Council of Moffs The Council of Moffs or Moff Council was the governing body of the Imperial Remnant , and later the Fel Empire and Darth Krayt ' s Galactic Empire . Organization . In the Imperial Remnant . The Council of Moffs was , throughout its history , the governing body of the Imperial Remnant , the Fel Empire , and Darth Krayt ' s Galactic Empire . Although a strong military was the basis of the Imperial Remnant , and the state was led by the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet from its inception in the year 12 ABY , the holder of that position was technically subordinate to the Moffs . The Council had the authority to order the Supreme Commander into military action and to choose the wars in which the Remnant would fight . The Supreme Commander was unable to execute any large scale decisions without the council ' s consensus , and in the year 19 ABY , Supreme Commander Gilad Pellaeon addressed each Moff as " Your Excellency " while seeking their blessing . Nevertheless , Pellaeon was actively withholding information and intelligence from the Moffs by 28 ABY , maintaining that the Remnant was not run by a committee . Although the Council had kept the Remnant out of the Yuuzhan Vong War three years earlier , 28 ABY saw Pellaeon tell the Moffs that the Remnant would finally be joining the war effort , their consensus nothing more than a mere formality . Pellaeon ' s temporary retirement after the war saw the Moff Council lead the Remnant in his absence , as did his death in 41 ABY . However , the Moffs soon afterward agreed to Jedi Master Luke Skywalker ' s proposal that they install a new Head of State as the Remnant ' s leader — the alternative was to be brought to justice for several war crimes they had recently committed . Each Moff governed one of the Remnant ' s sectors and was in command of a Sector Fleet . The size of the council was dependent on how much territory the Remnant controlled . In the Fel Empire and Darth Krayt ' s Empire . At some point after 44 ABY , Fel became new Galactic Emperor , and Imperial space ceased to be known as the " Remnant " . The Moff Council remained an important element of the government , not fully controlled by the monarchy , although its organization changed further over time . By the end of the Sith – Imperial War in 130 ABY , although the Empire had expanded in size , the Council had contracted , and appears to have numbered just six Moffs . It was now led by a High Moff , and known as the Moff High Council . These Moffs still controlled one sector each , but all of them were now also in charge of elements of the federal Imperial apparatus . The High Moff was Morlish Veed , who also served as the Grand Admiral in charge of the Imperial Military , suggesting that the " ex officio " connection between the role of Supreme Commander and the leadership of the Council had been restored . The other positions on the council were the Director of Imperial Intelligence ( a role taken by the female Moff Nyna Calixte in 130 - 137 ABY ) , the head of the Imperial Mission ( Konrad Rus ) , the commanders of the Imperial Navy ( Rulf Yage ) , and the Imperial Army ( Geist ) , and the leader of the Imperial Diplomatic Corps ( a position held at this time by Fehlauur , the only alien on the Council , a Chiss who was also responsible for relations with his people ' s government ) . The Council of Moffs answered to Darth Krayt , who usually did not bother himself with bureaucratic matters of the state , leaving them to the Council . Some Moffs still retained the old prejudices , and many of them were opposed to letting Princess Marasiah Fel become Empress simply because of her sex , but others were more open - minded and liberal , and as well as women , at least one near - Human alien had become a Moff by this date . By 130 ABY , the Moffs held considerably more power , and were true partners to the Emperor . They , and not the Emperor , also controlled the Imperial Service and Imperial Intelligence ; the Director of Imperial Intelligence and the Grand Admiral were on the Council . It was the Council who invoked the Treaty of Anaxes to launch the Sith – Imperial War . At the end of the war , they pledged allegiance to Darth Krayt , although some of them still harbored sympathy to the then fugitive Roan Fel . With Coruscant under the grip of the Empire , the Council held its meetings inside a conference chamber within the New Imperial Palace . While some Moffs considered the war and the coup as a way to reassert their dominance , in the new order established by Darth Krayt , the Council now answered to Krayt ' s Sith Lords , particularly Darth Maladi and Darth Wyyrlok . History . The Council of Moffs was in existence as early as 12 ABY , when the Imperial Remnant was born . By 19 ABY they were based in Disra ' s palace on Bastion . In 41 ABY , the Council supported an alliance with Jacen Solo in order to reclaim Borleias and Bilbringi ; when Gilad Pellaeon was murdered at the Second Battle of Fondor , they took over the Remnant and directed it to continue working with Darth Caedus . When the Imperial Remnant reasserted itself as a Galactic power , the Moff Council continued to exist under the rule of the Fel dynasty . Seeking to reassert Imperial domination over the Galaxy and tired of how Emperor Roan Fel constantly played them off against one another , they overruled his objections and declared war on the Galactic Alliance with the help of the One Sith . By the later stages of the Sith – Imperial War , the Moffs on the council were known by the title of High Moff . With the defeat of the Galactic Alliance in 130 ABY , they relocated to Coruscant , and by 137 ABY if not earlier , the body was styled the Moff High Council . They soon came to regret their decision however , as once the war ended , the new Sith leader , Darth Krayt , promptly deposed Roan Fel , and installed himself as the new Emperor , forcing Fel into exile . The council immediately realized that they ' d helped replace a relatively benevolent ruler for a dictatorial one . Krayt forced them into swearing allegiance to him , though some soon started plotting against him and the rest of the Sith .