Devastation of Uphrades

In 3643 BBY, during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the reconstituted Sith Empire, the Sith Lord Darth Angral devastated the planet Uphrades using the Desolator superweapon. The penultimate event of his campaign of vengeance against the Republic and the Jedi Order for the death of his son, Tarnis, Angral's attack on the agriworld of Uphrades was a way to test his newly-constructed weapon before using it to attack Tython, the homeworld of the Jedi. The Desolator weapon ravaged Uphrades' surface and atmosphere, killing millions of civilians, and before departing for the Tython system, Angral dispatched a boarding team to destroy the medical frigate Daybreaker in order to eliminate any witnesses.

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