Star Wars : Lost Tribe of the Sith : The Collected Stories Star Wars : Lost Tribe of the Sith : The Collected Stories is a compendium of all of the eBooks of the " Lost Tribe of the Sith " series by John Jackson Miller . It was published by Del Rey in paperback and eBook formats on July 24 , 2012 . The book includes maps of Kesh and also contains an excerpt of the novel " " by Aaron Allston . Publisher ' s summary . At last in one volume the eight original installments of the epic Lost Tribe of the Sith eBook series . . . along with the explosive , never - before - published finale , " " — more than one hundred pages of new material ! " Five thousand years ago . After a Jedi ambush , the Sith mining ship Omen lies wrecked on a remote , unknown planet . Its commander , Yaru Korsin , battles the bloodshed of a mutinous faction led by his own brother . Marooned and facing death , the Sith crew have no choice but to venture into their desolate surroundings . They face any number of brutal challenges — vicious predators , lethal plagues , tribal people who worship vengeful gods — and like true Sith warriors , counter them with the dark side of the Force . " " The struggles are just beginning for the proud , uncompromising Sith , driven as they are to rule at all costs . They will vanquish the primitive natives , and they will find their way back to their true destiny as rulers of the galaxy . But as their legacy grows over thousands of years , the Sith ultimately find themselves tested by the most dangerous threat of all : the enemy within . " Plot summary . Around 5000 BBY , during the Great Hyperspace War , a Sith mining vessel named " Omen " crashes into the planet Kesh , a world yet undiscovered by the Galactic Republic or the Sith Empire . The ship ' s captain , a slave Human named Yaru Korsin , attempts to keep his scared crew in line . Kesh was a relatively primitive world with a superstitious population , the Keshiri , contained within the continent Keshtah . The Keshiri worshipped the Skyborn , the god s from above , who the natives believe to have incarnated as the Sith newcomers . During the next fifteen years , the latecomers rule unchallenged over the Keshiri people , with Yaru Korsin becoming the Grand Lord of the Skyborn . Years later , an underground movement of Keshiri rebels conspires to rid their world of the Sith intruders . The wicked machinations of Seelah , Yaru Korsin ' s late brother ' s wife , wipe out the pureblood Sith from among the " Omen " survivors , leaving the Humans alone to survive . Seelah ' s son , Jariad , mortally wounds the Grand Lord in a coup . Although Yaru dies , he is survived by his daughter , Nida , who punishes Seelah , her own aunt - in - law , for her treachery . More than a thousand years later , the " Omen " ' s crash site becomes sacred ground to the Keshiri , concealed by a Temple in the mountains . The Sith dynasty continues , no longer propagated by bloodline , but rather as a meritocracy shaped by bold examples of power and skillful political maneuvering . A botched assassination attempt targets the reigning Grand Lord , a doddering crone named Lillia Venn . Culpability is laid on High Lord Candra Kitai . She and her daughter , Orielle Kitai , are then stripped of status and enslaved . Afterwards , Ori flees to the countryside , finding some peace with a lowly gardener named Jelph . Jelph , in truth , is a secret Jedi agent who has recently and accidentally arrived on the Keshiri ' s world . Ori eventually discovers this , finding his Republic starfighter hidden in his shed . Venn and a retinue of Sith Lords arrive at Jelph ' s , also discovering the spacecraft . When Venn boards the starfighter , she unwittingly trips an antitheft device rigged by Jelph that destroys the ship and Venn in an explosion , leaving Jelph and Ori together as exiles , in the wilderness , where they begin a new life together . After another thousand years of stagnation , the Sith dynasty has now splintered into squabbling factions that only unite to honor the traditions of Yaru Korsin , the first Grand Lord of Kesh . Varner Hilts , a caretaker of Sith customs , plays a traditional holographic recording made by Korsin at the end of his reign and intended for his daughter , Nida . Before the assembled Sith factions , Hilts allows the recording to play past its conclusion , revealing fragments of an earlier transmission never meant for public display – an image of the Dark Lord Naga Sadow identifying the crew of the " Omen " as mere slaves . This sends the Sith factions into disarray as their view of their ancestors as godly conquerors had now been turned upside down . As the disillusioned Sith factions begin to self - destruct , Hilts realizes there is more to Korsin ' s recording . He left a hidden a message to Nida , with the cryptic words that " the true power lies behind the throne " . Hilts finds Korsin ' s old command chair that he used as a throne in a secret chamber within the " Omen " Temple . Inside it , he finds a hidden map of the entire world of Kesh , revealing an unexplored continent on the far side of the planet , a landmass recorded by the " Omen " sensors during the crash but left unrevealed to Korsin ' s crew . Realizing the key to unifying the disintegrating Sith factions , Hilts gives them a target of conquest and after twenty - five years of planning and advancements , the Sith have constructed a fleet of airships to travel across the ocean and invade the new continent . A gifted engineer , Edell Vrai , leads a scouting fleet to the recently - named Alanciar . The Keshiri of Alanciar are prepared , though , for they have remained vigilant since being warned centuries earlier by Adari Vaal , a Keshiri who first greeted the Sith and fled their rule during the reign of Yaru Korsin . Enormous ballistae shoot down the Sith airships , and Edell crashes onto the coast . He takes a pair of opponent Keshiri watchers , Quarra Thayn and Jogan Halder , prisoner . While Edell has his Sith lieutenants take Halder back to the Keshtar homeland , forcing Quarra to bring him into the Alanciar civilization . Edell admires the advanced architecture and engineering exhibited by these Keshiri , advancements made necessary by their long - held fear of Sith invasion from afar . Edell is shocked to see a Sith invasion force , impulsively launched from Keshtar before his scouting expedition could return , attempting conquest of Alanciar . Its leader , the Sith Lord Bentado , seeks to betray his tribe and destroy any remaining airships so he can rule the new land unchallenged . Quarra and Edell work together and succeed in defeating Lord Bentado . Hilts , now Grand Lord of the Lost Tribe of Sith , arrives as a benevolent contrast to Bentado ' s force , bringing with him Jogan , who sings the praises of the distant Sith , alleviating the concerns of the Alanciar . Hilts , a far more pragmatic and even - minded ruler than the Grand Lords past , sees the unification of Kesh as the key to the continued survival of the Lost Tribe , even welcoming Keshiri blood into their ranks to ensure their future . A new era begins in Kesh .