Yaru Korsin Yaru Korsin was a Human male starship captain who served Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow ' s Sith Empire during the era of the Great Hyperspace War . The son of a respected admiral in the Sith Navy , over a twenty - year career Korsin gained a reputation for being dependable and focused on his job . At the height of the Great Hyperspace War in 5000 BBY , Korsin , commanding the Sith dreadnaught " Omen " , was sent on a mission to mine valuable Lignan crystal s from the planet Phaegon III ' s largest moon . Accompanied by the " Omen " sister ship , the " Harbinger " , the Sith were surprised by a Jedi attack . As the " Omen " jumped to hyperspace to flee the skirmish , the ship was bumped into by the " Harbinger " , knocking Korsin ' s vessel completely off course . The " Omen " reverted back to realspace in uncharted territory , and was severely damaged by a gravity well en route . Fortunately for Korsin , the " Omen " was headed toward a seemingly habitable planet , and to save the ship ' s precious cargo , Korsin elected to bring the ship down in a mountain range . What resulted was a violent crash — however , Korsin survived , along with his half - brother Devore , sister - in - law Seelah , and his infant nephew Jariad , with more than three hundred other Sith emerging alive from the disaster . For the next few days , Korsin and his remaining crew forged a tenuous existence in the mountain wilderness of the planet , Kesh , although the situation grew more dire by the hour . On a trip back up to the shattered " Omen " to search for a means to facilitate an escape , Korsin came into conflict with his spice - addicted , hotheaded half - brother Devore . When Devore tried to usurp control of the group , the two dueled with both lightsabers and the Force , with Korsin besting his foe and dropping him to his death off a precipice . Salvation soon came for the stranded Sith — a native woman of the Keshiri species named Adari Vaal , on the run from religious trouble , happened across the Sith camp and was convinced to lead them to civilization . Posing as gods returned from the stars , Korsin and the Sith were able to gain the complete allegiance of the fervently religious natives , taking their place as rulers of Kesh . Over the next fifteen years , Yaru Korsin , now the Grand Lord of the Lost Tribe of Sith , married the now - widowed Seelah , who bore him a daughter named Nida — all the while , however , Seelah and Jariad , who had discovered Devore ' s true fate , secretly plotted to one day eliminate Korsin . In 4985 BBY , the deaths of thousands of Keshiri at the hands of Pureblood Sith leader Ravilan Wroth , along with cunning manipulation by Seelah , prompted Korsin to order the deaths of all the Pureblood Sith that remained in the Lost Tribe . Ten years later , Seelah and Jariad ' s long - awaited vengeance finally came to pass . Near a Sith temple that had been built years prior around the " Omen " remains , Korsin and his loyal friend and bridge officer , Gloyd , were attacked by Seelah , Jariad and a group of Sith warriors . While the aged Grand Lord could not overcome his assailants on his own , he received backup from Nida , whom he had secretly trained to be the heiress to his legacy . Although Korsin was mortally wounded , Seelah and Jariad ' s uprising was crushed . In his final testament , recorded as he lay dying in his old captain ' s chair , Korsin passed on leadership of the Lost Tribe to his daughter , laying down the groundwork for the group ' s future . For centuries afterward on Kesh , Korsin would be remembered as a near - mythical hero . Biography . Early life and the " Omen " crash . A male Human , Yaru Korsin was born the son of a respected veteran admiral in the navy of the Sith Empire and a woman named Takara in the years before the Great Hyperspace War . He was descended from a noble house of the Tapani sector that was skilled in commerce and industry . Eventually , they were discovered by the Sith and put to work in those fields , running ships and factories . The Korsin line eventually intermingled with the Dark Jedi , bringing the Force into the family . As a result , Yaru Korsin was Force - sensitive , and became skilled in the dark side . Korsin learned at his father ' s side , staking out his own future in the Sith navy . While still a cadet , Korsin met his younger half - brother , Devore , for the first time — born to a woman from a planet that Korsin ' s father had visited during his travels . Less enamored with the prospect of following in his father ' s footsteps , in 5025 BBY Korsin appealed to the Sith Lords for another assignment . The move proved quite fruitful , as Korsin made captain in five years . Another five years later in 5015 BBY , he won command of a newly - christened Sith dreadnaught named the " Omen " over none other than his own father . Korsin soon became close friends with his bridge officer , a Houk named Gloyd , whom Korsin valued highly for his preference for focusing on his work rather than moving up the chain of command . In 5000 BBY , as the Great Hyperspace War raged across the galaxy , Korsin commanded the " Omen " on a mission to mine Lignan crystal s from the planet Phaegon III ' s largest moon , which would create war materiel for the Sith efforts on Kirrek . By then , Korsin had been a captain in the Sith navy for twenty years and had earned a reputation as trustworthy . Korsin was given the task by the Dark Lord of the Sith himself , Naga Sadow . Much to Korsin ' s chagrin , Devore , who was valued due to his position in the Sith mineralogical corps , was placed on the mission alongside his half - brother . Right before Korsin left , his mother sent him a message that told of a premonition that someday he and his descendants would rule over a great people — Korsin would hold on to the recording as he traveled to the Phaegon system . Commanding the mission along with the Kaleesh Saes Rrogon in the " Omen " sister ship , the " Harbinger " , Korsin ordered the bombing of the moon ' s surface to clear the way for a team of harvester droids to mine the Lignan . Afterward , Korsin saw a droid ' s - eye - view of the shattered moon , leaving him awestruck . With the massive amount of Lignan being mined and the immense power of the dark side that consequently surrounded him , Korsin felt that the Sith were omnipotent . However , Korsin ' s reverie was soon interrupted — the " Omen " and the " Harbinger " were suddenly ambushed by Rrogon ' s former Jedi Master Relin Druur and his Padawan Drev Hassin . As the two ships prepared to jump to hyperspace , Korsin noticed odd readings in the " Harbinger " jump field , although Rrogon did not respond to Korsin ' s warnings . Meanwhile , Hassin suicidally crashed his Infiltrator starfighter into the " Harbinger " , causing a series of explosions and pushing the " Harbinger " toward the direction of the " Omen " . Korsin ' s ship began to move out of the way too late , and the two dreadnaughts collided as the " Omen " jumped to hyperspace . The " Omen " was pushed just off course , and while in hyperspace encountered a massive gravity well that tore the ship apart . Korsin did his best to keep calm among the chaos as the " Omen " crew worked frantically to get the ship back under control , even laughing when a Ho ' Din engineer named Lohjoy caught on fire in front of him . The " Omen " reverted to realspace , and headed toward a planet seen in the distance . As the " Omen " hurtled through the world ' s atmosphere , Korsin briefly feared that the ship was flying into a gas giant , but his prayers were answered when he realized that the planet had breathable air . There was no reprieve from the machinations of his brother , however , and Devore briefly tried to seize control of the ship ' s dead controls , only to be interrupted by the wails of his son Jariad . Korsin soon sighted land on the rapid descent , and thinking quickly , triggered the firing pin of the ship ' s torpedo tubes with the Force , which tipped the " Omen " downward and allowed Korsin and the ship ' s crew to better see what awaited them below . Forced to pick between having the ship crash into an ocean or a mountain range , Korsin chose the latter , valuing the survival of the " Omen " cargo over its crew . With time running out , Korsin ordered those on the bridge to prepare for impact with the mountains . At the last moment before contact , Korsin moved from his cover to grab Devore ' s wife Seelah and infant Jariad , who had nowhere to secure themselves . The move cost him , as the impact threw him against a bulkhead and nearly impaled him on the shards of a shattered viewport . Korsin blacked out as the " Omen " slid down the side of a mountain . He awoke to find that the ship had come to a rest . Survival in the mountains . Korsin was one of 355 survivors of the " Omen " crash , along with Devore , Seelah , and Jariad . Although Korsin feared that Naga Sadow might kill him for his failure , he felt secure in the fact that the Lignan crystals still remained intact . In a single night , Korsin organized a massive exodus from the lofty plateau upon which the " Omen " wreckage rested , along a narrow ledge to more secure ground below . Twenty - one survivors died along the way , and Korsin , the last to leave the burning ship , briefly thought he saw his own doom at hand when a proton torpedo disengaged from its tube near where he tread — however , it fell harmlessly over the ledge . After trekking all night , the survivors found a clearing , where they camped . However , it soon became evident that the Sith were in an awful situation . Surveys of the surrounding area revealed no ways out , and the " Omen " Massassi contingent were all dying due to a mysterious ailment . As Korsin regarded that woeful scene , he noticed a commotion , and found the hotheaded Devore harassing the " Omen " elderly Human navigator , Boyle Marcom , whom he blamed for the crash . Despite Korsin ' s attempts to intervene , Devore killed Marcom with his lightsaber , with Seelah casually explaining that Marcom had attacked first . Furious , Korsin berated his half – brother , attempting to re - establish his leadership position amongst the survivors . The rest of the Massassi soon died , along with some of the more heavily injured survivors in an unexpectedly cold night . Although it was only twenty hours since the crash , things had already started to get more basic and primitive in the Sith camp , and seeking anything that could help their wretched situation , Korsin traveled up the mountain to the remains of the " Omen " . He found instead Devore , high on Red Rage spice , who had come to the " Omen " for similar reasons . Korsin first checked the transmitter array , which he found to be completely burned out — Devore then informed him that the ship ' s workshop , armory , and landing bay were all inaccessible . Distraught , Devore proclaimed their situation to be totally hopeless , infuriating Korsin . Korsin confronted Devore on his belief that his half - brother had tried to wrest control of the " Omen " at the start of the mission , angering Devore in turn . Devore ignited his lightsaber and attacked Korsin with a Force whirlwind . Devore soon lost his balance , however , and Korsin threw him outside the ship , believing that fighting a lightsaber duel in the teetering " Omen " was a certain deathtrap . As Korsin exited the ship to battle his half - brother , he saw a flying uvak , a native beast , watching him from over a nearby ridge . As Korsin focused his attention on the beast , Devore slammed him into the side of the " Omen " . They subsequently dueled , and Korsin was quickly put on the defensive by Devore ' s furious attacks . Thinking quickly , Korsin used the Force to activate one of the exterior torpedo doors , slamming it into Devore ' s shoulder , and causing a landslide down the side of the mountain . Korsin held onto the " Omen " for dear life , and the ship came to a rest just meters from the edge of the precipice . Devore was less fortunate , as he was partially buried and rubble and severely wounded . Korsin heard his half - brother ' s cries for help and lifted him to his feet , supposing that Devore could perhaps survive his wounds — however , not knowing what would come after the conflict , he changed his mind , dropping Devore over the side of the mountain to his death . Korsin had his share of injuries as well , and had to rely on the Force to support himself as he climbed down the mountain back to the camp . Not wanting to expose the true direness of their situation to the other survivors , Korsin claimed that he had activated an emergency beacon and that help would likely soon come . When approached by Seelah , Korsin told her that he had no knowledge of her husband ' s whereabouts . Soon afterward , Korsin gave a speech to the rest of the survivors , assuring them that it was destiny that had brought them to the planet , and that they had to make the best of the situation . Still , the Sith were in dire straits , and the rest of the supplies would soon run out . However , Korsin had a source of hope — he realized that the creature he had seen while battling his brother had a rider , and there were others on the planet . Civilization . Soon afterward , a native Keshiri woman named Adari Vaal , the very same individual whom Korsin had spied during his duel with Devore , stumbled across the Sith camp and was captured . Although incapacitated for a time , she finally awoke , and Korsin enlisted a Pureblood Sith translator named Hestus to aid in communication . Korsin and Vaal exchanged information about their respective situations — Korsin learned that there were many villages full of Keshiri on the mainland of the planet , Kesh , and about Keshiri society in general , including the Keshiri ' s belief in the Skyborn gods . Seeing an opportunity to finally get to civilization , Korsin allowed Vaal to return home , over the objections of Seelah , trusting that she would honor her agreement to help them escape their predicament . A day later , Vaal returned with members of the Keshiri ruling council known as the Neshtovar , who brought Korsin and the 240 survivors to the Keshiri capital of Tahv . There , Korsin and the other Sith convinced the Neshtovar , through feats of the Force , that they were the Skyborn gods returned to Kesh . Korsin proclaimed himself to be Grand Lord of the Skyborn , dazzling crowds of Keshiri with stunts like Force Jump ing to the top of a tall column . The Keshiri completely fell for the ruse , and the Sith took their place as rulers of Kesh . After this auspicious occasion , the Sith were fully settled into Keshiri society , moving into the fine homes of the Neshtovar — Korsin , Seelah , and Jariad were quartered in the domicile of the Neshtovar ' s leader , Izri Dazh . Korsin , having proclaimed his intention to build a temple at the site of the " Omen " remains , personally oversaw a dig at the edge of the mountains as the Sith cleared a path that would allow them to build structures to stabilize and protect the " Omen " . During the excavation , Vaal revealed that she had witnessed Korsin throw Devore over the side of the cliff , not too far away from where the Sith were currently digging , and that she had seen his half - brother ' s shattered body on the rocks below . Unsettled , Korsin asked her whether his body was still there , but she answered that the tide had swept him away . While Vaal was suspicious of Korsin ' s motives for killing Devore , Korsin assured her that Devore was a grave threat to their society and requested that Vaal forget what she saw that day . Although his next task was to dig for metals necessary to repair the " Omen " , unfortunately for his group , Korsin soon found that such metals did not exist on Kesh . For better or for worse , the Sith were not going anywhere . The Pureblood purge . Over the next fifteen years , now - Grand Lord Korsin settled into leadership of the so - called Lost Tribe of Sith . Holding court on his old bridge chair in the now fully - constructed Sith temple , Korsin regularly held meetings with a group of trusted advisors , including Gloyd ; the Human Ermon Parrah , his science adviser ; and Ravilan Wroth , who represented the remaining Pureblood Sith , known as the " Fifty - seven " after the fifty - seven non - Humans who survived the crash . However , a more important development occurred in Korsin ' s personal life , as he married Devore ' s widow , Seelah , together having a daughter whom they named Nida . They both saw the marriage as an acceptable arrangement , as Korsin solidified the bonds with the " Omen " miners , while Seelah gained power and influence in the Lost Tribe , along with a job administrating the Sith sick - wards . In his free time , Korsin began the habit of routine mountain walks with Adari Vaal , who served as an intermediary with the Keshiri . Their conversations were generally rather mindless , although they took up a great deal of Korsin ' s time . However , he lost Vaal ' s support , beginning with an incident in 4987 BBY before when Korsin failed to heal her mortally - wounded son after an accident . Vaal went on to head a secret resistance movement dedicated to bringing down the Sith regime . Korsin was not yet aware of his friend ' s treachery , however . In 4985 BBY , while looking at an ill - made statue of himself in Tahv with Seelah , Korsin received news that the entire population of the city of Tetsubal had mysteriously died . Tetsubal was , at the time , being visited by Ravilan Wroth , whom Korsin had sent on a mission to survey the southern towns of the Ragnos Lakes . As it happened , Wroth was the only one reported alive in the city , and Korsin rushed to Tetsubal with Seelah and Gloyd . Korsin arrived to find the city of Tetsubal completely empty , with all 18 , 000 residents lying dead within the village ' s walls . Wroth stood alone , the last remaining witness to the disaster . Suspecting a biological agent was responsible for the deaths , Korsin immediately sent Gloyd back to Tahv , to make sure that Nida was brought to the safety of the Sith temple . Shaken , Korsin was pushed by Wroth to completely isolate the Lost Tribe from Keshiri affairs , proclaiming the deaths in Tetsubal to be a warning from the dark side . However , Korsin was not convinced , and though he ordered the city ' s burning and called for the careful withdrawal of Lost Tribe members from outlying Keshiri settlements , he did not authorize a full separation from Keshiri affairs . Despite his best efforts to contain whatever threat there may have been , Korsin was soon informed that a similar calamity had occurred again , wiping out the rest of the towns in the Ragnos Lakes region . Searching for answers , Korsin saw the mystery unraveled by his own wife , who had discerned that the deaths in Tetsubal were caused by the poisoning of the local water source with cyanogen silicate , connecting it to the recent death of a Keshiri laborer working for Wroth . With all the cities visited by Wroth and his retinue meeting the same fate , it was easy to make the connection . Seeing no other choice , Korsin ordered the eradication of the Pureblood Sith from the face of Kesh . The Purebloods did not go quietly , and Korsin was personally involved in crushing the resistance . He and his chief lieutenants fought on the front lines throughout the night , eventually pushing the Pureblood remnants into a last stand high in the mountains . Korsin gave no quarter , throwing any who surrendered over the side of the precipice , giving to them the same end he had given to his half - brother . Those killed were put on public display in Tahv ; Wroth was captured and later executed by Korsin ' s now - stepson Jariad . Little did Korsin know , it had all been engineered behind the scenes by his wife Seelah , who had determined Wroth ' s complicity in the deaths at Tetsubal and had framed him for the rest — she also had designs to eliminate Korsin himself , as revenge for the death of Devore . Death . Over the next few years , Korsin focused on reshaping Kesh into a true Sith world , doing what he could to keep the Keshiri ' s allegiance , including acting on an idea from Gloyd to publicly kill a dissenter through the Force . As far as his family was concerned , he and Seelah ' s relationship had grown distant , while Jariad seemed his heir apparent . Instead , suspecting that Seelah and Jariad were planning something against him , Korsin secretly groomed his daughter Nida to succeed him , sending her to learn the ways of the dark side from various Sith whose deaths had been faked , while she was supposedly off on ambassadorial missions . At some point , Korsin reviewed the last visual data from the " Omen " cameras from before the crash , and discovered a large continent which he dubbed Keshtah Major , across the sea from the landmass on which the Sith had settled . Sure that Keshtah Major was settled , Korsin made a hand - drawn map of the mysterious land , keeping the knowledge secret until it could be useful in the future . By 4975 BBY , Korsin had realized that there truly was no way for the Sith to escape Kesh — nothing more could be done to repair the " Omen " , and Kesh was so remote that it was doubtful that they would ever be found . Seeing no reason to hole themselves up in their mountain temple anymore , Korsin , in a lavish ceremony at the Circle Eternal plaza in Tahv , declared the Lost Tribe ' s intent to live among the Keshiri for good . Soon after the ceremony , while Korsin was in preparations to move away from the temple permanently , he , Gloyd , and his bodyguards found themselves ambushed by Jariad Korsin and a group of powerful Sith Saber warriors — Korsin ' s suspicions were correct . By reading Adari Vaal ' s thoughts , Seelah had discovered the true circumstances of Devore ' s death , and decided to time was ripe for vengeance . Korsin was taken completely by surprise , thinking that Jariad and the Sabers were on a training mission to the Northern Reaches , and though outnumbered four - to - one , resolved to fight to the end . As he and Jariad exchanged insults in a standoff , they saw dozens of uvak suddenly take to the skies . It was the work of the Keshiri resistance , who were looking to undermine the Lost Tribe by stealing their uvak and flying the valuable beasts to their doom . Korsin turned it into an opportunity , attacking the distracted Sabers . Korsin and Gloyd , along with the bodyguards , cut a deadly path through the Sabers , although the pair eventually became separated in the chaos of the battle . Although the Sabers had inferior training , there were simply too many of them , and Korsin also had to deal with the savage fury of Jariad . Korsin was badly wounded , and was progressively pushed back toward the precipice where Devore Korsin had died so many years before . However , Korsin had one more trick up his sleeve . As the battle turned against him , the tide was suddenly turned when Nida arrived , along with reinforcements from her Skyborn Rangers uvak - riding club and some Keshiri partisans . With momentum on his side , Korsin attempted to throw Jariad over the side of the cliff with the Force but failed — instead , Nida did it for him . Meanwhile , Gloyd used a thermal detonator to bring a room down upon his assailants , sacrificing himself , but killing many of his opponents and paralyzing Seelah . Although Seelah and Jariad ' s rebellion was put down , Yaru Korsin succumbed to his injuries . In his final moments , the mortally wounded Grand Lord sat down in his command chair from the " Omen " , and recorded his final will and testament , which would shape the future of the Lost Tribe for years to come . He also left another keepsake for Nida , to be hidden from the public . Korsin passed his map of Keshtah Major on to his daughter , trusting her to keep the knowledge a secret until the continent ' s existence could someday be useful . Legacy . In the immediate aftermath of Yaru Korsin ' s death , his final will and testament , which had been left in the care of Nida , was read . In the document , Korsin commended his legacy to Nida , and with a ratification from the three surviving Sith High Lord s , Nida Korsin was the new Grand Lord of the Lost Tribe . Another of Korsin ' s wishes was also enacted — henceforth , on the death of the Grand Lord , the person ' s spouse and servants would be sacrificed in his memory . However , this did not end up applying to Seelah , despite Korsin ' s wishes otherwise . Taking pity on her mother , Nida instead proclaimed that the Sith would leave the mountains of Kesh forever in Korsin ' s honor , leaving the temple for Seelah to live out the rest of her days in solitude . While Nida would carve out her own legacy as a great leader of the Lost Tribe , Yaru Korsin himself was remembered on Kesh for centuries as an icon and a hero . Still , the Korsin line was extinguished not long after Korsin ' s death . His grandson , Donellan , never seized power , ensuring that Nida , who reigned as Grand Lord for seventy - nine years , died heirless . Kesh was covered in monuments to Korsin , and instead of having died , Korsin was popularly remembered as having " transcended this existence . " To some , Yaru Korsin was a magic al being , able to influence mortal events from beyond the grave . In fact , by 3000 BBY Yaru and Nida Korsin had become the centerpiece of a quasi - religious political faction known as the Korsinite League , whose members took the first name " Korsin " and strove to pattern their lives after their namesakes . The date of Korsin ' s death was turned into a planetary holiday , Testament Day , during which people all over Kesh honored Korsin ' s memory with a public display of Korsin ' s will , in holocron form . The Testament was preserved by an official known as the caretaker . In 3000 BBY , then - Caretaker Varner Hilts found himself in the midst of a heated dispute between several political factions over the true meaning of the Testament — after displaying the Testament to the quarreling groups , he stumbled across Naga Sadow ' s original briefing to Korsin , hidden within the recording . Those who witnessed the briefing were stunned by Korsin , their great hero , being a " delivery boy . " News of the revelation somehow leaked out to the masses , leading to a massive riots that spread across Kesh . In search of something that could save the " Omen " , Hilts unsealed the ancient mountain temple , and found several artifacts from Korsin ' s life within , including the prophetic message from his mother , and the map of Keshtah Major he left for Nida . Personality and traits . A veteran captain in the Sith navy , Yaru Korsin was calm even in the most stressful situations , and was not affected by events that may have frightened a different man . Korsin had a sharp wit , and he often found humor in places others didn ' t — in fact , during the crash of the " Omen " , Korsin had to suppress a laugh when the head of the engineer Lohjoy burst into flames in front of him . Unlike many of his compatriots , Korsin prided himself on being trustworthy , and did not pay much attention to the power games so common within the Sith . Although Korsin made an effort to be friendly to those he encountered , he had no such patience for his half - brother Devore , upon whom he looked down for Devore ' s tendency to pass blame , his out - of - control anger and ambition , and his drug habit . However , Korsin still was somewhat protective of his younger half - brother , although he certainly let such feelings go when he dropped Devore to his death on Kesh . Korsin held more respect for his father , admiring his proficiency as a space captain , although he became less enamored with the prospects of following his father ' s footsteps after meeting Devore . Korsin very much valued the safety of his crew as a starship captain , but he always gave higher priority to the mission . During the " Omen " fiery descent to Kesh , for example , Korsin chose to bring the ship down above land , picking the survival of the " Omen " precious cargo over a water landing that likely would have saved more crewmembers but might have rendered the Lignan crystals irretrievable . Korsin was also willing to lie to his crew to protect their peace of mind and to prevent internal turmoil . Korsin was close friends with his Houk bridge officer , Gloyd , whom he valued for being more focused on his job than moving up the ladder . Although he was outwardly friendly with the Pureblood Sith leader Ravilan Wroth , he did not trust him or his kind , and he had a plan in place to rid them from Kesh which was eventually enacted . Over the years , Korsin forged a friendly relationship with the Keshiri Adari Vaal , who secretly was working against him , often taking long walks with her in the mountains while they discussed seemingly trivial and mindless matters . Seelah , on the other hand , hated Vaal and directed mental vitriol at her every chance she got — Korsin enjoyed seeing the two women in his life pitted against one another . His marriage with Seelah was rather chilly . Seelah privately plotted against him for years , and while Korsin showed her affection , by 4975 BBY he had not touched her in years . While he did not share the single - minded ambition common among the Sith , Korsin was adept at getting his subordinates to follow him , often putting the situation in terms of self - preservation . However , he found no such success with governing Massassi , who answered more to force than words . Korsin had a cunning side , exemplified by his quick thinking during his duel with Devore , and his devious use of his daughter Nida to surprise and defeat Jariad and Seelah during their revolt . Adept at putting on a comforting exterior , Korsin was easily able to inspire the complete devotion of the Keshiri populace with his charismatic public persona , along with his Force abilities . In regards to his children , Korsin was greatly unnerved by how much his stepson Jariad took after his father Devore — Korsin recognized many of Devore ' s self - absorbed traits in Jariad , and although he tried to provide guidance to the youth , he did not trust Jariad . Instead , Korsin saw his daughter Nida as the future of the Lost Tribe , and he trained her accordingly . Korsin possessed a ruddy , squat frame , much like his father , with pale skin , reddish - brown eyes , and dark hair which later turned gray . Powers and abilities . Yaru Korsin was an extremely capable starship captain , building over a twenty - year career a reputation as one of the most reliable officers in the Sith navy . A capable leader , he was adept at keeping control in chaotic situations and ensuring the success of his mission . Owing to his Tapani ancestors ' intermingling with Dark Jedi , Korsin was a Force - sensitive , skilled in the dark side of the Force . A formidable lightsaber wielder , in battle Korsin blended his dueling skills with use of Force techniques such as telekinesis . Korsin ' s skill with telekinesis was such that he was able to levitate a full - grown Keshiri , and Force Jump to great heights . Korsin could sense the emotions of those around him , and he often used telepathy to communicate when words would not suffice or were not appropriate . Although skilled in Sith magic , he was not as well - versed in Force healing , as shown by his failed attempt to save the life of Adari Vaal ' s mortally wounded son Finn . Even as he grew into old age , Korsin remained formidable in a fight , and he could hold his own against groups of warriors much younger than himself . Behind the scenes . Yaru Korsin first appeared in John Jackson Miller ' s 2009 eBook " " , the first in the nine - part " Lost Tribe of the Sith " series . Korsin went on to be a main character in the next three installments of the series , " " , " " , and " " , wherein he was killed . In between , Korsin made a brief appearance in Paul S . Kemp ' s 2010 novel " Crosscurrent " , which sets up the events of the " Lost Tribe of the Sith " series . After his death in " Savior " , Korsin was mentioned in , making a holographic appearance in " Pantheon " . Korsin was also mentioned in Christie Golden ' s 2009 novel " " , which heavily features the Lost Tribe started by Korsin . The first picture of Korsin was included in the 2012 reference book , " The Essential Reader ' s Companion " .