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I could just be ignorant here, but this sounds like a great way to give the galaxy a form of cancer.
From this perspective life itself could be seen as a form of cancer though, imho it has to have a deleterious component to deserve that analogy.

This has been considered with the concept of gray goo. Self replicating nano machines that eat the environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo