Korriban

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Korriban
Distance from Core 20,000-30,000 light years
Region Outer Rim Territories
System Horuset system
Number of suns 1
Number of moons 7
Major species Sith
Population 25,000 before the Jedi Civil War; none thereafter
Terrain Desolate, Barren
Affiliation Sith

Korriban is a planet in the Star Wars universe, the sole planet in the Horuset system, located across the galaxy from Koros Major. It was used as a graveyard for Ancient Sith and was later reborn as a home and training ground for modern Sith. It was once a slave world of the Infinite Empire many millennia before the first Sith Lords came. Sith Lord Naga Sadow built his tomb millennia later around the Star Map, a relic of the time when the Rakata had used the Star Forge.

This remote, forbidding planet seethes with dark side energy and echoes with the whispers of a thousand ghosts. It was the burial world of the ancient Sith Empire, and has long been a sacred planet for the Sith Order. It is orbited by seven moons, and was unknown to the Old Republic before Sadow's rise to power. It was to Korriban that the ancient Dark Jedi fled after they were exiled by the Jedi Knights during the Second Great Schism.

Korriban was originally inhabited by the Sith race, a relatively simple, red-skinned people. The Dark Jedi amazed the Sith with their training in the Force, and soon elevated themselves to a god-like status, becoming the rulers, or "Lords," of the Sith. As the years passed, interbreeding occurred between the human Dark Jedi and the Sith, until at last the two people had become one.

Korriban is a desolate world which, under the pall of Sith magic, has become more hellish and dangerous. The Sith Lords erected huge palaces and burial complexes to honor their fallen Dark Lords. Whenever a Dark Lord died, his mummified corpse was interred with great ceremony in the Valley of the Dark Lords (probably inspired by the Valley of the Kings). Some famous Sith Lords buried in the Valley of the Dark Lords include: Naga Sadow, Marka Ragnos, Ajunta Pall, and Tulak Hord. Ludo Kressh was buried next to the Valley. Freedon Nadd is the only known Dark Lord of the Sith not to be buried in the Valley of the Dark Lords. His tomb is on Dxun, one of the moons of Onderon. After the fall of the Sith Empire, the planet lost much of its prominence.

It was briefly resettled during the reign of Darth Malak, and was home to the settlement of Dreshdae and a Sith training academy. However, with the death of the Dark Lord at the hands of Revan, the Sith Order collapsed into civil war and the world was once again abandoned.

Seven years after his death at the Battle of Endor, Emperor Palpatine, also known as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, resurrected by the ancient Dark Lords as the insane embodiment of the dark side of the Force, visited Korriban for the last time in a vain attempt to stop the decay of his last clone body.

Two years later, Tavion and the Disciples of Ragnos attempted to resurrect the Sith Lord Marka Ragnos in his tomb, before being stopped by Jaden Korr.

[edit] Korriban appearances

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