Ssi-ruuvi invasions

The Ssi-ruuvi invasions were a series of incursions into the known galaxy and the Chiss Ascendancy by the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium between 1 BBY to 28 ABY. The Imperium sought to expand its territory beyond the Ssi-ruuk Star Cluster into the surrounding space due to the dwindling resources in their region. The saurian Ssi-ruuk powered and controlled their technology through a process called entechment; a means of electronically transferring the life-energy of a person into a power source for a mechanical construct.

Between 2 BBY to 4 ABY, the Ssi-ruuk launched expeditionary forces against several Rimward worlds including G'rho, Cattamascar and Bakura. The former two were marginally successfully whereas the latter ended in disaster and exposed the presence of the Ssi-ruuk to the rest of the galaxy. A further campaign into the Chiss Ascendancy brought even more disaster on the Imperium. This was followed by a second punitive raid by a New Republic task force.

So great was the devastation of the Chiss attack that it was not until many years later that the Ssi-ruuvi contemplated renewing their expansion. Two major events occurred in that time. One was the birth of the Keeramak—a mutant Ssi-ruu of mixed ancestry with all the colors of the different castes—an event of major significance in the Ssi-ruuvi religion. The Keeramak himself was a master strategist and politician. The Imperium's leadership organized a faux P'w'eck slave uprising by the P'w'eck Emancipation Movement under Lwothin, positing the Keeramak as its leader in 23 ABY.

The other event was the secret takeover of the Imperium by the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong, who secretly placed made one of their own, E'thinaa, a ranking general. In 28 ABY, the Ssi-ruuvi launched a second invasion of Bakura which failed due to an uprising by the P'w'ecks and a counter-attack by the Galactic Alliance. The Imperium itself appeared to have been invaded by the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong who had already launched a massive campaign of conquest against the known galaxy.

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