Aron Holt Aron Holt was a male Human who lived during the last century of the New Sith Wars . He was the husband of Mercia Holt and the father of Kerra Holt . His profession as of 1042 BBY was that of a skin diver . In 1042 BBY , while expecting their second child , Mercia and Aron were captured during an attack on their homeworld by the forces of the Sith Lord Odion . The pair were subsequently transferred to Odion ' s Project Pandemonium , an effort to locate the Helm of Ieldis . Their last known location was Sarrassia where they cooperated with the Grumani Hierophant s to conceal the fact that the Helm was located on Skarpos , a bleak desert world in the Menagerie . There , he and his wife sacrificed themselves in an attempt to deny the Sith with access to the Helm , by using explosives to destroy the chamber within the Morbollon Mesa storing it . Despite their deaths , their sacrifice motivated Kerra to stop Odion ' s attempts to dominate the galaxy . Biography . The Helm of Ieldis . Aron Holt was a skin diver who lived on Aquilaris Minor during the Republic Dark Age . He and his wife archaeologist Mercia Holt were researchers from the University of Sanbra . They were the parents of Jedi Knight Kerra Holt , residing at a house in the city of Capital Cay . Prior to the Sith invasion of Aquilaris , Aron and his wife became involved in a research project searching Helm of Ieldis , a Sith artifact developed by Lord Ieldis which would turn sentient beings into mindless killers . One of their research expeditions took them to the planet Sarrassia where they established contact with the Grumani Hierophant s , one of the many religious sects inhabiting that planet . During that time , they befriended the Woostoid Grumani priestess Aunt Zoojoo , who became a close family friend . Kerra climbed onto the roof of the Great Hall , she caused the abbot to suffer a stroke . Kerra was later reprimanded by her parents for her mischievous actions . In 1042 BBY , the planet Sanbra and its university were raided by Sith Chagras Hegemony forces under Sith Lord Odion , forcing the research team to flee offworld . Odion uncovered information about the Helm and sought to use it to gain an edge over his Sith compatriots . The Holts and ten other researchers fled to Aquilaris Minor , a backwater watery world in the Grumani sector . There , they were planning to meet several Jedi on Aquilaris including Jedi Knight Vannar Treece . However , Odion obtained intelligence that the researchers were there . He was subsequently gained authorization to invade Aquilaris from the Sith matriarch Vilia Calimondra , under the ruse of capturing Treece , a perennial foe of the Sith . Later that year , Aquilaris was invaded by Chagras Hegemony forces under Lord Odion who wiped out the weak Republic defenses , and slaughtered and enslaved much of the population . By that time , his wife Mercia was pregnant with their second child . During the invasion of Capital Cay , Aron helped his wife Mercia conceal her research and was seen sporting a blaster pistol in the event that Sith troops stormed their house . They planned to flee to the harbor and escape on a submersible manned by the Seacroppers ' Guild . While their house was being besieged by Sith troopers , Mercia instructed her daughter Kerra to flee to the harbor first . Her parents would then meet up with her and they would flee with Joad Kreel and his father into the open seas . Finally , Mercia told her daughter not to come back looking for them and promised that they would join her there . Captivity and Death . After Kerra fled , the house was invaded by a group of Sith troopers who overpowered and took the couple captive . Odion had ordered his forces to capture all the Sanbra researchers within that area in order to capture the Helm before his Sith compatriots could . Kerra would flee to the harbor but would return when her parents did not join her and Joad . Kerra subsequently was found by the Jedi Knight Vannar Treece who managed to evacuate her offworld in a starfighter . She subsequently became a Jedi Knight and would return to help her homeworld during the Aquilaris campaign . Due to their occupations , Aron and his wife were forcibly inducted into Odion ' s Project Pandemonium which aimed to locate the Helm of Ieldis . In 1039 BBY , Mercia and Aron returned to Sarrassia as part of their research project . This visit occurred a few days prior to the conquest of Sarrassia by Lord Ayanos Bactra . Prior to their Sarrassian trip , Kerra deduced that Mercia had given birth to a second child but it was presumably taken away from them and raised at an Odionate cloister , a network of orphanages run by the Odionate . While they revealed to Aunt Zoojoo that they had been sent by Odion to find the artifact , she sensed that they had not yet succumbed to his nihilistic ' sickness . ' Together , the pair conspired with the Grumani Hierophant s to locate and hide the artefact from Odion . Mercia translated the Hierophant markings and managed to locate the Helm on Skarpos , a barren desert world in the Menagerie , a realm ruled by the Sith Lord Malakite . The Holts then sealed an agreement with the Grumani where they would deny him access to the Helm at all costs . In 1038 BBY , the Holts managed to find the Helm within the Grumani temple chamber in the Morbollon Mesa on Skarpos . During the internecine fighting between the regional Sith Lords , the Mesa was besieged by unknown Sith forces , leaving Aron and his wife trapped within a network of caves and tunnels . Realizing the dangers of the Helm falling into the wrong hands and unable to escape , the Holts instead detonated explosives in the chamber , destroying the structure and sacrificing themselves in the process . Prior to their deaths , they left a holorecording for Vannar Treece and any other Jedi who were working with the University of Sabra on the Ieldis study . However , the Helm of Ieldis was a Sith artifact imbued with dark side powers and survived the explosion . Legacy . Since they never returned from that trip , Zoojoo assumed they succeeded . Following that trip to Sarrassia , there were no further written records of their fate . In 1032 BBY , Kerra Holt infiltrated the Odionate disguised as a Novitiate recruit following the Battle of Darkknell with the connivance of rival Sith Lord Daiman , the estranged younger brother of Odion . At Jubalene , she learned that her parents had been captured by Odion and had been conscripted into Project Pandemonium . Kerra subsequently traveled to Sarrassia during the Sith invasion and quickly learned about details of their Sarrassian trip from Aunt Zoojoo prior to her demise . After learning that the Helm was located on Skarpos , Kerra would follow her Sith companions in her quest to ascertain the fate of her parents and her younger sibling . During the Second Battle of Skarpos , Kerra managed to enter the Grumani temple chamber only to discover a mound of earth and that Odion had already claimed the Helm for himself . Kerra was subsequently taken captive by Odion and brought to the top of the mesa . General Beld Yulan ' s troops did an excavation of the collapsed temple chamber and discovered the skeletal remains of Aron Holt and his wife . The realization that her parents had died drove Kerra into a deep grief , which activated the Helm of Ieldis . The Helm was capable of amplifying negative emotions like grief and despair to increase its user ' s dark side powers . Odion subsequently use the Helm to destroy three entire armies on Skarpos , forcing his two rivals Lords Daiman and Malakite to flee . Following the battle , Beld Yulan showed Kerra the holorecording left by her parents where they explained their decision to bury themselves with the Helm in order to deny it to the Sith . While Yulan was unable to understand why they chose to die for everyone else , Kerra perfectly understood that if death could have a meaning then life must have a meaning . This made Kerra better appreciate the sacrifices of her parents and galvanized her determination to stop Odion from testing the Helm on more subjects : the children incarcerated with the Odionate cloister at Vanahame .