Candra Kitai

Candra Kitai was a female Human Force-sensitive born into the Lost Tribe of Sith on Kesh. She was the mother of Orielle, who had became a prominent Sith Saber by 3960 BBY. Candra and her family owned an estate at Starfall, which was situated to the south of the Sith capital of Tahv. Following the ascension of Grand Lord Lillia Venn, Candra became a High Lord, earning her a seat on the Tribe's ruling Circle of Lords. However, Candra remained a political independent and did not align herself with the other two major factions: the Red Faction and the Gold Faction led by fellow High Lords Dernas and Pallima respectively. As a result of her position, Candra became the second-most important person in the Sith Tribe since she was able as the "tiebreaker" to select Lillia's successor in the event that the elderly Grand Lord died.

Unwilling to cede power to her rivals, Lillia came to regard "tiebreaker" Candra along with Dernas and Pallima as a threat to her rule. In 3960 BBY, Lillia conspired against Candra by using the Kitai family's sponsored uvak wrangler Campion Dey to stage an assassination attempt on the Grand Lord herself during the rake-riding games on Donellan's Day. As planned, Campion Dey made an assassination attempt on Lillia and was killed after he had outlived his usefulness. Due to her sponsorship of Campion, Candra was tarred by association and was accused of conspiring to assassinate Lillia. Under much duress, she confessed to plotting with Dernas and Pallima, who also were executed, to assassinate the Grand Lord. As punishment, Candra and her entire family were enslaved and all of their personal belonging were destroyed in a public bonfire.

To add insult to injury, Candra was forced to shovel uvak manure at the zoo, a public enclosure in Tahv, in full public view. Lillia also took advantage of the crisis to appoint three of her own supporters, including the two Luzo brothers Flen and Sawj Luzo, to the Circle of Lords as High Lords. Meanwhile, Candra's daughter Orielle Kitai sought refuge with her friend Jelph Marrian, a slave and horticulturalist who owned a farm in the Marisota River. Orielle soon discovered that Jelph was actually a Jedi from the Galactic Republic who owned a hyperspace-capable starship, a "Kesh-shaking" discovery that Orielle hoped would restore her family fortunes. Orielle returned to Tahv and revealed her discovery to her mother Candra, who was despondent and at resigned herself to fate.

Still, she reluctantly told her daughter to contact the architect Gadin Badolfa, who was a close associate of the four other High Lords from the Red and Gold factions. Orielle did as her mother instructed and later reunited and reconciled with Jelph, and the two returned to the farm to hide his secret. However, Candra did not believe her own daughter's story and instead alerted Grand Lord Lillia to her daughter's meeting in exchange for "improved working conditions." Ultimately, none of the four High Lords arrived and Lillia was able to discover Jelph's ship. However, the Grand Lord and her entourage were destroyed in an explosive conflagration known as the "Night of the Upside-Down Meteor," which also destroyed all evidence of the starship and the farm. Following the "disappearance" of Lillia Venn, Kitai was appointed as the new Grand Lord. During her brief reign, her only notable achievement was the closure of the zoo, where she had been forced to work as a slave. Meanwhile, her daughter Orielle and her Jedi friend Jelph survived and started a new life in Keshtah Minor's jungle highlands.

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