Žarko Pavelić was a Human male who served as a colonel in the ground forces of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, after defecting from the Stormtrooper Corps, in which he originally served as an field stormtrooper. Žarko hailed from the planet of Carida, a military oriented world in the Colonies. The soon of a Republic general, he followed his father's path by joining the Stormtrooper Corps of the Galactic Empire, in 3 BBY. Žarko proved to his instructors at the Carida Imperial Military Academy that he was an exceptional marksman, and was assigned to a unit of field stormtroopers; which were essentially elite infantry. However, upon being ordered to destroy an entire village on an Outer Rim world after finding that they were harboring Rebel fugitives, Žarko refused, and eventually defec