'Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories' is a collection of published 2009-2012 E-books that shed light on the past of the famous from the novels of the 'Fate of the Jedi' number forgotten tribe of Sith closer. The entire history spans 385 pages and all eight previous parts, which were revised in part for this collection, as well as an exclusive, the 128 pages but also is very extensive as compared to the other.
It covers between three time periods:
The first four parts - Precipice, Skyborn, Paragon and Savior - play around the time of 5000 years (plus a few subsequent years) before the Battle of Yavin and tell the story of the crew of the Omen, among them people and red-skinned Sith, which on a unknown planet has drifted and the encounter arrived there on a domestic and superstitious species.
Purgatory and Sentinel put on a good 1000 years later. At that time, the Sith are busy doing what they do best. The parts act namely by political intrigue and wickedness, but also of an unusual partnership.
Currently the last three part - Pantheon, Secrets and Pandemonium - then again around 1000 years have passed and you are in the years 3000 BBY. The Sith are at odds with each other so after centuries of litigations and disputes, that it hardly hope for a few Sith society are ... until suddenly a discovery is made, which can be overcome only by working together.
Generally, I can say that my reading was fun. Not only the stories are interesting and not necessarily predictable, but also the characters. Unlike "nomalen" novels had Miller here, if also insert over the years, developing a whole range of characters and to whom he managed to give different personalities. Can that continue from many individual perspectives read (and that includes not only the Sith), is added positively, especially since here Sith Sith is not equal.
Otherwise, it is really interesting to see what Miller makes a whole group of Sith. While one is used by the Darth Bane trilogy or 'Darth Plagueis' to read from the perspective of evil and to capture the spirit of the Sith, but it is something different. Here they have to stick together in a way that it is not necessarily so familiar, and subordinate their egos for the most part the Sith common good. The dark side of the Force is present, but not always the way one else has got to know.
A partly negative point, there are also, but is somewhere clear. Thus, a self-contained story that takes place just over 60 pages (Purgatory and Sentinel), namely not be particularly extensive. Although this is not negative per se, but a lot is sometimes but a little rushed before, the scene change does not always run quite round and you might have something more read from the one or the other thing.
That one FotJ or older comics, playing at about the same time, must have read, I do not see it as necessary, even if one go then maybe lost a few hints.
Another point away from the story, there are also still. The first thing that one of the book (the Del Rey edition) namely stands out is the different from the other English Star Wars paperbacks, unusual size. While this is specified in the product, but I think that you had not necessarily look carefully. Also, the paper is different, if not worse.
Also worth mentioning is the 19-page excerpt from Allston X-Wing: Mercy Kill.
All in all I can to Roman, or rather the collection, only recommend. For me personally, the best book of the recent addition 'Darth Plagueis'.
