Vagaari

The Vagaari are an alien species from the Star Wars Legends continuity. They are an evil race of pirates and slavers native to the Unknown Regions. They act as the main antagonistic faction of the 2004 novel Survivor's Quest and are major antagonists in the 2006 novel Outbound Flight.

Biology
The Vagaari are short, bipedal humanoids with stubby limbs. They have two eyes, five-fingered hands, feet with four toes. They possess tan skin, violet eyes, and have a jaw with two mouths, with one mouth on each side.

History
The Vagaari were a nomadic race from the Unknown Regions. They traveled in a vast armada of ships that were maintained by slaves. They conquered a large area of the Unknown Regions and enslaved the populations of the worlds they invaded.

Around 27 years prior to the Battle of Yavin, the Vagaari began entering Chiss space. This brought them into conflict with Force Commander Thrawn of the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet. After several skirmishes with Thrawn's forces, they were tricked by Thrawn into believing the Chiss possessed battle droid technology, something unheard of in the Unknown Regions. As a result, the Miskara, the Vagaari's leader, mobilized a massive attack fleet to invade the Chiss Ascendancy.

However, they were thwarted by Thrawn who used gravity-well projectors to intercept their fleet and force them into a confrontation with the Galactic Republic's Outbound Flight and its Jedi commanders. The Jedi used a Force meld to incapacitate the Vagaari, while Thrawn used Vulture Droids (captured from an earlier battle against the Trade Federation) to destroy most of the Vagaari fleet and kill the Miskara in the process. The remaining Vagaari ships fled after Thrawn turned his attention to attacking the Outbound Flight.

As a result of the battle against Thrawn and the Outbound Flight, the Vagaari lost most of their military power within the Unknown Regions and were forced to retreat from Chiss territory. They would spend several decades rebuilding their fleet and plotting revenge against the Chiss.

In 22 ABY, the Vagaari attempted to seize the remains of the Outbound Flight after it had crashed planetside. They sent several agents disguised as Geroons and came into conflict against Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, his wife Mara Jade, and the Empire of the Hand. Though they managed to seize one of the surviving Dreadnought-class cruisers from the Outbound Flight, they were ultimately foiled. The Chiss Ascendancy used this incident as a pretext for war and subsequently invaded Vagaari space.

At an unknown point, the Vagaari came into contact with the Yuuzhan Vong and agreed to help them invade the galaxy in exchange for their biotech.