What’s Thrawn Got to Do With It?
The Imperial Remnant should’ve been the faction most likely to benefit from the simmering divides in the New Republic, but at this point it also had been through years of decline and infighting. After previous attempts to fight back against the New Republic like the Thrawn Campaign and his own alliance with Admiral Natasi Daala, Gilad Pellaeon—Thrawn’s former right-hand man and the current leader of the Imperial Remnant—had realized that the Empire’s fight against the New Republic was all but over, and proposed to the Remnant’s ruling council of Moffs that they sue for peace.
Reluctant but with the Moffs mostly in agreement, Pellaeon made ready to dispatch ships to the New Republic to relay his request for negotiations to open—only for those ships to be captured by the rogue Moff Vilim Disra. Disra wanted the conflict with the New Republic to continue, so working with his right-hand man Major Grodin Tierce, and a con man known only as Flim, the trio forged a wild plan to capitalize on the New Republic’s burgeoning crisis and convince the Imperial Remnant that there was still a change they could restore the Empire. They faked the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who the galaxy thought had been dead since the Battle of Bilbringi a decade prior.
