of the Skyborn was not the boon that the Neshtovar had expected. Indeed, it marked a change of the Neshtovar's very way of life. Soon after taking control, the new Lost Tribe of Sith took the strongest uvak for themselves, while most of the other domesticated uvak were used as animal labor. Although the Neshtovar were for a time allowed to fly uvak on visits to the mountain Kesh Sith Temple along with other administrative duties, that ended in 4985 BBY. That year, after prominent pureblood SithRavilan Wroth caused mass Keshiri deaths in the Ragnos Lakes region, and the subsequent extermination of his people from Kesh by the Lost Tribe's Human members, Grand Lord Yaru Korsin decided that the only word that he wanted spread was the LostTribe's. The Neshtovar had their uvak stripped from them, with the former riders either being reduced to police work, staffing local bureaucracies, or keeping stables for uvak they would never get to command. This caused a backlash among many Neshtovar, a number of whom reacted by joining an undercover Keshiri resistance led by Vaal that was dedicated to overthrowing the rule of the Lost Tribe. In 4975 BBY, the resistance was ready to execute their final plan, one which would heavily employ the group's Neshtovar agents.[4]

According to their plot, the Neshtovar stablehands that tended the Lost Tribe's uvak would steal the beasts and take to the skies, using the creatures' bleating cries to attract other, unbroken uvak. In control of a herd of thousands of uvak, the Neshtovar