Stunned and surprised by the unexpected jump to light speed, the cultists quickly began to board their own ship. Knowing full well that once the cultists ship was detached it would blast them to pieces, the captain of the Corellian shuttle steered the ship to the left and destroyed the cultist's ship on the walls of the hyperspace tunnel. The resulting explosion forced the shuttle out of hyperspace, spiraling down toward a densely forested planted: Kashyyyk.

When the shuttle crashed into the planet's surface, the ancient trees were so strong that the shuttle didn't even hit the forest floor. Corinth woke up after a while, not knowing how long he had been unconscious for. He sat up, body aching all over, and began to look around in the wreckage of the shuttle for Roisha. Fueled by his desire to find Roisha, and the thought that he might not find him, Corinth awakened a power within himself that he did not know existed. He began lifting impossibly heavy beams, throwing them to the side only to find passenger after passenger; all dead. No sign of Roisha. Corinth cried Roisha's name into the deep forest, but no reply came. It was then that Corinth heard something very faint in the night, so faint he couldn't understand it. Then it became clear to him, it was his name being called. It was Roisha! The voice was too weak to be able to tell who it was, but Corinth knew that it was Roisha. He could feel it. He could sense it.

Climbing down the branches of the giant trees of Kashyyyk, his actions sped through some unknown power, Corinth soon came to the forest floor. Not far from the tree that the shuttle had crashed into he found Roisha, weak, almost ripped in two from the fall through the branches to the forest floor. Corinth could barely feel Roisha's pulse, and it was fading quickly. Before he had a chance to say anything, Roisha was dead. Corinth fell asleep that night sobbing next to Roisha's lifeless body.

Those first few weeks were the hardest for Corinth. The Shadowlands were uninhabited, and since he hadn't yet learned how to bring out his newly discovered power, he couldn't make it to the heights required to find a Wookiee village. Corinth took advantage of the small amount of light that made it through the trees during the daytime to find things to eat, and a secluded hiding spot for nightfall. He learned to operate with little sleep, for the pitch-black night brought out terrible creatures, unimaginable to the mind. It was his need to survive combined with the dark nights of the Shadowlands that helped him develop his ability to Sense life through the Force. The Force was his savior in the deep, black night.

The mysterious power that now flowed inside of him grew day by day, allowing him to survive the horrible conditions of the Shadowlands. Over the years Corinth developed these powers on his own to aid his survival. Although he was strong enough in body and the Force within a year to make it to the Wookiee treetop villages, he'd grown adept at surviving on the floor and preferred it. He visited the Wookiees often, though, and developed a close bond with them.
One day about four years later, a former member of the Jedi Order named Jergo Alterian came into a village while Corinth was visiting. Hearing Corinth recount a tale of survival, he recognized Corinth's connection to the Force and spoke with him about training in The Order. After thinking on it for several days, Corinth agreed to let Jergo take him to the Jedi temple on Coruscant.