Second battle of Korriban

The Second Battle of Korriban was a battle fought during the Great Hyperspace War, immediately following the First Battle of Korriban.

Prelude
In 5,000 BBY, Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow gathered an invasion force and launched an attack on the Galactic Republic. The Great Hyperspace War, as it would be called, consisted of a three-pronged attack on Coruscant, the capital of the Republic and the heart of the government, and the planets Kirrek and Koros Major, both located in the Deep Core Koros system. However, Sadow was betrayed by his Sith apprentice and one of his top commanders, Gav Daragon, a native of Koros Major, who was appalled at the destruction done to his home. Daragon's attack on Sadow led to Sith defeats at Coruscant, Kirrek, and Koros Major, all but ending any hope of Sith conquest. Sadow was subsequently defeated again in the Battle of Primus Goluud, where the remnants of his battered fleet were nearly wiped out by forces led by Empress Teta, ruler of the Koros system. Daragon was killed when Sadow activated a secret weapon to trigger the red giant star Primus Goluud's solar flares, but not before he gave Teta's forces, which included his sister Jori Daragon, the location to the Sith Empire.

The battle
Upon returning to the Sith Empire, Sadow's forces were attacked by his old rival, Ludo Kressh. Although Sadow was victorious, his fleet was diminished further by Kressh. Sadow was given no time to rest, however, as Teta and her forces arrived out of hyperspace and immediately commenced the battle. Sadow fought back with wild abandon, but the Koros forces, with numbers on their side and fueled by Teta's rhetoric, seemed too much. Jori Daragon herself took the controls of a Koros starfighter, and wanting to avenge the death of her brother Gav, caused the destruction of several Sith starfighters. Individual dogfights between starfighters dotted the scene of the battle, and laserfire focused on the Sith capital ships worked to great effect. Aboard Sadow's flagship, the Corsair, chaos reigned, as Sadow had found himself with weapons spent and systems failing. Desperate, Sadow set course for the Denarii Nova, using the dark side of the Force to destroy the system and any pursuing Koros soldiers. Teta declared victory, though Sadow had escaped. Back over Korriban, Sith Lord Shar Dakhan, former commander of the Sith forces on Coruscant, took over the hopeless situation as acting Dark Lord. Seeing that surrender was their only option, Dakhan ordered suicide attacks on the Republic forces, a tactic which worked for a time; however, the Sith were finally defeated.

Aftermath
With the Sith defeat in the Second Battle of Korriban, the Koros and Republic forces left Sith Space, and the Great Hyperspace War was over. Naga Sadow, having survived the conflagration, fled to the faraway moon of Yavin 4, where he struggled to rebuild his former glory.

Behind the scenes
The Second Battle of Korriban originally occurred in Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire, a story arc of the comic book series Tales of the Jedi, written by Kevin J. Anderson and released in 1997. The battle occurs in the arc's fifth and last issue, End of an Empire. In this appearance it was illustrated by Dario Carrasco, Jr. In addition, the battle was mentioned in several reference books describing the events of the Great Hyperspace War, including The New Essential Chronology, The New Essential Guide to Characters, and The Essential Atlas.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire 5: End of an Empire

Notes and references
Zweite Schlacht von Korriban Segunda Batalla de Korriban (Gran Guerra Hiperespacial)