Odion

"Embrace nothingness."

- Odion

Odion, along with his younger brother and major rival Daiman, was a Sith Lord during the Second Sith Civil War. He ruled a area of the Grumani sector which came to be known as the Odionate.

Early life
"He claims he is my older brother&mdash;but I, of course, have no kin or kind. He is simply what I must overcome to advance"

- Daiman's delusions and sibling rivalry

Odion was the older son of the Sith Xelian and the grandson of Vilia Calimondra, a powerful Sith Lord and matriarch of a large clan of Sith Lords. In 1,042 BBY, Odion fought under the banner of the Sith Lord Chagras, his uncle and ruler of the Chagras Hegemony. Odion led a force of Sith Warriors and minions to the world of Aquilaris, where they took the lives of hundreds of civilians, including the parents of future Jedi Knight Kerra Holt. Following the death of Chagras in 1,040 BBY, Odion took control of a portion of the late Sith Lord's domain which became known as the Odionate. Odion gathered a cult of like-minded followers who sought nothing more than destruction and death.

Operation Influx
"One Jedi&mdash;or one million&mdash;won't stop me!"

- Odion

In 1,032 BBY, Odion found out about baradium mining operations on Chelloa in the war-torn Grumani sector by tapping into interstellar transmissions. Chelloa was part of the domain known as the Daimanate which was ruled by his estraged brother Daiman. He allowed a Jedi task force under Jedi Master Vannar Treece to attack Daiman's baradium operation on Chelloa. Taken by surprise, Daiman's overseers initially thought it was an ambush by his brother.

After Daiman's Sith troopers were disposed by the the Jedi, Odion did attack with a large fleet including his mobile space factory The Spike. He planned to destroy the planet's entire baradium deposits, regardless of the planet-wide devastation it would cause. Odion engaged in duel with Vannar Treece, a Jedi Master he was familiar with, and killed him. However, Odion's plan was stopped by Jedi Knight Kerra Holt, Treece's former apprentice, who caused Odion's kinetic corruptor to explode before it could ignite all the baradium in the planet, thus keeping the destruction on a far smaller scale. Afterward, Odion and his surviving forces withdrew back to the main fleet orbiting Chelloa.

Brothers at War
Following a duel with Kerra Holt, Daiman revealed that Odion's fleet included the mobile space factory The Spike which was building even more kinetic corruptors. Earlier, Holt and Gorlan Palladane had learnt that Daiman was importing more Mobile Munitions Complexes. Daiman sought to lure Odion to Chelloa's surface by provoking him with a feign attack and sending Holt over to leak intelligence on his new factories. Odion would land with his army on Chelloa's surface to capture the mobile munitions complexes where they would be trapped and destroyed by Daiman's own kinetic corruptors. To provoke Odion, Daiman dispatched a small strike force of Daimanate starfighters in an attempt to knock out The Spike. However, his light starfighters were 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. She then overpowered and reprogrammed a labor droid known as GAD-3 and then reset his motivation center.Gad-3 also revealed learnt that The Spike was dedicated solely to the production of kinetic corrupters and that all floors were decentralized from the main structure for security reasons.

At that moment, they were interrupted by the arrival of Odion and his Givin second-in-command Jelcho to Pod 17. However, he did not sense them initially since they were hidden under the catwalk. Odion was preoccupied with using his corrupters to extract Chelloa’s baradium deposits. When Odion inquired about Daiman’s movements, Jelcho informed him of an informant that 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 then concluded the meeting by ordering all his kinetic corrupters to be prepared for landing on Chelloa to harvest all the baradium. Due to the volatile nature of baradium, much of Chelloa would be destroyed and rendered uninhabitable. While gloating of his recent victory over the Jedi particularly Master Treece, Odion suddenly sensed the presence of an intruder through the Force. In a fit of rage, he ripped apart the catwalk and discovered Holt.

Enter the Jedi
"I just want you to leave Chelloa alone.''" "''Not a chance. That's too much baradium in one place. It upsets everything."

- Holt and Odion

Brushing away Jelchro’s concerns that he would damage the space station’s infrastructure, Odion pursued Holt in a heated lightsaber duel. Kerra was also pursued by a mob of armed Gamorrean guards, followers of Odion who craved dying in combat. The fighting led the combatants through a series of catwalks to the upper levels of the Spike, the main structure supporting the various assembly lines. In a verbal confrontation, Kerra told Odion that she had attacked him aboard his space station to drive him away from Chelloa thus saving the lives of thousands of sentients. She also revealed that Daiman’s mobile munitions factories were bringing in thousands more slaves by the day.

Odion shrugged away Holt’s concerns for innocent lives, arguing that all sentients existed only to be killed by him. Due to his nihilistic philosophy, Odion saw himself as the destroyer of all life in the Galaxy and embraced death. As he prepared to strike Holt down with his lightsaber, she played her final card by ordering the reprogrammed Gad-3 to open all containment fields, thus opening much of the space station to zero-gravity 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. As with all Givin, Jelcho had a tough exoskeleton that could seal all external orifices for protection against depressurization, allowing him to survive in hard vacuum.

In the midst of the chaos, Holt hijacked a construction shuttle, incapacitating the pilot and then fleeing into space. Meanwhile, Odion ordered his entourage back to his flagship Sword of Ieldis. Understanding his Jedi opponent, Odion knew that Holt would return to confront him which was proven right. In an ensuing cat-and-mouse race in space, Holt’s shuttle engaged Odion’s gunship. Anticipating that Holt was going to ram her shuttle into his ship, he ordered his crew to open fire. However, the duel was interrupted by an incoming transmission from Lord Daiman.

In a live broadcast from his Chelloan headquarters, a furious Daiman revealed to Odion that he had seized and tortured his informant: Gorlan Palladane. In response to the intelligence leakage, Daiman had ordered a military crackdown on all mining settlements on Chelloa with his troops destroying Jenith. Witnessing the plight of her friend, Holt aborted her run by doing a quick jump into hyperspace and returned to Jenith to save Palladane. To the relief of Jelcho, Odion chose to spare his crew due to the intelligence on Daiman’s mining operations he had learnt from Holt. Rather than using his kinetic corrupters to destroy the surface of Chelloa, he ordered his elite Lightning Guard to be loaded into landing ships to counter Daiman’s war forges near the baradium mines. He also planned to conquer Chelloa and annex to his interstellar principality&mdash;the Odionate. All this played into Daiman's hands.

Personality and traits
Odion espoused a nihilistic viewpoint with the goal of destroying as much of the galaxy as he could. He believed that all people existed to be killed by him, viewing each murder as different and pleasurable in its own way.

Behind the scenes
Odion was the elder brother of Daiman; in African cultures, the name "Odion" meant the "eldest of twins."

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 0
 * 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