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	First appearance: Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game) Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game) (VIDEO GAME)

Known Facts (17)

Journey to the Promised Land (1) ť

Killed a number of Tarisian Outcasts

Reconstruction Efforts (1) ť

At least 60 of them were killed by Republic Operatives, including Rakghouls.

The Corpse Counters (3) ť

Rakghouls killed 5 Republic Archaeologists
Rakghouls killed Elihsu
At least 10 of them were killed by Republic Operatives, including Rakghouls.

Pirate Medicine (1) ť

At least 20 of them were killed by Republic Operatives

Burial Grounds (1) ť

A number of them were killed by Republic Operatives

Catalyst (1) ť

Fought Republic Operatives

AWOL (1) ť

A number of them were killed by Republic Operatives

Mission to the ChemWorks Factory (1) ť

At least 20 of them were killed by Republic Operatives

Rakghoul Release (2) ť

Killed all except one Project Quell Scientists
At least 25 of them were killed by Republic Operatives

Mission to Transport Station 5 (4) ť

A number of them were killed by Imperial Recon Party
Killed a number of Imperial Recon Party members
At least 8 of them were killed by Republic Operatives
A Rakghoul known as Monstrous Tunnel Rakghoul was killed by Republic Operatives

The Search Begins (Taris) (1) ť

A number of them were killed by Republic Operatives

Summary

Rakghouls were a type of Sith-spawned mutants, engineered by the Sith Lord Karness Muur. Desiring an army to rule over and seeking a way to cheat death as so many other Sith before and after him did, Muur forged a talisman that he poured his spirit and power into, one that eventually came to be known as the Muur Talisman. Muur's talisman could turn almost any sentient being near him into a mindless rakghoul which he could control, but he found that there were exceptions: Force-sensitives and certain alien species could resist the talisman's effects. Thus, Muur engineered the "rakghoul plague", a virus-like disease that could be spread by a rakghoul's bite or a scratch from its claws, and that subjected the victim to a slower transformation into a rakghoul. Jealous and fearful of his power, Muur's Sith rivals killed him, and over time, the Muur Talisman came to reside on the Outer Rim world of Taris where the rakghoul plague ran rampant throughout the world's impoverished Undercity, creating vast numbers of rakghouls. The people of Taris would manage to put an end to the rakghoul presence on their world at some point prior to the year 19 BBY, and by the days of the Second Imperial Civil War, rakghouls were believed to be extinct.
However, with the Muur Talisman lay the ability to create new rakghouls, and the galaxy would see the return of the rakghoul when the oubliette belonging to the Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa was uncovered by Darth Vader

Darth Vader
(Human)
Character
Major Characters

, and the Jedi Knight Celeste Morne who had entombed herself and the talisman within for safekeeping nearly four thousand years prior, was revived. Morne battled Vader, but was no match for the skills of the Sith Lord and his stormtroopers

Imperial Stormtrooper
Organization
Galactic Empire Military

, so she called upon the talisman's power to turn the stormtroopers into rakghouls; outnumbered, Darth Vader fled, stranding Morne on the desolate moon she had awakened on with only rakghouls and the spirit of Karness Muur for company. Several years later, Morne and the talisman would escape the moon aboard a Rebel Alliance shuttle, turning the crew of an orbiting Imperial-class Star Destroyer

Imperial-class Star Destroyer
Starship
Starship Models

into rakghouls during her escape. Later, after her ship had been taken aboard a Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer, Morne turned the crew of the Iron Sun into subservient rakghouls with the power of the Muur Talisman. Morne and her rakghoul crew later came into contact with former Jedi

Jedi Order
Organization
Galaxy-Wide Organizations

Cade Skywalker

Cade Skywalker
(Human)
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Major Characters

, who convinced Morne to join him in his campaign against the current Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Krayt (A'Sharad Hett)

Darth Krayt (A'Sharad Hett)
(Human)
Character
Major Characters

, after curing the rakghoul plague he had been infected with using his unique healing ability. During their attack on Krayt's forces, Krayt was killed and Morne convinced Skywalker to end her life and her suffering under Karness Muur's constant psychic presence. Skywalker then destroyed the Muur Talisman as it attempted to bind itself to a new host, effectively putting an end to the primary source of rakghouls.

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Known specimen

Skull Eater

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Taris

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SWM Knights of the Old Republic	Codex : Locations	Codex : Locations	Codex : Bestiary	Codex : Lore	Codex : Lore
Rakghoul	Sinking City (Taris)	Tularan Marsh (Taris)	Bogstalker	Rakghoul Disease	Republic Reconstruction
KOTOR48	CODEX_LOCATION_00013250	CODEX_LOCATION_00009841	CODEX_BESTIARY_00013415	CODEX_LORE_00013359	CODEX_LORE_00013210
	Tags (3) Taris \| Pirate \| Galactic Republic	Tags (3) Taris \| Pirate \| Galactic Republic	Tags (2) Bogstalker \| Taris	Tags (3) Sith Lord \| Taris \| Reconstitued Sith Empire	Tags (8) The Outer Rim \| Taris \| Coruscant \| Malak \| Galactic Republic \| Reconstitued Sith Empire \| Republic Senate \| Revan's Sith Empire
	Events (2) Destruction of Taris \| Taris Resettlement Initiative	Events (2) Destruction of Taris \| Taris Resettlement Initiative	Destruction of Taris		Events (3) Taris Resettlement Initiative \| Jedi Civil War \| Destruction of Taris

Codex : Lore	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)
The Promised Ones	Republic Resettlement Zone \| Lower City Ruins (010)	Republic Resettlement Zone \| Lower City Ruins (020)	The Sinking City \| Republic Reconstruction Grounds (080)	The Sinking City \| Republic Reconstruction Grounds (090)	The Sinking City \| Republic Reconstruction Grounds (100)
CODEX_LORE_00013468	TARISR_00013217	TARISR_00013218	TARISR_00009052	TARISR_00009053	TARISR_00013303
Tags (4) Tarisian Outcasts \| QM-35 \| MAGTR-A01 Assassin Droid \| Taris	Tags (5) Taris \| Kira Carsen \| Jedi Padawan \| Jedi Order \| Republic Operatives	Tags (7) Taris \| Kira Carsen \| Jedi Padawan \| Jedi Order \| Skull Eater \| Rakghoul \| L1 Jedi Dual Lightsaber \| Republic Operatives	Taris \| Rakghoul	Taris \| Rakghoul	Taris \| Rakghoul
Events (2) Journey to the Promised Land \| Destruction of Taris	Reconstruction Efforts	Reconstruction Efforts	The Corpse Counters	The Corpse Counters	The Corpse Counters

SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)
The Sinking City \| Crash Site - Burial Grounds (010)	The Sinking City \| Crash Site - Burial Grounds (020)	The Sinking City \| Crash Site - Burial Grounds (030)	The Sinking City \| Dynamet Research Level (010)	The Brell Sediment \| ChemWorks Factory (010)	The Brell Sediment \| ChemWorks Factory (020)
TARISR_00013320	TARISR_00013321	TARISR_00013322	TARISR_00013375	TARISR_00013411	TARISR_00013412
Taris \| Rakghoul	Tags (3) Taris \| Forklift-Dozer \| Heavy Construction Crane \| Rakghoul	Taris \| Rakghoul	Taris	Taris	Tags (2) Taris \| Hovercart \| Rakghoul
Burial Grounds	Burial Grounds	Burial Grounds	Pirate Medicine	Mission to the ChemWorks Factory	Mission to the ChemWorks Factory

SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)
The Brell Sediment \| ChemWorks Factory (040)	The Brell Sediment \| Lake Brell (020)	The Tularan Marsh \| Shattered Pipeworks (010)	The Tularan Marsh \| Project Quell Research Lab (020)	The Tularan Marsh \| Project Quell Research Lab (030)	The Tularan Marsh \| Verdant Marshes (010)
TARISR_00013414	TARISR_00013441	TARISR_00009853	TARISR_00011946	TARISR_00013447	TARISR_00013449
Taris \| Rakghoul	Taris \| Rakghoul	Taris \| Rakghoul	Taris \| Rakghoul	Taris	Tags (3) Taris \| Ferrazid Hound \| Rakghoul \| Tiffan Nye
Mission to the ChemWorks Factory	AWOL	Rakghoul Release	Rakghoul Release	Rakghoul Release	Events (3) The Rescue \| The Archive \| Chasing History

SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)
The Tularan Marsh \| Transport Station 5 (010)	The Tularan Marsh \| Transport Station 5 (020)	The Tularan Marsh \| Transport Station 5 \| The Archive (010)	The Tularan Marsh \| Transport Station 5 (080)	The Tularan Marsh \| Transport Station 5 \| Zone Zero (005)	The Tularan Marsh \| Transport Station 5 \| Zone Zero (010)
TARISR_00013451	TARISR_00013452	TARISR_00013457	TARISR_00013466	TARISR_00013481	TARISR_00013461
Taris	Taris \| Rakghoul	Taris \| Rakghoul	Tags (5) Taris \| Imperial Transport (Sith Empire) \| Imperial Army (Sith Empire) \| Rakghoul \| Recon \| Sniper	Taris \| Rakghoul	Taris \| Rakghoul
Mission to Transport Station 5	Mission to Transport Station 5	The Archive	Mission to Transport Station 5	Events (2) Chasing History \| Mission to Transport Station 5	Mission to Transport Station 5

SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Taris (Republic)	SWTOR : Communications	SWTOR : Communications	SWTOR : Missions
The Tularan Marsh \| Transport Station 5 \| Zone Zero (020)	The Tularan Marsh \| Transport Station 5 \| Zone Zero (040)	The Search Begins (025)	Cera \| Finding Peace	Doctor Ryamn \| Doctor Death's Claw Says Hi	Disease Control
TARISR_00013462	TARISR_00013464	TARISR_00006646	COMM_00013358	COMM_00013394	MISS_00006735
Taris \| Rakghoul	Tags (6) Taris \| Republic Operatives \| Jedi Order \| Jedi Padawan \| Kira Carsen \| L1 Jedi Dual Lightsaber \| Rakghoul	Tags (6) Taris \| Voidhound \| Rakghoul \| Republic Operatives \| Twi'lek \| KD-36 Bioweapon Dispersal Drone \| SEN-A01M Probe Droid	Tags (2) Cera \| Taris Resettlement Authority	Tags (6) Ryamn \| Twi'lek \| Death's Claw \| Medic \| Doctor \| Taris	Celanon
Mission to Transport Station 5	Mission to Transport Station 5	The Search Begins (Taris)	Events (2) Burial Grounds \| The Corpse Counters	Pirate Medicine

Full unit name: Rakghoul (Creature) Last updated: 02.05.2024 14:39:52