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Osvald Teshik was a Grand Admiral in the Imperial Navy. He was one of the original twelve Grand Admirals, appointed to that newly created rank by Emperor Palpatine two years before the Battle of Yavin. He commanded the Imperial Center Oversector, which included the capital world of Imperial Center and all of the oversector's fleets.

For failing to recover Advisor Coh Veshiv from the crew of the Rebel Alliance privateering frigate Far Orbit and deal with its renegade captain, Dhas Fenoep Vedij, Palpatine sent Teshik into the Hapes Cluster to engage the Hapan Royal Navy with insufficient firepower and supplies. He was nearly killed in the battle, and seventy-five percent of Teshik's body required cybernetic replacements. He was shunned by many as a result, who saw him as weak and repulsive.

Teshik was present aboard the second Death Star during the Rebellion's attack on the superweapon in 4 ABY. He escaped the badly-damaged battlestation to his flagship, the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Eleemosynary, and continued the fight against the Rebels for four hours until his Star Destroyer was disabled by concentrated ion cannon fire. He was captured by the Alliance, and before being executed for inhuman crimes, he responded to his captors with mechanical laughter at the thought of his sentence.