Armitage Hux

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 and a kitchen woman. In the aftermath of the Galactic Civil War, Armitage fled into the Unknown Regions together with his father, Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, and a group of children who would become some of the first of the First Order's new stormtroopers. A ruthless officer by the time of the Cold War, Hux had engineered the death of his father, overseen the training and indoctrination of a new generation of stormtroopers, executed Admiral Brooks, and commanded the firing of the Starkiller superweapon to destroy the New Republic capital of Hosnian Prime. During the First Order-Resistance War, Hux first served as commanding officer of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer, followed by the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy until its destruction shortly before the Battle of Crait.

Ren's accession to the rank of Supreme Leader diminished Hux's influence over the First Order. Though he served on the First Order Supreme Council alongside other members of the First Order High Command, Hux had little independent authority without supervision, and was made to serve under Allegiant General Enric Pryde aboard his flagship, the Steadfast. Disillusioned with his place in Ren's regime, he supplied the Resistance with information about the Sith Eternal's fleet, the Final Order, on Exegol, determined to see his rival lose the war. Ultimately, however, Pryde discovered Hux's role as a double agent and summarily executed Hux for treason.

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