Mischance functioned as a harvester within the Alanciari harvester fleet. This fleet was deployed to capture fish and crustaceans in the Southern Passage. This sea bordered the southern edge of Alanciar, a continent located on the Wild Space planet Kesh. Like most Alanciari vessels, it was a sailing ship and included an anchor. It was operated by several Alanciari fishers. Their civilization had maintained its independence from the Lost Tribe of Sith for a period of two millennia, until 2975 BBY. The Lost Tribe consisted of Human Sith who inhabited Keshtah, a continent situated across the Western Sea. On the particular night when the Sith made their discovery of Alanciar, the Mischance was engaged in fishing within the Western Sea because its captain was behind schedule on his seafood delivery target. On that very night, the Mischance was seized and taken over by the Sith High Lord Edell Vrai along with five other members of the Sith exploratory group.
Every member of the Mischance's crew, except for one, fought to their death against the Sith invaders, but they were ultimately defeated, killed, and their bodies were thrown overboard. In a useless attempt to get information about the Alanciari people, Edell's second-in-command Peppin subjected the last surviving crew member to torture, eventually leading to his death. After successfully establishing communication with Grand Lord Varner Hilts, the Sith crew sailed the Mischance back to Keshtah, marking the first instance of a transcontinental journey between the two landmasses. The Sith also took with them the Alanciari soldier Jogan Halder, who was later appointed as the Tribe's "ambassador" to the Alanciari. He subsequently played a role in persuading the Alanciari to accept Sith dominion. In the meantime, the leader of the Sith expedition, Edell Vrai, along with his Alanciari prisoner Quarra Thayn, stayed behind to carry out a ground-based reconnaissance mission into the interior of Alanciar. As a direct consequence of the capture of the Mischance, the Lost Tribe gained access to the Alanciari's advanced sailing ship technology, which they then utilized to explore and colonize the rest of the planet Kesh.
Before 2975 BBY, the Mischance served as a harvesting vessel within the Alanciari harvester fleet. As was the case with all Alanciari ships, it was manned by Keshiri, a near-Human species with purple skin, who inhabited the Wild Space planet of Kesh. The Mischance, alongside its sister ships, commonly harvested seafood and crustaceans from the coral reefs of the Southern Passage, a sea that ran along the southern coastline of Alanciar. These ships typically embarked on fishing expeditions lasting several weeks, using massive stone kedges as anchors. In 2975 BBY, the Mischance was engaged in fishing in the Western Sea on the same night that an expedition from the Sith Tribe of Keshtah Minor, led by High Lord Edell Vrai, made initial contact with Alanciar. Even though the harvester fleet was not authorized to operate in the waters of the western frontier, the captain of the Mischance was falling behind on his seafood quota and chose to "cut corners" by fishing there illegally.
The airships used by the Sith expeditionary force were quickly shot down and attacked by Alanciari ballistae and the Alanciari air force. Edell, along with several other Sith survivors, managed to escape from their wrecked airship and successfully reached the Alanciari frontier fort known as Point Defiance, where they captured the Alanciari Wardmaster Quarra Thayn and her lover Jogan Halder, who was a signal officer in the Alanciari Signal Corps. While they were occupying Point Defiance, Lord Edell and his Keshiri servant Tellpah noticed a ship approaching on the horizon, which turned out to be the Mischance. Edell then decided that the Sith survivors would seize the Mischance and use it to return to Keshtah, also taking their two prisoners, Quarra and Jogan, with them.
Using a boat discovered near Point Defiance, Edell and the Sith crew managed to reach the Mischance under the cover of darkness. They set sail shortly after Alanciari reinforcements from Garrow's Neck arrived at Point Defiance. While the Keshiri sailors on board the Mischance were caught off guard, they still mounted a strong resistance against the Sith intruders. Like all Alanciari, these sailors had been raised from a young age to view the Lost Tribe of Sith as the "Destructors," evil entities in Keshiri religion, who had enslaved the Keshiri living on the continent of Keshtah. All but one of the Keshiri sailors were killed by the Sith, who then disposed of their bodies by throwing them into the sea. Edell's lieutenant, Peppin, interrogated the surviving Keshiri sailor, but he withstood his Sith interrogators even under torture. By noon the following day, the sailor had died, without revealing any information to the Sith other than the fact that the Mischance had been trapping crustaceans for a week before its intended return to port.
Despite this, the Sith were able to acquire the ship's maps, which provided them with information about the currents of the Southern Passage, a sea that was still unknown to the Lost Tribe. Ultimately, Edell and Peppin decided to use the Mischance to sail back to Keshtah by navigating through the Southern Passage to reach the Sea of Flames, a small ocean located on the western coast of Keshtah. Such a voyage had never been undertaken in the Tribe's history. While the Mischance was a simple harvesting vessel, it was considered technologically advanced by the Tribe's standards, as they had never constructed anything larger than a boat. Unlike the Alanciari, the Sith on Keshtah had been unable to develop ocean-going vessels because the continent's native timbers were unsuitable for such purposes. The hejarbo shoots were unable to withstand sea waves, while heavy timbers like vosso were too dense to float. As a result, the Tribe had relied on airships.
Following the capture of the harvester Mischance, Edell's uvak-tenderer and pilot Peppin managed to learn how to operate the ship's sails and steering mechanism. Both concluded that the Tribe would be interested in the Alanciari sailing vessel and Jogan Halder, along with his collection of books, which included the valuable Keshtah Chronicles, a popular Alanciari book written by the Keshiri exile Adari Vaal. This book was mandatory reading for all Alanciari children and provided them with information about the Tribe and Keshtah Minor. Consequently, the Tribe gained valuable intelligence on what the Alanciari knew about them. Not wanting to return to Keshtah because he feared for his position, Edell then fabricated new orders, directing himself to embark on a ground reconnaissance mission of Alanciar. For this, he needed a local guide: Quarra Thayn.
After consulting with Peppin, Edell approached the other Alanciari captive, Quarra Thayn, with the offer of serving as his guide on a ground-based reconnaissance mission into Alanciar's interior and capital, Sus'mintri. Edell informed Quarra that this mission would last two weeks and that the Mischance would be waiting off the coast of Garrow's Neck. While Quarra was hesitant to cooperate with her captor, Edell used her lover Jogan as leverage. Ultimately, Quarra agreed to help Edell, provided the Sith attended to Jogan's injuries. Since the Tribe intended to spare Jogan's life, Edell agreed to Quarra's demand. Shortly afterward, the Mischance dropped Edell and Quarra at Meori Cove, a remote cove east of Point Defiance that was not being monitored by the Alanciari military.
Meanwhile, the Mischance sailed back to Keshtah under the command of Edell's lieutenant Peppin. This voyage occurred during the southern autumn, when the Southern Passage was hazardous due to its swift polar currents and the spread of ice. Despite the Sith crew's inexperience in operating the sailing ship, Peppin's engineering and piloting skills allowed the Mischance and its passengers to safely reach the western coast of Keshtah after several days of travel. Upon arrival, Jogan was blindfolded and transported by cart to the Sith capital of Tahv. Simultaneously, Peppin flew ahead on an uvak, a winged reptilian beast, to Tahv, where she presented Grand Lord Hilts with Jogan's copy of the Keshtah Chronicles and debriefed him about their "first contact" with the Alanciari. Based on this information, Hilts devised a "grand deception strategy" aimed at winning over the Alanciari. However, he did not share this new intelligence with Bentado, as he intended to give the Alanciari the fight they desired and eliminate a rival at the same time.
This voyage was significant because it marked the Mischance's first transcontinental journey from Alanciar to Keshtah. Back on Alanciar, Bentado's forces were decimated by the Alanciari. However, he and several survivors managed to infiltrate the Alanciari capital of Sus'mintri, assassinate the War Cabinet, Alanciar's military government, and seize control of its highly centralized defense infrastructure. Bentado then attempted to mutiny against Grand Lord Hilts but was thwarted by Edell, Quarra, and his own Keshiri servant Squab, who was a secret agent of Hilts. The invasion concluded when Jogan Halder convinced the Alanciari people that the Tribe did not actually pose a threat to them but were, in fact, the Protectors.
As a result, the Alanciari submitted to Sith rule. Consequently, the Tribe gained access to the Alanciari's sailing ship technology, which they then used to explore the rest of Kesh, including the uncharted northern hemisphere. In 2974 BBY, the Alanciari sailing ship Southern Star, under the command of Captain Chegg, discovered the southern polar continent of Eshkrene, which was home to the Doomed, an offworld community descended from Dark Jedi and Jedi who had become stranded on Kesh following the Hundred-Year Darkness.
The Mischance made its debut in John Jackson Miller's Lost Tribe of the Sith: Pandemonium, the concluding novella of the Lost Tribe of the Sith series. This was released on July 24 2012 as part of the mass paperback Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories.