Jaek Ryvkus

"Life's not fair... and neither am I."

- Jaek Ryvkus

Jaek Ryvkus, colloquially known by several false aliases, was a  and -infamous  and. A former leader of the mercenaries guild, Ryvkus was considered a rouge and hellion by the galactic community at large, in spite of his normally legitimate endeavors, due to his previous links to various criminal networks and empires, the most notable being a  of. It was his formal excommunication from Black Sun, a torturous experience meant to serve more as a message than punishment, that crippled Ryvkus and made it necessary to supplement nearly 70% of his body with bionic cybernetics.

Born on in 2,030 ABY, Ryvkus was the most successful bounty hunter of his time during the first twenty-years career, although spent the majority of the mercenary-half of his career in the wars occupying the. At some point during his career, Ryvkus met and fell in love with the then- Irabelle Qel-Tythas, with whom he married in secret. Ironically, Ryvkus' greatest impact on the galactic community arguably came through the fathering of his son, Julian Qel-Tythas, who went on to become one of—if not the—most famous and powerful of his era. Jaek Ryvkus became estranged with Irabelle Qel-Tythas at some point after Julian Qel-Tythas' birth, although discretely helped his son wherever he could without affecting or involving himself in his son's life.

By the time of the Hundred-Day War, Jaek Ryvkus had left to the Unknown Regions and had not been heard from since.