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Veers then spoke up and contradicted the Admiral, instead comparing them to weeds. Īfter apologizing, Ozzel went on to question how they could eliminate the Rebels, comparing them to vermin. Just as he was saying it was ludicrous to not use the fleet, Vader interrupted him by questioning the admiral's usage of the word ludicrous.
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Ozzel went on to suggest that a fleet carrying out a world-by-world bombardment would serve as a suitable deterrent and told Vader that the Death Squadron had to be the force that applying the bombardment. Resources for the Empire's construction projects were being delayed and what Rebel forces there were were too scattered and well hidden to make effective progress against.
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As the Sith Lord looked out over the world's landscape, the admiral relayed how the Death Star's destruction had galvanized the rebellion. Sometime later, Ozzel along with General Veers, met with Vader at his castle on Mustafar. " What you meant is of no interest to me." ―Ozzel and Vader discussing the war against the Rebellion " At the least, we need more strength–Your Death Squadron must be brought to bear immediately. After Captain Magna Tolvan failed to capture Chelli Lona Aphra, who was investigating the Great Temple, Ozzel contacted the captain, and warned her that Vader would be less forgiving of failure than Cassio Tagge, her former commanding officer. Vader asked him when the Executor would be ready, and gave him two weeks, after Ozzel replied he needed a month. Vader force choked Tagge on his new command ship's bridge in front of Ozzel. The SSD was originally designed to be given to Grand General Cassio Tagge, however, Emperor Sheev Palpatine demoted him to General, and gave the Executor to Vader, due to Tagge's trust of Cylo. After this occurred the Hijacking of the Executor, in which the Sith Lord Darth Vader dispatched the scientist Cylo, who had attempted to steal the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Executor. He personally issued a communique to the Imperial Starfleet ordering the fleet to enter battle readiness. Ozzel witnesses Tagge's death at Vader's hand, a fate he would one day share.įollowing the destruction of the First Death Star, he had become an Admiral. In 14 BBY, he held the rank of Rear Admiral, and was a member of the Joint Chiefs. Having already decided his loyalty was to the Empire, Ozzel and his would be wife cried and held each other for the night before parting ways forever the next morning. However, one night, his fiancée offered him a chance to join the rebellion against the Empire. Thus, Ozzel could have had a simpler life and be married on his homeworld of Carida, with his friends and family in attendance. When Ozzel was still in his younger years, he decided he would serve in the Republic's successor state, the Galactic Empire, but he also became engaged to be married to a woman. He served for a time in the Republic Navy during the Clone Wars. Ozzel's military career was decades-long. However, his superiors did not see him fit to serve as an effective field commander, and he was relegated to teaching positions for a while at the Academy of Carida. Eventually, he graduated and became a Captain of the Line. " Join the rebel forces." ―Kendal Ozzel's fiancée offers him a life against the Empire Ī male human born into a wealthy family from Carida, Kendal Ozzel attended multiple Core World institutes in his youth. Following Ozzel's death, his rank and command were awarded to his captain, Firmus Piett, by the Dark Lord. As he was choked, Ozzel realized he had given his life over to authoritarians, though it was too late to change all he had done. In the year 3 ABY, he oversaw the initial attack on Hoth after the Empire discovered the location of the Rebel Alliance's secret base, but was summarily executed by way of the Force as a result of Vader's displeasure in the admiral's fundamentally incompetent tactics. Ozzel gave up everything for the Empire, even giving up his chance at a simple life with his fiancée.Īs a fleet admiral, Ozzel was the commanding officer of the Executor-an Imperial Navy Executor-class Star Dreadnought and the flagship of the Sith Lord Darth Vader-at the time of the Galactic Civil War. After the war, his military career would continue under the new regime established by Emperor Sheev Palpatine. Born on the planet Carida prior to the rise of the Empire, he served in the Republic Navy as a commissioned officer during the Clone Wars-a civil war fought in the galaxy during the last years of the Republic. Kendal Ozzel was a human male officer who served the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire in turn. " He is as clumsy as he is stupid." ―Darth Vader, on Kendal Ozzel