All it needs is for Star Wars canon to add back in the rich history of the Sith homeworld.The Sith were a proud and violent species of humanoids that evolved on Korriban, a planet within the Horuset system in an isolated Outer Rim region called the Stygian Caldera. Related: Star Wars 9: Changing Rey's Parents Is Rise of Skywalker's Biggest RiskĪside from having a thinner history, Moraband is otherwise the same as Korriban: its depiction in Star Wars: The Clone Wars matches with that of Korriban in old EU artwork, it has the same key features, and is located in the same spot in the Outer Rim. Yoda eventually left Moraband behind, but Sidious would go on to visit the planet a number of times. Yoda encountered the spirit of Darth Bane, while Darth Sidious unsuccessfully attempted to corrupt him.
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Most of what we know comes from The Clone Wars episode "Sacrifice", with Yoda visiting the planet on his quest to discover the secrets of eternal consciousness. Moraband is still established as the anicent homeworld and burial place of the Sith, with the graveyard known as the Valley of the Dark Lords, which was the final resting place of Darth Bane. In Star Wars canon, much of this history has been lost. After the Great Galactic War, Korriban fell back into Sith hands, and a Sith Academy was established on the planet, which is where Darth Bane was trained, but it never fully recovered from the devastation of so many wars and was again abandoned and left to fall into disrepair again. Various Sith would attempt to rise Korriban from the ashes over the years, some more successfully than others. Korriban was discovered by the Galactic Republic around 5,000BBY and, with the Sith Empire destroyed in the Great Hyperspace War, the planet largely fell into ruin, mostly becoming a graveyard to the Sith Lords of old.
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The defeated Dark Jedi were exiled and settled on Korriban, where their strength in the Dark Side of the Force elevated them to God-like status, and they began breeding with the Sith species, which eventually led to the formation of the Sith Empire. That was until 6,900BBY, and the end of the Hundred-Year Darkness, a bitter conflict between the Jedi and a group of Dark Jedi. Korriban was ravaged by war, however, and eventually most of the Sith decided to relocate elsewhere in the galaxy, leaving only a section of religious fanatics behind. In Star Wars Legends, the history of Korriban dates back 30,000 years before the Battle of Yavin, and was originally the homeworld of the Sith species. In Star Wars Legends, however, the world Korriban has been fleshed out much more than it has in canon. Despite changing the name, Lucasfilm have said that a planet as ancient as Moraband could've held many names, thus Korriban simply became known as Moraband. Related: Why Genndy Tartakovsky's Star Wars: Clone Wars Isn't Canonįirstly, it should be noted that they are, in essence, the same planet. Because of its presence in The Clone Wars, Moraband has remained in Star Wars canon after Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm. The name was changed because Lucas thought Moraband sounded better - it's also been speculated, but not confirmed, that he felt viewers might be confused between Korriban and Coruscant - but that's not the only way the Sith homeworld was altered in Star Wars canon. By the time Star Wars: The Clone Wars came around, however, the name was changed with its mention in "Destiny", the 12th episode of The Clone Wars' sixth season.
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The world was first established in the comic book Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith, published in 1996. In Legends, the planet Korriban first served as the homeworld for the Sith species, a race of red-skinned humanoids who were powerful in the Dark Side of the Force. However, Star Wars: The Clone Wars changed this to establish the Dark Side of the Force-users as coming from Moraband instead, at the behest of Lucas. The Sith's homeworld changed in Star Wars canon, and it was because of George Lucas himself. In the old Expanded Universe, now Legends, it was established that the Sith came from a planet called Korriban.