Stupid Aliens of the EU

[Eleas]

Ghetto Edit: That, of course, is not precisely the same as what Wing Commander MAD said, but it's close enough, I think.

[Lord Relvenous]

I vote for the Ssi'ruuk. Stupid aliens. Stupid ships. Stupid soul sucking tech or whatever it was, I thankfulyl have forgotten most of it.
Oh and a small fleet of these losers was somehow a threat to the entire galaxy. Yeah right.

You know, I actually think this is a case of a writer understanding the implications of technology, unlike so many books where obvious uses are ignored. If the Ssi'ruuk obtain their energy sources, AIs, and all sorts of other things from souls, even one world's worth of humans would be quite an added boost. Of course the logistics of manufacturing their fleet is an issue, but we know that there are some crazy good automated production capabilities in the SW verse, so the raw materials gained from the world could easily be quickly turned around into ships, especially when a lot of the complicated AI systems and what not are ready made by souls. Then those resources and souls are used to conquer another world.

Threat to the whole galaxy? Maybe not. Definitely a problem if not noticed and stopped, however. The Rim isn't monitored very much, so the Ssi'ruuk could have easily carved out a nice little area for themselves if things had gone differently.

[Darth Fanboy]

Interesting.

[Wing Commander MAD]

Yeah, that was definitely me misremembering Saxton, I really should have mentioned it was fan speculation (albeit the most logical possibility) sorry.

[Darth Hoth]

Generally, any biowank creatures with extremely implausible physiologies. And no, I am not talking Rancor level, or just retarded Yuuzhan Vong stuff, although to be sure there is plenty of that. To give a couple of examples:

Oswaft - From Lando Calrissian and the StarCave of ThonBoka, probably the most pulpy book in the most pulpy series of Star Wars books ever. And that is not, here, meant as a compliment.

Essentially, the Oswaft are huge space mantas that eat formaldehyde, have the natural ability to make hyperspace jumps, shout out microwaves that kill unshielded Star Destroyers, and crack Imperial codes through the sheer power of their brains. The stupidity and ridiculous wank of these things is mindboggling.

Hoojibs - Human-intelligence sentient telepathic fluff bunnies (literally) that live on all forms of energy; they often "eat" the energy content of blaster clips with no ill effects on themselves or the local environment, and without damaging the weapons. They come from Marvel Comics (Where else?).

Various shapeshifters in the Star Wars universe - supposedly, they can change not only their shape, but also their mass, through supposedly natural biological abilities. This is one such instance where, if you desperately need to include this shit in your story for it to work, you are better off just saying it is magic (or psionics/Force/One Power, or whatever you call magic in your setting). Although it is endemic to a lot of science fiction and thus not an original creation, so unlike the above two, at least the author did not make a serious effort to make up something originally goofy.

[Jim Raynor]

I vote for the Ssi'ruuk. Stupid aliens. Stupid ships. Stupid soul sucking tech or whatever it was, I thankfulyl have forgotten most of it.
Oh and a small fleet of these losers was somehow a threat to the entire galaxy. Yeah right.

The Ssi-Ruuk are pretty bad. I remember hearing about The Truce at Bakura as a 12 year old kid, and thinking that the Rebels teaming up with the Empire to stop a terrifying alien threat was such an awesome idea. Then I read the actual book, and the Ssi-Ruuk were written like pussies. Why would a writer do something like that? There are countless ways you can screw up a book, but to intentionally write your new villains as spineless wimps who are absolutely terrified of taking any casualties? They're dinosaurs in space, how do you fuck up something as stupidly simple as that?!

The summary on the cover of the book hyped them up far beyond what they actually merited. As did Obi-Wan's ghost coming back to warn Luke about how if the Ssi-Ruuk weren't stopped at Bakura, the entire galaxy would fall. One ISD could have curb stomped the entire Ssi-Ruuvi fleet.

[Batman]

The Ssi-Ruuk were actually a pretty interesting idea I think. Them actually being being a threat to the Wars galaxy was NOT. They essentially got beaten by an INFINITESIMAL combined Empire/Alliance force and given the scarcity of Ssi-Ruuk forces present and their pathological dread of being killed away from their home I'd love to see them try actually CONQUER Bakura leave alone any other planets.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Remember, the Oswaft can also poop diamonds.