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ALL TIMELINES

LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH

1. PRECIPICE
    *** Dec/09
2. SKYBORN
    *** Dec/09
3. PARAGON
    *** Apr/10
4. SAVIOR
    ***+ Aug/10
5. PURGATORY
    **** Dec/10
6. SENTINEL
    ***+ Jun/11
7. PANTHEON
    ***+ Dec/11
8. SECRETS
    *** Jun/12

PREQUEL ERA


BEFORE STAR WARS
-5000 YEARS
TALES OF THE JEDI
 1. GOLDEN AGE OF THE SITH
 2. FALL OF THE SITH EMPIRE
LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH
 1. PRECIPICE
 2. SKYBORN
 3. PARAGON
 4. SAVIOR

-4000 YEARS
TALES OF THE JEDI
 3. KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC
LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH
 5. PURGATORY
 6. SENTINEL

-3998 YEARS
TALES OF THE JEDI
 4. FREEDON NADD UPRISING
 5. DARK LORDS OF THE SITH
 6. THE SITH WAR

-3986 YEARS
TALES OF THE JEDI
 7. REDEMPTION

-3840 YEARS
THE OLD REPUBLIC
 1. REVAN

-3520 YEARS
KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC
 2. DECEIVED
 3. FATAL ALLIANCE
 4. ANNIHILATION
PLAGUE
 RED HARVEST


-3000 YEARS
LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH
 7. PANTHEON
 8. SECRETS

-1032 YEARS
KERRA HOLT
 1. KNIGHT ERRANT

-1000 YEARS
DARTH BANE
 1. PATH OF DESTRUCTION
    JEDI VS. SITH
 2. RULE OF TWO
 3. DYNASTY OF EVIL

-67 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
 VOW OF JUSTICE

-44 YEARS
JEDI APPRENTICE
 1. THE RISING FORCE
 2. THE DARK RIVAL
 3. THE HIDDEN PAST
 4. MARK OF THE CROWN
 5. DEFENDERS OF THE DEAD
 6. THE UNCERTAIN PATH
 7. THE CAPTIVE TEMPLE
 8. THE DAY OF RECKONING

-43 YEARS
JEDI APPRENTICE
 9. THE FIGHT FOR TRUTH
 10. THE SHATTERED PEACE
 11. THE DEADLY HUNTER
 12. THE EVIL EXPERIMENT
 13. DANGEROUS RESCUE

-42 YEARS
JEDI APPRENTICE
 SE1 DECEPTIONS
 14. THE TIES THAT BIND
 15. THE DEATH OF HOPE
 16. CALL TO VENGEANCE
 17. THE ONLY WITNESS
 18. THE THREAT WITHIN
 SE2 THE FOLLOWERS

-34 YEARS
JEDI COUNCIL
 ACTS OF WAR

-33 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
 PRELUDE TO REBELLION
DARTH MAUL
 SABOTEUR
PRE-EPISODE I NOVEL
 CLOAK OF DECEPTION
DARTH MAUL
 COMICS
 SHADOW HUNTER

-32 YEARS
EPISODE I
 THE PHANTOM MENACE
EARLY REPUBLIC
 OUTLANDER
 EMISSARIES TO MALASTARE
JANGO FETT
 OPEN SEASONS

-31 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
 TWILIGHT
 INFINITY'S END
BOUNTY HUNTERS
 AURRA SING

-30 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
 STARCRASH
 HUNT FOR AURRA SING
 DARKNESS
 STARK HYPERSPACE WAR
 THE DEVARONIAN VERSION

-29 YEARS
EPISODE I BRIDGE
 ROGUE PLANET

-28 YEARS
EARLY REPUBLIC
 RITE OF PASSAGE
JEDI QUEST
 0. THE PATH TO TRUTH

-27 YEARS
PREQUEL-ERA NOVEL
 OUTBOUND FLIGHT
JEDI QUEST
 1. WAY OF THE APPRENTICE
 2. TRAIL OF THE JEDI
 3. THE DANGEROUS GAMES
BOUNTY HUNTERS
 1. JANGO FETT
 2. ZAM WESELL

-26 YEARS
JEDI QUEST
 4. MASTER OF DISGUISE

-25 YEARS
JEDI QUEST
 5. SCHOOL OF FEAR
 6. THE SHADOW TRAP

-24 YEARS
JEDI QUEST
 7. THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
 8. CHANGING OF THE GUARD
EARLY REPUBLIC
 HONOR AND DUTY

-23 YEARS
JEDI QUEST
 9. THE FALSE PEACE
 10. THE FINAL SHOWDOWN
EPISODE I BRIDGE
 THE APPROACHING STORM

-22 YEARS
EPISODE II
 ATTACK OF THE CLONES
REPUBLIC COMMANDO
 1. HARD CONTACT
BOBA FETT
 1. THE FIGHT TO SURVIVE
 2. CROSSFIRE
 3. MAZE OF DECEPTION
REPUBLIC
 1. THE DEFENSE OF KAMINO
BOBA FETT
 4. HUNTED
REPUBLIC
 2. VICTORIES AND SACRIFICES

-21 YEARS
CLONE WARS
 SHORT STORY COLLECTION
 LEGACY OF THE JEDI
 1. SHATTERPOINT
 2. THE CESTUS DECEPTION
     THE HIVE
REPUBLIC COMMANDO
 2. TRIPLE ZERO
REPUBLIC
 3. LAST STAND ON JABIIM
 4. LIGHT AND DARK
 5. THE BEST BLADES

-20 YEARS
THE CLONE WARS
 1. THE CLONE WARS
 2. WILD SPACE
 3. NO PRISONERS
REPUBLIC COMMANDO
 3. TRUE COLORS
CLONE WARS
 SECRETS OF THE JEDI
MEDSTAR
 1. BATTLE SURGEONS
 2. JEDI HEALER
CLONE WARS
 3. JEDI TRIAL
REPUBLIC
 6. ON THE FIELDS OF BATTLE
CLONE WARS
 4. DARK RENDEZVOUS
REPUBLIC
 7. WHEN THEY WERE BROTHERS
 8. THE LAST SIEGE, THE FINAL TRUTH
BOBA FETT
 5. A NEW THREAT
 6. PURSUIT
EPISODE III BRIDGES
 GENERAL GRIEVOUS
 LABYRINTH OF EVIL

-19 YEARS
EPISODE III
 REVENGE OF THE SITH
REPUBLIC COMMANDO
 4. ORDER 66
DARK LORD
 THE RISE OF DARTH VADER
REPUBLIC
 9. ENDGAME
IMPERIAL COMMANDO
  501ST
THE LAST OF THE JEDI
 1. THE DESPERATE MISSION
 2. DARK WARNING
 3. UNDERWORLD
 4. DEATH ON NABOO
 5. A TANGLED WEB
 6. RETURN OF THE DARK SIDE
 7. SECRET WEAPON
 8. AGAINST THE EMPIRE
 9. MASTER OF DECEPTION
 10. RECKONING
ALL TIMELINES

SECRETS

An e-book novella by John Jackson Miller (2012, Del Rey)
Lost Tribe of the Sith, Book 8
Set 3000 years before Star Wars: A New Hope

The different Sith factions on Kesh search the ship Omen in a quest to get more information on their fate, only to discover Korsin's greatest secret.

 

 

Read on June 7th, 2012 on my Kobo Vox  
    Another way-too-short ebook, but a strong one, which continues with the character from the previous story. The speech that devastated the leaders in the previous story has made some of the power groups seek to destroy everything, but it is Korsin's secret -not a weapon- that will unite them finally.

Spoiler review:

Hilts returns, from Pantheon, along with his Keshiri assistant, scaling the mountain where the Omen, long dead, still sits. Once a mighty starship, then the center of a temple, it was abandoned as the Sith tried to spread out across the continent.

They are delighted to see that the sandpipes were indeed eight days off, according to the still-functioning chronometer aboard the Omen, something that was predicted in the previous book. They also come across Iliana, who either killed her uvak or rode the dying beast, sliced by lightsaber wounds, up to the mountain. This is the character who has changed the most since the last story. She is crying when they find her, holding the skull presumably belonging to Seelah, her idol, who was exiled to this place for the end of her life.

As they search the rooms where Korsin's seat of power resides or resided, they find some interesting things, but nothing like what Korsin referred to in his last message. The star map was apparently created using crystals that could make lightsabers function, and there is a message hidden inside the back of one of the seats of power. The message could be powerful in the right hands, but is hardly revolutionary.

Then they find the room where Korsin obviously spent most of his time thinking. I wonder if this room was hinted at in any of the previous stories. I'll have to re-read them as a group to find out.

The other Sith factions, meanwhile, either followed Iliana or banded together to do some more destruction. The ignorants who kept fighting each other, dwindling their already small numbers, decide that because of the revelation that they were not the dominant force in the galaxy, they must now erase all traces of the Sith on Kesh. The Keshiri, who are absent except for Hilts' assistant, would no doubt help them, except that I think the Sith are intent on killing all the Keshiri, as well.

They work outside the Omen to destroy a tower that would come crashing down on the ship, essentially destroying it, though I fail to see how that would totally erase it -surely some enterprising Keshiri or Sith (assuming any survived) could remove the tower and gain access to Omen again? But when the Keshiri assistant goes outside to find some glowsticks, he is discovered, and killed. The leaders of the remaining groups all gather in Korsin's thinking room, ready to kill Iliana and Hilts.

That is when Korsin's secret is revealed -he has had carved or painted maps of the entire world of Kesh, outlining every city or gathering of Keshiri, as recorded by Omen's sensors as it orbited the planet, about to crash. Nobody at that time, of course, was watching the world, all trying to avoid the crash. Was this hinted at, back in Precipice?

Without metal, they have not been inclined to make sailing ships that can cross Kesh's ocean, and the uvaks can't fly that far -but they know some might have, after the first rebellion against Korsin, back in Savior. I was wondering what the significance of Adari's flight there was, as we never see anything about her pack of survivors. Here, Hilts wonders if she survived, and if she spread word about the Sith among the other tribes, so that the Keshiri might be ready to oppose them.

That is irrelevant, however, as the idea that there is a whole planet out there to conquer unites the Sith into a larger cause, willing them to live and see their empire spread. They no longer want destruction of all that was Sith. They've already forgotten their reduced status in the galaxy, united in a cause!

And at the end of Pantheon, I wondered if Hilts would become the next High Lord... he is promoted immediately on seeing Korsin's secret, as the most wise and knowledgeable Sith. Then and there, he takes Iliana as his wife, thus offering him the best protection on the planet -by the law of the Sith, if Hilts dies, Iliana must also be put to death. On the other hand, I wonder why she's worried. She managed to elude death since Pantheon, even killing or maiming leaders of the other factions.

Although all of the Lost Tribe of the Sith books are very short, this one seemed the shortest, though I think it was about the same as the previous installment. It managed to do what it intended; I only wish it intended to do more.

 
   

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