Sith Offshoot

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Sith Offshoot was a term used to describe the various  brought into existence through the artificial fusion of the Sith genome with those of other  or  species. Though the Sith species was naturally subdivided into the, , and subspecies, the use of  or  permitted the genetic manipulation, modification, and application of Sith genetic material with that of otherwise incompatible species.

The of the  were believed to have been among the first to hybridize the Sith species. In the years prior to from  by , the Rakata under   abducted several Sith from Korriban. These slaves, subsequently called the, were studied by Rakata s, providing their captors with the raw Sith genome for modification and manipulation. Using the, a designed to create  slave races for the Infinite Empire,  the Rakata were able to splice the Sith genome with that of their Force-sensitive  s in their efforts develop a more efficient Force-using race. The results of these experiments were known as the Murese, named after the fortress world upon which they were created, studied, and modified by their Rakata creators.

In, the  stumbled onto Korriban in their efforts to flee their defeat in the. They subsequently enslaved the native Sith, disseminating their Human blood to the greater Sith population through the application of Sith alchemy. , the greatest alchemist of the Exiles, standardized the procedure by which Humans and Sith could compatibly mate and reproduce, and over the subsequent millennia, the hybridization of the Sith led to the rise of the Sith-Human offshoots of both the and. Though most of these Sith referred to themselves as s, called themselves Sith Offshoots.

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