In the most horrific scenes to date the galaxy watches as the mindless subjects of Araks climb over their own dead and rip the soldiers apart with their bare hands and teeth. The Dredge is finally taken and the priests hold over the people is broken but not until over 30 percent of the population is wiped out. 191-195fy A series of minor skirmishes and hit and fade attacks by the Sathar scare the UPF into believing that a full scale war is at hand. Four years pass and the attacks never increase, almost as if the Sathar were testing the UPF's defenses. Soon the attacks stopped and once again all was quiet.
Millions die and seven planets are quarantined while a cure for the plague is researched.
In the end the plague was named for the man who finally defeated it, Dr. Lijiong Vaijell, an Ifshnit biochemist from Osak University of Technology. Their first strike decimates many of the upper rim worlds and all is thought to be lost until the arrival of the Ghost Force. An elite branch of the UPF, which still exists today, introduces a state of the art task force based on newly found alien technology. In several quick and decisive strikes this new force swiftly reduces the Sathar threat to nothing and turns the Skull forces on the run. Six and a half months of near constant fighting on the planet decimated both sides and sent the Skull race to the stars.