When the Sith ship Omen crashed on the planet Kesh two thousand years ago, its crew encountered the savagery and superstition of the natives. A millennium of violence had left the Lost Tribe of the Sith in a similar state. While the teachings of the Sith are remembered, revered, and brutally practiced, the truth about the Lost Tribe's origins is virtually forgotten. Now, as the Dark Age threatens the existence of the Sith, their future rests in the hands of the most unlikely of saviors—Overseer Hilts, the official guardian of knowledge. Meek by Sith standards, the elderly Hilts hopes to use the wisdom of the ancients to unite his people once again. But the truth he reveals does not at all become the salvation of the Tribe. On the contrary: perhaps Hilts has unleashed forces that will destroy the Tribe—and himself.