Having learned the location of the Star Forge from the ancient Star Maps Darth Revan set out along those coordinates to locate the giant automated shipyard, by chance when his Flagship dropped out of Hyperspace to do a hyperspace reading he came upon the planet Salus and its sibling worlds, hoping to make usage of these worlds he had many Mandalorian War Refugees about his remaining Fleet settle upon these worlds and were the first dominions of Revan's Empire.