Ashas Ree

For other uses, see Ashas and Ree (disambiguation).

"I have yet to visit Ashas Ree, but various Sith texts stress that it is an insignificant world. Tragically, many once prominent Sith worlds—including Ziost, Khar Delba, and Khar Shian—went the way of Ashas Ree, as all were largely stripped of their relics by Republic forces after the Great Hyperspace War."

―Seviss Vaa, Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force^[5]

Ashas Ree was a terrestrial planet in the Ashas Ree system, located in the Sith Worlds region of the Outer Rim Territories' Esstran sector. It was situated deep within the Sith Empire, in which it was considered a lesser world.

The Sith Lord Garu perished and lost the Holocron of King Adas on Ashas Ree during the Great Hyperspace War. Six hundred years later, the fallen Jedi Freedon Nadd rediscovered the Sith holocron, using its knowledge to subjugate the planet Onderon. Galactic Republic forces led by Jedi Master Ven Zallow launched an attack on Ashas Ree that was repelled by the Imperial Navy and Army under the command of the Sith Lords Darth Angral and Darth Malgus during the Rim Campaign of the Great Galactic War.

Description[]

"I command a line of siege tanks positioned to hold off the Republic's armored floaters that regularly prod our defenses along the jungle border."

―Darth Malgus, Book of Sith^[3]

Ashas Ree was the primary planet^[6] of the eponymous star system,^[1] which was a part of the Sith Worlds region of the Esstran sector,^[1] situated in the Trans-Hydian portion of^[2] the Outer Rim Territories.^[1] It lay along the Kamat Aegit hyperlane between the planets Kalsunor and Jaguada, while the Zorfe Trete hyperspace route linked Ashas Ree to the world of Ch'hodos.^[2] The planet's surface featured jungles and rock formations.^[3]

History[]

Early history[]

"Around the time of the Great Hyperspace War, a Sith Lord named Garu lost King Adas's Holocron on the planet Ashas Ree, where it remained until it was found centuries later by Freedon Nadd. Other sources suggest that Freedon Nadd's search for Sith knowledge led him to Yavin 4, where he apprenticed with the spirit of Naga Sadow."

―Tionne Solusar, Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force^[5]

Freedon Nadd (pictured) rediscovered the Holocron of King Adas on Ashas Ree.

A battle-scarred world,^[2] Ashas Ree was located deep within the territory of the Sith Empire^[7] and held the status of one of the empire's lesser worlds. Thereby, it was under the control of Ziost, the Sith Empire's capital world.^[2] In 5000 BBY,^[5] during the Great Hyperspace War,^[8] the Sith Lord Garu, who was the holder of the Holocron of King Adas, perished on Ashas Ree, thus leaving the ancient relic behind where it remained undiscovered for centuries.^[6]

In 4985 BBY, the Lost Tribe of Sith member Seelah Korsin believed that the statue of her husband, the Grand Lord Yaru Korsin, in the capital city of Tahv on the planet Kesh was so ill-made that it would taint even the killing fields of Ashas Ree.^[4] In 4400 BBY,^[5] the fallen Jedi Freedon Nadd journeyed to^[9] the planet^[6]—once part of the Sith Empire—after he slayed his former Jedi Master Matta Tremayne.^[9] There, Nadd rediscovered King Adas's holocron, which he used to acquire knowledge of the dark side of the Force for his successful bid to subjugate the planet Onderon.^[6]

The Sith resurgent[]

"We must now defend the heart of our own territory. I am enraged the Dark Council allowed the war to reach Ashas Ree, yet I must allow some measure of admiration for the way the Republic has outmaneuvered us."

―Darth Malgus, Book of Sith^[3]

JournalOfDarthMalgusAshasReePage-BookOfSith — Darth Malgus mentioned Ashas Ree in his personal war journal (pictured).

Around 3660 BBY, during the Rim Campaign of the Great Galactic War, Galactic Republic forces led by Jedi Master Ven Zallow launched an attack on Ashas, but it was successfully repelled by the Imperial Navy and Army of the reconstituted Sith Empire under the command of the Sith Lords Darth Angral and Darth Malgus. In the Battle of Ashas Ree, Malgus commanded a line of Sith siege tanks that were positioned to hold off armored Republic floaters along the jungle border, with the Imperials being protected by an energy shield projected above them. At one point during the battle, Malgus recorded the events of the engagement in his personal war journal, which he kept throughout the Rim Campaign.^[3]

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At some point during the then-ongoing struggle between the Republic and the reconstituted Sith Empire, a Republic surveillance droid impersonated a protocol droid on Ashas Ree. It was eventually taken into custody and its memory core was secured before the droid could delete the data.^[10]

Assumption ends here.

During the New Sith Wars, the Brotherhood of Darkness member Seviss Vaa researched the worlds of the Sith Empire and mentioned in his writings that various Sith texts had deemed Ashas Ree an "insignificant" world and that he had yet to visit it. In his recordings in the Telos Holocron, Vaa also claimed that the world had largely been stripped of its Sith treasures by Republic scouts following the end of the Great Hyperspace War.^[5]

Commentary by Palpatine[]

"Regarding Seviss Vaa's descriptions of the worlds in Sith space, I can only assume he either lied about his visits to Khar Delba and Khar Shian or that his powers of observation were sorely lacking, as I recovered valuable relics on both worlds."

―Palpatine, Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force^[5]

During the Imperial Period, the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious discovered several pages of Malgus's journal and provided them to his apprentice, Darth Vader, as a teaching material. Sidious and Vader both heavily annotated Malgus's account of the Battle of Ashas Ree before Sidious added the pages to his religious compendium, the Book of Sith.^[3]

At some point between 4 ABY and 11 ABY, the reborn Emperor Palpatine made an addendum to Vaa's Telos Holocron recordings, disputing his claims, as he had recovered valuable relics on the planet Khar Delba and its moon, Khar Shian. The contents of the holocron were later published in 40 ABY as part of the compendium Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force that was composed by the Jedi Master Tionne Solusar.^[5]

Inhabitants[]

"We arrived just in time to halt their advance on the central garrison. Do they think they can hold this world? Do they hope to fortify it as a staging point for a strike against Dromund Kaas?"

―Darth Malgus, Book of Sith^[3]

Ashas Ree hosted the central garrison of the reconstituted Sith Empire around 3660 BBY.^[3]

Locations[]

"I write from a clearing at the garrison's outskirts, amid the encampments of the planet's doctrinists, who desire a return to the Empire's isolationism. They have often stood in opposition to our Emperor—but today, we are all Sith."

―Darth Malgus, Book of Sith^[3]

Ashas Ree was the site of doctrinist encampments around 3660 BBY,^[3] as well as killing fields by 4985 BBY.^[4]

Behind the scenes[]

Ashas Ree was first mentioned in the ninetieth issue of the De Agostini magazine The Official Star Wars Fact File,^[9] which was published around September 17, 2003.^[11] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed it in grid square R-5.^[2] The planet was mentioned in a Scavenging Crew Skill mission of Star Wars: The Old Republic, a 2011 video game developed by BioWare. Initially the mission was restricted to Sith Empire–aligned player characters, though both that restriction and the information regarding the mission's outcome were later removed from the game.^[10] It was first pictured in 2012's Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side, written by Daniel Wallace and illustrated by Jeffery Carlisle.^[3]