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this was the Basic term used by the X'Ting race to describe the greatest of all the offworld plagues they experienced during the Old Republic, after the allowed a prison facility to be constructed on Ord Cestus. A number of smaller plagues harrassed the X'Ting, many of which were brought to the planet by the prisoners themselves. While these diseased caused only minor discomfort to other races, they wiped out the unsuspecting X'Ting by the thousands. The Great Plague struck about 100 years before the onset of the Clone Wars, and many of the surviving X'Ting believed that it was unleashed by the executives of Cestus Cybernetics and their allies, the Confederacy of Independent Systems. It occurred at a point when the X'Ting had begun to protest their treatment as the laborers behind Cestus Cybernetics, and destroyed large portions of the population. Among the dead were members of the royal line, which left the X'Ting without a visible leader and splintered their society. The hive was broken into new hives, with some going deep below ground while others chose to remain close to the surface. A handful of eggs from the queen survived, and were hidden beneath the surface of Ord Cestus, in the hopes that they could be hatched later on, reviving the royal line and signalling the beginning of a new-found freedom for the X'Ting. A group of X'Ting remained belowground to guard the eggs, and eventually became a separate species. Unfortunately, these underground X'Ting died when they stumbled into the lair of the worms that served as guard beasts and were consumed. Compunding this problem, all the X'Ting who knew of the ways to locate the eggs died in the plague.