An in depth profile of the Korriban World from the Xbox and PC role playing video games Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (also known as SWKotOR and KotOR) and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (also known as SWKotOR2 and KotOR2).

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Quick Facts

Korriban It is located in a region of space known as the Outer Rim Territories. Planet Korriban is located in the Horuset system. Korriban has one sun. The major species found on Korriban are Human (Sith). The planetary population of Korriban was 25,000 before the Jedi Civil War. Korriban has Sith affiliation.

History

Korriban is a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe, the sole planet in the Horuset System, located across the galaxy from Cinnagar and Koros Minor. It was the howeworld of the Sith.

This remote, forbidding planet, seething with dark side energy and echoing with the whispers of a thousand ghosts, 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 the rise of Naga Sadow. It was to Korriban that the ancient Dark Jedi fled after they were exiled by the Jedi Knights during the First Great Schism. Korriban was orignally 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 elected themselves to a god-like status, becoming the rulers of the Sith. As the years passed, interbreeding occured between the human Dark Jedi and the Sith, and it was not long before the Sith race in its original form became extinct.

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. 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, 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.

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

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