Hands down: Thrawn! Going back to what was mentioned A LOT earlier: Thrawn with an SSD. Had Thrawn gotten a hold of an SSD (perhaps one somewhere in the Deep Core or something), then he would have either (A) had the Rebels chasing it everywhere or (B) dismantled it and had the scrap used to make more regular Star Destroyers. Simply put, he would not have wasted anything the SSD would have had to offer . . . nothing. Thrawn acted A LOT like Hannibal Barca of Carthage (I've done HOURs of research on those tacticians Thrawn is based off of and Hannibal is the most based off of). Hannibal would always be studying the tactics and personality types of the enemy commander and be sure to use the correct sort of tactics that would throw that commander into a fray. He would also use distraction tactics based off of Alexander's the Great own. I wrote Timothy Zahn asking him who he had based Thrawn off of and he said he was based off of the best tacticians of all time: Hasdrubal Barca, Hannibal Barca, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Robert E. Lee, Erwin Rommel, and others. To get a half-way understanding of Thrawn, it would be wise to research these people and the like. I have done so. The civilization Thrawn did not understand makes me think that he has a personality flaw: what he doesn't understand frustrates him to the, possible, extreme. As much as I hate to write and admit that, it almost seems to be so, but I'm sure we'll find more about that later with Zahn's new novel that takes place between TPM and AOTC and talks about Thrawn and his destruction of the Outbound Flight. Thrawn's death: I practically cried when I read that! I mean, I was sure he would have to go down and die (I was quite sure Rukh would kill him from when the Noghri decided to join "the Lady Vader" in Dark Force Rising), but even so it was sad! Horrible! I just hate the fact that Lucasfilm Ltd. has to let the so-called "good guys" win in the end. It pisses me off. It must have been frustrating to Mr. Zahn, who said he basically wrote the Thrawn series like a chess game, but he was both sides. Sounds, weird, but it makes for the perfect game. Both sides know what the other will do (or some how find out) and have to figure a way around it. He said that at one point (and I think it's evident in the novels) the Empire was vastly winning against the Rebels and he was forced to have MANY coincidences occur so that the tide would turn. In the end, with the Empire winning, he ultimatley had to let the Rebels win. But if you think about it, the Rebels didn't truly win, they simply came out lucky and won by default. . . . that's why I have been writing a story that entails an alternate future to The Last Command where Thrawn predicted the Noghri's defection and betrayl and survived the Battle of Bilbringi. It's a great story that also brings in Daala and the Emperor's fleet in the Deep Core at Byss (Thrawn finds this all out over time and puts everything to work in his favor). I'm not 100% sure as to what will be the ending . . . but let me put it this way: the Rebels have three pawns (and their king) whereas Thrawn is missing three pawns. :twisted: