Unsurprisingly, the Rattataki's natural abilities in battle were quickly manifest, and Vich's Army became a force to be reckoned with. Vich soon recognized that a number of these Rattataki showed sensitivity to the Force, and seeing the potential in this, trained many of these as Sith Acolytes who would answer to him personally. Shortly afterwards the Great Galactic War broke out, Sith Lord Darth Vich, upon noting the relatively-unknown Rattataki's considerable combat prowess and affinity for battle, captured hundreds of tribes of native Rattataki to forge them into his own personal army. This development allowed the species to make contact with societies outside of their homeworld, and travel offworld to settle on new planets. Strong fortresses were built across the mountains of the world and are a remnant of the time when the planet's tribes were unified, though Rattatak himself was lost in the struggle for the surface and the tribes resumed their old ways of infighting. Having previously lived in sprawling cave systems, the efforts of the warlord managed to secure several areas on the surface for the planet's populace. The Rattataki tribes were briefly unified under the warlord Rattatak who managed to bring the infighting tribes together to push back the beasts that infested the surface. Despite being nearly completely isolated from the outside galaxy, the Rattataki displayed remarkable initiative and continually created new ways to kill each other. Siniteens, Vollick, and Weequay ) over the planet's limited resources. For eons, the Rattataki constantly battled amongst themselves, the surface beasts and their fellow inhabitants (represented primarily by Humans, Zabraks. The remarkably harsh conditions on the planet nearly drove its population to extinction. While most other inhabitants of Rattatak came from the Unknown Regions, there were a significant number of off-worlder mercenaries who would come to Rattatak from time to time, likely to view or participate in gladiatorial combat, only to be stranded there permanently. The Rattataki were commonly thought to be descendants of a long-lost Republic expedition.

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