad at doing their one job in their lives.

That one job being reproduction. To pass down their genetics to the next generation, and hopefully keep their species from going extinct.

The horrid stench of the bodies would have had many puke at the mere sight of it, let alone the smell of the rotting and decaying corpses of the organic beings.

If one could look closely, they would see an invariably huge amount of corpses as far as the eye could see. Massive skyscrapers brought to the ground before the might of this army, the Yuuzhan Vong were unable to push back in the end.

Whatever corruption that lay past these droids however was catching up, and the droid army needed to move faster to capture whatever it is that was their goal for coming here.

Marching and marching and marching they went.

Taking care of business as it was, for they wanted to further push into the territories of the Yuuzhan Vong.

Due to their beliefs, the Yuuzhan Vong were opposed to technology, ranging from simple machines to droids, which they believed were a polluting influence. As such, all examples of their technology consisted of living biots: creatures that were born and bred for their tasks.

They preferred the use of such creatures over lifeless machines which lacked any form of spirit.

All Yuuzhan Vong technology, whether it be starships, weapons, or simple everyday objects, was entirely biological. They hated droids, machines, electronics, and anything manufactured.

This biotechnology was coaxed into growth by the Shapers and seemed to be more resilient when compared to conventional technology.

Notable pieces of technology included their feared yammosks, which were called war coordinators due to the fact that they served as a biotic Battle Analysis Computer and had the capacity to coordinate Yuuzhan Vong forces to a frightening degree.

Through their villips, they had managed to create a communication system that rivaled the galactic HoloNet. Different breeds of such organisms were also capable of producing living light holograms which the Yuuzhan Vong had mastered for centuries.

It was known that their collision avoidance systems were as good as those of the inhabitants of the galaxy. Furthermore, their equivalent of an antenna consisted of spiral fibers embedded in a yorik coral hull to regions which were sensitive to receiving communications.

In addition, they made use of nutrient feeds for various biots which served in a similar capacity as power lines did for their technological equivalents. Similar to navigation computers, the Yuuzhan Vong vessels possessed navibrains that were required to plot hyperspace jumps.

Their vessels were also required to rearm themselves after combat with the process noted as being marginally better than those of the technological inhabitants of the galaxy.

Yuuzhan Vong personal weaponry included living serpentine weapons called amphistaffs that were able to alter their form allowing their user to use them as a spear or a whip.

Furthermore, they wore Vonduun Skerr Kyrric armor which was capable of protecting them from weapon fire as well as lightsaber strikes.

Their larger coral shaped craft made use of Yaret-Kor plasma weapons that ate through the hull of enemy ships while shielding was provided by the gravity manipulating dovin basals that generated singularities that were used to protect the craft from enemy weapon fire and were also capable of stripping the shields of enemy vessels.

These organisms were grown independently and later grafted onto other organisms in an imperfect symbiosis.

In addition, they generated powerful gravitic fields that could also create interdiction fields that left living occupants unconscious after being pulled from hyperspace.

Larger, more insidious weapons included biological plagues capable of destroying entire worlds. Some plagues were unleashed that left planetary systems barren and incapable of growing food.

The primary construction method through which the Yuuzhan Vong created their living vessel was through the use of yorik coral.

This coral-type substance formed the hull and internal anatomy of their vessels. While several other races had mastered bioengineering, the Yuuzhan Vong were one of the few that had developed a mass production means of creating such organisms.

They were capable of growing coralskippers in less than a month's time, which matched the production rate of the Incom Corporation X-wing but had the benefit of not producing any waste material from normal industrial techniques.

The outer skin of such craft, despite being alive, did not feel anything in the vacuum of space as the nerves were not exposed to the cold of the void.

They were created to lack any nerve endings at such locations.

Though the outer hull did not possess any nerve endings, the inner hull did and any breach led to alarms being raised, thus alerting the Yuuzhan Vong of intruders.

Something not commonly known was that the nerves near the dovin basals were compromised due to the creatures' gravitic nature.

As the dovin basals were independently grown, they were nursed separately and later grafted onto their host vessels.

However, the symbiosis was not perfect and the gravitic distortion created by the dovin basals desensitized the nerve clusters that were adjacent to it.

Amongst warships or any other vessels, the Yuuzhan Vong compensated this problem by implanting special nerve biots around the dovin basal in order to create a complete tactile net that would not be confused by the gravitic anomaly.

However, certain low priority ships were not afforded this amenity and thus created blind spots for a breaching action.

Inside these ships, much of the systems had technological equivalents such as a central biotic computer like the targeting brain.

However, it was sensor systems that were the most different as instead of any externally mounted observatory sensors, the Yuuzhan Vong employed a means of sensing the gravitational distortions of distant objects as a means of scanning.

A key interface element within Yuuzhan Vong biots that linked them to their organic ships and technology were cognition hoods.

These organic helmets simply slid on top of an individuals head and were connected by an organic cord linked to the ship itself. Through this contact, a pilot was capable of making a direct interface with the ship and communicating with it.

This was the case either with organic pilots and droids which were capable of processing the data being sent to the hood.

Onboard larger carrier ships, a central cognition hood was used by the ships commander to deliver commands to the vessel.

However, should this hood be severed, then secondary cognition hoods located on smaller craft such as coralskippers were capable of sending commands from the fighter to the carrier vessel thus allowing some level of control.

By wearing the hood, a pilot was capable of experiencing the memories of the ship they were linked to thus allowing them to be a part of the ship in question.

Yuuzhan Vong ships communicated in the Yuuzhan Vong language which left a language barrier between foreign pilots and the vessel.

However, it was possible to impart images and thoughts through the hood to the ship, thus allowing it to be controlled.

A much more larger and powerful version of these biots was the cognition throne.

Some of their more famous technologies were the amphistaff, the yorik-et, the dovin basal, the gnullith, the grashal, the ooglith cloaker, the ooglith masquer, the villip, and the yammosk.

Overall, everything collected from here was and would be very useful for the Empyrean going for and it's domination of the known universe. Given others were already starting to capitulate to them without violence, one may ask themselves why the need for all of this weaponry.

The real answer to this question is the idea that there may be other threats past the Yuuzhan Vong now, especially with their presence being discovered and their origins spread across the current known universe.

'Soon...' Someone thought as the distinct clasp of droids hunted down and destroyed the Yuuzhan Vong.

There was no need to keep them alive past a certain point, and it wasn't like anyone was even able to feel their deaths through the Force either. There would be no Yoda bemoaning a tragedy, or anyone else sensing something is off.

The Yuuzhan Vong had rejected the Force a long time ago, and technology and the rest of whatever this galaxy was and is.

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"Setting everything up, I believe that we have done a good job of investigating as much as we could. However, there is nothing to indicate anything, and I suppose that is the work of these suits we were forced to wear, right?" Obi-Wan asked as a specific group of people had been gathered within the throne room on Tatooine.

"Yes. The Sand of Time is integrated into these suits, and that is why using the Force is harder. Anakin here told me that it comes from a special planet known as Mortis." Qui-Gon replied, as a few others had also heard this information.

"That makes it harder. However, from the analysis, that black hole on Coruscant is slowly decreasing. The problem is, the black hole's influence is still increasing. I don't know what is going on, and I don't think anyone else here does as well." Mace Windu said.

"Truly, it is puzzling. The most important part is the fact that this is all connected to the supposed concept of chaos. Or at least that was what the reports stated." Yaddle said.

Many former Jedi had gathered here, especially since they were really the only major amount of Force-wielders within the galaxy.

"Then there are those Yuuzhan Vong fellows." Adi Gallia added.

"The Empyrean is currently taking care of them, even if I disagree with the methods. It would seem the Galactic Republic truly is no more." Many went silent at Plo-Koon's words, as it was true.

The great Galactic Republic that preached many things of the good and the light, was no more. Corrupted from what it once was, both now in the spiritual and physical sense of that word, corrupted.

"Never mind that. Out mission right now is to ensure we find a way to stop whatever this chaotic force is from intruding into the galaxy. If this continues, no where will be safe. Having spoken to Skywalker, I was able to gather that the Yuuzhan Vong themselves are being pushed back." Mace said, regathering everyone's attention.

He had sort of become the new 'leader' or 'grandmaster' because Yoda had decided to up and retire from his position. He was getting old after all, but even then, the Jedi were no more and instead had been integrated into the Empyrean.

"Does anyone have any other suggestions about this? Or shall we go back out there to try and discover some more things." Mace questioned, weighing these two options before everyone present.

Even if they may not be Jedi any longer, that doesn't mean they still don't stand by at least most of the code given to them through their teachings.

They would choose to go out again and try to further explore the main corrupted system where Coruscant is located. They had no other options, but thankfully they had droids from the Empyrean as back up.

By now, the Empyrean probably had control of most, if not all of the known universe, disbar a few bigger factions and all that.

It was reaching their climax, their victorious approach.