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Grand Admiral Grant versus Thrawn
Posted: 2003-08-13 01:24pm
by Trytostaydead
Let's say that the New Republic did approach Grand Admiral Grant and ask him for his help to defeat Thrawn. Unlikely due to the security risk, but let's say they were getting real desperate about the time right before the Bilbringi attack (and assuming the attack on Wayland did not happen yet and Thrawn wasn't about to die).
Who would win?
On the one hand you have Grant and Bel Iblis with the resources and fleets of the New Republic (barring the infamous Rebel luck and Luke and company save the day). On the other hand you have Thrawn with Wayland and C'boath is still imprisoned.
Re: Grand Admiral Grant versus Thrawn
Posted: 2003-08-13 10:39pm
by mauldooku
Trytostaydead wrote:Let's say that the New Republic did approach Grand Admiral Grant and ask him for his help to defeat Thrawn. Unlikely due to the security risk, but let's say they were getting real desperate about the time right before the Bilbringi attack (and assuming the attack on Wayland did not happen yet and Thrawn wasn't about to die).
Who would win?
On the one hand you have Grant and Bel Iblis with the resources and fleets of the New Republic (barring the infamous Rebel luck and Luke and company save the day). On the other hand you have Thrawn with Wayland and C'boath is still imprisoned.
Grant? Who's he?!
Posted: 2003-08-13 11:19pm
by CaptainChewbacca
The last Grand Admiral. A man loyal to the Empire with no aspirations for a power base.
He strikes me as an unimmaginative man who would be overcome by Thrawn's tactics.
Posted: 2003-08-13 11:32pm
by phongn
Might not be enough. We already have Ackbar on the NR side, who is very competent at his job. Do we really need GADM Grant?
Posted: 2003-08-14 02:53am
by FTeik
If not for Karrde´s smugglers, a Noghri and Joorus C´Baoth sabotaging the Mount Tantiss-facility Ackbar wouldn´t have won at Bilbringi.
Posted: 2003-08-14 03:45am
by Cal Wright
Wouldn't Grant have some measure of an idea as to how Thrawn would operate though? I mean, ambitious or not, you need to know your friends far better than your enemies.
Posted: 2003-08-14 03:59am
by CaptainChewbacca
I don't know if he even knew of Thrawn's existence. The 13th Admiral was kinda a secret.
Posted: 2003-08-14 08:23am
by Crix Dorius
VS.
LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLEEEEEE !!!!
Posted: 2003-08-14 09:02am
by Darth Fanboy
thrawn kind of reminds me of kirk in that picture.
Posted: 2003-08-14 09:36am
by FTeik
And somehow he seems to be very pissed of.
Posted: 2003-08-14 12:45pm
by Trytostaydead
You know, for some reason when I think I turn 40 I'll look like an Asian version of Thrawn, lol.
Posted: 2003-08-14 12:50pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
Thrawn doesn't have pupils.
Anyhow Thrawn would own Grant in battle. After the fall of the Emperor, Grant joined the Penestar Alligntment and did nothing for the remainder of his service to the Empire. Then he defected.
Doesn't sound too brilliant now does he?
Posted: 2003-08-14 12:51pm
by StarshipTitanic
Thrawn reminds me more of this guy:
Those are cool pics, Dorius, where'd you get them?
Posted: 2003-08-14 01:13pm
by Publius
Grand Admiral Grant stood aloof, and his peers predicted he would be the first to perish in the post-Endor bloodbath. In the end, he outlived them all, earning the appellation "the last grand admiral."
As a Tapani noble, Grant harbored an aristocrat's disdain for what he called the "working classes" -- chiefly aliens and droids. Though he won a score of victories against the Rebel Alliance, Grant didn't curry favor with moffs. When the Battle of Endor turned the galaxy upside down, he was therefore the only grand admiral with no power base.
Grant sought sanctuary in the Imperial breakaway kingdom known as the Pentastar Alignment and watched the other grand admirals destroy each other. Two years after Endor, Grant defected to the New Republic, agreeing to give up Imperial military secrets for prosecutorial immunity.
In comfortable retirement on the beaches of Rathalay, the "last grand admiral" watched with interest as Grand Admiral Thrawn returned to menace the galaxy. He could crush that usurping alien, Grant thought to himself. But no one ever called.
-- from "Who's Who: Imperial Grand Admirals", by Daniel Wallace and Abel Peña,
Star Wars Insider issue 66
Posted: 2003-08-14 01:46pm
by Crix Dorius
StarshipTitanic wrote:Thrawn reminds me more of this guy:
*SNIP*
Those are cool pics, Dorius, where'd you get them?
Uhhh... Commander Cain !!!
From
here !
Posted: 2003-08-16 02:17pm
by Illuminatus Primus
Do not quote pictures.
Posted: 2003-08-16 03:25pm
by RogueIce
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Thrawn doesn't have pupils.
Since when?
He does in that picture at least.
Posted: 2003-08-16 07:45pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
RogueIce wrote:Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Thrawn doesn't have pupils.
Since when?
He doesn't on the covers of HttE or DFR. He doesn't in the Thrawn comics. They don't in any interpritation from the Essential Guides, and neither does the Chiss on the cover of Zahn's up and coming post-NJO novel. Clearly, the artist made a mistake.
Posted: 2003-08-16 08:17pm
by YT300000
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:RogueIce wrote:Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Thrawn doesn't have pupils.
Since when?
He doesn't on the covers of HttE or DFR. He doesn't in the Thrawn comics. They don't in any interpritation from the Essential Guides, and neither does the Chiss on the cover of Zahn's up and coming post-NJO novel. Clearly, the artist made a mistake.
Ah well. 2 seconds in MSPaint can fix that.
Posted: 2003-08-16 09:31pm
by RogueIce
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:He doesn't on the covers of HttE or DFR. He doesn't in the Thrawn comics. They don't in any interpritation from the Essential Guides, and neither does the Chiss on the cover of Zahn's up and coming post-NJO novel. Clearly, the artist made a mistake.
Maybe he just put them in to look cool? Or maybe when his eyes aren't glowing they show up?
Ah Hell, what am I debating for? It's not exactly important.