The Siege of Calimondretta took place on Syned, the capital of the Arkadianate, in 1032 BBY. This battle marked the first time that the Brigadier Jarrow Rusher launched an assault on a fortress from the inside rather than the outside. The siege occurred in response to a plot by the Arkadianate ruler Sith Lord Arkadia Calimondra to assassinate Vilia Calimondra, her grandmother and the matriarch of the Calimondra family, a major Sith dynasty during the Republic Dark Age. Arkadia had conspired to kill her grandmother to avenge the death of her father Chagras several years earlier and to end Vilia's monopoly over the cycle of conflicts known as the Second Change Matrica. Arkadia also planned to exploit the crisis by launching an expansionist campaign against other Sith states in the Grumani se