Hal Hendyker

S.H.I.E.L.D.

> *"The Force is one with me and I am one with it. It has guided me through the many battles of my life, and it won't stop now."*
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> —Hal Hendyker
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**Hal Hendyker** is an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and a Jedi Knight, as well as being a veteran of the Clone Wars from the planet of Coruscant, having served in the war as a General of the Galactic Republic.

At the age of 3, Hal was taken into the Jedi Temple to learn under the Jedi Masters to become a Jedi due to his natural ability with the force. He learned as a youngling before becoming a Padawan to one of the Jedi Master in the temple at age 12 and learned many things under his master before finally being Knighted as a Jedi Knight at age 26.

From here, Hal went onto become a General in the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars and served for the entire 3 years before managing to escape Order 66. After this Hal managed to find his way to Earth before being hired by S.H.I.E.L.D. as an agent after showing his ability and courage when fighting against the Empire.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Childhood

Hal Hendyker was born into a loving family on Coruscant at 48 BBY. At an early age, it was obvious he was a natural with the Force after the young child, prior to any training, managed to use telekinesis to move another Jedi's lightsaber while on the Jedi's belt when they were passing through his childhood home. Being taken to the Jedi Temple at the age of 2, a slightly older age for someone to be allowed into the temple, as most children were taken in at around 6 months.

#### The Training Begins

Hal was clearly shown as a natural with the Force, quickly being able to move on from the basic level of youngling training to a slightly higher level before becoming a full Padawan at the age of 12 to one of the Jedi Masters in the temple at age 12. During this time, Hal was taken to Illum to build his lightsaber, a blue Kyber-crystal housed within it. Activating his new lightsaber, he looked up at it and immediately felt a strong connection to the weapon, a weapon that would serve him for many years to come.

#### Knighting

Hal stayed as a Jedi Apprentice for many years as he learned more and more about the Jedi way and the order, developing his own take on the form 5 of fighting style as well as tuning himself more and more to the force. At age 26 (22 BBY), Hal was knighted by the Jedi Council, just as the Clone Wars had started.

### The Clone Wars

Being a Jedi Knight, Hal served in the Clone Wars for the full 3 years as a General. He fought in many battles such as the First Battle of Geonosis along with many more. It was during this time that Hal lost his right arm from the elbow down due to a lightsaber strike when facing one of his many opponents during one of his many battles. This caused him to need a replacement robotic forearm which he would keep protected underneath a black armoured glove. With this mechno-arm, he has gained a lot of knowledge on technology due to the countless repairs and modifications he has made to the gauntlet.

#### Order 66

Eventually, in 19 BBY, Order 66 was executed. Hal, being at the age of 29 at the time, was on a mission with a few clones searching a colonised planet thought to have been taken over by the Separatists. Suddenly the Clones stopped and pointed their guns at Hal. Turning around, Hal could feel what was about to happen. All firing onto Hal, the Jedi Knight deflected most shots, the few he did not reflect narrowly missing him. Flipping over the clones, Hal then attacked them all one by one as he blocked their fire and with great sadness, had to cut them all down.

Hal then rushed back to his Star fighter. He knew something was wrong, but he didn’t know what. Getting into his fighter, he turned on his communications to see a flourish of distress calls. All about the Clones turning on the Jedi. Each message ended the same way - Another one of the many Jedi... dying…

Hal was filled with sadness seeing these. He had no feeling this was going to happen. Did the force betray him? Was he not strong enough? How did he not feel it? Hal sat for a while, thinking about what he had just experienced. The Jedi Order was dead. The Sith had won. Hal then looked down at his hands as he clenched them. He could still feel it. The Force, the light. It ran through him. This may be the end of the Jedi order but this was not the end of the Jedi.

### Post Order 66

Leaving the planet he was on, Hal scrambled his co-ordinates and removed all traceable components housed in his Star fighter before he set off on his journey. Where was he going? He had no idea. Hal merely flew across space, knowing he would be guided by the force. This eventually led Hal on a few adventures as he learned of the Empire’s rise to power and their cruelty across the Universe. His adventures soon caused him to arrive at Earth.

#### S.H.I.E.L.D. Recruitment

It had been a while since Hal had landed in a new atmosphere, and after all the damage and general wear and tear his ship had gone through, he landed with a bump, causing a large ditch in the ground as he crashed. Hal was immediately knocked out by the impact. The first things he saw when he woke up were soldiers. Their guns pointed towards him. In a fast reaction, Hal used a large force push on them, blowing them away before jumping out and igniting his Lightsaber as he looked around at all of the soldiers and teams gathered around his star fighter, most of them pointing their weapons at them but not firing. Hal looked around at them as he got into his fighting stance, ready to strike at any moment before another man stepped forward in front of them. Nick Fury.

After a short while, Hal and Fury began to talk, both having similar thoughts on the Empire and their evil. This eventually led to Hal becoming a recruit of SHIELD. Across the next year, Hal went on many missions with SHIELD, helping them through their missions, however not interacting with many as in his spare time, he would study the Force. Learn everything he could. Increase his skill as a Jedi. Hal has learned a lot about the Force, increasing his abilities to a very high level of near mastery, but along with this, Hal has developed over skills that come in very useful at times such as becoming a good engineer.

### Present

Currently, Hal is a hard working member of SHIELD, even if he isn’t well known by other agents, never failing to complete a task as of yet. The Jedi Knight has also gained near mastery of many few elements of the Force and Lightsaber combat as well as having learned a many other skills such as engineering. Hal has become very tuned with the force and always knows to follow the force, wherever it may take him next.