Kesh Sith Temple This Sith Temple was the Temple of the Lost Tribe of Sith on the planet Kesh . It was a multi - level complex that was situated on the summit of a mountain in the Takara Mountains . The Sith Temple also had several observation towers and several staircases . The Sith Temple also had a large quadrangle courtyard which was lined by a colonnade and flanked by several buildings including the watchtower , guardhouse , royal palace , and the temple dome . In addition , the temple had statues of several Sith on its balcony . The Temple was first built in 5000 BBY by a group of stranded Human Sith whom later became known as the Lost Tribe of Sith . After the survivors of the crash made contact with the planet ' s native sentient species , the Keshiri , they convinced them that they were their gods , the Skyborn , who had returned to them . The Keshiri then helped the Sith to build a Temple over the crash - site of the " Omen " , the Sith starship which had brought the Tribe to Kesh . In 4985 BBY , the Sith Temple became the site of the Red Sith Purge , where all of the Red Sith were purged from the Tribe . In 4975 BBY , the Sith Temple became a battleground which pitted the Grand Lord Yaru Korsin against his estranged wife Seelah Korsin and her son Jariad Korsin . In addition , members of the Keshiri resistance also stole the temple ' s uvak , reptilian beasts of burden , during a failed anti - Sith uprising . These two rebellions were crushed by Korsin ' s daughter Nida Korsin , who succeeded him as Grand Lord following his death . One of her first as Grand Lord was to seal the Temple and to move the Tribe to Tahv , the main settlement on the continent of Keshtah Minor . In 3000 BBY , the Sith mathematician and engineer Edell Vrai attempted to destroy the " Omen " by collapsing the temple ' s main spire on its protective chamber . However , he was stopped by the Caretaker Varner Hilts who had discovered a secret map room in the temple which confirmed the existence of a second continent on Kesh known as Alanciar . Hilts was able to use this discovery to reunite the Tribe and end the Time of the Rot , a millennium of chaos . Later , the Sith Temple was the site of the wedding of the new Grand Lord Hilts and his Grand Consort Iliana Merko . In 41 ABY , Ship , a Sith Meditation Sphere , landed in the courtyard . The Tribe ' s Circle of Lords quickly went to their meeting place in the city of Tahv to discuss the importance of Ship . Design and layout . The Kesh Sith Temple was situated on top of a mountain at the northern tip of the Takara Mountains , which straddled a long peninsula that ran parallel to the mainland of Keshtah Minor . Its lower terrace was home to the temple ' s service personnel and the uvak stables . A series of steps led to the middle terrace which housed a training academy , dormitories , storehouses , wardroom and a medcenter . A second series of stairs led to an outdoor colonnade where the Tribe ' s founder and first Grand Lord Yaru Korsin had held his public court . The Temple also had a large quadrangle plaza which was formed by the royal residence to the west , a giant watchtower watchtower and guardhouse to the east , and the Temple ' s dome to the north . Part of the upper plaza was also built on top of a large chamber which held the " Omen " , the ancient Sith dreadnaught which had brought the Tribe ' s ancestors to Kesh . A narrow path , which had been carved through the mountain , led to the mountainside temple . In 4975 BBY , the second Grand Lord Nida Korsin barricaded the mountain pass with The Blocks , a series of massive granite barriers , to prevent anyone from accessing the temple . Each of these cubes were ten meters tall and gave the impression of a staircase for the gods , which was intended to highlight the Tribe ' s purportedly divine origins . By 3000 BBY , these blocks had become overgrown with strong vines . Due to its remote location , uvak , winged reptilian beasts of burden native to Kesh , were regular forms of transportation that were used to access the temple . The temple also bordered a cliff which was the site of several deaths including those of Devore Korsin in 5000 BBY ; several Red Sith during the Red Sith Purge ; and Jariad Korsin following a failed coup against his father Yaru . The mountainside temple also had a cupola which offered a clear view of the main quadrangle . Behind this cupola lay an anteroom which led to a planetarium , whose walls were studded with Lignan crystal s to depict a map of Kesh ' s stars during the summer season . This planetarium was a smaller rotunda which contained the Grand Lord ' s throne , his former command chair from the " Omen " , and a brazier which was used for lighting up the planetarium . This planetarium was intended to misled any visitors into the Temple into thinking that Yaru Korsin had always aspired to return to the stars . The chamber containing the " Omen " was leveled ground which had been shored up with stonework . An open passage at the twenty - third step on the middle terrace ' s staircase led to the main temple building . A sealed door was located adjacent to the seventh step of the middle terrace which led to another chamber which had been built into the base of the " Omen ' s " support structure . This chamber was a map room which contained a stone - carved map of Keshtah Minor and six stone panels which depicted the Endless Sea and the continent of Alanciar . Until 3000 BBY , these six panels were covered by large blank slates . These maps were studded with Lignan crystals that were used to depict cities on Alanciar . The map room ' s walls were also inscribed with a message by Yaru Korsin to his daughter Nida detailing his secret : Alanciar . These writings were in the Tapani language and had been etched onto the wall with a diamond stylus . History . Origins . The Kesh Sith Temple was built shortly after the native Keshiri on the continent of Keshtah Minor accepted the Lost Tribe of Sith as their gods , the Skyborn . The temple first originated as a series of structures in 5000 BBY which were erected to stabilize the Sith dreadnaught " Omen " , which had crash - landed on a mountain slope . To add stability , the ground around it was shored up with stonework . A path was also hewed out of large chunks of strata by a combined force of Sith miners , who used their lightsabers , and several Keshiri helpers . Under the leadership of the Omen ' s captain Yaru Korsin , this site became the abode of the predominantly Human Sith offworlders which also included fifty - seven Red Sith and one Houk . While the Sith had intended to return to the stars , a lack of metal minerals and spare - parts had prevented them from attaining this goal . By 4985 BBY , the Sith Temple housed several hundred Sith and their Keshiri servants , many of whom had come from the Neshtovar , the former priestly elite which had ruled Keshtah until the Tribe ' s arrival . To cater for this community , several buildings were erected within the temple complex including the royal residence , watch tower , guardhouse , the Temple ' s dome , a medcenter , a wardroom , and a creche . These facilities ringed a massive quadrangle courtyard . The mountainside temple also had at least one improvised refresher station at the royal residence which was frequented by Seelah Korsin , the wife of the ship captain Yaru Korsin . This shower unit was connected to a marble slot that was situated high on the wall of the royal residence which channeled warm water downwards . This water was transported by Keshiri uvak - fliers in massive kegs and was regularly heated by Keshiri attendants to cleanse it of mildew and other pollutants . Adobe of the Sith . While the Sith offworlders lived in luxury and had their every needs tended to by their loyal Keshiri servants , tensions eventually developed between the Human and Red Sith . The Human Sith were descended from Tapani space travelers from House Nidantha who had traveled into the Stygian Caldera and had been enslaved by the Sith Empire . Due to their experiences as slaves , many of the Human Sith particularly Seelah bore ill will towards the Red Sith . Seelah used her position in the creche to secretly murder all of the Red Sith newborns . By 4985 BBY , the failure of his people to reproduce had led the Red Sith leader Ravilan Wroth to lobby for the Tribe to return to the stars . He also secretly poisoned the Keshiri city of Tetsubal with cyanogen silicate , in an attempt to scare the Tribe ' s leadership into supporting his plans . However , his plot backfired when Seelah discovered his plans and used her own stocks of cyanogen silicate to poison several other Keshiri cities in the Ragnos Lakes region , leading to the deaths of thousands . Seelah succeeded in framing the entire Red Sith community for these crimes , which resulted in the Red Sith Purge . During the fighting , the heads of the deceased Red Sith were staked onto the colonnade in the main courtyard . The remaining Red Sith were thrown down a cliff on the edge of the Sith Temple . The only surviving non - Human was the Houk Gloyd , who was a close friend of Yaru Korsin . Ravilan and Seelah ' s actions sowed the seeds for the emergence of an underground Keshiri resistance movement that was dedicated to overthrowing and expelling the Tribe from Keshtah . This resistance movement was led by Adari Vaal , a geologist who had made first contact with the Tribe and had developed a friendship with Yaru Korsin . She turned against her former benefactors after her eldest son Finn Vaal was killed during a construction accident and Korsin was unable to revive him , confirming her suspicions that they were not gods . Prior to her first meeting with the Sith offworlders , she also witnessed Yaru murder his half - brother Devore Korsin , who was the first husband of Seelah Korsin . Seelah later learnt that Yaru was behind her first husband ' s death and vowed to avenge him . She also groomed her eldest son Jariad Korsin as his successor to lead the Tribe . In 4975 BBY , the self - appointed Grand Lord Yaru Korsin announced that the Tribe would relocate from the Sith Temple to Tahv , the main settlement on Keshtah . By this stage , the Lost Tribe had given up any hope of returning to the stars due to Kesh ' s remote location and the lack of spare - parts to repair the " Omen " . As part of the Tribe ' s relocation to Tahv , a skeleton team of Sith and Keshiri wrapped up affairs on the mountain . Unknown to the rest of his people , Korsin had managed to retrieve data from one of the " Omen ' s " cameras which depicted a gigantic sea and an unknown continent dubbed " Keshtah Major " . Korsin and his Keshiri servants managed to replicate this data onto a large wall map which was kept inside a secret map room at the base of the " Omen ' s " support structure . Yaru only revealed this information to his younger daughter Nida Korsin , whom he trusted with keeping this secret to provide a cause to reunite the Tribe in the event of a disaster . That same year , Seelah and Jariad launched their coup against Grand Lord Korsin . This coincided with Adari Vaal ' s planned uprising against the Tribe , which involved the Keshiri rebels stealing the Tribe ' s uvak . However , the two rebel factions were defeated by Korsin ' s daughter Nida Korsin . First , Nida sabotaged the Keshiri rebels ' plans with the help of Adari ' s younger son Tona Vaal by safeguarding Kesh ' s uvak herd . The defeated Keshiri rebels then fled into exile and the survivors led by Adari eventually landed on Alanciar . Secondly , Nida and her Skyborn Rangers attacked Seelah and Jariad ' s rebels , killing Jariad . Seelah was also crippled during the fighting when her legs were crushed by falling debris caused by Yaru ' s ally Gloyd detonating his proton torpedo during a final stand against Seelah ' s aides . As punishment for her rebellion , Seelah was permanently exiled to the Temple till her death . Isolation . Following Yaru ' s final testament , Grand Lord Nida Korsin ordered that all Sith remove themselves from the mountainside temple to honor the memory of the Tribe ' s founder . While she lived , no Sith or Keshiri were permitted to return to the temple . Under her orders , several massive barriers known as the Blocks were used to block the narrow pass leading to the temple . Until Seelah ' s death , regular uvak flights delivered food to the crippled Seelah , who died within her old sick ward . For the next two millennia , the Kesh Sith Temple was designated as a forbidden place within the Tribe . The former Sith Temple was protected from intruders by regular aerial sentries of uvak - riders . Over the successive centuries , the descendants of the Tribe forgot how the " Omen " work and any study of the ancient Sith starship was limited to scholars who no longer had access to the vessel . Nida ' s ban was upheld by successive generations of Grand Lords including Lillia Venn , who ascended to the Grand Lordship in 3961 BBY . While the Keshiri had helped built the temple in the first place , they were forbidden to enter it because it their presence was seen as sacrilegious . In 3960 BBY , the assassination of Grand Lord Venn during the Night of the Upside - Down Meteor triggered a millennium of chaos and anarchy known as the Time of the Rot . This was remembered by later generations as a " dark age " in Keshtah ' s history and saw Kesh ' s cities fall into ruins . By 3000 BBY , the Lost Tribe of the Sith had splintered into twenty factions including the Golden Destiny , which argued that the Tribe needed to stop fighting , reopen the Sith Temple , and return to the stars . They were opposed by the Korsinite League , who argued that the Tribe should adhere to the political structure outlined in Korsin ' s testament . Due to Seelah ' s efforts to distort the Tribe ' s history and a loss of knowledge due to the passage of time , many of the Sith came to believe that their ancestors were descended from a race of powerful people and gods who were destined to reign over the native Keshiri . These popular myths were shattered by revelations during that year ' s Pantheon ' s Peace that the Tribe ' s ancestors had actually been slaves to the Sith Lord Naga Sadow . These revelations about the Tribe ' s " inglorious past " triggered the Great Crisis , which led to the deaths of many Sith and the razing of Keshtah ' s cities . After recalling that Korsin ' s testament had mentioned that the " true power was behind the throne " and that the Tribe should remember that in the event of a disaster , the Tribe ' s Caretaker and historian Varner Hilts and his Keshiri aide Jaye Vuhld decided to unseal the temple and explore the " Omen " to find this secret , which they hoped would be able to save the Tribe from its self - inflicted spiral of destruction . After several days of traveling through the difficult Takara Mountains , Hilts and Jaye finally reached the mountainside temple . They also had to climb over a series of granite barriers which had been placed there under the orders of Nida Korsin . Meanwhile , Iliana Merko fled on an uvak to the temple from the other Sith factions . Several Sith leaders including Korsin Bentado , Neera , and Edell Vrai followed her there intent of settling scores against the faction leader for the numerous injuries and disfigurements she had inflicted on them . Restoration . The Kesh Sith Temple would help reinvigorate the Lost Tribe of Sith after a millennium of chaos and infighting . Upon arriving inside the temple complex , Varner Hilts and Jaye Vuhld encountered Iliana Merko , who had just discovered the remains of her fallen idol Seelah Korsin , and convinced her to join their quest to find Yaru Korsin ' s " secrets behind the throne . " They then entered the chamber containing the " Omen " but found that Korsin ' s command chair , the Grand Lord ' s throne , had been removed from the vessel ' s bridge . However , Hilts and Jaye found that the ship ' s chrono still worked : the technology which had been the prototype for the Tribe ' s Sandpipe s , a device used for keeping time . Hilts ' party also noted the presence of several newcomers including Korsin Bentado , Edell Vrai and Neeera . Believing that the Tribe was truly doomed , these other Sith wanted to destroy the " Omen " in order to purge the last remaining relic of the Tribe ' s " inglorious " history . While these Sith had been bitter rivals prior to the Great Crisis , they were still willing to work together on something they could agree upon . Due to his expertise in mathematics and engineering , Edell was made the chief project officer of this demolition project which included thirty Sith warriors from various factions and several uvak , winged reptilian beasts of burden . The Sith participants came from various factions including the Golden Destiny , the Korsinite League , Force 57 and the Sisters of Seelah . For this demolition project , Edell planned to topple the temple ' s giant watchtower onto the chamber containing the Omen , crushing the ship . Edell got the Sith warriors to loop long leather cables around the supports of the watchtower . Several teams of Sith on the ground and uvaks in the air then worked simultaneously to lower the building . While the chamber below was well constructed , Hilts noted that the resulting impact would cause the chamber to crack like an " uvak egg " under a hammer . While the resulting impact of the tower may not have blown up the ship , it would have buried it completely . Meanwhile , Jaye managed to find a latch which led into the temple ' s planetarium . This chamber contained Korsin ' s command chair and a brazier . However , they quickly discovered that the dome only depicted Kesh ' s stars in the summer sky . These stars were Lignan crystals which had been etched into the ceiling . However , Hilts found an ancient Tapani cant within the upholstery of the seat , which turned out to be a letter from Yaru Korsin ' s mother Takara Korsin to her son . The elder Korsin predicted that their descendants would one day rule a " great people " free from the Red Sith . She also prophesied that if Yaru guided his people well , they would always have a mission . However , Hilts realized that this was not Yaru ' s secret since he had mentioned that the " true power was behind the throne " and not inside the throne . Based on their knowledge of the Tribe ' s history , Hilts ' party reasoned that Korsin could not have made his final recording within the temple ' s planetarium since he would have been unable to climb the stairs with a gaping chest wound which led to his death . Jaye then recalled that there had been a chamber beneath the " Omen ' s " support structure . He reasoned that the starship had landed on a slope and also recalled that they had earlier passed a sealed door on the seventh step of the middle terrace . Jaye ' s theory was ultimately vindicated and Hilts ' party discovered a map room . Most of the room was covered by black slates . While searching for glowrods , Jaye was murdered by Korsin Bentado but not before alerting the other Sith to the presence of Hilts ' party and the room . While the Sith were intent on killing Iliana , Hilts managed to defuse the situation by using the Force to yank the black slates off the walls ; revealing a large map which confirmed the existence of a second continent on Kesh known as " Keshtah Major " , or Alanciar to the native Alanciari . After reading Takara ' s letter and a message on the wall from Yaru to his daughter Nida , Hilts succeeded in convincing the other faction leaders to end their conflict and to work towards this new goal of reaching and conquering Keshtah Major . The other Sith quickly submitted to Varner Hilts and elected him as their new Grand Lord . Hilts then asked Iliana Merko to be his wife in order to forge a marriage alliance and to protect her from Bentado and his companions , who were still vengeful towards her . Edell and the other Sith also abandoned their plan to destroy the " Omen " and traveled throughout the mainland to spread news of Hilts ' ascendancy to the Grand Lordship and the discovery of Keshtah Major . Varner Hilts and Iliana Merko also married at the Temple ' s colonnade . The wedding was also attended by large numbers of both Sith and Keshiri who welcomed Hilts ' ascendancy as an end to the Time of the Rot . To honor Jaye ' s contribution to saving the Tribe , Hilts planned to allow Keshiri to join the Tribe itself , which had previously been a purely Human institution . Return to the Stars . The Kesh Sith Temple was also the site of the Tribe ' s emergence and return to the wider galaxy . By 41 ABY , the Sith Temple had become an important center for Sith training . The Sith apprentice Vestara Khai commenced her training as a Sith at the temple under the tutelage of Sith Lady Olaris Rhea . That same year , Ship , a Sith Meditation Sphere , landed in the courtyard of the Sith Temple . The Tribe ' s Circle of Lords quickly went to their meeting place in the capital Tahv to discuss the importance of Ship , whom they regarded as a discover of " Kesh - shaking " importance . The Sith Tribe then decided to use Ship in the rebuilding of a brand new Sith armada to serve the Tribe in an invasion of the galaxy . Ship carried a Sith party , which included Vestara Khai , that ambushed a Damorian s18 light freighter and salvaged its parts for repairs . They also ambushed a freighter , slaughtered the crew , and brought the vessel ' s parts back to Kesh . The Tribe continued its attacks on various vessels , leaving none of their victims alive , until the Omen was successfully repaired , at which point they turned their efforts toward the capture of intact ships . The Sith also built a spaceport for their fleet at Tahv , and by 43 . 5 ABY , the armada numbered greater than two dozen vessels . After sensing the presence of exiled Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker through the force , a strike team was put together to hunt down and kill Skywalker . It was also at this time that Ship left Kesh . In response , the Circle of Lords decided to track down and recapture Ship and put aside their plans to hunt Skywalker . This brought the Lost Tribe into contact with both the Force entity known as Abeloth and the Jedi Master Skywalker and his son Ben Skywalker . Eventually , the Lost Tribe formed an alliance with the Skywalkers to stop Abeloth , who was responsible for causing a Force psychosis that was plaguing Jedi in the Galactic Alliance , one of the successor states to the former Galactic Republic which came to an end following the Clone Wars .