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 1,042 BBY was that of a skin diver. In 1,042 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 Hierophants to conceal the fact that the Helm was located on Skarpos, a bleak desert world in the Menagerie.

Biography
Aron Holt was a skin diver who lived on Aquilaris Minor during the Republic Dark Age. He married Mercia Holt and became the father of Jedi Knight Kerra Holt, residing at a house in the city of Capital Cay. Prior to the Sith invasion of Aquilaris, he accompanied his wife and daughter to Sarrassia where Mercia was involved in archaeological research on the Helm of Ieldis,a Sith artefact developed by Lord Ieldis which would turn sentient beings into mindless killers. When 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 callous actions.

In 1,042 BBY, Aquilaris was invaded by forces of the Sith Chagras Hegemony led by Sith Lord Odion who wiped out the weak Republic defenses and slaughtered and enslaved much of the population. His wife at that time was expecting her second child. During the invasion of Capital Cay, he 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 harbour 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 harbour 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 they would join her. After Kerra fled, the house was invaded by a group of Sith troopers who overpowered and took the couple captive. Kerra would flee to the harbour 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 1,039 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. While they revealed to Aunt Zoojoo that they had been sent by Odion to find the artefact, she sensed that they had not yet succumbed to his nihilistic 'sickness.' Together, the pair conspired with the Grumani Hierophants to hide the artefact from Odion. However, they first had to find the Helm of Ieldis before he did. Based on readings of ancient hieroglyphs at the Hierophant's temple, Mercia was able to discern that the Helm was located on Skarpos, a barren desert world in the Menagerie, a realm ruled by the Sith Lord Malakite.

The Holts sealed an agreement with the Grumani where they would mislead the Sith about the true location of the Helm. In exchange, the Hierophants agreed to guard the temple beneath Mount Diligence at all costs. Since they never returned from that trip, Zoojoo assumed they succeeded. Following that trip to Sarrassia, there were no further written records of what they did after that. Prior to their Sarrassian trip, Kerra deduced that Mercia had given birth to another child but little else was known. In 1,032 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 learnt that her parents had been captured by Odion and had been conscripted into Project Pandemonium.

Kerra subsequently travelled to Sarrassia during the Sith invasion and quickly learnt 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 sibbling.

Appearances

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