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Oskar Marlberg was born to a whaling family in Brekkim and began a naval career in 1900 at age 18. By the outset of the Great War he had become an officer in the Fleet Logistics Section. This unit would experience large expansions during the conflict as the Kingdom became a source and transit hub for industrial goods, raw material, and military manpower throughout the north Cerenarian region. As an already established professional within the Section, Marlberg enjoyed a meteoric rise through its ranks over the years long war, particularly as the unit was considered to be largely unglamorous and was often avoided by better-connected military and aristocratic families. By the end of the war however, the FLS faced the prospect of peacetime force reductions and Marlberg himself was among those dismissed.
Sensing an opportunity in the large numbers of decommissioned vessels, Marlberg used his contacts within the FLS to arrange for his own family's business to purchase ships cheaply and before potential competitors in what historians have called "One of the most brazen acts of
Marlberg's ability to acquire both resources and skilled former FLS personnel allowed him to quickly develop his newly established Marlberg AB as a provider of freight services even in spite of the difficult economic circumstances at the time, particularly as oceangoing freight remained vital to the Cryrian economy and its ability to move goods within the Kingdom itself.
Marlberg continued to head the company until 1972, by which point it had grown into one of the largest shipping conglomerates in the world and was rapidly expanding into adjacent sectors.
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