Battle of Kirrek ( Great Hyperspace War ) The Battle of Kirrek was a sortie fought during the Great Hyperspace War in 5000 BBY . During Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow ' s invasion of the Galactic Republic , part of his fleet was brought to the Koros system , in an effort to conquer the system . With a battle for the system certainly forthcoming , Empress Teta , ruler of the Koros system , appointed a man named Llaban to command the forces on Kirrek . Llaban had previously led an army of rebels and pirates in opposition to Teta ' s efforts to unify the system just a short time earlier . Llaban was told to re - gather his army , and along with the support of Teta ' s forces , Llaban was given the services of two Jedi , Draethos scholar Odan - Urr and Celegian Jedi Master Ooroo , as well as prisoners from the nearby colony world of Ronika . The Sith force initially seemed unstoppable , and Kirrek ' s defenders were sent into a retreat while Odan - Urr ' s usage of battle meditation did not seem to have any effect . Finally , Master Ooroo formulated a plan and entered the fray . As a Celegian , Ooroo required a tank filled with cyanogen gas to exist in an oxygen - rich environment , his own native gas being lethal to oxygen - breathers ; Ooroo shattered his tank and released the gas , which allowed the wind to carry it towards the invaders . The tactic worked to great success , drastically thinning the numbers of the Sith force . Soon afterward , the prisoners from Ronika arrived to replenish Llaban ' s forces , and led a charge into the heart of the Sith invaders . Although Ooroo perished due to the destruction of his cyanogen tank , Llaban and his forces were victorious in the Battle of Kirrek . History . Prelude . In 5000 BBY , two hyperspace explorers , Gav and Jori Daragon , on the run from creditors on Koros Major , fled into the Unknown Regions in their ship " Starbreaker 12 " . There they discovered the long - isolated Sith Empire , which was in the midst of a power struggle between two Sith Lords , the expansionist Naga Sadow and the politically conservative Ludo Kressh . In the middle of a battle with Kressh , Sadow allowed Jori Daragon to escape back to Galactic Republic space in the " Starbreaker 12 " , although not before attaching a tracking device to the ship ' s hull . Daragon returned to Koros Major , where she warned Empress Teta , ruler of the seven unified worlds of the Koros system , about the Sith threat . Although the Galactic Senate did not believe these forebodings , Sadow amassed a war fleet and entered Republic space not long after . The conflict that was later termed the Great Hyperspace War was ignited , with Sadow launching a full - scale attack on the Republic capital of Coruscant . Teta soon began preparing for war , as a large part of the Sith force led by now - Sith apprentice Gav Daragon had gathered in the Koros system . In a meeting in Teta ' s palace , Teta appointed Llaban , a military commander , to gather his former army and lead them against the Sith on Kirrek . Llaban had earlier led a ragtag army of rebels and pirates in opposition to Teta ' s efforts to unify the Koros system . Teta was impressed with the ferocity with which Llaban ' s rebels fought in the Koros Unification Wars and granted his request for amnesty . Also , Teta promised to bolster Llaban ' s forces with prisoners from the nearby prison world of Ronika . Additionally , two Jedi , the Draethos scholar Odan - Urr and his Celegian Master Ooroo , arrived to fight by their side . Llaban soon returned to Kirrek and gathered his army , and began final preparations for the battle to come . Unintended Consequences . Prior to the assault on Kirrek , Naga Sadow assembled a large mining flotilla at Primus Goluud . Two of Sadow ' s mining vessels were the Sith dreadnaught s " Omen " and " Harbinger " , which were captained by the Human Yaru Korsin and the former Kaleesh Jedi Saes Rrogon respectively . While Sadow ' s Sith forces were comprised predominantly of Red Sith and Massassi , his forces also included a substantial number of Human ship crew and miners . These Humans were the descendants of Tapani migrants from House Nidantha who had traveled into the Stygian Caldera where they were captured and enslaved by the Sith Empire . Prior to the battle , Sadow gave Captain Korsin specific orders to deliver a mining team led by Korsin ' s half - brother Devore Korsin to the Phaegon system . Korsin and Saes were tasked with extracting and delivering Lignan crystal s to Sadow ' s forces on Kirrek . Lignan crystals were powerful lightsaber crystal s crafted from Lignan ore which enabled the blade of a lightsaber to last longer and burn hotter than normal crystals . While Sadow had designated Yaru Korsin as the leader of the expedition , he also reminded the Human Sith in a holocron transmission that he was still subject to the former ' s law and whim . While Sadow gave Korsin more freedom of action than most other Sith masters , he still warned Korsin that he only expected success and that failure would be punished by death . In addition , Sadow also dispatched the Sith quartermaster Ravilan Wroth and his retinue of Massassi warriors to escort the Sith expedition . The " Omen " and " Harbinger " left the main Sith mining flotilla which had gathered at the gas giant of Primus Goluud and traveled to Phaegon III . There , Captain Korsin ordered the bombing of the moon ' s surface to clear the way for a team of harvester droids to mine the Lignan . Despite their mission ' s success , the Sith mining fleet was attacked by a Jedi Infiltrator starfighter , piloted by Saes ' s former Jedi Master Relin Druur and his Padawan Drev Hassin . While the dreadnaughts ' Blade - class starfighter s fought the intruder , the two ships made preparations to jump into hyperspace . Hassin crashed his starfighter into the " Harbinger " , causing a series of explosions which killed himself and pushed the " Harbinger " towards the direction of the " Omen " . Meanwhile , Korsin ' s ship began to move out of the way too late , and the two dreadnaughts collided as the " Omen " jumped to hyperspace . The " Omen " was pushed just off course , and while in hyperspace encountered a massive gravity well that tore the ship apart . After a dangerous journey through hyperspace , the " Omen " crash - landed on a mountain in the remote Wild Space planet of Kesh . Since the " Omen " and its transmitter relay was badly damaged , it was unable to return to the stars and its crew and passengers would remain stranded permanently on Kesh . The Massassi warriors eventually succumbed to an unknown pathogen in Kesh ' s atmosphere . Later , Captain Yaru killed his estranged half - brother Devore Korsin during a duel near the " Omen " ; eliminating a rival to his leadership of the 332 stranded Sith crew and passengers . Meanwhile , Saes dueled his former master Druur on the " Harbinger " , seeking to end the score between them once and for all . He succeeded in wounding Druur but failed to stop him damaging the " Harbinger ' s " hyperdrive . Druur ' s actions caused the Harbinger to accidentally jump over five thousand years into the future . With the Lignan ore , Saes used the Force to keep his ship together until it emerged from the the warp . Upon learning of what had happened , Saes intended to return his cargo to Sith space , unsure of what had happened to the Empire . During a final duel against Druur , Saes was finally killed by his former Master , who was angered by the death of Drev Hassan . Shortly later , Druur , who had also succumbed to the Dark Side , was killed during a Lignan ore explosion which also destroyed the " Harbinger " and its crew . This effectively destroyed the last remnants of Naga Sadow ' s forces . The battle . Back on Kirrek , Llaban based his defenses around a citadel , reinforcing his positions with trenches and sharpened stakes . Finally , the Sith fleet launched their dropships containing the ground forces , which included large amounts of Massassi warriors and Sith war behemoth s . Although Llaban ' s forces fought valiantly against the Sith advance , the Sith force initially appeared too numerous to stop . Aided by the Sith fleet ' s bombarding of the planet from orbit , the Sith forced Llaban ' s armies to move steadily backwards . To turn the tide of the battle , Odan - Urr attempted to use an exotic Force technique called battle meditation as he had while commanding Teta ' s forces on Kirrek during the Unification Wars . Odan - Urr hoped it would raise the spirits of Kirrek ' s defenders while simultaneously lowering the morale of the Sith . The battle meditation did not affect the single - minded fury of the Massassi warriors , however . With Kirrek ' s defenders calling for the Jedi to enter the fray , Odan - Urr believed all hope for victory was lost . With the Sith forces advancing , Master Ooroo left his position at Odan - Urr ' s side and went onto the battlefield . As a Celegian , Ooroo required a tank filled with cyanogen gas of his homeworld to survive in an oxygen - rich atmosphere . While oxygen was toxic to the Celegian , cyanogen gas was equally toxic to oxygen - breathers , and Ooroo planned to use this to his advantage . Now amidst the chaos of the battle , the Jedi Master cracked several apertures in his cyanogen tank , allowing the favorable winds to blow the dense gas into the heart of the Sith forces . This strategy worked to great success , as the gas caused many Massassi warriors to collapse and die , their skin itself having turned a light green due to cyanogen poisoning . Even though their chances at victory were dimming , the Sith continued to charge . Finally , more ships appeared in the Kirrek sky ; although they were at first believed to carry more invaders , it was soon realized that the ships bore Empress Teta ' s insignia . The prisoners from Ronika had finally arrived , giving Llaban ' s forces new and fresh strength . With the released prisoners fighting at their side , Kirrek ' s defenders stopped their retreat and began to advance . The Sith warriors were forced to flee back to their ships , and the Battle of Kirrek had been won by Llaban ' s forces . Aftermath . The defeat apparent on the faces of the Sith was overshadowed by the grief of Odan - Urr at the death of his Master , Ooroo . As the Celegian laid dying near the shattered remains of his cyanogen tank , Ooroo predicted that Odan - Urr would grow old and die among his precious scrolls and books , as one of the most ancient Jedi ever . This prophecy later proved true , as Odan - Urr died over a thousand years later in the Great Jedi Library on the planet Ossus , the most ancient Jedi of his time . The defeat of the Sith on Kirrek , along with Teta ' s victory at the Battle of Koros Major and the Republic victory on Coruscant , effectively ended any Sith hope of conquering the Republic . Naga Sadow and the Sith fled back to Sith space and were finally defeated by Teta at the second battle of Korriban . Naga Sadow was forced to fake his death and eventually went into hiding on the faraway moon of Yavin 4 . Meanwhile on Kesh , Captain Yaru Korsin and the Sith survivors of the " Omen " managed to make contact with the native Keshiri , a purple - skinned Near - Human species . With the help of the Keshiri geologist and dissident Adari Vaal , Korsin and the stranded Sith were able to establish themselves as the new ruling elite on the continent of Keshtah Minor by claiming to be the Skyborn , a race of gods in Keshiri religion . While the Sith had plans to return to the stars and rejoin the Sith , they eventually gave up due to a lack of spare parts and natural metals on Kesh . These stranded Sith eventually developed into the purely Human Lost Tribe of Sith , which created a new Sith state on Kesh . By 4985 BBY , the Red Sith had been purged from the Tribe while the last non - Human , the Houk Gloyd , was killed during an internal power struggle within the Tribe . Over the next five millennia , Yaru Korsin would be remembered as the Founder of the Tribe . The Tribe also rewrote its history by destroying or distorting all information relating to their enslavement under the Red Sith , particularly Naga Sadow . To cover up the fact that the Tribe ' s founder Korsin had not returned to Sadow in order to escape punishment for failure , the Tribe ' s leadership adopted the belief that they were the Protectors , benign gods in Keshiri mythology who had returned to Kesh . Prior to his death , Korsin himself concealed Sadow ' s hologram transmission , the last remaining relic of the Tribe ' s true history , by recording his testament over it . In 3000 BBY , Sadow ' s secret transmission relating to the Battle of Kirrek was discovered and this sparked a violent bloodbath known as the Great Crisis , which devastated much of Keshtah . In the end , the Caretaker Varner Hilts ended the crisis and reunited the Tribe after he discovered a map which confirmed the existence of a second continent known as Alanciar or " Keshtah Major " . The new Grand Lord Hilts also commissioned a new testament which acknowledged the Tribe ' s origins as slaves to the Red Sith of the Sith Empire However , Hilts highlighted the fact that the Tribe ' s ancestors resisted their enslavement by learning about Sith philosophy and the dark side of the Force . While Hilts also acknowledged that the Tribe ' s arrival on Kesh had been accidental , he emphasized that the Tribe had turned the tables on their former Red Sith oppressors and rightfully exterminated them . This enabled the Sith Tribe to realize their " true destiny " as the rulers and slavers of the native Keshiri . Twenty - five years later , Hilts succeeded in annexing Alanciar and bringing it under Sith rule . Nearly three millennia later , the Lost Tribe rediscovered the wider galaxy after the Sith Meditation Sphere " Ship " made contact with the Sith Tyro Vestara Khai . The Tribe then created a Sith armada and and sought to expand into the galaxy . This put them into contact and conflict with both the New Jedi Order and a powerful entity known as Abeloth . Behind the scenes . The Battle of Kirrek was an event that appeared in " " , a story arc of the " " comic book series , written by Kevin J . Anderson and released in 1996 . The lead - up to the battle was mostly featured in the arc ' s third issue , " " , with the actual events of the battle occurring in the fourth issue , " " . In addition to these appearances , the battle was referenced in the opening page of the fifth issue , " " . In these appearances , the battle was illustrated by Dario Carrasco , Jr . The Battle of Kirrek also served as a plot device for John Jackson Miller ' s " Lost Tribe of the Sith " series which focused on the story of a Human Sith Tribe that had become stranded on the planet Kesh . The series ' first eBook " " , which was released on May 29 2009 , established the Tribe ' s ancestors origins as slaves of Naga Sadow and linked their arrival on Kesh to the Battle of Kirrek . The seventh eBook , which was released on July 18 2011 , also recycled the Battle of Kirrek as a forgotten element of the Tribe ' s history . Meanwhile , Paul S . Kemp ' s novel " Crosscurrent " , which was released on January 26 2010 , focuses on the story of Saes Rrogon , the captain of Sadow ' s second lost mining ship " Harbinger " , and his estranged former Jedi Master Relin Druur .