Jon T. Harkness and Ehdak the Ewok

[Jon T. Harkness]

Gender: Male
Age: 28
Species: Human
Homeworld: None
Born: Coruscant, 25ABY
Occupation: Traveller, Philanderer, Vagabond
Force Alignment: Undiscovered low-sensitivity - Neutral, Light Side
Affiliation: None
Family: Dahl Harkness (Father - Deceased), Rose Harkness (Mother, 68), Elizabeth Harkness (Sister, 30), Dairen Vox (Future Brother-in-Law, 33).


6'1", dark wavy hair, hazel eyes.

Jon is slim, with a lightly toned build, and usually dresses with some flare, preferring suits or highly tailored, fashionable jackets.



Jon T. Harkness was born to a wealthy entrepreneur and engineer, Dahl Harkness, who specialised in upgraded and customised starship components, and his wife Rose Harkness (Neé Bartosqui). Although Born on Coruscant, within a year the family had relocated to Bespin, where the Harkness family's business, Harkness Craftworks, had a number of facilities centring around the use of Tibanna Gas. The family remained based on Bespin throughout the Yuuzhan Vong War, in an effort to avoid the conflict. The family finally returned to basing themselves on Coruscant in 31ABY, by which point, Jon was already proving himself to be an incredibly intelligent and insightful child. In his teenage years, starting in 37ABY Jon took to travelling the Galaxy with his father on business trips, completing his education under private tutoring droids, and gaining knowledge of starship repair and modification. During this time, he developed a taste for the planet-hopping lifestyle.

In 43ABY, Jon begun his college education at the University of Byblos, specialising in the dual honours of Xenolinguistics and Sentientology, and Psychology. Quickly coming into his own as a sociable individual, and gaining a reputation as something of a wild character, party animal, and philanderer, Jon focused more of his time on his enjoyment than he did on his studies, and spent vast amounts of money travelling during his summer breaks. He scraped by his first year, and when he looked close to failing his second, he deferred his studies at the last moment for a year in order to retake his modules. He applied himself more in the rest of his degree years, and graduated with a First Class dual honours in 47ABY at the age of 22.

Jon immediately took to a carefree lifestyle of travelling the Galaxy. By contrast, his elder sister, who finished a post-graduate degree a year before him, went straight into helping to run the family business, despite being a qualified medical physician. With their father's health ailing through respiratory problems, Elizabeth, along with their mother, quietly hoped he would spend some time at home and help with the business; Jon, unable to bear the thought of working in such a company and such a role, avoided the responsibility entirely. He travelled the Galaxy freely on his parents' credits for three years, enjoying the freedom they granted him, though over this time, his relationship with his sister became strained.

In 50ABY, disaster struck the family. Jon and Eli's father, taking another long business journey, was travelling solo when his ship suffered a malfunction. Thrown off course, the ship crashed on the planet Hoth, and not physically healthy enough to do the work necessary to repair the ship, Dahl was unable to escape the planet. Jon returned home as soon as his father's disappearance was made known to him, and the family waited with baited breath whilst a search was conducted. After three weeks, Dahl was found, but in that time he had contracted severe pneumonia, which had exacerbated his breathing problems to a critical state. Although he survived long enough to return to Coruscant and see his family, Dahl died during the early stages of the surgery to replace his damaged lungs, and was unable to be resuscitated. Jon felt guilty over his father's death, thinking that his father may not have died had he been there to help run the business. For a year, Jon remained based on Coruscant, working with his sister and mother to run the business as a joint owner and inheritor. However, it soon became clear that Jon felt unsatisfied and unhappy in the role, and soon came to an agreement with his sister and mother to sell the majority of his shares to them, and step down from the running of the business, so that he could resume his lifestyle of travelling. Once again, Jon took to chartering flights across the Galaxy in the exploration of its many hedonistic pleasures, returning to his life as a promiscuous playboy, living now off of his inheritance, the money he made from the selling of most of his shares, and the dividends he received on the remainder.

Jon now continues his travels, having found himself drawn into more adventurous – and dangerous – experiences over the past year.



A fast thinker and even faster talker, Jon uses charm and wit to get by in the Galaxy. His linguistic skills are incredible, with fluent knowledge of several dozen languages, and his studies in scentientology and psychology have granted him deep insights into the minds of others. He is a natural at negotiation and bartering as a result, excelling in trade business, although he primarily applies these skills in the pursuit of his romantic affairs; he is known to take many, many lovers, with a remarkable talent for seduction. A professed omni-sexual, Jon has a broad taste in companionship, and although always kind and genuinely caring for his many lovers, his affairs are always temporary and almost entirely sexual in nature. Jon is a skilled gambler, and also has a natural talent for acting, singing, and various musical instruments. He also possesses some impressive skills in sleight of hand, gained from developing various parlour tricks to impress potential mates with. He takes an odd pleasure in playing make believe, and sometimes appears not to take the situations he finds himself in very seriously.

Jon also has some talent in technical skills, having learnt a fair amount about small-starship and repulsor craft engineering whilst travelling with his father in his teens, knowledge he later expanded upon when helping to run Harkness Craftworks. Despite his detailed knowledge of small spacecraft, he is a poor pilot, having rarely flown and much preferring to purchase passage on freighters and chartered flights across the Galaxy.

In combat, Jon is an average shot with a blaster pistol, often seen wearing a modified DL-18 blaster pistol on his right hip, and occasionally, a SSK-7 blaster pistol on the left. He lacks all but the most basic skills in unarmed or short ranged combat, and prefers to avoid battle where-ever possible.

[Jon T. Harkness]

Gender: Male
Age: Middle-Aged
Species: Ewok (Bio-Engineered and Cybernetically Enhanced)
World of Origin: Endor
Occupation: Mercenary, Gun-For-Hire, Freelance demotions expert
Force Alignment: Non-sensitive
Affiliation: None


1.05 Meters tall, dark-brown furred, muscular Ewok with brown eyes and a fierce attitude.

Ehdak has a strong interest in combat, and is therefore usually seen in a custom made, orange and blue armoured combat suit, and almost always sports his heavily modified Imperial Scout Trooper's helmet, with a removed faceplate, and thick padding and straps built in to allow the Ewok to wear the otherwise too-large helmet.



"Ehdak", loosely translated, means "Bad-spirited" in Ewokese, a fitting name to have been given to this particularly foul tempered Ewok. Born many years before the Battle of Endor, he was already a fully grown adult when the fight against the Imperial Garrison occurred. Participating in the combat, and taking great joy in doing so, Ehdak drew the attention of an Imperial scientist who reviewed footage from the day. A year or so following the Battle of Endor, Ehdak was tracked down and abducted, and found himself undergoing bio-engineering at Binring Biomedical under Project Chubar. At some point, Ehdak was placed into stasis for transfer to another facility, possibly the Imperial Warlord Zsinj's flagship, the Executor-Class Iron Fist. However, some mistake was clearly made in the process, and Ehdak's stasis tube ended up in a vast storage warehouse that changed owners several times over the next few decades.

Eventually, in 47ABY, the cargo container which housed Ehdak's stasis tube was opened, and he was released from his storage. He immediatly put his engineered intelligence, knowledge, and physical abilties to use, combining them with his bad temper, managed to secure some security work for some low level thugs. Eventually, he earned enough money to purchase a modified, hyperdrive capable Eta-2 starfighter, adapting it further so that he could use the controls, and took the craft to Endor. Finding himself largely unwelcome in the village of his youth, he returned to his family home only to reclaim a Scout Trooper's helmet that he had taken as a trophy during the Battle of Endor. Removing the faceplate, and donning the helmet as his new signature headgear, he left Endor behind forever, setting out into the Galaxy to become a mercenary.



Abrupt, rude, and with an emotional range that spans everything from dour to outright aggressive, Ehdak is not one for talking problems through, and not only because he only speaks Ewokese (although it doesn't help). Ehdak loves a fight, enjoys an argument, and is very fond of breaking things (bones, for example). He is an excellent shot, skilled with melee weapons, and very knowledgable about all things explosive. His body contains some cybernetic enhancements to his arms, legs, and spine, granting him surprising strength and agility - when he uses these cybernetic enhancements to exceed the standard Ewok physical abilities, they cause him a fair amount of pain, though he has become more accustomed to the pain with time.

He typically is seen to carry two over-clocked Bryar Pistols, a telescoping vibro-bardiche, a stun-batton, an unfeasibly large blaster rifle, and often a collection of grenades. He is surprisingly able to carry all this without overly hampering his movement. No-one is quite sure how.