just thinking about it... most sci-fi things have been done already, and the worse the idea the more times it has been done, its only the relly good ones that arent done again because the bar is already so high.
anyway, ideas... i didnt read all the posts because i dont have time, but has anyone thought of something mechanical?
Replicators from Stargate for instance?
another point, alot of people have been posting random ideas, but only a few (i.e. the guy with the energy-being idea) have thought of backstory and motivation.
so, let me see if i have the general concept of the best thoguht idea so far straight, the Vasari were researching new phase drives (or at least new sublight engines, but i dont see how new sublight engines could have created or caused baddies to appear...) and they created this form of sentient energy that, for some reason, is now hell bent on destroying the Vasari and anything else in its path...
am i in the ball park?
mines the best thought idea so far? 
thanks.
well heres how i see it. the vasari r experimenting in their lab with something to do with transportation of some kind. (possibly phase space, but in my opinion, not. i was thinking more of trying to create an engine that could move a building, hence the transport lab? idn) then, on a random chance of bad luck, a quasar forms near their planet kron (where the labs on), and if iv understood what iv read correctly, a quasar gets its energy from supermassive black holes, and gives off (there a better word for that?) radio waves and visible light, but that light is 2 trillion times brighter than our sun. so anyway, the quasars giving off this radiation along with the supermassive black hole somewhere thats feeding it energy, and the transport lab's experiments get...idn exactly how im gonna put this, but gets combined with the quasar energy (possibly from the pull of the black hole? idn) and it forms this radioactive mass. the mass is sentient, and can split itself (somewhat like asexual reproduction) into new beings, although of course that reduces its form. it feeds on inorganic material, so the first thing to go is the nearby lab. "digesting" inorganic material makes the matter grow, and it quickly turns on the inorganic structures around the planet and on it, even down to the clothes the Vasari were wearing. due to the radio waves it gives off from its quasar parent, no transmissions can be sent from wherever the mass is. like an enormous jamming device, technically. so now we hav this gigantic mass gorged from the destruction of kron, and it splits itself many times over into smaller beings, ship-like (so as to give this race ships, theyr actually going to be the actual people of this race, but to everyone else they look like ships). they dont travel through phase space, but from their grandparent the supermassive black hole that gave birth to their quasar, and from the affects of their other parent, the vitsurka experimental transport lab, the beings travel through a different sort of space. for all purposes its the same as phase space, but theres no blue or purple glow as they "phase out." instead, the seem the twist space, and fly through that twist. (just there to giv them some flavour, and help my story along) so there we hav it, i think.
ok learned a little more about the relation between quasars and black holes. a quasar is a compact region 10-10,000 times the Schwarzschild radius of the central supermassive black hole of a galaxy, powered by that black hole's accretion disc, which is basically the very middle part of the black hole that compressed the mass coming into it and sends out electromagnetic waves. so a little iffy on what the first part means, and if anyone could help me out in that regard it would be greatly appreciated.
