Unidentified Imperial officer ( Crimson Empire ) A Human male officer of the Galactic Empire served the Crimson Empire in its final days . As the last Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet , he led the Empire ' s defense of Ord Cantrell as both an admiral in the Imperial Navy and a general in the Imperial Army . When Emperor Xandel Carivus was killed during the battle , the crumbling Empire ceased to exist . Biography . Taking command . A Human male with white hair and a mustache served as an officer in the Imperial Military in 11 ABY , during the Galactic Empire ' s incarnation as the Crimson Empire . Having emerged from the ruins of Emperor Palpatine ' s Dark Empire , the Crimson Empire held the only territory still answerable to centralized Imperial control . The Imperial Interim Ruling Council led the Empire from a villa in the planet Ord Cantrell ' s city of De - Purteen , where the mustachioed officer was also stationed . 11 ABY saw several council members assassinated by Nom Anor — an advance agent of the invading extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong species who was trying to hasten the Empire ' s collapse — and by members of the criminal organization Black Sun . Following the deaths of navy Admiral Llon Banjeer and army General Immodet , the mustachioed officer was placed in supreme command of the Empire ' s fleets as an admiral and in charge of Ord Cantrell ' s troops as a general . The mustachioed officer took command of a military that was thinly spread due to the Empire ' s ongoing Galactic Civil War with the New Republic , a manhunt for former Emperor ' s Royal Guard Kir Kanos called by council leader Xandel Carivus , and trouble raised by the Whiphid species following the death of Whiphid councilor Ch ' Unkk . When Carivus disbanded the Ruling Council and declared himself Emperor , he imprisoned his fellow councilors , including Feena D ' Asta . Baron Ragez D ' Asta , the father of Feena and an Imperial - allied shipping magnate who commanded a large private fleet , consequently threatened to withdraw his support from the Empire in a message sent to Ord Cantrell . The mustachioed officer received the message aboard his flagship and contacted Carivus on Ord Cantrell ' s surface , but the Emperor dismissed the Baron ' s threats as hollow and told the officer to deal with them himself . An Empire falls . Following his discussion with Carivus , the mustachioed officer received an urgent communiqué from the crime lord Grappa the Hutt stating that he had captured Kir Kanos . The officer again contacted his Emperor and passed the information on . Not long afterward , Baron D ' Asta ' s armada attacked Ord Cantrell , and the mustachioed officer led the defense from the bridge of his flagship . The two fleets clashed in orbit , and the scant Imperial forces left at Ord Cantrell were quickly overwhelmed by D ' Asta ' s cruisers and corvettes . Carivus lambasted the officer via wallscreen during the battle , but the communication was terminated as the vessel accumulated damage . The Imperial fleet was forced to retreat , and the mustachioed officer made his way to Carivus ' s Council Tower , which he was told to guard by the Emperor . Half of the Empire ' s starfighter squadrons had been involved in the orbital battle , and its remaining TIE fighters and interceptors dogfought D ' Asta ' s A - wings within Ord Cantrell ' s atmosphere . Within the tower , both Carivus and the mustachioed officer felt the damage to the building that was inflicted by D ' Asta ' s fighters . Carivus had his private guard retrieve the captive D ' Asta , and he resolved to return her to her father in return for an end to hostilities . When the mustachioed officer pointed out that D ' Asta still had the upper hand , he was shocked to hear a departing Carivus state that he would evacuate and abandon the army forces stationed on - world if the Baron continued to press the attack . D ' Asta , however , accepted Carivus ' s offer , and the mustachioed officer sought the Emperor out in his throne room to report as much . The Baron also sought a private audience with Carivus , and the Emperor dismissed the mustachioed officer in order to meet with D ' Asta alone . The Baron turned out to be accompanied by Kir Kanos — freshly rescued from Grappa by New Republic forces — who killed Carivus as part of a vendetta he held against the entire Ruling Council . Following Carivus ' s death , centralized Imperial authority utterly collapsed , and the Galactic Empire ceased to exist . Behind the scenes . The white - haired , mustachioed Imperial officer appeared in the final of the comic series " " . His appearance closely resembles that of Gilad Pellaeon , another Imperial officer , but when " Crimson Empire II " author Randy Stradley was asked in 2006 if they were one and the same , he merely gave a cryptic answer . It was not until 2009 that the officer was revealed to be a unique character when " The Essential Atlas " stated that Pellaeon was serving Warlord Treuten Teradoc ' s Greater Maldrood , and not the Galactic Empire , during Carivus ' s reign as Emperor . The character is called " Admiral " in " Crimson Empire II " fifth issue , and both " Admiral " and " General " in its sixth . Similarly , the former issue sees Carivus state that the mustachioed officer is in charge of the Empire ' s fleets , while the latter has the officer reference his " troops . " This article takes the discrepancy to mean that Carivus , in the midst of the Empire ' s death throes , appointed the officer as both an admiral in command of the Imperial Navy and a general in the Imperial Army .