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**Armitage Hux** foi o Diretor Militar das forças militares da Primeira Ordem durante a Nova Era da República. Com o apoio do Líder Supremo Snoke, Hux assumiu o comando da Base Starkiller e promoveu o desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias que permitiram à frota da Primeira Ordem rastrear alvos através do hiperespaço. No entanto, a morte de Snoke arruinou a trajetória da carreira do jovem general, assim como os anos que Hux passou disputando o poder contra seu rival Kylo Ren, que tomou o controle da Primeira Ordem como o novo Líder Supremo.

Nascido no planeta Arkanis na época da Batalha de Yavin, Hux era o filho ilegítimo do Comandante Brendol Hux e de uma mulher da cozinha. Após a Guerra Civil Galáctica, Armitage fugiu para as Regiões Desconhecidas junto com seu pai, o Grão-Almirante Rae Sloane, e um grupo de crianças que se tornariam algumas das primeiras stormtroopers da Primeira Ordem. Um oficial implacável na época da Guerra Fria, Hux tinha projetado a morte de seu pai, supervisionado o treinamento e doutrinação de uma nova geração de stormtroopers, executou o Almirante Brooks, e ordenou o disparo da supermastrutura Starkiller para destruir a capital da Nova República de Hosnian Prime. Durante a Primeira Guerra de Resistência da Primeira Ordem, Hux serviu pela primeira vez como oficial comandante do *Resurgent-class* Star Destroyer *Finalizer*, seguido pela *Supremacia* Dreadnought da Estrela *da Mega* classe até sua destruição pouco antes da Batalha de Crait.

A adesão de Ren ao posto de Líder Supremo diminuiu a influência de Hux sobre a Primeira Ordem. Embora ele serviu no Conselho Supremo ao lado de outros membros do Alto Comando da Primeira Ordem, Hux tinha pouca autoridade independente sem supervisão, e foi obrigado a servir sob o comando do General Da Allegiant Enric Pryde a bordo de seu carro-chefe, o *Steadfast*. Desiludido com seu lugar no regime de Ren, ele forneceu à Resistência informações sobre a frota Sith Eternal em Exegol, determinado a ver seu rival perder a guerra. Em última análise, no entanto, Pryde descobriu o papel de Hux como um agente duplo e sumariamente executou Hux por traição.

## Biografia

### Início da vida

"*Ele tem um filho, um garoto bastardo, pelo que sei. Não nasceu de sua esposa, Maratelle, mas de alguns... mulher cozinha.*"
―Gallius Rax, sobre a ilegitimidade de Armitage Hux
Armitage Hux nasceu no planeta Arkanis na época da Batalha de Yavin, aproximadamente 0 ABY, durante o reinado do Império Galáctico.  foi pai do Comandante Brendol Hux, embora não com a esposa de seu pai, Maratelle, mas sim uma mulher de cozinha, fazendo de Hux o filho bastardo do comandante.  nunca conheceu sua mãe e, quando menino, permaneceu totalmente sem amigos.  Como um jovem, Hux foi objeto de fofoca entre as fileiras dos oficiais imperiais, enquanto sussurravam entre si sobre a existência do bastardo de Brendol e da mãe que o aborreceu.

Brendol não fez segredo da baixa opinião que tinha sobre seu filho, a quem ele considerava um menino frágil e fraco, embora não totalmente desprovido de potencial.  O Grão-Almirante Rae Sloane suspeitava que Hux era regularmente abusado por seu pai, tanto psicologicamente quanto fisicamente, suspeitas que  provaram verdadeiras. Hux encontrou força nas histórias de seu pai de como o Império trouxe paz a uma galáxia que havia resistido ao caos das Guerras Clônicas, que o confortava mesmo quando Hux resistiu ao seu próprio abuso sob seu pai.  Por causa de sua herança imperial, Hux desenvolveu noções de grandeza e acreditava que ele tinha o direito de sentar-se no trono que governava a galáxia.  Em uma idade precoce, Hux prometeu a si mesmo que provaria que os preconceitos de seu pai sobre ele estavam errados. Inspirando-se no legado de Sheev Palpatine, o senador naboo que se tornou o Imperador Galáctico, Hux acreditava que ele também era capaz de ganhar o poder absoluto. Como tal, Hux imaginou-se como o futuro governante da galáxia, um salvador trazendo paz ao caos pelo qual ele responsabilizava a Nova República.

O jovem Hux conheceu os colegas de seu pai, como Enric Pryde, que era amigo de Brendol e Maratelle, e do Almirante Brooks, que ridicularizaram abertamente a ilegitimidade de Hux. Brooks uma vez zombou de Armitage depois que ele acidentalmente deixou cair alguns refrescos, sugerindo que o filho ilegítimo de uma mulher de cozinha deveria pelo menos ser capaz de servir bebidas. Enquanto Brendol expressava seu desprezo por seu filho, chamando-o de patético e totalmente inútil, Hux prometeu limpar a bagunça, ao que Brooks sugeriu que ele lambesse o chão. Hux procurou ajuda de seu pai antes de aceitar o pedido do almirante. Brendol, no entanto, assistiu Armitage com nojo e começou a abordar fisicamente seu filho.

### Queda do Império Galáctico

"*Você vai liderar essas crianças. Eles vão servi-lo. E um dia seu pai passará seus ensinamentos para você, e você aprenderá a fazer o que ele fez. Será trabalho de sua vida levar crianças como esses selvagens e martelar suas mentes maleáveis em qualquer forma que você precisar. Serão ferramentas construídas para o trabalho em mãos. Este é o meu presente para você, garoto. Um dia seu pai morrerá. Um dia, em breve, temo. E você tomará o lugar dele.*"
―Gallius Rax, para Armitage Hux
O Império estava em sua agonia de morte como resultado da vitória rebelde em Endor. Em 5 ABY, como a Nova República cercou Arkanis, Armitage e seu pai foram forçados a evacuar seu mundo natal. O Almirante da Frota Gallius Rax protegido político do falecido Imperador Palpatine, tornou-se investido no futuro de Armitage Hux por causa das ideias visionárias de seu pai sobre o treinamento de stormtrooper.  A pedido de Rax, Sloane alistou os serviços do caçador de recompensas Mercurial Swift para resgatar os Huxes, garantindo que nem Brendol nem seu filho se tornassem prisioneiros da Nova República.  Sem o conhecimento de Sloane, Rax estava cumprindo a Contingência do Imperador, uma operação clandestina projetada para destruir o Império de dentro e garantir seu renascimento nas Regiões Desconhecidas do espaço galáctico.

Após o ataque a Chandrila, Armitage e Brendol viajaram para o planeta Jakku para se encontrar com os Militares Imperiais. Nos meses anteriores à Batalha de Jakku, os Huxes permaneceram próximos de Rax, que liderou o governo imperial como o auto-denominado Conselheiro do Império. Enquanto Brendol treinava 24 órfãos locais, Hux tentava manter distância de seu pai abusivo. No final de seu treinamento, essas crianças soldados tornaram-se guarda-costas pessoais do Conselheiro Rax.

Quando a Força de Defesa da Nova República invadiu Jakku, um transporte transportou Armitage, seu pai, o conselheiro Rax, Yupe Tashu (conselheiro do Imperador), e as crianças soldados do Observatório Jakku no planalto da Mão Melancólica. Como parte do Contingenciamento, Rax pretendia usar o observatório para detonar o núcleo planetário de Jakku, eliminando a Nova República e o Império em um único golpe, antes de levar Armitage e Brendol para as Regiões Desconhecidas onde eles poderiam criar um novo Império. Viajando para o observatório, Armitage encontrou-se sozinho no transporte com as crianças soldados. As crianças mais velhas o intimidaram, pois tinham sido treinados por seu pai para se tornarem assassinos cruéis. Embora Rax tivesse a intenção de usar os métodos de treinamento de Brendol para construir o exército do novo Império, o Conselheiro considerou o papel de Armitage como sucessor de Brendol mais importante.

As crianças-soldados foram finalmente dotadas de Armitage pelo Conselheiro Rax, percebendo que Hux continuaria o trabalho de seu pai treinando uma nova geração de soldados criados para a guerra. Com isso, Rax dirigiu-se pessoalmente às suas tropas, informando-os de que seguiriam as ordens de Hux até a morte e sem dúvida. Colocando sua nova autoridade à prova, Hux ordenou que um dos garotos atacasse seu companheiro. Depois de chegar ao observatório, os Huxes foram proibidos pelo Conselheiro de embarcar em seu iate de luxo — uma réplica dos *Imperialis* do Imperador. Rax, no entanto, foi morto por Sloane antes que ele pudesse completar seu plano para explodir Jakku. Aproveitando a oportunidade para moldar o próximo Império de acordo com seus ideais, Sloane acompanhou Hux e Brendol em sua permanência ao espaço desconhecido.

Durante a viagem, Sloane fez amizade com Hux, que veio ver o Grande Almirante como seu protetor de Brendol. Hux também protegeu Sloane das crianças-soldados, que permaneceram leais apenas a si mesmo de acordo com os últimos desejos de Rax. Sloane repreendeu Brendol, avisando o comandante para parar de machucar seu filho. No entanto, ela também queria que Hux se beneficiasse da experiência de seu pai e, como tal, Brendol foi ordenado a educar seu filho ilegítimo como ele seria um herdeiro adequado. Por vários meses, os *Imperialis* viajaram pelas Regiões Desconhecidas, e nesse tempo, Hux e seus soldados ficaram ainda mais cruéis sob a tutela de Brendol. Até Sloane ficou surpresa com a crueldade de Hux, que ela considerava um traço incomum para um menino tão pequeno. Suas dificuldades eventualmente culminaram na descoberta do Super Destruidor estelar do Imperador, o *Eclipse*.

### Ascensão da Primeira Ordem

#### Um general na tomada

"*Your son. Armitage. I know you don't like him. I suspect you hurt him—psychologically or physically, I don't know, and I don't care. You will leave him alone. And you will teach the boy everything that you know. Are we clear?*"
―Rae Sloane, to Brendol Hux
Although the Empire surrendered to the New Republic, signing the Galactic Concordance that ended the Galactic Civil War, the principles of the New Order survived through a new generation of adherents. Armitage Hux was part of that generation, having grown up listening to stories about legendary Imperial leaders. As part of his education, Hux was raised to believe that the Empire delivered the galaxy from the chaos of the Clone Wars, whereas the New Republic lacked the strength to impose such order.

At the same time, several individual elements of the Old Empire were combined to form a new regime, melding the Empire's political, military and spiritual survivors under a movement that became known as the First Order. As the son of an Imperial Academy commandant, Hux belonged to the military branch that was the template of the First Order military. He eventually gained the status of general, becoming the youngest First Order officer to hold that military rank while also serving as a member of First Order High Command. However, Hux aspired to control both branches of the military—the First Order Navy and the First Order Army—as Grand Marshal, although Supreme Leader Snoke denied him this title.

Having spent his life in thrall to the idea of Imperial power, General Hux continued his father's legacy which included Brendol's radical ideas on training soldiers from birth. This approach produced a new generation of stormtroopers that began with Brendol and continued through Hux, who also revived another Imperial ideal—achieving military superiority through technological terror.

#### Mission to Parnassos

"*The First Order is pleased that you survived, Father.*" "*I owe my good fortune to Phasma. Phasma, this is my son, Armitage.*"
―Armitage Hux and Brendol Hux
At some point Hux ventured to Parnassos to respond to the distress signal sent by Brendol from the crash site of his ship. Hux arrived at the crash site personally, greeting his father, Phasma, Siv, and Frey impersonally and accepting Phasma and Frey into the First Order. Hux told his father that his disappearance had caused concern in the higher ranks of the First Order and that he needed to return immediately, as the Supreme Leader had many things to discuss with him.

As he rode with Brendol, Phasma, and Frey to the *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyer *Absolution*, Hux bore witness to Brendol's orbital bombardment of Parnassos. Footage recovered from the shuttle that transported them to the *Absolution* was later recovered by Resistance intelligence agents. One of these agents, Vi Moradi, viewed the recording and said that the look she saw Armitage giving Brendol was one of pure loathing.

#### An act of patricide

"*Cardinal, you're an idiot. My father knew it, and so do I. I know Phasma killed him, and I'm glad the old bastard is dead. We agreed on the right time for it to happen. I told her it had to be untraceable, and it shall remain so.*"
―Armitage Hux, to Cardinal
Over the course of his rise to power, the young general ruthlessly dispatched many enemies and potential foes before they became too dangerous a threat. This included the quiet elimination of Hux's father, Brendol, the elder General Hux. Knowing how his father truly felt about him, Hux resolved to kill his father, although this was not the only reason behind his patricidal actions. Driven by ambition and a sense of destiny, he saw Brendol as an obstacle in his path to gaining greater power. To that end, he enlisted the help of Captain Phasma, and the two conspirators agreed that the old Imperial veteran had to be permanently removed so as to promote their own interests.

Although Hux had no reservations about committing patricide, he left the actual killing to his co-conspirator, whom he instructed to use an untraceable method, not wanting the murder to be traced back to himself. Phasma therefore utilized a toxin, taken from the bite of a Parnassos beetle, to assassinate Brendol. Once the deed was done, Hux proceeded with formalities by addressing the members of the First Order Stormtrooper Corps, informing them that their founder had died. After concluding his speech, Hux wasted no time in positioning himself as his father's successor, and even took possession of Brendol's suite on the *Absolution*.

In the years following Brendol's demise, Hux remodeled the First Order army according to his design, promoting Phasma to complete the older stormtrooper cadets' training. Her methods emphasized loyalty, obedience and ruthlessness, qualities that met with Armitage's approval. Keeping with his habit of eliminating potential threats, Hux sidelined Captain Cardinal, knowing that the latter was a loyal supporter of the general's late father. Cardinal eventually concluded that Phasma was the culprit behind his mentor's death, though he was unaware of Hux's role in it. He reported his findings to Hux, who revealed his own involvement in the conspiracy that assassinated his father. Though Cardinal was ultimately deferential to Hux due to the latter's authority, Hux remained skeptical about Cardinal's loyalty and expected Phasma to elminate him as well.

As a precaution, Hux excluded Cardinal from a meeting of senior First Order officials. When Cardinal arrived with evidence of Phasma's crimes, Hux curtly dismissed the captain, telling him that his services were no longer required. Having spent a lifetime following protocol, Cardinal complied but later attempted to avenge Brendol by killing Phasma. However, he was bested by his fellow captain in single combat and grievously wounded. Cardinal only escaped with the help of Moradi. In the end, his idealized view of the First Order was shattered by the actions of Hux and Phasma. As the new leaders of Project Resurrection, Hux and Phasma recruited Jinata Security to help the First Order capture infants to mold into new stormtroopers.

#### The hunt for Poe Dameron

At some point prior to the cold war, Hux allegedly harbored a distaste for First Order Security Bureau agent Terex, a belief largely founded on Terex's past as a criminal. Terex had begun a manhunt against Resistance agent Poe Dameron, an action harshly opposed by Hux and other First Order leaders.

### Cold War

#### GUHL-JO387O

"*General Hux… I know where we must go… and I know this is the key. We are so close.*"
―Kylo Ren, to Armitage Hux
Hux, Kylo Ren and two First Order admirals gathered in a conference room aboard the *Finalizer* over the planet GUHL-JO387O. They were discussing travel to a planet in the Western Reaches. While in the conference, the creature that FN-2187 was chasing turned off the lights, interrupting the conference.

#### Marooned with Kylo Ren

"*Someone in your army tried to kill you. Clearly, you've managed to inspire a lot of loyalty, Hux.*" "*Oh, please. I thought you could read minds, Ren. You honestly believe people hate* me *more than they hate* you*?*"
―Kylo Ren and Armitage Hux
While traveling through hyperspace, a shuttle carrying Hux and Ren crashed on a terrestrial forested planet. They survived, however, due to Ren's command of the Force, although the dark warrior admitted that Hux's survival was entirely accidental on his part. After coming to the conclusion that the ship had been sabotaged, Hux got into an argument with Ren, taunting him by telling him that Ren's grandfather, Darth Vader, needed his mask to survive, whereas Ren used his mask to play dress up and hide the faces of his parents. This angered Ren, who activated his lightsaber and threatened to kill Hux; after all, no one would find out. Hux pointed out that Supreme Leader Snoke would find out and would punish Ren. Ren deactivated his lightsaber but commented that he didn't know why Snoke kept Hux alive.

Suddenly, the two men spotted a leg of an animal. Hux told Ren it was bait right as a massive beast known as a norwood came out of the shrubbery and surprised the two. Ren activated his lightsaber and told Hux to stand behind him, but Hux had already fled. Kylo then used the Force to hurt the norwood. Thinking the beast was dead, Ren got closer to it. Suddenly, the infuriated beast rose and struck Ren, knocking his helmet off his head and knocking Ren unconscious.

Hux, who'd been watching the event unfold while he was hiding in the trees, saw a man with a blaster in his hand draw near to the beasts. The man saw Hux hiding, pointed the blaster at him, and ordered him to come out. Hux did as he was ordered and stepped out. He marveled at how the man had tamed the norwoods. Hux, looking at the man's uniform, concluded that the man was a Palace Guard. The man told Hux that he had been off-world when the Death Star destroyed Alderaan. The man then ran off, far away as possible from the Empire, and came to the planet. Hux, after finding out the man's name, which was Bylsma, told him that the Empire had fallen years before. Bylsma was skeptical and asked Hux how could he know that Hux spoke the truth. Hux told him that the truth was Kylo Ren. He then informed Bylsma that Kylo Ren was Ben Solo, son of Leia Organa, Princess of Alderaan and that Ben's parents had won the war. Bylsma then asked about the Death Star. Hux told him that the Death Star and its successor had both been destroyed. Bylsma was surprised when he heard that the Empire had built a second Death Star. Hux answered by saying the Galactic Empire was never renowned for its creativity. Bylsma then stated that he had known Ben's grandfather and mother.

As the men headed back to where Bylsma lived, Hux asked Bylsma why he was still on the planet. Bylsma replied by saying that he didn't know who'd receive his transmission. He didn't want to risk being found since he had already lost one world. After laying Ben on a bed, Hux, who was pretending to be caring, convinced Bylsma to let him use the communication array so that they could enjoy the peacetime that was won. Finally, Kylo woke up, with Hux telling him that the shuttle would arrive soon, thanks to Bylsma.

Eventually, a First Order shuttle with Phasma and a small team of stormtroopers on board arrived on the planet. As the ship opened, Phasma and her stormtroopers shot Bylsma's norwoods dead. Hux, now revealing his true nature, ordered Phasma to leave Bylsma alive, stating that he wanted to use the planet for target practice when Starkiller Base became operational. The shuttle left, leaving behind a shocked and saddened Bylsma.

#### Armitage Hux's revenge

"*You just needed an excuse, didn't you? You're just as spineless as you were as a child. You know how little your father thought of you?*" "*I do. It's one of the reasons I had him killed.*"
―Brooks and Armitage Hux
After speaking with Snoke via hologram on Starkiller Base, Hux was allowed to deal with with the radar technician. Hux dealt with the radar technician. But he wasn't finished. He met with Admiral Brooks, a friend of his father and enemy of his. After asking Phasma to confiscate Brook's weapon, Hux took Phasma's blaster and asked Phasma to leave the two of them.

Once Phasma had left, Hux ordered Brooks to take a seat. Brooks told Hux that he had never sabotaged the shuttle. Hux replied by saying that he knew and that he'd already dealt with the saboteur. However, Hux told Brooks that Brooks was the radar technician's superior, and ultimately the responsibility lay with Brooks. Brooks told Hux that he had known Hux since he was a child. There had been an incident with the two when Hux was a child. Hux told Brooks that he remembered the incident. Brooks told Hux he was as spineless as he was when he was a child and that Brendol thought little about him. Hux replied that was one of the reasons why he had his father killed as he shot Brooks dead.

#### Commander of Starkiller Base

"*Supreme Leader, I take full responsibility…*" "*General! Our strategy must now change.*" "*The weapon. It is ready. I believe the time has come to use it.*"
―Armitage Hux and Snoke, after losing the droid BB-8
Thirty years after the Battle of Endor, Hux was the general who commanded Starkiller Base, the primary base of operations of the First Order, as well as the *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyer *Finalizer* and answered to Supreme Leader Snoke. Deeming Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi, to be a threat to the First Order, Hux, along with Ren, were given the directive. Though the First Order possessed maps from the Empire that would lead them to the planet where Skywalker was hiding, they lacked a final piece. To that end, the *Finalizer* traveled to Jakku and dispatched a group of stormtroopers to attack the settlement of Tuanul, where Ren captured a Resistance pilot named Poe Dameron, who already acquired and hid the final piece of the map. After Ren interrogated Dameron, he informed Hux that the prisoner had entrusted the map to the BB-series astromech droid BB-8. Hux dispatched stormtroopers back to Jakku to search for it and posted a bounty on the droid.

Subsequently, Dameron was freed by a stormtrooper and the pair attempted to escape on a TIE/sf space superiority fighter, disabling the *Finalizer's* turbolasers. Hux ordered the ventral cannons to shoot down the fighter, causing it to crash-land on Jakku. Upon informing Ren of the incident, the dark knight deduced that the traitorous stormtrooper was FN-2187. Hux checked with Phasma, who noted that this was FN-2187's first offense.

Subsequently, Supreme Leader Snoke ordered BB-8 captured or destroyed if necessary. When Hux informed Ren, the latter questioned the competency of their stormtroopers, given that one of them committed high treason, and suggested that the First Order instead appropriate a clone army like the Galactic Republic and early Empire before them. Hux assured him that his stormtroopers were trained from birth to succeed and reminded Ren not to let his obsession with Skywalker interfere with their mission.

#### End of the New Republic

"*Today is the end of the Republic. The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder. At this very moment, in a system far from here, the New Republic lies to the galaxy while secretly supporting the treachery of the loathsome Resistance. This fierce machine which you have built, upon which we stand, will bring an end to the Senate; to their cherished fleet! All remaining systems will bow to the First Order, and will remember this as the last day of the Republic!*"
―Armitage Hux, announcing the fall of the New Republic
After BB-8 fled Jakku aboard the *Millennium Falcon*, Hux and Ren returned to Starkiller Base, where they spoke to a hologram of Supreme Leader Snoke. Snoke was not surprised that they let the droid slip through their fingers and stated that the Jedi would rise again if the map got to the Resistance. Hux humbly took full responsibility for his failure, but the Supreme Leader interrupted him, declaring that their strategy had to change. Hux suggested testing the superweapon and destroy the New Republic for supporting the Resistance, leaving their enemies vulnerable. After receiving authorization for the undertaking, Hux then assembled the First Order army at Starkiller Base and gave a grand speech, in what was effectively a Neo-Imperial manifesto, proclaiming that the destruction of the Republic would be the beginning of the First Order's rise to power in the galaxy. Hux sent his speech via hologram to the First Order's garrison at the *Colossus* station on Castilon. At his signal, the Starkiller weapon fired and destroyed the Hosnian system, which at the time hosted the Republic's capital and Senate, wiping away its leadership and fleet.

Subsequently, the First Order received a tip from an informant on Takodana that BB-8 was there, so Ren led an attack squadron. However, Ren instead captured BB-8's accomplice, the Jakku scavenger Rey, because she had seen the map, and ordered the division to retreat as the Resistance engaged them. Ren brought Rey back to Starkiller Base and attempted to extract the map from her mind, only to learn that the girl was strong in the Force and turned his own mind probe against him. Hux later walked in a conversation between Ren and Snoke, the latter asking what happened to BB-8. The general humiliated his colleague by telling the Supreme Leader that Ren decided the droid was no longer valuable to the First Order's mission, and that the girl was all they needed. He then informed Snoke that they tracked the Resistance scout ship performing recon on Starkiller Base back to the Ileenium system. Snoke ordered Hux to use the superweapon to destroy the Resistance before they could find Skywalker.

However, while its weapon was charging up, the Resistance led a starfighter assault against Starkiller Base, which resulted in the planet's oncoming collapse before it could fire on D'Qar. Hux was then ordered by Snoke to evacuate the base and to take the defeated Kylo Ren with him, something that Hux, having a very low opinion of Ren, was all too eager to accomplish knowing that Ren suffered a humiliating defeat.

As he was making his way out of the base, Hux's path took him into proximity with the quarters of the Jerjerrod couple, which had been hit by falling debris from a crashed TIE fighter. There, he briefly witnessed the ongoing fight between First Order forces and members of the Resistance's J-Squadron. Officer Jul Jerjerrod requested aid from him, which Hux affirmed, assigning several of his accompanying stormtrooper detachment to aid in the capture of the squadron.

### First Order/Resistance War

#### Return of Captain Phasma

"*I should have known that even an exploding planet could not kill you, nor impede your devotion to the First Order.*"
―Armitage Hux, to Phasma
A few days after the assault on Starkiller Base, Hux greeted Phasma personally on his ship, the *Finalizer*. He questioned Phasma's late return, to which she replied that she had been preoccupied with chasing down and dispatching the true culprit behind the one who had turned off the shields at Starkiller Base. She named Lieutenant Sol Rivas as the perpetrator. Hux complimented her and promptly left, leaving Phasma to stare off at the sight of the First Order fleet gathering in large numbers.

#### Battle of D'Qar

"*I have my orders from Supreme Leader Snoke himself. This is where we snuff out the Resistance once and for all.*"
―Armitage Hux
After the assault on Starkiller Base, Hux led a First Order fleet, including a *Mandator IV*-class Siege Dreadnought, to the evacuated main Resistance base on D'Qar. Placing more emphasis on spectacle than tactical sense, Hux ordered no fighter deployments in favor of annihilating the base and fleet from orbit with the dreadnought. He was, however, briefly distracted by an insulting transmission from Poe Dameron, who repeatedly referred to Hux by the mocking term "General Hugs" and implied that Organa wanted to send a message about Hux's mother. Hux responded that he would not negotiate with the Resistance, but Dameron responded as if he couldn't hear him. After a few more attempts which made Hux increasingly angry, he ultimately ordered the dreadnought to destroy the Resistance base, and afterwards, the main fleet.

When Dameron attacked the dreadnought head-on, Hux dismissed it as an insane maneuver only to watch in shock and disbelief as the Resistance ace proceeded to destroy the dreadnought's surface cannons one by one, prompting him to hail the dreadnought's commanding officer and angrily demand why he was not blasting "that puny ship." The dreadnought's captain, a veteran of the Old Empire with little patience for Hux, retorted that the ship was too small and too close and ordered the ship's fighters deployed in a manner which contradicted Hux's prior orders.

Though the base was ultimately destroyed, the victory wound up being largely pyrrhic because it had been completely evacuated and the Resistance deployed bombers which annihilated the dreadnought, allowing the Resistance fleet to escape. Hux was then contacted and subjected to painful humiliation by Snoke, who slammed the general into the floor of the bridge with the Force for his failure to destroy the Resistance. Hux, though smarting and with a bleeding lip, replied that he had a plan to track the Resistance through hyperspace, a plan which he relayed in full to the Supreme Leader aboard his flagship, the *Mega*-class Star Dreadnought *Supremacy*.

#### Commander of the *Supremacy*

"*Keep up the barrage. Let's at least remind them that we're still here.*"
―Armitage Hux
During the assault on the Resistance fleet, Hux was frustrated that the Resistance fleet, consisting of only three cruisers, was able to stay far enough ahead of them to render the First Order cannons ineffective against their shields, commiserating over this latest frustration with his adjutant, Captain Edrison Peavey.

Despite its ineffectiveness, Hux ordered the barrage to continue, specifically targeting the MC85 Star Cruiser *Raddus*. After the Resistance's medical frigate ran out of fuel, Hux ordered it destroyed the second it was in range, though the ship was successfully evacuated prior to its destruction.

When Finn and Rose Tico were captured while trying to disable the tracker on the *Supremacy*, they were led to an assembly area of stormtroopers in the hangar, led by General Hux. Hux then struck Finn on the cheek, showing his disdain for him. After insulting the people of the Otomok system, Tico's home system, she bit Hux on the hand, infuriating him. Shortly after, Hux left the pair to be executed by Captain Phasma, having figured out the Resistance's plan to escape via thirty U-55 orbital loadlifters, thanks to DJ divulging this information to the First Order. He also proceeded to have the fleet pick off any and all escape ships one by one. Focused on the annihilation of the transports, Hux brushed off the news that the *Raddus* was preparing a hyperspace jump as a failed ploy to distract them, unaware that Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo was intending to jump the *Raddus* to lightspeed directly at the *Supremacy*. Upon seeing she had turned about face, Hux realized her intentions and frantically ordered all firepower concentrated on the *Raddus*, but it was too late. The faster-than-lightspeed collision sliced the *Supremacy* in two, also annihilating twenty other nearby *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyers as well.

After Holdo's suicide attack, General Hux went to the throne room to report to and check on Snoke. Upon reaching it, however, he found the place in shambles, littered with the bodies of Snoke's Elite Praetorian Guard, who were killed by Kylo Ren and Rey, Snoke's dismembered corpse lying near the throne and Kylo Ren lying unconscious in the wreckage. Hux tried to take advantage of the situation to kill his rival, but Kylo woke up before he could act. After he expressed disbelief at seeing Snoke's dead body, Kylo told him that Rey killed Snoke and ordered him to move the men to Crait, to crush the Resistance once and for all. Hux protested, stating than Kylo had no rights to command him or his men but Kylo merely seized Hux in a crushing Force choke until he acknowledged him as the new Supreme Leader.

#### Battle of Crait

"*That's enough. That's* enough*! Do you think you got him?*"
―Armitage Hux, to Kylo Ren
Hux was in Kylo Ren's command shuttle during the Battle of Crait. Once Kylo Ren gave the order to advance, Hux also attempted to issue the command, resulting in a sidelong stare by Kylo. After Kylo Ren fired on Luke Skywalker's force projection with All Terrain MegaCaliber Six and First Order All Terrain Armored Transport walkers, Hux shouted at the pilots to stop firing, thinking that Skywalker had been completely destroyed by the barrage. Hux asked if Ren thought he got him, but was startled when the smoke cleared to reveal Skywalker completely unharmed. Ren ordered the command shuttle to land only for Hux to protest that Ren was getting distracted. In response, Kylo Ren hurled Hux against a wall with the Force, temporarily knocking him out. By the time Hux regained consciousness, the Resistance had already fled and reorganized itself into the Rebellion. He and Kylo Ren accompanied the First Order Snowtroopers as they searched through the now-abandoned base.

#### Hunting the Resistance

"*Open fire!!*"
―Hux ordering the destruction of Tah'Nuhna
A period of confusion and uncertainty ensued as word of Supreme Leader Snoke's death spread through the ranks of the First Order. A group of First Order officers discussed among themselves the ramifications of their ruler's demise, and wondered if General Hux had taken the reins of power as the First Order's new Supreme Leader.

Under the new Supreme Leader's reign, Hux traveled to the First Order supertanker, the *Titan*, to meet with Commander Pyre as Supreme Leader Ren wanted an update on the First Order's stock of refueling stations and hunt for the Resistance cells. While on the station, he and his stormtrooper attache asked Kazuda Xiono, who was disguised as a First Order technician, to lead him to the briefing room of the station. Xiono, a native of Hosnian Prime who was aware of Hux's role in the destruction of the planet, almost attacked Hux for revenge as the general spoke in a disdainful manner to his subordinate. Upon arriving to the briefing area, Hux delivered more orders to Pyre regarding the attainment of valuable supertanker assets, notably to quell the resistance cell on the *Colossus*. During the later meeting, Hux became frustrated with the interruption to the meeting caused by Xiono's theft of the *Titan's* radiation deflector.

Hux then led a fleet that destroyed the planet of Tah'Nuhna because of its assistance to the Resistance, despite pleading from its leaders about their long-standing neutrality in galactic affairs. At the order of Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, Hux also ordered the Kendoh Gang to get Resistance operative Finn when they alerted him that they'd spotted him, though Hux had initially refuted the validity of the gang's claims.

Hux was eventually contacted by Chadkol Gee regarding the Resistance presence on Mon Cala. Upon arriving to Mon Cala, Hux ordered the destruction of rebellious Quarren and Mon Calamari fighters. Following the skirmish, Hux deduced that Mon Cala had finally sided with the Resistance.

In the aftermath of the devastation of Aeos Prime, Hux was informed via holoprojector by Commander Pyre and Agent Tierny that the suppression of the Aeos system was complete and that there was no longer any Resistance presence in the sector. Hux then walked away so Supreme Leader Ren could talk with Pyre and Tierny about the matter of the only Resistance presence left in the sector, the *Colossus*.

During the Battle of Batuu, stormtrooper CF-8011 noted that Hux seemed more impatient than usual. During the battle, Hux, alongside Supreme Leader Ren, was in command of the *Finalizer* when it captured a Resistance Intersystem Transport Ship. However, Commander Dameron managed to escape before returning with a sizeable fleet that caught the First Order off-guard.

#### At war's end

"*Why are you helping us?*" "*I don't care if you win. I need Kylo Ren to lose!*"
―Finn and Armitage Hux
In the year after the Battle of Crait, a mysterious message swept out across the galaxy in the voice of Darth Sidious, previously presumed dead at Endor decades prior. To Hux's dismay, Ren diverted his attention away from the Resistance to focus on the potential threat to his rule the phantom Emperor posed, which Hux didn't take seriously, dismissing Ren's actions as chasing a ghost. To track down Sidious, Ren required a Sith wayfinder, which he eventually located, despite Hux's smug disapproval, on the volcanic planet of Mustafar, once ruled by Ren's grandfather Darth Vader from his personal stronghold, Fortress Vader.

Hux accompanied Ren along with Allegiant General Enric Pryde, who had become a rival of his since the Crait fiasco, to Mustafar, which Hux described as a "desolate hellscape." Once there, Ren and a squad of stormtroopers fought against the Alazmec of Winsit, a tenacious sect of Sith cultists devoted to protecting Corvax Fen and who venerated Vader as a deity of the dark side. Hux and Pryde watched the fight from a safe distance. While watching, Pryde asked Hux if he didn't like seeing Ren fighting, Hux expressed his opinion that Ren had gone mad due prioritizing the Emperor's supposed return over the burning flames of rebellion across the galaxy, leading Pryde to remind Hux that there was someone behind the broadcast and that Leader Ren would answer to no one due to the sacrifices he made to gain his power.

Ren eventually made his way to Fortress Vader and recovered Vader's wayfinder, which led him to the ancient Sith world of Exegol. Once there, Ren discovered that Darth Sidious' spirit had in some manner endured, and through the power and influence of his station as Emperor and as a Sith Lord, he had assembled a shadow empire on the fringes of the galaxy. With the aid of the Sith Eternal from Exegol, Sidious had forged the Final Order—one of the largest fleets in history. Following an initial meeting with a hostile Ren, Sidious persuaded him to augment his forces with the Final Order and usher in ultimate galactic dominance as the new Emperor. In parallel to these events, Hux's triumphant First Order military had been tasked by Ren with destroying the remaining Resistance forces, which had continued fighting after Crait but had largely been forced underground by the repressive and expanding regime. In the course of these operations, a number of TIE fighters became involved in a pursuit of the *Millennium Falcon* as it collected intelligence from Boolio on a spy embedded deep within the First Order that could lead the Resistance to the resurgent Sidious.

Shortly after the TIEs had chased the *Falcon* from the Sinta Glacier Colony, the Supreme Leader and his Knights of Ren arrived, interrogated and ultimately killed Boolio before delivering his decapitated head to a conference of the Supreme Council, including Pryde and Hux. Ren informed his subordinates that there was a traitor in their midst. Sensing apprehension among them, the Supreme Leader inquired if his freshly reassembled helmet made Hux uncomfortable; the general quietly replied that it did not and congratulated him for fixing it. A comment from General Bellava Parnadee that she liked the mask brought a short pause to the proceedings.

General Domaric Quinn spoke up, positing that Lord Sidious and his followers seemed more like a cult than anything else. Pryde dismissed this concern, but Quinn continued, wondering aloud if the Sith fleet promised by the Dark Lord was a gift and what he might demand in return. Enraged, Ren used the Force to choke General Quinn and throw his body to the ceiling. As Quinn died, Ren announced to the remaining assembly that his mission was hunting Rey with the Knights of Ren while they focus on crushing any worlds that defy them.

Following a brief skirmish between First Order troops and Rey's Resistance party on Pasaana, Hux presented to Pryde a "valuable prisoner" taken during the fighting: Chewbacca, who is believed dead by his allies. The elder commander, unfazed by the roaring of the Wookiee, ordered immediate interrogation. Shortly after, Ren would return to the *Steadfast*, having failed to accomplish the task set by Darth Sidious.

The *Steadfast* eventually arrived at Kijimi shortly after the arrival of Rey's party, with Ren swiftly disembarking to aid his knights in hunting the scavenger and her allies. Through an old accomplice of Dameron, the fugitives were able to sneak aboard the vessel in order to liberate Chewbacca from First Order custody, Rey having discovered his survival through the Force. Although they managed to kill a number of stormtroopers, all members of the strike team save for Rey were eventually swarmed by overwhelming numbers and captured. Hux soon arrived to confront the prisoners and ordered their immediate execution. He chose to accompany the squad of troopers selected for the duty as they escorted Finn, Dameron and Chewbacca to a sequestered section of the ship.

Moments before the sentence was to be carried out, Hux spoke up and claimed that he would like to join the firing squad. Accepting the blaster of one of the troopers present, the general swiftly spun around and killed the troopers before outing himself as the spy that Ren and Pryde had been hunting within their ranks. Offering his assistance to the bewildered Resistance agents, he quickly escorted them to the incarcerated *Falcon*, lingering behind them as they blasted their way through his own troops.

Stopping Finn before he could board the *Falcon*, Hux demanded that the former stormtrooper shoot him in the arm in order to verify his cover story that he had been forced to aid in their escape. Out of spite, Finn shot the general in the thigh. He then inquired as to why Hux would betray the First Order he had helped build; disdainfully, the general said that he didn't care if the Resistance won so much as that Ren needed to lose. The Resistance agents then completed their escape, rejoining Rey as she ended her latest duel with Ren, who had returned to the *Steadfast* after discovering she was aboard.

#### Death

"*It was a coordinated incursion, Allegiant General. They overpowered the guards and forced me to take them to their ship.*" "*I see. Get me the Supreme Leader. Tell him we found our spy.*"
―Armitage Hux and Enric Pryde, before Hux's death
Hux had his injured leg treated with bacta gel, causing the wound to itch, and bandaged before reporting to Pryde on the bridge of the *Steadfast*. He provided Pryde with a false account of how the Resistance escaped in order to conceal his actions of treason and murder. He then planned on framing Ren as the spy who supplied the Resistance with information concerning the fleet on Exegol, believing that this was his opportunity to wrest power from his rival.

Hux's attempt at deception did not succeed on Pryde. Instead, Hux inadvertently revealed his treachery to the Allegiant General, who turned around and requested to communicate with Supreme Leader Kylo Ren before snatching a blaster from a nearby stormtrooper, turning back and blasting Hux dead for betraying the First Order just so he could have vengeance against the Supreme Leader, sending Hux's body sliding down through the aisle behind him. The general's last thought was about Rey, whom he held responsible for the failure of his plans. Although Hux hated the scavenger, her defiance allowed him to die with a sense of hope that Ren would still lose the war.

### Legacy

"*They've conjured legions of Star Destroyers. The Sith fleet will increase our resources ten-thousandfold! Such range in power will correct the error of Starkiller Base.*"
―Enric Pryde
The last days in the life of General Armitage Hux were spent under the authority of Supreme Leader Kylo Ren and Allegiant General Enric Pryde, both of whom outranked the ambitious officer who sought to rule the galaxy through the First Order. Pryde held Hux personally responsible for the loss of Starkiller Base; as such, he welcomed the First Order's alliance with the Sith Eternal, convinced that they needed their allies' warships to replace the resources that were lost in the wake of Starkiller's destruction.

General Hux's jealousy and insecurities caused him to take desperate actions with far-reaching consequences, resulting not only in his demise but also the downfall of the First Order. In the aftermath of Hux's death and Ren's subsequent renunciation of the dark side, Pryde traveled to Exegol to oversee the deployment of the Sith fleet, having sworn fealty to the resurrected Emperor. However, the fleet was destroyed by the Resistance and their allies during the Battle of Exegol. The First Order consequently lost its dominance over the galaxy as multiple worlds, including Bespin, Jakku, and Endor, rebelled against military rule.

## Personality and traits

"*You. My father. Snoke. Ren. You all underestimate me. You see me as something you can control. Something weak. I am not weak. I am patient. You all have the power to destroy people. But I will outlive you all. I will hold more power than any of you. Destroying people is nothing. I will have the power to destroy worlds.*"
―Armitage Hux, to Brooks
General Armitage Hux was a human male who stood at 1.85 meters and weighed 75 kilograms. He had red hair, green eyes and pale skin due to lack of exposure to sunlight. His favorite beverage was bitter tarine tea. He was a ruthless officer in the First Order as well as an adherent to the ideals of the Galactic Empire. Like other members of his generation, who served as the vanguard of First Order leadership, Hux was strikingly young, but what he lacked in experience and wisdom, he made up for in his zeal. Due to his youth, Hux's experiences in warfare were entirely theoretical. Though acknowledged for the thoroughness and complexity of his simulations, Hux earned little respect for his abilities as a warrior.

As the son of a highly placed official in the old Imperial Academy, Hux was raised to celebrate his Imperial heritage. He grew up idolizing historical Imperials who became legends in the First Order. Hux was convinced that the Empire delivered the galaxy from the violence of the Clone Wars, and that the galaxy once again needed to be saved from itself. This responsibility fell to the First Order, as the New Republic, in Hux's view, was too weak to prevent the inevitable chaos. Hux felt nothing except contempt for the New Republic, a regime that he regarded as corrupt and illegitimate, and treacherous for secretly supporting the Resistance, another organization that the general loathed.

In addition to his views on the New Republic, Hux did not view the First Order as a continuation of the Old Empire, but rather its successor. Despite his admiration for the Empire's accomplishments and his desire to relive the glories of its past, Hux believed the Empire fell due to internal flaws, whereas he saw the First Order as a more refined and pure version of what the Empire sought to become, but never achieved. This viewpoint led Hux to look down on the older generation of Imperial veterans who founded the First Order. In Hux's mind, officers such as Captain Edrison Peavey belonged to a different time, and had outlived their glory days.

Due to his imperious nature, Hux sought far greater authority than that of his official rank as general. Though his ultimate ambition was to become Supreme Leader, Hux was content to wield authority over both the armies and fleets of the First Order as Grand Marshal while Snoke reigned. Undaunted by Snoke's refusal to grant this title, the young general continued to court the Supreme Leader's favor in order to promote his military career, resulting in his elevation as commander of Starkiller Base. With his ruler's support, Hux proudly took the reigns of the Starkiller project, determined to become the face of the First Order regime. Hux took great care to conceal his ambitions as best he could, having to occasionally stop himself from referring to himself as "Supreme Leader Hux," as he was well aware of the First Order's extensive surveillance system. In addition to the Supreme Leader's title, Hux coveted Snoke's flagship, the *Supremacy*, and would often transfer his command ship from the *Finalizer* to the gargantuan *Mega*-class Star Dreadnought. Hux respected Snoke for building the First Order out of a group of Imperial refugees exiled to the Unknown Regions, but in private he did not consider anyone other than himself as being capable of directing the galaxy's industries and nurturing their innovations, while commanding the citizens' respect.

Hux was obsessed with his appearance; believing it was a vital part for maintaining discipline, he would always wear a parade uniform designed to broadcast his authority as general. Even his posture was affected by this belief, as Hux would often pose in a formal parade stance. In addition to his uniform and bearing, Hux's hair was coiffed to his exacting standards. Hux carried an officers version of the SE-44C with dark plaster as opposed to the regular white sidearm.

Hux had little understanding or patience for the mystical ways of the Force. While he did not doubt the Force's existence, having witnessed its power in action and even experienced it in the form of a punishment, Hux nonetheless regarded it as the center of an obsolete religion belonging to a bygone era. The future, Hux believed, would be ruled through industry and innovation, and as such he regarded himself as a man of science and technology. Notwithstanding his lack of faith in the Force, Hux believed in himself and considered it his destiny to sit on the throne that would rule the galaxy. When accompanying Kylo Ren to Mustafar, Hux became desperate to leave the volcanic planet and even considered to join the Supreme Leader's fight with the Alazmec of Winsit to hurry things up, but knowing that his fighting skills weren't as good to those of Ren and considering himself to be too valuable to risk, Hux preferred allowing Ren to do all the dirty work.

A rival of Kylo Ren, Hux loathed the Supreme Leader's apprentice, whom he disdainfully referred to as "Snoke's loathsome creature." As they vied for the approval of the Supreme Leader, a tense competition was formed between Hux and Ren; Hux viewed Ren as petulant and self-absorbed, while Ren viewed Hux as useless without access to the mystical side of the First Order that Hux cared little for. Despite their mutual contempt for each other, a part of Hux respected Ren and his Force abilities, although Ren had little if anything to say about Hux's fighting skills. Ren also regarded Hux as a coward, a view reinforced when Hux, on one occasion, turned and fled from a hostile animal, leaving his rival to defend himself while he hid under the cover of tall grass. In loathing Ren, Hux took pleasure in his adversary's failures and Snoke's anger with his apprentice. The fact that Ren required rescuing from Starkiller Base after losing to a lightsaber novice particularly delighted the young general. His hatred for Ren extended to his followers, the Knights of Ren, despising them for their unkempt appearance as well as their tendency to tread dirt into the polished halls of First Order capital ships. By the end of the war, Hux considered Ren to be a mindless dog and blunt instrument in combat. Another one of Ren's traits Hux greatly disliked was the Supreme Leader's disordered hair, to the point Hux was glad that Ren repaired his mask so he would be able to no longer see what he deemed an indignant detail a good leader shouldn't have. Hux swore himself that the first thing he would do if once he could take the role of Supreme Leader would be ordering Ren to cut off his hair.

Hux was raised in the military branch of the First Order. As a general, he inherited the stormtrooper training regimen pioneered by his father, Brendol, whose views on military training influenced the new generation of soldiers that came to serve the First Order. Hux had complete confidence in his father's idea that stormtroopers trained through vivid simulations made the most loyal troopers. Openly proud to be the inheritor of his father's legacy, Hux refused to stand by while Ren criticized the stormtroopers that had been trained under two generations of the Hux family. Having invested a lifetime in their training, Hux considered his stormtroopers as examples of the perfect warrior—a soldier trained from birth and programmed for absolute loyalty. Though baffled by the treasonous actions of FN-2187, Hux believed that the renegade trooper was an abnormality whose isolated case had no bearing on the reliability of the other stormtroopers that obeyed their orders without question.

Ultimately, Hux was a man of no scruples who craved power above all. He was utterly remorseless, possessing a predisposition to the act of killing that existed within him since early childhood. As he rose to power, Hux dispatched many enemies and would-be foes, including his own father, the elder General Brendol Hux. As the commanding officer of Starkiller Base, the younger Hux was responsible for the deaths of billions. He took pride in the weapon that the First Order had built into a planet, marveling at its destructive power and was certain that the new galactic war would be won with the firing of a single shot. Throughout his career, Hux utilized assassination and sabotage as methods for eliminating his enemies, both within the First Order and without, although he rarely carried out such tactics on his own, preferring to have his allies or subordinates do the work for him. However, Hux made an exception for Admiral Brooks. Having never forgotten the way Brooks treated him as a child, Hux shot the elder officer in the shoulder and proceeded to torture him, ignoring the Brooks' pleas for mercy before finally executing the injured, unarmed man.

Beneath the surface of Hux's pride and ambition existed a burning shame that started with the abuse he endured under his father's care. Though he also enjoyed a life of privilege due to Brendol's elevated position in the early First Order, young Armitage was the object of Brendol's scorn and therefore lived in fear of his father. Brendol considered his son pathetic, weak, sniveling and utterly useless. Hux likewise loathed his father and regarded Brendol as an "old bastard" whose death gave him a sense of relief. Nevertheless, Hux was proud of his ties to the Empire, being the son of an Imperial Academy commandant. However, he was forced to live with the shame of being his father's bastard son by a kitchen woman, rather than a legitimate heir by Brendol's lawful wife, Maratelle. For all of his imperiousness and sense of manifest destiny, Hux never forgot his origins—he was the unloved, illegitimate son of a man who hated him—and he never forgave his abusers. As an adult, Hux possessed a delicate ego that was easily wounded by mockery, such as Poe Dameron's deliberate mispronunciation of his name as "General Hugs."

Vaunting the technological might of Starkiller Base was the last time when Hux felt certain about anything. He watched helplessly as his fortunes changed for the worse, with Ren ascending to the rank of Supreme Leader in the wake of Snoke's unforeseen demise, and his other rival Allegiant General Enric Pryde gaining greater favor in the new regime at Hux's expense. His deviousness and years of jockeying for power worked against the general, as the new Supreme Leader considered Hux untrustworthy and entrusted him with nothing of importance. After Ren seized power, Hux lost much of the zeal he possessed under Snoke's reign, despite managing to survive under his rival's rule. By then, Hux no longer aspired to the title of Grand Marshal, as that role had been essentially taken by the Allegiant General.

He continued to observe military protocol, but no longer did so in spirit—and although he was given a seat on the Supreme Council, Hux maintained an uncharacteristically silent presence, being careful not to provoke Ren's temper as he had done in the past. Without Snoke's protection, Hux began addressing Ren with the deference due to the latter's power and rank. In private, however, he strongly disapproved of Ren's leadership of the First Order as well as his handling of the war, and was convinced that Ren had gone mad for diverting his attention from the Resistance to investigate Darth Sidious' return.

Even as he watched his career trajectory veer wildly off course, Hux did not completely abandon his scheming nature. In the end, the general who led the vanguard of the First Order's invasion of the galaxy committed treason by spying for the Resistance. However, he was not motivated by regret for his actions or a newfound belief in the Resistance's cause. Hux was remorseless to the end; all he had left was his rivalry with Ren, whose reign he sought to undermine until it ended in defeat.

## Skills and abilities

"*Dado que você encontrou sua mãe em uma cozinha, você pensaria que seu filho ilegítimo poderia pelo menos servir uma bebida, Comandante Hux."* "*Infelizmente, ainda não encontrei nada em que Armitage não seja totalmente inútil, Almirante Brooks*."
―Brooks e Brendol Hux
Quando criança, Armitage Hux era considerado fraco e inútil por seu pai, Brendol Hux, que achava seu filho não confiável em praticamente tudo.  Ao contrário do pai de Hux, no entanto, Gallius Rax viu a utilidade de Hux para seus planos para o futuro, em particular a próxima geração de soldados, a liderança da qual ele confiou a Hux.  O Líder Supremo Snoke também viu Hux como alguém que foi útil aos seus planos.  Portanto, ele apoiou a carreira do general, apesar da oposição de Kylo Ren a um "cur raivoso" ocupando uma posição de significância na Primeira Ordem.

Hux foi preciso e metódico em sua ascensão ao poder, bem como sua abordagem para a guerra.  possuía uma combinação de paciência e vergonha interior, que motivaram seu desejo de ganhar maior poder às custas de seus rivais, incluindo seu próprio pai, a quem havia assassinado.  Possuindo uma apreciação por tecnologia superior, Hux pioneeered a invenção de tecnologias de ponta, como a supermaiagem Starkiller e rastreamento hiperespaço ativo.  Ele também estava familiarizado com os sistemas operacionais de um Destruidor estelar de classe *resurgente* e base starkiller.

## Equipamento

O General Hux usava um uniforme de general cinza de carvão, luvas pretas, uma fivela de um oficial polido, calças tradicionais de quadril queimado e botas isoladas. Ele também usava um boné de comando estampado com a insígnia da Primeira Ordem e um casaco de oficial gaberwool. Hux acreditava que uma aparência arrumada era essencial para manter a disciplina. Ao se dirigir a seus homens, ele usava um uniforme de desfile projetado para transmitir sua autoridade como general de Primeira Ordem.

Após a Batalha de Starkiller Base, Hux carregava uma pistola de blaster SE-44C e uma adaga monomolecular escondida em sua manga.

## Nos bastidores

### Desenvolvimento

"*Acho que o General Hux gostaria de um pouco mais de ordem no universo. O que for preciso é onde ele está.*"
―Domhnall Gleeson, em General Hux
O personagem do General Hux foi criado para o filme *Star Wars*: Episódio VII *O Despertar da Força*, em 2015, no qual ele é interpretado por Domhnall Gleeson.  escalado para o filme em abril de 2014, apenas um dia antes de aparecer em uma foto publicitária do elenco fazendo uma leitura de mesa do roteiro. Mais tarde, ele alugou uma sala de projeção em sua cidade natal, Dublin, Irlanda, e assistiu todos os três capítulos da trilogia original de *Star Wars* para se preparar para filmar o novo filme — ele descreveu chegar no set de um filme de *Star Wars* em seu primeiro dia de filmagem como um momento de tirar o fôlego, "belisque-me".  do personagem de Gleeson, incluindo o nome General Hux, foram revelados pela primeira vez ao público na San Diego Comic-Con em julho de 2015.

Enquanto desenvolíamos o personagem de Hux, Gleeson e a equipe de produção do filme afirmaram que ele era um personagem obsessivo que não dorme muito. Eles criaram seu olhar com isso em mente: pálido com olhos escuros, e morto em seus objetivos.  diretor *de O Despertar da Força*, J.J. Abrams, chamou Hux de um personagem impiedoso Gleeson o descreveu como alguém que gosta de ter autoridade e segurá-lo a todo custo.  afirmou que Hux "gostaria de um pouco mais de ordem no universo" e faria o que fosse preciso para alcançar essa ordem. No início do lançamento do filme, ele brincou que Hux era obviamente um personagem maligno devido ao seu sotaque britânico, uma característica compartilhada por inúmeros vilões *de Star Wars*.  animado para interpretar tal personagem, pois era diferente de qualquer papel de ator que ele já havia feito e permitiu que ele explorasse a noção de autoridade.  então confirmou que Gleeson retornaria em *Star Wars*: Episódio VIII *Os Últimos Jedi*.

Durante as filmagens de *O Despertar da Força*, várias versões diferentes foram filmadas de uma cena onde Hux aborda as tropas da Primeira Ordem, como J.J. Abrams esperava experimentá-lo em vários níveis de intensidade. Ele finalmente "queria grande", e ele e o roteirista Lawrence Kasdan acreditavam que era o grande momento de Hux no filme. Embora a quantidade de extras de stormtrooper presentes para a cena deixou Gleeson nervoso, ele também sentiu que lhe deu uma noção do número de pessoas que seu discurso tinha a intenção de afetar.  O discurso foi comparado com Adolf Hitler falando em um Comício de Nuremberg. [ No entanto, alguns críticos descreveram-no como sendo um momento exagerado e aleatório no filme. *Star Wars Insider* 192 parodiava o discurso de Hux mostrando-o irritando os stormtroopers.

### Continuidade

"*Eu tinha imaginado Zare avistar um bebê ruivo em um carrinho de bebê empurrado por um dróide babá sinistro, mas isso acabou se sentindo como uma referência para um bem de referência, que eu cheguei a acreditar que mina a narrativa em vez de apoiá-lo.*"
―Jason Fry, ao escrever *Servos do Império: A Academia Secreta*
Antes do lançamento de *O Despertar da Força*, um personagem chamado Brendol Hux foi introduzido em *Servos do Império: A Academia Secreta*, um livro de jovens leitores de Jason Fry que serve como um tie-in para o programa de televisão *Star Wars Rebels*. No livro, Brendol Hux revela sua ambição de criar um exército de soldados leais ao Império Galáctico desde o nascimento. [ Uma entrada StarWars.com Databank mais tarde revelou que Brendol Hux é o pai do General Hux e *Star Wars: O Despertar da Força: O Dicionário Visual* passou a confirmar que o exército de stormtroopers de Hux no filme - treinado desde a infância para ser leal à Primeira Ordem - é uma extensão do grupo de seu pai, os Cadetes do Comandante.

Fry originalmente concebeu os cadetes para avançar um enredo em sua história, mas ele estava lutando para encontrar-lhes um objetivo ou um propósito que eventualmente se concretizaria. A ideia de conectá-los com o General Hux veio em novembro de 2014, quando ele se encontrou com a Lucasfilm Ltd. sobre outro projeto, *Star Wars: O Despertar da Força: Incríveis Seções Cruzadas*, e foi privilegiado para arte conceitual, alambiês e uma sinopse do próximo filme. Ele então propôs a Pablo Hidalgo do Lucasfilm Story Group que a ideia de treinar crianças para serem stormtroopers começou com o pai de Hux na era dos *Rebeldes de Star Wars*, e quando Hidalgo correu para a cadeia de comando, a resposta voltou no positivo. Fry considerou inserir um "bebê ruivo" Hux em seu livro, sendo cuidado por um dróide babá sinistro, mas ele finalmente sentiu que era uma referência para o bem de uma referência e cortá-lo do rascunho final.