Dromund Kaas wilderness campaign Shortly after their arrival on Dromund Kaas , the people of the reborn Sith Empire launched a campaign to clear a wilderness region on the planet . The effort was conceived and organized by the founder and first leader of the Imperial Military , Odile Vaiken . Vaiken led a newly - formed army of Imperial revivalists into the jungle wilds of the untamed Dromund Kaas , carving into the habitats of native animal species and clearing the way for the Sith to gain a secure foothold on the world . When the project reached completion , the Imperials had cleared enough of the wilderness to allow for their leaders to begin building a new capital that would later come to be known as Kaas City . Prelude . In 5000 BBY , the Galactic Republic defeated the Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow and his great Sith Empire at the close of the Great Hyperspace War . Although the war had broken the backbone of the Empire and its people , the Republic ' s Supreme Chancellor Pultimo insisted that his forces continue their assault against the Sith in order to fully eliminate their culture and society . Fearing persecution , a group of Imperials fled from their homeworld of Korriban and the rest of Sith space to seek asylum with the surviving Sith Lord known as Vitiate elsewhere in the galaxy . Under the leadership of Vitiate , who quickly declared himself the undying Sith Emperor , these survivors traveled hyperspace for twenty years before discovering the lost planet Dromund Kaas in 4980 BBY . The jungle world had once played host to a Sith colonization effort , but had long since been forgotten . The Sith Emperor accepted Dromund Kaas as the capital for a new Empire that could one day challenge the Republic , but simultaneously retreated into the shadows while his Dark Council of Sith Lords managed the building of the new government . One of the first priorities set out for the Great Hyperspace War survivors was the taming of Dromund Kaas . The planet was a jungle wilderness teeming with aggressive wildlife that would need to be cleared before building could begin . To accomplish the task , the Dark Council looked to Odile Vaiken , a Force - deaf Human male who had accepted the responsibility of forging a new Imperial Military for use by his Sith overlords . After drafting every able - bodied adult into a fledgling army , Vaiken created an intense training regimen to bring his forces up to fighting conditions . Once his army was organized and trained , Vaiken began to execute his masters ' plans to secure Dromund Kaas . The campaign . With his newly - trained army of Imperial soldier s , Vaiken marched into the jungles of Dromund Kaas and began poaching the native animals and clearing the forests . Clad in black armor and wielding blaster rifles , the troops engaged and killed many yozusk s and other creatures . Vaiken himself participated in the combat and personally fought a large , rabid terentatek beast . Although the animal nearly got the upper hand , Vaiken managed to slay the terentatek and claim the region on behalf of the Empire . Aftermath . With a vast swath of the jungle cleared , Imperial builders were able to move in and begin construction on a new capital for a revived Sith Empire . The metropolis that sprang up in the area was named Kaas City and was centered around a massive building dubbed the Imperial Citadel , which was built over the site of Vaiken ' s clash with the terentatek . While the Emperor and Dark Council ruled their new dominion from the city , Vaiken went about the business of enhancing their military . The Human helped to design a new class of Star Destroyer and harnessed the strength of the Imperial people to build a new naval armada from scratch . Vaiken ' s work was hugely successful , and his new army and navy were tasked with expanding the boundaries of the Emperor ' s reign by conquering the worlds surrounding Dromund Kaas . Vaiken ' s work in building military strength for the Sith earned him the favor of the Dark Council and the Emperor himself , who proclaimed Vaiken to be the first Grand Moff of the new Empire . Over a millennium later , in the aftermath of the Imperial Military ' s victory in the Great Galactic War , the Jedi Master Gnost - Dural recorded a holovid that traced the beginning of the reconstituted Sith Empire and Vaiken ' s efforts on Dromund Kaas . Behind the scenes . The Sith Empire ' s campaign to clear the wilderness of Dromund Kaas had its first and only appearance in the of the " Galactic Timeline " . The Timeline , an online video feature , was created to provide information on background lore in the BioWare / LucasArts video game , " " . The eleventh entry , titled " Rebirth of the Sith Empire " , is narrated by actor Lance Henriksen as Jedi Master Gnost - Dural , and focuses on the exploits of Odile Vaiken .