JEDI HoloNet

For a time, it felt like war was all that Harren knew. Born on the planet of Vaal in 432 ABY, the settler community of the Novgari was one forged in the furnace of conflict. The shadows of heroes loomed large in the days of Harren’s childhood. Of soldiers who had served in the armies of distant empires and afforded them great riches. Of warriors who had fought aliens from across the stars, some more than seven feet tall, and bested them in the field of battle. For hours, Harren would sit by the lodge’s campfire listening to his grandfather Prati talk about the way the spires of the planet of Hapes burned under the heat of Mandalorian battleships. Or the stories of his father from the twilight of the Wyld Empire, the young imperial mercenary watching the silent plumes of plasma fire burning from Republic cruisers. The visions of warfare, of blaster fire, of heroism, and bravery, swirled in the young boy’s mind. It called to him like destiny.

Harren did not make for a natural Jedi. Taken to the Jedi Temple of Ilum at the age of 12, his obsession with the honour of the fight, as inherited from his family, did little to tame the boy’s temper or appetite for violence. He was suspended from the temple at 15 for breaking a fellow student’s nose for picking on his accent. The incident was enough to begin Council discussions for the permanent ending of Harren’s young Jedi career. Yet, the boy was given a second chance by the temple’s would-be Battlemaster, Seris Valenne. An Echani, Master Valenne could see the fire brewing in the boy’s heart – and the way it would burn him alive if it were not tamed.

Master Valenne taught Harren in the ways of the Echani, as best she could, as best as he would listen. He learned to quieten his mind, to listen to the flow of the forces around him, the beauty of the way that one can speak through the fight. And yet something within Harren still stirred. A voice called to him – of challenge, of adventure. He was young, foolish, and filled with a righteous fury at that which he had learned to be evil. The Jedi ways taught him that there was a great enemy, a great destined battle in the future that he – like so many others – may be called upon to fight in. But the patience which his fellow Jedi showed while the injustices in the galaxy continued, which he saw as complacency to evil prevailing in the darkness, brought Harren to the point of implosion. He would not stand it any longer.

At age 21, at the cusp of Knighthood, Harren left the sacred ice walls of Ilum for his homeworld. The Third Estate, a tyrannical empire of the Gordian Reach, had begun to wrap its blackened tendrils around the hunter’s lodges of his home. He joined the Bolchi Sastnya [“Army of the Wolves”], an underground insurgency, as a freedom fighter for his people. With a Lightsaber and a guerrilla’s heavy blaster pistol, Harren became a menace to the occupying forces – assassinating Third Estate officials, killing its garrisoned soldiers, and destroying key military sites with explosives. After two years of resistance to their occupation, the Third Estate became belligerent and punitive in their punishment of the local population. They began conducting severe retribution attacks against the locals for any that were done to them. And after a raid led by Harren, sixty civilians – including his mother and sister – were rounded up and killed by summary execution.

Here began the dark years. Harren’s soul was racked with grief and blame. Darkness clouded his mind as he lingered in the depths of his own despair. He left the Bolchi Sastnya a wanted criminal and wandered the galaxy as an outlaw, a mercenary, a thug for hire. Hutts, criminals, corporations – Harren took work wherever he could find it. And the allure of the Dark Side never too far away.

Yet in the darkness he found a voice. A voice he had so long forgotten. It called to him – telling him to close his eyes, quieten his mind, and listen to the wind as he had not done in so long. The Force. Though its warmth had long since left his soul, it had not forgotten him.

Harren was filled with a new desire to return to his service of the Light. He considered returning to the Ilum Temple, groveling for the forgiveness of his former masters. But something instead told him to venture to the Galidraan System, where a new war was brewing. With the threat of invasion on their border, the Galidraan government was all too happy to accept former Jedi into their ranks. At Felucia, Mossak, and Draykuse, Harren saw combat against the Empire of Vol – and the terrible warriors of the Stennax. He quickly rose through the ranks – utilising tactics he had learned on Vaal to sap the strength of the Stennax from behind their frontlines.

While on leave back in the illustrious castle halls of Galidraan, Harren was introduced to a Jedi unfamiliar to him – but one that would soon be familiar to all. Jedi Master Kudor Okun, a Galidraan native and Master of the Temple of Ossus. Kudor Okun was quickly taken by Harren’s story of redemption, of the crusade against evil which he and he alone led, and the two conducted several meditation sessions together for Kudor to judge the heart of the scarred Novgarian man.

At Kudor’s request, Harren was reunited with his old mentor and met several members of the Jedi Council on Ossus. They took Harren through the trials of skill, flesh, and soul, to determine if the young man could be redeemed into their ranks. And with pressure building on the crumbling frontlines, Harren’s indispensable position as a frontline commander weighted their judgement towards the affirmation of his rights as a Jedi. Some time later, Harren was considered for the rank of Jedi Knight – believed to have been achieved with a great deal of political pressure from Kudor Okun and his allies in the Order.

Harren quickly earned a reputation for his brash, militant nature. The halls of Ossus became heated with whispers of the “warmonger” and “crusader” that had been allowed to re-join their ranks. Yet Harren did not care what they had to say. He was a Jedi. And the purpose he served was far greater than any one man.

432.01 ABY – Harren Kyavich Tokh is born on Vaal.
444.05 ABY – Harren Kyavich Tokh is initiated into the Jedi Temple of Ilum.
453.09 ABY – Harren Kyavich Tokh suspends his training as a Padawan to serve in the “Army of the Wolves”, an anti-Third Estate insurgent cell operating in Vaal.
455.20 ABY – Harren Kyavich Tokh flees Vaal as an outlaw and terrorist, wanted by the Third Estate.
457.12 ABY – Harren Kyavich Tokh serves in the Galidraan military, fighting Empire of Vol incursions into Thanium space.
458.18 ABY – Harren Kyavich Tokh meets Jedi Master Kudor Okun.
459.05 ABY – Harren Kyavich Tokh requests to finish his training as a Jedi Knight. With Kudor Okun’s help, Harren successfully lobbies the Ossus Council to be allowed to finish his training as a Jedi.
460.23 ABY – Harren Kyavich Tokh is granted the rank of Jedi Knight.
464.01 ABY – Harren Kyavich Tokh is transferred to the Jedi Temple of Duneeden.