Armitage Hux

> Men like Hux are useful. Men consumed with ambition, fueled by spite. Men who can set aside their pride. Who have burning shame inside them. Pups who are abused often grow to be vicious creatures. But they never forget where they came from. And they never forgive.
>
> Snoke, on Armitage Hux, Age of Resistance - General Hux 1

Armitage Hux was a human male who served as a general in the military forces of the First Order during the New Republic Era. With the support of Supreme Leader Snoke, Hux took command of Starkiller Base and promoted the development of new technology that allowed the First Order fleet to track targets through hyperspace. However, Snoke's death ruined the young general's career trajectory, as did the years that Hux spent jockeying for power against his rival Kylo Ren, who seized control of the First Order as the new Supreme Leader.

Born on the planet Arkanis around the time of the Battle of Yavin, Hux was the illegitimate son of Commandant Brendol Hux, who fathered Armitage by a kitchen woman. In the aftermath of the Galactic Civil War, Hux was sent into the Unknown Regions where the First Order rose seeking to reclaim the glory of the Galactic Empire. A ruthless officer by the time of the Cold War, Hux engineered the death of his father, oversaw the training and indoctrination of a new generation of stormtroopers, and ordered the firing of the Starkiller superweapon to destroy the New Republic capital of Hosnian Prime. During the First Order/Resistance War, Hux served as commanding officer of the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy until its destruction shortly before the Battle of Crait.

After years of tension between himself and Kylo Ren, an armistice was reached, and the two became amenable, even cordial- but much of their tension was a mixture of Hux needing a break, taking on too much of the load himself, and the attraction both had for each other. Frustrated with it, and the blockade it was putting on the advancement of the First Order, Kylo ordered a vacation for Hux, and went with him in order to make sure the General didn't work. The vacation ended up in a confession of attraction and feelings between the two men, and they returned much improved afterwards.

With trust established, Kylo finally granted Hux the promotion to Grand Marshal that he had so coveted, and the two became co-leaders of the First Order. Shortly after, they were married by Phasma. United and no longer fighting each other, Kylo and Hux are now focused on expanding the First Order's fleet, and a more thorough takeover of the galaxy.

## Biography

### Early life

> He has a child—a bastard boy, as I understand. Not born of his wife, Maratelle, but of some…kitchen woman.
>
> Gallius Rax, on Armitage Hux's illegitimacy, Aftermath: Life Debt

Armitage Hux was born on the planet Arkanis around the time of the Battle of Yavin, approximately 0 ABY, during the reign of the Galactic Empire. Hux was fathered by Commandant Brendol Hux, though not with his father's wife Maratelle, but rather an Academy staff member- an Arkanan named Niamh Ruadhain, making Hux the commandant's bastard son. Hux never knew his mother, or of his heritage and mixed species. As a boy, he remained utterly friendless. As a youngling, Hux was the subject of gossip among the Imperial officers' ranks, as they whispered among themselves about the existence of Brendol's bastard and the mother who bore him.

Brendol made no secret of the low opinion he had about his son, whom he regarded as a frail, weak-willed boy, or a potentially rabid creature that might need putting down- though not entirely bereft of potential. Grand Admiral Rae Sloane suspected that Hux was regularly abused by his father, both psychologically and physically, suspicions which proved to be true. Hux would find comfort and strength in stories of how the Empire brought peace to a galaxy that had weathered the chaos of the Clone Wars, comforting him even as Hux weathered his own abuse under his father. Because of his Imperial heritage, Hux developed notions of grandeur and believed that he had a right to sit on the throne that ruled the galaxy. At an early age, Hux promised to himself that he would prove his father's preconceptions of him wrong. He took great inspiration from stories of Grand Admiral Thrawn, studying his methods and tactics, and implementing them into his own plans for the future fleets of the First Order that he hoped to build and command.

The young Hux became acquainted with his father's fellow officers, such as Enric Pryde, who was a friend of both Brendol and Maratelle, and Admiral Brooks, who openly ridiculed Hux's illegitimacy. Brooks once mocked Hux after he accidentally dropped their refreshments, suggesting that the illegitimate son of a kitchen woman should at least be capable of serving drinks. As Brendol expressed his contempt for his son, calling him pathetic and utterly useless, Hux promised to clean the mess, to which Brooks suggested that he lick the floor. Hux looked to his father for help before acquiescing to the admiral's request. Brendol, however, watched Armitage with disgust and began to physically accost his son.

### Fall of the Galactic Empire

> You will lead these children. They will serve you. And one day soon your father will pass down his teachings to you, and you will learn to do what he did. It will be your life's work to take children like these savages and hammer their malleable minds into whatever shape you so require. They will be tools built for the work at hand. This is my gift to you, boy. One day your father will die. One day soon, I fear. And you will take his place.
>
> Gallius Rax, to Armitage Hux, Aftermath: Empire's End

The Empire was in its death throes as a result of the Rebel victory at Endor. As the New Republic laid siege to Arkanis, the Hux family was forced to evacuate their homeworld in 5 ABY. Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax, a political protégé of the late Emperor Palpatine, became invested in the future of Brendol Hux because of the commandant's visionary ideas on stormtrooper training. At Rax's request, Sloane enlisted the services of the bounty hunter Mercurial Swift to rescue the Huxes, ensuring that neither Brendol nor his son became prisoners of the New Republic.

Unbeknownst to Sloane, Rax was fulfilling the Emperor's Contingency—a clandestine operation designed to destroy the Empire from within and ensure its rebirth in the Unknown Regions of galactic space. Following the Attack on Chandrila, Armitage and Brendol traveled to the planet Jakku, where the Imperial Military gathered to make a last stand. In the months prior to the Battle of Jakku, the Huxes remained close at Rax's side, who effectively led the Imperial show government as the self-styled Counselor to the Empire. Hux tried to keep his distance from his father, who continued mistreating him, while Brendol trained twenty-four local orphans. By the end of their training, these child soldiers became Counselor Rax's personal bodyguards.

When the New Republic Defense Force invaded Jakku, a transport ferried Hux, his father, Counselor Rax, the Emperor's adviser Yupe Tashu, and the child soldiers to the Jakku Observatory—a secret facility in the Plaintive Hand plateau, which was instrumental to the late Emperor's contingency plans. Rax intended to detonate Jakku's planetary core, wiping out both the New Republic and the Empire in a single stroke, before taking Hux and Brendol to the Unknown Regions where they could create a new Empire. As they traveled to the observatory, Hux found himself alone in the transport hold with the child soldiers. The older children intimidated him, as they had been trained by his father to become ruthless killers- but were surprised, in spite of their training, when their intimidation pushed the young half-Arkanan too far, and he retaliated. Until then, Rax was focused on what Brendol offered to the new Empire that he intended to build in the old regime's place. However, when Rax returned to the transport, and found the five year old had ripped out the throat of one of the child soldiers, he began considering Hux's role as well, seeing the potential that Brendol considered a detrimental flaw.

The child soldiers were ultimately gifted to Hux by Counselor Rax, realizing that Hux would carry on his father's work by training a new generation of soldiers bred for warfare. With that, Rax addressed his troops personally, informing them that they would follow Hux's orders to the death and without question. Putting his new authority to the test, Hux ordered one of the boys to strike his comrade- after having one of their own killed by the young boy, the order was followed without hesitation, cementing the young Hux's hold on them.

After reaching the observatory, the Huxes were bidden by the Counselor to board his luxury yacht—a replica of the Emperor's Imperialis. Rax, however, was killed by Sloane before he could complete his plan to explode Jakku. Seizing the opportunity to mold the next Empire according to her ideals, Sloane accompanied Hux and Brendol on their sojourn to uncharted space.

During the journey, Sloane befriended Hux, who came to see the Grand Admiral as his protector from Brendol. Hux likewise protected Sloane from the child soldiers, who remained loyal only to himself in accordance with Rax's last wishes. Sloane berated Brendol, warning the commandant to cease hurting his son. However, she also wanted Hux to benefit from his father's experience and as such Brendol was ordered to educate his illegitimate son as he would a proper heir. For several months, the Imperialis traveled through the Unknown Regions, and in that time, Hux and his soldiers grew even more vicious under Brendol's tutelage. Even Sloane was taken aback by Hux's cruelty, which she considered to be an unusual trait for such a small boy. Their travails eventually culminated in their discovery of the Emperor's Super Star Destroyer, the Eclipse.

### Rise of the First Order

#### A general in the making

> 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, Aftermath: Empire's End

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.

Hux kept an eye on the state of politics with the New Republic, noting how movements like the "Trade Equality Act" were affecting non-Core territories, especially those inhabited by non-humans and near-humans- particularlly his homeworld of Arkanis. Having been raised on recycled water, old rations and protein paste, seeing the opulance of the Core worlds, and how they drained from the Mid Rim, Outer Rim, and Wild Space worlds, his rage against the New Republic only grew- as did his motivations to wipe it out and start a centrist regime.

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, Phasma (novel)

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, Phasma (novel)

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, a sense of vindication after years of abuse, as well as a deep loathing of Brendol's lavish habits, he saw his father as an obstacle in his path to gaining greater power and a threat to the Order. To that end, he enlisted the help of Captain Phasma- with whom he grown close- 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 had to think about keeping his position, and being able to continue his rise through the ranks. To this end, 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.

Brendol died in a bacta tank, helpless from the effects of the venom, and was unable to react save for silent rage when he saw his son approach to witness the last moments before he quite literally liquefied in the bacta tank, leaving only a few bones, shrivelled organs, and red hair. The last thing Brendol Hux saw was the smirking face and cold eyes of his long abused son.

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 eliminate 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 and Agent Jido Pavan. In the end, his idealized view of the First Order was shattered by the actions of Hux and Phasma.

### Cold War

#### 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, Age of Resistance - General Hux 1

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 darted into the underbrush in search of his blaster, which had been lost during the crash. Kylo then used the Force to snap the norwood's neck. As he came closer to the felled beast, another pair of them emerged, enraged, and one knocked off Kylo's mask, rendering him unconscious.

Hux, who'd been watching the event unfold while he was searching for his weapon, saw a man with a blaster in his hand draw near to the beasts. The man saw Hux, 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, already plotting on how to manipulate him.

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, calling him "Ben," and saying that his mother was going to be happy that he was in one piece.

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

> “I am not weak. I am patient.”
>
> Armitage Hux, Age of Resistance - General Hux 1

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, Phasma knocked him out, and the two of them dragged him to an interrogation room.

When Brooks came to, he found himself strapped to an interrogation table, and Hux began questioning him about the sabotage. 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- and it was the wrong thing to say, as Hux only remembered the humiliation he'd suffered on the Eclipse.

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. He took great enjoyment at Brooks' shock as he disembowled him, and tilted the table so Brooks' entrails fell on the floor. He undid the straps and let Brooks fall to the floor in his own entrails. Echoing the past, he then ordered Brooks not to waste it, to lick it up. When Brooks began to sob in terror, Hux stomped his head in until he was 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, Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens

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. When sending troops down to Jakku to investiage the crash scene, Hux ordered them to do a full biological sweep, but added that skulls would be even better proof of the fugitives' demise.

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. Highly offended, Hux vehemently 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. The end of a government incapacitated by corruption, the end of an illegitimate regime that acquiesces to disorder. At this very moment in a system far from here, the New Republic lives and wheezes, staggering onward, depraved and ineffectual, and unable in any way to support the citizenry it claims to serve. Meanwhile, a host of systems are left to wither and die, without aid, without care, without hope. Drowning in its own decadence, the New Republic ignores them, unaware that these are its final moments.
> This fierce machine which you have built, to which you have dedicated your lives and labour, and upon which we now stand will bring a final end to the worthless Senate and its dithering members, to their cherished fleet. When this day is done, all remaining systems in their hundreds, will bow to the dictates of the First Order and all will remember this as the last day of the Republic!
>
> Armitage Hux, announcing the fall of the New Republic, Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens Novelisation

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, 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. He found the gravely wounded Ren through a tracking device in his belt, and with the aid of troopers, brought him onto the shuttle, and from there, Ren was put into a bacta tank in the Finalizer's med bay. According to a report from Doctor Leta Weyland, Hux never left the med bay the entire time Ren was unconscious.

### 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, Captain Phasma 4

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. If Hux suspected anything, he said nothing- his bond with Phasma was more important than what happened on Starkiller Base.

#### 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, Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi

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. He utilised a tactic of Grand Admiral Thrawn's to create a perfectly formed and timed arrival of the fleet, as well as the Fulminatrix by using the gravity wells of the Finalizer to yank the other ships perfectly into formation as an intimdation tactic.

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 Leia wanted to send a message about Hux's mother- though whether Poe was referring to Grand Admiral Sloane or Hux's unknown biological mother, was uncertain. Hux responded that he would not negotiate with the Resistance, but Poe 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 Poe 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.

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, Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi

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 but nevertheless 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. 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. Hux then noticed the Raddus shifting position, and ordered the fleet to open fire on it, realising it was planning on jumping to hyperspace. Focused on the annihilation of the transports, Captain Yago 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. Hux and Yago argued- mostly Hux being furious at being disobeyed. Upon seeing the Raddus had turned about face, Captain Yago 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 was torn between wanting to take Ren out once and for all- to finally take control of the First Order- and being concerned for the man had had such conflicting feelings about. He didn't have time to ponder it, as Kylo came to. 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, Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi

Hux was in Kylo Ren's command shuttle during the Battle of Crait, because Kylo didn't trust leaving Hux in orbit, concerned that the injured and spiteful General might have an orbital bombardment called on him. When Kylo began issuing orders, and showed increasing levels of anger at the delays, Hux began repeating his orders to spare his troops the brunt of Kylo's rage- the officers had no issues following Kylo's commands, but the troopers were not programmed to recognise Kylo as commanding officer.

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, perturbed by Kylo's increasingly unstable demands for more firepower. 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- all the while giving Kylo a look of complete and utter contempt, any previous feelings of neutrality, even possible camaraderie gone.

#### The New Supreme Leader

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. Kylo Ren quickly squashed any rumours of Hux's ascension, formally taking the mantle of Supreme Leader.

Due to his worry that the ambitious and spiteful Hux would try to eliminate him as he had done with so many enemies and rivals, Kylo kept Hux at his side as often as possible, much to Hux's chagrin. Additionally, being unprepared for the responsibility and massive amounts of bureaucracy that came with being Supreme Leader, he often put all that work on Hux- giving Hux all the work with no credit. With Hux's workaholic nature, and tendency to fail at basic self care like sleeping and eating, under the weight of the extra work, Hux's health- physical and mental- began to suffer. Hux's distrust and wariness of Kylo after the many assaults he'd suffered just before and during the Battle of Crait had him refusing to come to Kylo about the work load, so he simply took it all silently, working himself to the bone. This eventually resulted in his mental and physical fatigue coming to a head when he collapsed on the bridge during a siege over Mon Cala.

The incident made Kylo realise just how much work went into running the First Order, and just how much Hux was shouldering- and how little Kylo was doing. Kylo began taking his role as Supreme Leader more seriously, taking more of the work burden, and trying to control his temper with the General, as well as trying to apologise for the mistreatment he'd shown him.

After nearly two years of working together, and trying to make up for what he'd done, Hux and Kylo finally had gone from enemies to friends- albeit with some snapping here and there, as well as an underlying tension. This had the personnel of the Finalizer creating betting pools on when the two would eventually sleep together and break the tension. Captain Phasma was the one running the pools.

Frustrated with Hux's inability to take a break for his own well-being, Kylo finally ordered Hux to take a respite, and went with him in order to ensure that he didn't work while on this vacation. What resulted was the tension between them snapping, and both of them admitting their attraction to one another. They returned to work much more cordial to one another.

Shortly afterwards, Kylo had Hux promoted to the long coveted title of Grand Marshal. Later, they were married by Captain Phasma in a private ceremony, and the two of them became co-leaders of the First Order.

#### The Galactic Campaign

The goal of the First Order changed with the union of Hux and Kylo as co-leaders. With Snoke gone, the focus was no longer on eliminating a single person, or a single Jedi. Additionally, after the destruction of Starkiller Base, the Fulminatrix, and the Supremacy, Hux was easily able to convince Kylo that larger ships and superweapons were not how they were going to win the war.

In a compromise of using the Force and technological terror, Hux and Kylo began rebuilding the fleet lost at Crait. Instead of dreadnoughts and a large capital ship, more Resurgent-class Star Destroyers, frigates and TIES were built to not only replace the numbers lost, but to double them. The Supremacy was gutted, any and all materials worth using taken to rebuild and stock new ships.

One of Hux's pet projects was a series of Corvettes lovingly dubbed “The Daughters of Tarkin,” as each identical Corvette was modelled after the Carrion Spike, Grand Moff Tarkin’s personal ship, which at its time, had been one of the most dangerous and advanced ships in the Imperial fleet. When Agent Terex had taken hold of the Carrion Spike and made her his own, First Order techs and shipwrights had studied her when she was docked with the fleet, and made improved copies of her.

Each of the ships was named in a scheme that was a nod to Tarkin’s flagship, the Executrix. The Venatrix, Cultrix, Ultrix and the Imperatrix were the first of the “The Daughters of Tarkin.” They were assigned to top cipher agents who regularly worked in the field in the interest of subterfuge, recruitment and subversion for the First Order.

## 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, Age of Resistance - General Hux 1

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 freckled 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 mostly theoretical. Though acknowledged for the thoroughness and complexity of his simulations, Hux earned little respect for his abilities as a warrior- often a fatal mistake.

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, especially Grand Moff Tarkin and Grand Admiral Thrawn. 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, and Snoke's ability to read minds. 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. 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, his posture reinforced by a back brace to alleviate pain from the countless hours spent standing and patrolling the Finalizer. 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.

A rival of Kylo Ren, Hux hated the Supreme Leader's apprentice for many years, 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, with the latter representing 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. This opinion changed, however, when he finally deigned to spar with Hux, and later, when he saw Hux engage in deadly combat with an assassin- later identified to be sent by Pryde. Seeing how quickly and deftly Hux moved, as well as how precise he was with his knives, changed Kylo's mind from disdain to a careful respect.

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. After their marriage, however, this opinion changed- instead of cutting off his hair, he picked up the habit of washing, brushing and braiding it nightly, then combing it out again in the morning so it was presentable.

Several separate elements comprised the First Order, and General Hux was firmly part of the military branch. As such, he continued to use the stormtrooper training regimen pioneered by his father, based on ideas that the elder Hux developed as an Academy commandant. Hux had complete confidence in his father's idea that stormtroopers trained through vivid simulations made the most loyal soldiers. Openly proud to be the inheritor of his father's legacy, Hux refused to stand by while Ren criticized an entire generation of soldiers who 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- though some of those assassinations were done through trusted colleagues, such as Tritt Opan and Captain Phasma. However, Hux made an exception for Admiral Brooks. Having never forgotten the way Brooks treated him as a child, Hux personally tortured Brooks via disembowelment, ignoring his cries for mercy, taunting him with the same lines Brooks had used on him as a child before stomping his skull in.

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. He was protected by Sloane during his younger years, but Sloane was unable to protect him when she was forced to retire after Snoke took the reigns of the Order. After her forced retirement, the abuse resumed.

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 half human son by a native Arkanan 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 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.

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.

His scheming and planning never stopped, however- he kept up his own contingency plans, even when Ren seized power, and when the two of them finally cleared the air between them, and then eloped, Hux regained his zeal, and shared his plans for the First Order with his new husband. His bond with Kylo and his love for the Order made him more agreeable, and open to compromise with Kylo in their plans for galactic conquest.

As a surprise, Kylo took Hux to Arkanis to be reunited with his mother, and her pack. Hux finally was able to know what his mother thought of the man he'd become, the man he'd married, and was able to reconnect with the side of him he thought he'd lost forever. This reunion- and visit to his homeworld- did wonders for his physical and mental health, and when he reluctantly returned to the fleet, his spirits were the highest they'd ever been, and the crew couldn't help but notice how his health and personal care habits had vastly improved.

## Skills and abilities

> Given you found his mother in a kitchen, you'd think your illegitimate son could at least serve a drink, Commandant Hux.*"
> "*Unfortunately, I've yet to find anything Armitage isn't utterly useless at, Admiral Brooks.
>
> Brooks and Brendol Hux, Age of Resistance - General Hux 1

As a child, Armitage Hux was considered weak and useless by his father, Brendol Hux, who found his son to be unreliable at virtually everything. Unlike Hux's father, however, Gallius Rax saw Hux's usefulness to his plans for the future, in particular the next generation of soldiers, the leadership of which he entrusted to Hux. Supreme Leader Snoke also saw Hux as someone who was useful to his plans. Therefore, he supported the general's career despite Kylo Ren's opposition to a "rabid cur" occupying a position of significance in the First Order.

Hux was precise and methodical in his rise to power as well as his approach to warfare. He possessed a combination of patience and inner shame, both of which motivated his desire to gain greater power at the expense of his rivals, including his own father whom he had assassinated. Possessing an appreciation for superior technology, Hux pioneeered the invention of cutting-edge technologies such as the Starkiller superweapon and active hyperspace tracking. He was also familiar with the operating systems of a Resurgent-class Star Destroyer and Starkiller Base- both of which he helped design.

Hux was also deft and light on his feet- a result of hypervigilance from being abused as a child- and was skilled at sparring through evasion and quick, precise hits, usually with well placed blows or fatal stabs from his monomolecular blades. His nature as half Arkanan was mostly unknown to him, through a combination of subconsciously suppressing it, and a lack of education of Arkanans, and exposure to his mother's kind. However, some of his heritage would come to the surface. If pressed into a life or death situation, Hux's Arkanan instincts would take over, and he would almost "go feral," and go for the throat, as he did on Jakku when he was five years old. During such moments, it was obvious to witnesses that his movements were more fluid, yet precise, his speed increased, his reaction times were inhuman, and his senses seemed to enhance many times over.

## Equipment

General Hux wore a dark charcoal grey general's uniform, black gloves, a polished officer's buckle, traditional flared-hip breeches, and insulated boots. He also wore a crested command cap emblazoned with the insignia of the First Order and a gaberwool officer's greatcoat. Hux believed that a tidy appearance was essential to maintaining discipline. When addressing his men, he wore a parade uniform designed to broadcast his authority as a First Order General.

After the Battle of Starkiller Base, Hux carried a cross draw holstered SE-44C blaster pistol and multiple monomolecular daggers hidden in his sleeves, and in other strategic points on his person.

After his marriage to Supreme Kylo Ren, Hux began wearing a white version of his uniform, his dress whites having the addition of a cape similar to that of Director Krennic's.