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Raid on an enemy ground installation
Legends Canon version → Linked from 2 articles
Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.
By 19 BBY, the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force officer Thrawn pre-emptively raided a ground installation in the Unknown Regions that was manufacturing weapons in a lead-up to an attack against the Chiss Ascendancy. According to Ascendancy law, such a pre-emptive strike was illegal, and Thrawn's actions were judged to be in violation of all the Chiss believed regarding not attacking without direct, violent instigation by the enemy. Unbeknownst to most was that Thrawn had actually engineered the conflict so that he was exiled and could—with no affiliation to the Expansionary Defense Force— join the Galactic Empire.
The Ascendancy indeed exiled the officer, and sent him to an uninhabited planet, where Imperial Captain Voss Parck captured Thrawn and brought him before Emperor Palpatine, who accepted the Chiss into the Imperial Fleet.
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Facts
- Date
- By 19 BBY
- Place
- Unknown Regions
- Result
- Thrawn exiled from the Chiss Ascendancy
- Side 1
- Chiss Ascendancy
- Chiss Expansionary Defense Force
- Side 2
- Enemies of the Ascendancy
- Commanders (side 1)
- Thrawn
Appearances
3 works, in story order
- Mist Encounter (first mentioned)
- Vision of the Future (mentioned only)
- Red Sky, Blue Flame (mentioned only)
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