Marik Seldon

Marik Seldon was a Human male banker and financier who was the Governor of the Bank of the Empire during the.

Biography
Born on to a "" entrepreneur and bureaucrat, Seldon spent his youth attending the  in. The young Mandalorian considered the old warrior customs to be primitive and outdated, and secretly rejected his Mandalorian heritage altogether, regarding himself as a rootless cosmopolitan. His father expected him to follow in his footsteps and work for the New Mandalorian government, but unbeknownst to him Seldon had much greater ambitions. After finishing his studies in finance at the Royal Academy of Government he managed to get an internship at the.

At the outbreak of the Seldon was one of the chief economists of the Banking Clan despite not yet even being thirty years of age. During this time he had the opportunity to meet with the rising, with whom he agreed on a lot of issues regarding the state of the galactic economy and the Republic's poor management. Impressed by his intelligence, Palpatine made him one of his main contacts in the galactic financial sector. Seldon's transfer to the IGBC mission on made contact easier between the two of them. The Mandalorian financier kept the new Palpatine informed on the situation at the IGBC, which he would later use when making arrangements to form the.

He became one of the few employees of the Clan to quit when the Clone Wars broke out, encouraged to do so by Palpatine but also because he believed that a handful of corporations would be unable to topple the existing order. Seldon received a position in the in 21 BBY.