James Hargraves

"You think your funny?! I'll show you funny."

- Hargraves addressing the Kuat of Kuat at dinner, moments before shooting him dead.

James Hargraves, officially titled Director Hargraves, was a human male born aboard a living ship in the Chiss Space in the Unknown Regions. He is commonly known for his work with the Ascendancy, the Blackguard, and the Empire, along with his common actions against the Varino Imperium.

Young Life

As a child, Hargraves knew very little about the galaxy, as being confined aboard a ship for the first 7 years of his life. This all changed however when the ship he was aboard, the  'Sower'  was caught in a meteor shower, and destroyed above Csilla. A Miraculous survivor of the crash, with only his brother, Eric, surviving, the Chiss took him in to the society, and raised him through the military.

Chiss Military Career

Hargraves quickly rose through the Chiss Navy, by the age of 17, he was working aboard the Parable, until it was destroyed in the Core Worlds during a stand-off gone wrong by Republic Ships. Once again, his luck preceeded him and he survived. The Crew members aboard the Republic Ship that fired at him, the Desolute realised his potential, and with the help of Jedi aboard the ship and Amnesia, the Republic brainwashed him into being a Republic Naval Officer.

Republic Military Career

By the age of 23, Hargraves was a serving Republic Officer aboard Spire Station, having been victorious on multiple fronts. However, the Commander of the Station, Jendri Fini, had stifled Hargraves' process after a minor loss to the CIS during a skirmish. Eager to remove of the Commander, Hargraves set up a trap for his commander with the CIS, communicating with them to have his commander killed.

The Naboo Incident

Once Hargraves had orchestrated the CIS and the Republic at Naboo, Hargraves positioned his Commander around the back of the Ground Force, and had organised CIS units to attack from the rear, making sure there were no forces back there. The plan worked perfected, the Seperatist droids attacked the Command Centre from the rear, immediately cutting down Fini. Hargraves then blamed the tactical failure of the battle on Fini, and detonated a series of placed bombs behind droid lines where he knew they would advance from, causing a victorious battle to him, granting him the Control of Spire Station.

Spire Station Commander

Hargraves commanded Spire Station, and won multiple battles using its superior force and ships, along with a particular incident around Mustafar, where he trapped droids between the Spire, and the Fleet, destroying them in the crossfire. However, Hargraves soon discovered the corruption in Republic Lines, and met up with Admiral Varino the First, who he would later kill. Hargraves framed the attacks on Naboo and the entire CIS movements against the Republic on the Hapes government, and moved massive fleets around Hapes, aligned with the 101st Division, and the 4th Fleet at Hapes. Hargraves and the Spire Covered the Rear, and did little in the fight, waiting for the Republic to dispatch troop transports, which once deployed, he fired apon, destroying most of the ground invasion force. Following this, he turned on the engines of the fleets, and began his escape after majorly crippling the fleets. However, he didn't make it far, before being shot down over Kubundi with Varino I aboard his ship.

Kubundi Incident 

After recovering from the crash, the remaining Spire Station personnel overtook an abandoned oil mine, and set up there. Before long Varino I was recovered from the crash site, missing an arm. With some issues a temporal prosthetic arm was built for him. Sooner or later, Republic Forces had intercepted the site, and had flown several ships into the location. At the disadvantage, out gunned and out numbered, Hargraves' defeat seemed inevitable, but with superior tactics he decimated the Republic forces and took their ships off world.

Return to the Ascendancy

By the end of the Clone Wars, Hargraves had returned to the Ascendancy and had taken up the role of Military Science Director, and had also taken many Chiss under his arm. Using the Orion Base on the edge of Known Space, Hargraves recieved high funding from the Ascendancy and began creating Military Grade chemical weapons, but also secretly siphoning the money and resources to fund his own projects.

The Varino Family

After discovering Varino I was still alive, he set out to find and use him as a test subject, by confronting him on N'zoth and kidnapping him during a firefight, then returning him to Orion base. There he began running tests and experiments on him, including the Imperial Knight testing, which gave him a suit that could give him an injection of Midi-Chlorians on a regular rate, giving him temporary force powers why wearing the suit. For a few years he was used as an agent for Hargraves, before he soon overthrew Hargraves with a raised army and caused him to flee from his job.

Raising the Son

After Varino I disappearance, Hargraves set his eyes on the child of Varino, the imaginatively named Varino II. He forced the child to work as one of his agent's, using him as a pawn to kill off people he despised and were tactical enemies to him. Varino was part of the Dark Shadow project, with five other operatives working with each other, or even against. Varino II eventually turned all the agents against Hargraves, and led them on an attack on Orion Base, which it was then destroyed, causing him to retreat further into Outer Space.

Csilla Return

On his return to Csilla after the destruction of his bass, the Chiss hardly accepted him with open arms. Told to redeem himself for his failures, Hargaves was given new sets of armaments and men, and set off to Bastion. Using his tactic prowess, he enabled himself to be voted into power on Bastion, and began the Expansion Protocol. Jaemus, Dantooine and Mygeeto fell in the early days, but heavy fighting on Mandalore prevented further Expansion. Hargraves handed all the territory to the Ascendancy and dissappeared at the start of the Vong War.

The Truth

Hargraves refused to be involved in the Vong War, and was called to Korriban by a mysterious letter. On arrival, a transmission told him to enter the Tomb of the Forgotten. On arrival into the tomb, he was sealed in, and gassed, knocking him unconscious. On re awakening, he discovered himself further into the Catacombs, and was called to a specific tomb, that of Lord Blackguard. On opening the tomb, a riddle and an artefact were uncovered, which read "He who desires knowledge of thy ancestors must find the End and bypass it. The sphere you hold is my consciousness, split from my form. Go beyond the Void and recover myself, and my Legacy". Confused, Hargraves felt bound to follow this, and disappeared with his Ship, the Knowledge of Life, into unknown space for 18 years.

The Return

After spending 18 years in space since the beginning of the Vong Wars, Hargraves returned to the galaxy in 32 ABY with Lord Blackguard, his ancestor. After a brief re-union with his warriors and his soldiers, Hargraves helped Lord Blackguard re-start his empire on Panic Station, a small derelict station that Hargraves had used as a listening post during the Galactic Civil War. After observing Lord Blackguard committed large scale Genocide on small planets, he used Lord Blackguard as an asset to re-fund his projects.

Near Death

After suffering a sever stroke on Tatooine, Hargraves was forced into a sleep induced coma as he underwent major medical treatment. Conversing briefly with Lord Blackguard about in mentally, Lord Blackguard sought the Heretic Machine, a machine able to absorb the life from people and transfer it. After spending nearly thirty years in a coma, he awoke in 65 ABY on Yosemine.

The Conflict

After an incident between the supporters of Lord Blackguard and Director Hargraves, a small conflict broke out on Panic Station, a coalition base between the two. After the station was destroyed in the ensuing conflict, both parties escaped. The Council of Three split, between Lord Blackguard and Lord Sur'Kesh forming the New Blackguard Empire, and Director Hargraves and Lord Gorond creating the Proletarians, a group of people after the schism. However, after an attempt on the life of Director Hargraves, killing Lord Gorond on Yosemine, Director Hagraves ordered a full scale war between the two, creating what was known as the UnCivil War.