Lost Tribe of Sith

"We are not your Sith. We are something new, a chance to do something right. A new tribe."

- Seelah Korsin

The Lost Tribe of Sith was a marginal Sith Order that formed on the remote planet Kesh. Founded in 5,000 BBY after the warship Omen, carrying members of Sith Lord Naga Sadow's Sith Empire, was ambushed, knocked off-course, and forced to crash-land on the world, the Tribe quickly dominated the native Keshiri species, who believed the newcomers to be their gods. Sith Captain Yaru Korsin became Grand Lord of the Tribe and of the Keshiri, a title that was passed on to his daughter, Nida, after his death. Isolated from the outer galaxy for years, the Sith built a Temple in the Takara Mountains over the Omen crash site and moved their headquarters to the capital city Tahv. Although the original Tribe consisted of several members of both the Human and Sith species, Yaru Korsin ordered a purge of all members of the latter in 4,985 BBY. Over time, the Sith formed a ruling Circle of Lords, made up of Lords and High Lords, and ruled by the Grand Lord. Although one Jedi Knight, Jelph Marrian, discovered the Sith in 3,963 BBY, the destruction of his strikefighter permanently stranded him on the world as well.

The Sith remained isolated for millennia, but after the end of the Second Galactic Civil War in 41 ABY, the Sith Meditation Sphere Ship found the Tribe. Ship informed the Tribe of the Jedi's newfound dominance in the galaxy and of the recent destruction of the last remnants of the Sith. Ship assisted the Tribe in traveling offworld and forming a new armada, and two years later, the Tribe felt the presence of Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker in the Force and determined to kill him. However, Ship was suddenly overcome by the will of Abeloth, a dark side entity living in the Maw, and deserted Kesh for Abeloth's world. The Sith quickly launched a strike team to recover Ship and assassinate Skywalker. The team encountered Abeloth in the Maw, and she weakened the strike team before allowing Ship to return to them so that they could continue on their mission. Their attack on the Jedi failed, however, and Skywalker and his son Ben tracked Vestara Khai, the team's sole surviving member, to the planet Dathomir. There, a team led by Viun Gaalan captured a group of the darksider Nightsisters and dueled with the Skywalkers while attempting to retrieve Khai, although again the Sith were defeated.

Shortly afterward, a fleet led by High Lord Sarasu Taalon convinced the Jedi to form an alliance against Abeloth, who was causing a psychosis among the Jedi Knights. The allied mission resulted in the Sith betraying the Jedi in hopes of killing the Skywalkers and forcing Abeloth to serve them, but the Sith failed yet again to kill the Jedi. Abeloth was defeated, and the Jedi and Sith temporarily repaired their alliance in order to learn more about her origins. However, the alliance was soon broken, and a later confrontation between the two parties and Abeloth resulted in the death of Taalon. Meanwhile, the Sith perfected their piracy techniques and built a war fleet in preparation to conquer the galaxy.

Arrival on Kesh
"It was our destiny to land on this rock&mdash;and we are bound to our destiny. For a time, it looks like, we're also bound to this rock. So be it. We're Sith. Let's make it ours."

- Yaru Korsin

In 5,000 BBY, the Sith dreadnaught Omen was ambushed while mining Lignan ore for use in Sith Lord Naga Sadow's planned Sith invasion of the galaxy. As the warship fled into hyperspace, however, it collided with the fellow Sith vessel Harbinger, knocking it off-course and causing it to crash land on the remote Wild Space planet Kesh. The Sith soon evacuated the crash site, which was located in the midst of the Cetajan Mountains. However, the Omen captain, Yaru Korsin, returned to the crash site to try to send a transmission in the hopes of being rescued. However, his half-brother, Devore, was already there, and insisted that since they had failed Sadow's orders, they would be killed. Devore attacked Yaru, and in the ensuing duel Devore was thrown off the edge of a cliff to his death. Yaru Korsin also discovered that the ship's transmitter had been destroyed.

By the end of their second day on Kesh, the Sith's entire complement of Massassi workers had died. The survivors of the crash soon after met a member of the native Keshiri species, Adari Vaal, who had been branded as a heretic by her people for her geologic teachings. With the aid of Vaal, Korsin tricked the natives into believing that the survivors were the Skyborn, the legendary gods of the Keshiri. Korsin was proclaimed as the Grand Lord of the Skyborn, and the Sith began to mine for the metals needed to repair their vessel, although Vaal knew that the metals needed to repair the Omen&mdash;if they existed on Kesh at all&mdash;would be buried deep beneath the planet's surface. Indeed, the appropriate metals were never found, and the materials needed to upkeep many of the Sith's technologically advanced equipment were unattainable on Kesh. Nevetheless, the Tribe constructed a Sith Temple over the Omen crash site in the Cetajan Mountains, which were renamed the "Takara Mountains" after Grand Lord Yaru Korsin's mother, Takara. The Sith themselves established rule over the Keshiri, who willingly submitted themselves to an eternity of servitude.

Plague and purge
"Something has happened in Tetsubal. Something bad.''" "Is&hellip;is Ravilan dying?" "No. Everyone else is.''"

- A sentry and Seelah Korsin

All of the survivors of the Omen crash were members of the Human or Sith species, except for one surviving Houk. However, the members of the Sith species&mdash;known as the "Red Sith"&mdash;were unable to reproduce; none of their offspring lived past their first day. Unbeknownst to any of the other Sith, Seelah Korsin&mdash;the widowed wife of Devore Korsin who had since remarried to Yaru Korsin&mdash;ensured the deaths of all of the Red Sith offspring in hopes of making the Tribe purely of a Human bloodline. Meanwhile, the surviving Red Sith&mdash;who had taken the moniker the "Fifty-Seven"&mdash;feared that their inability to reproduce was due to Kesh itself, and thus pushed for the Tribe to work toward finding a way to leave Kesh. To that end, fifteen years after the Omen crash landing, when Grand Lord Korsin gave the spokesperson for the Red Sith, Ravilan, the assignment of examining eight Keshiri villages along the Ragnos Lakes, Ravilan decided to poison the Keshiri. He had recently discovered that cyanogen silicate&mdash;a cauterizing agent that had been used by the Massassi aboard the Omen&mdash;was deadly to touch for the Keshiri, but had no adverse effects on the Red Sith. Ravilan and the other Red Sith traveled first to Tetsubal, the village farthest from the Sith Temple in the Mountains, where Ravilan introduced the cyanogen silicate into the town's aqueduct systems. Tetsubal's entire Keshiri population was killed, along with Ravilan's Human aide.

Ravilan sent a message to the Sith Temple through the Force, and Yaru and Seelah Korsin quickly responded. Upon their arrival in Tetsubal, Ravilan lied that he had arrived to find the entire village already dead, and he suggested that, since the plague could also effect Humans, the Sith should cut off all contact with the Keshiri immediately. As the Grand Lord recalled all Sith in the Tribe to the Takara Mountains and sent out reconnaissance fliers to see if the plague had spread, Seelah Korsin&mdash;who had discovered Ravilan's treachery&mdash;decided to use the cyanogen silicate to her own political advantage. She introduced the silicate first to the village Rabolow, and then to more and more of the villiges on the Ragons Lakes. She then persuaded her husband that it was Ravilan and the Red Sith who were spreading the plague. Convinced that they were plotting against him, Yaru Korsin ordered for a purge of all of the Red Sith on Kesh. Taken completely by surprise, the Red Sith were quickly hunted down and wiped out; the Grand Lord and his chief lieutenants soon cornered the last surviving members of the species at the precipice where the Omen had crashed, and those who surrendered were thrown off the cliff to their deaths. Ravilan, the last surviving member of his species, was soon after captured by Seelah Korsin and tortured. She confirmed that she had seen to the deaths of all of the Red Sith babies, and that she was behind the poisoning of the Keshiri towns and the Red Sith massacre. She then had Jariad&mdash;her son from her marriage with Devore&mdash;kill Ravilan. However, Seelah herself had played into the hands of Adari Vaal, who had begun to lead an underground resistance movement to rid the Sith from Kesh&mdash;Vaal felt responsible for her species' subjugation, and desired to personally remove the Tribe from her homeworld.

Vengeance and revolt
"I came here because we just had the reading of Father's final testament. He commends his legacy to me&mdash;and the three surviving High Lords have ratified it. So you see? You are the mother of the new Grand Lord."

- Nida Korsin, to her mother, Seelah

In 4,975 BBY, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Tribe's arrival on Kesh, Korsin held Dedication Day to celebrate the Tribe's arrival and show that the Sith were not going to leave Kesh. The fact that Sadow had not found them after twenty-five years and that the planet did not have the materials required to repair the Omen led Korsin to resign himself to the belief that the Sith could never leave Kesh. Meanwhile, the Tribe continued to dominate the Keshiri; the native species was not allowed to ride uvak&mdash;a reptavian species that had been domesticated and used for travel on Kesh for millennia&mdash;and the majority of the natives still worshipped the Sith as their gods. However, Adari Vaal's resistance movement continued to grow stronger, and she plotted to undermine the Tribe's control.

Over the centuries, the survivors multiplied into a large force. The Lost Tribe slowly grew in numbers and strength, awaiting the day when the Old Sith Empire would locate them and usher them into their rightful place in the galaxy.

Return to the galaxy
"Everything we have known for over five thousand years changed yesterday beyond imagining. For the first time since the Omen crashed in the Takara Mountains, we have found a way off Kesh. A way to fulfill our destiny. This&hellip;Ship&hellip;has sought us out for that selfsame purpose."

- Olaris Rhea

By 37 ABY a festival, Presentation, had been established. This festival presented one way for any Force-sensitive Keshiri to join the Tribe. Around the time of the Second Galactic Civil War, in 41.5 ABY, the Sith made contact with Ship, a Sith Meditation Sphere awoken by Ben Skywalker on Ziost one year earlier. The vessel informed the Lost Tribe of the destruction of the Sith and the rise of the Jedi, and began to train the Tribe's apprentices for a war against the weakened galaxy. Meanwhile, it also helped them to raid starships in order to form a new armada.

Within two years, the fleet consisted of several dozen ships, including the rebuilt Omen. Meanwhile, in the Kathol Rift, Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker came into contact with the Codex, an Aing-Tii artifact that enhanced his presence in the Force. His presence was felt by the Tribe, and Ship informed them of the threat that he presented to them. Grand Lord Darish Vol and Lady Olaris Rhea handpicked a strike team to hunt down and kill Skywalker, but Ship abruptly left the planet, following a mysterious call in the Force. The strike team, led by Rhea, was then tasked with recovering Ship before eliminating Skywalker and bring a crushing blow to the Jedi Order.

The strike team, which was led by Lady Rhea, eventually tracked Ship to a planet in the Maw, where they encountered a being called Abeloth. Abeloth claimed to have been stranded on the planet for the last thirty years, but in reality she was in control of the whole planet itself. Also, it was her power that had called Ship away from the Tribe, and she continued to prevent the Sith from recovering the Meditation Sphere. Rhea's apprentice, Vestara Khai, discovered the true nature of Abeloth, but the other members of the team remained unaware. Abeloth used the flora and fauna of the planet to kill many of the Sith, but after discovering Skywalker's presence beyond shadows at Sinkhole Station with his son, Ben Skywalker, she finally allowed Ship to return to them so that they could continue on their mission, under the condition that they capture the Jedi rather than killing them. Rhea, however, later changed the objective back to kill.

The Sith ambushed the Grand Master and his son at Sinkhole Station, a space station that was home to the Mind Walkers. During the ensuing fight, Sith Master Yuvar Xal attempted to execute a coup to take over command of the team from Rhea. He attempted to kill 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 wore on, 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 took advantage of this to kill Rhea. Khai, however, escaped and fled to Dathomir, with the two Skywalkers pursuing her. From there, Khai was able to contact the Tribe, who dispatched a team to capture the Nightsisters who dwell there, and induct them into the Tribe, especially to rid them of their anti-male bias.

Captured by the Skywalkers, Khai summoned the entire Sith armada to corner the Jedi in orbit of Dathomir. High Lord Sarasu Taalon offered a truce with the Skywalkers, bluffing that their apprentices were suffering from the same condition caused by Abeloth. Luke agreed to a temporary alliance. But while lying in wait for an ally of Skywalker to deliver a ship to help them navigate the Maw, Taalon secretly ordered some Sith to steal some wintrium from the Fountain of Hutt Ancients on Klatooine. But they were captured by the Hutts, who responded to the desecration of the Fountain. The Sith responsible for the theft were found guilty afterwards.

When the Jedi-Sith alliance confronted Abeloth on her planet, the Sith betrayed the Skywalkers and attempted to use the control web technique taught to them by Khai, not to stifle Abeloth's powers, but to trap her and force her to serve them. Skywalker ultimately ended the battle by killing Abeloth. Afterwards, the Skywalkers, the Khai and Taalon remained behind on the planet to investigate more into Abeloth's origins.

Organization
"But these do not follow the Sith Rule of Two. They apparently follow a Sith rule of However Many They Need."

- Cilghal

The Lost Tribe was ruled by a Circle of Lords, installed in a the capitol building in the heart of the capital city of Tahv. The Circle of Lords consisted of thirteen Sith Lords, seven High Lords, and one Grand Lord, regarded as the most powerful Sith in the Tribe. The known ranks in this isolated Sith order were, from lowest to highest: Sith Tyro, Sith apprentice, Sith Saber, Sith Master, Sith Lord, High Lord, and Grand Lord.

In addition to the city of Tahv and several smaller outlaying settlements, the Tribe also had a Sith Temple constructed over the ruins of the Ship of Destiny, which was the name for the remains of the Omen. The Temple, a massive black edifice jutting out of the Takara Mountains where the ancient Sith ship had crashed, was constructed from the mountain peak itself. It was in the Temple that Sith apprentices were mentored and trained.

For the Tribe, any flaw, including scars and deformities, was a strike against one's potential for advancement in the hierarchy. The Sith were firm believers in merit over birth, and though a stigma was attached to the native Keshiri of Kesh, several were admitted into the Tribe and trained in the dark side of the Force, and by 41 ABY one Keshiri Sith served on the Circle of Lords.

Original members of the Lost Tribe of Sith
Sith survivors of the Omen's crash:
 * Gloyd†
 * Hestus†
 * Jariad Korsin†
 * Devore Korsin†
 * Seelah Korsin
 * Yaru Korsin†
 * Parrah
 * Ravilan Wroth†
 * Ravilan's aide†
 * Nafjan T'dell
 * Kanika T'dell

Members of the Lost Tribe
From 5,000 BBY to 44 ABY:  (†=confirmed death);

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Grand Lords

 * Darish Vol
 * Nida Korsin†
 * Lillia Venn†

Circle of Lords members

 * Dernas†
 * Candra Kitai
 * Pallima†
 * Olaris Rhea†
 * Sashal
 * Sarasu Taalon†
 * Ivaar Workan
 * Takaris Yur

Sith Lords/Ladies

 * Viun Gaalan
 * Flen Luzo†
 * Sawj Luzo†

Sith Masters

 * Vhool
 * Yuvar Xal†

Sith Caretakers

 * Varner Hilts

Sith Sabers

 * Tola Annax
 * Anyul
 * Querdan Dei†
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 * Vyn Holpur
 * Kaara†
 * Gavar Khai
 * Orielle Kitai
 * Marjaak
 * Ruku Myal
 * Shura
 * Baad Walusari†
 * Yasvan
 * Axela Zin†
 * Viun Gaalan's aide†
 * Vran

Sith apprentices

 * Vestara Khai
 * Ahri Raas†

Sith Tyros

 * Axela Zin's son

Unknown status

 * Campion Dey†
 * Donellan†
 * Leeha Faal†
 * Thallis Khai
 * Sazat
 * Sumar
 * Syndor
 * Ebya T'dell
 * Tooley
 * Turg
 * Unidentified Keshiri Sith†
 * Viti
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Behind the scenes
Some of the Humans the Lost Tribe was formed from were themselves descended from a group who hailed from what would later become the Tapani Empire, a government that would also become ruled by High Lords.

Appearances

 * Lost Tribe of the Sith: Precipice
 * Lost Tribe of the Sith: Skyborn
 * Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon
 * Lost Tribe of the Sith: Savior
 * Lost Tribe of the Sith: Purgatory
 * Lost Tribe of the Sith: Sentinel
 * Lost Tribe of the Sith: Pantheon
 * Lost Tribe of the Sith: Secrets
 * Imprint
 * Omen
 * First Blood
 * Abyss
 * Backlash
 * Allies
 * Vortex
 * Conviction
 * Ascension

Notes and references
Tribu Perdida de Sith