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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4992080" data-attributes="member: 710">Thrawn Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo. Found in the Star Wars Expanded UniverseTrack RecordI treat his track record as everything that happened before the novels he first appeared in.As member of the Chiss Expansionary Fleet, he organized a pre-emptive strike against the rules of Chiss Warfare against the Vagaari. He ambushed the Trade Federation forces send by Palpatine/Darth Sidious that were trying to destroy the Outbound Flight Project from the Jedi, exploiting weakness in their Droid fighter communication. After conversing with Sidious agents and Sidious himself, he decides to stop the Jedi - and does so, playing Vagaari and the Outbound Flight project against each other, though it results in more losses on the enemy side than he wanted.He became a Grand Admiral under the Emperor, despite being a non-human. He stopped the traitor Grand Admiral Zaarin that wanted to ursurp the emperor, stealing advanced technology and using it for his own goals.He takes over the remains of the Empire a few years after Palpatins death.Success RateHe takes control over th cloning facilities on Wyland. He successfully raids Lando Callrissians for mole miners that he later uses in an attack on Sluis-Van. He does not manage to capture many ships there, but the ships he attacked are left crippled when Calrissian remotely activates the mole miners to destroy the ship briges Thrawn is capturing with them.He manages to remove Ackbar from his post due to political intrigue. He gains access to the Katana Fleet to satisfy the Imperial need for more ships, manning them with clone troopers.He then begins his actual attacks, using cloaking technology and his new Jedi "ally", a clone of Jorus C'Boath, to intimidate and confuse his enemies, also allowing him to blockade Coruscant for a while with a well-planned bluff.He sees through a bluff from the Republic, allowing him to divine the real target of their attacks, preparing a fleet to him.How close to winning he getsHard to determine, but probably very close - he might have been able to thwart the Republic assault on the ship yards, but he is assassinated by his body guard.StyleCold, planning. He learns to understand enemy species and authorities by watching their art. He is often one or two steps ahead of his enemies, anticipating their moves and seeing through their bluffs, often leading them in the wrong direction. Despite being the "villain", he is more cold than evil. He is not interested in violence and murder just for its own sake. He treats strategy and tactics like a form of art. He did not rely on "super-technologies" (like Death Stars) and prefered to use existing technology in new ways. (An example might be the tactic of micro Hyperspace jumps and using interdictors to control/time allied ship movement).He was a villain like no other at his time - all about planning, strategies, tactics, not about mustache twirling or using dark magic.</blockquote>

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