- Date
- 2975 BBY
- Continuity
- Legends
- Location
- Vaal Hall · Sus'mintri
- Key participants
- Korsin Bentado · Edell Vrai · Squab · Quarra Thayn
Korsin Bentado did not simply attempt to defeat the Alanciari. After killing the War Cabinet, he moved against his own political ruler, Grand Lord Varner Hilts. Bentado envisioned an independent Second Tribe on Alanciar, separate from the Sith establishment on Keshtah Minor. His plan involved using captured Alanciari defensive weapons against Hilts' approaching airship. The coup ended when his own aide Squab, secretly loyal to Hilts, killed him.
Sequence of events
- 01
Bentado plans to attack Hilts' arriving flagship.
- 02
Vrai and Quarra resist the plan inside Vaal Hall.
- 03
Squab kills Bentado and Vrai takes command of his survivors.
A conquest becomes a rival state project
Bentado belonged to the same Lost Tribe as Hilts and Vrai, yet his immediate ambition was to become the ruler of a separate Sith sphere. The surviving invasion force had seized a strategic communication site at Vaal Hall. Bentado intended to turn that position into the foundation for political independence.
This is why the conflict cannot be divided neatly into Sith attackers and Alanciari defenders. The external threat contained rival factions with competing plans for the same territory. A local defensive weapon could be appropriated for a Sith-on-Sith struggle.
Vrai and Quarra oppose Bentado
Edell Vrai reached Vaal Hall with Quarra Thayn and confronted the consequences of Bentado's assault. Quarra objected to the murder of her government; Vrai remained loyal to Hilts. Their reasons were not identical, but they converged on stopping Bentado from using the complex to consolidate his coup.
The alliance was situational rather than a declaration of mutual trust. Quarra was still in the shadow of coercive contact with the Sith, and Vrai was protecting one version of Sith rule rather than restoring Alanciari independence.
Squab's hidden loyalty decides the crisis
Squab was a Keshiri aide assigned to Bentado in earlier years. His apparent subordination concealed loyalty to the Grand Lord's interests. During the confrontation, he struck down Bentado, bringing an end to the Second Tribe project. Vrai then compelled the surviving Korsinites to yield control of Vaal Hall and its communications installations.
The role of an aide is easy to miss in a heroic chronicle dominated by High Lords. Here a politically subordinate intermediary held decisive power because he was close to the conspirator and could act at the necessary moment.
The regime survives, but Alanciar does not regain autonomy
Bentado's death prevented the establishment of a rival Sith government. It did not erase the massacre or return control to Alanciar's War Cabinet. Instead, it left Hilts and Vrai in a stronger position to announce a new relationship between the continents.
Later Sith messaging painted Bentado as a uniquely evil outsider to the supposed benevolent purpose of Hilts' faction. That distinction was an instrument of rule, not a reason to treat the wider Lost Tribe as uninvolved in the invasion.
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Questions from the archive
What was the Second Tribe?
Bentado's proposed independent Sith polity on Alanciar.
Who killed Bentado?
His Keshiri aide Squab, who was loyal to Hilts.
Did Quarra become loyal to Hilts by opposing Bentado?
No. Opposing a murderer and preventing a coup did not amount to freely endorsing Sith rule.
Legends · Original narrative provenance
Source comparison: what is established?
Bentado's invasion should not be conflated with Hilts's later diplomacy. The story distinguishes a competing Sith faction from the Lost Tribe's recognized central government. The Ebon Fleet and the scouting expedition were also separate operations.
Primary story and publication chronology
John Jackson Miller’s Lost Tribe of the Sith: Pandemonium is collected in Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories. The publication year of the novel or comics is not the fictional BBY event year. Images showing a comic cover are contextual source art, not guaranteed illustrations of the precise event.
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Anthropological assessment
Political intermediaries can overturn hierarchies when information and proximity matter more than status. Squab's actions reveal how personal dependency, concealed allegiance, and factional competition operated inside the Lost Tribe. The resolution saved Hilts' regime but not Alanciari self-rule.
Primary source and verification
- John Jackson Miller, Lost Tribe of the Sith: Pandemonium, in Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories (Del Rey, 2012).
- Korsinite League — Wookieepedia (Legends)
- Korsin Bentado — Wookieepedia (Legends)