Battle of Sessal Spire

The Battle of Sessal Spire occurred in 2,975 BBY during Dreypa's rebellion on the planet Kesh. After being routed at the Battle of the Marisota Floodplain, the Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa ordered his forces to retreat to Sessal Spire, a volcano overlooking the Southern Ocean. They were pursued by an army sent by the Lost Tribe of Sith under Grand Consort Iliana Hilts.

Following the collapse of negotiations, Dreypa used his amulet to awaken several hibernating Leviathans, reptilian Sithspawn that devoured the life energies of other beings. The Leviathans quickly wiped out much his former allied army and the Tribal army. Shortly later, the Doomed&mdash;the descendants of ancient stranded Jedi and Dark Jedi who had landed on Kesh following the Hundred-Year Darkness&mdash;attacked Dreypa's Leviathans but were also overcome by the Sithspawn.

During the battle, two former enemies Sith anarchist Parlan Spinner and the Sith princess Takara Hilts joined forces after Spinner rescued her mother Iliana from being devoured by a Leviathan. They were subsequently joined by the last surviving member of the Doomed&mdash;Kaliska who revealed the existence of a hidden Jedi starship beneath the Tribal capital Tahv. Prior to her death, she convinced the Sith to destroy it in order to prevent Drepa from escaping offworld.

Background
Following the Battle of Corbos, the surviving Dark Jedi were exiled to Korriban where they developed the first Sith Order. A group of these Dark Jedi led by Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa attempted to return to the Galactic Republic and seek revenge against their Jedi adversaries. However, they and their Jedi pursuers ended up on Kesh, a remote and primitive world that was home to the humanoid and purple-skinned Keshiri species. The arrival of these Force-users triggered the Great Calamity which devastated much of Kesh and gave rise to legends about the Skyborn and the Destructors. Eventually, Dreypa's Dark Jedi allies turned against him and imprisoned him within his own oubliette, a stasis casket capable of keeping individuals in suspended animation for millennia. Dreypa's former Dark Jedi allies then made peace with the Jedi and founded the Doomed, a Force-sensitive community dedicated to protecting the Keshiri and finding balance in the Force.

Meanwhile, Dreypa remained in suspended animation for four thousand years until he was freed by the Sith outcast Parlan Spinner. Spinner was a member of the Lost Tribe of Sith, another group of Human Sith who had become stranded on Kesh during the Great Hyperspace War in 5,000 BBY. Spinner hoped to use Dreypa as an ally against the Tribe, which he disliked for mistreating him. Spinner brought Dreypa back to the port town of Eorm on the main continent of Keshtah Minor. Using his dark side powers, Lord Dreypa seized control of Eorm and raised a rebel army with the aim of overthrowing the Lost Tribe's leadership in the Sith capital Tahv. Dreypa also planned to returned to the stars and seek revenge against the Jedi and the Republic.

Dreypa's forces clashed with the Tribe's army at the Battle of the Marisota Floodplain. Despite initial successes, Dreypa's forces were decimated by the Tribe's air force, the Skyborn Rangers, which rode reptilian beasts known as uvaks. Dreypa and his surviving followers retreated to Sessal Spire, a volcano situated at the edge of a peninsula on the southwestern coast of Keshtah Minor. The Tribe's forces led by Grand Consort Iliana Hilts, the wife of Grand Lord Varner Hilts, pursued Dreypa and Spinner to the crater of Sessal Spire. After Iliana rebuffed Dreypa's attempts at seduction, Dreypa used the Dark Side of the Force to summon several hibernating Leviathans from the crater.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 3: Spiral, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 4: Spiral, Part 4