The Scourge and the Blight.
Marvel's "Dark Droids" crossover is proving to be a renaissance for Star Wars storytelling, bringing to life one of the most exciting concepts in the franchise's recent history, providing the series with its most viable villainous alternative to the Galactic Empire and Palpatine's Sith since the introduction of the Yuuzhan Vong in the controversial New Jedi Order book series.
Published in 1992, A Fire Upon the Deep is a truly massive work of sci-fi, depicting a galaxy-spanning civilization overrun by a malevolent artificial intelligence, know as the Blight. The critically acclaimed book appears to have been a direct influence on many of the ideas in Marvel's current Star Wars run, meaning it very well may provide insights into where "Dark Droids" and the Scourge are headed.
Crucially, the Blight immediately exhibits the ability to inhabit and control organic life in A Fire Upon the Deep, moving swiftly to infect entire civilizations and put their resources, along with their populations, at its disposal.
One of Vinge's most fascinating contributions to science fiction in A Fire Upon the Deep is the way his galaxy is partitioned.
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