Mercia Holt

Mercia Holt was a female Human archaeologist who was born during the time of the New Sith Wars. Holt lived on the planet Aquilaris Minor with her husband, Aron Holt, and her daughter, Kerra Holt.

In 1042 BBY, while expecting their second child, Mercia and Aron were captured during an attack on their homeworld by the forces of the Sith Lord Odion. The pair were subsequently transferred to Odion's Project Pandemonium, an effort to locate the Helm of Ieldis. Their last known location was Sarrassia where they cooperated with the Grumani Hierophants to conceal the fact that the Helm was located on Skarpos, a bleak desert world in the Menagerie. There, she and her husband sacrificed themselves in an attempt to deny the Sith with access to the Helm, by using explosives to destroy the chamber within the Morbollon Mesa storing it.

Despite their deaths, their sacrifice motivated Kerra to stop Odion's bid to dominate the galaxy.

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