High General The title of High General indicated a senior position within the Imperial Army . A High General normally controlled a Systems Army , a largely bureaucratic level of command immediately subordinate to the Surface Marshal in charge of a Sector Army , and consisting simply of a non - combatant headquarters detail , responsible for coordinating front - line Corps and Armies , and keeping track of the resources available within a sector , so that they could be deployed in support of those field formations as required . They were sometimes referred to by the title of Commander . Other Military Forces . The title of High General was not limited to the Imperial military , however . Shortly before the outbreak of the Clone Wars , the military commander of the planet Typha - Dor was High General Bycha , and during the subsequent conflict , the rank of High Jedi General was given to the Jedi Generals commanding the ten Systems Armies in the Grand Army of the Republic . These Jedi officers were presumably in some ways prototypes of the later High Generals of the Imperial Army , but the significance of the rank of High General may have evolved considerably under the Empire , as the organization of the associated Systems Army formation certainly did . During the Galactic Civil War , the title was also used by the Rebel Alliance . The title was also used as far back as the Hundred - Year Darkness by Ajunta Pall , the leader of the Dark Jedi . Behind the scenes . The title of High General appears only in a short paragraph in the " Imperial Sourcebook " , where it is given to officers set above the Generals in command of a standard field Army of four Corps formations , but below the Surface Marshal , who is the local Moff or a deputized commander in charge of all Imperial Army operations inside his sector . The authors may have inteneded there to be two High Generals within a Sector Army , but the text would also allow a single High General to serve as an administrative deputy to the Surface Marshal , or perhaps varying numbers of them according to the strength of forces deployed . A further problematic issue is the exact meaning of the title of " High General " . Within the hierarchy given in the " Imperial Sourcebook " , a High General is implicitly equivalent to a Fleet Admiral in the Imperial Navy ; in spite of the superficial similarity of terminology , the Navy rank of High Admiral is in contrast equal to Surface Marshal . But it is not completely clear that any of these positions are proper hierarchial ranks , rather than titles signifying certain levels of senior command and borne additionally to substantive ranks . These problems with understanding the exact role and status of a High General in the Imperial Army are all compounded by the fact that canon sources offer very few examples of officers explicitly identified as holding this rank . The only exception appears to be High General Sutt Ramic , the commander of one of the three Golan III battlestations protecting Muunilinst in 19 ABY , and said to be the senior military officer based at the financial capital of Imperial Space . It is unclear whether Ramic ' s seniority is simply due to his rank in the hierarchy , or whether it reflects a specific commission , and if the latter is the case , the question then arises whether his sphere of command was limited to Muunilinst ' s defenses or its specific star system , or whether it extended across a wider reach of space and territory . And even if those questions could be answered , we would then have to ask whether the command hierarchy at Muunilinst is in any way typical of Imperial Space as a whole , and whether the hierarchy at this point in time in any way corresponded to the models of twenty years earlier .