Marcovic

"Name, Marcovic. Rank, lieutenant. That's all you'll get from me, Jedi scum!"

- Lieutenant Marcovic

Marcovic was a human male who served the Sith Empire during the Cold War with the Galactic Republic. A lieutenant in the Imperial Military, Marcovic was assigned to a secret listening post on the planet Ord Mantell in the later years of the Cold War. During the Desolator Crisis, the Republic Strategic Information Service traced the transmissions of the Sith Lord Darth Angral back to Ord Mantell, but lost the signal beyond that point. In an attempt to gather information on Angral's plans, General Var Suthra sent a young Jedi Knight and the astromech droid T7-O1 on a mission to the base, where the two stormed the facility and hacked into their records. Loyal to the Empire even in the face of death, Marcovic sacrificed his life in a futile attempt to stop the Knight from retrieving the data.

Biography
"Copy every file you can, Teeseven. We need to know what this Desolator weapon can do.''" "''You won't live long enough to tell anyone."

- Lieutenant Marcovic sacrifices himself in an attempt to stop the Knight

A human male, Marcovic enlisted in the Imperial military during the Cold War with the Galactic Republic and rose to the rank of Lieutenant by the year 3,643 BBY. He was eventually assigned to an listening post on the planet Ord Mantell, where the facility's personnel gathered intelligence on the Republic troop movements. Around 3,643 BBY,. the Sith Lord Darth Angral contacted his son Tarnis on the Republic capital of Coruscant, as well as his apprentices Praven, Nefarid, and Sadic on other worlds. To secure his transmission, Angral ran it through several planets, including the Imperial outpost on Ord Mantell.

However, when Angral witnessed his son's death at the hands of an unknown Jedi Knight, he began to issue declarations of war against the Jedi and the Republic. The Republic Strategic Information Service were able to trace the signal back to Ord Mantell, but lost it beyond that point. Angral's apprentices had used information gathered by Tarnis, who had been operating undercover as a Republic scientist, to seize control of several Republic superweapon projects, and General Var Suthra sent the young Knight who had killed Tarnis to investigate the Ord Mantell facility and figure out Angral's plans. Accompanied by the astromech droid T7-O1, the Jedi located the listening post with help from Agent Ottau of the SIS and attacked the small island where the facility was located.

The Knight and T7 fought their way through the Imperial defenses, killing the facility's commander and subordinates in the process, and defeated all attempts by the base's personnel to stop them. When the pair finally reached the listening post's hyperspace transceiver, Marcovic was the only defender left, and he attempted to defend the transceiver with his life. However, he was no match for the Knight's combat prowess, and it was only a short amount of time before he was fatally injured. Determined to give his enemy nothing, Marcovic refused to say anything beyond his name and rank until he realized that the Jedi's astromech was attempting to access the facility's records. In a last-ditch attempt to stop the enemies of the Empire, the lieutenant threw himself at the droid in a suicidal attack and was quickly cut down by the Knight.

Personality and traits
"I didn't want to kill him. He gave me no choice.''" "''Imperial organics = not logical"

- The Jedi and T7 discuss Marcovic

A fair-skinned human male with black eyes, Marcovic had black hair and a small mustache. A proud individual, he was fiercely loyal to the Empire, and despised the Jedi as symbols of the Republic. Even when fatally wounded, he refused to submit to possible questioning and attacked T7-O1 when the astromech attempted to access the listening post's records in a last, suicidal attempt to protect the Empire. Unlike the rest of the soldiers stationed at the listening post, Marcovic preferred to wield a vibrosword in combat instead of a blaster.

Behind the scenes
Marcovic appears in the BioWare MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, as part of the Jedi Knight class storyline. He is the final boss in the Imperial Listening Post, as part of the "New Intelligence" mission on Ord Mantell. Once the player eliminates almost all of his health, a conversation with Marcovic is initiated and the player has the option to ask him to surrender, ignore him or kill him for dark side points. The first two options do not result in alignment points, but Marcovic will attack the player after he realizes that T7-O1 is attempting to hack the facility's computers, and he will be killed regardless.

Appearances

 * ''Star Wars: The Old Republic