Invasion of Sarrassia

The Invasion of Sarrassia was a battle during the Republic Dark Age in 1032 BBY involving the Odionate's secret project known as Project Pandemonium. The Sith Lord Odion believed that the ancient Sith artifact the Helm of Ieldis was hidden on Sarrassia. Lord Ieldis was a Sith Lord who lived before the Great Hyperspace War and created the Helm as a means of turning sentients into mindless fighting machines. Following the conquest of Aquilaris Minor in 1042 BBY, Lord Odion had commissioned a task force to locate the Helm of Ieldis, but the trail dried up at Sarrassia, which was then located in the Bactranate's territory.

With the collapse of the Bactranate in 1032 BBY, Odion decided to continue the project to recover the Helm. However, he was opposed by the local religious sects on the planet including the Grumani Hierophants who assembled an army, also equipped with some lightsabers, and resisted the Odionate's troops. During the fighting, Kerra Holt, disguised as the Novitiate initiate "Mercy", met up with her former friend Aunt Zoojoo, a member of the Hierophants, at the underground temple beneath Mount Diligence.

She revealed more details about her parent's last whereabouts and how they hid the Helm from Odion on Skarpos, a desert world in the Menagerie ruled by Lord Malakite. Following a confrontation with Yulan's Sith forces, Zoojoo destroyed the underground temple. In an attempt to ascertain the fate of her parents by going back to Skarpos, Mercy revealed to Yulan that the Helm was located on Skarpos.

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