The Lost Tribe of Sith represented a Sith Order that took root on the isolated planet of Kesh, situated within Wild Space. Its genesis occurred in 5000 BBY when the warship named Omen, transporting members affiliated with Sith Lord Naga Sadow's Sith Empire, was subjected to an ambush. This attack diverted the ship from its course, leading to a forced crash landing on Kesh. The Tribe rapidly asserted dominance over the indigenous Keshiri species, who came to regard the newcomers as their deities. Captain Yaru Korsin of the Sith assumed the title of Grand Lord over both the Tribe and the Keshiri. This title subsequently passed to his daughter, Nida, following his death. Cut off from the broader galaxy for many years, the Sith erected a Temple atop the Omen's wreckage in the Takara Mountains and relocated their central operations to Tahv, the capital city. Initially, the Tribe comprised individuals from both the Human and Sith species; however, in 4985 BBY, Yaru Korsin instigated a purge targeting all members of the latter. Over time, the Sith established a governing body known as the Circle of Lords, consisting of Lords and High Lords, with the Grand Lord at its head. Despite the discovery of the Sith by a Jedi Knight, Jelph Marrian, in 3963 BBY, the destruction of his strikefighter resulted in his permanent isolation on the planet.
These Sith were isolated for millennia, largely ignorant of galactic affairs and the wider Sith community. However, following the conclusion of the Second Galactic Civil War in 41 ABY, the Sith Meditation Sphere Ship located the Tribe. Ship informed them about the Jedi's ascendancy in the galaxy and the recent annihilation of the last remnants of the Sith Order. Ship aided the Tribe in leaving Kesh, helping them establish a new armada. Two years later, the Tribe sensed the presence of Grand Master Luke Skywalker in the Force and resolved to eliminate him. However, Ship was abruptly seized by the will of Abeloth, a dark side entity residing in the Maw, and abandoned Kesh for Abeloth's world. The Sith promptly dispatched a strike team to reclaim Ship and assassinate Skywalker. The team encountered Abeloth in the Maw, who weakened them before permitting Ship to return, enabling them to proceed with their mission. Their attack on the Jedi was unsuccessful, leading Skywalker and his son Ben to track Vestara Khai, the team's only survivor, to Dathomir. There, a team under Viun Gaalan captured a group of darksider Nightsisters and engaged in a duel with the Skywalkers while attempting to retrieve Khai, but the Sith were once again defeated.
Soon after, a fleet commanded by High Lord Sarasu Taalon persuaded the Jedi to forge an alliance against Abeloth, who was inducing psychosis among the Jedi Knights. During the allied mission, the Sith betrayed the Jedi, aiming to kill the Skywalkers and force Abeloth into servitude. However, they failed again to eliminate the Jedi. Abeloth was defeated, and the Jedi and Sith temporarily mended their alliance to investigate her origins. This alliance soon collapsed, and a subsequent confrontation involving both factions and Abeloth resulted in Taalon's death. In the meantime, the Sith honed their piracy skills and constructed a war fleet to conquer the galaxy.
In 5000 BBY, the Sith dreadnaught Omen suffered an ambush while mining Lignan ore. This ore was intended for Sith Lord Naga Sadow's planned Sith invasion of the galaxy. As the warship attempted to escape into hyperspace, it collided with another Sith vessel, the Harbinger. This collision knocked the Omen off course, causing it to crash on the remote Wild Space planet Kesh. The surviving Sith quickly left the crash site, located in the Cetajan Mountains. However, the Omen's captain, Yaru Korsin, returned to the wreckage to attempt sending a distress signal. There, he found his half-brother, Devore, who argued that their failure to follow Sadow's orders would result in their death. Devore attacked Yaru, and during their ensuing duel, Devore was thrown off a cliff to his death. Yaru Korsin also discovered that the ship's transmitter had been destroyed.
By the second day on Kesh, all of the Sith's Massassi workers had perished. Shortly after, the crash survivors encountered Adari Vaal, a member of the native Keshiri species. She had been branded a heretic for her geologic teachings and had witnessed Devore's death from her Uvak. With Vaal's help, Korsin deceived the natives into believing that the survivors were the Skyborn, the Keshiri's legendary gods. Korsin was proclaimed Grand Lord of the Skyborn, and the Sith began mining for metals to repair their vessel. However, Vaal knew that the necessary metals—if they existed on Kesh—were buried deep beneath the surface. Indeed, the appropriate metals were never found, and maintaining the Sith's advanced technology proved impossible on Kesh. Nevertheless, the Tribe built a Sith Temple over the Omen's crash site in the Cetajan Mountains, which were renamed the "Takara Mountains" after Grand Lord Yaru Korsin's mother, Takara. The Sith established their rule over the Keshiri, who willingly submitted to eternal servitude.
Among the roughly three hundred survivors, all were members of the Human or Sith species, except for one Houk. However, the members of the Sith species—known as the "Red Sith"—were unable to reproduce; their offspring did not survive past their first day. Unbeknownst to the other Sith, [Seelah Korsin](/article/seelah_korsin]—Devore Korsin's widow, who had remarried Yaru Korsin—ensured the deaths of all Red Sith offspring, hoping to make the Tribe purely Human. Meanwhile, the surviving Red Sith—calling themselves the "Fifty-Seven"—believed their reproductive failure was due to Kesh itself and pushed for the Tribe to find a way to leave. Fifteen years after the Omen's crash, Grand Lord Korsin tasked Ravilan, the Red Sith spokesperson, with examining eight Keshiri villages along the Ragnos Lakes. Ravilan decided to poison the Keshiri, having discovered that cyanogen silicate—a cauterizing agent used by the Massassi aboard the Omen—was deadly to the Keshiri but harmless to the Red Sith. Ravilan and the other Red Sith went first to Tetsubal, the village farthest from the Sith Temple, where Ravilan introduced cyanogen silicate into the aqueducts. Tetsubal's entire Keshiri population was killed, along with Ravilan's Human aide.
Ravilan sent a Force message to the Sith Temple, and Yaru and Seelah Korsin responded quickly. Arriving in Tetsubal, Ravilan lied, claiming he found the village already dead and suggesting that, to avoid the plague affecting Humans, the Sith should cut off all contact with the Keshiri. As the Grand Lord recalled all Sith to the Takara Mountains and sent out reconnaissance fliers to check for the plague's spread, Seelah Korsin—who had discovered Ravilan's treachery—decided to use the cyanogen silicate for her own political gain. She introduced the silicate first to Rabolow and then to more villages on the Ragnos Lakes. She then convinced her husband that Ravilan and the Red Sith were spreading the plague. Believing they were plotting against him, Yaru Korsin ordered a purge of all Red Sith on Kesh. Caught off guard, the Red Sith were quickly hunted down and eliminated. The Grand Lord and his chief lieutenants cornered the last survivors at the precipice where the Omen had crashed, and those who surrendered were thrown off the cliff to their deaths. Ravilan, the last of his species, was soon captured and tortured by Seelah Korsin. She confirmed that she had killed all Red Sith babies and that she was behind the poisoning of the Keshiri towns and the Red Sith massacre. She then had [Jariad](/article/jariad_korsin]—her son from her marriage with Devore—kill Ravilan. However, Seelah had played into the hands of Adari Vaal, who had started an underground resistance movement to remove the Sith from Kesh. Vaal felt responsible for her species' subjugation and wanted to personally remove the Tribe from her homeworld. After the Purge, Seelah also erased the Tribe archives of all entries about the Sith species and the slave status of the human survivors of the Omen in the Sith Empire.
In 4975 BBY, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Tribe's arrival on Kesh, Korsin held Dedication Day to celebrate the Tribe's presence and demonstrate their commitment to staying. The fact that Sadow had not found them after twenty-five years, coupled with the planet's lack of resources to repair the Omen, led Korsin to believe the Sith could never leave Kesh. Consequently, the Sith relocated from their Temple in the Takara Mountains to the more comfortable Tahv, which became the Sith capital. Furthermore, with a population of nearly six hundred Sith, Korsin established a hierarchy within the Tribe, creating the Circle of Lords composed of High Lords and Sith Lords appointed by the Grand Lord, while Tahv's structures were reorganized to accommodate the new institutions. Seelah Korsin's eugenics programs introduced a worship for racial purity and physical perfection within the now exclusively human Tribe, except for the old Houk Gloyd. Meanwhile, the Tribe continued to dominate the Keshiri, who were forbidden from riding uvak—a reptavian species domesticated for travel on Kesh—and most still worshiped the Sith as gods. However, Adari Vaal's resistance grew stronger, plotting to steal all the Uvaks of Keshtah to prevent the increasing number of Sith from governing their continental domain and thus bring down their grip on the Keshiri, who were much more numerous and scattered in hundreds of villages.
A rebellion opportunity arose when Seelah Korsin initiated her plan to avenge herself against Korsin and place Devore's son, Jariad, on the throne of Kesh. The young High Lord had discreetly united his father's former allies and Sith convinced by rumors about the Grand Lord's incompetence into his corps of Sith Sabers, while Seelah monitored [Nida](/article/nida_korsin], her despised daughter with Korsin, ensuring she was not properly trained and kept away from the capital to prevent her from rivaling her half-brother. Exploiting Yaru Korsin's visit to the temple to ensure everything was in order after the last Sith departed for Tahv, Seelah launched the attack with Jariad and his Sabers, while the Keshiri resistance, using Seelah as a decoy, went into action. Accompanied by Gloyd and four bodyguards, Yaru Korsin was surrounded by two dozen Sith Sabers led by his treacherous relatives, when the theft of the Sith Temple uvaks by the Keshiri bought him a little time.
During the battle, Korsin was separated from his protectors and cornered on the cliff where he had pushed his brother twenty-five years earlier. As Jariad Korsin prepared to deliver the coup de grace and avenge his father, Nida arrived with her Skyborn Rangers and moved to aid the fatally wounded Grand Lord. Unfortunately for Seelah and Jariad, while Korsin had not planned Adari's rebellion, the Grand Lord saw through their intrigues and had secretly prepared Nida to succeed him. In fact, unbeknownst to Seelah, who only saw Nida as a means for her and Jariad to stay close to the Grand Lord, Yaru Korsin had staged the death of some of his most trusted Sith so they could train Nida in the dark side of the Force, while the function of Sith ambassador to the Keshiri, imagined by Seelah to keep her daughter away, had allowed Nida to form a network of influence among both Keshiri as well as among the Sith faithful to her father. It was thanks to her spies that Nida Korsin was made aware of the plans of the Keshiri resistance, which she had succeeds to thwart in Tahv before coming to the Temple as agreed with her father, to confound her mother and her half-brother and eliminate the members of the conspiracy.
Nida Korsin and her followers eradicated Jariad and his forces, but they arrived too late to save Yaru Korsin. Seelah, who had lost the use of her legs during Gloyd's last stand, was abandoned in the Sith Temple, now sealed after her daughter announced her elevation to Grand Lord in accordance with Yaru Korsin's last wishes, ratified by the surviving High Lords. As for her father, who was celebrated with Testament Day, Korsin became a legendary figure of the Tribe, initiating a golden age for the Sith of Kesh, later celebrated through the Festival of Nida's Rise. She died in 4896 BBY, after a seventy-nine-year tenure, having instituted a succession based on merit instead of heredity when her son, Donellan, waited too long to make his move and died.
Regarding the Keshiri Resistance, Adari Vaal's plan to take all the stolen uvaks over the deep seas, where they would crash and drown with their riders, while on the continent the remaining members of the resistance would kill all the remaining uvaks and the major Sith sympathizers before members of the tribe could intervene, succeeded across the continent except for Tahv. Because of the betrayal of Vaal's own son, Tona, whom for love Nida Korsin had revealed the Resistance plan to the Sith one day before its execution, the Lost Tribe managed to keep the uvaks of the capital. Defeated, Adari and her disciples flew to a certain death over the western ocean of Keshtah, but against all odds the resistance leader and approximately three hundred Keshiri survived the travel and settled on an unidentified inhospitable island, while the humans believed them dead.
Indeed, if in the annals of the history of the Tribe of the Sith the slaves were exclusively Keshiri, the situation changed after the end of the Korsin bloodline, when a rebellion led by Ermon Parrah tried to steal the crippled Omen and return to the stars. Defeated by Sith loyal to the Grand Lord, the conspirators and their families were put into slavery, creating over the decades an intermediate class of enslaved humans, which mixed with heirs of the non-Force-sensitives members of the Omen crew.
Over the next millennium, the successors of the Korsins took turns, Grand Lord after Grand Lord, to guide the Tribe through its golden age. This delicate balance of power was preserved by several Sith factions and thus allowed the order envisioned by Yaru Korsin to thrive on Kesh. However, in 3960 BBY, the legacy of Korsin began to falter, when the Red Faction of High Lord Dernas and the Gold Faction of High Lord Pallima, unable to reach agreement placed the old High Lady Lillia Venn on the throne, waiting to settle their differences. This precarious agreement was not to the liking of Venn, who launched a plan to ensure her survival, while getting rid of the two factions and Candra Kitai, the newest High Lady. While Kitai had not chosen a side, Venn feared that even if she did not become the next Grand Lord, she would determine the next successor. Thus, during a Rake-riding held on Donellan's Day, the champion of the Kitais, Campion Dey was driven to attack the Grand Lord who eliminated him and put the blame for the assassination attempt on her political rivals and Candra Kitai. While Dernas and Pallima were publicly executed, High Lord Kitai and her daughter, the Sith Saber Orielle Kitai, were stripped of their titles and their properties and reduced to the status of slaves, serving as a living example for the enemies of Venn.
Shaken by the forfeiture of her position, Orielle escaped on her uvak into the Highlands, seeking out Jelph of Marisota, a human slave she had encountered some months prior. She valued him for his horticultural knowledge and the absence of fearful subservience that characterized other slaves. With Jelph's assistance, Orielle discerned Venn's scheme. However, he persuaded her to remain hidden, preventing her from becoming a symbolic target for Venn's adversaries. Orielle stayed with Jelph for several days, during which their relationship blossomed romantically. On the tenth day, the Luzo brothers, Sith Sabers who were rivals of Orielle and loyal to Venn, discovered her trail while Jelph was away. They threatened her, killed her uvak, and confiscated her lightsaber, asserting that slaves were not permitted to possess such symbols of status. The brothers mocked Orielle before departing, leaving her a shovel from Venn as a token for her new life. Consumed by rage, Orielle destroyed Jelph's dwelling before turning her wrath upon the manure pile in the barn.
It was there that the young Sith discovered an Aurek-class tactical strikefighter concealed beneath the structure. Jelph of Marisota was, in truth, the Jedi Knight Jelph Marrian, an agent of the Covenant, a clandestine Jedi organization dedicated to tracking Sith influence throughout the galaxy. He had fled into uncharted territories after the Covenant was outlawed by the Jedi Order, and subsequently crash-landed on Kesh in 3963 BBY due to a meteor storm. Seeing this discovery as a chance to reclaim her family's standing and free her Tribe from its confinement, Orielle departed for Tahv to locate Candra, whom she found collecting uvak droppings in the city zoo. Devastated, the former High Lady initially refused to believe her daughter. However, Orielle's persistence led her to provide the means to contact the surviving High Lords, along with the secret phrase indicating a world-shattering revelation. After delivering the message to an intermediary, she was confronted by Jelph Marrian. He had discovered the unearthed ship and followed Orielle to Tahv to prevent her from exposing his secret to the Sith. Influenced by her dark upbringing and wielding a lightsaber stolen from a zoo guard, Orielle engaged in a duel with her lover. However, she was quickly disarmed by the former Covenant Shadow, who revealed the Sith Empire's defeat and attempted to persuade her that she was different from other Sith.
Orielle Kitai, swayed by the love she sensed in Jelph through the Force, resolved to abandon her plan and assist the Jedi in preventing her Sith brethren from finding the starfighter. She warned Marrian that even if the high lords were ignorant of the ship, they were soon to travel to the farm on her invitation. The strategy involved providing the Lords with the planet's only four working blasters, hidden by Jelph, and then escaping in the repaired ship. They commandeered an uvak but arrived too late, finding that several Sith had pursued them to the farm. These visitors were not the High Lords, but rather Grand Lord Lillia Venn and her entourage, including the Luzo brothers. Kitai had been betrayed by her mother, who had disbelieved her report and informed the Grand Lord in exchange for "improved working conditions."
Kitai was seized, but Marrian launched an assault on the Sith holding her. Meanwhile, Lillia Venn boarded the ship and attempted to take off. However, Jelph had previously placed explosives beneath the starship, which detonated, killing Lillia and her followers and obliterating the entire farm. Jelph and Orielle escaped the explosion by leaping into the Marisota River. Following the events of the Night of the Upside-Down Meteor, Jelph Marrian and Orielle Kitai exiled themselves to the untouched jungles of Keshtah, where they founded their own family. Both had abandoned the perpetual conflict between the light and dark sides after Jelph intercepted a Republic transmission announcing the rise of Darth Revan. Despite Candra Kitai's succession to the Grand Lordship after Venn's demise, nearly a millennium of civil war and anarchy, known as the Time of the Rot, followed Venn's disappearance. Over the subsequent 960 years, numerous Sith factions arose and fought for dominance in a succession of Grand Lords and Anti-Lords.
The Sith Tribe spent nearly a thousand years tearing itself apart, undoing the carefully constructed hierarchy of Yaru Korsin. Many Keshiri were forced into service by the various Sith factions. As a result of this internal strife, the Tribe's numbers dwindled to a few thousand by 3000 BBY. No longer maintained and ravaged by a millennium of civil war, Tahv itself was on the verge of collapse, with the possible exception of the Office of the Caretaker. This office, built by Nida to preserve the Tribe's history, held no significance for the warring factions. The only time the Sith factions gathered peacefully was on Testament Day, a day occurring every twenty-five years when the Testament of Yaru Korsin was read to the Sith leadership. Prior to the Testament Day ceremony in 3000 BBY, Iliana Merko and her Sisters of Seelah attempted to strong-arm the incumbent sixty-year-old Caretaker, Varner Hilts, into altering the Testament. Their goal was to restore Seelah's position in the Tribe's history and advance their own agendas.
Weary of their constant conflict, the Sith sought a leader capable of uniting the Tribe. Each faction leader used the truce established during Testament Day to bolster their own legitimacy. However, Hilts was unable to falsify the Testament, as it was read from a holocron recording of Yaru Korsin. While the Sisters held the Caretaker and his Keshiri assistants captive for four days, the other Sith factions learned of Seelah's occupation of the Kesh capitol building through their spies. These factions then camped on the palace grounds. Two of these factions, the Korsinite League of Korsin Bentado and Force 57 of Neera, launched an attack on the Sisters of Seelah. Using calculations from his Keshiri assistant, Jaye Vuhld, who had detected a one-second difference between a day on Kesh and a Galactic Standard Day, Varner Hilts was able to legally declare the Pantheon's Peace eight days early to halt the confrontation.
Following the reading of Korsin's Testament, the leaders of the twenty Sith factions erupted into infighting. Hilts discovered that the Testament had been recorded over an older recording, which proved to be Naga Sadow ordering Yaru Korsin to transport lignan crystals to his forces on Kirrek during the Great Hyperspace War. The Sith also rediscovered the true identities of the "Red Sith," who had been Ravilan Wroth, and the "Other Fifty-Seven." Seelah and Yaru had attempted to conceal the Tribe's true history, promoting the myth that they were great conquerors who had willingly come to Kesh. This revelation shocked the Sith, who decided to destroy the holo-recorder to prevent the Keshiri from learning that their godlike masters were merely runaway slaves dominated by an alien species. However, an observer could not resist sharing the truth, and it spread rapidly, triggering a destructive madness eight days later. Humans killed each other and looted everything while the frightened Keshiri hid wherever they could.
Driven by a cryptic reference in the Testament to a hidden secret behind Korsin's throne, Varner Hilts and his trusted Keshiri servant Jaye Vuhld journeyed to the Kesh Sith Temple to unlock the Omen and save the Sith Tribe from collective suicide. After traversing the ten-meter-high blocks sealing the Sith Temple, Hilt and his clerk arrived at the Temple, where they found Iliana Merko weeping over Seelah's remains. Seelah had died alone in the Sith Temple. Iliana also confided that she had experienced visions of Seelah washing the feet of the ancient Sith Lord Ludo Kressh. Varner managed to recruit Iliana into his team, and they explored the Omen, only to find that Korsin had moved his command chair, or throne, to the planetarium at the top of the temple. Meanwhile, the Sith factions set aside their differences and united to destroy the Omen, which had become a symbol of their enslavement and imprisonment on Kesh. Bentado, Neera, and Edell Vrai, a member of the Golden Destiny faction, managed to gather thirty other Sith from various factions for this purpose.
Hilts and his companions evaded the other Sith and entered the planetarium. There, they discovered Yaru's throne, containing a letter from Takara Korsin to her son Yaru, detailing her visions of him ruling over a "great people." The letter was written in the Tapani language, but Hilts was able to read it due to his knowledge of the language. However, Hilts quickly realized that this was not Yaru Korsin's secret. His suspicions were confirmed by Jaye's recollection of a sealed room beneath the tomb containing the Omen. Hilts concluded that he would find the answers to his question there, speculating that a dying Korsin had recorded his Testament there. Ultimately, Hilts was correct and discovered that the chamber was a map room. However, the other Sith caught up with them, and Bentado killed Jaye. These Sith then surrounded Iliana and Hilts, intending to kill the former in revenge for the injuries she had inflicted during the "Great Crisis."
In an act of faith, the Caretaker used the Force to detach the plates covering the room's walls. This revealed a large map of an unknown continent, several times the size of Keshtah, the Sith domain. The Tribe's founder, Yaru Korsin, had foreseen that after conquering Kestah, the Sith would inevitably turn against each other, as was their nature. Therefore, Korsin had withheld this knowledge until a new mission was needed to unite the Sith. Having read Takara's letter to Yaru, Hilts argued that the Sith should put aside their differences and work together to conquer this new continent, which he named "Keshtah Major." This would require restoring the old ways and the Tribe's hierarchy, which had collapsed during the Time of the Rot. Recognizing the old man's wisdom, the Sith submitted to Hilts and elected him their Grand Lord. With this new goal, Hilts and his followers ended the "Great Crisis" by giving the Sith Tribe a new purpose. He also married Iliana Merko to protect her from the other Sith leaders and to provide a powerful defender for himself and his mission. Hilts was aware that, according to tradition, the spouse of Grand Lord would be killed upon the Grand Lord's death.
Under the leadership of Grand Lord Varner Hilts, the Tribe rebuilt Keshtah's cities and infrastructure, including the aqueduct systems. The Kesh capitol building was restored to its former glory, remaining the residence of the Grand Lord and his Grand Consort. To honor his fallen Keshiri friend Jaye Vuhld, Hilts implemented a policy allowing Force-sensitive Keshiri individuals to join the Lost Tribe of Sith, improving their social mobility. Within twenty-five years, Hilts had cultivated a significant following of loyal Keshiri supporters willing to serve the Tribe. However, Hilts' most significant achievement was the annexation of Keshtah Major, called Alanciar by its Keshiri inhabitants, the Alanciari. Hilts appointed the mathematician Edell Vrai as chief engineer of the Alanciari project, who later became one of the Tribe's youngest High Lords. For the next twenty-five years, the Lost Tribe dedicated significant resources to developing technologies that would enable them to reach Alanciar.
Initially, the Tribe experimented with long-distance uvak flights, but the vast oceans proved too challenging, and several pilots and their steeds were lost. Next, they attempted to build boats, but Keshtah's wood proved unsuitable for ocean voyages. The fragile hejarbo shoots could not withstand the ocean waves, while dense hardwoods like vosso were too heavy to float. Finally, in 2975 BBY, Vrai successfully developed airships, kept aloft by hydrogen stored in canvas gasbags. Using a simple water catalyst, this hydrogen was extracted from methane from the Sessal Spire volcano using glass vessels. These airships were propelled by packs of uvaks suspended in harnesses below the gondola, where they could rest, eat, and sleep when not needed. Vrai's invention came at a crucial time, as he faced opposition from rival High and Sith Lords vying for Hilts' favor.
In 2975 BBY, Edell Vrai received permission from Hilts to lead an expeditionary mission to Keshtah Major. The plan was to fly over the Western Sea and scout Keshtah Major before returning to Keshtah Minor across the smaller Sea of Flames. Vrai's force consisted of three small scout airships, Candra, Lillia, and Dann Itra, and a crew that included three thoughtcriers to communicate with the Tribe. However, the Alanciari had prepared for a Sith invasion. Two millennia ago, the Keshtah Herald Adari Vaal and 300 followers had fled to Alanciar, successfully warning the Keshiri there about the Sith threat. Over the centuries, the Alanciari developed a strong military and a large industrial base to support it. They also had two reliable continental communication systems: a network of semaphore stations operated by trained signals officers and thoughtcriers, Force-sensitive Alanciari who could transmit messages through the Force.
Vrai's expeditionary force was intercepted by Alanciari ballista and uvak-riders, who destroyed the airships and killed four-fifths of the crew. However, Vrai and five others survived, capturing the Alanciari signals officer Jogan Halder and his lover Quarra Thayn, a Force-sensitive Wardmaster and former thoughtcrier. The Sith also commandeered a Keshiri fishing trawler, Mischance, gaining access to an Alanciari sailing ship. Most importantly, the Sith expedition obtained a copy of Adari Vaal's Keshtah Chronicles, a popular Alanciari history book providing invaluable intelligence on what the Alanciari knew about them. Before her death, Vrai's thoughtcrier Tellpah managed to send a message containing surprise, shock, and confusion to Grand Consort Iliana's thoughtcriers. The Grand Lord and his Consort feared the expeditionary force had met with disaster but were unable to prevent High Lord Korsin Bentado from traveling to Alanciar with a large invasion fleet of airships known as the Ebon Fleet.
Following the capture of the harvester Mischance, Edell's uvak-tenderer and pilot Peppin learned how to operate the ship's sails and steerage. They reasoned that the Tribe would be interested in the Alanciari sailing vessel and Jogan Halder, along with his collection of books, including the invaluable Keshtah Chronicles, a popular Alanciari book written by the Keshiri exile Adari Vaal. This book was required reading for all Alanciari children and provided information about the Tribe and Keshtah Minor. Not wanting to return to Keshtah, fearing for his position, Edell fabricated new orders, directing himself to embark on a ground reconnaissance mission of Alanciar. Vrai coerced Thayn into serving as his guide for a reconnaissance mission into Alanciar's interior, promising to spare Halder's life in return.
After depositing Edell and Quarra, Edell's crew sailed the Mischance back to Keshtah, traveling through the Southern Passage to the Sea of Flames. Upon disembarking, Peppin flew on an uvak to Tahv, informing the Grand Lord about the recent developments in Alanciar. She also showed Hilts the Keshtah Chronicles, allowing the Tribe to gain invaluable intelligence on what the Alanciari knew about them. Despite learning about the Alanciari's military capabilities, Hilts did not share this information with Korsin Bentado, viewing the ambitious High Lord as a rival. Knowing the Alanciari's superior military strength, Hilts intended to send Bentado and his loyal supporters, many from the former Korsinite League, to their deaths.
Meanwhile, Edell Vrai learned of the strong anti-Human and anti-Sith sentiment among the Alanciari during his reconnaissance mission. He also attempted to recruit Quarra to the Sith cause, but she refused to trust the Sith. They traveled to the Western Shield, where Bentado's Ebon Fleet was attacked and destroyed by Alanciari ballista emplacements. Vrai and Quarra then traveled to the latter's hometown of Uhrar, where she checked on her three children. Later, the pair traveled to Sus'mintri, the capital of Alanciar and the seat of the War Cabinet, its military government. Unbeknownst to Edell and Quarra, Bentado and several of his Sith followers had survived the debacle at the Western Shield and reached Sus'mintri. There, they infiltrated Vaal Hall and its adjacent signal tower, slaughtering the War Cabinet and effectively decapitating Alanciar's highly centralized defense infrastructure. The Sith were now able to control the Alanciari military through their semaphore system.
Back on Keshtah Minor, Grand Lord Hilts and the Circle of Lords successfully won over Jogan Halder. To create the illusion that the Sith were benevolent and that Keshtah was a paradise, Hilts arranged for his most loyal Keshiri supporters to organize a carnival on the streets of Tahv. This was designed to create the impression that the Keshiri on Keshtah lived carefree and happy lives, allowing them to devote themselves to recreational activities rather than the military drudgery of the Alanciari Keshiri. Meanwhile, the Sith withdrew from public view to create the impression that they did not dominate the Keshiri on Keshtah. These Keshiri convinced Halder that the Sith were indeed the Protectors, ancient gods in Keshiri mythology. The Alanciari was also allowed to visit the Kesh capitol building, where the Sith pretended to contemplate in quiet meditation.
Halder met the Circle of Lords, who pretended to be an egalitarian council where no one held a higher rank. While the Sith Lords acknowledged that Adari Vaal, the Herald of Kesh, had been right about the presence of the "servants of Destructors" among the Sith, they claimed to have eliminated these "evil ones" shortly after Vaal left for Alanciar, rendering the militarization of Alanciari society unnecessary. The Lords then told Jogan that Korsin Bentado was a servant of the Destructors who had recently risen from among the Sith. Following his exile from Keshtah, this "servant of the Destructors" built airships and set out to conquer Alanciar. Finally, Jogan was told that Edell Vrai, the man who had kidnapped him, was a trusted friend of the Protectors who had come in search of Bentado and to ensure that the Alanciari did not serve the Destructors. Thus, the Sith were able to win over Jogan to their cause, and he became their "ambassador" to the Alanciari.
Ultimately, Hilts' suspicions of Korsin Bentado were confirmed. Viewing Hilts as an obstacle to the Grand Lordship, Bentado planned to kill the Grand Lord by ordering the Alanciari ballista and uvak-riders to attack his airship Good Omen. Bentado planned to establish a "Second Tribe" on Alanciar and exploit the continent's vast military-industrial complex. However, he was opposed by Edell Vrai, who remained loyal to Grand Lord Hilts, and Quarra Thayn, who condemned Bentado for murdering the entire War Cabinet. Following a pursuit and a brutal duel, Bentado was stopped through the combined efforts of Vrai, Thayn, and his own Keshiri aide Squab, who was secretly loyal to Hilts. Squab personally executed Bentado and handed command of the fallen High Lord's forces to Edell Vrai, who reasserted control over Bentado's remaining followers and the signaling devices. Thus, Hilts and Halder were able to land without difficulty at Port Melephos, a coastal port south of Sus'mintri.
At Port Melephos, Halder delivered his testament to the local Alanciari, successfully convincing them of the Lost Tribe's benevolence. Following Hilts' arrival at Port Melephos, Edell sent semaphore signals updating him on the deaths of the War Cabinet and Bentado's failed uprising. The Good Omen then traveled to Sus'mintri, where Halder repeated his testament to a large crowd of Keshiri who accepted his message. The only dissenter was Quarra Thayn, but she kept her thoughts to herself and cooperated with the Sith authorities to protect her people and her family. Following Halder's testament, Hilts arrived disguised as the "Keshtah-born minion" of the Bright Tuash, a Keshiri god, and supported Thayn's message. He told the Alanciari that Adari Vaal had been a good, albeit misguided, servant of his. He apologized for the damage that Bentado and his followers had inflicted on the Alanciari and promised that relief workers from Keshtah, both Keshiri and Sith, would arrive to facilitate the peaceful "Unification" of the two continents. Thus, Hilts had achieved his lifelong ambition of conquering Keshtah Major by convincing the Alanciari to submit to Sith rule.
The Alanciar takeover marked a pivotal moment for the Tribe. The Lost Tribe's gain from this conquest was access to a sizable, affluent continent boasting a significant industrial sector and abundant timber resources. This allowed the Sith to construct a large fleet of wooden ships, superseding the perilous airships as the primary means of long-distance travel on the planet. This fresh collection of wooden sailing vessels empowered the Sith to explore the uncharted territories and seas of Kesh, notably the previously unexplored northern hemisphere. Edell Vrai, bearing the title of High Lord, was designated as the acting governor of Alanciar. His assignment involved assessing and documenting Alanciari innovations for Tribe utilization. Vrai also oversaw the disarmament of Alanciari society. Large quantities of ballistae, both small and large, were destroyed as a gesture of trust and reconciliation. The Sith, however, were actually fearful that armed Keshiri would challenge their authority. Hilts viewed the act of willingly incorporating the Alanciari Keshiri into the Sith's service as a more significant triumph than capturing new slaves through combat. The Testament of Varner Hilts immortalized this victory.
In a parallel development, the Tribe's "ambassador," Jogan Halder, transitioned into a reclusive figure who journeyed across Alanciar's cities aboard the airship Good Omen, recounting his adventure. Halder's narrative, enhanced by Keshiri performers and songwriters brought in from Keshtah, gradually supplanted the Observance Day plays, which centered on Adari Vaal's life, whose teachings were deemed obsolete, if not subversive, by the new Sith regime. Official narratives portrayed Adari as merely being discovered on a rock. Jogan, conversely, had resided on a rock prior to his revelation of the truth. Consequently, Jogan was celebrated as the new "Rock of Kesh." Halder's contributions to the Tribe earned him a position of distinction within their society. His prestige was further amplified by his status as the first Alanciari visitor to Keshtah Minor, the Tribe's domain.
Halder also terminated his relationship with Quarra, his former lover, due to his preoccupation with his newfound role and status. Meanwhile, Quarra Thayn returned to her husband, Brue Thayn, and their three children, who remained unaware of her affair with Jogan Halder. While she declined Vrai's invitation to join the Lost Tribe and become his consort, she acknowledged the inevitability of the Sith takeover of Alanciar. Given her countrymen's lack of skepticism toward the Sith, she concluded that collaboration with the Sith occupiers was the better course of action.
Finally, Hilts supervised the creation of a new Testament to replace the Testament of Yaru Korsin, which he considered outdated and unsuitable for the Tribe. This text would serve as both a manifesto and a legal document, reminding the Sith of their identity and outlining the Tribe's hierarchy. Unlike its predecessor, it also delved into the Tapani origins of the Lost Tribe, who descended from House Nidantha, a minor Tapani house that had departed the Tapani sector to pursue its own path. These Tapani had been enslaved by the Red Sith of the Stygian Caldera, but some of their descendants managed to reverse their fortunes. These descendants exterminated the Red Sith within their ranks and subsequently became the rulers of the Keshiri people. As before, only Humans were permitted to attend the reading, while the Keshiri were restricted to a censored version.
Despite Hilts' relative moderation and progressiveness compared to his predecessors, generational slavery persisted as a punishment for disobedient Tribe members. Furthermore, certain Sith Lords, such as Galathos, continued to employ terror and brutality to subjugate their subjects. The port city of Eorm remained a haven for thousands of disenfranchised Sith slaves and Keshiri serfs, who were subjected to extended work hours and penalized for failing to meet their production targets. This ultimately laid the groundwork for a new threat to the Tribe: the Sith vandal Parlan Spinner, a descendant of the Sith rebel Ermon Parrah who had spearheaded a failed attempt to seize the Omen and return to the stars. While his family had been condemned to perpetual servitude, Spinner rejected his assigned role in society. Instead, he established a band of outlaws known as Spinner's Web, which engaged in acts of vandalism against the Tribe.
In the year 2974 BBY, the Sith exile Parlan Spinner made an attempt on the life of Grand Lord Hilts during the Founding celebrations held in Tahv. These celebrations commemorated the arrival of the Tribe's ancestors on Kesh in 5000 BBY. However, Spinner's assassination attempt failed, and he was apprehended by Varner Hilts' daughter, Takara Hilts, who held the position of Prefect of Police within the Tahv Constabulary. While Iliana and Takara advocated for Spinner's execution, the Grand Lord chose to spare Spinner's life, sentencing him to servitude aboard the Alanciari vessel, the Southern Star, under the command of the Alanciari captain Chegg. Hilts justified his leniency by stating that Spinner was an impetuous young man whose energies could be better utilized in exploring a "new frontier." Unbeknownst to Spinner or his family, Hilts intended to dispatch the Southern Star to explore Eshkrene, the planet's south pole. The Grand Lord hypothesized that the Sith Tribe had not been the first offworlders to discover Kesh, based on the Keshiri legends of the Protectors and Destructors, and the ease with which the Keshiri had accepted the Tribe.
For this momentous voyage, the Southern Star's crew included Spinner and Hilts' daughter Takara, who had secretly boarded the vessel as a stowaway. Hilts' theory proved accurate, and the Tribe encountered the Doomed, the descendants of ancient Jedi and Dark Jedi who had become marooned on Kesh following the Hundred-Year Darkness. Under the leadership of the Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa, a group of Dark Jedi attempted to escape the Stygian Caldera and return to the galaxy. However, they were intercepted by a Jedi patrol composed of veterans from the Battle of Corbos. After a galaxy-wide pursuit, the combatants found themselves on Kesh, where they were unable to request reinforcements due to the planet's peculiar magnetic fields. These Force-users initiated the Great Calamity, which the Keshiri would remember as the "Great Battle" between the Protectors and Destructors. The Sith had merely adopted this legend for their own purposes.
Over time, the two factions grew weary of the devastation and destruction they had inflicted on Kesh. Ultimately, they reached a truce and imprisoned Remulus Dreypa, who refused to compromise, in an oubliette, where he would remain for four millennia. Meanwhile, the Jedi concealed their last hyperspace-capable starship, Last Hope, beneath Tahv's Circle Eternal plaza. They then migrated to Eshkrene, where they established a new Force community known as the Doomed. The Doomed dedicated themselves to finding equilibrium between the light and dark sides of the Force. They also employed ice mirrors to maintain a vigilant watch over the Keshiri and the Lost Tribe. Finally, they guarded the imprisoned Dreypa. Although they had planned to intervene during the Time of the Rot, they decided against it after Hilts rose to power and successfully restored peace and stability to Keshtah.
While Takara was able to empathize with the Doomed and expressed interest in learning about them, Spinner sought to settle scores with the Tribe. After freeing himself and the Keshiri crew from captivity, Spinner stole the Doomed's "Great Weapon" and released Remulus Dreypa from his oubliette. He and the Keshiri crew managed to evade their Doomed captors and sailed to the Keshtah port of Eorm. There, Dreypa incited a slave revolt with the intention of marching on Tahv and returning to the stars. Dreypa's rebellion marked the first major conflict since the Great Crisis. Additionally, Spinner and Dreypa took Takara and the Doomed's leader, Kaliska, who had unsuccessfully tried to prevent them from opening the oubliette, as prisoners. However, the pair managed to escape with Eorm's entire herd of uvaks and returned to Eshkrene, where they rallied the Doomed for an assault on Dreypa.
Dreypa's army advanced on Tahv but suffered significant losses during the Battle of the Marisota Floodplain at the hands of the Tribe's military forces, led by Grand Consort Iliana Hilts. Dreypa and Spinner then retreated to the volcano Sessal Spire, where Dreypa unleashed several hibernating Leviathans, reptilian Sithspawn capable of draining the life energies of sentient beings, on both his Sith pursuers and former allies. The Doomed attacked Dreypa and his Leviathans but were no match for his mastery of the dark side. Ultimately, Spinner and Takara joined forces to rescue the latter's mother, Iliana, and they managed to escape the battlefield with Kaliska. Kaliska also revealed the existence of a Jedi starship concealed within Tahv's burial cairns. She urged them to destroy the starship to prevent Dreypa from returning to the galaxy.
Spinner managed to return to Tahv with Iliana, but Kaliska was killed, and Takara was captured by Lord Dreypa, who intended to use her as leverage with the Tribe. Spinner located the Jedi starship but, instead of destroying it, took it for a joyride above Kesh. However, he returned after Dreypa threatened Takara's life, for whom he had developed feelings. Spinner returned to Tahv, where he destroyed Dreypa's leviathans and rescued Takara. In the end, Dreypa was killed when the Jedi Starship crashed into Sessal Spire. However, Spinner and Takara managed to eject into the Southern Ocean. Following Dreypa's defeat, Tahv was rebuilt, and Spinner was inducted into the Tribe as a Grand Lord's Hand, making him a personal enforcer of the Grand Lord. Consequently, the Lost Tribe of Sith was able to solidify its control over the rest of Kesh.
By the year 37 ABY, a festival known as Presentation had been established. This festival offered a pathway for any Force-sensitive Keshiri to join the Tribe. Around the time of the Second Galactic Civil War, specifically in 41.5 ABY, the Sith established contact with Ship, a Sith Meditation Sphere awakened by Ben Skywalker on Ziost one year prior. The vessel informed the Lost Tribe of the Sith's demise and the Jedi's ascendance, and began training the Tribe's apprentices for a conflict against the weakened galaxy. Simultaneously, it assisted them in raiding starships to assemble a new armada.
Within a span of two years, the fleet comprised several dozen vessels, including the reconstructed Omen. Meanwhile, in the Kathol Rift, Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker encountered the Codex, an Aing-Tii artifact that amplified his presence in the Force. The Tribe sensed his presence, and Ship alerted them to the threat he posed. Grand Lord Darish Vol and Lady Olaris Rhea personally selected a strike team to hunt down and eliminate Skywalker, but Ship abruptly departed the planet, responding to a mysterious call in the Force. The strike team, now led by Rhea, was tasked with recovering Ship before eliminating Skywalker and delivering a decisive blow to the Jedi Order.
Lady Rhea led the strike team, and they eventually tracked Ship to a planet located within the Maw. There, they encountered a being known as Abeloth. Abeloth claimed to have been stranded on the planet for the past three decades, but in reality, she controlled the entire planet. Moreover, it was her power that had drawn Ship away from the Tribe, and she continued to prevent the Sith from reclaiming the Meditation Sphere. Rhea's apprentice, Vestara Khai, discovered Abeloth's true nature, but the other team members remained unaware. Abeloth employed the planet's flora and fauna to eliminate many of the Sith. However, after detecting Skywalker's presence beyond shadows at Sinkhole Station alongside his son, Ben Skywalker, she finally permitted Ship to return to them so that they could proceed with their mission, on the condition that they capture the Jedi rather than kill them. Rhea, however, later reverted the objective back to assassination.
The Sith ambushed the Grand Master and his son at Sinkhole Station, a space station that served as the home of the Mind Walkers. During the ensuing conflict, Sith Master Yuvar Xal attempted to stage a coup to seize command of the team from Rhea. He tried to assassinate the Keshiri Sith Saber Baad Walusari, while his apprentice, Ahri Raas, attempted to kill Khai. The betrayal failed, however, and Khai killed Xal as Raas was killed by one of the Skywalkers. The skirmish continued, and eventually, the only remaining members of the team were Rhea and Khai, who dueled with Luke. They were distracted by the younger Skywalker opening fire from the Jade Shadow onto Ship in the Station's hangar, however, and Skywalker seized the opportunity to kill Rhea. Khai, however, escaped and fled to Dathomir, with the two Skywalkers in pursuit. From there, Khai contacted the Tribe, who dispatched a team to capture the Nightsisters who resided there and induct them into the Tribe, particularly to eliminate their anti-male bias.
After being captured by the Skywalkers, Khai summoned the entire Sith armada to corner the Jedi in orbit of Dathomir. High Lord Sarasu Taalon proposed a truce with the Skywalkers, falsely claiming that their apprentices were suffering from the same condition caused by Abeloth. Luke agreed to a temporary alliance. However, while awaiting an ally of Skywalker to deliver a ship to assist them in navigating the Maw, Taalon secretly ordered some Sith to steal wintrium from the Fountain of Hutt Ancients on Klatooine. However, they were apprehended by the Hutts, who responded to the desecration of the Fountain. The Sith responsible for the theft were subsequently found guilty.
When the Jedi-Sith alliance confronted Abeloth on her planet, the Sith betrayed the Skywalkers and attempted to employ the control web technique taught to them by Khai, not to suppress Abeloth's powers, but to ensnare her and force her into servitude. Skywalker ultimately ended the battle by 'killing' Abeloth. Afterwards, the Skywalkers, Khai, and Taalon remained on the planet to further investigate Abeloth's origins.
As a scuffle breaks out between the Jedi and Sith, the revelation comes that Dyon was killed rather than Abeloth, with Abeloth currently impersonating Dyon in the Jade Shadow's medical bay. The Jedi and Sith alliance remains, and both sides are transported by Ship, which has returned, to the Pool of Knowledge on the planet, where the Sith witness a vision of a Jedi queen in the Pool. Seeking to conceal the Jedi queen's identity, Ben and Luke attack the Khais and Taalon. Gavar Khai is submerged in the pool, and the Jedi escape, stealing the Sith's shuttle to leave the planet and pursue Abeloth (who stole the Jade Shadow). The Skywalkers take Vestara Khai with them, leaving Talon and Gavar alone on the planet. However, the Sith commanded Ship to retrieve them, which it did.
Taalon and Gavar, along with a portion of the Sith armada, eventually arrive at Pydyr, where the Skywalkers are searching for their ship and Abeloth. The Sith descend to Pydyr, where they rejoin the Skywalkers. There, the Sith 'succumb' to a plague, which is actually an illusion created by Abeloth to generate misery for her to feed off. After locating an island with a Fallanassi village, the Skywalkers and Sith begin searching for Abeloth, and it is revealed that she has possessed the body of Akanah Norand Goss Pell. The Fallanasi then employ Fallanassi illusions to drive most of the Sith insane. Taalon (unaffected by the illusions like the others) seeks to speak with Abeloth to discover what was wrong with him, as he was beginning to transform into a being like Abeloth from being submerged in the Pool of Knowledge. He and the Jedi follow Abeloth into a meeting hall, with a battle ensuing shortly afterwards. The Sith manage to capture the Skywalkers, but the tables are turned when Vestara kills Taalon and subdues her father. Abeloth escapes, and a StealthX wing launched by the Jedi from Coruscant arrives and engages the Sith armada. The Jedi and Vestara leave the planet intending to pursue Abeloth, with Vestara Khai defecting to them, knowing she wouldn't be welcomed amongst the Tribe for killing a High Lord.
Later, elsewhere, Querdan Dei, a member of the Lost Tribe, is tasked with tracking the Hapan Queen Mother Tenel Ka Djo as part of the Jedi Queen project. The Sith knew that there could be a Jedi Queen in the future, based on the vision seen by Taalon in the Pool of Knowledge on Abeloth's planet, and Tenel Ka resembled her. However, they also knew it couldn't be her for various reasons, and Dei thus speculated that she may have another daughter in addition to the one killed during the Second Galactic Civil War (which wasn't actually the case, since Tenel Ka's daughter, Allana Solo, hadn't died, and her 'death' was just a fabricated story to protect her). Dei and his crew of seven (including himself) successfully follow Tenel Ka to Klatooine in a stealth ship the Tribe had captured, with Dei intending to assassinate her.
After arriving on Klatooine, he plans to use a bomb to kill her, which a member of the crew constructs. Dei steals the Solo's protocol droid C-3PO and plants a bomb in him, unbeknownst to the droid. A significant distance away atop a ridge, Dei waits for C-3PO to enter the vicinity of Tenel Ka so he can detonate the bomb. During this wait, he draws the connection between Tenel Ka and 'Amelia Solo', Han and Leia's adopted child, and realizes she is either the daughter of Tenel Ka who died, or a second one. Setting his mind back to Tenel Ka, he prepares to detonate the bomb as C-3PO gets close, only to suddenly find out his remote control is missing—taken by Allana Solo, who had a Force vision regarding her mother and the danger she would be in. As he attempts to kill her, he is attacked by Anji, Allana's pet, distracting him long enough for Leia Solo to arrive. The two engage in a duel, with Leia winning with a decapitation. The rest of the Sith team, realizing their mission is a failure, depart.
On Nam Chorios, Vestara sends a message to the Lost Tribe, alerting them that she, Luke, and his son are there, along with Abeloth, whom the Jedi are hunting. Gavar Khai and the portion of the Sith fleet assigned to him forcefully arrive, with numerous Sith, led by Tola Annax, going down to the planet. They attack the Skywalkers and Vestara twice, before eventually descending into a pumping station that the Jedi, Vestara, and Abeloth enter. The Sith arrive as Luke defeats Abeloth, who flees, and Ben and Vestara finish with Valin Horn (still under force psychosis and called there by Abeloth). Surrounded, Vestara kills a tsil, which releases an intense death convulsion and incapacitates the Sith. The Skywalkers and Vestara, prepared for the blast, aren't affected as badly, and escape the station. Above, the Jedi StealthX wing arrives and engages the Sith's ships again. Abeloth manages to get past the Jedi, and after the Sith pull back, she confronts Gavar Khai and proposes an alliance between herself and the Sith.
The Lost Tribe was governed by a Circle of Lords, who were situated within the capitol building at the heart of the capital city of Tahv. The Circle of Lords consisted of thirteen Sith Lords, including seven High Lords, and one Grand Lord, who was considered the most powerful Sith within the Tribe. The known ranks within this isolated Sith order, from lowest to highest, were: Sith Tyro, Sith apprentice, Sith Saber, Sith Master, Sith Lord, High Lord, Grand Consort, and Grand Lord.
In addition to the city of Tahv, along with several smaller surrounding communities, the Tribe also erected a Sith Temple on top of the remains of the Omen, which was the designation given to the wreckage of the ancient vessel, Ship of Destiny. Carved from the very peak of the Takara Mountains, where the ancient Sith vessel met its end, the Temple was a colossal, dark structure. Within its walls, Sith acolytes received instruction and guidance.
The Tribe held that any imperfection, such as scars or physical abnormalities, diminished an individual's chances for advancement within their hierarchy. The Sith strongly valued merit over lineage, and despite a prejudice against the native Keshiri people of Kesh, some were accepted into the Tribe and trained in the ways of the dark side of the Force. By 41 ABY, a Keshiri Sith held a position on the Circle of Lords.
Some of the Humans who comprised the Lost Tribe traced their ancestry back to House Nidantha, a group originating from the region that would later become the Tapani Empire, a government that would also eventually be governed by High Lords.
The authors of the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi novel series initially envisioned the Sith featured in the series as the One Sith from Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: Legacy comic series. However, this idea was abandoned due to the publisher's reservations, leading to the creation of the Lost Tribe of Sith. Nevertheless, 2009's Omen makes references to One Sith operatives trying to enlist Ship; 2011's Ascension hints at the One Sith concealing themselves on Korriban; and the concluding novel of the series, 2012's Apocalypse, depicts the One Sith's founder, Darth Krayt, joining forces with Luke Skywalker to combat Abeloth.