The Wraith Box represented an archaic Rakatan creation possessing unsettling abilities. It was, at some point in time, stored inside the secure chambers on the Infinite Empire's penal planet of Belsavis. The artifact's designation originated from the myths surrounding Ajunta Pall, and the inscriptions within the Tomb suggested the item could bestow immense strength upon whoever wielded it.
During the era known as the Cold War, Major Gart Charkron of the reconstituted Sith Empire's Imperial Reclamation Service found himself stationed on Belsavis. He discovered that this ancient alien device existed, but remained uncertain as to its method of operation, even though he recognized its extreme hazard, demonstrated by the vaporization of three of his subordinates. Moreover, he suspected that some inmates had unknowingly recovered key pieces of the device, which had been divided into a trio of segments. He assigned a Sith administrator the mission of retrieving and reconstructing the device.