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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4856431" data-attributes="member: 14159">Yes, Palpatine/Sidious knew about the Yuzzhan Vong threat, but just how big of a menace were they seen to be, and how much of a motivator were they for his actions?  Then again, by other EU canon he knew of several other potentially huge biotech-using alien menaces from outside the Empire that could have theoretically been as big of a menace.  The Charon, from the alien dimension of Otherspace (normally accessible only through a severe freak hyperspace accident), that sought to exterminate all life that wasn't them as a religious crusade.  They were only key in two adventures for the WEG d6 SWRPG, but were mentioned in a few other WEG products as being things the Empire was well aware of (like in the storehouse at Mt. Tantiss having relics of their biotechnology).  The Ssi-ruuvi had biomechanical weapons technology that could have been a serious menace if not contained when they were, and canonically were later defeated by the Yuuzhan Vong out in the Unknown Regions after being seriously weakened by the tenuous Empire/Rebellion alliance of the Truce at Bakura.One thing as to future directions for things to go, look at Dark Empire (and the extrapolations in the Dark Empire Sourcebook WEG made).  It has also been laid out canonically that Palpatine wanted to eventually move beyond superweapons and a conventional Galactic Empire into transitioning the Galaxy into a Dark Side Theocracy/New Sith Empire, discarding the rule-of-two and having the descendants of Anakin Skywalker as his new nobility (and elite force-using servants) with undying clones of him as the eternal ruler, drawing unheard of levels of power by siphoning tiny amounts of life force from the populations of entire planets (and eventually the Galaxy), making him nigh-godlike and them weak and complacent while he spends centuries or millennia compiling all knowledge of the Dark Side of the Force into one gigantic compendium of Force knowledge.  Unfortunately he never got further than some limited groundwork and early steps in this process before he was killed the first time, and tried to make it operational when he was ressurected but it never got quite off the ground before he was permanently killed.</blockquote>

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