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Catalogue entryHumanAge of Rebellion

Martio Batch

The "invisible admiral", who chased a working cloaking device and was murdered by his own crew.

Species
Human
Homeworld
Not established
Affiliation
Galactic Empire
Rank
Grand Admiral
First appearance
The Essential Chronology (Del Rey, 2000)
Continuity
Legends
Promoted
One of the twelve Grand Admirals, 2 BBY
Project
Cloaking research; the TIE phantom
Fate
Assassinated by his own crew, 4–6 ABY

Martio Batch is a human Grand Admiral, one of the twelve Palpatine created in 2 BBY, and a Star Wars Legends character. He earned the nickname "the invisible admiral" through a straightforward dislike of court politics, and after the Death Star was destroyed at Yavin the Emperor set him to producing a cloaking device that actually worked. His early hibridium experiments at the Imdaar Alpha research station hit the obvious flaw: the cloaked ship was invisible, and so was everything the pilot needed to see.

Around 3 ABY he used the superweapon Tarkin to crack open the planet Aeten II for the stygium crystals in its core, which made the cloaked TIE phantom possible. The Rebel Alliance destroyed the facility and the fighters. He fled to the Outer Rim after the Emperor's death and was assassinated by his own crew — loyalists of a commander he had had killed — who then defected to the Deep Core warlord Harrsk.

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