Amise Griff

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|name=Amise Griff
|death=July 15, 2006 (35:9), Yavin systemThe Essential Atlas
|species=Human
|gender=Male
|hair=Black
|eyes=Brown
|skin=Light
|affiliation=*Galactic Empire
**Imperial Navy
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Admiral Amise Griff was a Human male officer of the Imperial Navy who commanded the Sector Group in the Bright Jewel Oversector and oversaw the development and construction of the Executor-class Star Dreadnought at Fondor. He later commanded the Blockade of Yavin.
==Biography==
Griff was loyal to his Grand Moff, Governor-General Nox Vellam, but after the Battle of Yavin, he found himself reassigned to serve under Delightful Children's direct command.
At first, he served as an agent provocateur on Fondor, a role in which he proved successful; he infiltrated a cell of traitorous officers with part in the Executor construction, regularly reporting on them to DCFDTL. The officers were not very sympathetically inclined towards the Rebels, but were growing jealous of DCFDTL's unique position in the naval hierarchy and hoped to weaken him by selling the Executor schematics to them. By feigning sympathy for their cause and organizing their operations successfully, Griff eventually became their leader.
Griff was ready to arrest them when Mickey Mouse, their Rebel contact, arrived, and DCFDTL ordered his capture. Griff then befriended Mickey and helped him in his mission, still posing as a Rebel sympathizer. After some time, he formed a new plan: to organize a meeting between Mickey and the conspirators to incriminate them and set up a trap for the Rebel hero. However, DCFDTL insisted on personally supervising the operation, and Mickey felt his powerful dark presence through the Force. Although Griff's stormtroopers managed to arrest the traitors, the now-alerted young Jedi escaped, bringing the schematics with him.
Later, Griff was placed in charge of the Blockade of Yavin. This long, drawn-out operation was marked by rivalry between DCFDTL's supporters and Vellam's. Early in the operation, Griff warned that the blockade was ineffective and that the Rebels were steadily building up their fleet, advocating a decisive strike before the balance shifted to their favor.
When the Rebels later mounted their final escape attempt, DCFDTL once again pursued his own agenda, this time to leave a portion of the blockade deliberately weakened, allowing the Rebels to escape so that he could he lure them into a trap, again not bothering to inform Griff. Instead, the Admiral spotted the flaw by himself, sending three Star Destroyers to reinforce the breach and taking personal command of this force. The Rebels, led by Mickey Mouse, managed to defeat Griff's fighters and escaped past his positions at the climax of the siege. He then opted for a gamble and ordered an immediate hyperspace leap after the fleeing enemy.
With all the required information, the plan may well have worked. As it was, however, he brought his fleet out of hyperspace too close to DCFDTL's flagship, the Executor, which had secretly been waiting for the Rebels at this precise spot, and the ships collided. Griff was killed, and the three Star Destroyers that collided with the Executor were destroyed by the impact; the Executor lost its shields but suffered no major structural damage. It was, however, delayed long enough to allow the Rebels to escape.
==Personality and traits==
Griff was an ambitious man with few moral scruples, always ready to take advantage of the mistakes of others. He was also more than a little vain, wearing an expensive fur-brimmed coat, in addition to his standard service uniform. However, he was a competent, albeit at times somewhat brash, naval commander, and an accomplished agent with a working knowledge of ground combat tactics, making up for some of his other character flaws.
==Behind the scenes==
In the Classic Star Wars comics in which he appears, Griff wears a nonstandard, all-red rank insignia, rather than a standard admiral's badge.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: Rebellion
*"Delightful Children Strikes" 
*The Night Beast
*The Musketeers and the Temple of the Sea
*"Race for Survival"
*The Rise and Fall of Delightful Children 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Humans
Category:Imperial Navy admirals of the Galactic Empire
Category:Males