Crow Shadowhawk

"I've Destroyed Planets, Fear me"

"I've Decimated Solar sytems, Planets and part of Hyperspace, Fear me"

-Crow Shadowhawk to an Unknown Hutt

Crow Shadowhawk was a Zabrak Male who made a name for himself by forming expert Strategies for the Sith Empire during the Galactic Cold War. Before his prescence was known by the Sith Empire, he was a ghost who kept to himself and rarely engaged in social gatherings involving the Empire, Republic and even Independant Factions. He appears many times in history but it is only for a beif time and he isn't seen for centuries at a time. He appears in some way or another in nearly every one of the Republic's main conflicts with the Seperatists.​

Origin

Information concerning Crow's origins is scarce at best, however, some information was recorded in the Jedi Temple Library during the Old Republic, but was destroyed with the sacking of Coruscant and the annihilation of the original Temple. Although no information can be provided by the Jedi, an extensive area of the Imperial Citadel on Dromund Kass was uncovered during the exploration of Sith Space in 1895 BBY and uncovered a section of the old Archives containing Information on some of the Imperial Navy's most decorated Officers, there is a single text refering to an Imperial Supreme Moff giving an Imperial General strategic advice during the invasion of Taris. This is however all the information that was recovered.

 The Sith Empire 

As the Empire was conquering Planets under the noses of the Republic, Crow came under fire from a Republic Hammerhead-Class Crusier and upon both sides taking heavy damage, an Imperial Battle Cruiser came out of Hyperspace and Immeadiatly opened all Turbo-Laser batteries upon the Republic ship. Crow survived, Barely, and was brought aboard the Battle Cruiser, which was the personal Flagship of Darth Malgus, who was on his way back to Dromund Kaas and was, at first, completely dismissive of Crow's vast strategic knowledge. Over the course of the jeourney he became more and more interested in his intellect. they soon formed a strong friendship and Crow was unknowingly recruited into the Imperial Navy. Over the course of his 'employment' in the Empire he became more well known with every sucessful battle the Empire won until the Republic started its long push against the Empire and with the Empires defeat and the disappearance of the Emperor and most of the Dark Council, Crow took an X-7oB Phantom starship and disolved back into the shadows and wasn't heard from again.

 The Experiments 

over the next 200 years Crow had remained hidden from both the Republic and any other powerful Factions in the Galaxy, until during his travels in the galactic south-east he came across a secret research instalation on an unknown planet and decided to set up a base there. During his exploration of the facility, he came accross a mysterious device and examined it for many months, he was greatly excited and astonished when he discovered what it was, it was the Rakata's version of Dark Reaper (a super weapon which drew power from the force itself) and was extreamly tempted to activate it and when he decided to initiate a test it immeaditly overloaded all the power generators in the facility and with barely time to spare he fled the planet and as the entire planet exploded he jumped into Hyperspace. when he returned to the system about 6 months later, he dicovered that he had completely wiped out the entire solar system. He then decided that this was the last time he would experiment on the Force,

over the next 50 years he discovered more and more research facilities belonging to the Rakata and each time decided to destroy the entrance to the facilities and bury them under the surface. On one such occasion he came accross and ancient Sith Complex which contained an experimental Hyperdive which would allow almost instantaneous travel accross the galaxy, it was refered to in its data records as 'Project Omega' and he soon discovered why the Imperial Scientist had abandoned it soon after its establshment, they had made a huge mistake in their primary calculations and apon correcting the mistake tested the device, although the power requirements were enormous, the Base's generators could provide it. He soon decided to take it to the next level and increased the output, which increased the power reqiurements, the base's generators exploded and caused massive cave-ins at the base's entrance, Crow was trapped.

For about 6 days Crow desperately tried to dig his was out, up until this point he was completely unaware of the fact that the planet was habited by a large settelment of Togruta refugees from the Galactic Cold War, they eventualy dug him out, Crow was near Death when they discovered him and once they had nursed him back to health, he strongly advised them to destroy the entrance to the facility. Under cover of darkness he snuck away from the settlement and to set a course for Coruscant seeking a new life, when he were in the upper atmosphere, Crow discovered that the device he had triggered on the planet had cause Hyperspace in he area and the surrounding 6 parsects had collapsed and they were unable to jump to lightspeed.

For the next month and a half he travelled the parsects quickly and quietly so as not to attract unwanted suspision and so as not to drain the ship's deminishing power. When he could finally jump to Hyperspace, he landed on the closest habited planet and refueled and recharged the ship. Then just as before he disapeard into the shadows of space and wasn't seen again.

 The Clone Wars 

During the 2nd battle for Geonosis, Master Ki-adi-Mundi was badly wounded and force to go back to the Temple after they had taken the Droid Foundary, when they came out of Hyperspace and entered a high orbit above Coruscant, they detected a starship approching the planet at extremely high speed and before they could alter course to investigate it had gone. Soon after that, many ships entering Coruscant's atmosphere constantly experienced this technical glitch. One day, when Chancellor Palpatine was scheduled to give a speech to the full Senate about a new trade form with the Banking Clan, when he entered his office he found a dark figure standing at the window looking out towards the horizon, before he could do anything the figure suddenly lurched towards him and out the door, Palpatine rushed over to my desk to call for the Senate Guard when he found that the ghostly figure at the window had hacked his personal terminal and stolen all the information on everything that had occoured in the last century. A full investigation was launched but nobody was ever arrested so the Chancellor ignored it.

Many months later during Greivous' capture of Jedi Master Koth, a Mysterious ship terroirised the main Republic supply routes to both the Reublic Core worlds and the outer rim outposts. a Jedi task force was deployed and returned with nothing to report, the Jedi high council dismissed the matter as a seperatist attack and Chancellor Palpatine ordered all supply ship to have an attack cruiser escort and each fleet is to have at least one Jedi Cruiser leading it.

Xalandra Nova and Nova Corp / Dark Nebula

During Crow's exploration of the Coruscant Underworld, he comes across a group of people talking about somthng called Nova Corp and he becomes immeadiatly interested, he follows them to their ship and follows them to Mustafar where he meets one of the most powerful women in the Galaxy, Xalandra Nova, Mistress of Nova Corp, he is instandly star struck and decides to introduce himself. Over the course of the next few months she begins to tust him, by this time Crow has Considered her one of his Closest Friends and Allies, and secretly has fancies her. Also at this point they are both in a large and grousome war with many foes on all sides, but thanks to Xalandra's extremely high intelligence and Crow's Contibutions, they always win, despite the petty rumors made by their enemies. Nova Corp was taken from Xalandra by Nova the Hutt, and in response Xalandra Formed Dark Nebula, to carry on her work.

 Sharp Fett and Rino Squad 

Crow and Sharp met on the battlefield of Ryloth during the Republic's Invasion of the planet. they quickly formed a small alliance and Crow was given some ARF Trooper armour to wear for the main assult of the Seperatists main position. Many months after, Crow soon began to think why he was still taking orders drom Sharp since Crow had no official rank in the Grand Army of the Republic, but had gone to Kamino after the Ryloth Campaign and trained as an ARC Trooper and had customised his armour in a very unique way, then a misunderstanding involving Sharp and Crow cause them to temporarily split up and loose contact with each other, Crow ordered all communications with Rino Squad to end except for a good friend of Crow's, Captain Fireblast, soon after this they reformed their previous alliance and soon began going on many more campaigns together.

 Personal Traits 

Crow is an expert strategist and has had centuries devising more and putting them to use in small skirmishes with small pirate fleets and one or two Republic Attack Cruisers. He was once described as "Charasmatic" and was many times refered as "an Intelectual Genius" although he never talks of his past or what he has seen of the future. When he was with the Sith Empire he trained himself in using the Dark Rituals so as to prolong his life and as a Zabrak he is extremely tollerant of pain and can take alot of punishment before admitting it hurts. When he finally decides who to fight for, he will foght until the bitter end, weather it be on the ground defending his leader, or in space attacking an enemy armada, whatever the task, whoever the enemy, whoever the leader, he will follow and he will not faulter.