Armitage Hux

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**Armitage Hux** was born on Arkanis in the time of the Galactic Empire, an child of the Commandant on the Arkanis academy, Brendol Hux. Hux and his father, whose ruthless methods of a training at an Arkanis Academy would inspire those of a future General Hux and the First Order, were rescued from the world before it was about to fall to the New Republic near the end of the war, and when the war ended with the defeat, Hux and his father were part of an Empire remnant which retreated into the Unknown Regions. Their remnant faction later emerged as the First Order, and what the Republic thought was a unimportant band of Imperial Remnants, was actually thanks to an ruthless General Hux's training method an formidable military. Hux did have complete confidence in his troops, training methods and weapons, and eagerly awaits the day when the First Order will destroy a new-Republic and Hux considers his destiny to rule.

## Biography

### Early Life

**Armitage Hux** was born during the empire's galactic rule over the galaxy and was a illegitimate so

lt of the illicit affair with an kitchen woman. While growing up he had always thought it was his destiny to rule. Young Armitage remained at Arkanis while New Republic forces laid siege to this planet. As he was putting together his remnant Shadow Council onboard a super Star Destroyer *Ravager*, Imperial Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax ordered Imperial Grand Admiral Sloane to ensure Brendol Hux *and* young Armitage Hux were both safely taken off world much to Sloane's perplexity. Rax explained this by saying *The Empire needs children*. After enlisting the service of an Bounty Hunter Mercurial, both Huxes were taken off the world as it fell.

#### Fall of the Galactic Empire

Following a attack on Chandrila, Armitage followed his father to a planet Jakku. Rax had proclaimed himself Counselor ruler of this Empire and brought the Imperial Remnants to Jakku for a final showdown against the New Republic. In the months leading up to the Battle of Jakku, young Hux kept away from his father, who had physically and psychologically mistreated him. Brendol trained two dozen local orphans into Rax's personal guard of Child Soldiers. After the battle of Jakku began, Armitage traveled with his father, Rax, the Adviser Yupe Tashu, and the child soldiers aboard a transport heading toward the Jakku observatory. This Observatory was an secret facility at the Plaintive Hand plateau which was instrumental to their deceased Emperor Palpatine's Contingency plan. Rax planned to detonate the planet Jakku along with the New Republic and the Empire's forces. Rax planned to take Armitage and his father Brendol into the Unknown Regions to build their new Empire. During the journey to the Observatory, Hux found himself alone in the transport hold with the child soldiers. Hux was intimidated by the older children who had been trained into ruthless killers by his father.

Rax then entered the room then asked Armitage if Brendol had explained anything to him. Armitage confirmed that this was not the case and indicated that Brendol didn't like him. Taking pity on Armitage, Rax told the boy that he, his father and the other children would be traveling far away. Rax also hinted that Armitage would have an special destiny to play for the future. Gallius Rax informed Armitage that he was giving him command of the Child Soldiers as an gift. Rax told Armitage that he would succeed his father in training the children into tools of warfare. Gallius then addressed the child soldiers and instructed them they were bound to serve this Hux and they should be willing to give their lives for him. He thanked Rax who told the boy that the future of this empire needed him. After Gallius Rax had exited the transport hold Armitage ordered one of the young soldiers with dark hair and freckled skin to strike his comrade with a sandy hair and sallow cheeks. After landing at the Jakku Observatory, Gallius Rax instructed the Huxes and the child-soldiers to board a replica of late Emperor's Yacht *Imperialis* while Rax and Tashu entered this observatory to initiate Jakku's destruction.

#### Exodus to Unknown Space

Ultimately Rax was killed by the Grand Admiral Rae Sloane who managed to stop Rax from destroying Jakku with help from rebels. Seeking an opportunity to rebuild their empire in her own image, Sloane accompanied both Huxes and the children-soldiers on their journey into the Unknown Regions. During the journey Sloane befriend Armitage and struck a agreement to protect this boy from his father if he kept her safe from these children. Sloane subsequently beat Brendol into submission and forced Hux to stop hurting the child and then teach Armitage all that he knew. For multiple months, *Imperialis* traveled through the Unknown Space, and during their voyage Armitage and Brendol trained the children. He became more vicious during this time something Sloane regarded as unusual even for such an small-boy. After months traveling through space, the *Imperialis* rendezvoused with the Emperor's super-Star Destroyer, the *Eclipse*. Growing up in exile, Hux was raised by his father on stories of great Imperials and how the empire saved the galaxy from the chaos of Clone Wars. Due to his upbringing, Hux believed New Republic was weak and would never live up to the Old Empire.

### First Order Service

Many other Imperial Officers also fled to the Unknown Regions along with the Huxes, where they would create the First Order, an military and political junta that rose from the ashes of the fallen Old Empire and followed its imperial ideology. Using technological terror, Armitage Hux achieved military superiority throughout this Order, eventually gaining the rank of General. As General, Hux had complete confidence in the troops, training methods and weapons. Their troopers that were often trained on the capital ships, underwent vivid simulations to create the most loyal soldiers for their order. This system was an extension of the ideas of his father's Commandant's Cadets, from the Arkanis academy. Sometime after Phasma was recruited and Brenedol returned from his shipwreck at Parnassos, Phasma and Hux met and conspired to assassinate Brendol. Both agreed that the time came for Brendol to die, and Hux left this actual murder to Phasma with the only instruction that she make it untraceable. With Brendol's gone, Hux gave a address to the stormtrooper corps to inform them of Brendol's death. Formalities aside Hux ascended to his father's military role and took many of his assets.

#### A Defective Stormtrooper

Three decades after the Battle of Endor, Hux was the General who commanded the weapon known as Starkiller Base, the primary base of operations of the First Order, as well as the *Resurgent*-Class Battlecruiser *Finalizer* and answered to Supreme Leader Snoke. Deeming Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi, to be a threat to the First Order, Hux, along with Kylo 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 the final piece. To that end, the *Finalizer* traveled to Jakku and dispatches a bridge 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 a BB-8 unit. 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* turboturbolaserslasers. 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 Captain 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 troopers were trained from birth to succeed and reminded Ren not to let his obsession with Skywalker interfere with the mission. After the droid fled Jakku aboard the *Millennium Falcon*, Hux and Ren returned to Starkiller Base, where they spoke to a hologram of Snoke. Snoke was not happy 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.

#### Destroying Hosnian Prime

Hux suggested testing the superweapon and destroy the 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 New Republic would be the beginning of the First Order's rise to power in the galaxy. At his signal, the base's 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 attacksquadron. 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 not longer valuable to the First Order's mission, and that the girl was all they needed.

#### Destruction of Starkiller Base

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 base's destruction before it could fire on D'Qar. Hux was then ordered by Snoke to evacuate the planet and to take the defeated Kylo Ren with him.

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.[12]

#### Leading the Siege of D'QarEdit

After the Assault on Starkiller Base, Hux led a First Order fleet, including a Dreadnought, to the evacuated main Resistance base on D'Qar. He also ended up getting 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. This ultimately got him incensed enough to have him bellow the order to open fire on Poe's ship. He then ordered the dreadnought to destroy the Resistance base, and afterwards, the main fleet. When Resistance bombers came to destroy the Dreadnought, Hux quickly dispatched all but one bomber, which promptly blew up the dreadnought and bought time for the Resistance to escape. However, Hux had a plan to track the Resistance ship through hyperspace, which he presented to Supreme Leader Snoke on his command ship, the *Supremacy*.[13]

#### Pursuit of the Resistance FleetEdit

During the assault on the Resistance fleet, Hux ordered the Star Destroyers to keep at a distance and continue firing at the Resistance flagship *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.[13]

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.[13] After insulting the people of the Otomok system, Tico's home system, she bit Hux on the hand.[14]Shortly after Hux left the pair to be executed by Captain Phasma. Having figured out the Resistance's plan to escape via 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 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 several *Resurgent*-class battlecruisers as well.[13]

After Holdo's suicide attack, General Hux went to the throne room, where during the battle Kylo Ren had killed Snoke. Discovering an unconscious Kylo Ren near the body of the Supreme Leader, Hux tried to take advantage of the situation to kill his rival but Ren 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 Ren had no rights to command him or his men but Kylo Force-choked Hux until he acknowledged him as the new Supreme Leader.[13]

#### Battle of CraitEdit

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 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 was present as Kylo Ren and the First Order Snowtroopers searched through the now-abandoned base.[13]