Kesh
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Breathable[1] |
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Mountainous[1] |
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At least one ocean[2] |
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Kesh was a remote planet located in the Outer Rim Territories. It was the homeworld of the Near-Human Keshiri species. The planet was mountainous and covered mostly in sand, with at least one major ocean.
In 5,000 BBY a Sith starship, the Omen, crashed onto the planet, and the stranded survivors formed the Lost Tribe of Sith. The Keshiri believed that the Sith were their gods, the Skyborn, and gave themselves over to lives of service to the Tribe.
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[edit] Description
Kesh was a remote planet located in the Outer Rim Territories. It was a mountainous planet, holding at least one major range, the Takara Mountains—originally called the Cetajan Mountains. This range of mountains bordered a large ocean. The ocean lay next to a beach of lavander colored sand.[1]
Kesh consisted mostly of small settlements, but contained at least one large city called Tahv. To the west of Tahv lay the Takara Mountains, where the Omen crashed.[2]
[edit] History
In 5,000 BBY, during the Great Hyperspace War, Omen, a Sith starship carrying Lignan crystals crashed on this mountainous planet. Though it was not technologically advanced, the survivors of the crash established a community known as the Lost Tribe of Sith, and over millennia they grew into an order of substantial number.[3]
In 41.5 ABY, the inhabitants of Kesh regained space travel for the first time in over five thousand years. They spent the next two years capturing ships and creating a Sith armada.[1]
[edit] Inhabitants
The Keshiri, a purple-skinned Near-Human species, were native to the planet.
[edit] Locations
[edit] Takara Mountains
Main article: [edit] Sith Temple
[edit] Tahv
[edit] Behind the scenes
The planet of Kesh first appeared in the eBook Lost Tribe of the Sith: Precipice. However, it remained unnamed until its appearance in Omen, the second novel in the nine-part Fate of the Jedi series.
"Kesh" was the name of a nomadic tribe of Martians in the novels of Leigh Brackett.
[edit] Appearances
- Lost Tribe of the Sith: Precipice (First appearance)
- Lost Tribe of the Sith: Skyborn
- Imprint
- Omen (First identified as Kesh)
- Abyss (Mentioned only)
- Backlash (Mentioned only)
