Khar Delba Khar Delba was an icy , snowy planet in the Sith Worlds , which was part of the Sith Empire as of 5000 BBY . Khar Delba had one moon , Khar Shian , and was located at the edge of Sith Space . It was the home to the Sith war behemoth . Naga Sadow placed a citadel there , but unbeknownst to the rest of the Sith at large , Sadow ' s Khar Delba citadel was a mere decoy ; his real base was on Khar Shian . In 5000 BBY , with Naga Sadow in the midst of a power struggle with his rival , Ludo Kressh , Khar Delba was attacked from orbit by forces loyal to Kressh . Although the citadel was badly damaged in Kressh ' s orbital bombardment of the planet , Sadow emerged victorious after calling in his secret fleet from the far side of Khar Shian to counterattack Kressh . 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 . Description . Khar Delba was located in the region of the Outer Rim Territories known as the Sith Worlds . The planet was located on the outer edge of Sith Space , which was encircled by a large nebula called the Stygian Caldera which helped to conceal the area from outsiders . Khar Delba , along with Ziost , Rhelg , Krayiss Two , and Korriban , was one of the five sacred Sith planets linked by the looping Nache Bhelfia hyperlane . In addition to this , Khar Delba was located at the endpoint of the Kamat Aegit hyperlane , which stretched to Begeren in the interior of Sith Space . Khar Delba resembled an asteroid from space and had a very rock y surface , with many mountains and craters . The planet was perpetually covered in snow and ice . Khar Delba had one moon , Khar Shian . 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 . The planet was also the homeworld of the Sith warbird , a species of large , flightless bird that was used by the Sith as an artillery mount , and the creatures originated within Kar Delba ' s frigid mountains . History . The planet Khar Delba was originally part of the pre - Republic Sith Empire ruled by King Adas . Eventually , in 6900 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 . By 5000 BBY , Khar Delba came into the possession of Dark Lord of the Sith claimant Naga Sadow , who used the planet as a base and established a large decoy fortress there , with his real citadel located on Khar Shian . In 5000 BBY , two hyperspace explorers from the Republic , Gav and Jori Daragon , arrived in Sith Space , sending the Sith Empire into a frenzy . The two were imprisoned on Ziost , and seeing a opportunity to take the title of Dark Lord of the Sith , Sadow launched an attack on their cell at the Sith Citadel and kidnapped them . Sadow brought them to his fortress on Khar Delba while he returned to Ziost , where he proclaimed himself Dark Lord . Sadow then split the siblings up , keeping Jori at Khar Delba while sending Gav to his secret fortress on Khar Shian . Soon , however , Sadow ' s rival Ludo Kressh , along with two of his Sith Lord allies , Horak - mul and Dor Gal - ram , gathered a fleet with the intention of attacking Sadow ' s decoy fortress on Khar Delba . Kressh ' s force commenced an orbital bombardment of Sadow ' s fortress , but Sadow had a plan . Sadow ordered his Massassi warrior s to man the defense turrets of his fortress . While Kressh was distracted with the fortress , Sadow called his secret fleet in from the far side of Khar Shian , which struck at Kressh ' s flank . In addition , Sadow commanded the subordinates of Horak - mul and Dor Gal - ram , who were actually double agents , to betray and murder their masters . This tactic worked to perfection , and the two Sith Lords were killed ; Kressh found himself with no bacrup and fled . The Battle of Khar Delba had been won by Sadow . In the midst of the battle , Sadow allowed Jori Daragon to slip away in her ship , the " Starbreaker 12 " , and return to Republic space . However , Sadow placed a tracking device on the ship ' s hull , which later led Sadow to the Republic to fulfill his expansionist ambitions . On Khar Delba , Sadow slowly rebuilt his fortress , while using the planet as a base to gather his invasion fleet . In the ensuing months , Sadow put together a fleet with which he planned to invade and conquer the Galactic Republic . At a meeting on Khar Delba , where he finally announced that his forces were ready to move out , Sadow received unexpected news ; Ludo Kressh had returned to Khar Delba . Kressh ' s lone flagship had arrived in the planet ' s atmosphere , and after Kressh transmitted a message denouncing Sadow , Sadow ordered Gav Daragon , now his Sith apprentice , to activate the controls to block the transmission . Unbeknownst to Daragon , however , Sadow tricked him into pressing a button that destroyed the ship , seemingly killing Kressh . Although Daragon was enraged by this deception , Sadow convinced him it was necessary . The Sith fleet was soon completed and ready for battle , and Sadow set out to conquer the Republic . However , Sadow ' s Sith were eventually defeated in the ensuing Great Hyperspace War , and Sadow was forced to fake his death and flee to the faraway moon of Yavin 4 . After the end of the war , Khar Delba was largely stripped of its Sith treasures by Republic scouts . Following the defeat of the Sith Empire , the Sith all but disappeared from Sith Space and the galaxy as a whole . Sith Space was conquered by the Mandalorian Neo - Crusaders in the Mandalorian Wars , and later by Dark Lord of the Sith and former Jedi Knight Revan in the Jedi Civil War . Around 3639 BBY , the Sith Lord Darth Marr of the reconstituted Sith Empire departed the planet Makeb in order to rendevzous with a fleet above Khar Delba , as the Empire was engaged in the Galactic War with the Republic . The region around Khar Delba eventually fell into the control of the Brotherhood of Darkness , a Sith group that launched a campaign to control the galaxy , during the New Sith Wars . It was left largely untouched by the rise of the Galactic Empire and the Galactic Civil War , but the area containing Sith Space came to fall into the hands of Warlord Zsinj by around 7 ABY . More than a hundred years later , the area around Khar Delba fell under the control of Darth Krayt ' s Galactic Empire . Inhabitants . Khar Delba was solely inhabited by Naga Sadow and his servants , many of whom were members of the Sith ' s Massassi warrior class . Sadow ostensibly resided on Khar Delba exclusively , but secretly held his other fortress on Khar Shian . Jori Daragon also resided on the planet for a short time , living in the guest area of the fortress . The building also contained a large amount of Massassi warriors . Although the planet and Sith Space as a whole were originally inhabited by the Sith , they all but disappeared from the area after the events of 5000 BBY . Locations . A barren , unremarkable planet , Khar Delba contained Naga Sadow ' s citadel , which served as a decoy for the Sith Lord , to draw attention while Sadow ran his operations from Khar Delba ' s moon , Khar Shian . The citadel was badly damaged due to Ludo Kressh ' s bombardment of the planet in the Battle of Khar Delba ; but Sadow rebuilt it and , from there , put together a fleet that went on to attack the Republic in the Great Hyperspace War . Behind the scenes . The planet Khar Delba first appeared in " Star Wars : Tales of the Jedi — The Golden Age of the Sith " , a story arc of the " " comic book series , written by Kevin J . Anderson and released in 1996 . The planet is featured in the arc ' s , , and . Khar Delba also appears in the follow - up arc , " " , in the arc ' s first issue , " " . In these appearances , the planet was drawn by Dario Carrasco , Jr . In addition , Khar Delba is mentioned in several reference books , including " " in 2007 and " The Essential Atlas " in 2009 .