Before the time of the Clone Wars, the city-world of Troithe was the site of a brief civil war. This war, which pitted the planet's human majority against its mixed-species underclass, was partially orchestrated by a power-hungry aristo-mercantile family who hoped to gain from the turmoil. By the era of the Galactic Civil War, the conflict was seen as a regrettable and avoidable event that contributed to Troithe's protracted fall from grace.