What Emperor Sheev Palpatine suspected, what the Prophets of the One Power warned about, what agents of imperial military intelligence reported about, has come true. Cruel aliens from another galaxy - the Yuuzhan Vong, masters of biotechnology and adherents of the cruel Yun-Yuzhan religion - arrived in the Heavenly River. And they did not arrive with peaceful intentions. Are the peoples of the galaxy ready to repel the invasion? After all, now we’re not just talking about protecting our home planets—we’re talking about survival.