Odion, along with his younger brother and major rival Daiman, was a Sith Lord during the Second Sith Civil War. He ruled a area of the Grumani sector which came to be known as the Odionate.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Operation Influx 1.3 Brothers at War 1.4 Enter the Jedi 1.5 Trapped 1.6 Battle of Gazzari 1.7 Family meeting 1.8 Deluge 2 Personality and traits 3 Behind the scenes 4 Appearances 5 Sources 6 Notes and references 7 See also 7.1 In other languages

BiographyEdit

Early lifeEdit

Odion was the older son of the Sith Xelian and the grandson of Vilia Calimondra, a powerful Sith Lord and matriarch of a large clan of Sith Lords. In 1,042 BBY, Odion fought under the banner of the Sith Lord Chagras, his uncle and ruler of the Chagras Hegemony. Odion led a force of Sith Warriors and minions to the world of Aquilaris, where they took the lives of hundreds of civilians, including the parents of future Jedi Knight Kerra Holt. Following the death of Chagras in 1,040 BBY, Odion took control of a portion of the late Sith Lord's domain which became known as the Odionate. Odion gathered a cult of like-minded followers who sought nothing more than destruction and death.

Operation InfluxEdit

In 1,032 BBY, Odion found out about baradium mining operations on Chelloa in the war-torn Grumani sector by tapping into interstellar transmissions.^[1]Chelloa was part of the domain known as the Daimanate which was ruled by his estraged brother Daiman. He allowed a Jedi task force under Jedi Master Vannar Treece to attack Daiman's baradium operation on Chelloa. Taken by surprise, Daiman's overseers initially thought it was an ambush by his brother.^[2]

After Daiman's Sith troopers were disposed by the the Jedi, Odion did attack with a large fleet including his mobile space factory The Spike.^[3] He planned to destroy the planet's entire baradium deposits, regardless of the planet-wide devastation it would cause. Odion engaged in duel with Vannar Treece, a Jedi Master he was familiar with, and killed him. However, Odion's plan was stopped by Jedi Knight Kerra Holt, Treece's former apprentice, who caused Odion's kinetic corruptor to explode before it could ignite all the baradium in the planet, thus keeping the destruction on a far smaller scale.^[2] Afterward, Odion and his surviving forces withdrew back to the main fleet orbiting Chelloa.^[3]

Brothers at WarEdit

Following a duel with Kerra Holt, Daiman revealed that Odion's fleet included the mobile space factory The Spike which was building even more kinetic corruptors. Earlier, Holt and Gorlan Palladane had learnt that Daiman was importing more Mobile Munitions Complexes.^[3] Daiman sought to lure Odion to Chelloa's surface by provoking him with a feign attack and sending Holt over to leak intelligence on his new factories. Odion would land with his army on Chelloa's surface to capture the mobile munitions complexes where they would be trapped and destroyed by Daiman's own kinetic corruptors.^[1]

To provoke Odion, Daiman dispatched a small strike force of Daimanate starfighters in an attempt to knock out The Spike. However, his light starfighters were wiped out by Odion's warships which included his flagship the Sword of Ieldis. Sustaining heavy losses, the Daimanites were forced to retreat. While Odion gloated over an easy victory, Holt bailed out from her starfighter into space and infiltrated The Spike by entering through an open hatch. She then overpowered and reprogrammed a labor droid known as GAD-3 and then reset his motivation center.Gad-3 also revealed learnt that The Spike was dedicated solely to the production of kinetic corrupters and that all floors were decentralized from the main structure for security reasons.^[4]

At that moment, they were interrupted by the arrival of Odion and his Givin second-in-command Jelcho to Pod 17. However, he did not sense them initially since they were hidden under the catwalk. Odion was preoccupied with using his corrupters to extract Chelloa’s baradium deposits. When Odion inquired about Daiman’s movements, Jelcho informed him of an informant that supplied intelligence on the existence of Daiman’s baradium operations. From a recorded transmission, the informant claimed that all of Daiman’s mining operations were permanently offline in an attempt to draw Sith attention away from Chelloa. However, Odion dismissed the informant’s latest reports as an attempt by Daiman or other parties to undermine his planned baradium operations.^[4]

Odion then concluded the meeting by ordering all his kinetic corrupters to be prepared for landing on Chelloa to harvest all the baradium. Due to the volatile nature of baradium, much of Chelloa would be destroyed and rendered uninhabitable. While gloating of his recent victory over the Jedi particularly Master Treece, Odion suddenly sensed the presence of an intruder through the Force. In a fit of rage, he ripped apart the catwalk and discovered Holt.^[4]

Enter the JediEdit

Brushing away Jelchro’s concerns that he would damage the space station’s infrastructure, Odion pursued Holt in a heated lightsaber duel. Kerra was also pursued by a mob of armed Gamorrean guards, followers of Odion who craved dying in combat. The fighting led the combatants through a series of catwalks to the upper levels of the Spike, the main structure supporting the various assembly lines. In a verbal confrontation, Kerra told Odion that she had attacked him aboard his space station to drive him away from Chelloa thus saving the lives of thousands of sentients. She also revealed that Daiman’s mobile munitions factories were bringing in thousands more slaves by the day.^[4]

Odion shrugged away Holt’s concerns for innocent lives, arguing that all sentients existed only to be killed by him. Due to his nihilistic philosophy, Odion saw himself as the destroyer of all life in the Galaxy and embraced death. As he prepared to strike Holt down with his lightsaber, she played her final card by ordering the reprogrammed Gad-3 to open all containment fields, thus opening much of the space station to zero-gravity space. This triggered an explosion that wrecked large areas of The Spike, destroying many labor droids and killing many workers. Further destruction was averted only by Jelcho reactivating the emergency shielding. As with all Givin, Jelcho had a tough exoskeleton that could seal all external orifices for protection against depressurization, allowing him to survive in hard vacuum.^[4]

In the midst of the chaos, Holt hijacked a construction shuttle, incapacitating the pilot and then fleeing into space. Meanwhile, Odion ordered his entourage back to his flagship Sword of Ieldis. Understanding his Jedi opponent, Odion knew that Holt would return to confront him which was proven right. In an ensuing cat-and-mouse race in space, Holt’s shuttle engaged Odion’s gunship. Anticipating that Holt was going to ram her shuttle into his ship, he ordered his crew to open fire. However, the duel was interrupted by an incoming transmission from Lord Daiman.^[4]

In a live broadcast from his Chelloan headquarters, a furious Daiman revealed to Odion that he had seized and tortured his informant: Gorlan Palladane. In response to the intelligence leakage, Daiman had ordered a military crackdown on all mining settlements on Chelloa with his troops destroying Jenith. Witnessing the plight of her friend, Holt aborted her run by doing a quick jump into hyperspace and returned to Jenith to save Palladane. To the relief of Jelcho, Odion chose to spare his crew due to the intelligence on Daiman’s mining operations he had learnt from Holt. Rather than using his kinetic corrupters to destroy the surface of Chelloa, he ordered his elite Lightning Guard to be loaded into landing ships to capture Daiman’s factories near the baradium mines.^[4] He also planned to conquer Chelloa and annex to his interstellar principality—the Odionate. All this played into Daiman's hands.^[1]

TrappedEdit

Odion's Lightning Guard were ferried to Chelloa's surface by landing ships. The assault force consisted of Guardsmen donning jetpacks and several hover tanks. As they approached the perimeter of the ten mobile munitions complexes, they were engaged by a token force of Daimanate Sith troopers. With the airborne Lightning Guardsmen providing strike power, the Daimanate forces were easily overwhelmed. Odion himself sensed that he was fighting inferior forces. They arrived at the pyramidical factories only to discover that they were empty shells containing Kinetic corruptors. As Daiman had intended, Odion had taken the bait by landing his troops on Chelloa's surface where they would be destroyed along with himselft by the kinetic corruptors. The Daimanate detachment assigned to guard the "factories" were merely cannon fodder used to lure Odion's forces into a trap. While Odion was trapped, Daiman and the bulk of his forces escaped the planet.^[5]

Meanwhile, Jedi Knights Kerra and Palladane successfully evacuating 60,000 Chelloan civilians by hijacking several Daimanate starships at Arboth's spaceport. This hastily-assembled fleet became the Freedom Fleet which would evacuate the population to Republic space. In the ensuing explosion, many of the Odionate and Daimanate combatants were killed by the molten lava released from the inflamed volatile baradium shales under Chelloa's surface. Trapped, Odion ordered his surviving troops to board the cargo transports at Arboth in an attempt to escape destruction. However, they were prevented from boarding by the efforts of Kerra and Palladane who managed to evacuate the fleet before the lava reached the spaceport.^[5]

Odion was the sole survivor of his invasion since his jetpack allowed him to escape into the atmosphere. As the Freedom Fleet ascended into the upper atmosphere of Chelloa, Odion pursued his Jedi foe Kerra who had boarded an airspeeder. Their pursuit ended on the hull of a cargo liner which ended in a verbal altercation. Odion taunted her by telling Kerra she had run out of perches and observed that she was trying to distract him from his goal of killing the refugees. In an attempt to provoke Kerra, he further gloated over the deaths and destruction he had wrought on her homeworld of Aqualaris. He would have continued his rampage had he not been forced by other circumstances to leave.^[5]

Before he could attack Kerra, he was attacked by Gorlan Palladane. Fastened to a safety cord, the male Jedi drove Odion to the engine thrusters, expressing his desire for retribution for the destruction wrecked on his planet. Palladane intended to kill Odion while dying in the process. During the confrontation, the two men were badly burned by the thrusters and Palladane later died from his wounds. Meanwhile, a mortally wounded Odion was recovered by his followers who tended to him at The Spike over the following days. He was badly burned and part of his armor had been painfully fused to his skin. Had it not been for his jetpack, Odion would have perished in the upper atmosphere. The crew tended to him by removing as much armor as they could and treating his burns. Odion commented he wanted to feel the pain to fuel his hatred towards Kerra Holt. Despite his severe wounds and the loss of his entire Lightning Guard, Jelcho viewed the recent engagement as a victory since it denied his master's foe Daiman access to ships, slaves and the baradium deposits of Chelloa.^[5]

Battle of GazzariEdit

Hearing from the Bothan Narsk Ka'hane about the Arxeum Bactra was going to deliver to Daiman, Odion landed on Gazzari where he engaged his brother's forces. To do so he unleashed the Death Spiral, a massive siege tower built by Chagras which he upgraded, until it was destroyed by Kerra Holt. Receiving a message of Vilia Calimondra from Ka'hane, he united with his old nemesis and annihilated Bactra's forces.

Family meetingEdit

During her trip, Kerra Holt encountered the Sith lord Arkadia, ruler of Syned. On the icy planet, Arkadia allowed the jedi to attend to a secret meeting of various Sith lords who were in fact all related. She learnt that Odion, Daiman, Quillan, Dromika and Arkadia were all part of a powerful Sith family, the Calimondra, ruled by Vilia Calimondra. During this meeting, Vilia divided Bactra's holdings and territory between her grand children Odion, Daiman, Lioko and Malakite. Odion acquired Gazzari along with two legions of Tradoshan slave-warriors from Vilia's own forces.

DelugeEdit

Odion is seen in hologram during Zodoh's invasion of Grumani sector where he and Arkadia expressed their rage against the Hutt. When Zodoh's demise was complete, Odion through holo attended to the Hutt execution by Daiman.

Personality and traitsEdit

Odion espoused a nihilistic viewpoint with the goal of destroying as much of the galaxy as he could. He believed that all people existed to be killed by him, viewing each murder as different and pleasurable in its own way. He believed that he could only find peace by destroying all other sentients in the galaxy. He also had an estraged relationship with his younger brother Daiman which translated into political and military competition. This dysfunctional sibbling rivalry reached a climax with the Chelloan campaign when Daiman used it as an opportunity to attempt to eliminate his older brother.

Behind the scenesEdit

Odion was the elder brother of Daiman; in African cultures, the name "Odion" meant the "eldest of twins."^[6]He was developed as one of the major antagonists of the Knight Errant comic series which debuted with the release of Star Wars: Knight Errant 0 during Celebration V in August 2010. His story background was developed by John Jackson Miller while the character was drawn by artist Ivan Rodriguez and colored by Michael Atiyeh. He also appeared in Miller's tie-in novel Knight Errant.

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars: Knight Errant 0 (First appearance)
• Star Wars: Knight Errant: Aflame
• Knight Errant novel
• Star Wars: Knight Errant 6: Deluge, Part 1
• Star Wars: Knight Errant 10: Deluge, Part 5 (Appears in hologram)

SourcesEdit

•  Essential Atlas Extra: The Knight Errant Gazetteer on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
• "Blaster"—Star Wars Insider 123
• "Blaster"—Star Wars Insider 128

Notes and referencesEdit

See alsoEdit

• Calimondra family