Chitinous carapace! Darth Malthael reached out and touched the material hidden within the rock strata. It felt neither like metal nor stone; on the contrary, it was slightly warm. It truly felt like an insect's shell!
He immediately thought of a certain existence—the Killiks! An ancient super-insect civilization active between thirty-five thousand and over a hundred thousand years ago, one that had once dominated the entire Milky Way Galaxy!
If it was them, then this was no surprise.
The Killiks' rise and fall had countless connections to The Ones. For example, Midpoint Station, the giant space station now floating at the Lagrange point between Planet Talus and Planet Tralus in the Corellian system, had been built under the guidance of the son and daughter of The Ones, who had taken on the form of the Star-Builders.
Once activated, Midpoint Station could even emit incomparably powerful gravitational waves and move any planet within the Milky Way Galaxy. At full power, it could even move a Blackhole!
Such a superweapon was a manifestation of The Ones' power. Naturally, it was also a testament to the Killiks' former glory. The rulers of the Milky Way Galaxy ought to possess such terrifying military might!
Darth Malthael gathered the Force at his fingertips and tested it. He discovered that this chitinous carapace possessed an astonishingly strong defense against the Force. Even using the Force, he found it difficult to damage it.
Though he had only lightly scratched at it a few times, with his command of the Force, even Durasteel used by the Galactic Empire to build warships would have been gouged with a massive pit.
Yet aside from the chitinous material surrounding him, there was nothing else here.
As he continued downward, he felt as though he were inside an ant nest. Winding, twisting