Daiman

"I'm Lord Daiman. There are no other living beings."

- Daiman

Daiman, along with his brother and major rival Odion, was one of the most powerful Sith Lords during the Second Sith Civil War. He ruled an area of the Grumani sector known as the "Daimanate".

Early life
"Every act, every event in nature is a move for or against me."

- Daiman

Daiman was the younger son of the Sith Xelian, and the nephew of the Sith Lord Chagras.

Daiman made the planet Darkknell the capital of his domain, establishing himself in the administrative capital of Xakrea. There, he was known as "Lord Daiman, creator of all" and established a cult of personality to enforce his particular view of the universe. He gained notoriety for dressing up guards in his service in gilded armor and burgundy skirts, known as the Correctors.

Daiman ran a research facility in Xakrea known as the Black Fang, officially the "Daimanate Dynamic Testing Facility". There he developed new war technology to combat his older brother Odion in their never-ending attempts to one-up one another in rival combat.

Operation: Influx
"Cease your wailing, people of Jenith -- I have arrived. That should be enough for you."

- Daiman following Operation Influx

At some point, he established a mining operation on the planet Chelloa, exploiting countless slaves and local inhabitants as he strip-mined the planet of its valuable ores of baradium. His mining operations attracted the attention of both the Jedi Master Vannar Treece and Odion. While his people toiled in atrocious poverty, Daiman lived a luxurious lifestyle in seclusion at an alpine compound above Jenith. However while Treece planned to disrupt the shipping operations and liberate the slaves, Odion desired to exploit Chelloa's baradium ores to fuel his war forge The Spike. The Jedi were assisted by Gorlan Palladane, a field agent who worked as the leader of Daiman's slave workers. Despite initial successes in seizing the transport hub at Oranessan, the entire Jedi team with the exception of the female Jedi Knight Kerra Holt was wiped out during a raid by Odion's forces. During the assault, Odion's kinetic corruptor caused widespread devastation and killed many slaves and Correctors alike.

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 Palladane. 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.

The Hidden Jedi
"--Did you bring her here, too? Are -- are you my true opponent, my real enemy? Do you actually...exist?''" "''I--I don't know how to answer that, my Lord!"

- Daiman and Palladane



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. 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. His troopers replaced Skodo's transmitter with one of Daiman's and left it at Skodo's house, waiting for any accomplices.

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 his slaves, Daiman countered by reiterating his personal Sith philosophy with himself being the only true living being and everything else being an illusion. 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.

However, this all fell according to Daiman's plans of eliminating both Odion and the Jedi. To bait Odion, he would launch a feign attack on The Spike. Holt would used her Jedi prowess to infiltrate The Spike and then reveal intelligence about Daiman's ten Mobile Munitions Complexes. Odion would take the bait and land an invasion force at the site of the complexes. In reality, the munitions factories were actually disguised world-destroying Kinetic corruptors which would destroy both Odion and Chelloa's surface. Meanwhile, Daiman and the bulk of his army would be evacuated onto troopships, leaving the doomed world and its sentients to their fate.

The attack on The Spike failed due to its escort fleet of Odionate gunships including Odion's flagship Sword of Ieldis. Kerra infiltrated the space station, dueling Odion and causing extensive damage to the interior by decompression. She hijacked a shuttle and prepared to ram Odion's gunship. Meanwhile, Palladane chanced upon Skodo's house and found Daiman's transmitter in his hiding place. Unaware that Daiman had tampered with the real transmitter, Palladane contacted Odion and attempted to get him to leave Chelloa by claiming there were no more baradium mines. However, Odion dismissed this as a conspiracy by Daiman or another foe. Palladane was quickly apprehended by Daiman's troops and taken to his alpine compound where he was beaten by Daiman's henchmen in his dungeon.

Believing Palladane to be in the service of Odion, he broadcasted the torture life to Odion in an attempt to provoke his estraged brother. In retaliation for sheltering the Jedi, Daiman ordered a full military crackdown on Jenith and other Chelloan towns. He had Palladane suspended by chains over a heap of burning coals while berating his bleeding captive for "collaborating" with his enemy Odion. When Daiman threatened to take his life back, Palladane begged for mercy. Daiman also delved into his narcissistic philosophy of himself being the Creator of the universe. After interrogating Palladane about the Jedi infiltrator Kerra, he spared and released Palladane on the grounds that Palladane had unwittingly played into his greater plans to defeat Odion. Out of mercy, he agreed to limit his destruction to Jenith but threatened to destroy all of Chelloa's population if a second Jedi was revealed. He then had Palladnae confined in a cell, presumably left to die of his wounds.

He also summoned the other Chelloan village leaders for an audience with him. Since they had trouble finding all the village leaders, the mission took a long time and Daiman went on an inspection tour of his compound to stave boredom. However, Holt again infiltrated his compound using the shuttle and killed several of the guards before freeing the prisoners including Palladane. Before safely evacuating to a safehouse in Arboth, Holt beheaded several of Daiman's prized statues using her lightsaber. When an unsuspecting Daiman returned, he discovered what Holt had done. Seeing the damage, he ordered that his new statues be coated in cortosis plating. Aware of Odion's intentions to invade Chelloa and seize his munitions plants, he ordered his troops to be ready for combat.

Brothers at War
The next day, Odion landed his elite Lightning Guard and ground vehicles on Chelloa near the town of Arboth which was the site of ten pyramidical mobile munitions complexes. Based on false intelligence supplied indirectly by Odion through Holt, Odion cancelled his original nihilistic goal of destroying Chelloa since its high baradium deposits caused an "unbalance" in the Force. Odion now intended to seize the pyramid complexes and recquisition them for his own war effort. Daiman deployed a disposable contingent of his own troops and vehicles to provide some token resistance. Daiman and his commanders surveyed the battlefield from a high mountain above Arboth. After Odion's forces overwhelmed Daiman's troops and converged on the perimeter of the pyramid complexes, Daiman ordered the "factory carrier units" to deploy.

Within minutes, all ten pyramids had shedded their metal exteriors to reveal ten of Daiman's own kinetic corruptors. These had been transported to Chelloa disguised as mobile factories. The corruptors ignited the underground baradium veins beneath the surface, releasing streams of molten lava which engulfed Odion's invading army. Satisfied at his attempt to eliminate his estraged brother, Daiman ordered his commander to prepare his shuttle and the decoy transports parked across Chelloa to depart. However, he was unaware that Holt, Palladane and the Chelloan resistance had organized a mass evacuation of Chelloa's 60,000 sentient inhabitants, dispersed across ten mining towns. They overpowered the crew and took control of the ships, creating the Freedom Fleet. When Daiman's command failed to establish contact with the crew, he seized a telescope and quickly discovered what the two Jedi had done. He caught a glimpse of a freed Palladane fighting off the remnants of Odion's invasion force.

Daiman was infuriated when the Freedom Fleet departed Chelloa into hyperspace. His forces were unable to shoot them down since his defense fleet had been called away to allow Odion to land his forces. His commander informed Daiman that he had to leave aboard his shuttle before the mountain collapsed from the volcanic activity. An infuriated Daiman tried to affirm his belief in being the Creator of the Universe by saying that his mountain would do as he wanted. His more realistic and sceptical subordinate than counteracted that the mountain was not listening. Daiman manage to evacuate his forces from Chelloa prior to its apocalyptic destruction and then went to Nilash III, a planet within Daimanate space. There, he dicovered from Uleeta that the Freedom Fleet had recently passed by and raided the munition plant. Kerra and her followers liberated the slaves and stole a high-powered laser to disrupt Daiman's war effort. This laser was used for cutting cortosis during the manufacturing process. Daiman instructed Uleeta to keep news of Holt's raid a secret and instead propagated the myth of her demise on Chelloa. However, Holt left her trademark message for Daiman: beheading his prized statues to show she was a real existing sentient rather than an illusion.

Personality and Traits
"I was bored -- and so I created the universe."

- Daiman

Similar to Darth Ruin before him, Daiman believed in solipsism and viewed war as a piece of entertainment. Taking the Sith tenet of self-glorification to its logical extreme, Daiman came to believe that only he was real and that "reality" itself was his own creation, little more than a Force vision to test him. His twisted view of reality also made him believe that every action and event in nature was related to him, either to aid him or to harm him.

As a narcissist, he viewed all matter and energy as manifestations of his spirit. Daiman also had a manichean view of life, viewing himself as the Creator and his rival Odion as merely a creation who had "rebelled" against him. Daiman also had heterochromia, which caused his right eye to be blue while the left one was yellow. When employing the dark side, however, both of his eyes became yellow.

Powers and abilities
As a Sith Lord, Daiman was proficient with Force lightning which he used to torture the Chelloan Rodian mechanic Skodo and Odionite spy Narsk Ka'hane when probing their minds gave little information. Daiman also used Telekinesis to strangle mercenary Jarrow Rusher for a sarcastic thought regarding the Dark Lord.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knight Errant: Aflame
 * Knight Errant novel
 * Knight Errant novel