Odion

"Embrace nothingness."

- Odion

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

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
"The Daimanites have just been recalled, Lord Odion! Why would your brother change his mind about tactics now?''" "''It's Daiman. He probably got bored. This little fool thinks this is just a game. I'm going to crush all his pieces!"

- Jelcho and Odion

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 warships which included his flagship the Sword of Ieldis. Sustaining heavy losses, the Daimanites were forced to retreat. While Odion gloated over an easy victory, 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 capture Daiman’s factories 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.

Trapped
"Little snot stole my idea!" "They're activating! We've got to get off the surface, now!"

- Odion and lieutenant



Odion's Lightning Guard were ferried to Chelloa's surface by landing ships. The assault force consisted of Guardsmen donning jetpacks and several hover tanks. As they approached the perimeter of the ten mobile munitions complexes, they were engaged by a token force of Daimanate Sith troopers. With the airborne Lightning Guardsmen providing strike power, the Daimanate forces were easily overwhelmed. Odion himself sensed that he was fighting inferior forces. They arrived at the pyramidical factories only to discover that they were empty shells containing Kinetic corruptors. As Daiman had intended, Odion had taken the bait by landing his troops on Chelloa's surface where they would be destroyed along with himself by the kinetic corruptors. The Daimanate detachment assigned to guard the "factories" were merely cannon fodder used to lure Odion's forces into a trap. While Odion was trapped, Daiman and the bulk of his forces escaped the planet.

Meanwhile, Jedi Knights Kerra and Palladane successfully evacuating 60,000 Chelloan civilians by hijacking several Daimanate starships at Arboth's spaceport. This hastily-assembled fleet became the Freedom Fleet which would evacuate the population to Republic space. In the ensuing explosion, many of the Odionate and Daimanate combatants were killed by the molten lava released from the inflamed volatile baradium shales under Chelloa's surface. Trapped, Odion ordered his surviving troops to board the cargo transports at Arboth in an attempt to escape destruction. However, they were prevented from boarding by the efforts of Kerra and Palladane who managed to evacuate the fleet before the lava reached the spaceport.

Odion was the sole survivor of his invasion since his jetpack allowed him to escape into the atmosphere. As the Freedom Fleet ascended into the upper atmosphere of Chelloa, Odion pursued his Jedi foe Kerra who had boarded an airspeeder. Their pursuit ended on the hull of a cargo liner which ended in a verbal altercation. Odion taunted her by telling Kerra she had run out of perches and observed that she was trying to distract him from his goal of killing the refugees. In an attempt to provoke Kerra, he further gloated over the deaths and destruction he had wrought on her homeworld of Aqualaris. He would have continued his rampage had he not been forced by other circumstances to leave.

Before he could attack Kerra, he was attacked by Gorlan Palladane. Fastened to a safety cord, the male Jedi drove Odion to the engine thrusters, expressing his desire for retribution for the destruction wrecked on his planet. Palladane intended to kill Odion while dying in the process. During the confrontation, the two men were badly burned by the thrusters and Palladane later died from his wounds. Meanwhile, a mortally wounded Odion was recovered by his followers who tended to him at The Spike over the following days. He was badly burned and part of his armor had been painfully fused to his skin. Had it not been for his jetpack, Odion would have perished in the upper atmosphere. The crew tended to him by removing as much armor as they could and treating his burns. Odion commented he wanted to feel the pain to fuel his hatred towards Kerra Holt. Despite his severe wounds and the loss of his entire Lightning Guard, Jelcho viewed the recent engagement as a victory since it denied his master's foe Daiman access to ships, slaves and the baradium deposits of Chelloa.

Battle of Gazzari
Hearing from the Bothan Narsk Ka'hane about the Arxeum Bactra was going to deliver to Daiman, Odion landed on Gazzari where he engaged his brother's forces. To do so he unleashed the Death Spiral, a massive siege tower built by Chagras which he upgraded, until it was destroyed by Kerra Holt. Receiving a message of Vilia Calimondra from Ka'hane, he united with his old nemesis and annihilated Bactra's forces.

Family meeting
During her trip, Kerra Holt encountered the Sith lord Arkadia, ruler of Syned. On the icy planet, Arkadia allowed the jedi to attend to a secret meeting of various Sith lords who were in fact all related. She learnt that Odion, Daiman, Quillan, Dromika and Arkadia were all part of a powerful Sith family, the Calimondra, ruled by Vilia Calimondra. During this meeting, Vilia divided Bactra's holdings and territory between her grand children Odion, Daiman, Lioko and Malakite. Odion acquired Gazzari along with two legions of Trandoshan slave-warriors from Vilia's own forces.

Deluge
"You &mdash; Odion! You see what's going on! You could be next &mdash; and yet you're trying to tie up my forces that should be here! You'd actually help an outsider strike at the family?" "No one said I shouldn't, brat! I've got no more love for the Hutt than you do. But it looks like a lot of people will die today and that's always good for me."

- Daiman and Odion arguing amidst the Battle of Darkknell

Odion is seen in a hologram conference during Zodoh's invasion of Grumani sector where he and Arkadia expressed their rage against the Hutt for intruding into Sith territory. He was still undergoing burns treatment and the left side of his face was still covered in burns. Zodoh was unmoved by their outrage, belitting his bipedal rivals as petty crooks who were always warring with each other. Zodoh offered to deal with them by supplying them with slaves and munitions in return for their cooperation. Finally, the Hutt Lord warned the Sith to keep an eye on future developments on Aquilaris before cutting transmission.

However, by the Battle of Darkknell, Odion's burns had healed with no visible scars left on his face. He was present via hologram when his brother Daiman was besieged by Zodoh's fleet of Stormdrivers, large capital ships capable of creating global artificial floods and storms. Daiman castigated Odion for keeping his forces busy in protracted border engagements which forced him to divert forces from Darkknell; allowing Zodoh to attack his capital with relative ease. Prior to the transmission being interrupted by a floodwave from the burst Southern Reservoir, Odion gloated over the impending deaths of billions which resonated with his nihilistic philosophy. However, Zodoh was ultimately defeated through the efforts of Odion's main enemy Kerra and Grace Command Captain Jenn Devaad who succeeded in destroying Zodoh's flagship Voracious, which effectively disrupted the Stormdrivers. Daiman's forces were able to regain control of the battle and routed the Hutt invaders. Zodoh himself was captured and personally executed by Daiman. Odion was also present during the execution via hologram transmission along with Arkadia and Lord Malakite.

Reviving Project Pandemonium
"We're honored, milord [sic]. But I'm surprised you're not going there yourself -- I don't dig around in graves, Wayman -- I fill them. Between Daiman and my idiot cousins, I've got my hands full. But your team will take up the research, beginning with the material in this room. Then I can claim the Helm, once and for --"

- Wayman accepting Odion's mission to find the Helm of Ieldis

Following the Battle of Darkknell, Odion reappeared on Jubalene, his temporary capital, where he explained his intentions of restarting Project Pandemonium to find the Helm of Ieldis, a powerful Sith relic. With this, Odion would be able to greatly increase his powers. These emanations in the Force led Daiman to experience apocalyptic visions which he used to coerce the Jedi Knight Kerra Holt into a deal whereby he assisted her in infiltrating Odion's Novitiates, an elite unit within the Odionate. Under the pseudonym "Mercy," Kerra was able to establish contact with the Claimer Wayman and successfully infiltrate Jubalene where she learnt more about Odion's plans.

Meanwhile, Odion made plans to assemble a team of Novitiates to locate the Helm of Ieldis. The Claimer Wayman volunteered "Mercy" and her team for this project and had them recalled from the invasion of Skarpos, a world in Lord Malakite's realm known as the Menagerie. At Jubalene, Odion and his Novitiates including "Mercy" were present with Odion during a combat duel pitting three Duros bankers against a rancor. The Duros had been duped into adopting Odion's nihilistic teachings and believed that they could embrace death by tackling a fully-grown rancor. With Odion exhorting them "to end the pain," the three bankers entered inta berserker rage and attacked the rancor with their spears. Ultimately, their efforts proved futile and they were eaten by the beast in the presence of a satisfied Odion who commented that even Lord Bactra's bankers could be used for his own purposes when properly motivated.

Odion also added that he savoured the deaths of individuals who had embraced death willingly, since it strengthened his Dark Side powers. He also expressed his annoyance at life energies which glowed through the Light Side of the Force. While other Sith could tolerate it, he tried to block it and saw death as a relief. Odion explained that he could channel despair into a lust for destruction. Using an example, the Sith Lord attributed the Duros' berserker rage to the anguish and despair emanating from the millions of workers in Jubalene's military forge. Wayman expressed interest in Odion's "rediscovery" and asked if anyone could wield it. Odion replied that only those with the same type of "affliction" he was experiencing could tap into this destructive energy.

Odion then briefed his acolytes about his plans to reopen Project Pandemonium. The trail last ended at Sarrassia and the project was suspended since the planet was part of the Bactranate, a rival Sith domain. With the annexation of the Bactranate, Odion revealed his intentions to invade Sarrassia and reclaim the relic. Wayman's team including Kerra were assigned the task of continuing the research where the trail ended, beginning with the material available in his data center at Jubalene. At that point, Odion sensed a familiar presence in the room but could not discern who it was. However, Kerra escaped further notice with the arrival of his trusted protege General Beld Yulan who had arrived back from Vanahame rearmed and replenished for the invasion of Sarrassia. While Odion and Yulan departed to watch several of Bactra's former attorneys fighting a gundark at the arena, Wayman confided to Mercy about his discomfort that Odion favoured Yulan and had thus kept him alive. He also expressed that he sensed a great emptiness in the force emanating through Odion's spirit. Wayman subsequently departed for the arena, leaving Kerra along with the computer. She would used that small window of solitude to access information that confirmed her parents Aron Holt and Mercia Holt had been taken captive by Odion and dragooned into Project Pandemonium.

Personality and traits
"The deluded see morning as a beginning -- But I see it for what it is. An ending, waiting to happen. Every living thing is born dying and when death doesn't come fast enough -- I step in...I will never know peace while other beings exist..."

- Odion's reflections

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. He believed that he could only find peace by destroying all other sentients in the galaxy. He also had an estraged relationship with his younger brother Daiman which translated into political and military competition. This dysfunctional sibbling rivalry reached a climax with the Chelloan campaign when Daiman used it as an opportunity to attempt to eliminate his older brother.

Powers and abilities
Odion differed from most other Sith Lords in several aspects. Whereas most other Sith were unaffected by the glow of life in the Force, that glow caused Odion pain. However, as he continued his study of Sith knowledge, he discovered that with that weakness came a strength-namely he could channel feelings of anguish and despair in one person into a crazed, enraged madness in another. In addition, Odion could also fire Force lightning using it to briefly stun Kerra Holt in the back, revealing himself and his pocession of the Helm of Ieldis.

Behind the scenes
Odion was the elder brother of Daiman; in African cultures, the name "Odion" meant the "eldest of twins." He was developed as one of the major antagonists of the Knight Errant comic series which debuted with the release of Star Wars: Knight Errant 0 during Celebration V in August 2010. His story background was developed by John Jackson Miller while the character was drawn by artist Ivan Rodriguez and colored by Michael Atiyeh. He also appeared in Miller's tie-in novel Knight Errant.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 0
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant: Aflame
 * Knight Errant novel
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 6: Deluge, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 10: Deluge, Part 5
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 11: Escape, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Knight Errant 12: Escape, Part 2