Dromund Kaas, part I & II

Astrographical information:

Region:

Outer Rim Territories

Sector:

Sith Worlds, Esstran sector

System:

Dromund system

Suns:

1: Dromund

Orbital position:

3

Moons:

2

Grid coordinates:

R-5

Trade routes:

Kamat Krote

Rotation period:

24 standard hours

Orbital period

312 standard days

Physical information:

Class:

Terrestrial

Diameter:

22,450 kilometers

Atmosphere:

Breathable

Climate:

Wet, heavily electrified

Primary terrain:

Swamp
Jungle
Oceans

Surface water:

Large oceans

Points of interest:

Dark Force Temple
Dark Temple
Imperial Citadel
Sith Academy

Native fauna:

Jurgorans
Yozusks
Sleens
Vine cats
Swamp wampas
Mailocs

Societal information:

Immigrated species

Sith
Humans

Primary language(s):

Galactic Basic Standard

Government:

Empire
Religious order (pre-Galactic Empire)

Population:

Pre–Cold War: Millions
10 ABY: 10,000 (70% Human, 30% other)

Major cities:

Kaas City

Major imports:

None

Major exports:

None

Affiliation:

Old Sith Empire
Reconstituted Sith Empire
New Sith
Prophets of the Dark Side
Galactic Empire

"Welcome to Dromund Kaas, where freedom goes to die, and legends are forced on the galaxy."
―Vette, upon exiting Dromund Kaas Spaceport

Dromund Kaas was the third planet in the Dromund system, a star system in the Sith Worlds region of the Outer Rim Territories's Esstran sector. Originally a colony of the Sith Empire, its location was lost by the time of the Great Hyperspace War with the Galactic Republic, but the Sith Emperor led his people on a twenty-year odyssey that ended with the rediscovery of Dromund Kaas in 4980 BBY. The Emperor and the remnants of the shattered Sith society reconstituted the Sith Empire with Dromund Kaas as its capital, taming the planet's savage jungles and building up their Empire's strength from the skyscrapers of Kaas City. Dromund Kaas remained safe from Republic reprisal when the Empire launched the Great Galactic War in 3681 BBY, though a Republic invasion fleet assaulted the Imperial capital in 3641 BBY during the Galactic War with the Empire while a Jedi Knight fought and defeated the Emperor in personal combat.

The reconstituted Empire eventually dissolved before 2000 BBY, and Dromund Kaas' jungles gave way to murky swamps over the centuries as the planet's location once again fell into obscurity. A major battle of the New Sith Wars was fought on Dromund Kaas, and several decades later the rogue Sith Lord Darth Millennial established the Dark Force religion on Dromund Kaas after he rejected the Rule of Two and abandoned the Order of the Sith Lords. The Prophets of the Dark Side who followed Millennial's religion ruled Dromund Kaas for almost a thousand years before they incurred the wrath of Darth Sidious, causing the Prophets to abandon the planet for Bosthirda. Despite its relative obscurity, the planet became embroiled in the galactic conflict known as the Clone Wars, but the powerful influence of the dark side of the Force on Dromund Kaas continued to draw both Jedi and Sith to the planet over the next several decades.

Description:

Dromund Kaas was the third planet of the Dromund system, a star system located in the Sith Worlds—a region of the Outer Rim Territories's Esstran sector that was enclosed in the nebula known as the Stygian Caldera. Dromund Kaas had three moons and orbited the star Dromund, and it lay along the Kamat Krote hyperspace route between the planets Jaguada and Bosthirda. By the time of the Great Hyperspace War with the Galactic Republic, Dromund Kaas was largely covered by jungles and oceans. When the survivors of the old Sith Empire arrived on the planet in 4980 BBY, they were forced to tame the seemingly endless jungles and fend off the planet's violent predators in order to establish their society, and the planet remained largely jungles, oceans, and swamps other than the metropolis of Kaas City and other locations on the surface. Dromund Kaas' atmosphere was also heavily charged with electricity to the point that lightning was a near-constant sight in the almost perpetually clouded sky; a result of the Sith Emperor's experiments in arcane and forbidden uses of the dark side of the Force.

In the centuries after the Galactic War between the Empire and the Republic, the planet's jungles were largely overtaken by swamps and marshes, submerging most of the planet's solid ground. The breathable atmosphere became more stable, though it remained a wet and humid world with a varying climate. Massive, dark-wooded trees grew in the swampy water, forming canyon-like groupings of foliage that were covered in vines and infested with the lizard-like ysalamiri creatures. The planet was shrouded in a pervasive miasma of dark side energy, and locations such as the Dark Temple and the Dark Force Temple were the sites of intensely strong Force nexuses.

History:

Capital of the Sith Empire:

"Dromund Kaas is the Imperial Capital. Legions of Sith call it home. The remaining population is almost entirely Imperial military."
―Lord Scourge

Dromund Kaas was originally a colony of the Sith Empire, but its location was lost several centuries before 5000 BBY. The rediscovery of Dromund Kaas began in the aftermath of the Great Hyperspace War, when the Sith Lord Vitiate ordered his researchers and historians to locate a safe haven for the people of the shattered Empire. Once they succeeded in rediscovering Dromund Kaas' location, Vitiate summoned all of the remaining Sith Lords to his homeworld of Nathema and mentally enslaved them, using their strength to perform a dark side ritual that stripped the life from Nathema and made him immortal. Vitiate then gathered the remaining people of the Sith Empire and embarked on a twenty-year wandering journey that finally ended in 4980 BBY with the "rediscovery" of Dromund Kaas thanks to Vitiate's advice.

Upon arriving on the surface of Dromund Kaas, Vitiate declared a reconstituted Empire with himself at the head that would one day return and take revenge upon the Republic. Under the guidance of the newly-created Dark Council, a group of twelve Dark Lords of the Sith who each assumed leadership over an aspect of the Empire, the new Empire gradually tamed their new homeworld and built their strength. Odile Vaiken, the Human who founded the new Imperial Military, led a military campaign into the wild jungle in order to clear the wilderness and make way for the Empire's capital, Kaas City. Vaiken himself slew a terentatek on the future site of the Imperial Citadel, the building that would house the headquarters of the new Sith Order and the Empire's Ministries of War, Intelligence, and Logistics. From Dromund Kaas, the Empire gradually expanded their domain.

- Exar Kun