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| name                = Tucker Harwell
| birthdate          = [[3111]]<ref name=ER3145p117>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 117: "Tucker Harwell profile"</ref>
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| affiliation        = [[ComStar]]<br>[[Republic of the Sphere]]
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| affiliation        = [[ComStar]], [[Republic of the Sphere]]
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| profession          = Technician
 
| profession          = Technician
| parents            = [[Drake Harwell]] (father)<ref name=ToO-B3>''Target of Opportunity''</ref>
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| siblings            = [[Patricia Harwell]]<ref name=ToOc2>''Target of Opportunity'', ch. 2</ref><ref name=SO:UFp6>''Spotlight On: Unending Faith'', p. 6</ref>
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| siblings            = [[Patricia Harwell]]
 
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'''Tucker Harwell''' was a mid-[[thirty-second century]] [[ComStar]] scientist and technician.
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'''Tucker Harwell''' (born [[3111]]<ref name=ER3145-117>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 117 "Major Personas - ComStar - Tucker Harwell"</ref> - died 31??) was a mid-[[thirty-second century]] [[ComStar]] scientist and technician.  
  
==History==
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==Biography==
 
===HPG Savant===
 
===HPG Savant===
Born into a ComStar family, Tucker and his sister [[Patricia Harwell|Patricia]] both chose to continue the Harwells' seven generations of service to the organization, stretching back well before the [[ComStar Schism]] and [[Jihad]].<ref name=ER3145p117/>
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Born into a ComStar family, Tucker and his sister [[Patricia Harwell|Patricia]] both chose to continue the Harwells' seven generations of service to the organization, stretching back well before the [[ComStar Schism]] and [[Jihad]].<ref name=ER3145-117/>
  
Showing an almost prodigious understanding of most technical concepts from a young age, Tucker earned his doctorate in [[hyperpulse generator]] systems at the age of twenty-one, receiving a posting to ComStar's headquarters in Sydney on [[Terra]] as an [[Adept]] Alpha (Hyperpulse Generator Operation) a mere three months before [[Gray Monday]] in [[3132]]. As ComStar desperately scrambled to restore the HPG network, Tucker's almost preternatural skills with hyperspace generator systems and the theories of [[Thomas Kearny]] and [[Takayoshi Fuchida]] resulted in him being assigned to undergo advanced courses at the [[Cassie DeBurke Institute for Hyperspatial Studies]] by his former teacher [[Precentor]] [[Carole Ackerman]].<ref name=ER3145p117/>
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Showing an almost prodigious understanding of most technical concepts from a young age, Tucker earned his doctorate in [[Hyperpulse Generator]] systems at the age of twenty-one, receiving a posting to ComStar's headquarters in Sydney on [[Terra]] as an [[Adept]] Alpha (Hyperpulse Generator Operation) a mere three months before [[Gray Monday]] in [[3132]]. As ComStar desperately scrambled to restore the HPG network, Tucker's almost preternatural skills with Hyperspace Generator Systems and the theories of [[Thomas Kearny]] and [[Takayoshi Fuchida]] resulted in him being assigned to undergo advanced courses at the [[Cassie DeBurke Institute for Hyperspatial Studies]] by his former teacher [[Precentor]] [[Carole Ackerman]]. <ref name=ER3145-117/>
  
His performance at the DeBurke Institute attracted the attention of Ackerman's superior and Director of Special Projects, Precentor [[Malcolm Buhl]]. Impressed with the young man's reputation, Buhl dispatched Tucker to restore the HPG on the [[Republic of the Sphere]] world of [[Wyatt]] in [[3135]]. Much to everyone's amazement and joy, Tucker succeeded and found himself in the midst of a three-way conflict between the [[Clan Nova Cat]] splinter group the [[Spirit Cats]], defensive [[Republic of the Sphere]] troops, and an invasion force from the [[Oriente Protectorate]] attempting to secure his knowledge and the Wyatt HPG.<ref name=ER3145p117/>
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His performance at the DeBurke Institute attracted the attention of Ackerman's superior and Director of Special Projects, Precentor [[Malcolm Buhl]]. Impressed with the young man's reputation, Buhl dispatched Tucker to restore the HPG on the [[Republic of the Sphere]] world of [[Wyatt]] in [[3135]]. Much to everyone's amazement and joy, Tucker succeeded and found himself in the midst of a three-way conflict between the [[Clan Nova Cat]] splinter group the [[Spirit Cats]], defensive [[Republic of the Sphere]] troops, and an invasion force from the [[Oriente Protectorate]] attempting to secure his knowledge and the Wyatt HPG.<ref name=ER3145-117/>
  
However Tucker was instead "rescued" by his sister and elements of the [[1st Division (ComStar)|First Division]] of the secretly rebuilt [[Com Guards]], kidnapped by the fanatical [[Blessed Order]] faction within the post-Jihad era ComStar. Tucker was forced to aid the faction in developing a method to repair the remaining nonfunctional HPGs for their benefit.<ref name=ER3145p117/> While Tucker's methods of restoring the Wyatt HPG were disseminated after his disappearance, they only worked briefly if at all, making locating the young Adept even more vital.<ref name=ER3145-13>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 13: "History and Review - The Fall of Darkness"</ref>
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However Tucker was instead "rescued" by his sister and elements of the [[1st Division (ComStar)|First Division]] of the secretly rebuilt [[Com Guard]], kidnapped by the fanatical [[Blessed Order]] faction within the post-Jihad era ComStar. Tucker was forced to aid the faction in developing a method to repair the remaining non-functional HPGs for their benefit.<ref name=ER3145-117/> While Tucker's methods of restoring the Wyatt HPG were disseminated after his disappearance, they only worked briefly if at all, making locating the young Adept even more vital. <ref name=ER3145-13>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 13 "History and Review - The Fall of Darkness"</ref>
  
 
===In Blakist Hands===
 
===In Blakist Hands===
Tucker was moved, with his sister, to the Omega One secret base on [[Luyten 68-28]], working to resolve the HPG Blackout. Despite the fact he was sabotaging the progress, he was unable to find the reason behind the Blackout, or a solution to it.  His solution for HPG Wyatt—a change of frequency—only worked for that HPG. Not too much later, ROM uncovered his treason and begun watching him closely, using him to recover data from old radioactive archives recovered in-system. From these archives Tucker found references to the Blakist "Clarion Case Protocol."<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'', p. 12</ref>
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Tucker was moved, with his sister, to the Omega One secret base on [[Luyten 68-28]], working to resolve the HPG Blackout. Despite the fact he was sabotaging the progress, he was unable to find the reason behind the Blackout, or a solution to it.  His solution for HPG Wyatt – a change of frequency – only worked for that HPG. Not too much later, ROM uncovered his treason and begun watching him closely, using him to recover data from old radioactive archives recovered in-system. From these archives Tucker found references to the Blakist "Clarion Case Protocol".<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'' p. 12</ref>
  
Buhl, assuming the HPG Blackout was caused by a virus, ordered the construction of two new HPG stations, what he called "Polar Network", expecting to free them from virus.  The plan was to use these freshly constructed stations as the template to restore the HPG Network.  Buhl did not trust Tucker due to the later's sabotaging efforts, and when Tucker tried to warn him to shut the stations down, he was ignored.  Both HPGs overloaded and burned to the ground.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'', p. 18</ref>
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Buhl, assuming the HPG Blackout was caused by a virus, ordered the construction of two new HPG stations, what he called "Polar Network", expecting to free them from virus.  The plan was to use these freshly constructed stations as the template to restore the HPG Network.  Buhl did not trust Tucker due to the later's sabotaging efforts, and when Tucker tried to warn him to shut the stations down, he was ignored.  Both HPGs overloaded and burned to the ground.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'' p. 18</ref>
  
Buhl ignored the continued claims of innocence from Tucker and instead assumed Tucker had been the one who sabotaged the HPGs.  Buhl ordered Tucker's own sister to interrogate him. She proved to be a religious zealot with no qualms in using Blakist technology to torture her brother without mercy. Tucker suffered brain damage, losing parts of his mind. After he awakened in a hospital, a new interrogator, a woman named "Sandra Whitfield," began torturing him.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'', p. 53</ref> Tucker managed to escape from his cell after murdering an adept and a ROM agent. When finally confronted by Whitfield, she told him she was the knight [[Alexi Holt]], who had infiltrated the Order to rescue him.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'', p. 95</ref> Despite his doubts (Patricia had made him believe before that Holt was there to rescue him, which had been a lie) he joined her and they stole a shuttle. After escaping to space, Alexi collided with a ComStar fighter pursuing them, and both exploded.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'', p. 102</ref>
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Buhl ignored the continued claims of innocence from Tucker and instead assumed Tucker had been the one who sabotaged the HPGs.  Buhl ordered Tucker's own sister to interrogate him. She proved to be a religious zealot with no qualms in using Blakist technology to torture her brother without mercy. Tucker suffered brain damage, losing parts of his mind. After he awakened on a hospital a new interrogator, a woman named "Sandra Whitfield", began torturing him.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'' p. 53</ref> Tucker managed to escape from his cell after murdering an adept and a ROM agent. When finally confronted by Whitfield, she told him she was the knight [[Alexi Holt]], who had infiltrated the Order to rescue him.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'' p. 95</ref> Despite his doubts (Patricia had made him believe before that Holt was there to rescue him, which had been a lie) he joined her and they stole a shuttle. After escaping to space, Alexi collided with a ComStar fighter pursuing them, and both exploded.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'' p. 102</ref>
  
However, Alexi and Tucker were alive and took refuge on an old derelict Blakist space station. They reactivated it enough to survive, and Tucker wrote a program to communicate his location to the Republic. When looking through Blakist archives, Tucker made an incredible discovery: "[[Clarion Note]]" was a Blakist project, consisting in using a [[Super HPG]] to cause a complete communications blackout.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'', p. 124</ref> Their survival was discovered by Patricia, and an assault team was dispatch to the space station. Tucker and Alexi stole the assault team's shuttle and fled to the surface of the planet.  They went to ground, barely surviving until Republic of the Sphere DropShips arrive to rescue them.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'', p. 142</ref>
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However, Alexi and Tucker were alive and took refuge on an old derelict Blakist space station. They reactivated it enough to survive, and Tucker wrote a program to communicate his location to the Republic. When looking through Blakist archives, Tucker made an incredible discovery: "[[Clarion Note]]" was a Blakist project, consisting in using a [[Super HPG]] to cause a complete communications blackout.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'' p. 124</ref>
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Their survival was discovered by Patricia, and an assault team was dispatch to the space station. Tucker and Alexi stole the assault team's shuttle and fled to the surface of the planet.  They went to ground, barely surviving until Republic of the Sphere DropShips arrive to rescue them.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'' p. 142</ref>
  
After being rescued, and confirming Patricia's death in the fight, Tucker was returned to Earth and taken to a hospital. When he recovered, he was put in command of [[Project Sunlight]], a joint ComStar-Republic investigation with the objective to find a solution to the HPG Blackout.  Using Alexi Holt's access code on the recovered Clarion files, he made a second incredible discovery: the Blackout had been caused by [[Devlin Stone]]. Refusing to listen to Holt, Tucker announced his finding before fleeing.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'', p. 251</ref>
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After being rescued, and confirming Patricia's death in the fight, Tucker was returned to Earth and taken to a hospital. When he recovered, he was put in command of "Project Sunlight", a unit with the objective to find a solution to the HPG Blackout.  Using Alexi Holt's access code on the recovered Clarion files, he made a second incredible discovery: the Blackout had been caused by [[Devlin Stone]]. Refusing to listen to Holt, Tucker announced his finding before fleeing.<ref>''A Bonfire of Worlds'' p. 251</ref>
  
 
Meanwhile, Buhl ordered a full withdrawal to the Blakist ''Alpha'' base on [[Epsilon Eridani]]. There, the First Division was destroyed by Republic forces.<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 140</ref>
 
Meanwhile, Buhl ordered a full withdrawal to the Blakist ''Alpha'' base on [[Epsilon Eridani]]. There, the First Division was destroyed by Republic forces.<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 140</ref>
  
 
===Advisor to Devlin Stone===
 
===Advisor to Devlin Stone===
On 1 April [[3145]], Tucker discovered Devlin Stone asleep in a hidden stasis tube on [[Terra]]. Waking him up, he became Stone's advisor and confidant, taking a position similar to that of [[David Lear]] during the [[Jihad]]. Noticeably, he is not intimidated by Stone and freely voices his opinions and concerns.<ref>''Shattered Fortress'', pp. 63, 99</ref>
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On April 1, [[3145]], Tucker discovered Devlin Stone asleep in a hidden stasis tube on [[Terra]]. Waking him up, he became Stone's advisor and confidant, taking a position similar to that of [[David Lear]] during the [[Jihad]]. Noticeably, he is not intimidated by Stone and freely voices his opinions and concerns.<ref>''Shattered Fortress'', p. 5-7, 63, 99</ref>
 
 
===Battle of Terra===
 
After the defeat of the Republic by the Wolves. Tucker disappeared.<ref>''Hour of the Wolf'', p. 369</ref> [[Spurlock Conners]], leader of the IlClan Watch, searched for him, fearing that Tucker knew something compromising. However, he was unable to locate Tucker after the Wolf victory.<ref>''IlClan'', p. 108</ref>
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
 
* ''[[A Bonfire of Worlds]]'' (novel)
 
* ''[[A Bonfire of Worlds]]'' (novel)
* ''[[Bring the Dawn]]''
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* "[[Bring the Dawn]]" (short story from ''[[Shattered Fortress]]'')
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Hour of the Wolf]]'' (novel)
 
* ''[[IlClan (sourcebook)|IlClan]]''
 
* ''[[Rock of the Republic]]'' (novella)
 
* ''[[Spotlight On: Unending Faith]]''
 
 
* ''[[Target of Opportunity]]'' (novel)
 
* ''[[Target of Opportunity]]'' (novel)
  
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