| abstract | - Parlan Spinner, also known as the "Death Spinner" and "The Blademaster," was a Force-sensitive Human male rebel who was a member of the Lost Tribe of Sith in 2974 BBY. The Lost Tribe were the descendants of stranded Human Sith who had settled on the planet Kesh in 5000 BBY. The child of slaves, Spinner was born in the city of Eorm during the Festival of Nida's Rise in 3000 BBY. He was a descendant of an ancient rebel Ermon Parrah who had been cast out from the Tribe and whose descendants had been forced to become lowly weavers and ropemakers. Due to his genealogy, Spinner endured the stigma of being an outcast and was denied any opportunity of social mobility. In his youth, Spinner rebelled against the Tribe's establishment and became an outlaw who perpetrated acts of vandalism and mischief against the state. He even rejected his first name "Parlan" and became known as "Death Spinner" among both his peers and the public. Spinner became the leader of a gang of outlaws known as "Spinner's Web" and a perennial foe of the local authorities. By 2974 BBY, his anarchic campaign culminated in an assassination attempt against the ruling Grand Lord Varner Hilts, a reformist Sith who had ended the Time of the Rot and instituted the Hilts Restoration. However, Hilt's daughter Takara Hilts—the Prefect of Police—learnt about his plot and engineered a sting operation which ended in Spinner's capture and imprisonment. While the youth faced capital punishment for his various crimes against the Tribe, Varner showed clemency towards Spinner and decided to give him a second chance as a mariner serving on the exploratory vessel Southern Star. The ship was assigned with exploring the frozen continent of Eshkrene in Kesh's South Pole. While Spinner and Takara were bitter opponents, their paths ultimately crossed again and the two Human found themselves on Eshkrene. Following a scuffle with the ship captain Chegg and his crew, the two Human Sith encountered the Doomed—the descendants of stranded Jedi and Dark Jedi warriors from the Hundred-Year Darkness who had made peace after their actions unleashed the Great Calamity that ravaged much of Kesh and inspired legends of the Skyborn and Destructors amongst the indigenous Keshiri. The Doomed and their S'kytri leader Kaliska took the intruders captive. During their time with the Doomed, Spinner and Takara would learn about the origins of the Doomed including their role in the Great Calamity and a "Great Weapon" that had been sealed for safekeeping. Seeing an opportunity to settle scores against the Tribe, Spinner and the Keshiri crew stole the "Great Weapon" and escaped aboard the Southern Star. However, Kaliska and Takara pursued them and attempted to stop Spinner from opening the oubliette containing the "Great Weapon." This weapon turned out to be the ancient Dark Jedi warlord Remulus Dreypa who had survived the Hundred-Year Darkness. Upon awakening, Spinner and the Keshiri pledged their allegiance to the powerful Dark Sider while Kaliska and Takara were taken captive. While Dreypa desired to return to the galaxy, he saw Spinner as a convenient ally and later promoted him to the position of Sith Lord. After killing the local Lost Tribe rulers at the port of Eorm, Dreypa and Spinner instigated a peasant uprising against the Lost Tribe. Despite initial successes on the Marisota Floodplain, Dreypa's forces suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat by the Tribe's elite Skyborn Rangers. Dreypa had also intended to keep Takara as insurance in negotiations but the Sith princess had escaped with Kaliska back to Eshkrene with a large flight of uvaks, winged reptilian steeds indigenous to Kesh. There, the Doomed rallied to stop Dreypa's megalomaniac ambitions. Dreypa's forces retreated to the volcanic crater of Sessal Spire where the Dark Jedi unleashed his pet Leviathans, monstrous serpentine Sithspawn who fed on the life energies of sentient beings. The Leviathans quickly wiped out much of the rebel and Lost Tribe forces. No longer needing minions to carry out his bidding, Dreypa turned on his former ally Spinner. However, Spinner then joined forces with his adversary Takara to save her mother Grand Consort Iliana Hilts from being devoured by a Leviathan. Spinner himself slew the beast. Meanwhile, the Doomed arrived at Sessal Spire and fought with Dreypa's Sithspawn but proved no match for the Leviathans and many perished. Amid the fighting, Spinner managed to escaped the battlefield with Takara, Iliana, and the Doomed leader Kaliska. Spinner quickly learnt from Kaliska that the ancient forebears of the Doomed had concealed a Jedi starship beneath the Circle Eternal in the Lost Tribe's capital of Kesh. Fearing the threat posed by Dreypa's megalomania, Kaliska urged the two Sith to destroy the vessel before Dreypa could take it for himself. After winning Takara's trust, Spinner also agreed to help ferry her debilitated mother Iliana back to Tahv. Spinner managed to escaped the scene with Iliana on an uvak before Dreypa's Leviathans caught up with them. Kaliska was slain by one of the Sithspawn and through her Dreypa learnt about the existence of the Last Hope. Takara stayed behind to delay the Dark Jedi but was unable to match him in combat and was subsequently taken captive herself. The Dark Jedi intended to barter the Sith princess in order to coerce Spinner into handing him the Last Hope. Meanwhile, Spinner brought Iliana back to Tahv as promised and managed to make his way to the Last Hope. However, he reneged on his promise to destroy the vessel and attempted to make travel to Coruscant, the capital of the Galactic Republic. Still, Dreypa caught up with the Sith outcast and threatened to destroy Tahv if he did not return the starship. Concerned at the plight of his former–enemy–turned–friend Takara and the destructiveness of Dreypa's Leviathans, Spinner returned back to Tahv in his starship. After wiping out the Leviathans with the starship's weapons systems, he rescued Takara who managed to land on his starship. However, Dreypa followed them and demanded that Spinner return his vessel. Spinner agreed but set the ship's autopilot on a one-way trip into Sessal Spire's volcanic crater. After handing back the vessel to Dreypa, he and Takara jumped into the Southern Ocean. Meanwhile, the Dark Jedi Dreypa perished in the volcano which prevented any information about Kesh and the Lost Tribe from reaching the greater galaxy. Following the defeat of Dreypa, the former outcast Spinner was welcomed into the Tribe as the "savior" of Tahv. He was subsequently recruited by the grateful Grand Lord Hilts as one of the "Grand Lord's Hands", secret agents who helped root out threats to the Grand Lord. Spinner also developed a romantic relationship with his former enemy Takara.
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