Kerra Holt

Kerra Holt was a Human female Jedi Knight during the New Sith Wars. Kerra determined to make herself into a "living weapon" and, having done so, returned to the areas of the galaxy still controlled by the Sith, determined to fight the Sith wherever she found them. The rival Sith Lord brothers Odion and Daiman were two enemies she encountered.

Early life
Kerra Holt was born in 1,050 BBY on the world of Aquilaris, in the Grumani sector. Her sector of birth was overrun by the Sith, while her family perished during a massive raid on her homeworld carried out by the Sith Lord Odion, who at the time fought under the banner of Chagras, ruler of the Chagras Hegemony. She was saved by Vannar Treece, a charismatic Jedi adventurer, who became her Master.

Operation: Influx
Having a close relationship with her Master, Kerra participated in a Jedi mission known as Operation: Influx and completed the Jedi trials. In 1,032 BBY, Kerra embarked on the operation's second phase which aimed to disrupt the Sith Lord Daiman's baradium shipping operations from the planet Chelloa to the frontline. With the collapse of the Chagras Hegemony, Lord Daiman had established an independent principality known as the Daimanate, developing a personality cult surrounded around his view as "creator of the universe". Chelloa was rich in deposits of volatile baradium which was used in the manufacture of munitions. Daiman exploited countless slaves and local inhabitants as he strip-mined the planet for the valuable ores.

The Jedi were assisted by Gorlan Palladane, an undercover field agent who worked as the leader of Daiman's slave workers and a relief worker. With the help of the Rodian mechanic Skodo, Palladane communicated with the Jedi using a transmitter to activate a routing station in space. While the Jedi received his transmission, it was also intercepted by Daiman's rival Sith Lord brother Odion, who ruled an independent domain known as the Odionate. However while Treece planned to disrupt the shipping operations and liberate the slaves, Odion desired to exploit Chelloa's baradium ores to fuel his own war effort.

Using a captured cargo liner, the Jedi team infiltrated the port facilities at Jenith and quickly overwhelmed Daiman's security guards with the support of the slaves. During the assault, Holt saved Palladane and a group of miners from being roughed up by a group of Daiman's thugs. Despite the warm reception from the liberated slaves, Palladane was disappointed that the mission was only a hit-and-run raid as opposed to a full scale invasion of Chelloa. Holt defended her master by pointing that the depleted nature of Republic finance had limited the resources available to the Jedi. Still, Treece planned to evacuate as many slaves as he could on their cargo liner.

Enter the Sith Lords
However, victory was quickly dispelled by the arrival of a strike force under Lord Odion at Squatter Hill. During the assault, Treece took on Odion during a duel. When Holt attempted to intervened, Treece sent her away, ordering her to look after the refugees. When Odion activated his massive kinetic corruptor, the machine ignited the baradium veins beneath the surface, free the baradium gas but creating a massive explosion that wiped out many slaves and troops as well as most of the Jedi team with the exception of Holt. At the climax of the duel, Odion slew Treece by impaling from behind, leaving Holt the only remaining Jedi on Chelloa.

While the survivors began attending to the wounded, Lord Daiman arrived on a repulsorcraft. Despite the enormous loss of lives and wounded particularly burn victims, Daiman was apathetic and demanded to see Paladane. Palladane pleaded for help in treating the wounded but Daiman was more concerned with discerning how his rival Odion and the Jedi discovered his secret baradium mining operations. When Palladane expressed his ignorance of the matter, Daiman used Force choke to strangle the former. However, Kerra intervened and tried to force Daiman to stop tormenting Palladane at gunpoint.

Amused by her courage and dismissing her as an orphan, Daiman relinquished his grip on Palladane and fondled with her, making obscene gestures. He mockingly told her to embrace her anger as a diversion and released her since he was preoccupied with the threat of Odion to his goals. Showing little concern for the well-being of his subjects, Daiman ordered them to erect one of his statues in the village square before dismissing the crowd. Later at his alpine compound above Jenith, he tortured the Rodian worker Skodo with Force lightning in an attempt to force him to confess to contacting Odion. Earlier, Skodo had been found with a transmitter which he and Palladane had used to contact Odion with information about Daiman's baradium operations.

However, Daiman's torture session was interrupted by the arrival of Holt who dueled him. She trapped Daiman in a suspension field before engaging in an argument with the temporarily incapacitated Sith Lord. When she attacked his maltreatment of slaves, Daiman countered by reiterating his personal Sith philosophy with himself being the only true living being. To distract Holt, he then revealed that his brother Odion was preparing a second attack and that Odion had a mobile space station known as The Spike which was capable of producing various arsenal particularly kinetic corruptors. One kinetic corruptor was capable of igniting the entire planet of Chelloa due to the vast baradium deposits. Daiman managed to break away but Holt had escaped, hijacking one of Daiman's starfighters deployed to attack The Spike.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knight Errant: Influx
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 1: Aflame, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 2: Aflame, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 3: Aflame, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 4: Aflame, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 5: Aflame, Part 5
 * Knight Errant novel