Crix Madine Crix Madine was a human male who led a commando unit of the Galactic Empire ' s military until he defected to the Rebel Alliance , where he served as a general . As the officer responsible for covert actions , he devised the attack on the Endor shield generator and trained the soldiers who accompanied Han Solo to the forest moon . At the end of the Galactic Civil War , Madine went on to serve in the New Republic , a democratic government founded by the Rebels . Biography . Early life . A human male native to Corellia , Crix Madine initially served in the military of the Galactic Empire , an authoritarian regime founded at the end of the Clone Wars , in which he led a commando unit . He became a highly decorated officer . However , he ended up defecting to the Rebel Alliance , a resistance group that opposed the tyranny of the Empire during the Galactic Civil War . Holding the rank of General , he specialized in covert actions that involved the theft of equipment from the Empire and infiltration of strike teams onto occupied worlds . He was a practitioner of Corellian boxing . Galactic Civil War . Operation : Yellow Moon . Several months after the battle of Hoth , Madine and other high - ranking rebel officers secretly met on Zastiga , where Chancellor Mon Mothma revealed that the Alliance had discovered the Empire was building a new planet - killing battle station , the second Death Star , over the Forest Moon of Endor . The Alliance decided to destroy the battle station before it was completed , but needed time to gather the Alliance Fleet near Sullust . Prince ss Leia Organa proposed leading a mission , dubbed Operation Yellow Moon , to distract the Empire ' s attention to the Corva sector on the opposite side of the galaxy from Sullust . Madine and the other rebel commander s agreed with her plan , and Madine volunteered to serve on the mission as a commando . Mon Mothma rejected him , noting that he was needed to plan the assault on the second Death Star . Instead , Madine assigned one of his best commandos , Major Lokmarcha , to the mission . Leia succeeded in completing the operation , although Lokmarcha and another rebel operative died . Leia also managed to steal the " Tydirium " , an Imperial " Lambda " - class T - 4a shuttle , which Madine intended to use on the mission to Endor . Battle of Endor . With the Alliance Fleet in place , Madine , Mon Mothma , and Admiral Gial Ackbar briefed Alliance forces on the plan to destroy the second Death Star . Thanks to Leia ' s theft of the " Tydirium " , the general planned on sneaking a strike team onto the Forest Moon of Endor , where the Empire had built a shield generator to protect the battle station . From the moon ' s surface , the Rebels could take down the shield generator , leaving the Death Star vulnerable to the Alliance Fleet ' s firepower . In order to accomplish that mission , Madine asked his fellow general Han Solo to assemble and lead the strike team . Prior to the Battle of Endor , General Madine gave a hologram briefing to the various starfighter squadrons in the Alliance Fleet including Corona Squadron , which was based aboard the Mon Calamari cruiser " Liberty " . When Kendy Idele asked who would take care of the deflector shield generator on Endor , Madine reassured her that Solo ' s team would handle that matter . When several Corona pilots including Yendor chatted about Han , Madine interjected that Solo was one of their best assets . He then assigned Corona Squadron to escort General Lando Calrissian in the " Millennium Falcon " and the Gold , Red , Green , and Gray Squadrons as they penetrated the second Death Star . Madine ' s plan ultimately succeeded , which led to the Alliance ' s most crucial victory over the Empire . Following the destruction of the second Death Star , Madine kept the fleet on alert over the moon of Endor as he was concerned about a possible Imperial counterattack . The next day , Madine conferred with General Solo about a Imperial outpost still operating on the other side of the moon from the shield generator . Both agreed that they could not allow the Imperials to remain and threaten the Ewok s , and Solo led his strike team in a assault on the outpost . War against the Imperial Remnants . A few months after Endor , Madine and other elements of the Rebel Fleet Command were aboard a MC80 Star Cruiser at Muster Point : Stalwart . He and Admiral Gial Ackbar briefed rebel soldier s and pilot s on the Empire ' s ongoing planetary assaults , including . Madine thanked the rebels for their efforts against the Empire and for the thousands of lives they saved countering Operation : Cinder , but sadly noted that the war was far from over . Commander of the New Republic Special Forces . Soon after the battle of Endor , the Rebel Alliance was reorganized into the New Republic and Madine was placed in command of the New Republic Special Forces . After Admiral Ackbar received vital intelligence on Imperial fleet movements from a mysterious informant called the Operator , General Madine was part of a hologram conference that included Commander Kyrsta Agate , Captain Saff Melor , and Chancellor Mon Mothma . When Madine questioned the trustworthiness of this informant , Agate responded that the Operator had been reliable so far . However , Ackbar cautioned that the Empire was playing a long game . At the advice of Ackbar , Madine agreed to divert a small team of Special Forces soldiers led by Sergeant Jom Barell to investigate the Imperial presence on Akiva . While most of the unit was killed , Barell played a role in the successful rebellion on Akiva . In 5 ABY , Madine attended the Liberation Day celebrations held at Chandrila ' s Old Gather - House . Mothma had organized Liberation Day to celebrate the liberation of a hundred former rebel prisoners from Ashmead ' s Lock on the planet Kashyyyk . However , the prisoners had been fitted with inorganic biochip implants which allowed Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax , the true leader of the Imperial remnants , to transmit signals which turned the prisoners into unwilling assassins . Madine was rumored to have died during the attack on Chandrila . Personality and traits . Crix Madine was a blue - eye d man of average height , standing 1 . 7 meter s . He had reddish blond hair and , at the time of the Battle of Endor , he sported a full beard . As an officer , he was very respectful of the troopers under his command . He always made sure that his men were properly equipped and prepared for the dangerous missions he assigned to them . While writing letters of notification to the loved ones of rebels who died in the line of duty , Madine used a protocol droid to assist him . Behind the scenes . General Crix Madine first appeared in the 1983 movie , the third installement in the original trilogy of " Star Wars " , in which he was played by the actor Dermot Crowley . When Crowley first walked onto the set of " Return of the Jedi " , he was smooth - faced , and the crew presented him with a false beard , insisting that he had to wear it . In fact , the Kenner Products toy company had already begun pre - production on Madine ' s action figure , and , since that toy sported a beard , Crowley had to match . Given the uncertainty inherent in giving key expository dialog to the Mon Calamari Admiral Gial Ackbar — portrayed by a fishfaced puppet — the filmmakers of " Return of the Jedi " shot a number of " backup " shots of General Madine standing in for his colleague . However , those shots ultimately went unused in the movie ' s final cut .