Long Defeat

The Long Defeat was the name for a protracted  that occurred between the forces of the reorganized Second Predorate of Mure and the tribal confederation of their former   slaves. The conflict lasted some 12,063 years in total and directly corresponded to the Murese Postantiquity period, defined by the fading and decay of vestigial elements existing in the Preantiquity and Antiquity periods.

The Long Defeat officially began with the Siege of Sferastotazisiv at the end of the War for Liberation, a battle immortalized in the Karzanuowonosa. This event, the culmination of a slave revolt like many others that raged across the after its fall in,  saw the death of  Bala'zar and the collapse of the First Predorate of Mure at the hands of Asmenys and his emancipated Red Sith slave-warriors. However, in keeping with conventional Rakata military doctrine, the Rakata remnant denied the Sith the ultimate victory by authorizing their fleet docked on the Celestial Gates to engage in an extended, laying waste to the large Sith occupation force in the city of Sferastotazisiv and bombarding assembled Sith forces wherever they could be found on the planet.

Unable to settle and develop an urban or agrarian society of their own for long without fear of bombardment, the Sith were forced to embrace the ancient tribal practices of their i ancestors, organizing themselves into a perambulating tribal confederation whose clans traversed in secret across the planet with the seasons. Supported by the remnants of their fleet in orbit, the Rakata forces still on the planet surface barricaded themselves inside their s, the sienaimiestasikut, reorganizing themselves into the Second Predorate and reestablishing some control over the planet's equatorial region.

For the next millennia, the Rakata continued to harry the migratory Sith, who managed to develop a united society and language of their own as their travels took them across the planet and into contact with different tribal entities. As the millennia wore on, the Rakata numbers waned, rendering them increasingly less able to maintain control over their cities and incapable of repairing and maintaining their fleet in orbit. The Sith, having spent millennia evolving into the predatory Force-using Murese, began to besiege and capture Rakata sienaimiestasikut on the equator, enslaving their surviving residents and occupying their precincts. With the Siege of Sventoveruozas and fall of the Second Predorate in, the Murese entered a classical period of history known as the Premodernity, characterized by the rise of the unique Murese Sith identity and the forging of a new era of Murese history.