| abstract | - Peppin was a Human female Sith of the Lost Tribe of Sith who served as the uvak-tender and pilot of the Candra during the High Lord Edell Vrai's mission to Alanciar in 2975 BBY. Peppin was known to have auburn hair and served as Edell's lieutenant. She along with Edell and four other expedition members survived an attack by the Alanciari military which destroyed the Candra and the other two scouting airships Lillia and Dann Itra. Peppin and the other survivors later managed to climb up a cliff and reach the Alanciari frontier fort of Point Defiance where they captured the Keshiri signal officer Jogan Halder and his lover Wardmaster Quarra Thayn. In addition, the Sith managed to acquire a copy of the Keshtah Chronicles, a popular history book written by the Keshiri exile Adari Vaal, which provided the Sith with intelligence on what the Alanciari knew about them. Later, the Sith expedition members managed to hijack the Alanciari harvester Mischance. All of the Keshiri crew fought to their deaths against the Sith. Peppin also tortured and interrogated one of the surviving crew but he died without revealing any information to his Sith captors. High Lord Edell subsequently managed to reestablish contact with Grand Lord Varner Hilts, who ordered the Sith expedition to bring back the captive Jogan Halder and the Mischance. Edell also managed to recruit Quarra as a guide for a ground reconnaissance mission into Alanciar's interior in return for sparing Halder's life. Unknown to Quarra, Peppin and the rest of the crew sailed back to Keshtah, the Tribe's domain, on the Mischance with Halder. Upon arriving, Peppin flew ahead on an uvak to the Sith capital of Tahv and presented the Keshtah Chronicles to Grand Lord Hilts. Due to the efforts of Peppin and the other members of Edell's expedition, Hilts was then able to use the Keshtah Chronicles to formulate his "grand deception" operation to conquer Alanciar. Using a false carnival and other deceptive means, Hilts was able to convince Jogan that the Sith were actually the benign Protectors, powerful gods in Keshiri religion. Jogan was also led to believe that the Keshiri in Keshtah were happy to live under the Sith and that the Sith had purged the "servants" of the Destructors, malevolent beings in Keshiri religion, from their community. Halder subsequently became the Tribe's ambassador to the Keshiri and successfully convinced the Alanciari to submit to Sith rule.
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