Occupation of the Kesh capitol building

In 3000 BBY, the Sisters of Seelah, a faction of the Lost Tribe of Sith, occupied the Kesh capitol building. Their leader Iliana Merko then attempted to force the Caretaker Varner Hilts to produce a fake "testament of the Tribe's founder Yaru Korsin that would favor his estranged wife Seelah Korsin and those that followed her teachings. However, this plan fell apart because the testament was read by an actual holocron recording of Yaru Korsin himself every Testament Day, which occurred every twenty-five years.

The Sisters' presence attracted the attention of two rival Sith groups: the Korsinite League, which revered Yaru Korsin and his daughter Nida Korsin, and Force 57, which emulated the 57 Red Sith crew members of the ancient Sith dreadnaught Omen. They attacked the Sisters of Seelah but the fighting was interrupted when Varner Hilts offered to do a reading of the Testament. When Korsin Bentado, the Korsinite leader, objected to this reading on the grounds that Testament Day was eight days away, the Keshiri mathematician Jaye Vuhld pointed out that Kesh's calendar was eight days behind the Galactic Standard Calendar. Thus, Hilts was legally obliged to convene the Pantheon's Peace and the Sith leaders assembled for the reading.

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