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Ravilan, nicknamed Rav by Captain Yaru Korsin and the "crimson man" by the Keshiri, was a male of the Sith species. He served as the quartermaster and keeper of the Massassi warrior contingent aboard Omen, a Sith dreadnaught that was intended to participate in the Great Hyperspace War effort led by the Dark Lord Naga Sadow. When the starship crash-landed on the planet Kesh after a collision with its sister ship, Harbinger, Ravilan was among the survivors. The Massassi who had survived the crash and remained under Ravilan's care began to die rapidly upon exposure to the planet's atmosphere. When the Massassi were all dead, Ravilan was left without his title of quartermaster. After meeting with a native woman named Adari Vaal, the Sith were brought into contact with the Keshiri people. Using their appearance, technology, and power in the dark side of the Force, Ravilan and the other Sith quickly subjugated the native people, who believed them to be the Skyborn deities of Keshiri legend.

Fifteen years later, Ravilan occupied a series of jobs for Yaru, who had become the Grand Lord of the Sith Tribe on Kesh, including that of spokesperson of the Fifty-seven Red Sith of Sith species descent. Since their arrival on the planet, none of the Red Sith offspring had survived past their first day, leading to concerns about their continued existence on the planet, and more pressure for the Red Sith to get off-world. In a last attempt to focus efforts on getting off-world, Ravilan and the Fifty-seven purposefully caused a plague in the village Tetsubal on the Ragnos Lakes. This killed all of the Keshiri there, and crisis broke out amongst the Sith after they found a Human among the victims. The situation worsened as reports of deaths in other villages around the Ragnos Lakes filtered in. Although Ravilan himself was secretly behind the deaths in Tetsubal, the outbreaks elsewhere had been the design of Yaru's wife, Seelah Korsin, who had learned of Ravilan's duplicity and sought to frame him and his people to rid herself of them once and for all. To this end, she convinced Yaru to authorize a purge of every Red Sith on Kesh&mdash;which included Ravilan. Being the spokesperson of his fellow Fifty-seven Red Sith, Ravilan was captured and subsequently tortured by Seelah, who revealed her role in the event and her part behind the deaths of all of the Red Sith children. The life of the last Red Sith on Kesh was then ended as Seelah's son, Jariad Korsin, struck him down on Seelah's orders.