2637, the Empire Twelve Marshals
After Palpatine returned, on May 20, 9BBY, Imperial Celebration, which had been postponed for more than half a year, was finally held grandly. This celebration is called - Emperor's Celebration.
Because Palpatine has just returned from disappearing for nearly two months, almost everyone has no idea what he has been through or what he is thinking in the past two months, let alone what he will bring to the Galactic Empire after his sudden return.
Moreover, during the period when Palpatine disappeared, almost everyone in the Galactic Empire was obsessed with it. During this period, they all made money crazily, filled their own pockets, and formed parties for personal gain. They all wanted to get a share of the huge power vacuum after Palpatine disappeared.
In this way, these people naturally have evil intentions in their hearts. Especially Imperial Chancellor Sartre-Pestachi, after Palpatine disappeared, in order to gain an advantage in the next political game, he even began to prepare for His Majesty the Emperor's funeral!
After all, if His Majesty the Emperor's funeral was hosted by Sartre-Pestachi, then in disguise it would mean that he was the heir of His Majesty the Emperor.
As a result, half way through the funeral preparations, His Majesty the Emperor came back! Sutter-Pestachi quickly explained to Palpatine that the event he was organizing was definitely not a funeral, but preparations to expand the scale of the celebration.
Palpatine didn't pay attention to this Joker. He just asked Sart-Pestachi to continue preparing for the emperor's celebration, and then he went to deal with other things.
Therefore, this time the emperor's celebration was much larger than originally planned. After all, half of the funeral expenses were included.
Of course, the sequelae are... if you occasionally catch a glimpse of some white garlands that are only used at funerals during a celebration, please don't panic, don't be afraid, and don't think wildly - it's just embellishment, embellishment.
Yeah, but you can't just think about it. The secret police affiliated with the Empire New Order Maintenance Committee (COMPNOR) will help you correct your wrong thoughts. Those white garlands are just decoration and have absolutely nothing to do with the funeral!
The entire surface of Coruscant is decorated with lights and decorations almost everywhere. Every flying spacecraft and Speeder is also hung with celebration slogans and red streamers. Hundreds of millions of artificial trees are decorated among Imperial Plaza and Imperial Avenue, which are covered with beautiful flowers picked from all over the galaxy.
Countless huge holographic projections continuously played the great achievements of Emperor Palpatine, and every channel page of Galactic HoloNet played various speeches of Emperor Palpatine.
Even within the atmosphere of Coruscant, hundreds of Imperial-class Star Destroyer descended to ultra-low altitudes, and then used huge holographic projectors on the ground to project various celebration slogans on the lower abdomen of Star Destroyer.
Galactic Standard Time At ten o'clock in the morning, the celebration officially started.
First, Emperor Palpatine spoke on stage. He gave the celebration a perfect start with his brilliant speech as always.
In his speech, Palpatine denounced Kingdom of Dawn's militarism and external expansion, and described Kingdom of Dawn as a devil's nest that tramples on democracy and freedom. Palpatine also reiterated that although he reorganized Galactic Republic into the Empire, he always firmly believes that democracy and freedom are the true foundation of the Galactic Empire's country.
But now, in order to deal with the invasion of foreign enemies, he has to take on the responsibility of the entire the Empire and lead everyone forward together.
Palpatine also said that Kingdom of Dawn is a group of refugees from extragalactic systems. Their purpose is to occupy the entire galaxy and turn the entire galaxy into their colony. Therefore, every people in the Galactic Empire must fight to defend their Homeworld.
Not only that, Palpatine also spent half an hour talking about the Rebel Alliance. He believes that Rebel Alliance is a conspiracy of a small group of careerists. They instigate the people to rise up against the Galactic Empire, ostensibly for the rule of the rebel against the Empire, but actually to satisfy this small group of people's desire for power.
He claimed that Rebel Alliance has always used the people as a shield. They stretched out their sinful guns from behind the people, and after pulling the trigger on the Empire, they immediately got back behind the people, allowing the people to bear the wrath of the Empire's counterattack.
If this were not the case, Palpatine said that if Rebel Alliance dared to really stand in front of the Empire, then they would not survive for more than one second!
This speech was full of enthusiasm and successfully packaged Galactic Empire into a victim facing the invasion of foreign enemies. He also skillfully evoked the resonance of all listeners, making everyone feel the same.
Finally, Palpatine shouted almost at the top of his lungs, "We will definitely win! Kingdom of Dawn and those rebels will be swept into the garbage dump of history. Only Galactic Empire will stand tall forever!"
Amid the cheers of mountains and tsunamis, a large number of warships flew in formation from the sky, followed by fighter jets and transport ships. On the ground, millions of fully armed the Empire Stormtrooper walked in formation, and the tall figures of AT-AT walkers also brought endless deterrence.
When the army passed by Imperial Avenue, the surrounding people shouted loudly and sprinkled the flower petals distributed in advance on the soldiers.
After that, comes the most attention-grabbing part of this celebration.
Palpatine announced that in order to recognize those who have made outstanding contributions to Imperial army, he will appoint twelve Imperial Marshal. These twelve marshals will be the symbols of Imperial military. They directly represent the entire military and are responsible to him personally.
The most important thing is that these twelve marshals, as the highest military rank above Admiral of the Navy, also have the highest autonomy, and can mobilize all the forces the Empire can mobilize within their respective powers.
Then, Palpatine personally announced the list of twelve marshals, and personally awarded them honors, and awarded them to Marshal's baton.
This time is also the climax of this celebration.
Twelve huge holographic projections were projected, cleverly surrounding Imperial Plaza, symbolizing that the twelve marshals were united around Emperor Palpatine, with His Majesty the Emperor as the center, guarding the entire Galactic Empire.
But at this time, except for those people who did not know the truth and were still cheering hard, many places throughout the Galactic Empire fell into a deathly silence.
Because...
The selection of these twelve marshals is not quite right.
After the appointment of the marshal, there were song and dance performances and parades. The whole Coruscant celebrated until late at night before gradually dying down.
However, the turmoil caused by this celebration has just begun.
Because these twelve marshals are not the people that people expected before.
Originally, Galactic Empire major nobles and powerful officials thought that there should be two possibilities for these twelve marshals. One is to appoint the governors of the existing major legions as marshals. This can further ensure the dominance of these governors over their respective jurisdictions and can unleash more powerful power when facing invasion by foreign enemies.
After all, the twenty legions originally inherited from the Galactic Republic period were destroyed and crippled, and now there are almost twelve that are still strong.
Another possibility is to directly appoint the twelve most powerful people in the military as marshals. In this way, it can actually convince the public. After all, being able to become a powerful faction in Imperial military, where there are many factions, depends on ability, family background, and connections, all of which are indispensable.
However, this time, Palpatine chose the third option.
The twelve marshals he appointed are: Joseph-Grunger (Josef Grunger), Miltin-Tarkel (Miltin Takel), Oswald-Tessik (Osvald Teshik), Ruffan-Digorinus (Rufaan Tigellinus), Niel-Declan (Nial Declann), Martio Batch (Martio Batch), Demetrius-Zaarin (Demetrius Zaarin), Peccati Syn), Ishin-Il-Raz (Ishin-Il-Raz), Danetta Pitta (Danetta Pitta), Afshin-Makati (Afsheen Makati), the last one is Orman-Tagge!
(There was another marshal in the original plot named Twentieth Army Governor Octavian-Grant (Octavian Grant), and this man survived until the end of the war, and finally retired in New Republic. However, in the plot of this book, he died, and his replacement was Orman-Tagge.)
To put it simply, among these twelve marshals, there is not even one Legion Governor. Moreover, although there are not no powerful factions in the military, there are only three people: Joseph-Glenjie, Miltin-Tarkel, and Oswald-Tessik. They are not the most powerful ones in the military.
Among them, Miltin-Tarkel is a master who cannot fight without taking drugs. He has smoked spices for a long time, resulting in him rarely being awake. According to the standards of Kingdom of Dawn, he actually belongs to Force-sensitive, because after he consumes spices, he will have certain telepathic abilities.
Perhaps among them, only Oswald-Tessik, who is responsible for Core Worlds's defense work, can be considered worthy of his title. His family has been in the military for generations and holds a high position. It can be said that he is a soldier Noble House. He is also the only one among the twelve marshals who is not controversial.
In addition, for example, His Majesty the Emperor's most trusted military cronies, Wilhuff-Tarkin, are not marshals, but this is relatively easy to understand, because his military position is not high, and Governor of the Fourth Army is also considered an administrative level. Since His Majesty the Emperor chose to separate military and political affairs, it makes sense not to choose him.
But it is very strange that General Gideon-Tarkin was not selected. Because Gideon-Tarkin was very active during the period of Clone Wars, although there were many defeats in the battle against Kingdom of Dawn, they also played a significant role. Not only that, he now commands Galactic Empire Eastern Territory Fleet. Regardless of his ability or power, he should be worthy of the position of marshal.
However, neither.
In addition to these three traditional military bosses, Mateo Bacchi and Demetrius-Zaarin are responsible for the research and development of TIE Phantom fighter and TIE Defender fighter respectively. To put it bluntly, they are technicians. Then add a leader of the Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance, Orman-Tagge.
These three people can't even be considered generals!
By the way, we have to add Ixin-Il-Raz, who is New Order Maintenance Committee's second-largest figure, second only to Koru er Van Der Roon. That's right, this guy is not a general. He can be a politician, a speaker, or a loser, but he cannot be a general.
Then there is Ruffan-Digorinus. He is handsome and has a sunny personality. He can be said to be the internet celebrity of Imperial military. His fame is indeed big enough, but that is all he has left. Because his only military record was to suppress pirates - yes, he didn't even fight Rebel Alliance.
Of course, he also played an important role in suppressing pirates, and he indeed ensured the absolute safety of navigation in his jurisdiction, which gave him a high reputation. But no matter how you do it, will the reputation gained from internet celebrities and pirates be enough to become a marshal? Especially when the war is currently breaking out with Kingdom of Dawn, you want a professional who fights pirates to be the marshal to fight Kingdom of Dawn?
Niel-Declan, almost everyone didn't even know this guy, and then they used resources to ask Intelligence Bureau to investigate, only to find out that before this black man was promoted to Imperial Marshal, he was a TIE fighter pilot... pilot... pilot... pilot...
Damn, he's not even a colonel!
Afshin-Makati, he once led the fleet to reinforce Tarassia who was suffering from the Geonosians riot. He was successful in suppressing the riot, so he was promoted to marshal. But the problem is that before that operation, he was just the captain of Imperial-class Star Destroyer.
Pecati Xin and Danita Peeta are not from Imperial military at all. Pecati Xin only has experience in military service, but they are fanatical believers in Emperor Palpatine. Of course, Emperor Palpatine has a huge number of believers, so no one knows why they were chosen.
This is the highest Honor in the military appointed by His Majesty the Emperor - the twelve Imperial Marshal.
Although each of them has their own strengths and they can indeed be said to be outstanding people for a while, Galactic Empire is so huge and there are so many outstanding people, why are there only twelve of them?
Many the Empire dignitaries simply cannot understand this. In their view, these twelve people can only be described in four words - crooked melons and cracked dates!
But in fact, there were really calm people who analyzed Palpatine's move, and then they understood Palpatine's real idea - checks and balances!
Among the Twelve Marshals, there are traditional military bosses, emerging technical officials, loyal followers of the emperor, and rookies who have been promoted from the middle and lower levels, and aristocratic and powerful forces are also included.
It can be said that these twelve people cover all aspects of the current Galactic Empire power structure. And the most important thing is that these people are not the real leaders of their respective factions.
In other words, these twelve marshals have no personal background!
It can be said that without His Majesty the Emperor, they would not be able to make any waves on their own. In other words, if they leave Palpatine, they will never be able to enjoy such a high position!
This is the real purpose of Palpatine!