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After the Hundred Year Darkness, the remaining Dark Jedi interbred with the Sith species and ruled the Sith using their Force powers. After the Great Hyperspace War, Korriban was abandoned and became a barren world. It was the site of a Sith Academy, and became the headquarters of the One Sith.
It was close to Bosthirda and was located on the Nache Bhelfia and Kamat Krote hyperspace lanes.
Astrographical
Region Outer Rim Territories; Stygian Caldera
Sector Esstran sector
System Horuset system
Suns 1:Horuset
Orbital position 2
Moons 7
Grid coordinates R-5
Rotation period 28 standard hours
Orbital period 780 local days
Physical
Class Terrestrial
Diameter 16,890 km
Atmosphere Breathable
Climate Cold and dry
Gravity Heavy (1.4 standard)
Primary terrain
- Mountains
- Canyons
- Dry riverbeds
- Tombs
- Ruins
- Valley of the Dark Lords
- Eternal Pyre
- Valley of Golg
- Sith Academy
- Shyrack cave
- Ludo Kressh's tomb
Native species
- Modern: None
- Formerly:Sith
- Terentatek
- Shyrack
- Rakata
- Hssiss
- Tuk'ata
- Wraid
- Human
- Modern: Galactic Basic Standard
- Formerly: Sith language
- Modern: None
- Formerly: Sith Empire
Population
- Historic (Sith Empire): 9.6 billion
- under 94% Sith
- 6% Other
- Historic (Jedi Civil War): 25,000
- Historic(Rise of the Empire era): 0
- Modern (Legacy era): 1,000+
- Dreshdae (capital)
- Foodstuff
- High technology
- Raw matherial
- Weapons
- Sith artifacts
- Sith
- Infinite Empire
- Adas's Sith Empire
- Xim's empire
- Old Sith Empire
- Brotherhood of the Sith/Exar Kun's Sith Empire
- Revan's Sith Empire
- Czerka Corporation
- Sith Triumvirate
- Great War/Cold War Sith Empire
- New Sith Empire/Brotherhood of Darkness
- Galactic Republic
- Commerce Guild
- Confederacy of Independent Systems
- Order of the Sith Lords/Galactic Empire
- Empire Reborn
- Imperial Remnant/Disciples of Ragnos
- One Sith/Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire
This remote, forbidding planet was the original homeworld of the Sith species. At some point prior to 30,000 BBY a Killik colony was established on Korriban, which eventually produced a Killik Sith Lord. The insectoid colonists were swiftly driven off, though, by the Sith.
The Rakata invaded Korriban in an attempt to integrate the world into the Infinite Empire around 27,700 BBY, intending to harvest slaves from the planet to be used for Rakatan projects. The sole artifact to survive this era was the ancient Star Map, around which the tomb of Naga Sadow was later built.
The Rakata were eventually forced off the world after the Sith King Adas led his people against them. Adas died in the battle, and thus, despite this victory, the Sith society crumbled, and, in the ensuing centuries of strife, the Sith relocated to worlds such as Arbra, Ziost and Tund using captured Rakatan vessels, leaving Korriban as a graveyard world populated only by religious fanatics.
For a brief period, the world was at least nominally a member of Xim's empire and given the name Pesegam, from around 25,126 BBY until its fall.
Sith Empire
Valley of the Dark Lords
The Sith Empire was founded in approximately 6,900 BBY by exiled fallen Jedi fleeing the Battle of Corbos, which concluded the Hundred-Year Darkness. The fallen Jedi landed on Korriban.
Using their training in the Force, the fallen Jedi amazed the Sith and elevated themselves to god-like status on Korriban, becoming the rulers of the Sith people. As years passed, and interbreeding occurred between the Fallen Jedi and the Sith, the term "Sith" came to mean not only the original inhabitants of Korriban, but also their fallen Jedi masters. Until the rise of Naga Sadow, the existence of the Sith Empire was unknown to the Galactic Republic.
Under the pall of Sith magic, this desolate world became more hellish and dangerous[.The Sith Lords erected huge palaces and burial complexes to honor their fallen Dark Lords. Circa 5,000 BBY, the planet became an endpoint of the newly-formed Daragon Trail hyperspace lane, when it was discovered by Gav and Jori Daragon. This event triggered the Great Hyperspace War. After the fall of the Sith Empire, the planet lost much of its prominence in the galaxy, eventually falling off the galactic starcharts for a thousand years. Despite the belief the Sith as a species became extinct after the end of the war, isolated enclaves of Kissai and Massassi existed on the planet over a millennia after their empire's fall.
Old Sith Wars
Korriban was resettled prior to 3,993 BBY by Dark Jedi survivors of the Exar Kun War[source?], and was home to the new settlement of Dreshdae and a Sith training academy[8][12]. In 3,993 BBY, as part of the Great Hunt, Duron Qel-Droma and Shaela Nuur died on the planet, failing to cleanse it of terentateks. The planet became the sector headquarters of the Czerka Corporation. Darth Revan and Darth Malak visited the planet on their quest to discover the Star Forge. After losing his memory, Revan visited the academy again in 3,956 BBY on his quest to re-discover the Star Forge for the good of the Republic. Seeking the Star map in Naga Sadow's tomb he passed the tests and then confronted Uthar. With the death of Master Uthar Wynn, the academy's headmaster, and Darth Malak himself at the hands of Revan in 3,956 BBY, the Sith Order collapsed into a civil war (which took place 3,956-3,950 BBY) which decimated the Sith Order.
The Ebon Hawk lifts off from Dreshdae starport, awash in the golden light of a Korriban sunset.
It took the Republic a couple of years to send an expeditionary force to Korriban (around 3,954 BBY) in order to deal with any potential Sith who might attempt to take up the mantle of Dark Lord. They found a planet nearly in ruins—barren and lifeless as a result of the then unknown civil war. It was assumed by the commanders of the Republic task force that the remnants of the Sith turned on each other, vying for what little power remained. It was also said that Revan had always intended to return to Korriban one day to subdue any would-be Sith insurgents, but he then disappeared. However, the Republic discovered evidence that several Sith Lords did manage to escape the planetary conflagration, fleeing to remote corners of the galaxy.
After the fall of Darth Malak, the ancient tombs within the Valley of the Dark Lords were plundered by grave-robbers. Each tomb was once infused with history and heritage of the old Sith Empire, containing great mysteries and powerful relics of the Force.[14] Many broken, charred corpses littered the plains of Korriban during this time, virtually all that remained of the Sith who once inhabited the world. However, their malignant spirits remained, ready to confront any who disturb their rest by way of their guardian-familiars, the Hssiss.
In the chaos following the Jedi Civil War, which nearly destroyed the Jedi Order, Jedi Master Lonna Vash used Korriban as a hideout. She was eventually trapped and killed by Sith Lord Darth Sion in the ruins of the academy, and then used as bait to lure the Jedi Exile into Sion's hands. After escaping the trap, the Exile discovered the long lost tomb of Ludo Kressh.
Great Galactic War
The Sith reclaim Korriban
In the aftermath of the Jedi Civil War, a fleet of Republic ships remained to guard the abandoned Sith world of Korriban. This remained until the onset of the Great Galactic War, when the reformed Sith Empire emerged and began conquering worlds in the Aparo sector as well as ambushed the Republic fleet in the Tingel Arm, as part of the Emperor's plan. In order to bolster their forces, the Republic pulled many of their ships to support the fleet which left only a small number of Jedi security ships to patrol Korriban, this action however had already been predicted and, played right into the Emperor's hand. As the conflict continued, the Sith, knowing that the Republic Forces on Korriban were weakened significantly, staged an assault against the guarding ships and destroyed them thus returning the planet to Sith control, just as the Emperor planned, before the Jedi Council became aware of the incident.
Retaking Korriban had been a top priority for the Sith Empire, when it re-emerged during the Great War. After retaking the planet, they re-established the Sith Academy.
New Sith Wars
After capturing the planet from the Republic in a brutal battle, the New Sith Empire and the subsequent Brotherhood of Darkness both occupied Korriban, with the latter known to have operated a Sith Academy on the planet. A young Darth Bane studied there before becoming a Sith Lord. The apprentices that trained there were the ones that were to join the Brotherhood of Darkness, thereby the most powerful Sith being trained in the galaxy.
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