Troubles

The Troubles, known as the Hâsk Nyâshk in the,  was a protracted  civil conflict fought between  and  in two successive phases. The first phase was fought between conservative factions of the Mure tribe and the Murese Sith over the presence of peoples of  blood on Mure. The second phase was fought over the issue of Sith unionism between a coalition of these same factions and refugees fleeing the fall of the Empire in the aftermath of the.

First phase
The first phase of the Troubles was fought between the of the Mure tribe and the Murese Sith for planetary. Though the leadership of both the Mure tribe and the Kûskûshnwûlanjattsisottoikut had agreed to bury the hatchet in the aftermath of the Sith-Rakata War, tensions between the two species remained high even after the formation of the Second Predorate coalition government.

Some more conservative Rakata viewed the Sith as an jumped-up slave race unworthy of abiding on the ancient world of Mure. Their counterparts among the Sith viewed the Rakata as another Forceless species whose sheer numbers were the only things standing in the way of uncontested Sith hegemony over Mure. In the centuries following, tensions between these two groups intermittently escalated to armed conflict repressed by the forces of the Second Predorate.

Second phase
The second phase of the Troubles was fought over the issue of Sith unionism. With the fall of the in the years following the, surviving  from the Empire fled to unaligned Sith worlds as diverse as  and Mure in the hopes of receiving asylum. On the latter, some Sutta Kotsuskak who had fought alongside the Sith during the conflicts of the advocated for their integration into the Sith population on Mure on the basis of shared heritage and compatible culture. The subsequent Murese Unionist movement garnered significant support among the more rabid Sith sympathizers on Mure and blossomed into a significant political party in the years that followed.

However, the prevailing political establishment of the Second Predorate, composed of the native Rakata of the Mure tribe and more conservative groups of Murese Sith, opposed such immigration initiatives due to incompatible belief systems. Many of the Murese Sith had long championed and taken pride in their differences from the mainline Sith on account of their and. These felt threatened by the inclusion of Sith from the Empire and predicted that the Imperial Sith would cause conflict in the course of pursing their traditional  power games. The Rakata were concerned that an influx of Sith to their world would tip the balance of power in that species's favor and threaten the unspoken political hegemony they had wielded since the Predorate's founding.

Tensions came to a head in the years that followed, resulting in occasional bouts of armed conflict and political upheaval that simmered down over time before gaining renewed vigor.

Behind the scenes
The Troubles is a less-than-subtle reference to the of the same name.