Background: Skye, designated Marat V by the Galactic
Republic, was a terrestrial planet in the Outer Rim
Territories and the home of the S'kytri people.
Remaining isolated from the wider galaxy, the world
attempted to gain admittance into the Council of
Neutral Systems during the Clone Wars but was
interrupted by an invasion led by Zeta Magnus.
Before developing into a terrestrial planet, ancient
Skye was a turbulent world of seismic activity and
violent unrest on its surface. Various beasts such as
mutant blorgworms, five-headed gogitols, bloodsucking beasts roamed the planet's surface and
contributed to the chaos before the birth of the S'kytri
people. According to legend, the hero Hormaket the
Vanquisher led the S'kytri in a war against the groundroaming beasts and imprisoned them within the depths
of the Entyrmion's subterranean hell. With the
conclusion of the primordial warfare, the S'kytri
established a primitive civilization and remained
independent from other civilizations as much as they
could.
Culture on the planet was divided into three distinct
sets of clans: the Highland and Lowland Clans which
governed the world, and the outcast Outland Clans
which were deemed genetically inferior. Consisting of
about one third of the planet's population, the
Outlanders were castigated for having red or orange
skin and banished from the aeries and cities of the
green and blue-skinned S'kytri. During the Clone Wars,
the Outland Clans joined forces with the mad geneticist
Zeta Magnus in an attempt to destroy the other S'kytri
clans. However, Magnus infected all S'kytri with a mindravishing plague which drove his loyal servants mad.
Feasting on them as others launched suicidal campaigns
against the mountain fortresses of their Highland and
Lowland cousins, Magnus nearly wiped out the species
before being driven offworld by Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi,
Anakin Skywalker, and Halagad Ventor. In exchange for
the antidote to Magnus' plague, the planet's Patriarch
and Supreme Council pledged fealty to the Jedi and
vowed to fill any debt that was called.