Maximilian Veers

> "*If you don't mind, I am General Maximilian Veers of the now fallen Galactic Empire, and currently I serve the Dark Empire.*"
> ― Veers to Boba Fett, Indiana Jones and Fennec Shand on Geonosis
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**Maximilian Veers** was a male Human Major General of the Galactic Empire's Imperial Army, famous for his leadership at the assault on Hoth in 3 ABY and other battles. He also was the father of Zevulon Veers. Veers' leadership in the battle of Hoth was critical to the successful takeover of the Hoth planetary system, a key victory for the Empire. Veers himself was critically injured during the battle when a Rogue Squadron snowspeeder crashed into his AT-AT's cockpit, destroying the walker, but ultimately survived.

In 5 ABY Veers joined the Dark Empire, eventually becoming one of its most prominent leaders.

## History

### Zevulon's defection

Although the Battle of Hoth was a great victory for him, bringing him fame and glory, it was overshadowed by a report from his son's COMPNOR SAGroup commander. The commander reported that Zevulon Veers had gone missing during a SAGroup mission dealing with Rebel spies. However, the honored General suspected that his son had defected to the Rebellion and disowned him. The betrayal of his son brought shame and dishonor to the Veers name despite the General's victory at Hoth. He would suffer from the ignominy his son brought forth for the rest of his life.

### Bombad bounty

Following the Battle of Hoth, Veers placed a bounty on Jar Jar Binks. Binks, being a janitor for Boss Nass Galactic Cleaning Service, had not mopped up a wet floor on Echo Base and so Veers slipped and fell when he walked over the floor, which had frozen from the cold climate by the time he infiltrated the base with his snowtroopers. As he was being carried away on a stretcher Veers got a glimpse of Jar Jar and held him personally responsible. In 5 ABY, Boba Fett would try to capture Binks for the bounty but ultimately fail.

### Shattered Empire

In 4 ABY, General Veers was on a planetside mission when the *Executor* was destroyed over Endor.

During the time after the death of Emperor Palpatine at the Battle of Endor, General Veers was mostly shunned away or rejected downright because of his relationship with Lord Vader. A number of post-Endor officers despised anyone who had served and survived Darth Vader and wanted nothing to do with those people. For weeks, Veers wandered the galaxy watching as everything he believed in and fought for crumbled around him. Eventually, he became disappointed and distraught with the path the Empire was following, but his sense of loyalty and honor had kept him from defecting or going AWOL. Eventually, while moving from one Imperial commander to the next in search of a new command, in 5 ABY he joined the rising Dark Empire.

### Meeting with the reborn Palpatine

On the planet Byss, Veers was among the Imperial Officers conversing with the reborn Palpatine, who explained the contingency plans for the Dark Empire. After this, Veers and the officers were given their tasks, and Sidious prepared to retreat to Exegol, as his clone body was too weak for him to command the Empire openly, and that he decided to rule in secret.

### On the *Eclipse*

Between 7 ABY and 8 ABY, Veers was stationed aboard the *Eclipse*. He fought against the Rogue Squadron squadron infiltrators as well as New Republic boarding forces during the Battle near the Vanqor system, but they managed to destroy the *Eclipse*, and Veers had to flee the doomed flagship aboard his fighter, reaching one of the nearby escort ships, the Imperial-class Star Destroyer *Avenger*. This battle dealt a major blow to the Dark Empire, destabilizing it, and eventually over time the Dark Empire started losing territory.

### Scarif

Sometime between 8 ABY and 9 ABY, Veers had been given command of the *Avenger*. At some point, the viper probe droid XJ9-CS15, who had been sent to Scarif in 0 ABY, and was still on the planet after all this time, sent images of Boba Fett entering the remains of the Imperial security complex on Scarif to Veers. A comms officer reported this to the General, was playing a game of cards with his stormtroopers at the time. Veers knew that the bounty hunter was looking for the *Black-Saber* data tape, as it was still in the remains of the Citadel Tower, and that many Imperial secrets still remained inside the remains of the Scarif vault. The Dark Empire had desire for that specific data tape, as it has highly valued information on an Imperial project, and Veers decided to take the data tape as the Dark Empire had been mostly fragmented after the destruction of the *Eclipse*, and these were desperate times. He took the *Avenger*, along with another Imperial II-class Star Destroyer and an Arquitens-class command cruiser, and set course for the Scarif system, jumping into hyperspace.

When the three ships emerged from hyperspace at Scarif, Veers ordered two Imperial transports and a Sentinel-class landing craft be deployed to the surface. The ground forces later engaged Fett in a fierce firefight on the surface of Scarif. When Veers learned about Fett gaining the upper hand, he secretly dispatched a Lambda-class T4a shuttle, containing reinforcement troopers, to the surface. The shuttle landed on Landing pad eight, where Fett's ship, *Slave I*, was also docked, where the troopers secured it. One of the *Avenger*'s officers suggested an orbital bombardment of the remains of the Imperial security complex below to destroy Fett for sure, but Veers said it wasn't necessary for this moment as there were still many hidden secrets down on Scarif that could be of future use. Eventually, Fett defeated the reinforcements as well. After Fett destroyed the two Imperial transports, he got into his ship and pursued the Sentinel-class landing craft into the sky. The command cruiser, in orbit, dispatched four TIE Interceptors to stop Fett from shooting down the craft. However, Fett succeeded in destroying both the four interceptors and the Sentinel-class craft. As one of the *Avenger*'s officers noted *Slave I* incoming, Veers ordered his three ships to be positioned in order to prevent the possibility of Fett escaping the Scarif system, and then dispatched squadron of TIE Fighters to finish off the bounty hunter.

Veers then watched as *Slave I* zoomed past the *Avenger*'s bridge, while fighting the TIEs. At the same time, when Fett flew past the Star Destroyers, the *Avenger*'s gunnery crew fired the turbolasers in an attempt to shoot down the bounty hunter. Eventually, Boba gained the upper hand and blasted into hyperspace just as several New Republic warships were coming out of hyperspace in a few moments. One of the TIE Pilots notified Veers about Fett's escape, and the TIE squadron returned to the *Avenger*. A few moments later, the same officer that noticed *Slave I* coming into space from Scarif suddenly told Veers that the New Republic ships had come out of lightspeed. As the enemy engaged, and the *Avenger* returned some fire, Veers ordered a full retreat immediately. The three Imperial ships jumped into hyperspace, fleeing Scarif and the New Republic forces there.

While the *Avenger* was in hyperspace, Veers had a fit of rage on a bridge over the loss of the data tape, snarling in anger and throwing things. Then, Commander Nemet went up to the general, having a datapad to show him. After Veers snatched over the datapad, Nemet covered his face in fear, not knowing what would happen next. Nemet then stated to Veers that he could download a full PDF version of the *Black-Saber* datatape right on his datapad. Veers then stated that they were back to work. A few minutes later, Veers, having trouble downloading, asked Nemet about how to download the PDF on the datapad, and Nemet instructed him how to do so, though the end Veers just stated that the WiFi on the datapad was horrible.

### Geonosis

> "*As always, you have my greatest respect, Boba Fett. I greatly admire your reputation, especially as you have had a history with the late Lord Vader. But now, after what happened on Scarif with the data tape, I now mean to avenge myself upon you.*"
> ― Maximilian Veers
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In 9 ABY, Veers and some of his Imperial troops traveled to Geonosis in an attempt restart the droid foundries on Geonosis in order to fully restore the Dark Empire.

While overseeing the construction of battle droids, Veers was approached by one of his officers. The officer reported that their spies had spotted two individuals enter the Geonosian Grub restaurant, and that they could cause a danger to the Empire's plans. Veers said he knew one of them, Boba Fett, and ordered the officer to prepare their troops. Soon after, Veers' squad of death troopers opened fire on the restaurant, killing its owner and B1 battle droid workers. Then, all of the troopers who had came with Veers to the planet arrived at the area outside. Shortly after, Veers landed in his TIE Advanced, behind the mass of troopers. As he climbed out of his ship and approached the broken restaurant window, he confronted the mercenaries inside - Fett, his partner Fennec Shand, and archaeologist Indiana Jones. He introduced himself to them, and at the same time, two scout troopers were racing toward the location of the ships *Slave I* and *Bravo Adventurer*, which were parked together next to each other; as Jones had sent an intercepted transmission to K-7R3, who was repairing the *Adventurer*. The troopers arrived at the ship but found no one, but then K-7R3 appeared and knocked them out. Upon hearing Fett and his crew desperately trying to escape through a hidden trapdoor on the restaurant floor, Veers stated that although he greatly respected Fett for his reputation, and that the hunter had quite a history with the late Darth Vader, he would avenge himself on the bounty hunter for what had happened at Scarif with the *Black-Saber* data tape, and then finished off by stating that Fett and his comrades had until sundown to step out and surrender. Otherwise, he would order his troops to open fire and demolish the restaurant.

After Veers walked off, K-7R3 began a rescue effort, giving Fett, Jones, and Shand a chance to escape. A battle ensued, and amongst all of the chaos, Veers watched the battle around him. Veers prepared to shoot Jones, who was fighting the stormtroopers, but Fett wrestled the general's blaster out of his hands, and the two fought hand-to-hand until Fett knocked down Veers. As Veers got up, he revealed he had one more trick up his sleeve: the battle droids from the droid factory. As Fett looked to the side, newly reactivated B1 battle droids and B2 super battle droids arrived and starting helping the troopers attack Jones and K-7R3. Using this advantage, Veers shot Boba multiple times with his blaster, with the bounty hunter surviving due to his beskar armor, only to be knocked out by Fett afterwards. As the battle raged on, Veers would eventually regain consciousness, seeing three fuel packs next to a heavy cannon that Boba had taken from a fallen stormtrooper and was using. He shot the fuel packs, causing a large explosion that knocked Fett aside. After this, Fett and the others headed back into the Geonosian Grub. Shand helped Fett to his feet and went with him back inside, while Jones and Kay retreated inside. Frustrated with the lack of progress, Veers ordered a Shadow trooper to finish them off. The trooper was able to get inside and briefly fiught Shand, who stayed behind in the restaurant and covered for Kay, Fett and Jones as they fled through the hidden trapdoor. Ultimately, Shand was able to defeat and kill the shadow trooper.

As Fett and his group escaped through the catacombs, Veers sent several B1 battle droids to stop them. When their efforts had failed, Veers dispatched a platoon of stormtroopers to wait at the end of the tunnels, which led to the outside. Upon anticipating his troops' failure, Veers hopped into his TIE Advanced x1 starfighter to deal with Fett himself. After Fett, Shand, Jones, and Kay killed off the entire platoon, Veers swooped in and began to fire at them. He swerved his TIE back around and met Fett. The Mandalorian bounty hunter flew up into the air on his jetpack and grappled onto the back of his TIE fighter. Veers tried his best to shake him off but was unsuccessful. After climbing on top of the TIE fighter, Fett tried to shoot him from the roof of the cockpit, but was protected by the blast-proof glass, allowing him to continue shaking off the bounty hunter.

Veers spun his TIE Advanced and darted in multiple directions to lose Fett, but the latter managed to plant detonators on the TIE. By the time Veers discovered them, they went off, damaging the left wing, and a fire started inside of the cockpit. After Veers crashed, Boba and the rest of his crew assumed he was dead. Fett and Shand parted ways with Jones and K-7R3, leaving to visit Jango Fett's grave. Sometime later, Veers, alive and still sitting in the rubble, carved his way out of the wreckage of his TIE using a fusioncutter. He stepped out and climbed on top of the TIE Advanced, scanning his surroundings.

### Becoming leader of the Dark Empire

Sometime after the events on Geonosis, Veers had assumed full command of the crumbling Dark Empire, having self-appointed himself Supreme Commander of all its Imperial forces.

## Personality and traits

Maximilian Veers was a powerfully built man with brown hair and eyes. Weighing 82 kilograms and standing 1.93 meters, he was ten centimeters taller than the average stormtroopers, the Empire's white-armored shock troops.

Veers was a brilliant tactician, and a cool, efficient, ruthless and agressive officer. He did not hesitate to put himself in harm's way on the front line, wearing Imperial officer battle armor. Cunning and capable, he was also devoted to his family. Because of those qualities, he was viewed as a model Imperial officer. An effective and decorated officer, Veers enjoyed the respect of his peers thanks to an impressive record of ground combat, and due to Veers' calm demeanor during battle he earned respect from Darth Vader himself. Veers also liked to wreak havoc upon his enemies, especially when he had his personal AT-ATs or his TIE Advanced with him.

Although he always seemed very sure of himself when talking to Vader, Veers had learned to tread lightly around the Sith Lord, fearing both the mysterious power he wielded and his volatile temperament. For example, when Veers went to see Vader in his quarters, he was not bold enough to interrupt the meditating Sith, but stood quietly at attention until he spoke.

About three to four years after the fall of the Empire, Veers still maintained his reputation, having assumed command of the Star Destroyer *Avenger*, being willing to send four shuttles of troops down to Scarif's surface to stop Boba Fett from taking the *Black-Saber* data tape from the planet, and even deploying a squadron of TIE fighters to stop the bounty hunter from leaving, after the ground troops failed to kill Fett, even though Veers greatly respected the famed bounty hunter for having a formidable reputation and history with Vader. In 9 ABY, Veers displayed his cunning character while fighting against Fett, Fennec Shand and Indiana Jones on Geonosis, even properly introducing himself to them. He also did drastic measures to prevent them from escaping, even sending a group of reactivated battle droids after them in the catacombs, and when that failed, the general sent a platoon of stormtroopers to stop them; when that failed as well, Veers hopped into his TIE Advanced fighter to stop Fett himself, only to be taken down by the bounty hunter when he planted a grenade on the TIE's wing.

Veers was skilled at being both an AT-AT commander and a TIE Advanced pilot. He displayed his impressive flying skills while flying his TIE Advanced on Geonosis in an attempt to shake off Boba Fett, but ultimately ended up being defeated by the bounty hunter when the latter planted a grenade on the TIE's wing, causing it to crash.

## Appearances

* Bombad Bounty (Mentioned on data screen)
* Dark Force Rising (First appearance)
* Into the Crossfire
* Into the Great Unknown
* Gambit on Geonosis
* *Star Wars: Veers*
* *From a Certain Point of View* (Mentioned only)