Harkun Harkun was a male Human and a member of the Sith Order who lived during the era of the Great Galactic War . Harkun was trained as an acolyte on the Sith graveyard world of Korriban and upon graduation became entwined within the Sphere of Ancient Knowledge as an inferior to a supervisor at the academy , the Sith Lord Zash . By the time of the Cold War between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic , Harkun had been elevated to the rank of an Overseer of acolyte training on Korriban , conducting the brutal process which ultimately turned hopeful initiates into Sith Lords . Around 3643 BBY , the Overseer was tasked by Zash to gather a new class of pupils from the low - born slave classes of the Empire , so that a student worthy of becoming her new apprentice might be identified . Harkun , a severe xenophobe and classist , begrudgingly complied and took six new acolytes from the Empire ' s slave pens and brought them to the academy for tutelage and evaluation . Hoping to manipulate the process to ensure the continuing domination of high - born Sith , Harkun secretly brought in the acolyte Ffon Althe , who had received advanced training from across the Empire and was far more adept at Sith techniques than the new slave recruits . However , throughout his direction of the new class of acolytes , Harkun ' s designs were repeatedly foiled by a young slave - turned - acolyte who , through savvy and skill , managed to overcome all of the Overseer ' s challenges . As a result , Harkun fostered an intense hatred for this acolyte and specifically schemed to ensure their downfall , despite Lord Zash ' s favorable views on the new student . Towards the end of the training and evaluation period , when only Althe and Harkun ' s unfavored acolyte remained , Zash ordered that the Overseer send the surviving acolytes on a final mission to retrieve a star map once belonging to the ancient Sith Lord Tulak Hord from a danger - filled tomb on Korriban ' s surface . Harkun attempted to give Althe an advantage over the other acolyte , but was confounded by interference from Zash , who ensured the success of Harkun ' s least favorite pupil . As punishment for his attempted manipulations , Harkun was forced to watch Zash execute Althe before taking the other acolyte as her apprentice . The Sith Lord and her new pupil departed Korriban shortly thereafter , leaving Harkun to continue as an Overseer at the academy . Approximately two years later , after the death of Lord Zash and the elevation of her apprentice to the rank and title of Lord Kallig , Harkun was asked yet again to gather a new class of acolytes from which Sith Lords could select an apprentice . Again Harkun fulfilled his duties as Overseer , managing a class of six new students ; the group was initially offered to the elder Sith Lord Darth Thanaton , but he passed , allowing Lord Kallig to select an apprentice from the group . Harkun loyally served Kallig ' s interests , but found himself unable to accept the ultimate success of another slave - turned - acolyte , the Kaleesh warrior Xivhkalrainik . Lord Kallig , who was impressed with the Kaleesh , chose not to tolerate Harkun ' s protests and instead killed the man with concentrated blasts of Force lightning . Biography . Turning slaves into Lords . A male Human , Harkun became an Overseer at the Sith Academy of Korriban . During the Cold War , Harkun had been tasked by Lord Zash to test a group of acolytes so that she may select a suitable Sith apprentice . Among those acolytes was an aspiring Sith Inquisitor - descended from the forgotten Sith Lord Aloysius Kallig - who Harkun treated with contempt because of their slave heritage . Harkun personally championed the Sith Pureblood acolyte Ffon Althe and made every effort to knock the slave - born acolyte out of the competition , including the dismissing of the acolyte ' s legitimate work , bribing the other acolytes to kill him / her , sending him / her to near - impossible tasks , and so forth . Throughout these trials , Harkun would have the initiates under his charge eliminated , but the soon - to - be Inquisitor always persisted . For the final task , Harkun sent Ffon ahead to find the star map from the tomb of Naga Sadow . However , Zash , having favored the Inquisitor , showed up to reveal how to free the Dashade Khem Val from his imprisonment in the tomb to access the star map . Ultimately , the Inquisitor succeeded where Ffon could not . Nonetheless , Harkun took the map off the Inquisitor and passed it to Ffon so he could take credit . When Zash arrived to receive her new apprentice , she easily saw through Ffon ' s lie and questioned it ; he quickly admitted the truth out of fear of Zash . To punish Harkun for attempting to go behind her back , Zash killed Ffon , thus claiming the Inquisitor as her new apprentice . This infuriated Harkun , who threatened to harass the Inquisitor wherever the young sith goes , though this never happened . The last class . Sometime later , the Inquisitor - now a powerful Lord of the Sith and heir to the legacy of both Lord Kallig and Tulak Hord - returned to Korriban , searching for a new apprentice to replace Corrin and Kaal , two apprentices that were purged by Darth Thanaton . During this time , Harkun treated Kallig with utmost respect and was supposedly less harsh to the new batch of acolytes , even claiming that any of their deaths was not caused by him . Harkun put his credits on the Gran acolyte , but , much as Zash had done , Kallig ' s eye fell upon one particular acolyte : the Kaleesh known as Xalek . After returning periodically to observe the progresses of the acolytes , Harkun mentioned that Xalek possessed a determined glint in his eye , which reminded him of Kallig . However , it seemed that they were both wrong when the Twi ' lek acolyte Seferiss showed up , but Harkun was wrong again when Xalek shortly appeared afterward . Xalek then killed Seferiss , which angered Harkun as it was a blatant disregard for Sith tradition and went against the academy rules . Kallig tried to reason with Harkun , but when it was quite clear he still remained defiant , Kallig released a bolt of Force lightning and killed Harkun . Personality and traits . Harkun ' s physical appearance was a signature one with dark brown hair , light blue eyes , freckles , a goatee , and a tatoo on his right eye . Harkun is polite toward his superiors , Sith Purebloods , and any person who has high - ranking heritage . He is openly rude and cruel towards slaves , aliens ( not counting Sith ) , and those who he considers weak . He demonstrated this when he executed Kory , after she was deemed unworthy by Spindrall . Despite his apparent disdain towards the Sith Inquisitor Kallig , he allows him to continue his training despite being mocked whenever he tries to insult him . This is probably because Kallig has not shown signs of weakness . It is more likely however , that he doesn ' t execute Kallig because he would be afraid of being in trouble with Lord Zash , as she favored the Inquisitor . When Ffon Althe suggested killing Kallig together with the Overseer , Harkun told him that it would be much easier to make Kallig ' s death seem more like an accident if it were to occur in one of the tombs , rather than in his office . Powers and abilities . Harkun was capable of Force lightning , and wielded a single bladed Sith lightsaber . Behind the scenes . During the quest where Xalek becomes Kallig ' s apprentice , Harkun ' s fate depends on the conversation choices made . The conversation choices depend on the answer to Harkun ' s protests regarding Xalek ' s murder of the acolyte Seferiss instead of finish the quest ; most chains of dialogue will lead to Harkun walking away , declaring that he would inform Thanaton of what happened . If Kallig shows an apathetic disregard for the " tradition " of executing slaves guilty of murder ( " I don ' t care " option ) or tells Harkun that his " defiance is foolish and misplaced " ( " Don ' t protest " ) , Harkun will state his concern that the Empire will fall " if the rules of subterfuge and skill give way to blind murder " , giving three options : Either simply taking Xalek and leaving , Force - persuading Harkun that there was no murder and giving up his lightsaber to the apprentice , or killing him with Force lightning . If Harkun is spared , he will reappear near the end at the Sphere of Ancient Knowledge , where he will be one of those servants that bow before Kallig after the latter is seated on the Dark Council . It is possible to customize the Sith Warrior class to make the head of the character appear identical to that of Harkun ' s . Ironically , it isn ' t possible to do this as the Sith Inquisitor . This is either because he is a warrior , or the game designers didn ' t want the player to look exactly like another character in the storyline .