Talk:Morlish Veed

One way to explain the whole Grand Admiral bit...
It occured to me today that the origins of Veed being a grand admiral as well as a moff may lie in historical precedent. Think back to the days of Pellaeon during the Yuuzhan Vong War. At that time, Pellaeon, a grand admiral, was separate from the Moff Council, but it is clear that, whatever the legal separation of powers - and there were surely some legal boundaries - he was the dominant figure in, and effectively the leader of, the Council and, therefore, the Imperial government. When the New Republic and, later, the GA conferred with the Empire, they called on Pellaeon, effectively recognizing him as unofficial chief of state of the Imperial Remnant, in addition to supreme commander of the Imperial armed forces.

If we take into account a full century of political evolution, and the restructuring of the Imperial government to accomodate an Emperor with the Moff Council as his advisory board, then it is quite possible that the tradition would have developed that the senior moff on the Council would also by right hold the title of grand admiral, and therefore be overall commander of the Imperial forces (accounting, of course, for the fact that the Emperor, by definition, would hold an even higher authority over the armed forces).

Veed may - or may not - have earned his rank as grand admiral; there is the possibility that he may hold it simply by virtue of a tradition dating back to the days of Pellaeon. If so, then he was an able enough politician to earn the primacy of place in the Council, and become grand admiral by default; if Pellaeon was a grand admiral as well as the leader of the Council (even unofficially), then by tradition Veed would be the same. Obviously, that wasn't enough for Veed, which is why he entered into a pact with the Sith in the first place... Erik Pflueger 23:32, 21 June 2006 (UTC)