Demetrius Zarin
Demetrius Zarin, Imperial Marshal.
How he became an Imperial Marshal was known to very few. Even among the Empire's upper ranks, fewer than ten people, including Emperor Palpatine, knew the full story.
He had originally come from an ordinary local family on Coruscant. After an utterly unremarkable academic career, he entered the Galactic Republic Science Council and became a scientist.
Zarin's research talent was not particularly outstanding. He could only be called excellent, nowhere near a genius. But he possessed a quality few others could match—during his student years, he had already displayed exceptional communication and organizational skills.
Such qualities were extremely rare in engineering academies packed with rigid, straight-laced men and people with every sort of eccentricity. Moreover, he was humble, mild-mannered, and highly emotionally intelligent. He got along well with everyone, and with his eloquence and personal charisma, he was always surrounded by quite a few companions.
The reason he had entered the Galactic Republic Science Council despite his ordinary grades was precisely because a student research project he had organized received the highest rating in the annual review. The team he assembled was promoted as a model, drawing the attention of the upper ranks. Thereafter, relying on his outstanding coordination skills, he distinguished himself in several major research projects and gradually entered the Empire's technological inner circle.
During the Clone Wars, the Galactic Republic encountered the Wraith fighter of one of the Separatists' core members—Dawn Star Planet. These stealth fighters caused enormous trouble for the Republic fleet in the early stages of the war.
It could even be said that in many battles, the Galactic Republic's defeats were largely because its fighter formations had no way to counter the stealth Wraith fighters. They lost air superiority, allowing Dawn Star Planet's bomber formations to bombard their