The Finding of the Five Event

The Worlds
These five planets were once considered the heart of the Sith Empire. They were sacred sites and visited by pilgrims following the Hetmonasa Ipros.


Korriban

Korriban was the sole planet in the Horuset system, located across the galaxy from Koros Major. It was the original homeworld of the Sith species. The Rakata invaded Korriban in an attempt to integrate the world into the Infinite Empire around 27,700 BBY. They 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.

The Sith Empire was founded in approximately 6,800 BBY by exiled fallen Jedi fleeing the Battle of Corbos, which concluded the Hundred-Year Darkness. The fallen Jedi landed on Korriban and using their Force powers, elevated themselves to god-like status. As years passed, and interbreeding occurred between the Fallen Jedi and the native Sith the term came to apply to all the inhabitants. 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.

Korriban was resettled prior to 3,993 BBY by Dark Jedi survivors of the Exar Kun War and was home to the new settlement of Dreshdae and a Sith training academy. 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.

Darth Revan and Darth Malak visited the planet on their quest to discover the Star Forge. After losing his memory, Revan returned in 3,956 BBY. This marked the beginning of a four year civil war which decimated the Sith Order. The ancient tombs within the Valley of the Dark Lords were plundered by grave-robbers and broken, charred corpses littered the plains.

In the aftermath of the Great Galactic War, the reformed Sith Empire emerged and began conquering worlds in the Aparo sector. The Empire had lost the location of Korriban, but regained it when the Emperor dominated the minds of Revan and Malak. The Sith, reclaimed the planet and re-established the Sith Academy. In the years after the Treaty of Coruscant, Korriban had become a major center of learning for the Sith Empire where many Acolytes came for training.


Rhelg

Rhelg was the location of Ludo Kressh's private fortress during the Great Hyperspace War. It was close to Khar Delba. Ludo Kressh was descended from a mixed ancestry. In 5000 BBY, Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos died, and both Kressh and Sadow attempted to claim the title. However, their duel was stopped by Ragnos' ghost.

Kressh was trained and proficient in manipulating the dark side of the Force and possessed some knowledge of Sith alchemy and magic, the latter of which he used to construct a device that would protect his son from all harm. In battle, Kressh utilized a Sith war sword that he infused with the power of the Force before a duel. Ludo Kressh was buried in a tomb cut into a shyrack cave in the Valley of the Dark Lords.

Khar Delba

Khar Delba was an icy, snowy planet with one moon, Khar Shia. It was located on the outer edge of Sith Space. The planet was originally part of the pre-Republic Sith Empire ruled by King Adas. Eventually, in 6,900 BBY, the planet, along with the rest of Sith Space, fell under the sway of arriving Dark Jedi from the Galactic Republic after their defeat in the Hundred-Year Darkness. One of the native species of Khar Delba was the fearsome Sith war behemoth, which were originally peaceful herd creatures that were transformed into vicious war beasts through Sith alchemy.

Naga Sadow built a citadel on Khar Delba, but unbeknownst to the rest of the Sith, this citadel was a decoy; his real base was on Khar Shian. In 5,000 BBY, Khar Delba was attacked from orbit by forces loyal to his rival, Ludo Kressh. Although the citadel was damaged, Sadow emerged victorious. In the following months, Khar Delba was rebuilt and was established as the center of Naga Sadow's power as he gathered a force to invade the Galactic Republic, in a conflict that became known as the Great Hyperspace War. After the end of the war, Khar Delba was largely stripped of its Sith treasures by Republic scouts.


Krayiss Two

Krayiss Two was orbited by two moons, the lowest of which hung relatively close to the planet's surface. Even during the night cycle, these moons gave the world a source of illumination. In ancient times, a Sith library-temple was founded on Krayiss Two. The temple was an enormous structure of angled walls and pyramidal towers, with a tall obelisk serving as a spire on the top of the building. The temple's massive double-door was protected by a force field, which only allowed certain people to enter the premises. It was a place for magicians of pure Sith blood to gather to meditate and set down the knowledge they had gained from their experiments. However, after 14,000 BBY this edifice became abandoned, although the spirits of those Sith who inhabited the place still remained. Eventually, the entire temple complex was completely buried, save for the massive obelisk that extended from its top of the structure.

In 4,009 BBY, a dark side force gathered on Krayiss Two, attracting the attention of Jev Sunrider, Jedi Watchman of the Darada system. Along with three Jedi Masters, Sunrider journeyed to the world to combat the force, but he never returned. In 4,000 BBY, a Jedi Knight named Vara Nreem arrived on Krayiss Two, seeking the knowledge of the dark side. Nreem recited an incantation that awoke the Sith spirits from their slumber and raised the entire temple complex to the surface. The spirits were not fooled and set upon the Jedi.


Ziost

Ziost was once a world made up entirely of an ancient dark forest. At some point, Ziost suffered from an Ice Age that had changed the world's terrain and climate. The trees withered away and the planet became desolate.

Ziost became the capital of the ancient Sith Empire after the reign of Adas came to an end. Without his unifying force holding them together, the Sith degenerated into their previous feudal ways. After centuries of battle and strife, the remaining Sith utilized Rakatan vessels to relocate to other planets, leaving their desolated homeworld Korriban as a vast graveyard world populated by religious fanatics, who would thousands of years later, be subjugated by the Jedi Exiles, forming a new Sith Empire.

*Pokes the forum a little* (Falinox)

Researchers Wanted

Anyone with knowledge of or an interest in the history of the Sith Empire, particularly the period around or following the Great Hyperspace War, please contact Inig Darkborne, Archon of the Dark Watch.