Gideon Harlock is the progeny of a family of affluent Mikkian traders, the youngest sibling out of 5. He was afforded excellent schooling from an early age. He was quickly fascinated with the judicial systems and separations of power, along with military history. This background led him to believe that the political system of the Republic around him was rife with corruption and a strong sense of ethics and honour (a pillar of Mikkian society) would do wonders to rectify the Republic's failings.

With slim chances of inheriting the family business, he was allowed to pursue a career relevant to his interests, his parents expecting him to follow an academic career in law. Little did they know that Gideon became a well-provisioned bounty hunter, aiming for criminals evading justice and assisting the authorities in matters he though just.

With the onset of the Clone Wars, young Harlock was approached and swayed by the Separatists (who wanted to staff their officer corps with mercenaries and bounty hunters) with arguments about the Republic's heavy-handed and unfair taxing policies, favouring the core worlds almost to exclusion and perverting its own ideals. It didn't take long before the Separatists' war machine showed its true colours under General Grievous. Gideon was disgusted by the atrocities committed from both sides, but his strong Mikkian sense of duty meant he was loath to desert and the reasons for the war as a leverage to fix an unfair taxing system still resonated true.

Fate had other, much more interesting plans. As if overnight, the Republic won and transformed to a far more oppressive regime: the Empire. For Gideon, the war never ended. His efforts for the Republic to heed its own ideals suddenly looked as if infinitesimal, with the balance swinging in the other direction entirely. He returned to his bounty hunting ways, but he almost immediately started getting involved with resistance cells, smuggling bacta and intelligence, using his bounty hunting license as a cover for travelling freely between various systems. He progressively took a more active role after the destruction of Alderaan and helped establish the base on Yavin 4. After the battle of Yavin he trained under the newly defected Crix Madine, being an early member of the Alliance's Special Forces. He took part in several missions with an overall focus of gathering and retrieving intelligence, extraction of assets and logistics disruption, often being seconded to non-SpecForce squads.

After the Battle of Endor, Gideon turned down the offer to stay in the New Republic's military, wanting to avoid a peacekeeping position that might place him in conflict with his ideals. Instead he took up the bounty hunting profession again, supplemented with an excellent reputation with the New Republic authorities, keeping him busy with contracts from their judicial system, from war criminals of the Imperial Remnant, to hardened lawbreakers.

Code: Live Capture (No Disintegrations pg. 37)

Harlock didn't fight the Empire only to exterminate the Republic's citizens and not all crimes should be punished with death in his eyes. Whenever possible, he tries to bring in a mark alive.

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His well-placed contacts in the New Republic mean that Harlon always has a contract that satisfies his sense of justice and honour. On the other hand, it also means that he has made quite a few enemies from ex-cons and gangs.

Early 40s, 1.95m. Tatoos on right arm indicating his affiliation with Rebel Alliance and SpecForce.

"The tall and lean figure of a purple male Mikkian drops from above and lands gracefully [...]. His confident strides in his black boots, the military-grade silver knee pads, the heavy-duty blue pants and the enlarged black holster holding a modded rifle with a collapsed stock spelled trouble. The dark grey padded riot armour, the visible tattoo of vertical bars circling the upper right arm, the diagonal black harness and the attached silver pauldron with the Rebel Alliance’s symbol in azure only accented said trouble, with competency. This guy was ex-SpecForce and he made sure everyone seeing him knew it. The appearance was carefully cultivated to radiate a deadly air of professionalism, which clearly went a long way amongst his peers in the bounty hunting business."