Battle of the Marisota Floodplain The Battle of the Marisota Floodplain occurred in 2974 BBY when the Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa instigated a rebellion against the ruling Lost Tribe of Sith . Following the Seizure of Eorm , his peasant army marched on Tahv where he intended to find a way to leave Kesh and return to the galaxy . Despite some early successes , his forces sustained heavy casualties when the Tribe ' s commander Grand Consort Iliana Hilts deployed her Skyborn Rangers . Lacking air support , Dreypa ' s forces retreated to Sessal Spire , a volcanic crater overlooking the Southern Ocean . History . Background . Following the Battle of Corbos , the surviving Dark Jedi were exiled to Korriban where they developed the first Sith Order . A group of these Dark Jedi led by Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa attempted to return to the Galactic Republic and seek revenge against their Jedi adversaries . However , they and their Jedi pursuers ended up on Kesh , a remote and primitive world that was home to the humanoid and purple - skinned Keshiri species . The arrival of these Force - users triggered the Great Calamity which devastated much of Kesh and gave rise to legends about the Skyborn and the Destructors . Eventually , Dreypa ' s Dark Jedi allies turned against him and imprisoned him within his own oubliette , a stasis casket capable of keeping individuals in suspended animation for millennia . Dreypa ' s former Dark Jedi allies then made peace with the Jedi and founded the Doomed , a Force - sensitive community dedicated to protecting the Keshiri and finding balance in the Force . Meanwhile , Dreypa remained in suspended animation for four thousand years until he was freed by the Sith outcast Parlan Spinner . Spinner was a member of the Lost Tribe of Sith , another group of Human Sith who had become stranded on Kesh during the Great Hyperspace War in 5000 BBY . Spinner hoped to use Dreypa as an ally against the Tribe , which he disliked for mistreating him . Spinner brought Dreypa back to the port town of Eorm on the main continent of Keshtah Minor . Using his dark side powers , Lord Dreypa seized control of Eorm and raised a rebel army with the aim of overthrowing the Lost Tribe ' s leadership in the Sith capital Tahv . Dreypa also planned to returned to the stars and seek revenge against the Jedi and the Republic . Details . Following the Seizure of Eorm , Dreypa and his local quisling " Lord " Spinner raised a rebel army consisting of Human and Keshiri slaves who had been exiled to Eorm . Exploiting their grievances against the ruling Tribal elite , Dreypa managed to convince them to march on Tahv , with the intention of seizing the city . Dreypa also had two hostages : the Doomed leader Kaliska , a S ' kytri woman , and Takara Hilts , a Sith princess and the daughter of the ruling Grand Lord Varner Hilts . Dreypa and Spinner had hoped to use Takara as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Tribe but the Sith princess and the Doomed woman had managed to escape their Keshiri captors . The two women also used the Force to convince Eorm ' s entire herd of uvak s , winged reptilian beasts of steed , to accompany back to Eshkrene , the planet ' s South Pole . This effectively deprived Dreypa ' s forces of an " air force . " Dreypa ' s forces travelled through the Marisota Floodplain where they were intercepted by a Sith army led by Grand Consort Iliana Hilts , the wife of Grand Lord Hilts . The Marisota Floodplain had seen many battles between rival Sith factions during the Time of the Rot , a civil war which had devastated Keshtah Minor for almost a millennium . Under the leadership of the reformist Grand Lord Varner Hilts , Kesh had experienced peace for around thirty years . However , this peace had been interrupted by Dreypa ' s rebellion . Dreypa ' s forces initially had the upper hand against the Tribe ' s forces . Dreypa ' s rebels were armed with lightsabers and inflicted serious casualties on the Tribe ' s infantry . Meanwhile , Dreypa used Force lightning to incinerate several enemy troops while Spinner took the opportunity to settle scores against the Tribe . Spinner stabbed an enemy soldier with two daggers , telling the dying the man that the " Death Spinner " had returned and was teaching him a " history lesson . " Unknown to Dreypa and Spinner , Iliana had held back part of her forces : the elite Skyborn Rangers , the Tribe ' s air force which rode uvaks . The Skyborn Rangers strafed Dreypa ' s forces with glass daggers , inflicting heavy casualties on the untrained and ill - equipped rebel army . Dreypa and Spinner were unable to counter this assault since their army lacked an " air force . " Spinner explained to an infuriated Dreypa that they did not have any riders among their forces and that it took months to learn how to ride an uvak . He also criticized Dreypa for moving his forces too fast and pointed out that their hostages and their guards still had not caught up with them . Dreypa furiously responded that he could not wait any longer since he had already been asleep for four thousand years . At that point , Dreypa suddenly remembered one of his former weapons : the Leviathans , large serpentine Sithspawn capable of draining the life energies of sentient beings . Several of these creatures were residing within the crater of Sessal Spire , a volcano on the southwestern coast of Keshtah Minor . Dreypa then ordered his remaining forces to retreat to Sessal Spire . Aftermath . The Battle of the Marisota Floodplain was initially regarded as a victory by the Lost Tribe ' s military commander Iliana Hilts . One of her scouts reported that Lord Dreypa ' s forces were moving southwest towards the peninsula which led to Sessal Spire . Iliana dismissed the enemy commander as a fool since that route ended at a dead end . Lord Dreypa and Spinner eventually arrived at the crater of Sessal Spire with the Lost Tribe ' s forces hot in pursuit . By that time , Dreypa had apparently descended into a state of madness and was shouting and screaming incessantly . Dreypa ' s " madness " led Spinner to desert and attempt to cut a deal with Iliana and the Lost Tribe . Dreypa then attempted to convince Iliana to become his consort but was rebuffed by the Grand Consort , who mistakenly dismissed the Sith Lord as a slave with delusions of grandeur . She then ordered her troops to throw Dreypa and Spinner into the volcano . Dreypa was enraged by Iliana ' s rebuff and used his amulet to summon the leviathans from their hibernation beneath the volcanic crater . These leviathans then emerged and attacked both Dreypa ' s former allies and his Lost Tribe pursuers . This set the stage for the Battle of Sessal Spire which saw the destruction of Iliana ' s Tribal forces and the Doomed . Behind the scenes . While not officially named , the Battle of the Marisota Floodplain was the second conflict of Dreypa ' s rebellion , which devastated parts of Keshtah Minor in 2974 BBY . It first appeared in John Jackson Miller ' s " Lost Tribe of the Sith — Spiral 3 " , the third comic issue of the " " comic story , which was released on October 10 , 2012 .