Lord High Admiral

Lord High Admiral was a grandilloquent-sounding title which Princess Leia Organa believed that Supreme Warlord Harrsk had awarded himself.

However, it is not entirely clear that Harrsk&mdash;one of the most prominent of the Imperial military commanders who set themselves up as warlords after the Battle of Endor&mdash;ever actually used this particualar style: no corroberating references are known, and his preferred style was apparently "Supreme Warlord".

If Harrsk did employ a title of "Lord High Admiral", it may have been a variation on the dignity of High Admiral, which denoted the commander of the fleet forces inside a Sector or Oversector of the Empire&mdash;although there is no evidence that Harrsk actually had any legitimate claim to this position either.

Behind the Scenes
The rank of "Lord High Admiral" is attributed to Harrsk only in Children of the Jedi, and only in Leia's thoughts, where she thinks of him as "the self-styled Lord High Admiral Harrsk" and later simply as "High Admiral Harrsk"; he is referred to as "Admiral Harrsk" by Ackbar, and as "Grand Admiral Harrsk" by See-Threepio.

No mention is made in Children of the Jedi of the title of "Supreme Warlord" which Harrsk uses in Darksaber, and which is also accorded to him in The Bacta War", set several years earlier. Inasmuch as Harrsk seems to have been created for Darksaber and referenced in Children of the Jedi in anticipation of that book, it may be that the title of "Supreme Warlord" had not yet been given to the character at the stage at which Children of the Jedi'' was written.

It is possible to interpret these lines as meaning that Leia was unsure of exactly what rank Harrsk claimed for himself. Even if this was not intended by author Barbara Hambly, the reference could certainly be retconned as a mistake on the character's part.

Appearances

 * Children of the Jedi