Invasion of Belsavis

The invasion of Belsavis, also known as the Belsavis prison break, was a battle that occurred during the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire around 3640 BBY after the Empire discovered the location of the Belsavis prison, a top-secret Republic penal colony on the planet Belsavis. A small strike team followed by orbital bombardment saw the Republic prison heavily damaged, and the Empire incited riots throughout the complex as they worked to free important prisoners such as the Sith Lords known as the Dread Masters. Unbeknownst to the Empire, the attack on Belsavis was a distraction to hide the efforts of Executor Krannus, who sought to destroy the entire world for the Sith Emperor but was stopped by the Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython.

Chaos raged in the Minimum, High, and Maximum Security Sections of the prison colony, but as Imperial forces penetrated the Tomb—the ancient prison complex upon which the Republic facility was built—the battle changed. In their search for the Dread Masters and their efforts to sow chaos, Imperial forces broke open a number of sealed vaults, unleashing horrors that had been locked away by the Rakata who had built the Tomb. The violent Esh-kha species overwhelmed much of the Imperial forces in the Tomb, though the Dread Masters were successfully extracted and the Republic stopped the Esh-kha from releasing an entity known as the World Razer.

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