Last Hope ( Jedi starship ) The Last Hope was a Jedi starship which survived on Kesh for nearly four thousand years following the Great Calamity during the aftermath of the Hundred - Year Darkness . It had been part of a Jedi patrol that intercepted a Dark Jedi ship that had escaped from the Stygian Caldera , where the exiled and defeated Dark Jedi had ended up after the Battle of Corbos in 6900 BBY . The Jedi pursued their Dark Jedi foes to Kesh , where the two rival Force - using factions became stranded since the planet ' s strong magnetic field hampered interstellar travel . Following a fierce battle that devastated much of the planet and threatened the indigenous Keshiri , the two Force factions made peace after imprisoning the Dark Jedi leader Remulus Dreypa within an oubliette . This Jedi Starship survived the fighting and was hidden in the Keshiri burial cairns beneath Circle Eternal , a sacred site within the city of Tahv . Meanwhile , the Jedi and Dark Jedi headed to the frozen continent of Eshkrene in the planet ' s south pole where they started a new community known as " the Doomed " that was devoted to protecting the Keshiri . During the Great Hyperspace War in 5000 BBY , dark side - wielding Human Sith from the Sith Empire became stranded on Kesh . Under the leadership of Yaru Korsin , these survivors became the " Lost Tribe of Sith " and became the rulers of the Keshiri people on the main continent of Keshtah Minor . Unaware of the history , these Sith had co - opted ancient Keshiri accounts of the Great Calamity to legitimize their claims to be the divine " Skyborn . " In 2974 BBY , the Lost Tribe exile Parlan Spinner and the Sith princess Takara Hilts stumbled on the Doomed in Eshkrene . Seeking to settle scores with the Tribe , Spinner stole Dreypa ' s oubliette and returned back to Keshtah . He and Dreypa then instigated a rebellion against the Tribe . After Dreypa unleashed several malevolent Sithspawn known as Leviathans , the Doomed arrived on a flight of uvak s and attempted to defeat Dreypa ' s Sithspawn . However , they were defeated , and Dreypa ' s Sithspawn drained their life energies . Dreypa was also able to access their memories and learned about the existence of the Jedi Starship . Meanwhile , Spinner joined forces with Takara and the Doomed leader Kaliska , who revealed the existence of the vessel to the two Human Sith . Since Dreypa had ambitions of galactic domination , Kaliska wanted to deny him access to the starship and ordered its destruction . Spinner promised to destroy the vessel but reneged upon his promise when he arrived back in Tahv . He managed to escape into the atmosphere above Tahv , but Dreypa contacted him and threatened to destroy Tahv and to kill Hilts if he did not return the starship . Spinner was then overcome by his love for Takara and returned to Tahv . He used the Jedi Starship to destroy the Leviathans . During the fighting , Takara and Dreypa both ended up clinging to the hull of the Jedi Starship . Spinner " returned " the starship to Dreypa and then jumped into the Southern Ocean with Takara . Dreypa took control of the starship only to find that Spinner had set the ship ' s autopilot on a one - way trip to Sessal Spire ' s caldera . The Jedi Starship crashed into the volcanic crater and was destroyed , killing Dreypa . This prevented any word about the existence of Kesh and the Lost Tribe from reaching the greater galaxy for millennia .