The Troodenite Empire, also so known as Vānna Tirudān in Troodenite language, was the galactic government founded by the tribal Troodenite Emperor Shahltoon to take the known galaxy out from under the rule of the Galactic Alliance and establish a newborn empire throught the whole galaxy.
History of the Troodenites[]
After 100,000 years of their ancestors being in isolation on the planet of Trooden, in the Unknown Regions, the Troodenites were desperate to gain territory in the other unknown regions of the galaxy, namely Rakata Prime (also known as Lehon), which was Trooden's closest neighboring planet. By 50 ABY, Rakata Prime was already a barren wasteland with polluted oceans and surrounded with asteroid-like rings of rubble from wars previously fought on the planet. The bad condition of Rakata Prime was not appealing to the Troodenites and their Emperor. The Troodenite Empire itself was a product of many tribal wars that have taken place on Trooden throughout the ages. Ethnic Troodenites constantly fought with a race that they themselves may have evolved from, the Saronians. As soon as the Troodenite tribes won the war against the Saronians, they adopted much of the Saronian culture and government, which was aristocratic in nature. They also gained access to Saronian legends about Troodenite and Saronian origins that were recorded in documents written in Saronian hieroglyphics, which only few could read. The Saronian documents held many secrets to an ancient past in what is now known as the Core Worlds. The Saronians called it the "Near Middle World"; this possibly refers to the planet of Duro in the Core Worlds, because both Saronians and Troodenites physically resemble the Duros). Now that the Empire gained access to the knowledge about the Core Worlds and a planet of origin, their next desperate attempt would be to find it and rule it, along with other territories gained through war.
The Saronians were the descendants of Duros slaves transported to Trooden by Rakata slave traders before the rise of the Infinite Empire 70,000 years later (35,000 BBY). After the age of Rakatan slavery had ended in 25,200 BBY, the Saronians had already inherited much of Rakatan knowledge and culture. They gradual became a thriving society that developed technologies married to the Force, another Rakatan influence. Tribal wars ensued between Saronian tribes because of thirst for power and territory among their leaders. One tribe called Tirudān, named after one of its chiefs, had been driven out of Saron (a tribal territory on Trooden) by the more powerful Saronian elite, the Aristocracy. The Tirudān would eventually evolve into a species separate from the Saronians and become a nation more powerful than the Aristocracy, later becoming the Tirudān (Troodenite) Empire.