Kesh

Kesh was a remote planet located in Wild Space. It was the homeworld of the Near-Human Keshiri species and an offworld immigrant community of Human Sith known as the Lost Tribe of Sith. Kesh was a terrestrial world with a wide range of different climates and environments including mountains, plains, forests, ocean, and tundra. It had at least three continents in its southern hemisphere: Keshtah, the dominion of the Sith Tribe, Alanciar, and Eshkrene, which was at the South Pole. Kesh was isolated from the rest of the galaxy due to a strange magnetic field that limited hyperspace travel and offworld signals communications.

The Keshiri remained isolated from the wider galaxy until two opposing groups of Jedi and Dark Jedi landed on the planet following the Hundred-Year Darkness. The conflict between these offworlders devastated much of Kesh and triggered the Great Cataclysm which separated the two continents of Keshtah and Alanciar. Eventually, the two rival Force-wielding factions made peace and exiled themselves to the southern polar continent of Eshkrene, where they became known as the Doomed, a Force-sensitive community that was dedicated to finding true neutrality in the Force. The former Dark Jedi also imprisoned their leader Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa within an oubliette, where he would remain for the next four millennia. The Great Calamity by later generations of Keshiri living on both continents as a "Great Battle" between the Protectors and Destructors.

In 5000 BBY, the Keshiri living on Keshtah Minor submitted to Sith rule after stranded Sith survivors from the Sith starship Omen convinced them that they were the Skyborn, gods in Keshiri religion. These Human Sith evolved into the Sith Tribe and became the dominant state in Kesh for the next five millennia. The Omen's captain, Yaru Korsin, became the first Grand Lord of the Tribe and was responsible for establishing its basic political and social institutions, which would shape and influence Keshiri society for the next five thousand years. In 3960 BBY, Keshtah Minor descended into a millennium of chaos and anarchy following the death of the reigning Grand Lord Lillia Venn during the Night of the Upside-Down Meteor. In 3000 BBY, the Caretaker Varner Hilts managed to reunite the Tribe after discovering maps which confirmed the existence of a second continent, Keshtah Major, which was known as Alanciar to its inhabitants, the Alanciari.

Under the leadership of Grand Lord Hilts, the Tribe annexed Alanciar in 2975 BBY, which was home to another Keshiri civilization, who called themselves the Alanciari. Using Alanciar's abundant resources and industrial base, the Sith were able to build a fleet of wooden sailing vessels which enabled them to explore and conquer the other landmasses and seas of Kesh particularly in the unexplored northern hemisphere. By 2974 BBY, the Sith discovered the southern polar continent of Eshkrene and the Doomed. That same year, the ancient Sith Lord Remulus Dreypa was also killed in an brief outbreak of violence. In 41 ABY, the Lost Tribe rediscovered interstellar travel when an ancient Sith Meditation Sphere known as Ship landed on the planet and allied itself with the Tribe. The Tribe then assembled a Sith armada and sought to expand into the galaxy. This put them into contact and conflict with both the New Jedi Order and a powerful entity known as Abeloth.

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