An alien species engineered a creature that devoured energy. This microscopic, self-replicating entity was genetically designed to seek out and ingest power. Initially intended to resolve an internal conflict, the organism annihilated the opposing side's destructive weaponry. This act, however, triggered the release of a virus by their adversaries, leading to widespread death across the planet and genetic alterations in the survivors.
In the era of the Galactic Civil War, a settlement took root on the world. The colonists' power supplies were depleted by the organism, prompting the dispatch of a Alliance to Restore the Republic unit to determine the reason for the power drain.