Ubese society soon paid the price for such rapid technological improvements: their culture began to collapse. Technology broke clan boundaries, bringing everyone closer, disseminating information more quickly and accurately, and allowing certain amitious individuals to influence public and political opinion on entire continents with ease.

Within a few decades, the influx of new technology had sparked the Ubese's interest in creating technology of their own. The Ubese leaders looked out at the other systems nearby and where once they might have seen exciting new cultures and opportunities for trade and cultural exchange, they now saw civilizations waiting to be conquered. Acquiring more technology would let the Ubese to spread their power and influence.

When the local sector observers discovered the Ubese were manufacturing weapons which had been banned since the formation of the Old Republic, they realized they had to stop the Ubese from becoming a major threat. The sector ultimately decided a pre-emptive strike would sufficiently punish the Ubese and reduce their influence in the region.

Unfortunately, the orbital strike against the Ubese planets set off many of the species' large-scale tactical weapons. Uba I, II, V were completely ravaged by radioactive firestorms, and Uba II was totally ruptured when its weapons stockpiles blew. Only on Uba IV, the Ubese homeworld, were survivors reported - pathetic, ravaged wretches who sucked in the oxygen-poor air in rapsy breaths.

Sector authorities were so ashamed of their actions that they refused to offer aid - and wiped all references to the Uba system from official star charts. The system was placed under quarantine, preventing traffic through the region. The incident was so sufficiently hushed up that word of the devastation never reached Coruscant.

The survivors on Uba scratched out a tenuous existence from the scorched ruins, poisoned soil and parched ocean beds. Over generations, the Ubese slowly evolved into survivors - savage nomads. They excelled at scavenging what they could from the wreckage.

Some Ubese survivors were relocated to a nearby system, Ubertica by renegades who felt the quarantine was a harsh reaction. They only managed to relocate a few dozen families from a handful of clans, however. The survivors on Uba - known today as the "true Ubese" - soon came to call the rescued Ubese yrak pootzck,a phrase which implies impure parentage and cowardly ways. While the true Ubese struggled for survival on their homeworld, the yrak pootzck Ubese on Ubertica slowly propogated and found their way into the galaxy.

Millennia later, the true Ubese found a way off Uba IV by capitalizing on their natural talents - they became mercenaries, bounty hunters, slave drivers, and bodyguards. Some returned to their homeworld after making their fortune elsewhere, erecting fortresses and gathering forces with which to control surrounding clans, or trading in technology with the more barbaric Ubese tribes.