Hanharr

"It's like he's out to make the whole galaxy suffer - every living thing in it. He wants to break them, ruin them, and when they can't suffer any more, he wants them dead."

- Mira

Hanharr was a Wookiee bounty hunter on Nar Shaddaa shortly after the Jedi Civil War.

Biography
An anomaly of Wookiee culture, Hanharr was only a bounty hunter by name. In reality, he was a dishonorable slaver on the verge of insanity.

Hanharr was originally from the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk. When the Czerka Corporation arrived and began taking slaves, Hanharr murdered his entire village to 'save' them. Hanharr was taken into slavery, but later managed to escape and go to other human-inhabited worlds to enslave them as revenge. Eventually, however, he ended up on Nar Shaddaa. There was a bitter history between Hanharr and the female bounty hunter Mira. Previously, Hanharr had been employed to hunt Mira, and had trapped her in a series of sewers, where he planned to ambush her. However, she escaped from him when his own explosives set to kill her, exploded when he ran after her, painfully discovering that Mira knew how to walk over a mine without detonating it. He almost killed himself, but taken by pity, she saved his life. It is unknown whether Mira knew she would then be owed a life debt, and it is certain that she wasn't keen on the idea, but Hanharr disliked it even more so. Regardless of his knowing that the life debt was a tradition of his people, he detested the idea, because he thought that it made him weak. He served his life debt to Mira, but believed that by killing her he could free himself; thus he would often swing between wanting to kill her and following her in the shadows.

Eventually, Hanharr and Mira dueled in Visquis' secret base. There Mira defeated him, and shortly after, Kreia saved his life, cursing him with another life debt. But Hanharr had no choice but accept it. Hanharr claimed that Kreia honored him by showing him no mercy when she took him to Malachor V to challenge Mira when the Jedi Exile arrived. On its surface, Mira and Hanharr dueled and Hanharr lost again. Despite his protests, she once again refused to strike down a helpless opponent. But although he was spared, it is very likely that he perished when the planet was destroyed shortly thereafter by Bao-Dur´s Mass Shadow Generator.

Behind the scenes
Hanharr is a character in the computer and video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Both he and Mira are encountered on the planet Nar Shaddaa, and one of them will join the Jedi Exile's party, as determined by the player's alignment. Dark side-aligned players are joined by Hanharr, though he appears in cutscenes and in gameplay as an antagonist if the player is light side-aligned.

According to Chris Avellone, Obsidian Entertainment wanted to give the player an option to turn Hanharr into a Dark Jedi character, but this idea was rejected by LucasArts due to George Lucas' ruling that there should be no more Wookiee Jedi introduced.

Alternate ending
On Nar Shaddaa, two possible things can occur. If the Jedi Exile follows the way of the light side, then Mira is captured by Visquis, an overseer for the criminal gang called The Exchange, and he allows Hanharr to kill her. However, in a surprising turn of events, Mira defeats Hanharr, and escapes. After this, Hanharr is found by Kreia, the mentor of the Jedi Exile, and she takes him into her service. However, so as to maintain his servitude, she promises that she will show him no mercy or pity. Later, when the heroes traveled to Malachor V, Hanharr confronted Mira once again.

If the Exile follows the dark side however, she will meet Hanharr on her way to meet up with Visquis. They make an agreement to try and kill the crime lord as well as Go-to. However, Mira manages to render the Exile unconscious and fools both Visquis and Hanharr, as in the light side story. Hanharr manages to kill her in a duel but Visquis leaves him to be killed by his kath hounds. He tries helping the Exile by opening the door to the base while leaving at the same time. However, Jedi Master Zez-Kai Ell appears and takes him down with the Force. Kreia finds him and forces him to serve the Exile. He did, and although he was stubborn, the Exile manages to break his will by creating a bond and breaking it after she finds out about his past, making Hanharr serve her without question. The Exile makes a pact with him in addition, promising to never show him mercy when the time comes that they no longer need each other, much like Kreia's promises. Like Bao-Dur, his fate is unknown, although there are some scraps of what seems like he was supposed to save the Exile from the crumbling Malachor V core by throwing her on the Ebon Hawk and dying with the planet. This was found to be too reminiscent to Chewbacca's death on Sernpidal, however, and was therefore cut.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords