The third eBook in the Lost Tribe of the Sith series is entitled Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon. John Jackson Miller penned this prequel to the Fate of the Jedi novel series, which saw its release on February 10, 2010.
On the unfamiliar planet Kesh, the Omen's shipwrecked crew has benefited from the Sith Order's merciless shrewdness. The Sith have secured their survival by pretending to be the Keshiri race's legendary overlords, thereby subjugating the superstitious Keshiri, even as they secretly work to return to space. However, after a decade and a half on this adopted world, some members of the lost tribe are growing uneasy, fearing that their Sith legacy will be lost through assimilation. Now, as competing factions emerge, a devastating event casts doubt on the Sith's future on Kesh.
The entire native population of Tetsubal, a distant city, is abruptly decimated by a horrific plague of unknown origin. With alarming rapidity, more cities succumb to the mysterious illness. So far, only the Sith have remained untouched. As Sith commander Yaru Korsin struggles with the impending loss of the paradise he governs and the race his people have grown to rely on, he must face the unsettling possibility that the disaster may be a result of insidious sabotage rather than cruel fate.
Paragon unfolds in 4985 BBY, which is fifteen years after the events in Precipice, the initial book of the Lost Tribe of the Sith series. This short narrative is presented from the perspective of Seelah Korsin, the widow of the deceased Devore Korsin, who is the sibling of Yaru Korsin, the originator of the Lost Tribe of Sith. Following their peaceful conquest of Tahv in 5000 BBY, the Lost Tribe has replaced the Neshtovar as the new ruling class of the planet Kesh by asserting themselves as the Skyborn, divine beings in the Keshiri faith. Seelah has entered into matrimony with her late husband's brother Yaru and has both a son and a daughter. The Siths' attempts to repair the starship Omen and journey back to the stars have been thwarted by equipment failures, a scarcity of replacement parts, and a dearth of metal on the planet. The electromagnetic atmosphere of Kesh was also disrupting the Sith's electrical devices. The Sith also made efforts to examine the oral histories of the Keshiri for any mentions of extraterrestrial visitors, but they only found the legends of the Skyborn and the Otherside or Destructors.
The Sith, confined to a distant and undeveloped world, grew uneasy, and tensions soon arose between the Human Sith and Red Sith, who were now known as the "Fifty-Seven." Ravilan Wroth, the leader of the Red Sith, was troubled by the fact that none of the Red Sith's offspring survived childbirth. Seelah resisted Ravilan's attempts to include a Red Sith on the crèche crew, which fostered animosity and distrust between the two. This motivated Ravilan to leave Kesh by any means necessary. Ravilan visited the Ragnos Lakes, a region of eight villages south of Tahv, the next day. The Keshiri had been harvesting a type of fluorescent algae, and Yaru Korsin had tasked Ravilan with determining whether it could be used to light the Sith structures. He intended to visit the city of Tetsubal first. Unbeknownst to the other Sith, Ravilan had secretly planned to contaminate the region's lakes and water supplies with cyanogen silicate, a substance used to treat the Massassi but toxic to other species, including Humans and the native Keshiri.
Meanwhile, Seelah started a project to document the ancestry of the Human crew of the Omen with the goal of creating a new generation of pure-blood Humans. She started screening the children of the Human crew who had been born on Kesh. Seelah, a former slave of the Sith Lord Ludo Kressh, despised the Red Sith and wanted to get rid of them from the new Sith society on Kesh. She was also envious of the close relationship between her new husband Yaru and Adari Vaal, the Keshiri woman who had just been named Ambassador to the Keshiri. Seelah even hired several of her Keshiri staff, including Tilden Kaah, to spy on her husband and Adari in order to see if they were having an affair. Instead, Korsin and Adari were more interested in discussing science and the Force. Following her husband Devore's death, Seelah had married Yaru to solidify an alliance between the ship's crew and the mining crew aboard the Omen. Later that evening, Seelah and Korsin received word of a major disaster at Tetsubal.
More than 18,000 Keshiri and a variety of domesticated animals, including uvaks, had died as a result of Ravilan's contamination of Tetsubal's water reservoir. Ravilan was the only person left alive when Seelah and her entourage showed up. Even his Human assistant had died from the mysterious disease. Ravilan claimed that something was killing the Keshiri and urged the other Sith to see it as a sign to leave Kesh for good. Seelah realized that Ravilan had a hand in the plague after examining the body of Ravilan's human assistant, and she called an emergency meeting of her entire staff at her ward. Despite the Sith authorities' attempts to destroy the infected corpses at Tetsubal, the "mysterious plague" spread to other cities in the Ragnos Lakes region. The other 57 Red Sith were also implicated this time because they had been to these cities shortly before the plague.
Shortly afterwards, Seelah and Tilden "discovered" a vial that had been used to hold cyanogen silicate. Yaru Korsin came to the conclusion that the Red Sith were responsible for the outbreak because the only samples available were kept in the Omen's medical stores and Ravilan's store. Yaru Korsin gave the order for a purge of the Red Sith in response. The other Human Sith slaughtered the Red Sith in the streets of Tahv in a single night. Their tentacle heads were also displayed in public. Seelah confronted the injured Ravilan Korsin, who had been imprisoned in the uvak enclosures. Ravilan admitted to contaminating Tetsubal's water supply but denied poisoning the other cities. Seelah then admitted that she had planned the poisoning of the other cities in the Ragnos Lakes in order to blame the Red Sith for it. To make matters worse, Seelah revealed that she had been responsible for the deaths of the Sith infants at the crèche, demonstrating her hatred for the Red Sith. Seelah's adolescent son, Jariad, then personally executed Ravilan, completing the extermination of the 57 Red Sith. This allowed Seelah to pursue her vision of a purely Human Sith Tribe on Kesh.
Following the Red Sith Purge, Tilden Kaah, a secret member of the Keshiri resistance, convened with other resistance members, including Adari Vaal. They talked about the recent plague outbreak and the Red Sith Purge. Gloyd, the Houk, was the only non-Human Sith left; he was fiercely devoted to Yaru Korsin and was regarded as a "pet" by the Human Sith. The Keshiri rebels confided that Seelah Korsin had underestimated the Keshiri resistance. Adari urged Tilden to keep working for Seelah so she could give the resistance information. Adari made a personal vow to "end" the plague that she had brought upon the Keshiri.