Complete History of the Grand Admirals

Thrawn's presence in Ahsoka is sure to make people wonder: what exactly is a Grand Admiral in Star Wars, who were they in Legends and Canon, and why did most of them kind of suck?
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[@CoreysDatapad]

MarMar has edited a couple videos for me on my gaming channel, but this is the first of her work to show up on Datapad, so thanks to MarMar for her work here!

[@MarMarBunbun]

Glad to work on these videos with you! I really enjoyed editing this one

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Now that's one lucky job there, dude/ma'am!

[@JJJBunney001]

You know you've finally made it on your lore channel when you have an editor, congrats haha

[@jermainecole4887]

Thrawn is the character that got me into Star Wars man, so to see him finally get the recognition he deserves is amazing

[@SteelerFan716]

Oh, you poor bastard. Disappointed yet? I am.

[@gackleballsg2034]

Cool

[@thomasbaughman9941]

It's too bad they managed to completely fuck up an already written character and story arc.

[@JustRifff]

Did the movies themselves not get you into starwars?? 😅

[@Kaiju-Driver]

Amen man, He is amazing.

[@crazyj7867]

I'm obsessed with the Imperial fracture era of starwars legends and Gilad Pellaeon Is the most underrated of all time

[@abemigos9281]

Underrated is one hell of an overstatement, honestly.

[@empirednw6624]

Love the warlord era. Wish we got more pentastar alignment stuff. The greater maldrood was a total joke though.

[@spencersholden]

I always think Zsinj is a grand admiral for a second before remembering he isn’t. Would have been really cool.

[@mill2712]

Yes Zsinj was given the rank of warlord which another comment pointed out was a person who held military and political command. I think something similar to a head of state. It apparently is like a mix between Grand Admiral which is military with some political power and Grand Moff which is political with some military power. (Though moffs and grand moffs like Tarkin did have some significant military control.)

[@spencersholden]

@@mill2712 I know that. I just wanted to see another grand admiral do something besides Thrawn.

[@ZoomReverseFlash]

IIRC Zsinj expected to become the next Grand Admiral before Palpatine death, and then just donned the white GA uniform when he became an independent warlord.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

At least he nails the look.

[@Theology.101]

that’s be a pretty big downgrade honestly. He was a Grand Moff, right?

[@justintaylor1713]

@Theology.101 If I’m remembering correctly he held the rank of Warlord, cause for some reason it was actually a rank

[@Theology.101]

@@justintaylor1713 Yeah Thrawn had the title too. Warlord of the Empire means someone who had control over both the military and civilian infrastructure

[@Theology.101]

Barring Thrawn, I just fucking love Teshik. He strikes me as Wulf Yularen, Gilad Pellaeon type. His ‘not harsh enough on pirates’ dounds like he refused a few too many orders from palp

[@Austrian_Butcher]

The new republic executing someone as "An example" is something I did not expect to hear

[@seawind930]

It was the first time they really had someone from the Emperors own Circle and they wanted to show to their members that the New Republic had a Judicial system that would deal with Imperials harshly and not just use them for backdoor intelligence and favors.

[@TheKingofbrooklin]

I always had the impression that most of the Grand Admirals embody one aspect of the seven deadly sins.

[@enclaveherewhyisntyourvide3089]

That would be interesting. What's sin does Thrawn embody?

[@TheKingofbrooklin]

@@enclaveherewhyisntyourvide3089 Thrawn is one of the exceptions. I see it that way: Grant - pride Tigellinus - greed Takel - lust - gluttony Pitta - envy Grunger - wrath Batch - sloth

[@kR-qj7rw]

thrawn is absolutely pride, fucker gets killed because he never considered his deception on the oppression of the noghiri to ever be his downfall or at least consider it a danger to him while he was pretty content with having rukh around he was never dumb or blinded by pride to a cartoony level but he has his flaws

[@TheKingofbrooklin]

@@kR-qj7rw The deception of the Noghri started long before he had part in it. He continued it for pragmatic reasons and not for pride.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

I wouldn't call Syn 'mediocre' at all. He rose through the ranks to admiral via merit and zeal. Ackbar himself admits that it was only through the Bothan's sabotaging two of Syn's Interdictor cruisers as well as feeding the Grand Admiral false Intel about being able to expect reinforcements fromHigh Admiral Teradoc that Ackbar was able to win the battle of Kashyyyk against Syn. That's high praise coming from the best commander the New Republic had.

[@Prophetofthe8thLegion]

In all fairness as far as admirals go Ackbar is kinda just average, so is that really a testament to Syn’s skill or Ackbar being just unable to compete on an even playing field?

[@themanyouwanttobe]

Legends really got wild at times.

[@empirednw6624]

The best times😢😊

[@empirednw6624]

Teshik actually was framed in a kangaroo court. No war crimes could actually be attributed to him.

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

1:17 Joruus, he was so full of life. Gone before his time.

[@Hartzilla2007]

Well until we found out Thrawn was still MIA I thought it was funny that both Grand Admirals were sending proxies to the Shadow Council meeting like neither one of them wanted to bother with those guys.

[@NeidalRuekk]

12 out of 13 go down fighting, the last sips martinis on Rathalay for Force knows how long.

[@empirednw6624]

Well one offed himself though.

[@DragonMaws420]

Can you please do grand moffs next?

[@nicholasmaryniak3815]

I really hope the Sloane issue is addressed, even just a little throwaway line about it. I quite liked her, I quite liked aftermath series overall. Grand Admirals have set my heart racing since I was little. Thanks!

[@brunobertossi]

Damn I was thinking about the Phantom and you talk about the Rebel Assault II story. I got this crazy fan theory about Thrawn now developing the Phantom + the Defender as his way present himself as a big threath. Also I think Rae Sloane is by far the most competent out of the rest.

[@indianajones4321]

Always wanted to see more of the circle of twelve grand admirals

[@manuelgrothe608]

We need Grand Admiral Thrawn In The Bad Batch, Obi Wan Kenobi, Andor, and The Mandalorian seasons 2-3-4

[@thetarkinist7265]

Il-Raz is my boy

[@undertakernumberone1]

02:45 "WHile Thrawn developed the TIE Defender in canon..." Well, that's been retconned, lol.

[@celsetialarchives5909]

I hope when thrawn gets back to the galaxy in ahsoka he dosent immediately announce his return I hope instead he links up with pellion and works to get his ship fixed etc in secret Caz lets face it The chimera and its tues etc combined with the firepower on that ring are not gonna be stopped by one jedi ship

[@stormtrooper2466]

I still can’t believe that the Rebels would execute Teshik, a political prisoner.

[@kR-qj7rw]

i mean why not, if they dont have any use or hes unwilling to cooperate why keep a esentially space nazi high comand alive

[@vjisa328]

How many grand admirals are in Thrawn's Revenge?

[@HonestHappyHater]

IIRC Thrawn, Takel, Makati, Grunger, Pitta, Syn, Grant and Pellaeon. Thrawn can be a leader for the Imperial Remnant, Pellaeon can be a leader for the Imperial faction that forms Dark Empire, Makati and Takel appear as heroes for the Imperial Remnant, Grunger can appear as a hero for any Imperial faction (he is one of the "smaller" warlords, integrable through the political tab), Pitta and Syn are independent warlords and Grant starts off as a hero for the Pentastar Alignment, but in later era starts he can be recruited by the New Republic through the political tab

[@vjisa328]

@@HonestHappyHater Thanks I was wondering how many grand admirals I can gather and play with as IR

[@HonestHappyHater]

@@vjisa328 Recently some heroes got "warlord" tags, which means thaf they have to be killed in order for a faction to be integrated. I'm not sure if Grant and Syn got those tags, but if they didn't, then with some hustle the Imperial Remnant could integrate all of them except Danetta Pitta at some point. As Imperial Remnant progress to Thrawn, integrate the Pentastar Alingment without killing Grant, allow Greater Maldrood to capture Kashyyyk before anyone else (if they do that, they'll get Pecatti Syn as a hero), defeat Greater Maldrood without killing Syn, integrate Josef Grunger through minor warlords integration (purely RNG-based), form Dark Empire and progress all the way to Pellaeon

[@vjisa328]

@@HonestHappyHater I noticed that Tekel, Tigellinus and couple of grand moffs are on Kessel. Can I get both when I conquer Kessel ?

[@HonestHappyHater]

@@vjisa328 Ok, I've checked a few things. As IR you can have Octavian Grant, Pecatti Syn, Mitlin Takel, Rufaan Tigellinus, Afsheen Makati, Josef Grunger, Mitth'raw'nuruodo and Giliad Pellaeon. The good news is Grant and Syn are not "warlords", so you can integrate them by letting GM take Kashyyyk and then integrating GM and PA without killing the two admirals. The bad news is, Grunger is still 100% RNG. The even worse news is that you can't do a grand reunion of the grand admirals, as you can't have them all at once. Rufaan Tigellinus and Mitlin Takel are mutually exclusive with Afsheen Makati. Two first ones are obtainable by deposing Sate Pestage in favor of Trioculus, while the last one will join you if you back Ysanne Isard instead. The only way to get Thrawn is to have him overthrow either Isard or Trioculus (whichever you helped to take control), but Tigellinus will die if Trioculus is deposed. To get Pellaeon you need to just form the Dark Empire, get rid of Sidious, get rid of Carnor Jax, get rid of Natasi Daala and you'll get him as grand admiral. You'll get the most grand admirals if you back Trioculus against Pestage and form Dark Empire without recalling Thrawn from Unknown Regions, but then you'll be missing out on Thrawn

[@empirednw6624]

Why did zaarin even bother with his coup? All others before his failed like the gentis coup and the trachta coup.

[@baron7755]

I've always been annoyed at how all the Grand Admirals except Thrawn (and I guess Rae but I dont know much about the new EU) are such utter dolts

[@kR-qj7rw]

well to keep thrawn unique the writers had to slowly dull out his competition, which i guess makes sense but it just makes them not tht diferent from one off imperial captains in stories

[@the_only_lonely]

funny thing is, he never was the last grandadmiral

[@George-Hawthorne]

Ranking the Grand Admirals 1) Thrawn 2) Demetrius Zaarin 3) Ozvald Teshik 4) Peccatti Syn 5) Danetta Pitta 6) Josef Grunger 7) Balanhai Savit 8) Nial Declaan 9) Afsheen Makati 10) Octavian Grant 11) Rufaan Tigellinus 12) Miltin Takel 13) Martio Batch 14) Ishin Il-Raz

[@manuelgrothe608]

We need Grand Admiral Demetrius Zarin, Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon, Grand Admiral Nial Declann, Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, Moff Gideon(pre-Mandalorian), Enric Pryde, Barton Coburn, Hux Father/Son, and many more classic OG Trilogy Imperial Leaders In The Bad Batch, Obi Wan Kenobi, Andor, The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka seasons 2-3 or 4

[@KuK137]

No worthless filoni trash, please. That %%%% filoni is the WORST thing that happened to SW, even travissty, abrams and kja are miles better than him :(

[@captainmasadoriansilvalexu741]

Excellent

[@fliplife67]

Hopefully he’s the real deal or the Ahsoka show will not be good.

[@Lathnor]

What is the background game?

[@CoreysDatapad]

Animations made in Blender

[@auangauthentication958]

Hehehehe , Da Duda

[@michaelandreipalon359]

At least Zaarin made the beaut that is the Legends TIE Defender (sorry not sorry, Disney Alt-universe Thrawn and his nerfed T/D version), which then resulted with the uber-schway King Hell God Starfighter of Death/Missile Boat. Him being a main center of a great Star Wars video game sequel also helps... if only Squadrons had an antagonist/supporting protagonist just like him. Shame you didn't mention Teshik's eerily foreboding pre-mortem visions of the past and the future (though I still complain of the apocryphal Second Galactic Civil War being part of the latter). If only Batch's research and tech evolved space warfare permanently. The likes of Stealth-Xs being exclusive to Force sensitive Jedi pilots is just a huge waste of potential. (Then again, this may be my anti-Rebel Assault bias showing. Believe me, those games have aged like unpasteurized milk.) Woe to the GAs who had to be unfortunate participants in the Jedi Prince books. Won't lie, Grant is one underrated motherkriffer out of all the GAs. Pity he didn't go back to the fray in the dark Yuuzhan Vong War.

[@brunobertossi]

I have so much love for the Rebel Assault games, though when I play Im full on nostalgia goggles. Also the Phantom is my favorite fighter in Star Wars and Star Wars Armada recanonized them a few years ago so im waiting to see them back in canon.

[@JJJBunney001]

The whole point of the Stealth x is that id had so many reduced systems that it needed a force sensitive pilot. kinda limits it to jedi

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@JJJBunney001 That's exactly it. Such a limitation makes it quite lackluster and a bit too biased against Muggle pilots, who also deserve to have specialized craft like this.

[@ArcBing]

Excellent mid video plug!

[@nicholasgutierrez9940]

Grand chadmiral Thrawn*

[@danielescobar4342]

Wasny Rax a Grand Admiral in the new canon?

[@tTaseric]

He was only a Fleet Admiral I believe

[@DarthVages]

👍

[@TheMock5000]

Thats disappointing that they were more political than anything

[@sethmiles9436]

Or husk wasn't called out because none of the show writers read the books or play the video games, so they had no idea there was another Grand Admiral. Just a thought.

[@CoreysDatapad]

I think you misunderstood. Hux is not the Grand Admiral. Brendol Hux was not just called out, but was physically in the show as a character. He was only from the books before, and was from the books which Rae Sloane was in. It would be impossible to get that character without someone involved also knowing who Sloane was. That's why I specifically mentioned him when discussing the possibility of the writers knowing who she was.

[@sethmiles9436]

@CoreysDatapad And I think you misunderstand. I am not saying Hux was a Grand Admiral, no where in my short comment did I even allud to him being one. My whole point is that the show writers do not care about the other source material. Which Dave himself has proven over and over. He made a whole book irrelevant and changing how a character survived Order 66. And more relevant to this video, Rae Sloano only really being mentioned as a Grand Admiral in the aftermath books and the Squadron video games.

[@tTaseric]

​@@sethmiles9436 You're proposing they made the Aftermath books irrelevant by replacing a character from the Aftermath books with another character from the Aftermath books?

[@janwitts2688]

That was fun

[@aethertech]

I hope when (if) they bring Palleon back to shistsney star wars, not just his 5 min holographic 'shadow council' bit, that he is as every bit the Legends version we all love. If not, I wouldn't be surprised...

[@JJJBunney001]

he wasnt really a character until well after the thrawn trilogy, he was really just thrawns 2IC and a way for the reader to be bamboozled by thrawns asspulling tactics. so disney hasnt changed or ruined him at all

[@aethertech]

found the rebel scum appologist.@@JJJBunney001

[@kR-qj7rw]

ignoring the 12 year old rant about didney dumb and you misspelling his name (lmao) Gilad Pellaeon was a confused yes man to thrawn in the original triilogy of books he served as a representation of the old empire and dumber imperial commanders, most of the times he would say something and thrawn woulld go tsk tsk Pellaeon that strategy is whack you see using my 5 D chess brain im gonna tell you how to lay a better strategy, to Pellaeon being like yes sir that and him being on edge and nervous around both Rukh and specially C'baoth insane wizard that constantly threatened to kill both

[@BUFFPHROG]

I love Sloane too much

[@LordZandersSoapbox4811]

Oh, I don’t personally care what Disney says about legends and Canon everything made before Disney bought Star Wars from George Lucas is the Star Wars extended universe forever. The crap that they’re making his fan fiction.