Aing-Ti monks, will they save the galaxy in NJO?

Everybody is talking about the UR, Sii-ruuk,Wild space and the Chiss saving the galaxy, but what about the Aing-Ti (spelling?) Monks. From what I have Read of them in VotF thier ships sound similar to Yuuzhan Vong ships, they can go from one side of the galaxy to another in seconds (Like Yuuzhan Vong ships aka Hero's Trial)
Is it possible they ARE Yuuzhan Vong? and could it be possible a large no. of Jedi hid with the Aing-Ti monks? (You can only hope)
They hate slavery and are probably allies to the Jedi.
So why don`t they kick Yuuzhan Vong @$$.
Personally I think it would be kewl

 

I can only hope that something happens to turn the tide. Maybe the monks will be able to aid the battle.

The Star Wars Galaxy can not be lost, because that would be the end of a profitable franchise, so something big has to happen, that turns the tide of war.

 

LFL will NEVER destroy the galaxy
but it would be intresting what the Yuuzhan Vong would do if they found out about the monks and the Jensuurai for that matter.

 

I agree but the monks look nothing like the vong. Remewmber, they hate slavers, and the vong do lots of that.

 

That is what i am getting at and i hope they do enter the war. They would be worthy enemies and hopefully the only ones that can kill them.
remember what Jorj Cardas said, the Jedi see the force in black and white the Monks see it in the full spectrum. So maybe they will be able to sense the Vong

 

Great point, and somehow Im reminded that the Aing Ti ships have a instant sort of hyperdrive?

 

Chissdude you said they did not look like Vong but they could by from the same galaxy
They live at thr EDGE of the galaxy and besides their technology could be more powerful than Vong tech
If you had not noticed I want the Monks in the NJO BADLY!

 

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And the aing ti look like slugs.

 

I remember that the official site about a year ago they had a feature called Terror beyond the rim and the Aing-Ti were one species.
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An interesting idea... but, IMNTBHO, not very likely. While the monks might be able to sense the YV (that's actually an interesting and likely concept), they probably aren't a powerful military force. I mean, come on. Just because they beat up on some half-bit slaver doesn't mean they can whip up on an alien force from outside the galaxy that's giving the NR a beat down.

 

I really need to read the book with them in it but isn't there some guy who Karrde talks to who can use the Force like they can or maybe it was just what Yoda did to help him. I forget. Maybe if they told that guy some stuff they could teach a bunch of Jedi and they could have a stronger army that could kill the Vong.

 

The Terror From The Rim section regarding the Aing-Ti:
In 1995, West End Games started The DarkStryder Campaign, a series of game books chronicling the adventures of the FarStar, a New Republic corvette and its intrepid crew. Set in a distant outlying area of space called the Kathol Rift, it revealed a number of bizarre, rarely-seen aliens.

Although still part of the galaxy-proper, the Kathol Rift had its share of the unknown. This was perhaps best exemplified by the Aing-Tii monks. Strange chitin-skinned aliens, the Aing-Tii haunted the outskirts of the Rift in their strange streamlined starships. Xenophobic and mystical, the Aing-Tii have the strange ability to navigate even the most difficult areas of the dense Kathol Rift. While dangerous, the Aing-Tii are not so much diabolical as they are enigmatic.

At the heart of the Rift was a grotesque techno-organic entity known as DarkStryder. This remnant of a long lost civilization oversaw different "constructs" or species that served him. Among them were the Char Ontee, the originators of the arachnid species that had become trapped in a pocket dimension, driven to madness, and had become the Charon.

The Aing-Ti mythos revolves around the following:
Otherspace (Charon connection)
Otherspace II: Invasion (Charon connection)
Darkstryder Campaign Set
Darkstryder: Kathol Outback
Darkstryder: Kathol Rift
Darkstryder: Endgame

They were briefly seen later in Vision of the Future.

They first appeared in the Darkstryder seriess which later retro-actively was tied to the Otherspace series.

 

Genghis12, you might want to add an advance preview/short story for the DarkStryder Campaign featured in the Star Wars Adventure Journals to your "mythos."

It's primarily a Pre-DarkStryder Campaign story about the Twi'lek weapons supplier (and his 3 Turazza (sp?) friends that would later join Captain Kaiya Ademetrum (sp) during the DarkStryder Campaign.

 

Good point.

 

InnocentIII a whole planetary defense force could not defend Exocron yet only a task force of Aing-Ti monks was able to wipe them out in minutes and that was only a task force.
We do not know the extent of thier army and Truor_Tupnm might be on to something about the monks training the Jedi.
But like I said before maybe there are some Old Jedi order knights hiding with the Monks.

 

Not many people curious about the Monks role in the NJO and there is a good chance they will have a role.

 

Actually I've been pretty curious about the Aing Ti since reading the Hand of thrawn duology. I agree that there is a possibility they could play a role. Though I would like to see this, I do not believe it will happen. The NR and Jedi must be the ones to eventually triumph over the Vong. Otherwise all the heros would be seen as a bunch of losers who had to be bailed out.

 

It is starting to look like they will be needed to be bailed out.
If not by the Monks then by the Empire or the Chiss.

 

True, I think they need and will recieve help. However I don't think that they will lose and require the Aing Ti to just come in and beat the Vong for them. The writers just wouldn't do it.

 

I agree but they might bring a few in at once, Empire, Chiss etc.

 

I dont see it happening, but, we have seen stranger things in the EU.

 

Well, the VoTF peps will play the biggest role mesa thikith

 

Chissdude...
"Well, the VoTF peps will play the biggest role mesa thikith"

So, you really think the Qom Jha will play the "biggest" role?

 

They might help, but they can't just do everything- the Republic and Jedi should have to fight for their own survival. Otherwise, it isn't as fun.