Dromund Kaas

The Sith Empire’s storm-darkened capital world, where monumental cities, dangerous jungles, and ancient Sith sites share a landscape transformed by power.

Dromund Kaas is the capital world of the Sith Empire, a center of government, military power, and Sith influence. Its principal metropolis, Kaas City, brings Imperial administration into close contact with commerce, private households, and the people whose work sustains the capital.

Centuries of construction have established cities and infrastructure across the planet, while dangerous wilderness survives between developed areas. Dromund Kaas is neither an untouched jungle nor a continuous cityscape: urban grandeur, remote installations, concealed refuges, and ancient ruins all belong to its character.

Geography & Climate

Dromund Kaas’s familiar landscape combines dense vegetation and steep terrain with immense Imperial structures. Rain and mist surround roads, compounds, and developed districts; beyond maintained approaches, vegetation and ravines can complicate movement and conceal what lies nearby.

Its electrical storms are more than ordinary weather. During the Empire’s reconstruction, the Sith Emperor’s dark-side rituals damaged the atmosphere and transformed the ionosphere into a persistent electrical storm. That legacy remains part of the environment encountered by residents and travelers.

The wilderness around Kaas City represents only part of the planet. Imperial settlement extends beyond the capital, and the relationship between built territory and surviving jungle varies by location.

Environmental Hazards & Wildlife

Lightning is a serious danger to exposed personnel. Lightning spires attract strikes and reduce that danger around protected installations, but their presence does not establish that every route or remote work site is safe.

Communities & Everyday Life

Imperial society is hierarchical, but its residents do not share a single experience. Species, family standing, occupation, wealth, and patronage can affect opportunity and exposure to coercion. Historical prejudice and slavery remain important to understanding the world; neither should be treated as merely atmospheric features of Sith architecture.

Later Imperial recruitment and advancement have also created opportunities for alien personnel. A diverse professional community is compatible with the setting without implying that entrenched prejudice has disappeared.

For individuals, attachment to Dromund Kaas may rest on relationships rather than political conviction. A resident can value a household, profession, or community while fearing the authorities on whom it depends.

Government & Local Authority

The Imperial throne, Dark Council, and subordinate institutions shape government on Dromund Kaas. Sith power overlaps with military command, administrative responsibility, and private influence, sometimes reinforcing them and sometimes producing conflict.

The capital supports work in administration, freight handling, trade, construction, and institutional services. Its offices and households depend on people who move supplies, maintain equipment, organize records, and keep facilities operating. These connections provide reasons for characters with different levels of influence to encounter one another.

Lightning spires give the storms an infrastructural role as well as a destructive one: they harness electrical energy to power Kaas City. Their maintenance creates practical responsibilities for technicians and the personnel supporting them.

Dromund Kaas Spaceport lies outside Kaas City, with wilderness between the arrival area and the metropolis. Speeder connections help travelers cross that terrain. Within the city, bridges, walkways, and transport services connect destinations across its uneven landscape.

The dark side is bound into Dromund Kaas’s history and physical environment. The storms preserve the consequences of the Emperor’s rituals, while sites such as the Dark Temple retain dangers associated with earlier Sith activity.

That heritage draws researchers and ambitious practitioners, but surviving records do not make every ancient site understood. A structure’s original purpose, the effects of later intrusions, and the reliability of an expedition’s account may be separate questions.

Ancient Colony & Imperial Refuge

The Sith colonized Dromund Kaas in antiquity, but its coordinates were subsequently lost. After defeat in the Great Hyperspace War, Sith survivors searched remote space for refuge, rediscovering the Dromund system after approximately twenty years.

Their first century on the rediscovered world saw the establishment of Kaas City and its Citadel. Isolation provided the opportunity to rebuild Imperial society and prepare the military forces that would eventually return to the wider galaxy.

The Capital & Its Internal Conflicts

By the Cold War, Dromund Kaas was a heavily defended center of Imperial power. Danger nevertheless came from within as well as beyond its borders.

The rebellion at the Unfinished Colossus exposed the coercion beneath monumental construction. The concealed Revanite sanctuary reflected loyalties that did not fit comfortably within official Sith expectations. At the Dark Temple, unauthorized intrusion disturbed a site whose hazards were already poorly understood.

These histories give the planet more than one kind of legacy: official achievement, exploited labor, concealed belief, and the consequences of ambition can survive in different accounts of the same place.

Zakuulan Defeat & Its Aftermath

During the Eternal Empire’s offensive, the Eternal Fleet attacked shipyards and severed supply lines before blockading Dromund Kaas and Coruscant. The Sith Empire was defeated and compelled to pay tribute to Zakuul.

In StarForgeRP’s shared present, Dromund Kaas remains the Imperial capital during renewed war with the Republic. Current Setting establishes the campaign baseline and broader circumstances.

Vashara Estate, on Kaas City’s upper perimeter, is a private House Vashara residence and working base. Its household combines apprenticeship, administration, archival preservation, and evidence review. These functions do not make it a public repository or an Imperial installation.

Dromund Kaas is also the principal setting of Mandate 7-Kael. Darth Zera Vashara leads the investigation, with her apprentice Markus Rez serving as subordinate investigator. The inquiry examines disputed evidence within a defined remit; its findings and unresolved questions belong to the mission record.

Kaas City

The spaceport and its connecting routes form an important arrival corridor. The surrounding wilds make the journey to the capital a transition between developed facilities and dangerous terrain, with useful settings for transport work, missing travelers, and disrupted journeys.

The Dark Temple

Commissioned by the Sith Emperor to hold dead and defeated enemies, the Dark Temple became a powerful dark-side nexus. Its chambers contained ancient weapons and secrets, while even work beneath its grounds could expose laborers to destructive influences.

During the Cold War, an unauthorized expedition breached the sealed complex and failed to return. Subsequent Dark Council investigations produced no public reports. Those circumstances establish a dangerous history without revealing every chamber’s contents or the site’s present security arrangements.

The Revanite Compound

The early Order of Revan maintained a hidden jungle sanctuary after suspicion drove its adherents from their initial gatherings in Kaas City. Following the assassination of a sympathetic Sith patron, they relocated sacred texts and relics to the refuge. Supporters within Imperial institutions helped conceal it, and prospective members underwent tests of commitment.

The movement later became a wider conspiracy. The compound’s early community should not be assumed to survive unchanged; its present occupants and condition remain uncertain.

The Unfinished Colossus

Lord Qet secretly commissioned an immense statue of his master, Darth Vowrawn, hoping to advance his standing. Enslaved workers brought from offworld rebelled before its completion, while other Sith sought advantage in the disorder.

A useful starting point is a specific responsibility or relationship: someone awaiting a delivery, an institution requesting work, a household needing help, or a place a character has reason to revisit.

• Home & Household — A change in employment or patronage disrupts a household’s arrangements. Residents and staff must decide which obligations they can still meet.

• Infrastructure & Service — A maintenance assignment reaches a lightning spire whose replacement equipment cannot be installed as expected. Technical judgment and pressure to restore service pull in different directions.

• Transport & Access — A delivery reaches the correct facility, but its recipient cannot authorize entry. Resolving the delay exposes competing responsibilities without requiring a conspiracy.

• Wilderness & Recovery — An overdue survey team leaves an incomplete route record. Searchers must weigh uncertain information against worsening conditions.

• History & Remembrance — Records from the Colossus project contradict a family’s account of an ancestor’s role. Different descendants may want different things from the discovery.

• Sith Research — An expedition’s sponsor expects a particular finding. The surviving evidence supports several possibilities, leaving researchers to decide what they can responsibly report.

• Reputation & Return — A former resident comes back to a familiar workplace after losing institutional support. Old relationships offer possibilities without guaranteeing welcome or protection.