Grand Admiral Thrawn

Bring Grand Admiral Savit to Imperial justice for his treachery (both succeeded).
Help the Chiss Ascendancy establish an alliance with the Empire.
Hunt down and wipe out the Rebel Alliance.
Obliterate Lothal to ensure the demise of the Spectres (all failed).
Reunite the Imperial Remnants.
Escape from exile (both succeeded).Destroy the New Republic and rule the galaxy.
Restore the Empire and bring it back to power.
Kill Ahsoka Tano to prevent her from finding him and thwarting his plans to return (all ongoing).

### Crimes

Mass murder
Abuse of power
 Genocide
Slavery
Torture
Conspiracy
Kidnapping
Terrorism
War crimes

### Type of MB

Strategic Mastermind

**Grand Admiral Thrawn** (born **Kivu'raw'nuru** with his previous core name **Vurawn**), also known by his real name **Mitth'raw'nuruodo** and initially known as **Mitth'raw'nuru** in his past military career, is a major antagonist in the *Star Wars* franchise. He is the main antagonist of the second half of *Star Wars Rebels*, the overarching antagonist of *The Mandalorian* and *Ahsoka*, and the main protagonist of the *Thrawn* and *Thrawn Ascendancy* novel trilogies.

Originating from the Csilla system, home of the Chiss Ascendancy, Thrawn served in the Chiss Starfleet and later in the Galactic Empire's Imperial Navy, rising to the rank of Grand Admiral. He is known for his strategic intellect and tactical brilliance, as he believes that understanding an enemy's art, culture, history and philosophy is the key to victory.

He was portrayed by Lars Mikkelsen in *Star Wars Rebels* and *Ahsoka*.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

### In General

* He is one of the most brilliant and strategic military minds in the entire franchise, possibly rivalling Emperor Palpatine in that aspect, and usually outsmarts his opponents. For this, he is considered a major threat to the Rebels.
* Studies the artwork of individuals and species to ensure their defeat and can identify their weaknesses from obscure clues in art.
* Is open-minded and willing to accept his subordinates' ideas into his plans if they are good enough.
* Although he has taken many defeats by the Rebels, he patiently accepts them and always manages to learn more about his enemies through each loss.
* Always has a calm and collected demeanor and is genuinely friendly and polite toward his subordinates and even enemies alike. He provides great support to his allies, never punishes subordinates with killing, and disapproves of them failing to respect the enemy or appreciate their art.
* In addition to his intellect, he is a formidable fighter, being very skillful in hand-to-hand combat.
* He is ultimately primarily motivated by protecting his people in the Chiss Ascendancy, making him a well-intentioned extremist.
* He frequently shows great respect towards enemies whom he considers worthy opponents like Hera Syndulla, Jun Sato or Nightswan.
* The fact that he was able to rise to such a powerful position in an Empire that was generally very xenophobic against non-humans through sheer skill gives him a huge amount of villainous valor.
* He is one of the few Imperials who knows Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader are the same person. He even fought with both of them.

### *Star Wars Rebels*

* Initiates the program to develop and mass produce TIE Defender starfighters to combat the Rebel threat on Lothal. This project is huge and useful enough to be a rival to the Death Star Project and very likely would have been way more practical.
* Sees through Hera's disguise as a servant just from looking at her family portrait and devotion to the kalikori.
* Immediately recognizes a disguised Ezra Bridger as a Rebel and stuns him.
* Narrows down the search of the Rebel base through the EXD infiltrator droid sabotage.
* After analyzing the Rebels' escape from the Lothal Imperial Armory Complex, he correctly deduces there is a mole within the Imperial ranks and suggests setting a trap for them.
* Destroys his two Imperial training droids in combat when they are reprogrammed against him by Agent Kallus (the Rebel spy).
* Despite Kallus successfully framing Lieutenant Lyste as the Rebel spy, Thrawn concludes he is the true spy since he did not warn the Imperials about Ezra's supposed capture. Rather than immediately catching him, Thrawn uses Kallus to unwittingly help the Empire.
* Secretly follows Kallus and briefly jams his transmission to the Rebels, before quickly defeating him in hand-to-hand combat. He subsequently locates Chopper base through observing the intersection of the trajectories of General Dodonna's fleet and the transmission and the art of the Atollon natives, allowing the Empire to destroy the base.
* His original plan of just destroying the Rebel base through a bombardment would have very likely wiped out the entire Rebel Alliance and the only reason he wasn't able to execute it was due to Tarkin wanting the Rebel leaders alive.
* When the Bendu, an ancient god-like force entity he had no way of knowing about, attacks his troops, he launches a counteroffensive that actually manages to defeat and seemingly kill it.
* Correctly infers Sabine Wren and Ezra were piloting the Defender Elite which destroyed two of three TIE Interceptors, noting that Hera would have destroyed all of them in a much shorter time and its transponder was disabled in record time.
* Sees through Governor Pryce's celebration of Kanan Jarrus' death as a cover-up of her destroying the Lothal City fuel depot.
* Lures the Imperial garrison away from Lothal so he can attack the planet without Imperial casualties and force the Rebels to surrender.
* His defeats in the series can largely be attributed to the incompetence or disobedience of his subordinates or unexpected surprises.

### *Ahsoka*

* Upon meeting Sabine again, he returns her possessions (which had been confiscated by Baylan and Morgan) and gives her Ezra's last known location before setting her free.
* When he learns that Ahsoka is alive and coming for him, he correctly deduces that her ship is in the mouth of a Purrgil. He immediately takes the time to learn everything possible about her, including her master.
	+ Once he learns that Anakin Skywalker was Ahsoka's master he is more cautious to defeat her, knowing Anakin is very unpredictable and dangerous due to fighting with Anakin during the Clone Wars and as Vader.
* He inspires loyalty in his troops to the extent that Morgan and several Night Troopers voluntarily stay behind on Peridea to stall for his escape.
* After successfully defeating Ahsoka, he contacts her to sincerely commend her efforts and tell her she has been a worthy opponent.

## What Makes Him a Baddie?

* Enforces a regulation in which Imperial Armory Complex workers must personally test the vehicles they built, leading to the death of Morad Sumar.
* Leads the Empire in destroying Chopper base and most of the Phoenix Squadron.
* Bombards Lothal's Capital City to force Ezra to give in to the Empire and resumes his assault anyway after turning Bridger over to the Emperor.
* He only gives Sabine the last location where Ezra was spotted so he can have his troops follow her to Ezra and kill them both.
* He orders a minefield to be set in orbit around Peridea to kill any arriving Purrgil in hopes of killing Ahsoka. Though all of the Purrgil do survive, this was not his intention.
* He orders his own fortress destroyed in a last-ditch effort to kill Ahsoka and Sabine.

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