Vilia Calimondra Vilia Calimondra was a female Human Sith Lord who lived during the Republic Dark Age . Biography . Sith Warlord . Vilia Calimondra married multiple times , acquiring large territories in the Grumani sector and giving birth to seven children . However , all of her children made claims to become Calimondra ' s heir , so in order to decide which one would inherit her empire , she organized a contest , which she called the " Charge Matrica " , challenging her children to expand her territories . However , her daughter Xelian soon declared war on Calimondra ' s son Chagras , resulting in all of her children waging war against each other . Eventually , only Chagras was left , and Calimondra made him her heir . Chagras maintained a tenuous peace through the cooperation of several cousins and grandchildren . He also became the titular ruler of an empire known as the Chagras Hegemony . However , Vilia still lived and controlled some holdings . By 1042 BBY , Chagras was ready to challenge the Galactic Republic . In that year , Xelian ' s eldest son Sith Lord Odion convinced Vilia to authorize an invasion of Aquilaris Minor under the pretext of capturing the Jedi Knight Vannar Treece , a perennial foe of the Sith . However , the invasion was a cover of his own operation to capture several researchers from the University of Sanbra who were involved in a research project to locate the Helm of Ieldis , an ancient Sith artifact created by Ieldis that was capable of driving sentient beings into a homicidal frenzy . The researchers were then conscripted into a task force known as Project Pandemonium which was tasked with locating the Helm . In 1040 BBY , Chagras was killed after being exposed to a nerve toxin . Calimondra then initiated a second " Charge Matrica " , pitting her grandchildren against each other to fight for the right to become her heir . Vilia also employed several agents including Narsk Ka ' hane , a Bothan spy , who officially worked as an independent operator for several Sith Lords . She also had an implant inserted into his head that enabled the Bothan to receive coded transmissions while doing fieldwork . At at unknown time prior to 1032 BBY , Vilia also provided him a Cyricept Personal Concealment System , Mark VI stealth suit with an embedded tracking device . Narsk treasured this state - of - the - art stealth suit which had been developed on Coruscant , the Republic capital , and smuggled through secret networks into Vilia ' s empire . The Mark IV stealth suit had also been specially modified by Vilia ' s technicians to enable her to track Narsk ' s whereabouts . While the suit was deactivated , it silently pinged the secret communications network Vilia had used to monitor her family . Managing family politics . In c . 1032 BBY , Calimondra ordered her grandchildren Daiman and Odion to attack the holdings of the Quermian Sith Lord Ayanos Bactra , an old family friend whom Calimondra believed had outlived his usefulness to them . Following the conquest of the Bactranate , Calimondra subsequently convened a bequest with her grandchildren and divided among them various corporations that Bactra had formerly controlled . Xelian ' s older son Odion received control of the former Bactranate capital of Jutrand while her younger son Daiman gained control of Industrial Heuristics , which supplied military arsenal to the various Sith warlords . After Odion objected to the deal and threatened to kill the corporation ' s staff rather than let them fall into the hands of his estranged younger brother , Vilia offered him two of her legions of Trandoshan slave warriors . While this temporarily resolved the tensions between the two brothers , these would later resurface . During the same bequest , Vilia recognized her granddaughter Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra ' s annexation of the former Dyarchy world of Byllura . The Dyarchy had been ruled by the adolescent twin siblings Quillan and Dromika , the two younger children of her deceased son Chagras . Despite his great Force powers of mind control and far sight , Quillan dwelled entirely within his mind and did not interact with the outside world , delegating those tasks to his sister Dromika and their late Regent Saaj Calician , who had been executed by Arkadianate forces during the invasion of Byllura . In the end , Arkadia offered to send Quillan to be tended by Vilia . She complied and then transmitted a set of hyperspace coordinates across a secure channel to her top secret retreat world . Arkadia ' s Plot . Following the Bequest , Arkadia schemed to have her grandmother murdered , because she believed that Vilia was responsible for the death of her father , Chagras . As part of her plot , Arkadia arranged for someone to escort Quillan to Vilia ’ s world and then kill Vilia . She tried to recruit her guest Jedi Knight Kerra Holt to carry out this assassination but the Jedi woman refused , affirming that she was a Jedi and did not work with the Sith . Arkadia was then forced to rely on the Bothan spy Narsk Ka ’ hane , who was secretly working for Vilia . Since the Bothan was not a Force - user and was untrained in lightsaber combat , Arkadia equipped him with a hoverchair fitted with the nerve toxin Chagras ' s Blood , which had been developed from Synedian algae . She also had a modified shuttle fitted with a hidden compartment in one of its engines to hide the Bothan . Through unknown means , Vilia learnt about Arkadia ' s plot and transmitted a signal to Narsk , ordering him to turn against his current employer Arkadia . In return for providing part of a hyperspace coordinate leading to neutral space , Narsk was able to recruit the Brigadier Jarrow Rusher and convince the mercenary to launch a diversionary attack that would enable him to escape with Quillan from the Arkadianate capital city of Calimondretta on icy Syned . Meanwhile , Narsk broke Kerra out of her prison and after convincing her to cooperate with Rusher ' s attack , he gave her the remaining half of the coordinates . The two launch a diversionary assault on Arkadia ' s forces and military assets on Calimondretta , causing extensive damage to her city and military fleet , which had been assembled for lightning blitz attacks on other Sith principalities in the event that her plot succeeded . Due to the damaged caused by the Siege of Calimondretta , Arkadia was forced to abort her expansionist ambitions of enlarging her empire . While her capital suffered extensive interior damage , Arkadia also lost significant military assets including several factories that manufactured shells containing the nerve toxin Chagras ' s Blood and several warships . Arkadia was forced to also recall reinforcements from Byllura to reinforce her capital and to invest substantial resources into rebuilding Calimondretta . Meanwhile , Narsk was able to escape Calimondretta with Quillan and reached Vilia ' s homeworld safely . Two of Vilia ' s other agents also spirited Dromika away from Byllura , bring her to another one of Vilia ' s worlds . While both twins were now in Vilia ' s custody , she made arrangements to keep them apart from each other and any opportunists who wanted to exploit their powers . Dialogue in the Garden . During the mission , Narsk had lost his ears due to the loud acceleration of the engines . Following his recovery , he had an audience with Vilia at one of her extensive gardens . After Narsk delivered a report on Dromika ' s status and the situation in the Arkadianate , the Bothan asked the Sith matriarch whether she had any role in the death of her son Chagras . Vilia denied her involvement in the death of Arkadia ' s father Chagras by alleging that her granddaughter had a motive and means for murdering her father . Vilia portrayed Arkadia as ambitious younger daughter who feared that her father ' s legacy would go to younger , and more favored siblings . She also cited Arkadia ' s expertise in nerve toxins , the weapon that had brought the death of Chagras , as circumstantial evidence . Vilia then surmised that anyone could also construct a case against Arkadia in the same way manner that they could build one against her . For the Calimondra family , shared illusions mattered as much as bloodlines in explaining the complex and fraught relationship between its various members . Narsk also expressed his concerns that he had freed the Jedi Knight Kerra and speculated that she would not leave Sith Space and thus pose a continual threat to the Sith . The Bothan feared that the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order could exploit Kerra ' s knowledge of the Calimondra family and the " Charge Matrica " in their war effort against the Grumani Sith . However , Vilia dismissed his concerns by arguing that the lack of a mass media in Sith Space inhibited the flow of this information to the general population . She added that the Republic ' s authorities were ineffective against the Sith even when they had good intelligence about their Sith opponents . Finally , Vilia surmised that Kerra remained the sole Jedi throughout the entire Grumani sector . When Narsk reiterated that Kerra could still pose a danger to her dynasty , Vilia described Kerra as an opportunity to give her grandchildren some " learning experiences " with dealing with Jedi in preparation for the day that the Sith would invade Republic territory and face the Jedi Order again . Vilia also justified her policy of sowing discord within her family as a defining basis of Sith identity . Finally , she remarked that Narsk could send her greetings to Arkadia if the opportunity arose that the two crossed paths again . The Helm of Ieldis . By late 1032 BBY , Odion had recovered the Helm of Ieldis on Skarpos , a barren desert world in the Menagerie , the realm ruled by Lord Malakite . After testing the Helm on three Sith armies during the Second Battle of Skarpos , Odion returned to Vanahame and made preparations for launching a galactic apocalypse that would destroy all life except for himself . To attain such destructive powers , Odion planned to harness the life energies of the orphans residing in the local Odionate cloister , a planet - sized mega orphanage . Daiman and Malakite escaped Skarpos and managed to alert Vilia to the threat posed by Odion . During a conversation via hologram , Daiman explained to his grandmother that Odion was tampering with forces he did not understand . Since Odion ' s acquisition of the Helm challenged the balance of power within the Grumani Sector , Calimondra rallied her family to prepare for a military assault on the Odionate . She urged the disparate Sith Lords including Arkadia , Lioko , Malakite , and Trevayne to set aside their differences in order to stop Odion at all costs . While Vilia confided in Daiman that she thought Odion had always been differently guided , she admitted that she had gravely underestimated his nihilistic ambitions of galactic destruction . She added that no one should want to be the " king of a graveyard " . Vilia attempted to contact Odion and reason with him but he ignored her entreaties . Odion then activated the Helm , launching the entire Grumani sector into a homicidal frenzy . Even the Sith were not immune with several warships opening fire on each other and several Sith Lords like Daiman being forced to fend off their crew . However , Odion ' s plot failed due to the actions of Kerra Holt and his second - in - command General Beld Yulan , who had turned against his master ' s nihilistic ambitions and freed the captives from the cloister . Following the death of Odion , the former Odionate was divided up among the various members of the Calimondra family . Behind the scenes . Vilia Calimondra makes her first appearance in John Jackson Miller ' s first professional novel , " Knight Errant " . Her name is an anagram of Livia , the mother of Tiberius .