Harcourt Ross

Captain Harcourt Ross was the commanding officer of the Earth Alliance military ship called the Oblivion Spark, around the early 31st century, during the Cyberon War. He had long, thick black hair. He survived two separate attempts by Cyberons to convert him, thanks to cutting-edge medical care combined his unusual strength of will.

Biography
Harcourt Ross grew up on Earth in Spaceport Seven Overcity.

At some point, Ross was captured from his own ship nearly converted into a Cyberon. He got medical attention before the conversion process could "take hold", preventing further changes to his physiology and maintaining is individuality, but he lost his right eye in the process and retained a silver-coloured scar on his face, running dwon from his forehead to his cheek on the right side. Though he was assured that this was impossible, he frequently heard a Cyberon voice in the back of his mind urging him to give up and let the conversion process complete itself.

Shortly after recovering, he was reassigned to the Oblivion Spark and ordered to patrol near Golgalith. However, as they were crossing the Jathar Expanse, the Spark detected an enemy ship (which turned out, unsurprisingly, to be a Cyberon vessel) near the border of human space and Ross insisted on following them into the heart of the Expans, where they found a seemingly-abandoned Earth transport vessel the Cyberons had boarded. Following in after them, a small team led by Ross found that the Cyberons had come to recover a new type of Conversion Engine. They were ambushed and captured by the Cyberons, who injected more Cyberon drug into Ross.

With his mind resisting the process, the Cyberon Commander entered his mind and tried to get him to submit, but Ross's will proved stronger and he rejected the conversion process a second time. Returning to the Oblivion Spark, he had his crew follow the fleeing Cyberon ship and its Conversion Engine to the Laputa system and its sole inhabited planet of Gulliver's Rest. However, when he threatened to ram them, the Cyberons elected to fly their ship into the Merrapine Scar, a mysterious space-time rift above the skies of Gulliver's Rest. Despite Ross's insistence that the Cyberons had survived the process, the crew refused to let him fly in after them. He was left with the grim (and accurate) certainty that this story was not over, but would continue without him. (PROSE: Flight of the Cyberons)