Gilad Pellaeon

Gilad Pellaeon was an officer in the Galactic Empire and later the Remnant who rose through the ranks to become a Grand Admiral and Supreme Commander of the Imperial Navy and later the Remnant Navy before his death in 2019. A life-long bachelor, he had a few encounters with various women. One of which produced a son in the form of Remnant Navy Captain Vitor Reige. During his career, he served as the Captain of the Star Destroyer Chimaera which served as the flagship of Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Early Life and Republic Career
Gilad Pellaeon was born on Corellia in 1926, but spent his formative years on Coruscant. He entered a Galactic Republic Military Academy in 1941 and graduated with honors. By 1950, he was of high enough rank to know about the Outbound Flight Project, but not the details of the project.

During the Clone Wars, Pellaeon served in numerous campaigns encountering many Jedi including Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. He developed an admiration for the Clone Troopers used by the Republic and considered them to be human unlike other officers such as Wilhuff Tarkin and Brom Titus who considered the clones to be consumable resources. He even went as far as trying to convince the Clone Captain Rex that it was okay to address him by his first name despite Rex being of lower rank then Pellaeon.

Imperial Era
In 1957, the Republic was transitioned into the Galactic Empire and Pellaeon went along with the transition. He eventually ended up on the Imperial Star Destroyer Harbinger rising to the rank of Captain. He and the Harbinger were eventually assigned to the Seventh Fleet under the command of Grand Admiral Thrawn. During this time, Pellaeon also had encounters with Thrawn's friend and advisor Eli Vanto

In 1975, Lothal Governor Arihnda Pryce requested to Tarkin that the Seventh Fleet be assigned to help her deal with the ongoing problem of the Spectres which she felt was not being addressed by the Admiral in her sector Kassius Konstantine. Tarkin agreed with her as he was familiar with the Spectres and the Rebel Cell they had joined had recently managed to outwit Darth Vader. Pellaeon and the Harbinger would serve at Lothal as Senator Mon Mothma formally declared open rebellion and formed the Rebel Alliance as well as take part in the Battle of Atollon where Thrawn drove the combined forces of Commander Jun Sato and General Jan Dodonna out of the system despite taking losses on their side due to Konstantine taking the bait from Sato who steered his ship into Konstantine's ship, the arrival of Mandolorian Rebels led by Ezra Bridger and Sabine Wren, as well as Pryce's inability to command the fleet while Thrawn oversaw the ground operation.

In 1976, Pellaeon was present when the Purrgil appeared at Lothal and removed the Seventh Fleet from the system taking him, Thrawn, and Bridger into the Unknown Regions. Once the fleet had established its location, Thrawn reassigned Pellaeon to the Chimaera as the fleet traveled to Thrawn's homeworld of Csilla for repairs to the fleet. Here, Pellaeon encountered Vanto again. By 1980, the repairs had been completed and the Seventh Fleet returned to known space minus Thrawn and Bridger. After making contact with the Empire, Pellaeon was relieved of his command as the Seventh Fleet was absorbed into other fleets. Pellaeon and the Chimaera would join Death Squadron under the command of Vader and Admiral Firmus Piett.

Endor and Beyond
In 1983, Pellaeon was present at the Battle of Endor which saw the loss of many Imperial ships as well as the deaths of Vader and Emperor Palpatine. With his own commander having been killed in the battle and Piett's fate unknown, Pellaeon assumed command and ordered a retreat from the system following the explosion of Death Star II. Pellaeon would float around from assignment to assignment as in-fighting began between factions and the Rebel Alliance transitioned into a New Republic.

In 1987, Thrawn returned from the Unknown Regions minus Bridger and Vanto to reunify the shattered Empire. Thrawn once again took the Chimaera as his flagship and led the Empire to a series of victories against the New Republic until the senseless and wasteful in-fighting between warlords became too much for Thrawn to bear and he departed telling Pellaeon that the only way to save the Empire would be to eliminate the feuding warlords. Pellaeon would later go on to serve the Clone Emperor and was eventually promoted to Vice-Admiral and pressed into the service of "High Admiral" Treuten Teradoc until 1990 when he encountered Admiral Natasi Daala. Daala who had been a protégé and mistress of Tarkin's was also annoyed by the in-fighting and met with Pellaeon. The two eventually arranged a meeting between thirteen of the warlords to try to get them to pick a leader and plan an attack against the New Republic. After hours of fighting, he watched as Daala executed the warlords by gassing them and assumed command over their fleets. During this time, Pellaeon found his own protégé in the form of a Naval Officer named Wanda Houston.

The two and a Colonel named Ivan Cronus eventually came up with a plan in which Daala and Pellaeon would attack the Yavin 4 Jedi Academy while Cronus would attack a list of randomly selected targets across the galaxy. Intending to launch the attack in a few days, Daala moved the plans up after one of her rallies was crashed by Jedi Knights Kyp Durron and Dorsk 81. Pellaeon took 17 Imperial Star Destroyers to Yavin 4 including the Chimaera where he began the initial attack thinking that the Jedi had little to no defense. However, Pellaeon's attack would be short-lived as his fleet was suddenly thrown out of the system by the Jedi combining their powers. He eventually recovered escape pods from Daala's ship including Daala herself who resigned her command and left Pellaeon in charge of the Empire.

After this, Pellaeon was promoted to Admiral and began the process of getting the Empire back into some sort of shape. Under his command, the Empire managed to capture and hold some territory. While he did that, he helped Houston in her bid to become what would be the last Grand Moff of the Empire as he and Davin Felth felt the war was unwinnable. Eventually, Houston won the vote and began her own series of reforms within the Empire which she credited Daala with beginning. During her first rally as a Grand Moff, Pellaeon gave what amounted to a "show chase" to a pair of party-crashers in the forms of Jedi Knight Bryan Khayman and his friend Steven Porter as neither he or Felth had any real intentions on capturing the ship that the two were in. Pellaeon later received a report that the ship had last been at the location of a planet that Felth said he was somewhat familiar with, Earth. Eventually, Houston placed the Imperial Navy under Pellaeon's command stating that he had the seniority and that he had the best working relationship with his fellow commanders placing the Imperial Army under Felth's command. Pellaeon also disagreed with the assessment of Moff Tiaan Jerjerrod that the Earth should be considered as a possible hostile planet given what they had been able to find out from a search of Khayman's ship compared to what they knew from Felth's visit in 1980. Pellaeon was bothered when he heard that Jerjerrod had taken a Star Destroyer to Earth in 1999 to probe events that had taken place the year earlier surrounding Khayman's estranged brother Andros and even more disturbed if not sickened when he heard about the September 11th Attacks that were carried out on New York City and Washington D.C. calling the attacks a travesty and possible treason. He was further disturbed when he was informed by Felth of events surrounding a coup against Houston that involved attempting to murder Felth's son Tevin.

Remnant Era
Following the Battle of Gratha, Pellaeon and Felth began the process to transitioning the Empire into the Remnant. Pellaeon first signed the Pellaeon–Gavrisom Treaty to end the Galactic Civil War. He then assisted Khayman and President James Rommel with providing the names and service numbers of Imperial troops that had been taken as prisoners by the forces of Earth so that they could be sorted accordingly. He was also promoted by Houston to the rank of Grand Admiral making him the last Imperial Grand Admiral and the first Remnant Grand Admiral.

Pellaeon would take part in conferences as needed to discuss issues such as smuggler and pirate activity. Like others, he was saddened to hear about the death of Khayman at the hands of Darth Sidious and sought out Houston to take Khayman's place in 2010. In 2013, he too received the report about the returns of Anakin Skywalker, Padme Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. He was also made aware of rogue elements within the Remnant led by General Brendol Hux in 2016.

Death
Gilad Pellaeon died in his sleep during July 2019. His body was brought to New York for a full autopsy to determine cause of death. A sample of his DNA was also taken as General Tevin Felth and Remnant Secretary of Defense Michael Myers as well as Thrawn had suspicions that Pellaeon may be the father of Captain Vitor Reige. This theory was later confirmed by Kelsey Myers. After a which featured speeches from Thrawn, Davin Felth, Firmus Piett, and Wanda Houston, Reige transported Pellaeon's body back to Corellia onboard the Chimaera with Thrawn appointed to serve as the ship's commander in Reige's absence as Reige intended to introduce himself to what members of Pellaeon's family he could find on the planet.

Legacy
By the Year 2030, a ship in the Remnant fleet has been named after Pellaeon and is under the command of Reige who is now an Admiral himself while the Chimaera has been placed under the command of Eli Vanto who is also an Admiral himself.