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Harkun

Harkun

Physical description
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair color	Dark Brown
Eye color	Brown
Skin color	Light
Chronological and political information
Era(s)	Old Republic era
Affiliation	Sith Empire

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Harkun was a male Human Sith of the resurgent Sith Empire and an Overseer at the Korriban Sith Academy.

1 Biography
2 Behind the Scenes
3 Appearances
4 Sources
5 External links
6 Notes and references
- 6.1 In other languages

BiographyEdit

"Lord Zash has tasked me with sorting through you refuse to find one worthy of being her apprentice, and I intend to do just that."

―Harkun^[src]

During the Cold War, Harkun had been tasked by Lord Zash to test a group of acolytes so that she may select a suitable Sith apprentice. Among those acolytes was an aspiring Sith Inquisitor - descended from the forgotten Sith Lord Aloysius Kallig - who Harkun treated with contempt because of their slave heritage. Harkun personally championed the Sith Pureblood acolyte Ffon Althe and made every effort to knock the slave-born acolyte out of the competition, including the dismissing of the acolyte's legitimate work.

Throughout these trials, Harkun would have the initiates under his charge eliminated, but the Inquisitor always persisted. For the final task, Harkun sent Ffon ahead to find the star map from the tomb of Naga Sadow. However, Zash, having favoured the Inquisitor, showed up to reveal how to free the Dashade Khem Val from his imprisonment in the tomb to access the star map. Ultimately, the Inquisitor succeeded where Ffon could not. Nonetheless, Harkun took the map off the Inquisitor and passed it to Ffon so he could take credit. When Zash arrived to receive her new apprentice, she could see through Ffon's lie and forced him to confess the truth. To punish Harkun for attempting to go behind her back, Zash killed Ffon, thus claiming the Inquisitor as her new apprentice. This infuriated Harkun, who threatened to harass the Inquisitor wherever they go.

Sometime later, the Inquisitor - now a powerful Lord of the Sith and heir to the legacy of both Lord Kallig and Tulak Hord - returned to Korriban, searching for a new apprentice to replace the ones purged by Darth Thanaton. Much as Zash had done, the new Lord Kallig's eye fell upon one particular acolyte, the Kaleesh known as Xalek. After returning periodically to observe his progress, the Sith Lord chose Xalek as a Sith apprentice.

Behind the ScenesEdit

During the quest where Xalek becomes Kallig's apprentice, Harkun's fate depends on the conversation choices made. The conversation choices depend on the answer to Harkun's protests regarding Xalek's murder of the acolyte Seferiss; most chains of dialogue will lead to Harkun walking away, declaring that he would inform Thanaton of what happened. If Kallig shows an apathetic disregard for the "tradition" of executing slaves guilty of murder, Harkun will state his concern that the Empire will fall "if the rules of subterfuge and skill give way to blind murder", giving three options: Either simply taking Xalek and leaving, Force-persuading Harkun that there was no murder, or killing him with Force lightning.^[1]