Name all the Grand Moffs of the Empire Thread *LONG*

Basically a thread to compile information on all the Grand Moffs like other projects have done the same with Grand Admirals.

We've got so far as I can tell

*ignites lightsaber of truth*

Note: Thank you Unofficial Encyclopedia for all your fine information

Current List

Grand Moff Bartam *
Grand Moff Dureya
Grand Moff Hissa
Grand Moff Kaine
Grand Moff Kintaro *
Grand Moff Lynch
Grand Moff Ravik *
Grand Moff Tanniel
Grand Moff Tarkin *
Grand Moff Tingelius
Grand Moff Trachta *
Grand Moff Traeda
Grand Moff Weizal

False Grand Moff

Grand Moff Disra

* This asterisk means that the Moff was killed before Palpatine's 'death' at Endor. That means there is the possibility of their being replaced. This is under the assumption that the Dark Empire had little desire to continue the Grand Moff system.

Palpatine remained the only one to be able to bestow the Grand Moff Position after all.

Grand Moff Bartam

This obese, cyborged man served as one of Emperor Palpatine's Grand Moffs, during the height of the New Order. The only flesh visible on his body was his head, as everything else from the neck down was encased in flexible armor. Bartam was part of a small group of Imperial officers, led by Grand Moff Trachta, that planned to assassinate Palpatine and take control of the galaxy for themselves. Beneath Trachta's plans, Bartam planned to eliminate Trachta and remake the Empire in his own image. However, Bartam's plans to eliminate Trachta were thwarted when Trachta shot Gauer. This allowed Trachta's agents to infiltrate Bartam's apartments and shot Bartam in the head. Trachta was not free, however. His agent was shot and killed by one of Bartam's guards, while Trachta was executed by one of Bartam's agents. (SWI62, SWEB)

Grand Moff Dureya
This Imperial Grand Moff ordered the suppression of rebellious activity on Gra Ploven. The Forger was sent to the planet, and its turbolasers were used to super-heat the planet's water supply and boil the native Ploven alive.

Grand Moff Hissa
an Imperial Grand Moff serving the Empire after the death of Emperor Palpatine, Hissa is one of Trioculus' most trusted officers. Hissa has spear-pointed teeth, which point to his alien origins. As part of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs' plan to keep Triclops a secret and find a way to rule the galaxy following Palpatine's death, Hissa cultivated a friendship with Trioculus, knowing that the three-eyed mutant could be passed off as the true son of Palpatine. Hissa is severely disfigured on Duro, when the hazardous wastes from Imperial dumping grounds flood the Valley of Royalty. He falls into the wastes, which eat away most of his body. His arms were then replaced with the arms of an assassin droid, and his torso was encased on a repulsorlift floating chair. When the Prophets of the Dark Side sentenced him for treachery against the Empire, he was to be starved aboard Scardia until he was very near death. Then, his final meal would be given to him: a meal of biscuits laden with parasites that would consume him from the inside out. He never got that far, for Kadann, suspicious that Triclops' information on the Lost City of the Jedi was false, sent Hissa to investigate. Hissa was then incinerated in the molten lava core of Yavin 4, at the end of the false entrance to the City. (GDV, MMY, QE, PDS)

Grand Moff Ardus Kaine
this Imperial Grand Moff ruled the Outer Rim Territories following the death of Wilhuf Tarkin. In the wake of the Battle of Endor, Kaine found himself in a position to assume command of a large portion of the Empire. A gifted speaker, he was the mastermind behind the formation of the Pentastar Alignment, calling together the leaders of the Velcar Free Commerce Zone and making them see his vision and support it during a series of meetings which became known as the Pentastar Talks. He more or less ignored the call to arms of Grand Admiral Thrawn, waiting until his own forces were ready to attack the New Republic themselves. He formed the Alignment

 

Also:

Grand Moff Argon
Grand Moff Dunhausen
Grand Moff Gann
Grand Moff Hauser
Grand Moff Muzzer
Grand Moff Nivers
Grand Moff Tharil Tavira
Grand Moff Thistleborn

 

Don't forget that one IG-88 droid that was a Moff (ask Val about it).

 

Ah, yes...Grand Moff For-Atesee, I believe it was. How could he have slipped my mind?

 

Ha! I privately predicted someone would attempt to list all the Imperial moffs sooner or later, and two years later my patience has finally paid off, anymore why the Gamorrean sows they call them moffs in the first place.

 

Grand Moff Darrc from Galatic Battlegrounds
GRAND_MOFF_KEVIN

 

Anyone got a bit more of an extended write-up on For-At-tesee? I'm really interested in knowing how a droid became a Grand Moff...though I note a substanial number of cyborg moffs up here.

 

Another is Grand Moff Yitress also form Galatic Battlegrounds.

 

I have a personal theory of mine that Palpatine chose marginally competent men to replace the Grand Moffs who turned traitor around the Battle of Yavin, like Trachta, Bartam, and Vellam, which is why we see duds like Muzzer, Thistleborn and Dunhausen in important positions. But that's neither here nor there.

I don't believe that the moffs from GODV are grand moffs. All of the game references name their ranks as just plain "Moff". I'm also not sure that anyone actually promoted Disra to the position of Grand Moff--the Central Committee of Grand Moffs was simply the ruling body to which a number of moffs and grand moffs alike were loyal to.

TC

 

I'm not so sure that the Grand Moffs were that incompetent actually. I like to think of the GODV characters as simply extremely poorly portrayed by their works.

After all, Hissa suceeded in waging the Civil War for a year or two on Isard and Pestage that eradicated the Empire's military.

Too bad we never saw it.

 

Talon Card posted these to the Grand Moff territory thread. I hope he doesn't take offense. I don't know if they're compiled or fanfic but they're very beautifully written....

[Here's a rough draft of what I have for a few of the Moffs. Opinions, comments, etc are welcome...

Grand Moff Dunhausen

Formerly the Moff of a few minor planets in the Gordian Reach, Dunhausen was suddenly promoted to Grand Moff after Grand Moff Vellam was convicted of high treason. Dunhausen ruled Vellam?s former territory, the Bright Jewel Oversector, jointly with Grand Moff Nivers. After the Battle of Endor, Nivers was captured by the New Republic on Tandankin, and Dunhausen was left to rule the entire region. unexpectedly gained even more territory when the remainder of Oversector Outer was divided up amongst himself and Hissa. Dunhausen now also controls a portion of the Javin sector and most of the Arkanis sector. He suggested Tatooine as a site for a new Imperial base.
Dunhausen was lean and very crafty?and also had a bizarre fashion sense. In spite of being quite conservative in dress and manner, Dunhausen favored a pair of blaster-shaped earrings. He was never seen without them, and one of the many explanations suggested for this apparent contradiction in behavior was that the ornaments were in fact functional hold-out blasters, though this was never confirmed and was dismissed by SPIN as ludicrous. Years later, however, Wraith Squadron would try just such a trick on Kabray.

Grand Moff Muzzer

Though outwardly brash and excitable, Muzzer was a coward at heart. During the tumultuous months after the Battle of Endor, he was only able to remain in control of his territories in the Inner Rim by making a deal with a devil: a mysterious figure who called himself Lord Shadowspawn. The shadowy being quieted rebellious elements in Muzzer?s sectors and allowed him to rule unquestioned?for a price. The superstitious Muzzer promised his soul to Shadowspawn, and even had a contract drawn up, one of the more curious items to end up in the Republic Historical Documents Repository. Muzzer was ultimately executed by order of Ysanne Isard; whether or not Shadowspawn collected his fee is unknown. The mysterious Lord did take over Muzzer?s territory after his death, and remained entrenched until ousted by Luke Skywalker.]

 

Ahem, Yittreas and Darrc were Moffs, not Grand Moffs.

 

>I don't believe that the moffs from GODV are grand moffs. All of the game references name their ranks as just plain "Moff".<

Heh, I meant GBG, not GODV. Master Organa is correct, the moffs in GBG are just plain moffs--no ifs, ands, or, um, moffs...

>I'm not so sure that the Grand Moffs were that incompetent actually. I like to think of the GODV characters as simply extremely poorly portrayed by their works.
After all, Hissa suceeded in waging the Civil War for a year or two on Isard and Pestage that eradicated the Empire's military.<

Hissa is the exception. The other Grand Moffs on the Central Committee are less competent even in the GODV books.

>Talon Card posted these to the Grand Moff territory thread. I hope he doesn't take offense. I don't know if they're compiled or fanfic but they're very beautifully written.... <

No offense taken! They are fan fiction, however--about ninety percent. They're excerpts from a fan-fiction project: The Glove of Darth Vader Sourcebook. Look for more info in the upcoming Unofficial Moffship Thread.

TC

 

How interesting, TalonCard.

There's also that Wilkadon character mentioned briefly in Tatooine Ghost.

Was it ever described in Wraith Squadron's capture of him was sucessful? (Personally, I don't think they caught him, or the NR would have found out about Thrawn from him)

 

"Ahem, Yittreas and Darrc were Moffs, not Grand Moffs."

My bad

 

Personally, it's interesting to speculate who was the most competent of the Moffs and whom are amongst the most incompetent of Moffs.

I love how Moff Cutie, err Moff Tavira becomes a Moff mostly by simply having the same last name as her husband and thus being unknowingly confirmed by Coruscant as one.

It's sad she's the highest ranking of all women politically in the Empire during the Palpatine era.

I always say Hissa, Kaine, and Tarkin are the most competent of Moffs personally. Tingellius was a former Grand Admiral though.

 

True, but though he may have been a military genious, I think he overestimated his governing abilities. He *did* get stabbed in the back by Disra, after all.

Speaking of Moff Disra, it seems likely that he helped to take down the surviving members of the Central Comittee, in yet another backstabbing move. Why else would Isard have allowed him to live?

TC

 

I'm under the impression that Yssane Isard can't kill time if she wants to. Brett Bass rather brilliantly summed up her flaws that I will summarize as below with a nod to Timmy Zhan.

"Isard is a brilliant master of politics. What the Empire needed was a brilliant master of politics who could lead them as an Emperor. What they got was a brilliant master of politics who could lead them as the head of the Imperial secret police."

Isard has almost no grasp of the use of direct force. She'll come up with some overly complicated scheme like the villains in the Bourne Identity to assassinate a leader with poisoned cigars when its better for Jason or whomever to simply go in there and shoot him after killing the guards.

Yes Grand Moff Hissa and his faction were nearly wiped out but that merely left a power vacuum behind that Disra could hide behind. Isard had already lost control of the Imperial military to Grand General Carvel at this time who was apparently conducting the war as he saw fit without her counsel.

I suspect all Disra had to do was simply hold tight and note Isard would never directly arrest him or send Imperial forces to pound his sector to ashes, she'd attack him with an exploding butterfly or clone him then build a 5 month crisis to distract him...etc.

After all Hissa and company died in a power struggle, not a fleet battle. Its entirely possible Disra was left holding much of the pieces and that might explain why his sector was the literally LAST to fall.

 

I wonder if Disra had always been based in Bastion's sector, or was his original responsibility in the Corewards area?

 

I'm betting Corewards... You have to remember that Bastion was originally a code-name for the constantly moving Imperial capital.

TC

 

Just found this old thread and thought I'd add my 2c from the CCW thread.

Imperial Oversector includes:

1) an as yet unnamed sector in the colonies, where Kiribi is
2) Azure sector, where Anaxes is
3) Imperial Sector, where Metellos and Coruscant are (Simpla-12, Duneeden, and Kaikellious may alsop be in this sector)
4) possibly also includeds the sector where Nierpor and Eeropha are (a guess on my part--Jedi QUest indicates they are VERY near Coruscant, possibly on the Perlemian, but Eeropha has its own Senator, so it must be in a different sector than COruscant or Anaxes)

P.S. Jason, could you tell me the name of Kiribi's sector? Or Corucant's sector for that matter? I was a wee bit frustrated that Corucant's sector was never named in CCW (I couldn't find it anyways). Didn't ruin the book for me or anything But it did frustrate me looking for it.

Here is my attempt at a full list of Grand moffs and their respective Oversectors:

IN THE DEEP CORE
1 Grand moff Gann of ? Oversector (Deep Core)--inc. Prakith

IN THE CORE
1 Grand moff Rufaan Tigellinus of ? Oversector (Core?)--inc. Darpa Sector and Bormea Sector?

IN THE CORE/COLONIES
1 (Grand?) moff Kadir--of Imperial Center Oversector? (Core/Colonies)--inc. Azure Sector, Imperial Sector, and Kiribi
*Kadir is AT LEAST moff of Imperial Sector, but it is unclear if he is actually Grand moff of all of Imperial Center Oversector

IN THE COLONIES
1 Grand moff Traeda of ? Oversector (Colonies?)--inc. Dakshee?

IN THE INNER RIM
1 Grand moff Argon of ? Oversector (Inner Rim?)--inc. Azurbani system?

IN THE EXPANSION REGION
1 Grand moff Ravik of ? Oversector (Expansion Region?)--inc. Tolonda Sector
*It is unclear where Tolonda Sector is, but Ravik is associated with the Charon, who ended up stranded on Kayri III in the Expansion Region
2 Grand moff Lynch of ? Oversector (Expansion Region)--inc. M'haeli
3 Grand moff Hauser--apparently the successor to Lynch
4 Grand moff Bin Essada of ? Oversector (Expansion Region)--inc. Gyndine and Circarpous

IN THE MID RIM/OUTER RIM
1 Grand moff Wilhuff Tarkin of Oversector Outer (Mid Rim/Outer Rim)--inc. Seswenna Sector, Arkanis Setor, Hutt Space, the Velcar Free Commerce Zone, Kessel Sector, Atrivis Sector, and Teth
2 Grand moff Ardus Kaine-successor to Tarkin
3 Grand moff Vellam of ? Oversector (Mid Rim/Outer Rim)--inc. Bright Jewel Cluster, Gordian Reach
4 Grand moff Nivers--successor of Vellam

IN THE OUTER RIM
1 Grand moff Kintaro of ? Oversector (Outer Rim)--inc. Bajic Sector
2 Grand moff Tharil Tavira of ? Oversector (Outer Rim)--inc. Ado Sector
3 Grand moff Leonia Tavira--successor to Tharil Tavira
4 Grand moff Wilkadon of ? Oversector (Outer Rim)--inc. Askaj
5 Grand moff Hissa of ? Oversector (Outer Rim?)--inc. Kessel Sector?

LOCATION UNKNOWN
1 Grand moff Muzzer of ? Oversector--inc. Arzid?
2 Grand moff Dureya of ? Oversector--inc. Gra Ploven
3 Grand moff Bartam of ? Oversector
4 Grand moff Trachta of ? Oversector
5 Grand moff Dunhausen of ? Oversector
6 Grand moff Thistleborn of ? Oversector
7 Grand moff Tanniel of ? Oversector

A Note On Oversector Outer: It is possible the original Oversector Outer was broken up after Tarkin's death, the majority of it being given into the power of Ardus Kaine (Tarkin's successor), the rest broken up into the various Oversectors ruled by Vellam (Bright Jewel/Gordian Reach), Kintaro (Bajic), Tavira (Ado), Wilkadon (Askaj), and Hissa (Kessel)

 

As a note, we know the height of the Empire only had 1000 moffs too

 

>P.S. Jason, could you tell me the name of Kiribi's sector? Or Corucant's sector for that matter? I was a wee bit frustrated that Corucant's sector was never named in CCW (I couldn't find it anyways). Didn't ruin the book for me or anything But it did frustrate me looking for it.<

Never made one up for Kiribi, sorry. As for Coruscant, pretty sure it's never been named anywhere. My hope is that post-Ep. III some of the gaps will get filled in because there won't be the same worry about stepping on something in a movie. (It'd be soooo cool to do a Coruscant sector/area map.) We'll see.

Jace

 

>4 Grand moff Nivers--successor of Vellam <

*sheepishly* We don't know that--it's just fan fic.

TC

 

Senator Cilghal: Your idea about the Emperor breaking Oversector Outer after Tarkin's death makes a lot of sense. I wonder if that ultimately hampered anti Rebel operations, though?