Battle of Vanahame The Battle of Vanahame was a battle during the New Sith Wars which occurred on the planet Vanahame in 1032 BBY . Earlier , Sith Lord Odion had acquired the Helm of Ieldis , an ancient Sith artifact from the planet Skarpos . The Helm was capable of converting negative emotions like grief and angst into dark side energy that was capable of driving sentient beings into a homicidal frenzy , even through hyperspace . Following a successful test demonstration on Skarpos , Odion returned to the cloister — a planet - sized mega orphanage — on Vanahame where he intended to use the Helm to harness the emotions of the thousands orphans and unleash it on the entire Grumani sector . Odion ' s nihilistic bid for galactic domination drew opposition from the other Sith Lords in the Calimondra family who dispatched a combined fleet to stop him . Odion ' s plans were ultimately foiled when the captive Jedi Knight Kerra Holt successfully convinced his General Beld Yulan about the sanctity of life . While Odion was able to unleash the Helm on his Sith " family " and selected targets within the Grumani sector , Yulan switched back on the lights and freed the children from their bubble prisons . This immediately ended the Helm ' s homicidal frenzy and caused it to overload , killing Odion in the process . With the death of Odion , his Sith family including his estranged brother Daiman quickly invaded the Odionate and carved up his territories . Meanwhile , Kerra and Yulan freed the orphans on Vanahame . Yulan evacuated the orphans on Vanahame into Republic space while Kerra vowed to liberate their parents from the other Sith Lords . Prelude . Following his successful demonstration of the Helm of Ieldis on Skarpos , Odion flew his warship " Gravedigger " to Vanahame , a moon which served as a transit base within the Odionate and a planet - sized mega orphanage known as a cloister . Due to Odion ' s hypersensitive Force powers and his abusive childhood , Odioon had imprisoned all the children in his realm within a series of cloisters where they would be indoctrinated into pliable workers and soldiers for his nihilistic cause . However , Odion now had new plans for his captives . Having witnessed how the Helm was able to convert his foe Jedi Knight Kerra Holt ' s grief into dark side energy which drove three entire armies on Skarpos into a homicidal frenzy , Odion now intended to utilize the negative emotions of his child captives and unleash them on the entire Grumani sector . For Odion , he was approaching his goal of galactic domination ; one where he was the sole sentient being in the universe . Odion ' s Sith family — the powerful Calimondra family — ruled a series of fiefdoms within the sector . His estranged younger brother and fellow Sith Lord Daiman had witnessed the devastating effects of the Helm on Skarpos and had warned the family matriach Vilia Calimondra . In a rare moment of common purpose , the rival Sith Lords assembled their warships and set on a hyperspace course for Vanahame in an attempt to stop Odion from harnessing the full powers of the Helm . Despite their traditional animosity to each other , these Sith Lords realized the dangers of the Helm to the galaxy . In an attempt to reason with her grandson , Vilia tried to communicate with Odion by intercom but he ignored her . According to his own twisted nihilistic worldview , Odion had no family or friends but rather enemies would have to be killed so that he could end the pain of existence . Odion ' s Novitiate s had installed a series of subspace links which would provide live feeds of the Helm ' s effects on locations within Odion ' s targeting range . His Claimer Beld Yulan asserted that Odion and his followers should be albe to see the Helm ' s effects elsewhere within his realm . Odion also had a captive Kerra bound to a frame where she would be forced to watch the killing and bloodshed wrought by the Helm being broadcast life . Odion attempted to goad Kerra by asking if she wanted to hear her parents ' last words on the holorecorder but she declined , asking that she would rather see his enemies come for him . The Battle . Heart of Darkness . At a signal , Odion ordered the staff manning the Cloister to switch off all the lights in the Cloister for the first time . The child captives lived a highly - regimented and spartan lifestyle within their bubble prisons in the cloister . Their entire lives functioned according to a daily circadian rhythm based on artificial light frequencies . Inmates had no contact with each other and were only able through the top of their bubble capsules . In that very hour , the children had just woken up from their daily sleep cycle and were having breakfast in anticipation for their morning holo - tutorial schedules . Among these children was the Duros Jeeree Kayl who had come to find his comfort zone in the monotonous daily schedule . Since the lights had never been switched off before , the sudden descent into pitch - black darkness plunged all the children into a state of panic and fear . Many of them started crying , creating the necessary surge of negative emotions like anguish and fear which were needed to power the Helm . While Odion and most of his Novitiates took pleasure in the children ' s plight , Kerra and his traditionally loyal second - in - command General Beld Yulan expressed disquiet and disgust . Yulan commented to Kerra that frightening the children was the worst form of torture devised by an adult mind . Odion taunted Kerra that she was missing out on " joy " by rejecting the Sith path . He also added that if she had known what was coming , she would have given into the dark side of the Force and accepted his nihilistic religion . However since she was still a lightsider , Kerra could only watch in captivity . Meanwhile , Kerra attempted to convince Yulan about the errors of serving the Sith and urged him to destroy the facility . When Yulan asked if she was willing to die to save people she did not even know , Kerra responded thast she wanted to live and also save the kids . Kerra succeeded in reasoning with Yulan by arguing that the only thing that separated droids from peoople was that people could accomplish something even in death . She succeeded in convincing him to save the children in the cloister to prevent a repeat of the tragedy that killed his beloved children . As Odion ' s Novitiates prepared for an apocalyptic end of the galaxy , Yulan managed to leave the chamber by feigning that he wanted to go down to the cloister to add his misery to the children . Yulan deceived Odion into believing that he wanted to die downstairs with the children so that he could add more energy to the Helm ' s powers . Odion had also planned to shut down the life support after harnessing the life energies of the people down there . Odion granted this request to reward Yulan for his devotion to his nihilistic ideology . Unleashing Pandemonium . With the Helm of Ieldis fully charged up by the energies of Odion ' s child captives , Odion unleashed his powers during a ceremony . He began with a rousing statement of his beliefs before exhorting his Novitiates to " end the pain " by killing each other in a murderous frenzy . Meanwhile , Odion used the Helm to unleash a wave of homicidal killings throughout the Grumani sector with unknown numbers of sentients being killed or wounded in the ensuing anarchy . The Helm also had an effect on his Sith family ' s invasion fleet in hyperspace . Several warships began to fire on each other and Daiman was forced to fight off several maddened crew on his flagship with Force lightning . Kerra was able to escape her bonds and grabbed a red lightsaber , intending to kill Odion while he was seated on his throne . However , she was attacked by Wayman , who had earlier befriended her when she infiltrated the Odionate while pretending to be an enthusiastic Sith devotee . After she refused to yield to Odion , Wayman punched Kerra , causing her to drop her lightsaber . Odion expressed his sadistic enjoyment of the ongoing killings within the wider Grumani sector and his throne room on Vanahame . Meanwhile , Yulan entered the control room which controlled all the lights within the Cloister . The two men operating the lights were caught unaware , being more preoccupied with the screaming coming from the frightened children and the ensuing uproar occurring upstairs . When one of the operators tried to tell Yulan to leave , Yulan shot him in the head with a blaster pistol . He then confronted the remaining operator , a Human man named Murl , and ordered him to step away from the controls at gunpoint . Yulan quickly switched back on the lights which immediately ended the state of fear and panic among the cloister children . Saving the Galaxy . Yulan ' s actions of restoring the lights in the cloister had an immediate impact on the Helm . Odion was about to unleash all the powers in the Helm on the entire galaxy which would bring the deaths of trillions of sentients , allowing him to reach his nihilistic goal of being the sole being existing in the universe . However , the Helm ' s powers suddenly stopped as the emotions within the cloister changed from despair to relief , ending the Force - induced murderous frenzy within seconds . Wayman was taken by surprise by his master ' s sudden shock and Kerra took the opportunity to impale him with her lightsaber , killing the Novitiate . By the time Odion had realized what had happened in the cloister , Yulan had by then thrown the other switch which released all the children from their bubble prisons . Immediately , the emotions within the Cloister changed from fear and misery to joy as the child captives celebrated their freedom . This sudden surge in positive emotions caused the Helm of Ieldis to overload , creating a firestorm which breached a hole in the sealed throne room and setting Odion alight . This Force - induced fire was created by a surge of life and happiness which proved too much for Odion to cope . As Odion was burning in flames , he begged Kerra to save his life by removing the Helm and taking him to Jubalene where his burns could be treated . He feared the arrival of his enemies and the collapse of the Odionate at the hands of his Sith rivals . Kerra however was unmoved by his parleying since he had tried to destroy everything that existed . She also mentioned that her parents ' death meant something to her and added that his death would have also have a meaning for her . Out of desperation , Odion tried to save his life by mentioning that he could help her find her younger sibling if she only agreed to spare him . However , Kerra by then had come around to the view that all the children in the cloisters throughout the Odionate were her brothers and sisters . Due to the lack of records available , it was very had to find lost family members who had been processed into the cloister system . The sibling would have grown up not knowing the identity of its parents and his or her relationship to Kerra . Instead , Kerra refused to bargain with Odion and let him burn to death . Aftermath . After the death of Odion , Kerra was immediately rejoined in the throne room by Yulan , who had completely renounced his Sith ways . He was now surrounded by several small children who had come to adopt him as their de - facto father . Meanwhile , Odion ' s Sith relatives took advantage of the power vacuum within the Odionate to annex as much territory as they could . Due to the centralized nature of governance within the Odionate , the death of its titular leader meant that there was no successor who could fill this vacuum . Odion ' s estranged younger brother took the largest stake within the former Odionate , seeing an opportunity to expand his own empire . Following the events on Vanahame , Kerra and Yulan rescued as many orphans as they could from the cloisters they could reach . However , they were unable to reach all twelve of the planet - sized orphanages since the other Sith Lords had already annexed other parts of the former Odionate . Kerra and Yulan subsequently landed on an unknown terrestrial planet with green fields and hills where they had organized an airlift operation to evacuate the children to safety . While Kerra and Yulan were unable to reunite all the children with their parents , Yulan agreed to ferry the liberated children to the Galactic Republic . Meanwhile , Kerra agreed to free their parents and bring them to the Republic where they could be reunited .