Gilad Pellaeon

Gilad Pellaeon, nicknamed Gil, was a human male naval officer who was the effective leader of the Imperial Remnant in its early existence. Pellaeon had served as a naval officer for seven decades in the fleets of both the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire. Pellaeon began his career in the Republic's Judicial Forces, where he ascended the ranks and captained the assault ship Leveler during the Clone Wars. Pellaeon developed a strong attachment to the Republic Navy as an institution, and continued this when the Republic became the Empire, he continued serving in the Imperial Navy aboard the Star Destroyer Chimaera.

At the Battle of Endor, the Chimaera fell under Pellaeon's command, and he issued the retreat order. Captain Pellaeon remained one of the more prominent remaining officers following the collapse of the Galactic Empire until the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who selected the Chimaera as his flagship and made Pellaeon his right-hand man. Pellaeon grew to respect and admire Thrawn throughout the Grand Admiral's campaign against the New Republic, becoming one of his most devoted followers. But when Thrawn was assassinated at the Battle of Bilbringi, Pellaeon again was forced to call a retreat. After Thrawn's death and the failed return of Palpatine, he found himself serving as the second-in-command of the warlord Treuten Teradoc, but when Admiral Natasi Daala shared with him her vision of rebuilding the Empire and ending warlordism, he defected to her.

Upon Daala's defeat at Yavin 4, she turned command of the United Warlord Fleets over to Admiral Pellaeon, who as Supreme Commander, established the Imperial Remnant in remaining territory unoccupied by the New Republic, with Pellaeon becoming ruler in effect, however he was technically subordinate to the Council of Moffs. Initially under Pellaeon, the Imperial Remnant sought to reunify the galaxy but was opposed by the New Republic. The Imperial Remnant fought a series of campaigns against the Republic but was frequently driven back as the Remnant's resources shrivelled and it lost control of the Mid Rim. In 19 ABY, he finally accepted that the only way for the Remnant to survive was through a peace treaty, and forced the council to accept a truce with the New Republic; with the Imperial Remnant beginning to recognize itself as a separate entity from the New Republic while sharing the legacy of the Old Republic.

When the Imperial capital fell to the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong invaders years later, Pellaeon played on the Imperial fleet's absolute loyalty to him to overcome the old-line Moffs' resistance and join the newly formed Galactic Alliance, leading a series of victories over the Yuuzhan Vong.

At the war's close, Pellaeon retired, but returned to serve as the supreme commander of the Galactic Alliance Defense Force when his predecessor Sien Sovv was killed. In that capacity, Pellaeon led the Galactic Alliance through the Swarm War and the early stages of the Second Galactic Civil War before once more retiring. He returned to service as the leader of the Imperial Remnant, but died in 41 ABY at Fondor, assassinated by Tahiri Veila when he refused to support Darth Caedus's faction of the Galactic Alliance.

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