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Tucker Harwell
Character Profile
Born 3111
Affiliation ComStar
Profession Technician
Siblings Patricia Harwell

Tucker Harwell (born 3111[1] - died 3???) was a mid thirty-second century ComStar scientist and technician.

Biography

Born into a ComStar family, Tucker and his sister Patricia both chose to continue the Harwells' seven generations of service to the organization, stretching back well before the ComStar Schism and Jihad.[1]

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. [1]

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.[1]

However Tucker was instead "rescued" by his sister and elements of the 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.[1] 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. [2]

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 found the reason behind the Blackout, or a solution to it: his solution for HPG Wyatt, a change of frequency, it only work for that HPG. Not too later, ROM uncovered his treason, and begun watching him closely, using too to recover data from old radioactive archives recovered in system. Then he found references about what the blakist call "Clarion Case Protocol".[3] Buhl, assuming the HPG Blackout was caused by a virus, ordered the construction of two new HPG, what he called "Polar Network", expecting to free them from virus, obtaining the template to restore the HPG Network. He doesn't trust Tucker, and when he tried to warn him to shut it down, he ignored it, and both HPG were burned too.[4] Buhl ignored innocence claiming of Tucker, only assuming he had sabotaged the HPG, and ordered his sister interrogate him. She proved to be a religious zealot, torturing his brother without any mercy, with Blakist technology. Tucker suffered brain damage, losing parts of his mind. After he awakened on a hospital, found a new interrogator, a woman named "Sandra Whitfield", who began torturing him at his turn.[5] Tucker managed to evade from his cell after murdering an adept and a ROM agent, and, when confronted with Whitfield, she tell him she was the knight Alexi Holt, infiltrated to rescue him.[6] Despite his doubts (Patricia had made him believe before than Holt was there to rescue him, but was a lie) both joined forces, stealing a shuttle. After escaping on space, Alexi made the shuttle collide with a ComStar fighter pursuing them, and both exploded.[7]

Both were alive, and take refuge on a old Blakist space station half destroyed. Both reactivated it enough systems to survive, and he write a virus to communicate his location to the Republic. When looking Blakist archives, Tucker made a incredible discovery: "Clarion Note" was a Blakist project, consisting in using a Super HPG to cause a complete communications blackout.[8] Found by Patricia and and assault team, they steal her his shuttle and fleed to the surface on planet, barely surviving until they see Republic of the Sphere DropShips arriving.[9] After being rescued, and confirm Patricia's death in the fight, Tucker was returned to Earth and taken to a hospital. When he recovered himself, barely, was put at command of "Project Sunlight", a unit with the objective to found a solution to HPG Blackout, and found the archive of Clarion note in Republic files. Using Alexi Horst access code, he made a incredible discovery: The Blackout had been caused by Devlin Stone. Refusing to listen to Holt, Tucker announced her his finding before fleeing.[10]

Buhl would order a full withdrawn to their Alpha base on Epsilon Eridani. There, The Division was destroyed by Republic forces.[11]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Era Report: 3145, p. 117 "Major Personas - ComStar - Tucker Harwell"
  2. Era Report: 3145, p. 13 "History and Review - The Fall of Darkness"
  3. A bonfire of Worlds p. 12
  4. A bonfire of Worlds p. 18
  5. A bonfire of Worlds p. 53
  6. A bonfire of Worlds p. 95
  7. A bonfire of Worlds p. 102
  8. A Bonfire of World p. 124
  9. A Bonfire of World p. 142
  10. A Bonfire of World p. 251
  11. Field Manual: 3145, p. 140

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