Korriban
Korriban
Korriban, the original homeworld of the Sith species, is a cold world of crying winds and dry, rocky fissures. Hundreds of canyons, their cliff faces marked with grim statues and honeycombed with winding tomb passages, make up the planet’s infamous Valleys of the Dark Lords. The few creatures that live on Korriban, including airborne skybacs, dragon-scaled husks, and Sith hounds (tuk’ata), are said to derive sustenance directly from the Force’s dark side. Some spacers even claim that Sith alchemy can animate corpses, and that Korriban zombies sometimes polish off freighter crews.
- Grid Location: R-5
- Region: Outer Rim
- Terrain: Mountains, canyons, dry riverbeds, tombs
- Diameter: 16,890 km
- Length of Day: 28 standard hours
- Length of Year: 780 local days
- Population: Historic: 9.6 billion; current: none
- Sentient Species: Historic: Sith
- Species Mix: Historic: Sith (94%), other/slaves (6%); current: not applicable
- Languages: Historic: Sith; current: none
- Government: Historic: magocratic dictatorship; current: none
- Major Exports: Sith artifacts (black market)
- Major Imports: None
- System/Star: Horuset/Horuset
Planets in the System:
| Planets | Type | Moons |
|---|---|---|
| Korriban Scar | Debris belt | - |
| Korriban | Terrestrial | 7 |
| Ashes of Korr | Debris belt | - |
Detailed History
Korriban has a recorded history dating back to approximately 27,700 BBY. In that era the Sith ruler Adas fought off a conquering horde of Rakata, then hijacked Rakatan hyperspace technology to spread his Sith civilization from Korriban to neighboring worlds, including Ziost. After Adas’s death, Korriban became a ceremonial homeworld populated by religious cultists.
A civil war initiated by Dathka Graush in 7000 BBY left most Korriban cities devastated, and after the arrival of Dark Jedi into Sith space a century later, Korriban became an unpopulated repository for increasingly elaborate mausoleums. The burials ceased in 5000 BBY following the Great Hyperspace War, and Korriban remained empty for a millennium until Exar Kun’s disciples established a Sith Academy there.
During the Jedi Civil War, Korriban gained prominence as a hub of Darth Revan’s revived Sith Empire. Even the Czerka Corporation built its headquarters there, in the settlement of Dreshdae. But the Sith Civil War left Korriban a graveyard once more. In subsequent millennia Korriban has been an occasional dark side training facility, but it is most often remembered as a ghost-haunted world of whispering evil and Sith secrets.