The Exegol tribe was an ethnolinguistic group of charcoal-skinned Rakata native to Exegol, an Unknown Regions Force nexus considered part of the Rakatan Archipelago. The descendants of Rakata who had chosen to remain on Exegol after the fall of the Infinite Empire, the Exegol tribe persisted on their homeworld for millennia. The Rakata group eventually met its end during the Rakata–Sith war at the hands of the Sith Eternal, a marginal Sith order that colonized the planet in the years following the post–Great Hyperspace War counterinvasion of 4999 BBY.
History
Early history
The members of the Exegol tribe were the descendants of Rakata who had chosen to remain on Exegol after the fall of the Infinite Empire in 25,200 BBY.[1][2] Stripped of their Force sensitivity on account of a plague that decimated their numbers,[4][5] the original members of the tribe chose to ride out the Rakata civil war on Exegol rather than risk a return to the Empire's capital of Lehon.[4] Though not as technologically advanced as their peers in the Makatak and Tulpaa tribes,[6] the Exegol tribe managed to reverse-engineer some of the Force-powered technology of their ancient ancestors and develop a number of Forceless alternatives, though they continued to search for ways to restore their lost Force sensitivity.
Rakata–Sith war
The tribe remained on their verdant homeworld for millennia, isolated and unknown to the outside galaxy. However, some time after 4999 BBY, the Exegol tribe was joined on-world by a small group of Sith-blooded refugees from the Sith World of Upekzar.[7] These Sith, self-proclaimed caretakers of the Sith species's cultural heritage, had fled into the Unknown Regions to escape the Jedi–Republic counterinvasion of the Sith Empire that followed the conclusion of the Great Hyperspace War.[8][9][10][11] Perceiving the red-skinned interlopers to be Force users and desperate for a chance to restore their lost Force sensitivity, the Rakata attacked the Sith with the intention of capturing a Force user for experimentation and research into the link between genetic expression and Force sensitivity.[6]
However, despite their greater numbers, the Rakata were unable to answer to the Sith refugees' power in the dark side and their superior technology. The resultant war devastated the surface of the once-verdant world and resulted in the near-extinction of the Exegol tribe at the hands of the Sith.[12] The survivors were enslaved as members of the Grotthu slave caste[13] by the Sith Eternal, and the tribe eventually died out several centuries later, leaving the planet in the hands of the Sith.
Sources
- The Unknown Regions (Indirect mention only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, p. xviii
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The New Essential Chronology, p. 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Unknown Regions, p. 140
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Unknown Regions, p. 141
- ↑ Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Unknown Regions, p. 142
- ↑ Fate of the Jedi: Ascension
- ↑ The Essential Atlas, p. 127
- ↑
Star Wars: The Old Republic—Codex Entry: "Galactic History 27: The Great Hyperspace War"
- ↑
Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
- ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 363 ("Great Hyperspace War")
- ↑ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: A Junior Novel
- ↑ Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side, p. 20