The Galactic Federation of Free Alliances which emerged after the fall of the New Republic in Star by Star, shares an acryonym with Galaxy Far Far Away, the popular name for the Star Wars setting.
Running the belt. Much speculation is had that smugglers use Lando's little game as training to avoid authorities by flying into other asteroid belts, and that Lando had somewhat intended this. However, all the top scorers on the single-seat board are Jedi, including two relatively green pilots (Jacen and Anakin Solo). Which should only prove to the smugglers that if a Jedi is on your tail, you're screwed.
The Givin prove to be one of the few peoples not to fall for the Yuuzhan Vong's typical "Surrender the Jedi and we'll let you live" lie that had worked so well in the past. Math is an important part of Givin culture, so if anyone is going to just look at it from a matter of probability based on past conduct by the Yuuzhan Vong, it would be the Givin.
It's noted that the Iktotchi, who are usually excellent seers, didn't know the Yuuzhan Vong were coming. Of course not; their prescience comes from the Force, and the Yuuzhan Vong are cut off from it! Same reason none of the Jedi had any visions of them invading, either.
Though the Yuuzhan Vong are often stereotyped out-of-universe as wearing either a Proud Warrior Race hat, a religious fundamentalist hat, or a sadomasochist hat, looking over the series in general their real hat seems to be fanaticism, in various forms. Laziness and apathy don't really seem to be traits of the Vong - even those who reject their civilization's dominant ideology are still passionately dedicated to something (even if in some cases, like Nom Anor, that "something" is pure self-interest). This probably ties back into their primordial loss of both their homeworld and their Force connection - got to fill that nagging emptiness in their psyches with something.
The battles of Borleias and Ebaq 9 feature the New Republic using the uncharacteristic tactic of luring the enemy where they want it and then apply overwhelming force, a modus operandi more fit for the Empire at its height (at Borleias it was even admitted they were borrowing an Imperial tactic for Operation Emperor's Hammer). Who is in charge at these two pivotal battles? At Borleias it's Wedge Antilles, who had been on the receiving end of Imperial tactics for years, with the advice of Tycho Celhu, a former Imperial officer, and at Ebaq 9 it's Ackbar, who sneaked his initial knowledge of space combat tactics from Wilhuff Tarkin himself. Of course they would use Imperial tactics: they have a deep knowledge of them, and recognized these were exactly the kind situation they had been intended for, wiping out a powerful enemy force in a most spectacular fashion to show the enemy who they're dealing with and remind your own side of their strength.
Notably, they worked perfectly on both accounts: the New Republic was on the verge of collapse before Borleias but after these two victories recovered its morale, and the Yuuzhan Vong were stopped cold for a while after Borleias and started contesting their Supreme Overlord after Ebaq 9.
Extra Fridge Brilliance: The reason these tactics also didn't work on the Rebellion is because the Rebels could seldom field as big of a fleet as the Yuuzhan Vong. Endor was explicitly stated to be an all-in, do-or-die unique encounter, and the Rebellion mostly worked by sending small groups out across the galaxy in hit-and-run raids. Furthermore, if a Rebel fleet found itself utterly outmatched, they would flee rather than continue to fight on as the Yuuzhan Vong usually did.
Although it's not spelled out, there are perfectly good reasons as to why superweapons would be a bad idea against the Yuuzhan Vong aside from the reason Han lays out. First of all, there are Yuuzhan Vong infiltrators everywhere, and it's hard to hide this kind of thing entirely. Secondly, most superweapons take years to put together—the Death Star took the better part of two decades! By the time one was built, it would be too late, one way or the other, not to mention the sheer amount of resources and war materiel that building one would require. Thirdly, even after the Yuuzhan Vong were defeated, that superweapon would still remain operable. Does anyone think that giving Borsk Fey'lya a superweapon is any way a good idea?
The four year-long war causes the deaths of 365 trillion people (the bulk of whom were presumably civilians), or 250 billion A DAY. Put another way, given the roughly 1 million inhabited worlds in the Star Wars Galaxy, that means each and every inhabited world lost an average of 365 million inhabitants (or 6 World War II's, simultaneously, over 4 years). That means every time at the end of a chapter or scene, which usually marks the passage of a day or even a few hours, that means countless millions more are already dead. Every conversation dithering about morality and using superweapons against the Vong? Hundreds of millions died during the course of the dialog. No mention needs to be made of the fact that the Yuuzhan Vong were infamously sadistic in their methods of killing, including using meat shields and death by overwork, slavery or just for funsies. No wonder the remaining inhabitants of the galaxy were a little sore with the Vong for years afterward.
That said, most of the deaths would probably be due to planetary bombardments and Vongforming - it's not as though they worked half a quadrillion people to death in slave camps. (For one thing, they'd need more slave camps...)
