Gilder Varth

Gilder Varth was a male Human who served as an admiral in the Imperial Navy during the Imperial Era. Around 17 BBY, Varth was tasked by the Galactic Empire with exposing the seditious behavior of Bail Organa, a leading senator from the world of Alderaan. Varth established contract with Organa and passed him intelligence regarding the Sarlacc Project, a secret Imperial project to construct a prototype Super Star Destroyer. To assist the deception that Varth was a traitor to the Empire, the admiral was interned in a remote prison on the planet Felucia.

Varth was broken out of prison by agents of Organa and adopted a command role within the senator's Alderaanian Resistance movement, operating aboard the EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate Resurgence. While covertly seeking proof of Organa's support of the insurgent group, Varth oversaw several operations by Alderaanian Resistance operatives to obtain further information on the Sarlacc Project. Varth later betrayed the rebels to the Empire and engineered in an Imperial attack on the Resurgence. The admiral subsequently took up command of the under-construction Super Star Destroyer prototype in the Beshqek system and was killed when the vessel was assaulted and destroyed by the Alderaanian Resistance.

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