Battle of Coruscant (Great Sith War)

The Battle of Coruscant was a surprise attack launched in the Great Sith War of 3996 BBY by the Sith Empire against the Galactic Republic's capital planet, Coruscant. After joining forces with the Dark Lord of the Sith Exar Kun in 3997 BBY, the fellow fallen Jedi and Sith Lord Ulic Qel-Droma led the Krath darksider cult on a galactic conquest. When Qel-Droma later gained the allegiance of the Mandalorian Crusaders under the command of Mandalore the Indomitable as well, the former, the latter, and Qel-Droma's lover, co-leader of the Krath Aleema Keto, all came to believe that the time was right for a surprise attack on Coruscant with the goal of eliminating any further Republic resistance to a Sith domination of the galaxy.

Launching a raid on the Foerost Shipyards during which Qel-Droma's forces captured nearly three hundred of the Republic's newest warships and diverted the main Republic fleet's attention to the Kemplex Nine space station, they then traveled to Coruscant. At the time, a group of Jedi Knights led by Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas also had arrived on the planet in order to petition the Galactic Senate regarding the ongoing Sith attacks on Republic assets. When the Jedi were still on the landing platform of their starship, the Krath warships arrived in Coruscant's orbit and initiated a massive attack on the city-world.

The Jedi and Republic soldiers present on Coruscant were forced to defend the city against strafing runs of Krath starfighters and Basilisk war droid–riding Mandalorians. Meanwhile, Qel-Droma and Keto led a phalanx of Tetan ground troops on an attempt to capture the Republic command center and therefore disrupt the Republic's military operations, and Mandalore and his soldiers captured new weapons that were being produced at a nearby weapons depot. Baas's Jedi group, sensing Qel-Droma's presence, eventually also advanced on the command center, where the former Jedi was attempting to force the war room's commander to order Republic fleets to jump to an identical set of coordinates and thus be destroyed. At that point, Keto, who had her own designs for Krath leadership, abandoned Qel-Droma and withdrew the Krath and Mandalorian forces from Coruscant, retreating to the Empress Teta system. Abandoned and outnumbered by the Jedi, Qel-Droma attempted to resist but was soon arrested by them and turned over to the Republic to face trial for his actions.

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