Supreme Overlord Shimrroy Jamaane, ruler of the Yuuzhan Vong's many castes, surveyed the vast fleet flying through the void. It consisted of countless ships, the bulk of which were Koros Strona-enormous, hundred-kilometer-long, disc-shaped living vessels that carried the future of his people, those destined to populate the galaxy they were headed for
This journey had been going on for a very long time, and not a single ship remained that remembered the Yuuzhan Vong's home galaxy, destroyed in the chaos of war. The lifespan of living ships was short, and yet, thanks to the Master Shapers, technology was constantly improving One of the experiments of the young Master Tagruun Kaad, the Koros-Stron "Baanu Miir," had functioned flawlessly for nine hundred years, despite the fact that the maximum lifespan of such a ship was only five hundred years. But the Master Shaper swore by Yun-Ne'Shela that a worldship carrying nearly a million living beings would survive for a thousand years
The Supreme Overlord chuckled. The priests of Yun-Yuuzhan accused Kaad of heresy, but he denied all accusations. And Jimroi was inclined to believe him--for the results of his work were, as they say, obvious. If the master shaper was right, they would know long after the fleet reached its new home
Naturally, they weren't flying haphazardly. That would have been overconfident and far too risky. Having discovered a new galaxy three thousand years ago, they had explored it tirelessly The advance party, operating in the area locally known as the "Unknown Regions" had already encountered several races. Some had decided to ioin those they called the "Aliens from Afar, while others had fought them fiercely. Yun-Harla's scouts, equipped with uglith masks that allowed them to operate undetected among the sentient beings inhabiting this galaxy, carefully gathered information about what was happening there, so they could relay it to the ships upon the fleet's arrival. Sometimes this information reached not only him but the rest of the fleet as well, and then the entire population would be filled with anger.
For the peoples inhabiting the Galaxy not only disrespected the living, preferring the dead, but also created abominable "droids, whose very existence upset the balance of existence. Warriors swore to Yun-Yammuk--the god of war-that they would crush the heretics and offer them as sacrifices to the gods. Sometimes the Supreme Ruler had to order the dissemination of special substances to suppress the warriors' wrath.
Let them save it for future battles, for Shimroy, unlike Warmaster Zivong Lah, harbored no illusions about a quick victory. For him, the welfare of the Yuuzhan Vong people was more important than military valor, which could be costly
But still, the time for all this had not yet come. As one of the priests reported to him, the Galaxy would see them only in forty local years
Well then. He can wait.