Gilad Pellaeon

Gilad Pellaeon was a human male who served as a vice admiral in Imperial Navy during the Galactic Civil War and later as an admiral in the Terran Starfleet. His service began during the Clone Wars in the Republic Navy, and continued for decades as he developed a strong attachment to the navy as an institution.

Pellaeon served in a number of commands throughout his career, and served for a period under the Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn, who became a mentor of sorts to Pellaeon. After Thrawn's capture by the Terran Alliance, Pellaeon was promoted to become a rear admiral and began commanding task forces. He served against Terran forces throughout the Galactic Civil War, and gained a reputation for success either in winning victories or preserving more of his forces than was common from other Imperial officers. During the Battle of Endor, he took command of the Imperial forces after the destruction of the Death Star and death of Fleet Admiral Piett and Grand Admiral Teshikl.

Throughout the war, Pellaeon developed a reputation for great integrity, care for those who served under him, and dedication to his role as a naval officer. For that reason, he grew out of favor with Gallius Rax after the Battle of Endor, and eventually left the main body of the Empire, at which point he was recruited by the Terran Alliance with the help of Thrawn.

After the Galactic Civil War, in exchange for immunity, Pellaeon accepted a role as an Admiral in the Terran Starfleet. Soon after, he was assigned to lead the battlecruiser *TAS Hood* on a mission into the Unknown Regions to locate the world of Exegol. During the mission, the *Hood* encountered and was critically damaged by the Imperial Super Star Destroyer Eclipse. Because of the damage she sustained, the *Hood* was stranded in the Unknown Regions. Pellaeon led the *Hood* and its crew through a series of trials over many years.

## History

### Galactic Civil War

In the early years of the Galactic Civil War, Pellaeon began commanding small task forces against Rebel forces. When the Terran Alliance first entered the war, the Emperor did not send Pellaeon to take part in actions against them, wanting to keep him focused on actions against the rebels.

### Terran Alliance Service

#### Defection

Shortly after the Terran victory in the Battle of Coruscant, the Terran Alliance became aware of a former Imperial Grand Admiral trying to raise a small Empire of his own by the name of Josef Grunger. In an effort to help track Grunger down and understand his efforts, the Alliance tracked down Pellaeon to Orinda.

Thrawn and Grand General Dennis Rommel travelled to Orinda, where Pellaeon had taken shelter after refusing Grunger's summons to his fledgling Empire. Pellaeon agreed to guide them to Grunger's location and assist them in defeating Grunger. In exchange, Rommel and Thrawn promised to grant Pellaeon's request for asylum with the Alliance and a position within the Terran Starfleet. Pellaeon then went with them and took part in the Battle of Ketaris to defeat Grunger.

After Pellaeon assisted in the defeat of Grunger, he travelled back to Earth, where he met with Alliance officials and Grand Admiral Roughead. Then, on June 1, 2019, Pellaeon was officially sworn in to the Terran Starfleet with the rank of Admiral.

Immediately after being sworn in to his new position, Pellaeon sat down for a meeting with Grand Admiral Zambellas, in which Zambellas gave him a special assignment. Zambellas assigned Pellaeon to take command of the battlecruiser TAS Hood and lead it on an expedition into the Unknown Regions to find Exegol. Pellaeon was chosen in part because of his knowledge of the planet which, although very small, was more than anyone in the Alliance knew.

#### The Odyssey

Pellaeon boarded the Hood for the first time and officially took command of the battlecruiser on June 2, and immediately began preparing to depart. The Hood departed Earth on June 4. Pellaeon ordered the ship to first make for Kuat. There, the ship received some supplies and tuning up, before finally departing for the Unknown Regions on June 19.

For almost a month, the Hood moved through the Unknown Regions, charting star systems as it went. Pellaeon took this time to get used to the ship and its crew.

On July 10, as the *Hood* was undergoing some maintenance to her engines and weapons systems, the crew was caught off guard by the sudden appearance in the star system they had halted in of the Super Star Destroyer *Eclipse*, the former flagship of Emperor Palpatine. Pellaeon reacted quickly, ordering the crew to divert all available power to the ship's shields while the crew worked to get the weapons and engines back online.

It didn't take long before the weapons and engines were back online, and the *Hood* was finally able to escape. However, the ship had been badly damaged during the fight, and could not maintain hyperspace more than half an hour. After the *Hood* fell out of hyperspace, Pellaeon ordered that the ship lower engine power to 70 percent to preserve the engines' integrity, and then ordered that the ship maintain a constant course in one direction in the hope of eventually finding a planet that they could take shelter at.

## Appearances

* *The Terran Alliance Strikes Back*
* *Terran Alliance the Odyssey*