The Sith arrived on Kesh in 5000 BBY, and the first shikkars were created within the next fifteen years. The Sith Seelah Korsin owned a shikkar that had been made by Kesh's native Keshiri. By 3960 BBY, the weapons were often used by Sith in the Tribe to assassinate rivals. Millennia later, the weapons were still prominent—in 43.5 ABY, several members of the Sith strike team sent to kill Jedi Luke Skywalker carried shikkars, including Sith apprentice Vestara Khai and her Master, Lady Olaris Rhea. In 44 ABY, Khai's father, Gavar, presented Vestara with a shikkar from his personal collection in the hope that she would one day use it to kill either Skywalker or his son, Ben. Later that year, several shikkars were specially crafted for the celebration that marked the Tribe's alliance with the d