The rakghoul plague or rakghoul disease was a disease engineered by the ancient Sith LordKarness Muur. Muur, seeking a means to escape death and achieve galactic conquest, forged a Sith amulet that came to be known as the Muur Talisman, an item into which Muur poured his mind, will, and Sith magic. The Muur Talisman’s power could almost instantaneously turn any nearby sentient being into a mindless rakghoul, a Sith-spawnedmutant subservient to Muur’s will. But the talisman’s power was not perfect, and it could not transform Force-sensitives or beings belonging to certain non–Humanspecies into rakghouls, and thus Muur designed the rakghoul plague to compensate for this weakness. The virus-like plague, carried by every rakghoul in existence at the time, could be spread to another being by a bite or a scratch from a rakghoul’s claw. The victim would then suffer through an incubation period lasting approximately six to forty-eight hours before being transformed into a rakghoul, one fully capable of spreading the Sith-made disease on to further victims.