Thrawn
Zahn rebuilds his own creation for a new continuity, and finds a better story in the climb.
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empire
93 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
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Books (9)
All booksThrawn: Alliances
Two timelines, one grudging partnership, and Darth Vader in a very bad mood.
Thrawn: Treason
Budget politics at the top of the Imperial Navy, which is more gripping than it sounds.
Star Wars: Tarkin
The man who out-argued Darth Vader gets a biography.
Star Wars: Lords of the Sith
Palpatine and Vader, stranded, hunted, and entirely too pleased about it.
Star Wars: Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear
The first weeks of the Empire, from inside a Senate that has not yet admitted what happened.
Star Wars: Ahsoka
What a former Jedi does when there is no Order left to be former to.
Star Wars: Death Troopers
Star Wars does a zombie novel, entirely straight-faced.
Star Wars: Lost Stars
Two friends join the Imperial Academy. Only one of them stays.
Who is involved
Dossiers (83)
All dossiersAdmiral Konstantine
Held a sector command against six people in a freighter and lost, then resented the man sent to fix it.
Admiral Motti
Told Darth Vader that his religion was a superstition, and got roughly the response you would expect.
Admiral Ozzel
Came out of lightspeed too close to the system, and became the object lesson that made Piett an admiral.
Admiral Piett
Promoted twice by surviving the man in front of him, and killed by an A-wing.
Admiral Screed
Lost an eye in the Clone Wars, won a battle they teach at the Academies, and was killed by pirates.
Admiral Versio
Burned his own homeworld on a dead man’s orders, and hunted his daughter for refusing to help.
Afsheen Makati
Spent his last years hunting a fraudulent prophet, and shot a space station to pieces to get him.
Alexsandr Kallus
The Imperial Security Bureau agent who changed his mind — slowly, on screen, over four seasons, which is not a thing Star Wars usually has the patience for.
Ardus Kaine
Decided the Empire was not worth fighting for and built a smaller, tidier one in the Outer Rim instead.
Arihnda Pryce
A local girl who lost her family’s mine to the Empire and spent the rest of her life climbing the thing that took it.
Armand Isard
Ran the Republic’s intelligence service into the Empire — and in Legends, was executed on his daughter’s word.
Ars Dangor
One of the robes behind the throne, in wide hats, closing shipping lanes to Ghorman.
Belkor Dray
Fed a rebellion intelligence to discredit his boss, and got blackmailed into an assassination attempt on the Emperor.
Brendol Hux
Invented the idea of raising stormtroopers from infancy, and was poisoned by two of his own protégés.
Captain Canady
An old Imperial who saw the bombers coming, said so, and went down with the dreadnought anyway.
Captain Needa
Apologised to Darth Vader in person. It went as well as apologising to Darth Vader in person ever goes.
Captain Peavey
An Imperial veteran who thought General Hux was a nepotism appointment, and was correct.
Carnor Jax
A Royal Guardsman with dark side training who murdered the Emperor by letting his clones rot.
Ciena Ree
She swore an oath and kept it, long after the Empire had stopped deserving one.
Commander Cody
Executed Order 66 on his own general, served the Empire anyway, and eventually walked out of it in the night.
Crosshair
The marksman whose inhibitor chip worked, and who then had to find out what he believed without it.
Danetta Pitta
Preached Human High Culture to cover the fact that he did not qualify for it.
Darth Vader
Two characters in one suit, and the publishing programme has spent fifty years arguing about the seam.
Dedra Meero
The analyst who was right about the rebellion before anyone else, and destroyed a great many people proving it.
Del Meeko
An Imperial engineer who met Luke Skywalker once and never entirely got over it.
Demetrius Zaarin
Designed the Empire’s best starfighters, then tried to use them on the Emperor.
Doctor Hemlock
Ran the Empire’s cloning programme out of Mount Tantiss, and drew a straight line from the clone army to Palpatine’s return.
Eighth Brother
A tracker with a temper, killed by his own malfunctioning lightsaber during an escape.
Eli Vanto
Assigned as a translator because of an accent, and ended up as the Empire’s only man inside the Chiss Ascendancy.
Emperor Palpatine
A thousand years of Sith planning, executed by a man whose main weapon was committee procedure.
Ennix Devian
Planned to blow up Coruscant and frame the last Royal Guard for it.
Fifth Brother
The heavy of the Inquisitorius — no subtlety, considerable telekinesis, two lost hands.
Galen Erso
Built the Death Star, and built the flaw that destroys it, over fifteen years of pretending to be broken.
Gallius Rax
A boy from Jakku who grew up to destroy the Empire on the Emperor’s own instructions.
Gar Saxon
A Mandalorian who governs Mandalore for the Empire, in red and white armour with an Imperial cog on the shoulder.
General Bast
Told Tarkin the Death Star had a weakness, and was told to be quiet.
General Romodi
Survived the Death Star and Endor, and the histories recorded him dead at Yavin anyway.
General Tagge
The only officer in the room who was right about the Rebellion, and the comics gave him forty years of credit for it.
General Veers
The one Imperial officer in the trilogy who is simply good at his job.
Gideon Hask
The member of Inferno Squad who did not defect, and spent thirty years making that everyone else’s problem.
Gilad Pellaeon
The Imperial officer who finally signed the peace — and the rare Star Wars character both continuities decided to keep.
Grand Admiral Thrawn
The Empire’s only alien Grand Admiral, and the one commander it could never quite trust.
Grand Moff Tarkin
The man who wrote the doctrine — rule through the fear of force, rather than force itself.
Iden Versio
Raised to be the perfect Imperial, and given a front-row seat when the Empire decided to murder its own worlds.
Ishin-Il-Raz
Promoted for his speeches rather than his seamanship, and killed 37,000 people proving he knew it.
Josef Grunger
Declared himself Emperor, then rammed his flagship into a rival Grand Admiral and killed them both.
Karyn Faro
Thrawn’s second aboard the Chimaera, promoted out of the job just before it stopped existing.
Kir Kanos
The last Royal Guard, keeping a blood oath to an Emperor who never deserved one.
Lio Partagaz
Chairs the meeting where the Empire decides who disappears, and runs it like a faculty seminar.
Magna Tolvan
The Imperial officer assigned to catch Doctor Aphra, with the predictable complication.
Martio Batch
The "invisible admiral", who chased a working cloaking device and was murdered by his own crew.
Mas Amedda
Stood beside Palpatine for fifty years, signed the surrender, and kept his office.
Minister Tua
A true believer who tried to defect, and whose murder the Empire successfully blamed on the rebels.
Moff Disra
Tried to restart the war with a con man in a Grand Admiral’s uniform.
Moff Gideon
An ex-ISB officer holding the Darksaber and a plan the New Republic has not noticed yet.
Moff Jerjerrod
An architect running the largest construction project in history, behind schedule, with Darth Vader in the doorway.
Moff Mors
Grieving, spiced, and negligent — until somebody made the mistake of assuming she was finished.
Natasi Daala
The Empire’s only female admiral, hidden in a black-hole cluster for a decade, and later head of state of the government she spent her career trying to destroy.
Nial Declann
A Force-sensitive Grand Admiral who ran battle meditation for an entire fleet at Endor, and died with the station.
Ninth Sister
A Jedi Knight broken into an Inquisitor, and undone years later by being reminded of her own name.
Octavian Grant
Outlived every other Grand Admiral by refusing to fight any of them.
Orson Krennic
The man who built the Death Star and could never get anyone to say so out loud.
Osvald Teshik
Three-quarters cybernetic, the last Grand Admiral still shooting at Endor, and executed for it.
Peccati Syn
Raised a pacifist, promoted for tactics, and killed at Kashyyyk chasing a religion.
Rae Sloane
A true believer in an Empire that never deserved her — and an architect of what replaced it.
Reva Sevander
Joined the people who killed her friends in order to get close enough to kill the man who did it.
Rufaan Tigellinus
Befriended Thrawn, betrayed Thrawn, and was disposed of by the man who taught him how.
Rukh
Thrawn’s bodyguard in both continuities, and his killer in one of them.
Sate Pestage
One of the robed men behind the throne — and in Legends, the man who briefly inherited it.
Sergeant Kreel
The Empire’s answer to a Rebel special-forces problem: stormtroopers with names.
Seventh Sister
The one who enjoys the hunt more than the kill, which makes her the more dangerous half of the pair.
Seyn Marana
Twenty-nine languages, an eidetic memory, and one moment of mercy that killed her.
Sinjir Rath Velus
Trained to find disloyalty in other Imperials, and quit the moment he found it in himself.
Syril Karn
A middle manager who wanted the Empire to notice him, and got exactly that.
The Grand Inquisitor
A Jedi Temple Guard who kept the Temple job description and changed the employer.
Trilla Suduri
A Padawan whose master gave her up under torture, and who was never told it happened that way.
Valco Pandion
Promoted himself, abandoned his troops, and lunged at Rae Sloane in a moving shuttle.
Vice Admiral Rampart
Made the clones obsolete, sank Kamino to cover it, and was thrown to the Senate as the man who did it alone.
Vult Skerris
The Empire’s best TIE pilot, killed disobeying an order from the one commander who could have saved him.
Wullf Yularen
A background extra in 1977 who was retroactively given twenty years of history, and became the face of the Imperial Security Bureau.
Yogar Lyste
Arrested as the rebel mole he had been framed as, by the actual rebel mole.
Ysanne Isard
She executed her own father for treason, then ran what was left of the Empire as a spymaster rather than a general.
Yupe Tashu
The Emperor’s dark-side antiquarian, thrown down a hole by the man he was helping.
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Comics (1)
All comicsStar Wars: Empire
The original-trilogy companion to Republic: forty issues told largely from the Imperial side of the line, where the interesting question is not who…
