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Character Name: Syndic Mitth’raw’nuruodo (known as Thrawn)

Status: Publicly believed deceased.

Description: Typical of his species, the Chiss, Thrawn has an azure-hued complexion, with neatly kept navy hair and red irises that are said to glow faintly. Thrawn has the appearance of a human male in his mid-thirties, and is of above average height, standing at six foot-two inches. Thrawn possesses a toned, yet lithe, bodily frame with broad shoulders and a narrow waistline. Always clean-shaven, Thrawn maintains an immaculate appearance at all times. Although his age cannot be guessed, it is assumed that Thrawn is older than he appears; it is speculated that his species age in a manner different to those of standard humans.

Thrawn is typically found in a pristine white naval uniform, adhering to the standard doctrines of Imperial dress code; with a high collar, golden woven cuffs at the ends of each sleeve, a black nerf-leather belt, complete with sidearm and black polished knee-high boots.

Chiss Physiology Information: The Chiss have altered bodily functions, primarily their metabolisms, which provide the species with a variety of evolutionary developments over most sentient beings. Most commonly associated with the Chiss is their advanced physiology, which reduces physical aging, allowing for not only a longer lifespan but also a healthier existence; this increased constitution makes the Chiss impressively resilient toward sickness and disease, and even provides enhanced bodily healing.

Though humanoid in appearance, the Chiss have subtle differences in their biology; the utter most being the differing location of internal bodily organs, compared to those of a standard human. It is believed that the majority of organs within the Chiss are almost the opposite of those within a human.

Personal Effects: Thrawn has a Chiss-designed blaster pistol, which he keeps holstered at his right hip. The weapon fires a metallic slug, of sorts, that has a concentrated burst of energy that surrounds the projectile; this in effect gives the weapon a higher kinetic impact, due to the solid slug, while also administrating energy-based burns and injury standard to those of any common blaster in the known universe. The weapon holds six shots, at which point once those projectiles have been expended, manual reloading of another six slugs is required.

As in the past, Thrawn has been known to make use of Ysalamiri, and the same is still true to this day; these reptilian creatures serve as a natural shielding device, in effect neutralizing any and all effects of The Force within one meter of it’s location. From his prior dealings with Force wielding beings, Thrawn has taken to keeping up to a dozen of the creatures within his general vicinity where he feels they are most required.

History: A consummate strategist, Grand Admiral Thrawn likened combat to art, and was an aficionado of both. He could cite inspirations, analyze motives and determine outcomes before his opponents had even consciously began formulating a move.

Thrawn's greatest weapon was his mind. His people, the Chiss, who banished Mitth’raw’nuruodo for his dangerous ideas, long ago recognized this. The Chiss of Csilla are a disciplined species, advanced enough to build a sizable fleet and an empire over two-dozen worlds. Thrawn's tactics were controversial in their boldness, and his activities within the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet drew many a concerned, glowing red eye.

The rest of the galaxy made first contact with the Chiss when a taskforce dispatched by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine stumbled upon Thrawn's fleet. The taskforce were, in fact, an ambush force that was tasked with the orders of destroying another convoy still enroute to the system.

The young blue-skinned commander discovered the ambush vessels, which were composed of handpicked units of Palpatine’s private army, equipped with fifteen top-line combat ships. Yet, despite only commanding twelve small and insignificant border patrol ships, Thrawn was able to decimate the intruders despite inferior weapons and numbers, saving the leading command vessel for interrogational purposes.

The taskforce's commander, Kinman Doriana, asked Thrawn for a parley. The two conversed, and Doriana was able to appeal to Thrawn's cool sense of logic and order. He outlined his mission - to destroy the incoming Outbound Flight vessel - to Thrawn, spelling out the threat that this vessel filled with Jedi Masters posed to the Chiss people. Thrawn completed the mission that Doriana failed and destroyed the Outbound Flight project.

Returning to Csilla, Thrawn was reprimanded for his hostilities. Though he explained that his actions were part of a pre-emptive strike to protect Csilla and the Chiss, the ruling houses could not wrap their minds around such radical concepts. Thrawn was placed under close observation. In time, his activities caused him to be altogether banished from the Chiss.

The Chiss's loss became Palpatine's gain. Agents of the new Emperor discovered Thrawn on a barren jungle world and took him into their ranks. Despite a strong policy against non-human officers in the Imperial Navy, Thrawn ascended the Imperial ranks.

Before long, Thrawn attained command of an Imperial Star Destroyer, the Vengeance. When he transferred to the Admonitor, he was given the thankless task of mapping huge areas of the Unknown Regions. When in the depths of the galaxy's backwater, Thrawn re-established contact with the Chiss, who in the interim had been besieged by all manner of encroaching threats. Thrawn, who had once been banished for his bold leadership, was now being lauded for it. Many Chiss longed for his return, and Thrawn secretly established a base of operations on the distant world of Nirauan.

Returning to the Empire proper, Thrawn's star continued to rise unabated. He achieved the rank of Vice Admiral, and earned Vader's respect and access to his secret Noghri army. After helping dispose of the traitorous Grand Admiral Zaarin, Thrawn ascended to that rank himself.

After the Battle of Hoth, Thrawn returned to Outer Rim mapping duty. His ascent to Grand Admiral went without notice by Alliance Intelligence, thus his existence remained a secret. After the fall of Palpatine at Endor, Thrawn returned to Nirauan. He did not return to the Empire until four years after Palpatine's defeat.

Thrawn contacted Captain Gilad Pellaeon, and returned to the Imperial fleet. He then began a systematic campaign of retaking worlds in a bid to recapture Coruscant. His genius manifested itself best in constructing strategies from mere fragments of information. Thrawn was able to locate one of Palpatine's fabled storehouses, and there, found the technology necessary to begin growing a clone army. He found vessels for this army by discovering the long lost Katana Fleet. He recruited the maddened dark Jedi Joruus C'baoth and used his Force talents to better coordinate his scattered strikes. Thrawn also began to secure secret caches of cloned agents throughout the galaxy, ready to answer his call.

Thrawn's greatest oversight was the compelling leadership of Leia Organa Solo. Leia identified and befriended Thrawn's secret Noghri attackers. On their polluted home world, Leia was able to prove that the Empire had long exploited the Noghri's sense of honor. She showed how it was the Empire who was poisoning their world, not saving it. Incensed, the Noghri turned against their Imperial benefactors. At the height of the Battle of Bilbringi, Thrawn's faithful Noghri bodyguard Rukh killed the Grand Admiral with an assassin's blade...

Or so it seemed.

While it was believed that Thrawn perished above the planet of Bilbringi, the much-secreted events of that battle remain unknown to this day. Following the assassination attempt at the hands of the Noghri, Rukh, Thrawn was taken to an emergency craft he had concealed within the rear most docking bays of his Star Destroyer, the Chimaera; fully equipped as both a secondary command-post and medical freighter, it remained one of Thrawn’s fail-safes in case of insurgents within his ranks, and the unlikely event of rebellion.

Transported from the battle by a trusted ally, Admiral Voss Parck, Thrawn was immediately placed under medical treatment and monitoring aboard his small freighter. The vessel, piloted by none other than the secretly re-instated Imperial Baron Soontir Fel, made for hyperspace where there would be a rendezvous with a representative of the Chiss, a loyal follower of Thrawn’s, named Lintir Vess’ten’tadro – or Stent – a Commander in the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet.

Unknown to even the most competent and trusted of Thrawn’s subordinates, he had established a military base of sorts upon the jungle world of Che’an; a remote world on the outer edges of the Chiss’s system, to which the coordinates had been removed from both Bastion’s, and the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet’s, archive databanks, allowing for a completely isolated sanctuary, able to be used in case the most dire of circumstances were to befall him. Following the meeting with Stent, Admiral Parck and Soontir Fel were given another craft to pilot toward Nirauan, where they were told orders were awaiting them.

Upon arrival to the planet Che’an, Thrawn was placed into a deep cryogenic bacta-infused medical pod, where he was to be monitored by Stent and his men; not only would the Grand Admiral be preserved physically, he would undergo constant bacta treatments that would aid in his bodily healing processes. Following Thrawn’s treatments, two more fail-safes were activated; firstly the activation of a military fortress on the planet Nirauan, which contained the vast majority of Thrawn’s information databases that had been accumulated over his many years; the second, a clone of Thrawn began its incubation phase within the depths of the same fortress, serving as a secondary fall back plan if Thrawn’s initial healing treatments failed.

For almost a year, Admiral Parck acted under Thrawn’s pre-created orders, establishing a series of contacts and putting into place the beginning phases of several plans; of these plans made, in years to come, they would serve as aids for Thrawn to stage his return following a complete recovery.

The foremost in preparation was the creation of a personal military; Parck began the negotiations required with the Chiss to have Thrawn’s craft built, Commander Stent acting as the benefactor of such craft; the Chiss, respecting Stent’s position and judgement, following the assurance that Thrawn himself would have supported the request, agreed that such a military force would be put into manufacturing, to then be placed under Stent’s direct command.

After his medical treatments were successfully completed, nearly a year and a half following his apparent death, Thrawn emerged from his cryogenically forced sleep – he had been in no particular hurry, and wished to conclude that his recovery was as faultless as possible. Commander Stent’s reports of Parck’s success informed his superior of the status of the series of plans, to which Thrawn simply concluded that events would not begin taking shape for a substantial period and his ex-Imperial subordinate would continue to remain oblivious to the fact Thrawn had awoken.

Recent events within the galaxy required Thrawn’s attention, as he began calculating and evaluating the information he had been without during his slumber; it came to his attention that the galaxy’s political juncture changed, and the New Order began to take precedence over the known galaxy. Also it came to be that a clone, of none other than Thrawn himself, began making bids to take select portions of the galaxy – it appeared that the clone had been awoken before its intended time, and was now sullying Thrawn’s name.

By this time Thrawn had further developed his base of operations upon Che’an; a personal military force had been created through resources attained by both Stent and Parck, and he began his own personal campaign to take a series of inter-system planets, to which he would utilize for manufacturing and developmental purposes. With a small number of isolated planets under his leadership, Thrawn began to expand his military might; while at the same time he began preparing for his eventual return to the known universe, gathering the information held within the fortress on Nirauan through Stent, and relocating the original documentation to his base on Che’an, leaving Nirauan with information copies.

Focusing his attention on training his personal military, and further developing his information archives, following the events of his renegade clone, Thrawn continued to monitor his clone’s reaches for galactic supremacy, making use of various informants. It seemed that in the clone’s conquest, it had angered the New Order; this unfortunate series of events led Thrawn to realize that he would not be able to immediately contact this faction, as he had decided would be one of his first tasks upon his return...

The clone, however, soon found it had seemingly stirred a sleeping giant, and was eventually defeated at the hands of the New Order; Thrawn had expected as such, for the actions and campaign made by the clone were of inferior tactical planning, the greatest oversight on behalf of the clone being its inability to rationalize the fallibility of opposing such a large foe so suddenly without adequate preparation. Following the events of the Thrawn-clone, and the subsequent resolution, Thrawn continued biding his time. He allowed those involved to believe his legacy had been ended, with the undoing of his clone, and still continued to wait, simply watching. Information was Thrawn’s most desired resource, and as events in the universe continued to transpire, he catalogued, observed and patiently prepared for his true emergence...

...the time for which has arrived.

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