Appearance

Body Features

Phenotypically, Massassi were quite similar to the rest of the Sith species. Common to all Sith,[6][7] Massassi skin was red,[13] ranging from florid[14] crimsons[1][10] to lighter pinks.[6][7] Massassi had fierce, predatory profiles,[10] and sharp[1] bone spurs protruding over their bodies in various locations[15]—especially the elbows.[6][7] Other facial features included a pair of tendrils that hung from their cheekbones,[6][7] and cartilaginous[15] eyebrow stalks that covered their eyes.[16] They also had simian mouths, small noses[6][7] and ears,[15] and a slightly receding chin. Like other Sith, Massassi had three digits on each of their hands and feet.[6][7]
Exclusive to their subspecies however, Massassi possessed large[6][7] glowing yellow eyes.[1][10] Unlike mainline Sith, the eyes of Massassi did not display details such as pupils or whites of any sort—instead the yellow seemed to cover the whole of each eye. Massassi were also taller,[6][7] larger, and more hulking humanoids than the species they hailed from,[1] reaching between two and three meters in height,[14] and an average weight of 150 kilograms.[1] Massassi senses were very acute compared to those of Humans—particularly their hearing.[15] Massassi also had an extremely tough skin; powerful cauterizing agents such as cyanogen silicate were needed to provide Massassi with medical assistance. Nothing weaker was capable of corroding their resistant hides.[14]
Relative to other species, Massassi were quite long lived. The typical Massassi childhood lasted twenty standard years, with the next 10 standard years constituting young adulthood. Massassi adulthood typically began at around thirty standard years of age. Middle age started after forty standard years of life, and old age after two hundred years. Any Massassi over the age of two hundred fifty standard years were considered venerable.

A Massassi
The Massassi under the command of Naga Sadow that relocated to Yavin 4 after the Great Hyperspace War underwent alchemical alterations under the supervision of Sadow. These individuals and their descendants became more hunched and monstrous than the original Massassi species, and were gradually considered more like savage brutes than the warriors they once were. At this point, they became large creatures with sharp claws and grotesque fin-like growths on their head and back.[13]
Also while on Yavin 4, Exar Kun enslaved the Massassi' to build temples. When a mournful Ulic Qel-Droma turned on him, he destroyed the Massassi and trapped his and their spirits in the temples to live forever.

Facial Features

Massassi[1] had black blood.

Mentality

Personal history

Infinite Empire

Korriban as seen from space.
This remote, foreboding planet was the original homeworld of the Sith species.[11] At some point prior to 30,000 BBY ,a Killik colony was established on Korriban, which eventually produced a Killik Sith Lord. The insectoid colonists were swiftly driven off by the Sith.
The Rakata invaded Korriban in an attempt to integrate the world into the Infinite Empire around 27,700 BBY, intending to harvest slaves from the planet to be used for Rakatan projects.[12] The sole artifact to survive this era was the ancient Star Map, around which the tomb of Naga Sadow was later built.
The Rakata were eventually forced off the world after the Sith King Adas led his people against them.[11] Adas died in the battle, and thus, despite this victory, the Sith society crumbled, and, in the ensuing centuries of strife, the Sith relocated to worlds such as Arbra, Ziost, and Tund, using captured Rakatan vessels, leaving Korriban as a graveyard world populated only by religious fanatics.[3]
The world was at least a nominal member of Xim's empire from around 25,126 BBY until its fall, and was given the name Pesegam.[3]
 
Ziost became the capital of the ancient Sith Empire after the reign of the Sith Overlord Adas came to an end.[24][25] Without his unifying force holding them together, the Sith were plugned into the civil war as Sith Overlords battled each other in their attempts to capitalize upon the power vacuum left.[24][26][25] After centuries of battle and strife, the remaining Sith repurposed captured Rakatan starships equipped with Force-powered hyperdrives and left behind their desolated homeworld Korriban as a vast graveyard world populated by religious fanatics.[2] While some scattered to the worlds as diverse as[2][25] Malachor V,[2][10] Tund,[2][27][10] Jaguada,[27] Thule,[10] and Arorua,[10] most Sith,[4] who included but were not limited to Kissai priest and Massassi warrior castes,[16] relocated to the neighbouring Ziost.[2][27] Those who relocated to the worlds such as Ziost, Jaguada, and Tund, brought their writing scripts, known as High Sith and Common Sith, to the planets they settled.[27]
These Sith discovered Ziost as a thickly forested world with a warm climate.[4] As the Kissai priests oversaw the rebuilding efforts,[16] they established the Sith Citadel[4] atop a precarious cliff.[5] The planet eventually suffered from an ice age that leveled the vast woodlands as well as most evidence of civilization, leaving the Citadel among the few remaining structures.[4] As a result, the planet was transformed into bitterly cold tundra with an arid climate,[6] covered in ice, and became very similar, in landscape, to Korriban.[source?]
 
Old Republic era
Sith stronghold
"That Yavin was both a beautiful and a terrible god to the Massassi. It lifted their eyes to the heavens, but made their hearts small and fearful."
―Streen to Luke Skywalker after reading the Books of Massassi.[src]

Naga Sadow supervising the construction of one of his temples
In 5000 BBY, the Sith Lord Naga Sadow fled to Yavin 4 on his flagship along with an army of Massassi warriors following the defeat of his Sith forces during the Great Hyperspace War by the Galactic Republic. He then conducted Sith alchemic experiments on his Massassi warriors, causing them to mutate from red-skinned humanoids into fearsome, savage, hunchbacked predators. Despite these abuses, his Massassi slaves treated him like a god, building huge temples, filled with treasure, to honor their Sith Lord.
Sadow also encased himself in a Sith sarcophagus, where he remained in a coma-like trance for centuries, waiting for someone to call upon his power and continue the history of the Sith. He remained in suspended animation until 4400 BBY, when a fallen Jedi named Freedon Nadd arrived on Yavin 4. By then, the descendants of the Massassi had devolved into a primitive hunter-warrior society, which recalled the Golden Age of the Sith. At first, the Massassi attacked Nadd, though his use of the Force amazed them. Impressed by Nadd's Force powers, the bestial Massassi showed him where the Dark Lord rested, waiting for another with dark-side potential to find him. Nadd then awoke Naga Sadow, who taught him in the ways of the Sith, until—as was the Sith's nature—Nadd killed him, becoming Dark Lord himself.
Centuries later, in 3997 BBY, the fallen Jedi Exar Kun went to Yavin 4 at the advice of the dark-side spirit of Freedon Nadd. There he discovered the Massassi, who tried to sacrifice him to a monstrous beast of alchemical origins beneath their main temple. However, using his dark powers, he managed to save himself. The dark-side manifestation of Freedon Nadd appeared, delighted with Kun's actions and claiming him as his ally—though Exar Kun would hear none of this and instead used his newly found Sith powers to destroy Nadd.
As the new Dark Lord of the Sith, he enslaved the Massassi and took over Yavin 4. He used his Massassi slaves to construct new Sith temples and palaces, based on Sith architecture and designed to focus dark powers. His slaves also discovered the flagship of Naga Sadow beneath the ruins of an ancient Massassi temple. He also created vicious Sithspawn, including the battle hydras, terentateks, and the Night Beast. The Sith Lord also imprisoned the souls of the children of the Massassi in a malevolent dark-side device known as the Golden Globe.
Later, Kun allied himself with the Krath, another group of dark-siders based in the Empress Teta system under the leadership of Aleema Keto and another fallen Jedi, Ulic Qel-Droma. He then went to the Jedi world of Ossus and recruited twenty Jedi to his cause, thus starting the Brotherhood of the Sith. In 3996 BBY, Exar Kun along with his Krath and Mandalorian allies waged war on the Republic and the Jedi. The Jedi eventually prevailed and gathered their forces for an assault on Yavin 4. However, as the orbiting Jedi fleet launched a wall of light-side power which bombarded the jungle moon, Kun gathered his Massassi followers into the Great Temple and drained their life energies in order to free his spirit from his body and invest it into the surrounding structures, where he would remain for millennia.
Jedi Cleansing
The Jedi attack obliterated much of the jungles and scorched the temple complex to the extent that nothing could survive. After the attack, the Jedi established an underground city on the moon and used it to modify the climate of the moon into a jungle state and to help restore the planet's ecosystem and ensure that Kun is never awakened. During the Great Hunt, the moon was cleansed of terentateks by the Jedi.
The Jedi eventually left Yavin, erasing information about the moon hoping to end its evil legacy;[2] though in later years at least one individual still knew its location, as the "Jedi prince" Ken was hidden there by a brown-robed Jedi Master. The city was eventually rediscovered by Luke Skywalker, who trapped the imposter Kadann, Supreme Prophet of the Prophets of the Dark Side, there.
Galactic War

Yavin IV during Revanite crisis in the midst of the Galactic War
During the Galactic War between the Republic and the resurrected Sith Empire, the former Jedi Master and former Sith Lord Revan began plotting against both sides. His followers, called the Order of Revan or the Revanites, took over Yavin 4. Revan planned to resurrect the Sith Emperor, who remained in an incorporeal state after his defeat by the Hero of Tython, so that he could kill the Emperor once and for all. SIS agent Theron Shan and Sith Lord Lana Beniko brokered a truce between the Republic and the Empire so that they could work together to defeat Revan. Republic and Imperial forces, led by Grand Master Satele Shan and Dark Councilor Darth Marr respectively, invaded the moon. Revan was ultimately defeated, but the Sith Emperor regained some of his strength regardless and left the moon.[5]
Rise of the Empire era

Anakin Skywalker follows Asajj Ventress' Ginivex-class starfighter to Yavin 4, during the Clone Wars.
The system was rediscovered by hyperspace scouts from the Hydian Way and became the site of a brief rush on Corusca gems inside the gas giant.[2]
About four hundred years before the Battle of Yavin, the Kushiban Jedi Master Ikrit came to the moon and discovered the Golden Globe within the Palace of the Woolamander. Unable to break the curse and free the countless trapped Massassi children, he waited until someone came along who could.
The Wolhanian expedition of archaeologists studied the Massassi ruins. They uncovered a bas-relief depicting Jedi and Sith battling in the Great Hyperspace War as well as a Sith Chalice. Both of these items ended up in the art collection of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.
During the time of the Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker tracked Asajj Ventress to Yavin 4 following her attack on Republic starfighters at the Battle of Muunilinst. It was here that she destroyed Anakin's customized Jedi Starfighter, the Azure Angel, as well as killing the clone troopers that Obi-Wan Kenobi sent to follow him. Anakin and Asajj had their first duel through the thick jungles and the Massassi ruins until Anakin bested her and knocked her off one of the temples. She was presumed dead and he took off in her Ginivex-class starfighter.
Imperial era
Rebel base
"It's where all the idealists hang out, I hear."
―Han Solo to Luke Skywalker[src]

Rebel X-Wing starfighters leaving Yavin 4 to engage the Death Star before the Battle of Yavin
In 1 BBY, Sullustan pilot Dr'uun Unnh scouted the moon as a potential base for the Rebellion. The moon was home to the Rebel Alliance's main military base, Massassi Station, built from the Great Temple of the Massassi, prior to and during the Battle of Yavin. The Rebels established this base in following the abandonment of their previous base on the planet Dantooine. The Galactic Empire sought to use its new space station superweapon, the Death Star I, to destroy the small jungle moon and crush the Rebellion. Following the Destruction of Alderaan, the Empire sent a legion of stormtroopers to confirm Rebel presence on the moon. They discovered the rebels, and established a monitoring outpost at the Massassi Arena. Following the skirmish, a small force of X-wing and Y-wing starfighters were sent to destroy the Death Star, but most were killed in the attack. With the timely assistance of his friend Han Solo, Luke Skywalker was able to fire two proton torpedoes into a small thermal exhaust port in a small trench near the northern pole, thus destroying the station and saving Yavin 4. A great ceremony was held following the Death Star's destruction, where Princess Leia bestowed medals of honor upon Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, along with his Wookiee co-pilot, Chewbacca.
This battle became known as the Battle of Yavin, and its date is used galaxywide for marking events. Events before the Battle of Yavin are marked by BBY, and events that occur after are marked by ABY. A few days after the battle, Solo and Chewbacca stole ancient Sith treasures from the temples, and sold them, to finance replacements for the devastating Rebel losses against the Death Star.
Imperial onslaught
The Rebels remained on the moon for 6 months afterwards, until finally escaping the Imperial blockade. Yavin 4 requested the assistance of the Defiance in order to protect their evacuating ships in space. General Jan Dodonna remained behind, blowing up a temple to damage the Imperial forces. Under the secret observation of Mara Jade, Darth Vader wiped out the remaining ground troops and captured the injured Dodonna, whom Vader interrogated until Dodonna revealed the Rebel presence on Reytha. Dodonna was then imprisoned aboard the Lusankya, although most Rebels, and even Mara Jade, mistakenly believed him dead. The Empire then occupied the moon.

The ancient Massassi temple was occupied by forces of the Galactic Empire around 0 ABY.
The Empire maintained a military base, a labor outpost, and a mining outpost on the planet. Because of Yavin 4 by that point being under Imperial jurisdiction, the Empire also granted access towards tourists via Intergalactic Passports.[35] In response, the Rebels set up a new base on the planet to harass the Imperials, but in a place other than the earlier Massassi Station. The Imperials were forced to construct a new base after the original was captured by Rebels.[source?]
New Republic era
Following the defeat of the Galactic Empire in 4 ABY at the Battle of Endor, the New Republic presumably took back the jungle moon from the Empire. The small village of Vornez was established and the Senate Planetary Intelligence Network was headquartered on Yavin 4 though it would later be replaced by New Republic Intelligence.
In 5 ABY, after receiving a vision from Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker searched for and discovered the Lost City of the Jedi. Here he found Ken, a young boy and the heir to the former Emperor Palpatine who'd been hidden there by the Jedi and taken care of by droids. When the self-proclaimed emperor Trioculus heard about the discovery of the city and the young boy, he led an assault on the planet with squadrons of Treaded Neutron Torches and Stormtroopers however he was defeated by the New Republic.
Jedi teaching center

A group of Jedi ambush an Imperial Juggernaut.
In 11 ABY, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker chose Yavin 4 as the site for the Jedi Praxeum and the headquarters of his New Jedi Order after receiving permission from the New Republic. During his travels, he had discovered a number of Force-sensitives and finally felt ready to begin to train new Jedi. This first class consisted of twelve pupils with Luke as their teacher. Some of those twelve were Kam and Tionne Solusar, Kirana Ti, Madurrin, Kyle Katarn, Dorsk 81, Brakiss, Corran Horn, Streen, and Gantoris. Other Jedi to join soon after were Kyp Durron, Cilghal, Mara Jade, and Dal Konur.
It was not long before it became apparent that not all was well at the Academy. The spirit of Exar Kun, Sith Lord, haunted a temple on the moon and began to influence Luke's students towards the dark side. Kun attacked Luke, forcing him into a coma, and Kyp Durron, one of the most promising students, fled the Academy in the Sun Crusher, wreaking havoc on the galaxy and destroying the Imperial fortress world of Carida. Eventually Luke was awoken and the Sith spirit was defeated by a joint Jedi offensive including the then infant Solo twins.
In 12 ABY, Admiral Daala and then Vice Admiral Gilad Pellaeon attacked the Jedi Praxeum with a fleet of 12 Star Destroyers and the Super Star Destroyer Knight Hammer. Legions of Stormtroopers and ground assault vehicles were also unleashed on the Jedi who fought them back by using the Force to drive the Imperials to the edges of the Yavin system though Dorsk 81 was killed in the process.

Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors' escape pod in the swamps of Yavin 4
Later that year, the Empire Reborn under Desann and Admiral Galak Fyyar attacked the Jedi Praxeum though they too would be defeated by the efforts of the Jedi and their New Republic allies. Because of his heroic actions, Kyle Katarn chose to rejoin the New Jedi Order.
Unwitting discoveries

The battle for Yavin 4 rages.
In 22 ABY, Anakin Solo (the youngest of the Solo children) and Tahiri Veila discovered the Golden Globe and the Kushiban Jedi Master Ikrit during an exploration of the crumbling Palace of the Woolamander. With the help of Ikrit and ancient Massassi engravings found at the Palace and on nearby Yavin 8, the pair broke the curse of the Golden Globe, thus freeing the trapped Massassi children.
In 23 ABY, during an exploration of the surrounding jungles, the Solo twins Jacen and Jaina, along with their friends Tenel Ka and Lowbacca discovered the wreckage of a TIE Fighter from the Battle of Yavin. Unfortunately, the pilot of the vehicle Qorl reappeared and took the Solo twins hostage, forcing them to repair the damaged ship before escaping into hyperspace to rejoin the Empire.
Later that year, the Jedi Praxeum was attacked by the dark side Shadow Academy and the Imperial insurgency group Second Imperium. However, they were defeated by the combined efforts of the Jedi and their New Republic allies.
Yuuzhan Vong War
Praxeum's destruction
For the first year the of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the moon was protected from the Yuuzhan Vong via use of the Force to create an illusory projection, a technique borrowed from the Fallanassi. However, the Jedi Praxeum was destroyed by the Yuuzhan Vong in 26 ABY. The Peace Brigade/Yuuzhan Vong victory was partially due to the fact that the New Republic was unwilling to provide aid for the Jedi. By then, most Jedi had been mobilized for military action and only the youngest Jedi adepts and trainees remained at the Jedi Praxeum. The destruction of the "heretic Jeedai" provided a large morale boost to the Yuuzhan Vong.
The Jedi Anakin Solo and the smuggler kingpin Talon Karrde, along with his personal fleet, managed to evacuate the vast majority of the remaining Jedi trainees, though the Kushiban Jedi Master Ikrit was killed by the Peace Brigade troops and Tahiri Veila was captured.
Yuuzhan Vong occupation

The shaper compound on Yavin 4
With Yavin 4 in their hands, the Yuuzhan Vong initiated a Vongforming program on the moon by using damuteks to flatten the ancient Massassi temples and then establishing a colony. Meanwhile, the Master Shaper Mezhan Kwaad and her apprentice Nen Yim began performing experiments on Tahiri, in an attempt to brainwash her by replacing her personality with that of Riina Kwaad, an identity formed out of memories copied from Nen Yim's own childhood.[11]
Rather than have his friend Tahiri suffer in the hands of the enemy, Anakin went on a mission to rescue her. With the help of Qorl who had been eking out a life in the jungle ever since the defeat of the Second Imperium and the Shamed Yuuzhan Vong Vua Rapuung, Anakin managed to infiltrate the Yuuzhan Vong compound disguised as a slave.[11]
While in the enemy base, Anakin learned that Vua Rapuung had once been a skilled Warrior. He once had an affair with Mezhan Kwaad. When Rapuung decided to break off the affair, Kwaad, fearful he would reveal their affair, infected him with a virus that caused his body to reject implants he received after his escalation, rendering him a Shamed One. Rapuung, however, knew that Kwaad was responsible. Faced with a common enemy, Rapuung agreed to help Anakin rescue Tahiri on the condition that he would help him confront Kwaad.[11]
Together, they made it to the damutek where Kwaad had been reshaping Tahiri into believing she was Riina Kwaad. They then fought their way into a shuttle that carried Kwaad, Nen Yim and Tahiri. In front of hundreds of Yuuzhan Vong ranging from Shapers, Warriors, Workers to Shamed Ones, Rapuung confronted his former lover, who had just been discovered to be practicing heresy, and demanded she answer whether the Gods were responsible for his shaming, or if she was. Kwaad admitted her role, then mortally wounded Rapuung with a weapon concealed in her Shaper Hand.[11]
Dying, he gave Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila enough time to escape. Anakin and Tahiri fled, along with Qorl and the others, on a repaired freighter. This incident started a legend among the Shamed Ones that said he was redeemed in his death, thus beginning the Jeedai heresy. Members of this sect saw the Jedi as saviors rather than enemies, and would be cultivated on worlds such as Dubrillion[36] and conquered Coruscant, helping to topple the Yuuzhan Vong empire.
Later history
Following the liberation of Coruscant from the Yuuzhan Vong in 29 ABY, Grand Master Luke Skywalker dismissed the notion of rebuilding the Praxeum, however, stating that the Praxeum had served its purpose, and that the Jedi would find a new home elsewhere.[37]
 
The Massassi were a mysterious species that built enormous stone temples of unknown purpose on the fourth moon of Yavin some five thousand years before the rise of the Galactic Empire. Whether the Massassi had evolved on Yavin 4 or were a slave race in thrall of the Sith and brought to that moon was unknown, although the latter seemed more likely. Sometime after finishing their temples, however, they went extinct. At some point, either as part of the original intent of the building or through ulterior additions, the Jedi splinter group known as the Ordu Aspectu used one of the Massassi temples, the Great Temple, to store information, including a map room that gave directions to their hidden headquarters.[1]
After setting up a rebel cell on Yavin 4, General Jan Dodonna decided to honor the Massassi by naming his cell after them.[2]
After their extinction, the Massassi were mentioned in a travel advertisement written by a Special Galaxy Reporter who had investigated the Great Temple ruins after the Alliance to Restore the Republic abandoned the jungle moon.[3]
 
Five thousand years before the Battle of Yavin, the ancient warrior race of the Massassi lived on Yavin 4 and constructed the Great Temple.[14] Being enslaved by the Sith, the Massassi species would be extinct by the time the Alliance to Restore the Republic would utilize the temple during the Galactic Civil War as a base of operations against the then-dominant Galactic Empire. It was from this base that Operation Fracture was dispatched to Jedha.[22] Shortly following this, Alliance snub fighter squadrons with orders to destroy the Death Star were also launched from Yavin 4. After the space battle and the related award ceremony, the rebels evacuated the base to escape any retaliatory strike by the Empire.[9][23]
After the temple was abandoned by the rebels, a Special Galaxy Reporter was sent to Yavin 4 to write a travel advertisement about the ruins.[14] The moon was also occupied by the Empire after the rebels fled, with Imperial walkers and stormtroopers stationed around the former base. Amid the Imperial occupation, Doctor Korin Aphra led his daughter, Chelli Lona Aphra, droids 0-0-0 and BT-1, and the Wookiee bounty hunter Krrsantan into a raid at the Great Temple during his search for the Ordu Aspectu.[15]
At another point, a rebel force was sent to the moon in order to seize leftover data centers from the previous rebel occupation. However, the Empire managed to discover the plot and also sent forces to secure them for its own purposes. In the time before the Battle of Hoth, multiple battles between Alliance and Imperial forces would occur on the moon's surface.[7]
Around six months after the Battle of Endor and after leaving the rebellion, Shara Bey and Kes Dameron settled down on Yavin 4 and planted the twig of a Force-sensitive tree on the moon.[24]

Education

Points of interest
Valley of the Dark Lords[5]
Eternal Pyre[5]
Valley of Golg
Sith Academy
Sith Citadel
Shyrack cave
Korriban Arrival Port
 
Points of interest
Sith Citadel[8]
Ziost Analysis Services Center[9]
Ziost Abyss's breeding pens[10]
Emperor's Eye[11]
Orbital Defense Command Center
Ministry of Logistics
Unidentified camp[12]
 
Point(s) of interest
Borundi Peak[4]
Coalition Command Post[5]
Ersham Ridge[4]
Forgotten Terrace[5]
Imperial Fortress[4]
Isle of Kun[4]
Isolation chambers[6]
Massassi Arena[7]
Massassi Site[8]
Nicolo Peak[4]
Prowler's Trail[5]
Swamp of Fallen Stars[4]
Taurin Delta[4]
Temple Atun[9]
Temple of Fire[10]
Temple Ruins[5]
The Breaking[5]
Training Grounds[5]
Unnh River[11]
Val'Arnos Jungle[4]
Verdant Swamp[5]
Wayward Jungle[4]
Yunteh Mountains[4]
 
Points of interest
Ersham Ridge[3]
Falcon Base[4]
Isle of Kun[3]
Massassi monument[5]
Massassi Viaduct[6]
Raven Base[4]
Taurin Delta[3]
Unnh River[3]
Val'Arnos Jungle[3]
Point(s) of interest
Ferra Groves[7]
Flat Mountain of Yavin[8]
Great Temple[9]
Massassi Valley[7]
Skygazer Hill[7]

Employment

Modern: None[2]
Formerly: Sith Empire[7]
Magocratic dictatorship[2]
 
Region
Outer Rim Territories[1]
Sector
Esstran sector[1]
Sith Worlds[1]
System
Horuset system[2]
Region
Outer Rim Territories[1]
Trans-Hydian[2]
Sector
Esstran sector[1]
Sith Worlds[1]
System
Ziost system[1]
None[31]
Region(s)
Outer Rim Territories[1]
Sector
Gordian Reach[2]
System
Yavin system[1]

Accomplishments & Achievements

Major imports
Foodstuffs[7]
High technology[7]
Raw material[7]
Weapons[7]
Major exports
Sith artifacts[3]
 
Major imports
None[2]
Major exports
None[2]

Intellectual Characteristics

Native species
Sith
Immigrated species
Hssiss
Human
Rakata
Theelin
Tuk'ata[6]
Wraid
 
Immigrated species
40 ABY: None[7]
Historic:
Herglic[10]
Human
Monolith[15]
Sith[4] (Massassi, Kissai)[16]
 
Immigrated species
Yuuzhan Vong[2]
Chazrach
Critokian[30]
Previously:
Sith (Massassi)[2]
Terentatek
Tuk'ata
Sith wyrm
Humans[1]
 
Immigrated species
Human[12]
Formerly: Massassi[13][14]

Known Languages

Primary language(s)
Modern: Galactic Basic Standard
Formerly: Sith[2]
 
Primary language(s)
Galactic Basic Standard
Sith
 
Primary language(s)
Yuuzhan Vong
Previously:
Massassi
Critokian
Galactic Basic Standard[1]

Language
Sith,[1] Massassi
Language[5][6][7][8]

Personality

Likes & Dislikes

Like the rest of the Sith,[9] the Massassi subspecies[1][10] were native to the planet Korriban, within the isolated Stygian Caldera in the Outer Rim Territories. They, like the few other creatures that inhabited Korriban, derived sustenance directly from the dark side of the Force,[9] in part of a natural symbiotic relationship where Sith—like the Massassi—fed on the dark side, and empowered it in turn.[11] Thus the entire Sith race, including the Massassi,[1] had such a high rate of Force-sensitivity[12] that they were considered a naturally Force-sensitive species.[10]

Social