Battle at Primus Goluud The Battle at Primus Goluud was waged high above the star Primus Goluud during the Great Hyperspace War in 5000 BBY , between Empress Teta ' s forces and the Sith Empire of Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow . During the earlier Battle of Koros Major , Sith commander Gav Daragon was confronted by his sister , Jori Daragon , over the death of their acquaintance Aarrba the Hutt . Overcome by emotion , Gav left and traveled to the Primus Goluud system , where Sadow was sequestered in his Sith Meditation Sphere creating Force illusions to aid the Sith war effort . Daragon , wanting to end the violence of the war , fired on the Meditation Sphere , damaging it . However , Sadow requested Daragon to go to the damaged sphere to face him man - to - man , an offer Daragon accepted — only to find he had been tricked and Sadow had trapped him there . Daragon frantically transmitted vital strategic information to Teta ' s forces from the sphere , hoping to aid in a Galactic Republic victory in the war ; the Republic fleet quickly arrived . However , Sadow ' s forces reappeared in the system soon afterward , led by Sadow ' s flagship , the " Corsair " . Laser fire erupted between the two sides , although Sadow had a trick up his sleeve ; Sadow used a secret weapon to trigger Primus Goluud ' s solar flares , destroying the sphere and killing Daragon , though not before the Koros forces were able to escape . Prelude . In 5000 BBY , Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow , the expansionist ruler of the long - isolated Sith Empire , gathered an invasion force and attacked the Galactic Republic . The Sith strategy in the Great Hyperspace War , as it came to be called , was to launch a two - pronged attack — one part of the Sith force attacked Coruscant , the capital of the Republic , while the other part attacked the Koros system , with two battles occurring on the planets Kirrek and Koros Major . While all this happened , Sadow retreated in his Sith Meditation Sphere to the remote Primus Goluud system , where he was deep in concentration supplementing the Sith forces with his dark side Force illusions . Meanwhile , on Koros Major , Gav Daragon , commander of the Sith effort on the planet , took a dropship down to the planet to try and find his sister , Jori Daragon , amidst the battle . During his search , Daragon got into an altercation with an old acquaintance , Aarrba the Hutt , resulting in the Hutt ' s death . Jori Daragon arrived on the scene at that moment , and confronted her brother about Aarrba ' s death ; overcome by emotion , Gav fled . Gav decided to go to the Primus Goluud system and confront Sadow , hoping to end the war in one swift stroke . Daragon fired on Sadow ' s Sith Meditation Sphere , breaking his concentration and causing the disappearance of his illusions . Sadow then sent Daragon a message , asking him to come to the Meditation Sphere and face him man - to - man . Daragon accepted , and took his personal shuttle across to the sphere . However , when Daragon arrived on the sphere , he found it empty ; Sadow had deserted it and stranded him there , in orbit around the system ' s red supergiant star , Primus Goluud . Frantic , Daragon used the sphere ' s still - working comm system to contact his sister and Empress Teta , the ruler of the Koros system . Their forces quickly arrived , instructing Daragon to surrender and prepare to be boarded ; in response , Daragon renounced the Sith Empire and told them that the Empire was unguarded ; information that could help them seal a victory against the Sith . The battle . However , at that moment , the remnants of Sadow ' s battered fleet were recalled , gathering in the Primus Goluud system . Sadow boasted that a Dark Lord of the Sith would not give up so easily ; although the Koros forces were at first surprised , they saw it as an opportunity to do a great deal of damage to the Sith force . Laser fire ensued between the two sides , and Sadow , aboard his flagship , the " Derriphan " - class battleship " Corsair " , used a secret weapon to trigger the unstable red star ' s solar flares . With the flares threatening to kill them all , Daragon warned his sister and the rest of the Koros forces to flee , and transmitted the coordinates of the Sith Empire to them . The Sith left to return to their homes , and Empress Teta gave the order to follow Daragon ' s coordinates back to the Sith Empire . The Sith Meditation Sphere containing Gav Daragon was destroyed , killing him . Aftermath . With Daragon ' s coordinates in hand , Teta ' s forces followed Sadow back to the Sith Empire and handed him a final defeat at the second battle of Korriban . Sadow was forced to fake his death and flee to the faraway moon of Yavin 4 . After Gav Daragon ' s death in the Battle of Primus Goluud , Jori Daragon took over operations of Aarrba ' s Repair Dock , the business that the late Aarrba the Hutt had owned in Cinnagar , the capital city of Koros Major , in Gav ' s memory . Behind the scenes . The Battle at Primus Goluud was an event occurring in " " , a story arc of the " " comic book series , written by Kevin J . Anderson and released in 1996 . The battle took place over several pages of the arc ' s fourth issue , " " . A galactic history entry in the in - game Codex of the video game " " was the first to provide a name for the battle .