I obviously need to finish it but from what I remember the Killiks could assimilate/brainwash people into their hive including Jedi and they could breed force using castes? Correct me if I'm wrong but those 2 concepts alone are worth exploring. Hell I'd gladly sacrifice the new stuff just to see a swarm of force using bugs attack the galaxy. Fits amazingly well with what makes faceless numberless swarms like these horrifying, the ability to steal what makes you unique and copy it over and over and over into endless drones that while weaker than you can overwhelm anyone with enough pure brute numbers advantage. Instead we got Papa Palpatine trying to force his "offspring" to commit sweet sweet love in the name of uhhh what was it? Fusing into a Jedi mecha or something. Also C3PO calling the Killiks in the book a hybrid between Coleoptera (beetles) and Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants) genuinely made me smile in the warmest most happiest way I could. Love it when authors do some...
