Druckenwell Slaughter
Few knew that Imperial Marshal Niel Declan was actually a Dark Side Force sensitive.
Back when he served in a TIE fighter squadron, he had shot down over a hundred enemy fighters during the Clone Wars, becoming an ace pilot.
At the time, not many people saw anything strange about it. They merely thought he was an exceptionally gifted pilot.
It was only as the war progressed, when Niel Declan took part in several wars against the Kingdom of Dawn, that people began to realize something was wrong. He had participated in the Western Reaches Campaign, the Battle of Dolla Planet, the Battle of Ombara, and the Battle of Onderon. In these battles, where the Galactic Republic had fought with tremendous difficulty, he still performed exceptionally well.
Across those battles, Niel Declan shot down more than a dozen Wraith fighters in succession. That was an extraordinary feat.
During the Clone Wars, the Galactic Republic had no effective countermeasures against the Wraith fighter's stealth system. They could basically only rely on the high-powered sensor radars carried by Hunter Class battleships for detection, then transmit the data to their fighter formations and guide them into combat.
Yet under such unfavorable circumstances, Niel Declan had still managed to shoot down more than a dozen Wraith fighters. This finally drew the attention of the Imperial military.
Dark Prophet Kadan personally sought him out and discovered that he was a Force-sensitive with unquestionably considerable talent.
Later, Kadan gave Niel Declan some basic training. He quickly discovered that Niel Declan possessed tremendous talent, but because he was already nearly thirty years old, that talent combined with years without guidance had left his mental state extremely unstable and his moods volatile.
Niel Declan usually seemed perfectly ordinary, but once his emotions fluctuated, those fluctuations would