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Blood Sport of Rattatak

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this was the term used to describe the vicious, bloody gladiator events staged by the warlords of the planet Rattatak, during the last decades of the Old Republic. At first, the combatants were individual Rattataki who had disgraced themselves in combat. After slavers discovered Rattatak, rival warlords often purchased offworld gladiators in an effort to defeat their fellow chiefs. It was rare that any one gladiator survived more than a couple fights, mainly because slavers began entering their own combatants into the events, hoping to make more credits from the bloodthirsty Rattataki. The Blood Sport reached its height shortly before the onset of the Clone Wars, when Count Dooku traveled to Rattatak to recruit a leader for his Separatist armies. From the ranks of the gladiators he discovered Asajj Ventress.