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Tetsubal was a city located in the area of the Ragnos Lakes, on the continent Keshtah Minor of the remote planet Kesh. Located to the south of the planet's capital, Tahv, by 4,985 BBY Tetsubal had a population of 18,000 Keshiri natives. Tetsubal was one of eight villages around the Ragnos Lakes, and in 4,985 BBY the inhabitants of the region began to harvest a type of fluorescent algae from those waters. Hoping to find a use for the algae, Yaru Korsin, leader of the Lost Tribe of Sith&mdash;comprising several hundred Humans and Pureblood Sith&mdash;that had taken power in Kesh fifteen years earlier, ordered an expedition to Tetsubal and the surrounding areas to investigate. The mission was headed by Ravilan Wroth, who had his own agenda&mdash;hoping to get Sith leadership to focus on finding a way off Kesh, Wroth had devised a plan to poison local water supplies with the chemical cyanogen silicate, creating a fake plague that would frighten the Lost Tribe into withdrawing from Keshiri affairs. He contaminated the aqueduct that provided Tetsubal with its water, killing all 18,000 of Tetsubal's residents, leaving Wroth as the only survivor. In order to contain the "infection," the remains of Tetsubal were burned to the ground. However, Wroth's treachery was discovered by Yaru Korsin's wife, Seelah, who went on to cause the deaths of the populations of the other towns in the Ragnos Lakes area and frame Wroth. As a result, Wroth and the rest of the members of the Sith species among the Lost Tribe were quickly executed. Over the ensuing centuries, Tetsubal and the rest of the towns of the Ragnos Lakes were abandoned and eventually gained a reputation as being haunted.