Afsheen Makati




 * "I was on an information raid once, back when we were trying to get data on Grand Admiral Makati out of the Boudolayz library..."
 * -Wedge Antilles, p. 32, Vision of the Future

Grand Admiral Afsheen Makati was a Grand Admiral of the Imperial Starfleet. He was one of the original 12 Grand Admirals, raised to that newly-created rank by the Emperor after the Battle of Yavin. Noted for his long-running feud with the Church of the Dark Side, and especially the Dark side Prophet, "Supreme Prophet of the Dark side" Kadann. Makati's hatred stemmed from an incident while assaulting the Rebel Alliance base on Thila, when he was nominally under the command of "The Secret Order", but effectively under Kadann's; Kadann had boarded Makati's flagship to personally oversee operations in his arrogant manner, and Makati's second-in-command was deeply amused by Kadann's robes- unfortunately, Kadann heard the second's mockery, and slew him with his Force Lightning. Makati would narrowly survive the Battle Of Endor, having been aboard the Death Star with the Emperor. Unlike many of his fellow Grand Admirals who became Warlords (but like Grand Admiral Ishin Il-Raz), Makati remained staunchly loyal to the Empire. defining the legitimate ruler as whoever possessed Imperial Center- first this was Sate Pestage, then Ysanne Isard. Around this time, Kadann made a fatal move: he attempted to grab power by prophesying himself ruler of the Empire. Isard refused to countenance this, and after a request, dispatched none other then his old enemy Makati to eliminate Kadann. Makati tracked Kadann done by first using Imperial Intelligence to track down Kadann's student Azrakel, and forcing Azrakel to reveal the location of the Prophets of the Dark Side's space station. Kadann was not there, preoccupied as he was with the events of the Jedi Prince series. At the conclusion, Kadann barely managed to escape the City of the Jedi and make his way back to Space Station Scardia- where he discovered a welcoming committee of the dead bodies of his fellow Prophets. Makati took a moment to mock Kadann (and more specifically, his robes) over the intercom before the Station disapeared in a hail of turbolaser fire. Makati would not long survive Kadann though.

Though never published and thus not canonical, Star Wars Insider author Daniel Wallace indicates that Makati's personal Star Destroyer was named Steadfast. See here.