So this is a what-if story about what would happen if the Yuuzhan Vong had invaded early, during the midst of the fighting between the republic and the Separatists. Of course, I don't own any of it. A few characters were created by me, but George Lucas owns the Star Wars universe. I'm just daydreaming in it.

This is my first fic. Enjoy!

The mesmerizing blue swirls and currents of light enveloped the tiny object within. Sailing through the otherworldly environment of hyperspace, the small pocket of matter sped on its way to the edge of the galaxy.

Inside the starfighter, Jedi Knight Ediir Kam took a moment to reflect on his mission before his imminent reversion to normal space. He, along with his companion R4-G8, had been sent to investigate the disappearance of a clone team whose mission had been, by personal request from the Chancellor's office, to check on an outpost run by the Extragalactic Society, often shortened to ExGal, on the planet Belkadan.

The outpost was intended to watch for extragalactic objects entering the galaxy. The outpost was also used by Republic scientists for some minor research on Belkadan's plant and animal life. To the best of Kam's knowledge, this research had never yielded anything significant, which had made the following events all the stranger.

Two weeks before, the outpost had sent a report to the ExGal society indicating that they had tracked the progress of several objects believed to be extragalactic entering the galaxy. Excited, the head office of the ExGal society had sent a message asking for more details, as well as a follow-up report providing more data on the trajectory and composition of the objects in question.

The report had never arrived.

Somehow, the incident had quickly come to the attention of the Chancellor's office. Why the chancellor would have contacts within the ExGal society Kam didn't know, but the chancellor had sent the word down the Grand Army's command chain, and a small task force of clones had immediately been detached from a conflict a few sectors away and sent to investigate.

They, too, had not reported in.

The Chancellor notified the Jedi Council and requested that a Jedi be sent to investigate what had happened, both to the outpost and the task force. The Council had been reluctant to remove a Jedi from the field to investigate what seemed a relatively trivial matter, but the Chancellor had insisted. Thus Kam was on his way to a planet in the far reaches of the Outer Rim, to investigate some minor matter when he should have been helping his troops secure a victory on the battlefield.

Kam sighed, sensing his irritation, and began a meditating exercise to relieve himself of the negative emotion. He was still prone to this, irritation and impatience. It had been three months since he had been knighted, his padawan braid severed and given to his master. In that time, he had been reassigned to fight with the Republics clone troops in several of the many skirmishes between the Republic and Separatists in the Outer Rim.

It had been almost three years since Geonosis. Kam had not gone on that mission, but his Master had. She had returned when so many had not, a haunted look in her eye and weariness in her step. The deaths of so many Jedi haunted her, and haunted Kam.

In the years after, the war between the Republic and Separatists had grown, spreading from the small spark that was Geonosis to rage across the galaxy. Kam had spent the last years of his apprenticeship fighting on countless planets, honing his fighting skills even as wartime hardened him and turned the once gentle, optimistic padawan into a cynical, experienced warrior.

Thinking about it, he supposed that he was thankful, in a way, for this mission. It seemed fairly straightforward, and the long hyperspace journey, though cramped in his Delta-class starfighter, gave him a chance to meditate and regain his focus.

And it wasn't like he was alone.

"Yes, I know, R4," he said as a particularly insistent beeping drew him out of his musings. His companion for over a year, R4 had proved himself as courageous and resourceful a fighter as Kam had ever met, and Kam now considered the droid a friend. He supposed that he had his fellow knight, Anakin Skywalker, to thank for that point of view. Before meeting Skywalker in the midst of a series of intense battles, Kam had viewed droids as being merely parts and programming, but watching the interaction between Anakin and his astromech, R2-D2, had taught him to view his own astromech as more than the sum of its parts, and eventually he considered the droid a friend.

Now, though, his friend was irritated with him for ignoring the steady flashing of the alarm in front of him, warning Kam that he was nearly at the reversion point.

Kam rested his hand on the lever, focusing his mind on the mission as the timer in front of him counted down.

3…2…1…0

Kam pulled the lever, and the small craft exited hyperspace. R4 immediately started a scan of the Belkadan system, of which the planet Belkadan was the only inhabitable planet. Kam scanned his instruments as the droid reported his findings; the sensors had detected no ships or ship debris in-system. All that was present was the star, three planets of which only Belkadan was life-sustaining, and the small moon that orbited Belkadan.

"Alright, R4, let's get closer," Kam told the droid. He suited actions to words as he detached his ship from the hyperspace ring and accelerated the ship to approach the planet. Consulting the data stored in his ship's databanks, he approached the side of the planet that the outpost was established on. "Inform me if you detect any trace of the task force."

The response flashed across his screen: 'Of course. It's not like I have any distractions.'

"Oh?"

'Like meditating. At least one of us pays attention.'

Kam snorted quietly as he keyed for the approach to the base. He would investigate the base first, to see if the scientists were there, and if there was any trace of the task force. Once again, he idly wondered why Chancellor Palpatine, of all people, was interested in such a trivial matter when there was a war going on.

R4 beeped to get his attention. 'Several rock formations have broken off the moon and are approaching the planet. There has been no apparent disturbance to cause their behaviour.'

"Do a scan of the basic structure and composition of the rocks," Kam replied, wondering what could have caused their behaviour. Did they have anything to do with the objects that the outpost had been tracking?

'The rock formations are made of a structure not identified in my databanks. They appear to be hollow.' A pause, then: 'They appear to be moving under their own volition.'

What? Kam frowned, then reached for the Force. Perhaps it would help him determine the nature of the objects.

He allowed himself to sink into the Force, then directed his attention in the direction of the rocks.

There was nothing there.

Kam frowned, then focused more deeply and tried again. What he sensed caused him to inhale in shock.

"There's nothing there…"

'Beg pardon, sir?'

The rocks were not present at all in the Force. Where the rocks were, there was only a void in the Force. Nothing. It was as if the rocks did not exist.

As he stared at the screen, shocked, the rocks altered their vector. Instead of moving towards the planet, they were now moving towards him…and speeding up. More rocks detached themselves from the moon as he sat there.

He wrenched himself out of his daze. "R4, open highest-priority communications with the nearest Jedi cruiser immediately – and prepare a recording of this to be transmitted!" As he spoke, he opened up the throttle, and his ship sped up, moving away from the rapidly approaching rocks – which followed.

A small blue hologram materialized in front of him. "Greetings, Jedi Kam," the master in front of him said, inclining his head. Kam couldn't believe his fortune – Council member Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"Master Kenobi, I am currently in the Belkadan system," he said rapidly. "I have encountered several rock structures which are behaving like spacecraft – I am sending a recording of their behaviour. These structures have no presence in the Force. They are just…a void. Nothing. They don't exist in the Force, master!"

Master Kenobi's expression grew very serious. He started to speak, but Kam missed the words as one of the rocks unexpectedly fired a burst of what appeared to be…plasma?

The Force gave a warning, but Kam only had enough time to jerk the main body of his ship out of the way – the weapon hit the ship's wing, and started to eat away at the metal.

It almost immediately reached his transmitter. Kam just managed to hit the button in front of him, sending the recording an instant before the communication was cut off. Then his ship's systems started screaming in failure.

Kam and the ship fell in an uncontrolled spiral towards Belkadan.

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