Arkadianate The Arkadianate was a Sith state that was located in the Grumani sector during the Republic Dark Age and the Sith civil war . It was led by the Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra and the frozen planet Syned served as its capital . The Arkadianate had borders with the Dyarchy , a Sith state that was ruled by Arkadia ' s siblings , Dromika and Quillan , and in c . 1032 BBY , Calimondra ' s forces annexed the Dyarchy . Politics and society . The Arkadianate was an autocratic dictatorship dominated by its titular leader Arkadia Calimondra , a Sith warlord during the Republic Dark Age . Its name reflected a naming convention within the Sith territories in Grumani sector of placing the suffixes " - ate " or " nate " after the Sith Lord ' s name . The Arkadianate was governed according to Arkadia ' s personal philosophy of continually rotating her subjects through different jobs . In one case , the Herglic mother Seese had worked in at least five different occupations including teaching , algae - processing , metallic reclamation , as a tactical officer on Arkadia ' s flagship " New Crucible " , and a tour guide on Calimondretta . Arkadia herself would often personally reassign her subjects at short notice with no means of appealing this decision . She justified this policy on the rationale that it instilled flexibility and versatility among her subjects by providing them with experience in different lines of work . In reality , it was designed to prevent the emergence of any potential domestic threats to her rule since it kept even her most skilled subordinates perpetually preoccupied with new assignments . While the fate of Arkadinate citizens who failed to fulfill their duties is not explicitly stated , the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt speculated that they were imprisoned and executed . In terms of territory , the Arkadianate was an interstellar state that was located in the Grumani sector . Two of its known constituent territories were the frozen planet of Syned and Byllura , which was annexed from the former Dyarchy in 1032 BBY . The Arkadianate ' s capital was the city of Calimondretta , an underground city on Syned . While the Arkadianate was not as powerful as larger Sith states like the Daimanate and the Odionate , it still possessed substantial military assets including long , crystalline warships and starfighters . The Arkadianate military fleet was known to have participated in the annexation of the Dyarchy and an allied invasion of the Odionate . Unlike other Sith Lords who neglected the social welfare of their subjects , the Arkadianate invested substantially in providing extensive social services like education , food , and even clothing . It had a series of schools known as Promisorium s , which were open to diverse species and also boasted extensive dining facilities . From young , citizens were trained to contribute to the state . Arkadia ' s progressive social policies contrasted with those of her Sith cousins in the Calimondra family . Other Sith Lords like Daiman exploited children as forced laborers while Odion had all the children in his realm imprisoned in a series of planet - sized orphanages known as cloisters . The Arkadianate was also able to import large stocks of food to feed its population . In line with her personal philosophy , Arkadia also implemented a policy of making her subjects wear bright clothing allegedly under the pretext of helping them become more " noticeable and memorable " individuals . Unlike its neighbors , the Arkadianate did not openly use violence to coerce its subjects into working . Despite these positive qualities , the Arkadianate had some unsavory aspects . Lord Arkadia had her enemies imprisoned in the Impound where they were subjected to torture and execution by being exposed to the nerve toxin Chagras ' s Blood . As with the other Sith Lords in the Grumani sector , Arkadia sought to expand her interstellar fiefdom and become the ruler of the entire universe . To support her military ambitions , Arkadia invested substantial resources into colonizing the icy planet Syned in order to gain access to Synedian algae . While Synedian algae was a good source of energy , it could also be processed into the nerve toxin Chagras ' s Blood . This toxin was capable of killing various sentient beings within minutes . Arkadia intended to deploy this biological weapon as part of a planned expansionist blitz in 1032 BBY . However , the Siege of Calimondretta damaged the chemical plants producing Synedian algae . History . Origins . The Arkadianate was one of the Sith mini – states that emerged from the ruins of the former Chagras Hegemony in 1040 BBY . Arkadia Calimondra was the eldest daughter of the Sith Lord Chagras , who had accumulated a substantial interstellar empire in the Grumani sector following the First Charge Matrica — a succession struggle that had been orchestrated by his mother Vilia Calimondra to select a heir from her seven children . In this contest , Chagras emerged as the victor . However , Vilia still lived and retained most of her substantial holdings . Since his deceased siblings had produced offspring , Chagras had to rely on these nephews and nieces to help rebuild the war - damaged region . During this period , Chagras also sired two other children — the Sith twins Dromika and her brother Quillan . According to Vilia , Chagras favored his younger children over their sister Arkadia which created resentment within the family . By 1042 BBY , Chagras had reconsolidated his forces and was ready to invade the Republic . Chagras ’ forces invaded and annexed several Outer Rim worlds including Aquilaris Minor . However , Chagras died two years after being infected with a powerful nerve toxin that prevented his body from healing . The suspicious circumstances of his death fuelled much speculation and at least two conspiracy theories . His daughter Arkadia pinned the blame on her grandmother Vilia on the basis that Vilia was prepared to use any means necessary to maintain her grip on power . In response , Vilia alleged that Arkadia herself had engineered her own father ’ s death to advance her own political ambitions . Whatever the circumstances or intentions , Chagras ’ death created a power vacuum that produced a second succession struggle known as the Second Charge Matrica . Consolidation . During the conflict , Arkadia created her own interstellar princedom , known as the Arkadianate , which was based around the icy planet of Syned . The underground city of Calimondretta became the capital of her realm . Meanwhile , her younger siblings Dromika and Quillan became the rulers of the Dyarchy — which was centered around the planet Byllura with the Krevaaki Saaj Calician acting as their regent . Due to the Arkadianate ’ s remote location , very little was known about it until after the Battle of Byllura and the Siege of Calimondretta in 1032 BBY . While it was an authoritarian dictatorship , the Arkadianate ' s society was progressive in comparison to its neighbors . Lord Arkadia invested substantial resources into providing food , clothes , education , and most importantly employment for her subjects . Arkadia ' s personality cult succeeded in instilling a sense of patriotism into her subjects . However , her policy of arbitrarily reassigning her subjects to different jobs was not universally popular . Arkadia was also not above employing malevolent methods of maintaining her grip on power like imprisoning dissidents and enemies at the Loft , a harsh prison where inmates were incarcerated in cabinets and subjected to dangerous experiments . As with her fellow Sith warlords , Arkadia also harbored grandiose ambitions of accumulating an interstellar empire . For these purposes , she invested substantial resources into developing a military star fleet and the biological weapon Chagras ' s Blood — a nerve toxin that was extracted from Synedian algae . Arkadia ' s main motives for colonizing Syned was to exploit its vast Synedian algae resources for her war effort . Annexation . In 1032 BBY , Arkadia turned her attention to the Dyarchy and sought to annex it . As part of her invasion plan , she contracted the services of the Bothan spy Narsk Ka ' hane , an independent operator who had worked for several different Sith employers including the Vilia Calimondra , the family matriarch . Earlier , Narsk had been hired by the Sith Lord Odion to gather intelligence and to destroy a Daimanate military project . After being captured by the Daimanate authorities , Narsk had narrowly escaped captivity with the assistance of his nominal enemy Kerra Holt , a lone Jedi Knight operating in the Grumani sector . As part of the Arkadianate invasion , the Bothan spy infiltrated Byllura in a specially modified stealth starfighter and attached a transmitter device onto the Loft ’ s video surveillance system . The Loft was a massive seaside palace in the main city Hestobyll and was the residence of Dromika , Quillan , and Regent Calician . This transmitter device enabled Arkadia to spy on the Dyarchy ' s leaders and provided her with intelligence about developments occurring on Byllura . Narsk then retreated to a cave in higher ground which he would use to observe developments on Byllura . Since Kerra had also acquired Narsk ' s stolen Cyricept Mark VI stealth suit on Darkknell , Vilia was able to use its electronic systems to spy on the Jedi woman and learnt that she was also heading to Byllura . Kerra had recently escaped from the Battle of Gazzari with Jarrow Rusher , a mercenary leader who led Rusher ' s Brigade , an independent mercenary group operating in the Grumani sector . Kerra had also brought nearly a thousand student refugees aboard Rusher ' s ship " Diligence . " Rusher had reluctantly agreed to transport the students to the next offworld destination . After traveling for several days and making six hyperspace jumps , the " Diligence " arrived at Byllura . There , Kerra and Rusher ' s Brigade resisted attempts by the local Sith to forcibly integrate them into the Dyarchy ' s mental network . This mental ethernet was created by thousands of enslaved Celegian s , who had been forcibly pressed into the Dyarchy ' s servitude by Regent Calician . The fighting eventually culminated in a raid on the Loft which ended with the kidnapping of Quillan . During the fighting , Kerra had convinced the leading Celegian known as " One " to encourage his compatriots to rebel against their Sith masters and to stop transmitting commands . The travellers ' actions effectively decapitated the Dyarchy ' s leadership and the highly centralized fiefdom quickly descended into anarchy as the population rebelled against their Sith masters . Amidst the fighting , Narsk used the transmitter to monitor the recent development on Byllura and relay the intelligence back to his master . He also learnt about Kerra ' s presence and used a comlink to contact her and demand the return of his stolen stealth suit . After finishing his work on Byllura , Narsk returned to Arkadia ' s space fleet in his stealth starfighter . For the duration of the campaign , he would remain at the helm of Arkadia ' s flagship " New Crucible . " Shortly later , Arkadia ' s war fleet arrived in the Gazzari system and quickly immobilized the Dyarchy Fleet , a fleet of battleships that had been commissioned by Regent Calician for an invasion of the Daimanate . Arkadianate forces then occupied Byllura ' s cities with minimal resistance and also liberated the enslaved Celegians . Following the battle , Regent Calician was executed and Arkadia took Quillan and Dromika into her custody . Overnight , the Dyarchy ceased to exist and was amalgamated into the Arkadianate . Setbacks . Following the annexation of Byllura , Arkadia offered shelter and refuge to Kerra , Rusher , and the crew and refugees aboard the " Diligence . " She provided hyperspace codes which allowed them to travel to her remote base on Syned . While Arkadia succeeded in winning over Rusher due to her charismatic personality and a propaganda tour of her capital city of Calimondretta , Kerra remained distrustful of the Sith Lord ' s intentions . Kerra ' s suspicions were later confirmed when Arkadia tried to recruit the Jedi woman as an assassin to kill her grandmother Vilia Calimondra . As part of this plot , Arkadia had planned to used Kerra as a courier to escort her younger brother Quillan to Vilia ' s homeworld . Arkadia also revealed her intentions to exploit her grandmother ' s death as an opportunity to launch an expansionist campaign . When Kerra refused , Arkadia had her imprisoned at the Impound and ordered Rusher to bring her the student refugees so that they could be assimilated into Arkadianate subjects . However , Vilia learnt of Arkadia ' s plot and ordered her agent Narsk Ka ' hane to sabotage her granddaughter ' s plans . He succeeded in convincing Rusher to launch a siege of Calimondretta so that he could escape back to Vilia with Quillan . Narsk also freed Kerra from her prison and also succeeded in convincing her to create a diversion . In return for their help , the Bothan spy provided the two Humans with hyperspace coordinates leading to neutral space . During the Siege of Calimondretta , Rusher ' s Brigade inflicted significant damage to Calimondretta ' s infrastructure and casualties on Arkadia ' s Citizen Guards . During the fighting Rusher ' s forces also weakened Arkadia ' s military – industrial complex by damaging several factories manufacturing the nerve toxin Chagras ' s Blood and several warships which the Sith Lord had assembled for strategic raids on other Sith states in the event that Vilia was assassinated . At the climax of the fighting , Arkadia dueled Kerra in a lightsaber duel . Despite her superior swordsmanship , Kerra was able to escape due to an artillery strike by Rusher ' s forces . As a result of the fighting , Kerra , Rusher , and the crew and refugees aboard the " Diligence " were able to escape Syned . They were also joined by five hundred defecting Arkadianate citizens who had become disillusion with the political repression and lack of freedom in the Arkadianate . The Siege of Calimondretta was a serious setback for the Arkadianate since it weakened its military capabilities and undermined Arkadia ' s political cult . Due to the heavy damage to Calimondretta , Arkadia was forced to recall substantial forces from Byllura and temporarily set aside her expansionist ambitions in order to concentrate on rebuilding her war - damaged capital . Later Developments . Later , the Arkadianate was threatened by the Hutt crime lord Zodoh , who was trying to establish a foothold in the Grumani sector . During his invasion of the Daimanate , Zodoh succeeded in coercing the other Sith Lords including Arkadia into cooperating with him by testing his new Stormdriver superweapons on Aquilaris Minor . The Stormdrivers were large capital ships equipped with weaponized vaporators that were capable of creating artificial global storms and floods . Arkadia and Daiman ' s older brother Odion would assist Zodoh by keeping Lord Daiman ' s military forces preoccupied with border skirmishes . This enabled Zodoh to launch an attack on the Daimanate capital of Darkknell . Following Zodoh ' s defeat at the hands of Kerra and the Grace Command captain Jenn Devaad , Zodoh was captured and executed by Daiman . Arkadia along with Odion and Malakite were present during Zodoh ' s execution . Later that year , Odion discovered the Helm of Ieldis , an ancient Sith relic capable of driving sentient beings into a homicidal frenzy , on the planet Gazzari . He attempted to use its powers to further his nihilistic ambitions of destroying all life in the galaxy . In response to the threat posed by Odion , Vilia Calimondra succeeded in rallying the entire Calimondra family for a combined assault on the Odionate . Arkadia contributed military forces to this combined assault . Ultimately , Odion was defeated and killed by Kerra and his former second – in – command General Beld Yulan . With his death , the Odionate collapse and its territories were divided up among the Calimondra family . It is presumed that the Arkadianate gained some new holdings as a result of Odion ' s demise . Behind the scenes . The Arkadianate first appeared in John Jackson Miller ' s stand - alone novel " Knight Errant " , which was first released on January 22 , 2011 . According to Miller , its society was based on real - world corporate models described in Bryan Burrough ' s book " Barbarians at the Gate : The Fall of RJR Nabisco . " Burrough ' s book included a case study where one executive developed a habit of routinely switching employees to different jobs in order to prevent the emergence of rival power bases within the company .