Villians, each new book has portrayed new villian i, I had wondered which of them had the strongest and more lasting impression on each of us.
I personally vote Thrawn he was the only one who actually managed to put the Rep on its knees, while following another secret agenda at the time. The way he was portrayed was also very nice, ever seen from another perspective added mystery to him.
I`m still wondering about Heir to the Empire page 175, his only failure out at the Fringes, the civ he wound up destroying....

I'm with Thrawn for the simple reason he was portrayed brilliantly as a tactical genius not in possession of a Super Star Destroyer, Super-weapon, of super Jedi-abilities. IE: The Thrawn books were reasonably sensible and a made a damn fine read! All that Dark-Empire nonsense got a bit silly.

Can you imagine what could've happened had Thrawn got his hands on a Super Star Destroyer?

No, but the concept does beg some drooling over! Given the stupity of Star Wars books, no doubt it wouldn't have made much difference. Wedge and the glory boys would have pulled something impossible-off and blown it to kingdom-come!

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Weird that the post is twice.
I agree with Elvis on the Thrawn novels, partly I guess it's because there was always left some little tid-bit that needed an explanation. now I wonder about Thrawn's defeat, but bofore of that I used to wonder a lot about the beckon call luke found on the dagobah, and look it was solved in the hand of thrawn books. In survivor's quest we'll porbably learn more about the clone wars, and probably more thrawn, c'baoth, wayland, spaarti, jorg car'das and hopefully the civilization he destroyed. and there is always the hijarna issue... and how that damn hard black stone wound up on Nirauan.
Thrawn with an SSD, I guess he would have thought that the rebels thought it would be the spearhead of his operation, so they would have wound up chasing it all over space, and no matter what wedgie's boys did with it, it wouldn't have mattered to the overall scheme. Perhaps he would have sent it to the unknown regions.

Not even Wedge's boys could have stopped Thrawn with an SSD.

Thrawn is great, but I also like Daala. I think they didn't portray her well in the books though. She was supposed to be a great tactitian beating the best of the Imperial teachers when Tarkin found her, yet they have her screw up continually in the books. Just goes to show that the writers ALWAYS make the rebel scum win. I still think that the way Thrawn dies is bull. -Grand Moff Conway

He would have used an SSD as a distraction, to get Wedge and the boys out of the picture.

Daala was a brilliant tactician and is portrayed as such, BUT, her tactics were old because she was isolated for so long, so the rest of the galaxy had time to catch up with her. Also a crazy Jedi with a solar system destroying weapon tends to put the hurt on your little fleet.

The way Thrawn dies definatly sucks.

It could be much worse. At least being killed by a highly trained assassin isn't too shameful. It's not like he got seriously outwitted by some halfwit Republic tactician.

Think about it this way: Rukh was the only one being able to kill Thrawn

Also Daala's tactics were known to Ackbar, cause he had to endure time as Tarkin's pet. With no access to improvments to their tactics she still had to use her best knowledge and failed. Another problem she had was, that she became too furious at times. Thrawn was always level-headed, even when something blew up in his face, like Ferrier's little ambush for the smugglers, or that sabotaged ISD.

Thrawn was ICE cool man.

Yes, Daala is portrayed as an outdated tactician, who can be easily driven mad, Thrawn is glacially calm. Thrawn reacted like, "In every problem lies an opportunity" instead Daala reacted like: "Aaaaargh, those Rebels I'll take my Star Destroyer and bombard Dantooine!!!! "

Gosh! Have you guys checked out the results of this poll? Thrawn is way up there on 75%!!!

I think we can safely deduce from this that the reason being so is that the Thrawn trilogy had a level headed tactician as opposed to a super being with super powers as the villan, which is a bit more believable and entertaining, right?