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These aren't local.

They'll wilt before sundown.

Half-brite.

Well,

maybe another time.

Eat your pie.

You fool, man.

Come on.

You eat your pie.

You have to eat your pie,

mother.

Last convoy lost two ships down there.

I was told you have something worth my time.

Depends what your time is worth.

That depends on what you're offering.

Where did you find this?

Out past the southern dunes, after a storm.

The sand moves.

It uncovers what it wants.

These markings aren't recent.

Nothing here is.

You're telling me this came from beneath the desert?

Most things did.

How deep?

Deep enough to remember water.

Water? This world wasn't always sand.

You expect me to believe there were oceans here? Not believe.

Remember. How does a world lose an ocean?

It wasn't lost.

It was taken.

By who?

The Rakata.

Before the invasion of Tatooine, the Rakata had already spread across the

stars.

The Rakata expanded outward from their home system.

in a coordinated and sustained campaign.

Powered by stellar energy, it enabled continuous fleet production.

Warships were constructed and deployed without interruption.

This capacity allowed the Infinite Empire to project forth across multiple

sectors simultaneously.

Some systems fell under overwhelming technological superiority.

Once orbit was secured, control constructs were deployed.

Grid lattice is locked into place around entire worlds, stabilizing space to seal

planetary freedom.

So.

Long before the desert winds claimed its plazas and corridors, the Sharu stood

among the most disciplined and structured minds of their age.

Their cities rose in measured geometry, stone and crystal fused with deliberate

symmetry.

Knowledge was not merely stored.

It was cultivated, refined, and projected into the public square as

living architecture of thought.

Fail Korath and Sharutal.

Ishwaroon Rakata.

Zorbaleth Kuraunai.

Frexvashato Benara.

Kel'Olu.

Oventalkara.

Fail Korath and Sharutal.

Ishwaroon Rakata. Ishwakanu.

Zor Baleth Koranai! Rix Vashatol Denara!

Kel Barun Ventakara!

Rix!

The Sharu ceased to govern themselves.

Their knowledge was catalogued, dismantled, and carried away.

Crystal archives were detached from their pedestals.

Data spheres were removed from their chambers.

The great conduits that once pulsed with white-blue energy dimmed one by one.

They labored beneath supervision.

They dismantled the very structures they had once engineered.

Without the anchors of their intellectual lattice, the sharu turned

inward. Over generations, the discipline that had defined them dissolved into

instinct. The architecture remained, but its meaning faded.

The devices lay dormant, unrecognized by the hands that once shaped them.

In time, the sharu became the toka.

They scavenged among the remnants of their own civilization, handling

crystalline fragments as curiosities rather than instruments of thought.

And beneath the sand, deeper than wind could reach, fragments of what they once

were remained buried, dormant but not destroyed.

Long before the Republic ever mapped the deeper reaches of the galaxy, entire

civilizations had already risen and fallen beneath the shadow of the

Infinite Empire.

Among the countless worlds they encountered, there was one civilization

that did not resemble the others.

The Killiks.

Yes.

The Killiks were something different.

Something older.

They were a hive.

When the fleets of the Rakatan Infinite Empire arrived, they encountered

something they had rarely faced before.

So they managed to rule them. The Rakata had conquered countless worlds through

terror, through technology, and through their domination of the Force. But the

Killigs were not easily ruled.

How was that even possible against the infinite empire?

Their hive mind allowed them to think and react as a single organism.

When danger came, the entire civilization moved as one.

Thank you.

hive mind could not be enslaved in the same way as other species.

There was no single ruler to dominate, no government to replace.

The will of the Killiks lived within the collective.

Recognizing the difficulty of subjugating such a civilization, the

Rakata eventually withdrew from their attempt to fully conquer the swarm.

But the conflict left its mark.

Across the hive networks, the collective memory of the invasion spread like a

warning. carried through generations.

And so the Killiks adapted.

Entire hives began to move.

Great colonies abandoned their original worlds, dispersing across the galaxy and

into the distant unknown.

Wherever they settled, new hive networks formed, each one connected through the

strange and ancient unity of the species.

So the Rakata conquered the other ancient species as well?

No.

Some enemies could not be ruled.

Long before the Republic existed, a species rose from the darkness between

the stars.

They called themselves the Eshka.

They did not seek empire. They sought annihilation.

Entire civilization vanished before them.

Worlds burned.

And the Rakata?

The Rakatan Infinite Empire lost dozens of slave worlds to them. For the first

time, the conquerors of the galaxy were forced to fight for survival.

So the Rakatan gathered fleets large enough to darken the stars.

And when the war finally ended, they made a decision.

Some enemies are too dangerous to kill.

Because killing them only makes martyrs. So instead, they buried them.

On a world of ice and darkness.

A prison built for monsters.

Belzevique.

the frozen world of El Thavis, ancient devices were built to strip

consciousness from the body and confine it within artificial realms.

The body would remain alive, but immobilized. The mind would awaken

elsewhere, trapped, bound within the endless geometry of a prison without

walls, where time carried no meaning and escape was impossible.

For the Rakata.

It was the perfect solution.

A prison not of stone, but of thought.

Belsavis, a prison world buried in ice.

The Rakata truly hid their enemies well.

But their history spans half the galaxy.

There is something I've wondered since the beginning.

Yes.

Long before the sands, Tatooine was a world of water.

Blue seas beneath the twin sun.

Islands, reef, coastal cities.

What happened there?

The Rakata happened.

And the people who lived there.

You could.

And more, damn it, yeah.

I'll make him the braid.

Good one.

information.

KLA!

Thrashal Kumunga Velkra Nar.

Nar, Velkra!

Thrall Vectra. Rakata Venkartal.

Kumunga Venka Rakata?

Velkra Nar.

Rakata Kortal Vek.

Velkra!

Kumunga Thrall Vek Rakata!

Thrall!

Vectra Core.

Talcara.

Thus, punishments of the Rakatan Infinite Empire reshaped an entire

world. The oceans of Tatooine were boiled away.

Its coral cities and island civilizations vanished beneath fire,

steam, and sand.

What had once been a thriving ocean planet became a barren desert.

scar left by the arrogance of an empire.

But the people of that world did not vanish.

The survivors endured the catastrophe.

Across the long millennia that followed, they adapted to the brutal climate their

world had become.

From those survivors would arise two of Tatooine's most enduring equals, the

wandering scavengers known as the Jawas.

And the fierce desert nomads remembered as the Tusken Raiders.

Both descendants of a civilization that once lived beside endless thieves.

So they destroyed an entire ocean world just to keep their slaves in line.

And yet the Rakata themselves vanished. What could possibly bring down an empire

like that?

Not a fleet.

Not a rebellion.

A sickness.

A disease destroyed the Rakuten Infinite Empire?

Not just any disease.

It spread across every Rakuten world.

And with it, something far worse than death.

What could be worse than death?

The Rakata built their empire on the Force.

And the plague took it away.

One by one, the conquerors of the galaxy could no longer feel the Force.

And without it, their empire began to die.