- "The purpose of Operation Influx is simple: the interdiction of baradium product by the Sith Lord Daiman. Recent intelligence from a high-quality source in the Grumani sector indicates Daiman has discovered on Chelloa what would be considered, for Sith space, the mother lode of baradium, a compound used in a wide variety of explosive devices. With the mines on that world...now ready to begin shipping to Daiman's war forges nearer the front lines, we propose to take a portion of Chelloan production offline before it alters the balance of power in the region."
- ―Vannar Treece outlines the goals of Operation Influx
Operation Influx was a three-stage Jedi military operation led by Jedi Master Vannar Treece during the Republic Dark Age in 1032 BBY. Its main objective was to disrupt the export of baradium, a volatile compound used in the production of munitions, from the planet Chelloa. Chelloa was part of the Sith Lord Daiman's fiefdom which known as the Daimanate. Daiman intended to use Chelloa's extensive baradium resources to aid his war effort against his rival and estranged brother, Lord Odion. Vannar Treece was aided by intelligence supplied by the undercover former Jedi Knight Gorlan Palladane, who was the leader of the Chelloan resistance.
Operation Influx involved infiltrating Sith Space via the planet Oranessan, a key regional transport hub. This would then be followed by a raid on Chelloa itself. The Jedi mission would then depart on a direct hyperspace line to neutral space. Despite its initial successes on infiltrating Oranessan, the Jedi mission was killed on Chelloa during an attack by the Sith Lord Odion who unleashed a kinetic corruptor which razed large areas of the surface. Odion himself personally slew Vannar, leaving Kerra Holt as the sole survivor of the mission. Despite the failure of the operation, she succeeded in establishing contact with the Chelloan resistance led by Gorlan and helped evacuate the planet on the Freedom Fleet during the Destruction of Chelloa.
History
Background
During the Republic Dark Age, the last century of the New Sith Wars, the Galactic Republic lost control of large areas of the galaxy including the Outer Rim Territories. By 1032 BBY, the Outer Rim's Grumani sector had become the domain of several warring Sith Lords including Daiman, who believed himself to be the Creator of the Universe, and his estranged older brother Odion, who saw himself as the Destroyer of the Universe. These Sith Lords fought each other and the Republic for galactic domination. While the Republic military had abandoned much of the Outer Rim, several maverick Jedi like Master Vannar Treece and his followers launched several knight errant operations to harass the Sith and to bring hope and deliverance to the occupied populations in Sith space.[1]
In 1032 BBY, Master Treece obtained intelligence from the undercover former Jedi and Chelloan resistance leader Gorlan Palladane that the Sith Lord Daiman had discovered the mother lode for baradium on the planet Chelloa. Baradium was a volatile compound used in the production of a wide variety of explosive devices. Daiman began shipping substantial amounts of baradium to his war forges near the front line. This development vexed Master Treece who feared that Daiman's new discovery would alter the balance of power in the Grumani sector in Daiman's favor. In response, Treece and his young aide Kerra Holt, a former Aquilaris Minor refugee who had become a Jedi Knight, proposed a three-stage plan called Operation Influx to knock out a portion of the baradium production on Chelloa.[1] While Kerra had initially named the Chelloan military operation Operation Deadlock, Treece had it renamed Operation Influx because he regarded stalemating the Sith Lords as one of the ulterior motives of the mission; something they did not want to express openly.[2]
Participants
Battles
Appearances
- Star Wars: Knight Errant: Influx (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Knight Errant: Aflame 1
- Star Wars: Knight Errant: Aflame 2 (Mentioned only)
Sources
- Star Wars: Knight Errant 0
Essential Atlas Extra: The Knight Errant Gazetteer on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link) (First mentioned)
