My God, What Have I Done?: Kendal reveals that his last thoughts comprise of such, regretting all that he's done to help the Empire.

Mook Lieutenant: To Darth Vader, as commander of Vader's personal fleet, Death Squadron.

When Vader executes him for his blunder on Hoth, he ensures that the last sound the former admiral will hear is Piett's promotion to his former job.

Laser-Guided Karma: He belittles Captain Piett's efforts to find the Rebel Base, and gets pissed when Vader follows Piett's lead over his.Vader: You Have Failed Me for the last time, Admiral. Ozzel: Lord Vader, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed and we're preparing to-Augh! Killed Mid-Sentence: After the Rebels enact their shield (which proves crucial to them escaping Hoth) and Veers reports that to Vader (who then bad-mouths Ozzel to him before ordering him to set up the AT-ATs for a ground strike), Ozzel reports to Vader, and while speaking, he gets Force-choked by Vader.

Vader then steps in and immediately sends the fleet to the Hoth system. It's Probably Nothing: Dismisses the clues that were sent by the probe droid that spotted the Rebel base on Hoth, even when it shows a freaking planetary shield generator.Ancillary media and EU stories reveal that Ozzel came from a privileged family and only got his position through powerful connections as his superiors saw him to be unfit to be an efficient field commander, thus making his execution well-deserved. His clumsy tactics during the Battle of Hoth proves to be the final straw as Darth Vader unceremoniously chokes him to death to demonstrate the price of failure to the rest of the crew. Hate Sink: He is an incompetent Imperial officer who consistently hinders Darth Vader's efforts to find the Rebels through his contrarian personality.General Failure: Darth Vader considers him to be 'as clumsy as he is stupid', and for good reason: he dismisses Captain Piett's ultimately correct lead on where the Rebels could be hiding, and botches an intended surprise bombardment on the Hoth base by mounting a more direct attack, giving the Rebels a chance to put up a defense and escape.However, Piett is completely unfazed by it.

Death Glare: Gives one ◊ to Captain Piett after Darth Vader orders them to Hoth.Death by Irony: He witnessed Vader force-choke to death the previous commander General Cassio Tagge for failure and disrespect, yet failed to learn to avoid making similar mistakes, and so died the same way.A Day in the Limelight: The short story 'Kendal' from the second volume of ''From A Certain Point of View' focuses on him.The Cameo: He appears in a non-speaking role at a meeting of the Empire's Joint Chiefs during Tarkin.Asshole Victim: Given his blundering, his arrogance towards even Vader, and him being a bit of a dick, no one on the Executor was mourning him when he's on the receiving end of the trope-naming You Have Failed Me Force-choke after he messes up the invasion of Hoth.He led the initial attack on the Rebels' Hoth base, but his poor choice of tactics infuriated Vader to the point of a sudden demotion. Ozzel was the commander of Darth Vader's flagship, the Super Star Destroyer Executor, as well as a member of the Imperial military's Joint Chiefs. Following Ozzel’s death, his rank and command were awarded to his captain, Firmus Piett, by the Dark Lord.'We have thousands of probe droids searching the galaxy. 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. After the war, his military career would continue under the new regime established by Emperor Sheev Palpatine.Īs an 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. 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. Equipment: Blaster pistol (40), comlink, datapad.īackground: Kendal Ozzel was a human male officer who served the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire in turn.

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