Saaj Calician Saaj Calician was a male Krevaaki Sith Lord who lived during the Republic Dark Age . Calician originally served the Chagras Hegemony , a Sith state in the Grumani sector that was led by the powerful Sith Lord Chagras , and following Chagras ' death in 1040 BBY , the Krevaaki was appointed as the guardian to Chagras ' twin children , Dromika and Quillan . In that role , Calician became the regent of the Dyarchy , a Sith principality based on the planet Byllura that the twins headed , and over the next few years , Calician set about strengthening their territories . The twins never left their quarters in the city of Hestobyll on Byllura and they comprehended the outside world entirely through their connection to the Force , with Calician serving as their primary link to the wider universe . Yet as they aged , the twins increasingly began to use Dromika ' s Force persuasion abilities to take direct control of Calician ' s mind , turning him into an unthinking extension of their will . By 1032 BBY , the Dyarchy had grown strong enough to challenge its neighbors , and Calician planned to launch a fleet of battleships to conquer worlds in the rival Daimanate territory . After a mercenary transport from the Daimanate landed on Byllura , Calician viewed it as a sign that the Daimanate ' s borders were unguarded , because the Daimanites would not willingly have allowed a starship to leave their domain , and he ordered his fleet to mobilize . However , the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt , a passenger aboard the mercenary vessel , infiltrated Hestobyll and disrupted the Dyrachy ' s Celegian - based communications network . Calician confronted and dueled her , but was unable to defeat the Jedi , so he stood down and offered to introduce her to Dromika and Quillan . However , when he showed her to the twins , Dromika attempted to use the Force to compel Calician to strike down the Jedi , and he resisted , because he wanted to fight Holt by himself . In the ensuing chaos , Holt kidnapped Quillan and fled Byllura with him aboard the mercenary transport . Shortly afterward , forces loyal to the twins ' elder sister Arkadia Calimondra landed on Byllura and had Calician executed . Biography . Forging the Dyarchy . Saaj Calician was a Force - sensitive Krevaaki male who lived during the Republic Dark Age . As a child , Calician was taunted by other Krevaaki who were jealous of his intelligence , and they referred to him as " Celegian , " after a species of sentient invertebrate s that resembled floating brains . In his youth , Calician learned to utilize the dark side of the Force , and he studied the ways of the Sith in the service of the Chagras Hegemony , a state established by the Sith Lord Chagras in the Grumani sector . During the course of his Sith training , Calician fought numerous Jedi Knights , Force - wielding enemies of the Sith , and had his first encounter with real Celegians after visiting a colony on the planet Tramanos . He eventually became a Sith Lord and , at some point , authored some writings on how the peak of Sith power could be attained . At around 1041 BBY , Calician became acquainted with Chagras ' five - year - old twin children Dromika and Quillan , and the Krevaaki realized that through them , he could attain great power for himself . Quillan had a greater ability to predict the future than any other Sith whom Calician had met , while Dromika was more proficient with the use of the Force to control minds than anyone else he knew , and he hoped to harness their powers to serve his own ends . Following the death of Chagras in 1040 BBY , Calician became the custodian of the twins , and they established the Dyarchy , a Sith principality based on the planet Byllura , with Calician as their regent . The twins never left The Loft , their private residence in the city of Hestobyll , and perceived the wider universe entirely through the Force , referring to individuals and objects external to themselves as " aspects . " The twins regarded Calician himself as their " regent - aspect , " and he served as their main link to the outside world . He tended to their every need and acquired some nanny droids to care for the twins when he wasn ' t present . Chagras ' demise left the twins ' grandmother Vilia Calimondra without an heir to her extensive holdings , and she initiated a competition among her grandchildren to find a worthy successor , which soon degenerated into an all - out conflict between her descendants . The Dyarchy was pitted against competing Sith states , and Calician planned to strengthen the twins ' empire , to make it powerful enough to wage war against their rivals . Inspired by watching the telepathic communications between jornisae spider s on his homeworld as a child , Calician became determined to establish a telepathic transmission network on Byllura , to place himself and the twins in full control of the Dyarchy ' s inhabitants . Within a few days of his appointment as the twins ' guardian , Calician captured a 200 - year - old Force - sensitive Celegian , which he named One , and brought him back to The Loft . There , he tortured One and broke the Celgian ' s mind , bypassing his judgment centers to make him into a mindless servant with no capacity for independent thought . With his endeavors successful , Calician lured entire Celegian communities into settling on Byllura and used their telepathic capabilities to form a communication web . A force of Sith adepts , known as Unifier s , were installed to use the Force to dull the minds of the Dyarchy ' s inhabitants and send messages to the web , and through One , Calician could coordinate Hestobyll ' s defenses and send out orders across the entire Bylluran communication network . Over the next few years , the Dyarchy ' s population , manufacturing facilities , and military capabilities expanded under Calician ' s guidance . However , as the twins aged , they increasingly began to use Dromika ' s mental capabilities to take direct control of Calician ' s mind ; he often found himself subsumed into the communications web that he had created , becoming an unthinking extension of the twins ' will . In 1037 BBY , he initiated construction of the Dyarchy Fleet , a force of battleships that were to be built in secret beneath Hestobyll ' s reflecting pools . Around that time , he also spoke with Daiman , the twins ' cousin and the leader of the neighboring Daimanate Sith state , via hologram on a number of occasions , and he found Daiman unwilling to either ally with or engage in hostilities against the Dyarchy . Downfall . By 1032 BBY , fourteen vessels in the Dyarchy Fleet had been completed , and Calician made plans to expand the Dyarchy ' s holdings . Elsewhere in the Grumani sector , Daiman committed the bulk of his military to the invasion of the Bactranate , a territory led by Lord Ayanos Bactra , which Vilia Calimondra had ordered her grandchildren to annex . The outlying Daimanite worlds on the border with the Dyarchy were left unguarded , and Calician believed that once launched , the firepower of his fleet would deter any Daimanite resistance , allowing the Dyarchy to conquer entire worlds without a single shot being fired . Amid the chaos , the troop transport " Diligence " , operated by the mercenary unit Rusher ' s Brigade , rescued a large number of refugee children and the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt from a battlefield on the Daimanite - held world Gazzari and headed toward Byllura , where the mercenaries hoped to rid themselves of their passengers . Quillan and Dromika sensed the vessel ' s approach through the Force and summoned Calician to them to order him to contact Byllura ' s defensive stations and inform the twins of any reports of foreign vessels in the vicinity of the world . A short time later , " Diligence " arrived in the system , and Calician permitted the vessel to land and allowed its occupants to disembark . He was excited by the ship ' s arrival , viewing it as an omen that the time was right to strike against Daiman , because the Daimanite forces would not have permitted a ship to leave their domain if they had sufficient military forces in the vicinity of their border . With backing from Dromika and Quillan , Calician ordered the Dyarchy Fleet to launch . However , Holt became suspicious of the Dyarchy ' s intentions and ordered the refugees to re - board " Diligence " . Calician was concerned by their embarkation and feared that it could be part of a Daimanite trap , but before he could take further action , he was summoned by the twins back to The Loft . Holt left to investigate the city , and through his telepathic network , Calician was informed of the Jedi ' s approach . The twins viewed Holt as a threat and ordered the Krevaaki to protect them , then took direct control of his mind via the Force . Holt infiltrated The Loft and made her way to chamber in which One was being held , where she persuaded the aged Celegian to stop sending messages on behalf of the Dyarchy , placing the communications network into disarray . Under the influence of the twins , Calician headed to One ' s chamber and attacked Holt with six lightsaber - baton s , which he twirled from his tentacles . He threw himself at her in a nihilistic fury , driven by the influence of the twins , and came close to rupturing One ' s tank , which would have released a poisonous gas and killed both him and Holt . He regained some control over his body , but Holt was able to outwit him and singe his facial tentacles , then slice off one of his limbs from his middle carapace . He felt no pain , due to the influence of the twins , and realized that Holt was too strong for him to defeat , because his withered mind could not access his memories of how to fight Jedi while it was being dulled by Dromika ' s mental manipulations . He therefore stopped fighting and offered to take Holt to the twins , and she accepted his proposal . Upon their arrival in the twins ' quarters , several nanny droids hurled themselves at Calician and Holt in an attempt to defend the twins . However , Holt swept them away , and Calician introduced her to the twins . Using the Force , Dromika pinned Holt down and compelled Calician to bring his blade to bear against the Jedi . Calician resisted , because he wanted to be given the chance to fight Holt by himself , free of the twins ' mental influences . While he and Dromika were briefly distracted , Holt broke free and severed one of Calician ' s leg tentacles . Before he could get back on his feet , Holt kidnapped Quillan and fled Byllura with him aboard " Diligence " . Meanwhile , the other Celegians on Byllura followed One ' s example and refused to send telepathic messages , leading to a breakdown of the entire telepathic network . Their rebellion made it impossible to coordinate the Dyarchy ' s manufacturing efforts and led to explosions in all of the world ' s major construction facilities , destroying the bulk of the Dyarchy Fleet . Calician quickly rushed to The Loft ' s communications center and sent a transmission to " Diligence " , to learn if Quillan was still alive . Shortly afterward , the forces of the twins ' elder sibling , Arkadia Calimondra , initiated an attack on Byllura and defeated the remaining Dyarchy forces . Arkadianite forces found Calician and executed him ; according to a report received by the Bothan spy Narsk Ka ' hane , Calician met his end quietly . Byllura fell and the Dyarchy was subsumed into Arkadia ' s territories , and guardianship of the twins ultimately passed to Vilia Calimondra . Personality and traits . As a child , Saaj Calician enjoyed performing acts of violence and was willing to blind jornisae spiders that he encountered on his homeworld . From an early age , he developed a hatred for Celegians after being taunted by other Krevaaki , and he came to dislike the telepathic beings even more after he first encountered them in the flesh . He found them repulsive and believed that they ignored their own ugliness , yet expected others not to acknowledge it . He also thought that the Celegians were fools for not using their innate telepathic abilities to gain power and influence over others . He was intelligent and , during his younger years , cared primarily about his ego ; he would ponder upon the outcome of the conflict between the Sith and the Galactic Republic , and also compared himself to other Krevaaki , seeing himself as their superior because he was more powerful and independent than most members of his species . In addition , he was a believer in the ancient Sith precept of self - glorification and considered that the subjugation of others could only lead to one solution : for just one Sith to rule the galaxy , with their subordinates merely acting as self - regulating components of the wider consciousness of their leader . While Calician originally began caring for the twins merely as a means of propelling himself into greater power to achieve his dream , he found his mind dominated by them and sacrificed his personal ambitions to become a loyal servant , unquestionably obeying all of their commands . However , his encounter with Kerra Holt led Calician to realize that , to the twins , he was merely a mindless puppet , so he rebelled against Dromika ' s attempts to use him to kill the Jedi . The rigors of his life on Byllura caused him to age prematurely , although whenever he acted upon Dromika ' s Force - influenced commands , her presence restored his youthful vigor to him . While serving as regent , Calician wore beige - colored robes , so as to match the walls of The Loft and thereby avoid overwhelming Quillan ' s visual stimuli . Calician had black eyes and a red , chitinous carapace . Powers and abilities . Saaj Calician was an experienced fighter , but Dromika ' s Force influence dulled his memories of some of his combat skills . His preferred weapons were a set of lightsaber - batons , miniaturized versions of the lightsaber weapon . However , when he dueled with Kerra Holt on Byllura , Dromika used her powers to augment his fighting capabilities and enabled him to access abilities that he had never trained to use . He also knew how to utilize the Force to move objects , although by 1 , 032 BBY it had been more than a decade since he had used the power . Behind the scenes . Saaj Calician made his first appearance in " Star Wars " canon in " Knight Errant " , a novel written by John Jackson Miller that was published in January 2011 as a tie - in to the " " comic series . In the novel , Calician is one of the four main point - of - view characters , with the others being the Bothan spy Narsk Ka ' hane , the Jedi protagonist Kerra Holt , and the mercenary Jarrow Rusher . Calician was later featured in the 2012 guide book " The Essential Reader ' s Companion " , in which he received his first visual depiction , a picture by artist Jeff Carlisle . On his personal website Faraway Press , Miller described Calician as playing the role of a typically egomaniacal Sith who would provide the author with an opportunity to frustrate Sith ambitions . Calician also provided readers with an insider perspective of life within the Dyarchy , especially its hallmark of living under constant Force manipulation .