Korriban

"*Just as a heart feeds blood through the body, Korriban will feed the dark side through the galaxy...*"
―Darth Selendis[src]
**Korriban** (ur-Kittât: **Kohrûvan**), also called **Moraband**, was a planet located in the Sith Worlds, within the Esstran sector, in the Outer Rim Territories. Korriban was the only still-intact planet in the Horuset system, surrounded on both sides by asteroid fields, and was the ancestral homeworld of the Tsis species as well as the Sith Order. Due to this history, it was home to many tombs of dead Sith Lords, most of which were located in the Valley of the Sith Lords.

Korriban was almost entirely abandoned, with a much smaller population than it once had, by the time of the Clone Wars. However, the latent dark side energies remained, and made it an important nexus of the Force.

## Description

### Astrography

Korriban was located in the Esstran sector of the Sith Worlds, an expansive region of the Outer Rim Territories. As a part of the sector, it was located entirely within the nebula known as the Stygean Caldera, and was accessible only through the Stygean Skip which connected the Dromund system to Malachor. Korriban was along the Old Sith Road, a ring-like hyperspace route which traversed the entire sector, between the Dromund system and the Khar system. This route was known to few, and was restricted in the Jedi Archives.

In the Horuset system, Korriban occupied the second orbital position around the system's central red dwarf star Horuset, located between the Korriba Scar and Ashes of Korr asteroid belts. The planet had seven moons, all small and lifeless. One local day was equal to twenty-eight standard hours, with a local year being 780 of those days.

### Physical description

Korriban was a planet of red deserts and mountains, with a cold and dry climate throughout with strong winds. It also had many valleys where structures were often built by its inhabitants, although by the Clone Wars most were in ruins and it was believed to be a world haunted by Sith ghosts.

The dark side of the Force was strong on Korriban and its presence was able to be felt from space. Due to it being a nexus of the Force, it was present on the Archons' Map.

## History

### Early history

King Adas, the Black King of Korriban, was the first king of the planet, leading them until 27,700 BEF, during a war with the Rakata Infinite Empire. He successfully defended the world during that first invasion, but a second attack led him to lead his people to exile on Ziost, which would become their adopted homeworld.

Korriban, due to its immense power with the dark side, would eventually be visited again by the earliest progenitors of the Sith, Dark Jedi known as the Exiles. These exiles made contact with the Tsis living on the planet and began to learn more about the dark side and the power they would not learn as Jedi.

### Home of the Sith

Korriban, in the centuries that followed, would become the homeworld of the Sith culture and way of life, and the cultural capital of their Sith Empire, even if Dromund Kaas was the political capital. Sith would be taught in the Valley of the Sith Lords at the Sith Academy, and the Dark Council would meet in that same structure. However, due to its importance, it became the site of conflicts with the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order, their sworn enemies as champions of the light side of the Force.

### Banite era

"*Just as a heart feeds blood through the body, Korriban will feed the dark side through the galaxy...*"
―Darth Selendis[src]
With the apparent destruction of the Sith at the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, very few people visited Korriban in the decades and centuries which followed. Sporadic Jedi factfinding missions did occur to the Sith Worlds as a whole, which by in large were abandoned by the rest of the galaxy. The Banite line, however, still did utilize Korriban, with one member, Darth Selendis, constructing the Tomb of Darth Bane in the Valley of the Sith Lords to honor the creator of the Rule of Two.

In one visit from Selendis and her apprentice, Darth Tenebrous, she engaged in the alchemical shroudspinning ritual to create a shroud of the dark side over the galaxy as part of the Banite Sith's Grand Plan to eventually reclaim control of the galaxy. This ritual took place underneath Bane's tomb, at a sacrificial chamber, with her master Darth Orrid as the blood sacrifice.

### Clone Wars

"*You must face the ultimate test. The ultimate seduction. The gravest of journeys.*"
"*You will travel to Moraband.*"
"*Journey to the ancient homeworld of the Sith. Face all that you fear. All that haunts your soul!*"
―Confusion, Sadness, and Anger; to Yoda[src]
Near the end of the Clone Wars, a galaxy-spanning conflict orchestrated by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, Jedi Grand Master Yoda traveled to Korriban, now known to him as Moraband, on the request of the Priestesses of the Force as part of the training he was undergoing to learn the secrets of becoming a Force spirit, retaining his consciousness post-mortem. Yoda traveled there and was drawn to the Valley of the Sith Lords, particularly the tomb of Darth Bane, where he encountered a specter of Bane made by the Priestesses.

Further beneath the tomb, he made contact with Sidious and Sidious' apprentice Darth Tyranus, who had created an illusion of the deceased Jedi Sifo-Dyas in the hopes of taking Yoda out of the conflict for good. In an ensuing lightsaber duel in a vision created by Sidious, Yoda was made aware of Sidious' identity as Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, a fact which would lead to the end of the war, as well as the end of the Galactic Republic and the beginning of the Great Jedi Purge.

## Locations

### Valley of the Sith Lords

 *Main article: Valley of the Sith Lords*
The Valley of the Sith Lords was an expansive valley on the surface of Korriban where the Sith trained their acolytes and apprentices in its various Sith academies, including the major Sith Academy located at the valley's end. Many tombs were also located in the valley, including the tomb of Darth Bane.

## Inhabitants

Korriban was the homeworld of the Tsis species, the progenitors of the Sith culture. They called the planet Kohrûvan in their language, ur-Kittât. By the time of the Clone Wars, they were few in number and most of the population could be found on nearby Ziost. Their on-world population was estimated to be around eighty-three thousand.

## Appearances

* "The Making of a Sith" (Mentioned only)
* "Common Ground" (Mentioned only)
* "A Padawan's Turmoil" (Mentioned only)
* "Vessel" (Mentioned only)
* "The Rite"
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice*
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter II — *Decisions* (Mentioned only)
* *Secrets of Salekelahn* (Shown on map)
* *Soul Searching* Yoda I — *Understanding* (Mentioned only)
* *Soul Searching* Ahsoka I — *Voices* (Shown on map)
* *Burning Galaxies* II — *Family Matters* (Mentioned only)

## Sources

* *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
* *Expanding the Unexpanded*
* *The Astronomy Guide*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice*
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 *The Astronomy Guide*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
4. ↑ *Secrets of Salekelahn*
5. ↑ "Vessel"
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 *Expanding the Unexpanded*
7. ↑ *History Celestial*
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "The Rite"
9. ↑ *Secrets Revealed* Chapter V — *Sith*