Blitzer Harrsk

Blitzer Harrsk was a Human male admiral of the Galactic Empire who was considered one of the Imperial Navy's most talented tacticians and commanders. During the Battle of Endor, Harrsk suffered a cranial injury that left him brain damaged, which resulted in him developing a split personality that alternated between Harrsk himself and his deceased second-in-command, Captain Bolla Thoath. When Captain Gilad Pellaeon gave the order to retreat following the death of Emperor Palpatine, Harrsk initially agreed, but later refused to follow an officer of such low rank and took his fleet into the Deep Core, where he established Zero Command, the first breakaway warlord kingdom. Styling himself Lord High Admiral, Harrsk carved out a territory for himself in the Deep Core. The warlord broke from many of his contemporaries in keeping watch on events outside his fiefdom, forging relations with Sate Pestage, Ysanne Isard, and many disaffected Imperials seeking new allegiance.

Harrsk weathered the New Republic capture of Coruscant, and ignored the unification of warlord factions under Grand Admiral Thrawn, but when a hidden power broker inside the Deep Core sent entreaties to him, Harrsk joined forces alongside many other warlords and Imperial factions under this new banner—that of the reborn Emperor Palpatine. Though his forces saw success with attacks on the New Republic in the Core Worlds during Operation Shadow Hand, Palpatine was ultimately killed and Byss was destroyed, and Harrsk retreated to his holdings which had been severely reduced during the campaign. From there he attempted to grab more power in the Atravis sector, which brought him into conflict with a fellow Deep Core warlord, Treuten Teradoc.

Harrsk allied with Admiral Natasi Daala, whom he trusted to put an end to Teradoc. However, Daala turned on Harrsk and joined forces with Gilad Pellaeon, now Vice Admiral of Teradoc's forces, and the two brought Harrsk and Teradoc to the negotiation table. At Tsoss Beacon, Daala gathered Harrsk, Teradoc, and eleven more of the most powerful Deep Core warlords with the goal of uniting them. They were unable to come to any agreement, however, so Daala arranged for the assembled warlords to be executed. Harrsk survived the original attempt due to his brain injury, but his fractured psyche drove him to commit suicide shortly after when he finally realized the extent of his madness.

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