Duel on Chelloa The Duel on Chelloa was a duel between the Sith Lord Daiman and the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt at Daiman ' s compound on Chelloa during the Chelloa campaign of the Republic Dark Age . History . Background . During Operation Influx , the Jedi Master Vannar Treece and a team of Jedi disrupted the shipment of baradium ores within the Daimanate by raiding Orrananan and Chelloa . However , Operation : Influx came to an untimely end on Chelloa when the entire strike team with the exception of Jedi Knight Kerra Holt were wiped out during a confrontation with Sith Lord Odion , the leader of the Odionate principality and the estranged elder brother of Daiman . Holt was the sole Jedi survivor and was sheltered by Gorlan Palladane , a former Jedi Knight and undercover Jedi agent who had supplied intelligence on Chelloa to Treece . Gorlan also led the Chelloan resistance , an underground resistance dedicated to covertly assisting the Republic and Jedi in their war effort against the Sith . Since the baradium operations on Chelloa were secret , Daiman sought to investigate how intelligence was leaked to his rival Odion . He apprehended the Rodian mechanic Skodo , a member of the Chelloan resistance , and had him tortured to death with Force lightning at his alpine compound above the mining colony of Jenith . The duel . Hijacking the shuttle used to deliver one of Daiman ' s statues , Kerra Holt flew to Daiman ' s compound and landed in the hangar bay . Preoccupied with tormenting Skodo , Daiman did not sense Holt infiltrating the compound , quietly eliminating the guards outside the chamber . She sneaked a room and hid on top of one of Daiman ' s statues . After Daiman had finished with the deceased Skodo , he ordered his guards to remove the deceased Rodian from his chamber . However , he noticed that one of his statues had been beheaded . While Daiman was taken by surprised , Holt launched her attack , destroying the statue and pushing Daiman to the ground . Amidst the scuffle , Holt trapped Daiman in a suspension field . She attended to Skodo but sensing no pulse , realized he was dead . She confronted Daiman verbally , attacking his destruction of Chelloa ' s environment and the use of slaves to operate his mobile munitions complex es . Daiman defended his actions by affirming his belief in the Sith tenet of self - glorification and reiterating his philosophy that reality was an illusion . While using his Force abilities to free himself from the suspension field , he distracted Holt by revealing that Odion was planning a second attack and had a mobile space station — The Spike — capable of producing more of the deadly world - destroying kinetic corruptor s . Breaking free , he managed to reactivate his lightsaber and turned to confront Holt . However , Holt had fled and hijacked one of Daiman ' s starfighters , knocking out the pilot . Daiman had dispatched a flight of starfighters to attack Odion ' s space station . Rather than aborting the mission , Daiman viewed Holt as a tool against his main rival Odion . Behind the scenes . The Duel on Chelloa first appeared in " " as a plot device leading to the climax . It also sought to provide readers with more insight into the motives and nature of two major characters important to the plot : Jedi Knight Kerra Holt and her opponent Sith Lord Daiman