Chagras

"For years, Sith conquests in this region stalled due to infighting. Until only Chagras was left from his generation&mdash;and peace came."

- Arkadia Calimondra

Chagras was a male Human who became a Sith Lord during the Republic Dark Age. He was one of seven children of Vilia Calimondra, a Sith Lord who had established a large empire in the Grumani sector, and he fought against his siblings in a contest to determine which one of them would become their mother's heir. During the war, he became the leader of a Sith state known as the Chagras Hegemony and gained control of large regions of space. Chagras eventually emerged as the victor of the contest and became Calimondra's heir. In 1,042 BBY, he launched a campaign against the Galactic Republic, but before he could conquer many worlds, he was killed under unexplained circumstances in 1,040 BBY by a nerve toxin.

Biography
"Chagras and Xelian were brother and sister&mdash;two of the seven children of Vilia Calimondra."

- Arkadia Calimondra

Chagras was a male Human Sith Lord who lived during the time of the Republic Dark Age. He was one of seven children of Vilia Calimondra, a Sith Lord who controlled a large empire in the Grumani sector, and he made a claim to become the heir to Calimondra's holdings. However, his siblings all made similar claims, so in 1,066 BBY, Calimondra instigated the Charge Matrica, a contest designed to determine which of her children would be appointed as her beneficiary. She tasked her children with expanding her holdings, planning to make her heir the individual who expanded her territories the most, and for a time, the siblings cooperated. However, after her bid began to flounder, Chagras' sister Xelian declared war on him, causing all of the siblings to initiate hostilities against each other.

Through his cleverness, Chagras was able to gain control of large regions of space, forging a Sith state known as the Chagras Hegemony. At some point, he developed the Death Spiral, a type of automated ground attack vehicle, and he constructed several of them. He fathered a daughter, Arkadia Calimondra, and he also became an uncle to his siblings' various children, including Xelian's sons Daiman and Odion. In circa 1,046 BBY, he became a father again, to the twins Dromika and Quillan.

Eventually, Chagras was the only one of Vilia Calimondra's children left, and he became her heir. His victory brought a period of stability to the Grumani sector and guaranteed Chagras the assistance of his nieces and nephews, so he tasked them with repairing the damage that the war had caused his holdings. By 1,042 BBY, he was strong enough to turn his attention to the Galactic Republic, and on the orders of his mother, Chagras sent Odion to conquer the Republic world Aquilaris. Late in his reign, Chagras annexed the agrarian planet Chelloa, and he relocated much of the world's population to the frontier regions of the Chagras Hegemony to fight for him. However, before many more planets could fall to the Sith, Chagras was killed under unexplained circumstances, in 1,040 BBY, by a powerful nerve toxin.

Following Chagras' death, custody of Dromika and Quillan passed to the Krevaaki Saaj Calician, a Sith Lord who had previously served under Chagras. Vilia Calimondra began a second Charge Matrica to find a replacement heir from among her grandchildren, and they soon went to war against each other, shattering Chagras' former holdings into more than ten different parts. However, a small region of his territories held out from the invaders and became known as the Chagrasi Remnant.

In circa 1,032 BBY, the Jedi Master Vannar Treece compiled a report on the state of affairs in the Grumani sector, and in it he detailed Chagras' rise to power and subsequent death. Around this time, Arkadia initiated a plot to avenge her father's death by murdering Vilia, whom she believed had arranged for his demise. Arkadia theorized that her grandmother had organized the Charge Matrica as a way of keeping the Calimondra family focused on fighting each other, rather than plotting against their matriarch, and that Vilia had lived in fear of assassination once Chagras had won the contest. Arkadia arranged to send the Bothan Narsk Ka'hane to kill Vilia using Chagras's Blood, a type of nerve toxin created from Synedian algae. However, Ka'hane was secretly an agent of Vilia, and Arkadia's plot was unsuccessful.

Personality and traits
"While no less bloodthirsty than his rivals, Chagras used cleverness to bring huge swaths of space under his control&mdash;and is still regarded by refugees who lived under his rule as the lesser of several evils."

- Jedi Master Vannar Treece

Chagras was a clever individual, and many refugees considered Chagras' rule to be preferable to life under some of the sector's other Sith. He doted on Dromika and Quillan, and they found it difficult when he died. Chagras had the ability to use the Force to heal himself, but the nerve toxin that killed him was too effective for his powers to overcome.

Behind the scenes
Chagras was first mentioned in Essential Atlas Extra: The Knight Errant Gazetteer, an article that was written by Daniel Wallace, Jason Fry, and John Jackson Miller and published on StarWars.com in November 2010, serving as a tie-in to the comic series Star Wars: Knight Errant. Chagras was later mentioned in the Knight Errant novel, which was written by Miller and released in January 2011.

Appearances

 * Knight Errant novel