Grand Admiral Thrawn 12" Action Figure:
A consummate strategist, Grand
Admiral Thrawn likened combat to art and was an aficionado of both. Recognized
long ago by his people, the Chiss, Thrawn's greatest weapon was his mind. His
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 Palpatine stumbled upon Thrawn's fleet. The young blue-skinned
commander was able to decimate the intruders despite inferior weapons and
numbers. 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, and eventually, his activities
caused him to be altogether banished from the Chiss.
The Chiss's loss became Palpatine's gain, and 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. His star continued to rise unabated, and 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 Grand
Admiral rank himself.
Thrawn's 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. He also began to secure secret caches
of cloned agents throughout the galaxy, ready to answer his call.
The Grand Admiral Thrawn 12 inch Figure
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