The revival in 2376 of several hundred Vaadwaur soldiers who had lain in stasis for nearly nine centuries, set in motion when the crew of Voyager took shelter on their ruined homeworld.
The Vaadwaur reawakening is shown in the Voyager episode Dragon's Teeth. Voyager is drawn into a network of subspace corridors and attacked by the Turei, who claim them, and it lands to hide on a radioactive planet. In a cavern Seven of Nine finds rows of stasis pods and wakes a man named Gedrin on her own initiative.
Gedrin says his people were traders who used the corridors and were bombed by envious neighbours 892 years ago. Kathryn Janeway agrees to help the survivors find a new home in exchange for knowledge of the corridors. Neelix, however, recalls old Talaxian stories about the Vaadwaur.
The Vaadwaur commander Gaul decides to take Voyager. Gedrin, who believes the old ways are finished, helps Janeway and is killed. Voyager brings in the Turei and gets away during the battle, but more than fifty Vaadwaur ships escape into the corridors.