Jak Tarkof was the Human male captain of the ship Gallofree and the husband of Carda Tarkof. In 1 ABY, during a battle with an Imperial task force, Tarkof was able to maneuver the ship in a way so it iscaped the surrounding Imperial vessels. He escaped, but in the process was sucked into a nearby wormhole and the vessel, along with the Imperial Guardian-class frigate Obedience commanded by Commander Xamuel Varmus, came out of the hole five seconds later and crash -landed on the planet Earth, a planet inhabited by primitive humans.