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 Republic Dark Age. Odion was the eldest son of Xelian, a powerful female Sith Lord who ruled a realm of space within the Grumani sector. Odion's unpleasant childhood experiences at the hands of his mother and younger brother amplified his dark side powers and drove him to embrace a nihilistic philosophy which embraced death and nothingness as true peace. Odion rose through the ranks of the Sith, becoming a commander who led the invasion of Aquilaris Minor in 1042 BBY. With the collapse of the Chagras Hegemony in 1040 BBY, the Grumani sector descended into internecine civil warfare as feuding Sith Lords struggled for dominance. Odion subsequently gathered a cult of like-minded followers and established his own princedom which became known as the Odionate, one of the many Sith states which emerged from the ruins of the Chagras Hegemony.

Odion's nihilistic ambitions earned him the animosity of his estranged younger brother Daiman, who saw himself as the Creator of the Universe, and the Jedi Order, which had been locked into a protracted conflict against Sith forces for nearly a millennium since the Fourth Great Schism in 2000 BBY. Odion was also constantly locked into a battle for galactic dominance against Daiman and other rival Sith Lords. At some point, he discovered the existence of the Helm of Ieldis, an ancient Sith artifact capable of driving sentient beings into a homicidal frenzy. Odion commissioned a task force known as Project Pandemonium to locate the artifact but they disappeared in 1039 BBY. Odion's actions also made him a target of the novice Jedi Knight Kerra Holt, who wanted to avenge the devastation of her homeworld at his hands. In 1032 BBY, Odion narrowly survived an ambush on the planet Chelloa which left him with grievous wounds. However, his life was saved by medical technology and he vowed to hunt down and destroy Kerra, who had wounded him during the climax of the Chelloan affair.

Seeking to retaliate against his younger brother, Odion sent the Bothan spy operative Narsk Ka'hane on a mission to Daiman's capital of Darkknell. Narsk was assigned with collecting information about Daiman's starship Convergence, which was under construction at the Black Fang testing facility, and then to destroy the installation. However, Narsk was intercepted by Jedi Knight Kerra, who overpowered him and destroyed both the datapad containing the data and the facility itself. Daiman retaliated by releasing the Bothan spy while feeding him with false intelligence about a business deal on Gazzari with the Quermian Sith Lord Ayanos Bactra relating to the sale of an arxeum, a mobile war university. In reality, Daiman planned to yet again lure Odion into a trap on Gazzari, where his forces lurked behind the planet's volcanic ash clouds.

As expected, Odion took the bait and invaded Gazzari with both sides sustaining heavy losses. In the middle of the battle, their grandmother and family matriarch Vilia Calimondra contacted Narsk and ordered the two brothers to cease fighting and join forces against Bactra, who had outlived his usefulness to the dynasty. After wiping out Bactra's fleet, the two Sith brothers along with Lioko and Malakite conquered and divided up the Bactranate among themselves. Following this short-lived cooperation, tensions between the brothers quickly resurfaced during a family bequest where Odion was bequeathed the former Odionate capital of Jutrand while his younger brother obtained the Industrial Heuristics company. While Vilia managed to appease Odion by giving him two legions of her Trandoshan slave warriors as quid pro quo, Odion and Daiman remained bitter enemies and sought to thwart each other.

An opportunity to move against his younger brother surfaced again when an outsider—the Hutt crimelord Zodoh—threatened the Grumani sector. During the Aquilaris campaign, Odion and other Sith Lords collaborated with Zodoh's irredentist campaign against the Daimanate; keeping Daiman's forces preoccupied on the border regions. Ultimately, Zodoh made no serious strategic gains and was subsequently executed by Daiman, following a failed attempt to conquer Darkknell. In retaliation for Odion's role in indirectly aiding Zodoh's campaign, Daiman would connive with Kerra to defeat Odion once and for all. Kerra infiltrated the Odionate disguised as a prospective Novitiate adept named "Mercy." Meanwhile, Odion was determined to end the stalemate in the Grumani sector, and restarted Project Pandemonium. Odion's longtime foe Kerra was part of a team of hunters assigned to recover the Helm.

Through Kerra's efforts, Odion was able to locate the Helm on Skarpos, a bleak desert world that had been recently annexed from the Menagerie, a realm ruled by Sith Lord Malakite. At the peak of his power, Odion would harness the power of the Helm and use it to drive other sentient beings into a maddened homicidal frenzy. Following a successful test demonstration on Skarpos, Odion intended to deploy the Helm on the entire Grumani sector, and then the galaxy, by tapping into energies of the child captives of his planet-sized cloister on Vanahame as part of his plan to exterminate all life so he could be the sole sentient being in the galaxy. However, Odion's bid for galactic genocide was thwarted by his Jedi foe Kerra, who had succeeded in turning his second-in-command General Beld Yulan against him. During the ensuing climatic showdown, Odion was killed after the Helm overloaded from a surge of positive emotions when the captive children were freed. With his death, the Odionate collapsed into anarchy while his Sith "family" carved up territories for themselves.

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