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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith
Part 4: Savior

The fourth part of a companion eBook series to the Fate of the Jedi novel line, Lost Tribe is available for download from several services:

• a simple pdf is avaliable at the official Star Wars site. 
• the Amazon Kindle version is avaliable at Amazon.
  
• the Sony eReader version is avaliable  at the Sony eBook Store.
• the Barnes & Noble Nook version is avaliable at Barnes & Noble.
  

It includes a preview of Christie Golden's novel. Fate of the Jedi: Allies.

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As with all my "production notes," consider a Spoiler Warning attached. Please read the story first.

“Savior” brings all the elements of the first three stories to fruition – in sequences from the points of view of the three main characters from those episodes. Knitting together the various plots and double-dealing was fun, but also challenging, since all the Lost Tribe stories share the same length -- around 8,000 words. It’s not a format built for extended action sequences in the way that a novel is – especially not when there’s so much else going on!

Adari Vaal’s regret over her role in bringing the Sith among the Keshiri was introduced at the end of the second story, and, as we see here, she’s been busy. The importance of the uvak in extending Sith control over the huge population was never lost on her, and we see here how she worked them into her plot.

Nida's prominence catches Seelah by surprise, but it shouldn't surprise the careful reader. Yaru's first thought in the Ragnos Lakes episode is not of his people, but of his daughter, his secret safety-net; he sends none other than his top lieutenant to save her.

The elimination of the dead Grand Lord’s spouse was an element created by the Fate of the Jedi authors, and it worked in well here with the final fate of Seelah.

TRIVIA

• There really aren’t beasts of burden on Kesh (that we’ve seen, anyway), so we see Orlenda being carried by Keshiri bearers. 
  
  
• “Purgatory,” referred to in the final Adari sequence, is the title of the next chapter.
  
  
• We learn a bit more about Kesh’s geography in this story; there’s probably an interesting map to be made, combining everything that’s known about it from all sources.