Karock

__nowysiwyg__ The Karock, a of "Karos" and "rock," was an isolated  and localized  that existed deep in the  desert. This, which housed both an extensive maze of s that riddled its interior and a subterranean lake buried at its roots, overlooked the entrance to the remote. The Karock got its name from Karos, a of the  who settled it during the. In the years that followed, the Karock came to house a  upon its summit, a personal  in the renovated caves, and a  deep underground.

History
The Karock, originally named Karak from a word of unknown meaning, was known to the ancient  since the days of   and the  in. In the years following the rise of  in, the Karock came to host a small   at its summit. This fort guarded the pass to the remote, one of the many burial grounds of the ancient Sith kings scattered across the planet and the location of. Following the arrival of the  and establishment of the  in, titular ownership of the Karock passed between many different Sith   who frequently strove among each other for dominance over Korriban. During this time, the fort upon its summit was abandoned and left to decay.

Some time after the start of the in, the Karock was rediscovered and settled by a Sith-Human  by the name of Karos. Drawn to the Karock for both its high natural and its distance from the main Sith population centers at, , and , Karos took possession of the Karock and imported an army of  slaves and  architects to transform the remote bornhardt into his personal fortress. Over the years, the Karock came to host a -domed  upon its summit, a private  and  barracks in its cleared Shyrack caves, and a  on the central island of its underground lake.

During the that followed the end of the  of, the Karock was occupied by the tattered forces of the Tsistaralkut, a Sith  under Karos's direction that opposed the joint - invasion of the   and sought to buy refugees time to escape the. The Karock served as one of the last headquarters and redoubts of the Tsistaralkut during the Sith genocide's final days.

Behind the scenes
The Karock is simultaneously a reference to the Karos, the  rock formation from , and the real-life  that sat along a trade route in the. The Karak rock itself was inspired by the, a set of s present in the in.