Chelloan affair The Chelloan affair was a campaign of the New Sith Wars and Second Charge Matrica that was fought on the planet Chelloa in 1032 BBY . It was a three - way campaign involving the two rival Sith Lords Daiman , Odion and the Jedi Order and Chelloan resistance represented by Vannar Treece , Kerra Holt , and Gorlan Palladane . Chelloa was part of Daiman ' s princedom known as the Daimanate , a remnant of the Chagras Hegemony led by Lord Chagras whose demise led to anarchy within the Grumani sector . Each party had their own vested interest in the planet . Daiman had exploited Chelloa as a source of baradium , an important component into the manufacture of munitions in his war effort . In contrast , Odion had sought to destroy Chelloa since its surplus of baradium upset the balance of the Force according to his nihilistic philosophy . Meanwhile , the Jedi Order through Vannar and Gorlan had sought to destroy Daiman ' s military holdings on Chelloa during Operation Influx in a lightning raid . However , this Jedi taskforce was destroyed during a raid by Odion . The sole survivor was novice Jedi Knight Kerra Holt who linked up with the Chelloan underground led by Gorlan Palladane . As part of a scorched earth campaign , Daiman sought to strategically deny Chelloa and its baradium deposits to Odion . He managed to infiltrate several Kinetic corruptor s disguised as mobile munitions complex es onto Chelloa . Daiman then tricked Kerra into luring Odion and his Lightning Guard onto Chelloa with false intelligence that he was going to expand his baradium operations . Odion attempted to secure control of these for his war effort but was caught in a trap when the disguised Kinetic corruptors ignited large areas of Chelloa ' s surface ; killing much of Odion ' s army . Meanwhile , Kerra and Gorlan succeeded in evacuating much of Chelloa ' s civilian population in a hastily - assembled fleet of transports and cargo liner s which became known as the Freedom Fleet . History . Background . During the the Republic Dark Age , the weakened Galactic Republic was forced to retreat to a security cordon around the Core Worlds , Colonies , and the Inner Rim ; effectively abandoning large swaths of the galaxy including the Outer Rim Territories to various Sith warlords . By 1040 BBY , the Sith warlord Chagras had carved up an empire in the Grumani sector known as the Chagras Hegemony . Following his death that year , the sector descended into chaos as various Sith warlords fought for control over his former domain . Chagras ' mother Vilia Calimondra , the matriarch of the Calimondra family encouraged this fighting in order to safeguard her own extensive holdings . By 1032 BBY , the planet Chelloa had come under the domination of the Sith Lord Daiman , a narcissistic Sith who believed himself to be the creator of the universe . That year , Lord Daiman began extracting baradium , a highly volatile substance used in the manufacture of munitions , from Chelloa ' s surface . The baradium was shipped offworld to Daiman ' s war forges on the front line . Daiman ' s baradium production operations caused extensively damaged to the formerly pleasant agrarian world . Daiman ' s baradium production operations attracted the operation of Gorlan Palladane , a former Jedi – turned – spy who relayed this intelligence to his old friend Jedi Master Vannar Treece in Coruscant . In response , Treece devised a hit – and – run military operation called Operation Influx to knock out a portion of the Chelloan baradium production before it could alter the balance of power within the Grumani sector . Master Treece ' s Operation Influx was a three – stage military operation which firstly involved insertion into the Daimanate via Oranessan , a key transport hub ; secondly the raid on Chelloa itself ; and thirdly extraction via a direct hyperspace lane to neutral space . Unknown to Palladane and his Rodian friend Skodo , their communications were being intercepted by Daiman ' s estranged brother , the Sith Lord Odion who saw himself as the destroyer of the universe . Viewing the abundance of baradium on Chelloa as a source of imbalance in the Force , Odion decided to destroy the planet with kinetic corruptor s , large machines capable of igniting baradium and generating molten activity . Meanwhile , the first stage of Operation Influx proceeded smoothly . Vannar ' s Jedi team succeeded in infiltrating Oranessan and stealing a Daimanate Heavy - Lift Starcrosser with minimal difficulties . They then traveled to Chelloa under the pretext of picking up a new shipment of Chelloan baradium . Tragedy at Jenith . Master Treece ' s Starcrosser freighter landed at the spaceport of Jenith while Daiman ' s slaves were loading crates of baradium onto freighters destined for the front lines . Their freighter rammed into several Daimanate cargo liners and ignited several of the baradium crates , causing chaos among the Sith ranks . After overwhelming Daimanate Sith trooper s , the Jedi tended to the wounded and made preparations to escape into hyperspace . Treece also made contact with his old friend Gorlan , the leader of the slave miners in Jenith and the Chelloan resistance . Before they could proceed with the third phase of Operation Influx , Lord Odion ' s forces arrived above Squatter ' s Hill and launched an attack on Treece ' s Jedi team . Amidst the fighting , Master Treece gave orders for his former apprentice the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt to evacuate the Jenith slaver miners . Kerra reluctantly complied with her mentor ' s orders . During the battle , Odion deployed a kinetic corruptor , which caused a massive explosion that destroyed much of the spaceport and killed or wounded many of the workers and combatants including most of Treece ' s Jedi team with the exception of Kerra . Odion also killed Treece following a prolonged lightsaber duel . Kerra and Gorlan managed to survive the inferno since they managed to evacuate aboard their cargo freighter . Kerra Holt was the sole surviving member of Vannar Treece ' s Jedi mission . While the survivors began attending to the wounded , Lord Daiman arrived on a repulsorcraft . Unconcerned at the loss of life and the wounded , Daiman demanded to know how the Jedi and his rival Odion discovered his baradium operation on Chelloa . When Gorla expressed ignorance , Daiman used Force choke to strangle the former . However , Kerra intervened and tried to force Daiman to stop tormenting Palladane at gunpoint . Admiring her courage , Daiman spared Gorlan ' s life and mockingly told Kerra to embrace her anger . Showing little concern for the well - being of his subjects , Daiman ordered them to erect up one of his statues in the village square before dismissing the crowd . Kerra ' s anger at Daiman ' s apathy towards his subjects led her to embark on an assassination attempt against the Sith Lord . Confronting the creator . Since the baradium operations on Chelloa were secret , Daiman sought to investigate how intelligence was leaked to nhis 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 . 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 his chamber . She sneaked a room and hid on top of one of Daiman ' s statues . After Daiman had finished with torturing Skodo to death with Force lightning , 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 corruptors . 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 . In reality , Daiman planned to use Kerra to dissuade his rival Odion from carrying out his plan to destroy Chelloa ; Odion believed that the abundance of baradium on Chelloa caused an imbalance in the Force . Daiman had misled Kerra with disinformation that Chelloa was rich in baradium and the Sith Lord hoped to lure his estranged brother into a trap on Chelloa . Rather than risk having to defend his beleaguered holding , Daiman preferred to destroy Chelloa in order to deny its resources to rival Sith Lords like Odion . Unwilling to waste anymore resources in defending Chelloa , Daiman had only dispatched a token force of starfighters to harry Odion ' s fleet . Confronting the destroyer . As planned , Daiman ' s token starfighter force assailed Lord Odion ' s mobile space station / foundry the Spike and his fleet . However , they were easily wiped out by Odion ' s gunships , which included his flagship the " Sword of Ieldis " . In the midst of the attack , Holt bailed out from her starfighter into space and infiltrated The Spike by entering through an open hatch . Discarding her spacesuit , she disabled a service droid and then made her way to the Pod Seventeen in the vast assembly area . There , Holt overpowered a labor droid known as GAD - 3 and reset his motivation center . Gad - 3 revealed that The Spike was dedicated to the production of kinetic corruptors . Kerra then made her way to Pod Seventeen where she witnessed Lord Odion and his Givin second - in - command Jelcho inspecting the factory . Kerra hid under a catwalk and eavesdropped on Odion and Jelcho ' s conversation . Jelcho informed his liege that an informant , later revealed to be Gorlan Palladane , had supplied intelligence on the existence of Daiman ’ s baradium operations . From a recorded transmission , the informant claimed that all of Daiman ’ s mining operations were permanently offline in an attempt to draw Sith attention away from Chelloa . However , Odion dismissed the informant ' s latest reports as an attempt by Daiman or other parties to undermine his planned baradium operations . Odion was aware that the extraction of baradium , a volatile material , would cause extensive devastation to Chelloa ' s surface . Odion then concluded the meeting by ordering all his kinetic corruptors to be prepared for landing on Chelloa to harvest all the baradium . At that point , Odion sensed an intruder ' s presence in the Force and ripped apart the catwalk , exposing Kerra Holt . The young Jedi Knight led Odion and his minions on a cat - and - mouse chase throughout the Spike , causing some damage to the foundry ' s facilities . During a verbal confrontation , Kerra revealed that Daiman was shipping in thousands of slaves in mobile munitions factories each day . Kerra escaped Odion by using Gad - 3 to open all containment fields , exposing the station to Zero - G space . This triggered an explosion that wrecked large areas of The Spike , destroying many labor droids and killing many workers . Further destruction was averted only by Jelcho reactivating the emergency shielding . Taking advantage of the ensuing chaos , Kerra escaped on a stolen shuttle . Lord Odion pursued her in his gunship " Sword of Ieldis " and prepared to fire on her . However , their confrontation was interrupted by an incoming transmission from Daiman , who informed Odion that he had seized his informant , Gorlan . As a reprisal for the leakage , Daiman had ordered a military crackdown on all mining settlements on Chelloa with his troops razing and pillaging the homes of the masses . Witnessing the plight of her friend , Holt aborted her plan to ram Odion ' s gunship and did a quick jump into hyperspace . Due to Kerra ' s information , Odion abandoned his plan to destroy Chelloa and mustered his elite Lightning Guard for a ground invasion of Chelloa . Odion intended to annex the planet to his fiefdom , the Odionate . However , this information about Daiman ' s planned expansion of baradium operations on Chelloa was actually disinformation planted by Daiman to lure Odion into a trap . Saving the people . Meanwhile on Chelloa , Lord Daiman ordered his troops to massacre the inhabitants of the town of Jenith as a reprisal for Gorlan ' s leakage of his baradium operations to Odion and the Jedi . Under Daiman ' s orders , his troops razed much of the town and slaughtered its people . The operation also sought to hunt down other members of the Chelloan resistance and their families . Two Sith troopers also invaded the Palladane family household but were repelled by Kerra , who had returned to Jenith . Kerra then hitched a ride aboard a Daimanate transport to Daiman ' s compound on the hills above Jenith . This shuttle was carrying the leaders of ten Chelloan mining towns for an audience with Lord Daiman . Upon landing , Kerra emerged from her hiding place and killed the guards . After freeing the prisoners , she instructed them to move the transport to the outer wall . If Daiman returned , she instructed to leave without her and Palladane and to make for a safehouse in the town of Arboth . Kerra then made her way to Daiman ' s dungeons where she free Gorlan , who admitted to contacting Odion . He explained that he and Skodo had used a transmitter to reactivated a single interstellar routing station . However , he was unaware that Odion had been tapping into the signals . Gorlan explained that he had contacted Odion in order to dissuade him from attack Chelloa . Seeing the good motives behind his actions , Holt comforted Palladane by telling him that he had done his best to protect his people . Kerra and Gorlan then returned to their transport and headed for Arboth with the mining town leaders . By that stage , Kerra came to the realization that her mission was not to destroy the two Sith Lords but rather to " save " the Chelloan people . As a final gesture of defiance , Kerra beheaded all of Daiman ' s statues . After arriving at Arboth , Kerra explored the fleet of transports that had supposedly been transporting workers for the mobile munitions factories . She quickly discovered that the transports had been empty all that time . Deducing that Daiman did not intend to expand his mining presence on Chelloa , she suggested that the Chelloan resistance used these ships to evacuate Chelloa ' s entire population of 60 , 000 sentients , scattered across ten mining towns . Gorlan agreed to assist Kerra in this effort and renewed his Jedi vows . Escaping the apocalypse . As Daiman had planned , his older brother Odion took the bait and launched a full - scale planetary invasion of Chelloa . Odion landed a large assault force of gunships , Lightning Guard soldiers , and tanks at Arboth and wiped out the token Daimanate resistance . Before Odion ' s men could seize the mobile munitions factories , the vast vehicles unsheathed their pyramid exteriors to reveal that they were actually kinetic corruptors . Soon , it became clear to everyone that Daiman intended to destroy Chelloa ' s surface rather than allow his enemies to seize the resource - rich world . The kinetic corruptors unleashed a series of magma explosions that consumed Odion ' s forces . Stranded , Odion and his surviving fled to a fleet of nearby freighters only to be rebuffed by Kerra Holt and Gorlan Palladane , who had requisitioned the ships for the purpose of evacuating Chelloa ' s population . By that stage , the two Jedi had organized the Chelloan resistance into teams which seized control of the freighters , which were formed into the " Freedom Fleet " . Daiman learnt too late that the Jedi had gotten to his decoy transports first . Daiman attempted to shoot down the " Freedom Fleet " but was unable to do so since he had ordered his fleet away from Chelloa . Meanwhile , Lord Odion , who was equipped with a jetpack , pursued the Jedi Knight Kerra to the upper atmosphere of Chelloa . Kerra managed to hitchhike on one of the ascending freighters but Odion caught up with her and attempted to finish her off . However , Gorlan resurfaced and attacked Odion , driving him into the engine thrusters . Odion was badly burned during the attack and Gorlan later died of his wounds . Despite Gorlan ' s death , they succeeded in evacuating Chelloa ' s population to Republic space . Aftermath . The Chelloan Affair had some significant repercussions for Kerra Holt and the Grumani sector . As a result , Kerra attracted the attention of the Sith Lords Odion , Daiman , and their grandmother Vilia Calimondra . Following their evacuation from Chelloa , the Freedom Fleet raided the Daimanate world of Nilash III . There , they attacked a Daimanate factory and freed the local slaves . As a final gesture of defiance , Kerra beheaded Daiman ' s statue which forced the Sith Lord to realize that she " existed . " Kerra Holt would continue her campaign of resistance and sabotage against the Daimanate , which led her to destroy a factory on the Daimanate capital of Darkknell . Behind the scenes . The Chelloan affair serves as the main conflict for " " , the first five – issue story arc of John Jackson Miller ' s " " series , which ran from October 13 , 2010 to February 16 , 2011 . It introduced the comic series ' main protagonist Kerra Holt and the two major antagonists , the Sith Lords Odion and Daiman . The conflict was officially named in " Knight Errant " , a tie – in paperback novel that was released on January 25 , 2011 .