Arxeum An arxeum was a mobile university that was dedicated to the advancement of military sciences . Arxeums were produced during the Republic Dark Age by Industrial Heuristics — a corporation controlled by the Quermian Sith Lord Ayanos Bactra — and were used to develop new forms of combat - related technology . In 1032 BBY , Bactra agreed to provide an arxeum to the Sith Lord Daiman , and Daiman used the university as bait to lure the forces of his brother Odion into an ambush on the planet Gazzari . Daiman ' s arxeum was subsequently destroyed during the battle by an Odionite Death Spiral attack vehicle . Characteristics . An arxeum was a large , mobile university ship dedicated to the study of war - related sciences where new forms of technology were developed for use by combat forces . The war colleges were expensive to construct ; each arxeum was made up of nine inter - connected towers , each the size of a city block . The spires were fused together by a grid of giant crossbars , and each tower bore the arrow - shaped logo of Industrial Heuristics , the company that manufactured the universities . Although arxeums were often placed in semi - permanent moorings , they were designed to be moveable so that they could be relocated if conditions warranted it . Powered by nine sizable engines , an arxeum was capable of traveling in both space and in planetary atmospheres . Students for the universities were recruited while young and would often spend their entire working lives aboard a single arxeum designing new military wares . History . Arxeums were designed and produced during the Republic Dark Age by Industrial Heuristics , a corporation that was owned by the Quermian Sith Lord Ayanos Bactra . The military universities were put into service across the Bactranate , Bactra ' s fiefdom in the Grumani sector , and by 1032 BBY there were arxeums in operation nearby the planets Alphoresis , Gazzari and Tergamenion . Industial Heuristics talent scouts were sent out across Bactra ' s holdings to search for students to serve aboard the arxeums , and an agreement was brokered with the Sith Lord Daiman , the ruler of the neighboring Daimanate state , to permit Industrial Heuristics to look for prospective arxeum - bound pupils within Daiman ' s territories . In 1032 BBY , a Daimanite military testing center on the planet Darkknell was destroyed by the Bothan Narsk Ka ' hane , an agent of Daiman ' s elder brother and rival Sith Lord , Odion . In the aftermath of the attack , Daiman sought revenge against his sibling ; after he was contacted by Bactra , the Human Sith requested that Bactra provide him with an arxeum to resolve a weakness in the Daimanite defenses that had been created by the loss of the Darkknell facility . Bactra agreed to give him the Gazzari - based arxeum , and in return Daiman was to provide the Quermian ' s forces with temporary right of passage across Daiman ' s holdings . Bactra then planned to utilize this access to allow his subjects to attack the gadolinium production facilities on the world Vellas Pavo , which were rivals of his own gadolinum extraction operation . In truth , Daiman planned to use the arxeum as a ploy to lure his brother into a trap , and he allowed Ka ' hane to pass on to Odion details of his acquisition of the arxeum . Daiman arranged for the arxeum to be delivered to him on Gazzari , and the Sith Lord believed that , operating on Ka ' hane ' s intelligence , Odion would strike against Gazzari to deny Daiman the vessel . Daiman correctly deduced that Odion ' s assault would come only after the university had been handed over to him , so that the attack on the arxeum would harm Daiman rather than Bactra . He sent thousands of mercenaries to the arxeum ' s scheduled arrival site to lie in wait and ambush the Odionite forces . Hundreds of new students recruited from across the Daimanate were also sent to the Gazarri to await the arxeum and become the university ' s first Daimanite pupils . The arxeum was escorted into the atmosphere of Gazzari by four Industrial Heuristics transports , and it landed in a crater on the planetary surface . However , as the students were led toward the vessel by their droid minders , Odion ' s forces arrived on the planet and engaged the Daimanites in battle . The arxeum came under fire from an Odionite Death Spiral attack vehicle , and the university was soon reduced to molten slag and destroyed . The outcome of the battle was ultimately inconclusive , and the prospective arxeum students were rescued from the battlefield by the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt . Behind the scenes . The arxeum was created by writer John Jackson Miller , being introduced in his 2012 novel " Knight Errant " , a tie - in to the " " comic series .