Star Wars: The High Republic is introducing a strange new threat to the galaxy. While the Nihil are space raiders with a peculiar ability involving hyperspace, the Drengir are plant-like creatures connected to the dark side of the Force. They’d been stranded on a space station until some unwitting Jedi drifted there and unintentionally set them free. That’s when they discovered the Drengir’s ability to use the Force to get into a person’s mind and taste for still-living flesh. The Drengir appear in the Star Wars: The High Republic novel Into the Dark and will appear in Marvels’ Star Wars: The High Republic comic book series.