Red Sith Purge

In 4985 BBY, Yaru Korsin, leader of the Lost Tribe of Sith on Kesh, launched a full-fledged purge of the forty-five pureblood Sith on the planet. Ravilan Wroth, the leader of the members of the Sith species in the Lost Tribe, had embarked on a plot to poison the water supply of the city of Tetsubal, in order to convince the Lost Tribe leaders to focus on finding a way off-planet—by then, the Sith had been stranded on the remote world for fifteen years. However, his ploy was discovered by Yaru Korsin's wife Seelah, who framed him for similar deadly incidents in other neighboring towns. Convinced that Wroth and the purebloods needed to be eliminated, Korsin enacted a purge that lasted through a single night, and though the purebloods fought back with everything they had, they lost more and more of their ranks throughout. Eventually, Wroth was taken prisoner as the last remaining purebloods fought back against Yaru Korsin and his lieutenants in a last stand high in the Takara Mountains. While the last holdouts were killed, Wroth was executed by Seelah Korsin's son Jariad, and the bodies of the dead were put on public display in the city of Tahv. With the purge, all of the non-Human members of the Lost Tribe of Sith—save for the Houk Gloyd, a personal friend of Yaru Korsin—had been wiped from the face of Kesh.

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