Chelloan affair

The Chelloan affair was a campaign of the New Sith Wars and Second Charge Matrica that was fought on the planet Chelloa in 1032 BBY. It was a three-way campaign involving the two rival Sith Lords Daiman, Odion and the Jedi Order and Chelloan resistance represented by Vannar Treece, Kerra Holt, Gorlan Palladane. Chelloa was part of Daiman's princedom known as the Daimanate, a remnant of the Chagras Hegemony led by Lord Chagras whose demise led to anarchy within the Grumani sector. Each party had their own vested interest in the planet.

Daiman had exploited Chelloa as a source of baradium, an important component into the manufacture of munitions in his war effort. In contrast, Odion had sought to destroy Chelloa since its surplus of baradium upset the balance of the Force according to his nihilistic philosophy. Meanwhile, the Jedi Order through Vannar and Gorlan had sought to destroy Daiman's military holdings on Chelloa during Operation: Influx in a lightning raid. However, this Jedi taskforce was destroyed during a raid by Odion. The sole survivor was novice Jedi Knight Kerra Holt who linked up with the Chelloan underground led by Gorlan Palladane.

As part of a scorched earth campaign, Daiman sought to strategically deny Chelloa and its baradadium deposits to Odion. He managed to infiltrate several Kinetic corruptors disguised as Mobile munitions complexes onto Chelloa. Daiman then tricked Kerra into luring Odion and his Lightning Guard onto Chelloa with false intelligence that he was going to expand his baradium operations. Odion attempted to secure control of these for his war effort but was caught in a trap when the disguised Kinetic corruptors ignited large areas of Chelloa's surface; killing much of Odion's army. Meanwhile, Kerra and Gorlan succeeded in evacuating much of Chelloa's civilian population in a hastily-assembled fleet of transports and cargo liners which became known as the Freedom Fleet.

Background
During the the Republic Dark Age, the weakened Galactic Republic was forced to retreat to a security cordon around the Core Worlds, Colonies, and the Inner Rim; effectively abandoning large swathes of the galaxy including the Outer Rim Territories to various Sith warlords. By 1040 BBY, the Sith warlord Chagras had carved up an empire in the Grumani sector known as the Chagras Hegemony. Following his death that year, the sector descended into chaos as various Sith warlords fought for control over his former domain. Chagras' mother Vilia Calimondra, the matriarch of the Calimondra family encouraged this fighting in order to safeguard her own extensive holdings. By 1032 BBY, the planet Chelloa had come under the domination of the Sith Lord Daiman, a narcissistic Sith who believed himself to be the creator of the universe.

That year, Lord Daiman began extracting baradium, a highly volatile substance used in the manufacture of munitions, from Chelloa's surface. The baradium was shipped offworld to Daiman's war forges on the frontline. Daiman's baradium production operations caused extensively damaged to the formerly pleasant agrarian world. Daiman's baradium production operations attracted the operation of Gorlan Palladane, a former Jedi–turned–spy who relayed this intelligence to his old friend Jedi Master Vannar Treece in Coruscant. In response, Treece devised a hit–and–run military operation called Operation Influx to knock out a portion of the Chelloan baradium production before it could alter the balance of power within the Grumani sector. Master Treece's Operation Influx was a three–stage military operation which firstly involved insertion into the Daimanate via Oranessan, a key transport hub; secondly the raid on Chelloa itself; and thirdly extraction via a direct hyperspace lane to neutral space.

Daimanate

 * Daiman

Odionate

 * Odion
 * Jelcho
 * GAD-3

Jedi Order/Chelloan resistance

 * Operation Influx
 * Vannar Treece
 * Berluk
 * Kerra Holt
 * Mrssk
 * Dorvin Eltrom
 * Unidentified Koorivar Jedi
 * Unidentified Twi'lek Jedi
 * Unidentified Anomid Jedi
 * Chelloan resistance
 * Gorlan Palladane
 * Skodo

Battles

 * Operation Influx
 * Raid on Chelloa
 * Duel on Chelloa
 * Raid on the Spike
 * Massacre of Jenith
 * Second Raid on Daiman's Compound
 * Destruction of Chelloa

Appearances

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