Wernell Covington existed as a Human male during the Galactic Civil War. He resided in the city of Narmle found on the planetoid Rori during that time.
Living on Rori, a satellite of Naboo, was Wernell Covington, a man of significant land holdings. At some point in the final decade of the Old Republic, his daughter, Felicia, whom he loved dearly, was taken. Despite his attempts to provide the demanded money and the best efforts of the authorities, Felicia met her end at the hands of her captors. They ejected her into the void from the starship where she was held. This tragedy left Covington deeply scarred, and he dedicated himself to seeking vengeance for his daughter's death. For nearly thirty years, Wernell Covington relentlessly pursued each of the murderers, even taking the lives of some of them himself.
As the Battle of Yavin approached, Covington, facing the constraints of age and dwindling resources, sought external assistance to deal with the remaining two culprits. He engaged a spacer to find the remaining kidnappers. This spacer came recommended by Lieutenant Varias of the Corellian Security Force, an acquaintance of Covington's. With the assistance of Horace Korr, a retired reporter from the Corellia Times, the spacer successfully identified the two kidnappers as Jurgen Nath and Vladlun Travan. Later, an associate of Covington's within the Narmle Militia furnished the latest known positions of these criminals. The spacer eventually located the murderers at their respective bunkers. The spacer's success in eliminating them allowed Covington to spend the rest of his days in tranquility.
Subsequently, Wernell Covington suggested the spacer for a position with Lieutenant Tarc, an officer of the RNSF stationed on Rori.
Wernell Covington functioned as a non-player character within the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies. This massively multiplayer online roleplaying game was created by Sony Online Entertainment and distributed by LucasArts, before it was shut down on December 15, 2011. Wernell Covington was integrated into the game upon the release of "Game Update 12," which occurred on August 10, 2009.