Parlan Spinner

"&hellip;Can't do this t'me&hellip; I'm the&hellip; Death Spinner&hellip;''" "Ah. You did survive. Nice to meet you, Master Spinner&mdash;or do you go by Death?''"

- Parlan Spinner and Grand Lord Varner Hilts, after Spinner's capture and subsequent torture by the Tahv Constabulary

Parlan Spinner, also known as the "Death Spinner" and "The Blademaster," was a Force-sensitive Human male rebel who served within the Lost Tribe of Sith in 2,975 BBY. The child of slaves, Spinner was born in the city of Eorm during the Festival of Nida’s Rise in 3,000 BBY.

Early life
According to the report Enemy of the Order: The record of Parlan Spinner, vandal and would-be revolutionary that was deposited at the Lost Tribe of Sith's intelligence depositiory at Orreg, Parlan Spinner was the descendant of one of the earliest Humans to be cast out from the Tribe, who were the descendants of Human Sith slaves from Naga Sadow's Sith Empire that had fled the Great Hyperspace War in 5,000 BBY. The young Spinner was born during the turbulent Festival of Nida's Rise. Spinner grew in the slums of Eorm to a poor, working-class family of rope-makers and weavers. At a young age, he left home and took to living on the streets as an outlaw, an anarchist opposed to the contemporary status quo. As an outcast, Parlan was denied access to education and any other forms of social mobility that would have enabled him to lift his status on Kesh. From childhood, Parlan bore a great deal of resentment towards the Tribe for casting his family into the fringes of Keshiri society. He was also known to have eschewed his given name in favor of the alias "Death Spinner."

At the age of eleven, Spinner got into trouble with the local authorities for defacing the statue of Yaru Korsin in Eorm. Through his teenaged years, Spinner's crimes progressed from acts of vandalism to robbery and acts of sabotage. According to the Prefect of Police Takara Hilts&mdash;the daughter of Caretaker Varner Hilts and Grand Consort Iliana Hilts, Spinner's actioons were motivated by a desire to create trouble for the authorities. Likewise, Spinner rationalized his actions as part of his anarchic guerilla struggle against the authorities on Kesh. By the twelfth year of the Hilts Restoration, Spinner had joined a gang of outslaws who ambushed and killed Keshiri tribute bearers travelling to Orreg from the east. In the company of these friends, the teenager learnt how to wield the shikkar blade and minlohku, the art of throwing glass darts. These martial skills were futher augmented by Spinner's budding Force skills. While a Dark Side-user who was the descendant of ancient Sith, Spinner was not known to have received any formal instruction in the Sith ways.

By 2,975 BBY, Spinner came to the attention of the Tahv Constabulary for his frequent acts of robbery. Since he was constantly on the run from the authorities, Spinner lived off the land and did not accumulate much material posseessions. He also became the ring leader of his own gang known as "Spinner's Web" which specialized in harassing the authorities. Prefect Hilts investigated Spinner's involvement in several crimes including an assassination plot against all the Keshiri cake decorators prior to the wedding fete of High Lord Nikoll, and a terror plot to hijack an airship and ram it into the southeastern aqueduct. By 2,975 BBY, one of his latest strings of crimes included an attempt to desecrate the Keshiri burial cairn beneath the old Circle Eternal. Prefect Hilts attempted to apprehend him but he escaped capture.

During her investigation, Hilts speculated that this reflected a distain of tradition but surmised that he had no political aims of overthrowing the current government. Thus, Spinner was classified as a persistent trouble-maker rather than a rebel, a far more serious offense on Kesh. As a low-level offender, Grand Lord Hilts assigned Spinner's case to the Tahv Constabulary as opposed to the elite security forces like the Lost Tribe's Sabers and Apprentices, who were focused on eliminating rival Force-wielders that challenged the incumbent establishment. During a correspondence between Prefect Hilts and her father Grand Lord Hilts, she offered him two options: killing Spinner or capturing him. Ultimately, the reformist Grand Lord chose to spare the youth's life by capturing him since he intended to give him a second chance in life.

The Assassination
In 2,975 BBY, Spinner's anarchic campaign reached a new high when he planned to assassinate the High Lord Varner Hilts himself during the celebrations commemorating the arrival of the Lost Tribe on Kesh. For centuries, the Lost Tribe had been able to maintain domination over the Keshiri by claiming to be the Skyborn, ancient protectors from the annals of Keshiri mythology who had fought against the evil Otherside. Thus, the Lost Tribe came to occupy a demi-god status among their Keshiri subjects. Officially, Spinner told his fellow gang members in "Spinner's Web" that they were only there to create mischief and trouble.

During the celebrations, Spinner and at least two other accomplices donned jesters' masks and deliberately walked into a parade by members of the Lost Tribe. Several Keshiri onlookers initially mistook them as being part of the celebration but their presence aroused anger from the Sith participants. One Lord scolded one of Spinner's accomplices for going too far by disrupting the Founding celebrations. Spinner himself managed to break free from several Constables, exclaiming loudly that only a fool would celebrate being stranded on what he labeled a "festering lump of a world." Before the guards could stop him, Spinner discarded his mask and headed towards the sedan carrying Lord Hilts, deriding the man as the "Head Fool."

To the horror of his mates, Spinner unsheathed his dagger and jumped into the sedan while shouting that he was the "Death Spinner" and was tired of waiting. However, the sedan chair proved to be a decoy and the youth encountered Prefect Takara herself, the daughter of Varner. She used the Force to knock the dagger out of his hand. Surrounded by several constables, Spinner refused to concede defeat. As a finale, the youth threw a minlohku dart at a Keshiri constable, grazing his shoulder. However,Spinner was quickly overpowered by the constable's comrades. Still defiant, the youth attempted to goad the Prefect by exclaiming that they could not break his spirit because he was the "Death Spinner."

However, Takara retorted that she did not want to break his spirit but rather his body. She ordered her constables to rough him as part of the night celebrations. Spinner was taken to the palace of Grand Lord Hilts where he was beaten and tortured by the constables for several hours. However, Takara ensured that her subordinates did not permanently maim or cripple him because her father Grand Lord Hilts had ordered that he be captured alive and brought into his presence.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 1: Spiral, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 2: Spiral, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 3: Spiral, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith 4: Spiral, Part 4