SUMMARY | FULL BACKSTORY COMING SOON
Heskel grew up in the shadow of a man he barely knew; his own father was killed in a gang control operation in the lower levels of Coruscant when Heskel was only three. Overwhelmed by grief following the tragedy, Heskel's mother expected the young boy to follow in his father's footsteps to honor his loss, but despite all efforts, nothing Heskel did would ever seem to be enough for his mother to give him any praise.
This, of course, led Heskel to become a very angry young man. His feelings were mostly directed inward, fueling Heskel to somehow live up to impossible standards written by a widow's grief. Heskel spent the final two years of his schooling in a military academy, but couldn't pull the grades to make it into officer's school upon graduation. Much to his mother's disapproval, Heskel enlisted as a private in the Republic infantry--an option that Heskel had preferred from the beginning.
Four years into his career, the then-sergeant's life changed when a one-on-one confrontation with a sith lord went awry. Heskel secured victory, but was left with a severely damaged eye that had to be removed. Instead of giving up on the military life, Heskel took a chance on an experimental implant that would at the very least restore the sense of depth perception afforded by binocular vision. Luckily for him, the implant worked, and his reputation as a soldier who fought a sith lord (and won) began to spread. This event was what inevitably caught the eye of Republic Command, who reassigned him to a special ops team known as Havoc Squad, where he now remains.
