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Though quickly overshadowed by the conflict immediately following it, the war with the Yevetha of the Koornacht Cluster was a unique campaign in galactic military history. It arose as an unitended consequence of the war against the Revanite faction and the invasion of the Republic by the Allied nations. The Yevethan homeworld of N'Zoth remained unknown to the rest of the galaxy until holdouts from Revan's forces were tracked to a space station orbiting the planet.
The Revanites were evidently the first to discover the species, though they outsourced first contact to indepedent explorers. The reason for this became clear to investigators when they reviewed what data remained of these meetings, which implied those sent to the planet were enslaved, tortured, and eventually killed after much suffering. The evolution of the Yevetha had made their society inherently sadistic, yet despite this and the existing evidence, attempts were made by the Republic to open a dialogue - which were met with more violence or open contempt from the Yevetha.
It appears that during the breakdown of galatic order during the years, scavengers and adventurers from neighboring systems occasionally journeyed to N'Zoth, and the natives slowly advanced themselves with each new interloper they captured. However, no evidence has been found to explain where the Yevetha acquired the resources required for their offensive or what caused them to invade the Republic, and none likely will after the ultimate end of the war.
The demise of the Yevetha would come not long after they attacked the Republic openly, first on Galantos. Yevethan agents infiltrated groups of refugees fleeing from the Cluster and coerced them into helping their operatives carry out sabotage. The Republic garrison forces were all veterans of Coruscant, disorganized and still reeling from a one-sided galactic war, and did not respond well to the confusion. Several instances of friendly fire caused a global panic across the world that did not end until reinforcements from none other than the Sith appeared. They quickly routed the Yevetha, and the governments of each nation almost just as quickly entered into a partnership never seen before.
The Republic and Sith carried out a four-pronged attack to overwhelm the Yevetha and make them stretch their defensive capabilities to the limit. The strategy worked, yet the campaign suffered several setbacks of various degrees of seriousness. The Republic sent in the first and second waves, the former of which was tasked with engaging the religious militia and the latter to draw out their regular forces. Some of the Sith forces would aid the Republic directly, while the rest would hit the Cluster from secret hyperspace routes.
The Yevetha surprised the Sith with a reversed engineered version of their own interdiction technology, and swarmed over the vanguard of the invading Sith fleet. However, it would seem they underestimated the Imperial forces and were quickly repulsed. They tried to retreat, but the Sith turned the tables and hunted them down. Yet the Yevetha were successful in delaying the reinforcements, which harried the Republic fleets on the other side of the Cluster. They became bogged down on several worlds, and while they struggled to reinforce all of their ground troops stranded on the Yevethan colonies, the Sith were forced to attack N'Zoth alone and with only half of their intended strength.
After a bloody but swift battle in orbit, the Yevethans retreated planetside, evidently thinking they could beat the Sith by attrition on familiar territory. They underestimated their opponents for the final time, though, as the Sith enacted the Base Delta Zero protocol - the destruction of the entire planet. In a move reminiscent of those above Telos, Taris, and other worlds, the Sith fleets positoned themselves over every corner of the planet and fired unceasingly. What separated it from past BDZs, however, was how committed the Sith became to the planet's - and species' - entire destruction. The Sith Navy remained over N'Zoth for days, firing until the world broke apart and could never be terraformed, and did the same to others with majority Yevethan populations. They have hunted down every member of the race they can find, and the Republic and Sith narrowly avoided going to war over the genocide only because of the following Crusades.
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