Editing Croke (section)

==History==
The Croke expanded from their homeworld, [[Crakull]], to occupy multiple worlds within an area that came to be known as the Croke Reach. During this expansion, the species came into contact with non-Croke, including the cloners of [[Kamino]]. For several decades, the Croke resisted incursions into their territory by the sentient entity known as Mnggal-Mnggal.
 
Approximately 300 years before the Galactic Civil War, the Croke were engaged in a civil war of their own. Some factions employed biological weapons in the form of a species known as the Lugubraa, hulking creatures whose natural fecundity and unvarnished appetites led them to overwhelm entire ecosystems. The Croke who employed these weapons unleashed small populations of Lugubraa on planets controlled by their rivals. The tactic proved too successful, and the diminutive species found itself faced by hordes of Lugubraa long into the period after the Battle of Yavin. Facing the extinction of their very species, the Croke eventually solicited the aid of Kaminoan cloning experts to engineer a genetic variant of the Lugubraa that might wipe out the hordes menacing Croke worlds. The Kaminoans provided a soldier type known as the "blind berserker." Nevertheless, this new force, dubbed the "Leech Legion," proved just as destructive to Croke settlements. At some point during these campaigns, Lugubraa attacked the planet [[Explume Minor]]. Shell Conjurer Firtha sent a transmission to order the Croke to cloak and evacuate their nestlings before his transmission cut out.