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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4855658" data-attributes="member: 14159">It was more of political strife in the New Republic with factions wanting to appease the YV and underestimating the threat, until it was far too late and the tide of battle had swept well into the Core Worlds.  Thanks to front groups like the Peace Brigade, they had a lot of typical galactic citizens thinking that the Vong were the good guys and the New Republic were needlessly being aggressive to these extragalactic visitors that have come seeking a new home, and the Jedi were amoral meddlers that made the galaxy a worse place.  It took Coruscant falling and the New Republic government collapsing for the galaxy to really take the Yuuzhan Vong seriously, because for a few decades before they invaded they had been putting spies in the galaxy gaining information and sewing disinformation and making the political stage more suitable for their assault.Now, some revisionists have put forth the idea that the Vong were the "real" reason the Empire was building superweapons like Death Stars (and World Devastators, Sun Crushers, ect.), to be able to defend against the Vong with overwhelming firepower and that's why Palpatine "really" was militarizing the galaxy, because he knew about it as one of his deepest secrets.  Now, there is nothing canonical about it that I know of, pure speculation even within the setting (i.e. characters sitting around saying "maybe this is why he was doing it after all"), but it could make for a fine alternate-history campaign.The Yuzzhan Vong were as ruthless as Palpatine or Vader, and were just as prone as the Empire to blowing up or ruining planets.  They literally dropped moons on some worlds to destroy them by manipulating gravity (Canonically, that's how Chewbacca died, he couldn't get offworld when a planet was pulverized like that), they also were fond of using bioweapons to annihilate all life on a planet (like they did to Ithor, because there was a plant there that could have been used as a weapon against them).  A war between the Vong and a more-or-less unopposed Empire would have been even more destructive to the galaxy, as both sides had world-ruining superweapons and weren't afraid to use them.The problem is, in the end the Vong weren't destroyed by overwhelming firepower, they had numbers, they traveled in death-star sized biological worldships stuffed full of warriors, they were overcome by discovering why their leaders were terrified of Jedi even though they seemed immune to the Force, and starting a revolution from within that toppled their social structure through the Jedi that could see the truth of how hollow their false religion was and how they were being manipulated by their leaders.  Now, there were a couple of occasions in the NJO storyline when they could have used a terrible biological weapon against the Vong, like the "Alpha Red" toxin developed by the Chiss that could have been genocidal against them and anything using their biotech, but it had serious side effects. . .it wasn't exclusive to Vong biotech and was jumping species to be able to wipe out other life.</blockquote>

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