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.

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