Lost Tribe of Sith

The Lost Tribe of Sith was a marginal Sith Order operating on Kesh.

History
In 5000 BBY, the Sith starship Omen crashed-landed on the planet of Kesh. The survivors of the crash met with Adari Vaal a native woman who was branded as a heretic by her people, with the aid of Vaal, Yaru Korsin tricked the natives in believing that the survivors were the Skyborn, the gods of the Keshiri. In much the same way the Exiles tricked the Sith people many years earlier. Korsin was proclaimed as the Grand Lord of the Skyborn, and Korsin began to use the people of Kesh to mine for the metals needed to repair his vessel. Adari Vaal knew however, that the metals needed to repair the Omen were buried deep beneath the planets surface, and that it would take many years to even begin to find them, if they even existed on Kesh at all. Over the centuries, the survivors multiplied into a large force. The Lost Tribe slowly grew in numbers and strength, awaiting the day when the Sith Empire would locate them and usher them into there rightful place in the galaxy. Shortly after the Second Galactic Civil War the Sith of the Lost Tribe were ready to fulfill their destiny and take on a weakened galaxy. In 41.5 ABY they made contact with Ship, the 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 began to train the younger Sith for a war against the weakened galaxy. After two years the Sith had assembled a small fleet of ships, including the rebuilt Omen. Meanwhile, in the Kathol Rift, Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker touched the Codex, an Aing-Tii artifact that enhanced his presence in the Force, and alerted the Tribe to the threat that he presented to them. Ship left shortly thereafter, and the Tribe quickly put together a team to find Ship and kill Skywalker.

Organization
The Lost Tribe was ruled by a Circle of Lords, installed in a domed palace in the heart of the the Keshiri city of Tahv. The Circle consisted of seven Sith Lords and was guided and overseen by the Grand Lord, the most powerful of the Lost Tribe of Sith.

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 the remains of the Omen were called. The Temple was a massive black edifice jutting out of the mountain where the ancient Sith Cruiser had crashed and was constructed from the mountain itself. It was in the Temple that Sith apprentices were mentored and trained.

There were five ranks known in this isolated Sith order: Sith Tyro, Sith apprentice, Sith Saber, Sith Master, and Sith Lord. While Sith Lord was the highest rank a member of the Tribe could obtain, Sith Lords who became members of the ruling Circle of Lords received the honorary title of High Lord.

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, some managed to be trained in the Sith arts. Indeed, around 41 ABY one of the current Sith Lords of the Circle was Keshiri.

Behind the scenes
It is interesting to note that 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
 * Imprint
 * Omen
 * Abyss