Gorin

Gorin was a human who served as an admiral in the naval forces of the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War against the Alliance to Restore the Republic. He commanded the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Intimidator and served as Orbital Command for the Imperial forces stationed above the planet Scarif, including the Shield Gate that allowed access to the world.

In 1 BBY, the Alliance Fleet attacked Gorin's forces in order to aid rebel forces that had already infiltrated the surface of Scarif. In the ensuing battle, the Star Destroyer Persecutor was incapacitated by rebel ion charges and then rammed toward the Intimidator by the Alliance Sphyrna-class Hammerhead corvette Lightmaker. Although Gorin ordered his Star Destroyer to evade the Persecutor, the two ships collided, and the Intimidator was sheared in two. Gorin later ceded control of his forces to Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin when the latter arrived on the scene aboard the Death Star battle station.

Following the Imperial failure at Scarif, there was contentious debate within the Imperial Military as to whether Gorin's leadership and lack of aggression or faults with the resources that he had available to him were to blame. The historian Beaumont Kin discussed these arguments and gave his own opinions on Gorin in his book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire in 35 ABY.

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