First Battle of Skarpos

The Battle of Skarpos was a campaign during the Republic Dark Age in 1,032 BBY which pitted Sith Lord Odion's principality the Odionate against Lord Malakite's forces in the Menagerie, his personal realm. A Sith invasion force led by the Novitiate lieutenant Yulan engaged Malakite's space forces and landed on Skarpos, a barren desert world in Malakite's Menagerie. The landing force included a disguised Jedi Knight Kerra Holt who had infiltrated the Novitiates under the pseudonym Mercy. Yulan's forces sustained substantial casualties during an ambush by Lord Malakite's forces. They were subsequently reassigned by the Odionate Claimer Wayman for a new assignment to locate the Helm of Ieldis, an ancient Sith relic. Meanwhile, Odion's invasion force pressed on their offensive against Malakite's army of Mutates.

Background
By the last century of the New Sith Wars, the galaxy was in the throes of a dark age. The Galactic Republic had shrunken to a defensive cordon behind the Colonies and large areas of the Outer Rim were under the sway of various feuding Sith Lords. Following the collapse of the Chagras Hegemony, the Grumani Sector in the Outer Rim had descended into a power vacuum as his Sith relatives fought each other for dominance. Each of these Sith lords ruled their own interstellar fiefdoms and had their own military forces. These internecine conflicts devastated large areas of the sector and affected the lives of billions of sentients.

In 1,032 BBY, the Sith Lords were briefly usurped by the Hutt crimelord Zodoh who tried unsuccessfully to carve up his own empire in the sector. Zodoh was ultimately defeated during the Battle of Darkknell by the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt who subsequently established contact with the Sith Lord Daiman, the ruler of a princedom centered around the planet Darkknell. Both Kerra and Daiman shared a common enemy in the form of the Sith Lord Odion for different reasons and sought to eliminate him. Kerra wanted revenge for the terror Odion inflicted on her homeworld of Aquilarius Minor while Daiman hated his estranged brother and had foreseen a great tribulation emanating from within Odion's domain.

With Daiman's connivance, Kerra managed to establish contact with the Odionate agent Wayman, who worked as a recruiting agent for Odion's elite Force-wielding corps known as the Novitiates. Under the pseudonym "Mercy", Kerra joined the Novitiates.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 11: Escape, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 12: Escape, Part 2