Squab (Keshiri)

Squab was a male Keshiri who suffered from a congenital defect that made him small and hunchbacked. He was slow to react and slow moving for his species. Squab originally served the family of the Human Varner Hilts, Grand Lord of the Lost Tribe of Sith, as a slave. Prior to 2975 BBY, Lord Hilts, at the advice of his wife Grand Consort Iliana Hilts, assigned Squab to work for his rival, High Lord Korsin Bentado, as an aide. By doing so, the Hilts rankled Bentado by forcing him to include a deformed Keshiri among his retinue of otherwise physically perfect Human staff. Nevertheless, Bentado made Squab a regular part of his entourage as an assistant.

During the invasion of Alanciar, the continent to the east of Keshtah on the planet Kesh, Squab accompanied Bentado on the Ebon Fleet, an invasion force of airships. However, the Alanciari, the Keshiri who were indigenous to that continent, downed the fleet at the Western Shield countryside. Squab and his Sith master Bentado were among the surviving Sith members of the Ebon Fleet. They then traveled to the Alanciari capital of Sus'mintri where the Sith forces infiltrated Vaal Hall, the headquarters of the Alanciari government, and wiped out the War Cabinet. Their actions effectively decapitated the Alanciari government and enabled the Sith to take over Alanciar's highly centralized defense force

However, Korsin Bentado then turned against his liege Varner Hilts and plotted to kill Hilts by ordering the Alanciari ballista to down his airship Good Omen when it reached Alanciar. He intended to create a "Second Tribe" on Alanciar with himself as leader. While Squab pretended to be loyal to Bentado, his true loyalties lay with Grand Lord Hilts. He used Vaal Hall's semaphore system to communicate with Hilts and warned his master about Bentado's plot. Bentado was also opposed by another High Lord, Edell Vrai, who had recruited an Alanciari guide named Quarra Thayn. While Vrai and Thayn sparred with Bentado and his bodyguards, Squab secretly countermanded Bentado's orders to destroy the Good Omen and allowed Hilts' airship to land safely in Port Melephos, a coastal port in Alanciar. In the end, Bentado was personally executed by Squab, who informed his master that Hilts had sent his "regards" to Bentado. Following the defeat of Bentado, Edell asserted control over Bentado's men and the signaling devices. Squab and Bentado's former Keshiri servants occupied the signal tower until they were relieved by Grand Lord Hilts' followers.

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