Orson Krennic

Director Orson Callan Krennic is the main villain of both the 2016 novel Star Wars: Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel and the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He also appears as a minor villain in the 2021 Disney+ series Star Wars: The Bad Batch and is set to appear in the upcoming second season of the live-action series Andor.
He is the Director of the Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research who desires to complete the Death Star for the Galactic Empire and his superiors - Grand Moff Tarkin (his rival) and Lord Vader, in order to advance his career and rise up within the Imperial hierarchy so he can earn Emperor Palpatine's favor.
== History ==
=== Star Wars: The Bad Batch ===
Around 18 BBY, Krennic was called by Governor Tarkin to attend a summit at his compound Raven's Peak alongside General Hurst Romodi, Admiral Barton Coburn, and Chief Scientist Doctor Royce Hemlock of the Advanced Science Division on his homeworld Eriadu. After listening to Romodi and Hemlock discuss their projects, Krennic was asked by Tarkin to enlighten them to the status on Project Stardust, which he was happy to oblige. Hemlock was quite interested in Krennic's work, since he knew it was of great importance to Emperor Palpatine. The compound was then attacked by Partisans as well as Clone Force 99, the latter whom were trying to trace Hemlock to his secret base, though Tarkin ensured Krennic, Coburn, and Romodi they were safe as the lockdown system was engaged in the meeting room and continued the summit with Hemlock being the only one who believed in Tarkin. Nonetheless, the compound was left damaged much to Tarkin's anger.
=== Andor ===
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