Crix Madine is a human male general of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, played by Dermot Crowley in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983). He is the officer at the Endor briefing who outlines the plan to steal a shuttle, put a strike team on the moon, and take the shield generator down from the ground.
The defector
What the film does not tell you, and the Legends material does at length, is where he learned to do that. Madine was an Imperial Army officer who formed and led the Empire’s Storm commandos — the special-forces arm of the service he later helped destroy. He was born on Corellia no later than 31 BBY, and he defected to the Alliance by requesting a meeting with General Carlist Rieekan to negotiate the terms.
Why that matters
It gives the Rebellion a genuinely uncomfortable asset. The Endor plan works because the Alliance has a man who knows exactly how Imperial special operations think, and it has him because the Empire trained him to do worse things than the Rebellion ever asked of him. Star Wars usually treats defection as a moral reset. Madine is the case where the fiction keeps the receipts.
SpecForces
In Star Wars Legends he runs the New Republic’s special forces, and between 10 ABY and 12 ABY he takes over from Airen Cracken as Supreme Commander for Intelligence — a consolidation of the two shadow services under one former Imperial commando, which the Bantam novels treat with about as much comfort as you would expect.
The trial
He is also one of the three officers — with Admiral Ackbar and General Horton Salm — nominated to judge Tycho Celchu’s trial for treason and the murder of Corran Horn in 7 ABY. Michael A. Stackpole’s X-Wing novels use the panel to ask an awkward question the films never touch: what does a revolutionary government do about due process once it has become the government?
Continuity
Canon keeps the rank and the Endor plan and has so far said much less about the rest. The Storm commando backstory, the Corellian birth, the intelligence command and the post-war career are Legends. Where this site states a fact from that shelf, it says so — his homeworld above is labelled accordingly.
Where to meet him
On screen, one briefing. In print, the X-Wing novels and the wider Bantam-era New Republic material, where he is usually the man in the room arguing for the operation that is quieter, smaller and considerably nastier than the one everyone else has proposed.
