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Natasi Daala
"Why is it every time a competent woman is rewarded, others assume it's only because she's having sex with a man?"

- Natasi Daala

We've got a new image that I should add in the infobox.

Natasi Daala was the only female to ever reach the rank of admiral in the Imperial Navy. A Human, she enlisted in the Imperial Navy on Carida, but was discriminated against due to her sex. However, she achieved success through Tarkin, who discovered her after she defeated many skilled Imperial opponents in simulated battles, using an alias to hide her true identity. Tarkin took her under his wing, and as he rose, so did she. She became his lover and was eventually promoted to admiral by him.

After a time, she was sent to the top-secret Imperial research facility known as the Maw Installation. There, some of the best scientists in the galaxy worked on new concepts, hoping to design new superweapons for the Empire. She resided there with four Imperial I-class Star Destroyer for ten years, unaware of what was happening in the galaxy.

In 11 ABY, Kyp Durron, Han Solo and Chewbacca stumbled upon the facility after making an emergency escape from Moruth Doole's forces on Kessel. She interrogated them, and was stunned to learn that Tarkin and Emperor Palpatine were dead and the Empire was on the verge of collapse, having been killed by the Rebel Alliance. She decided to lauch her campaign to wreak havoc on the galaxy and get revenge for the defeat of the Empire. She had no real strategy, and intended only to cuase as much damage as possible with her four Star Destroyers and the Sun Crusher. However, the Sun Crusher was stolen from her by Solo and his two companions, who were also able to warn the New Republic of this new threat. Ultimately, Daals accomplished little, and with three of her Star Destroyers gone, headed back to the Maw to try and protect it from the New Republic. There, she found New Republic forces, who attacked. Though she managed to destroy the Maw, to prevent the New Republic from gaining new weapons, her Star Destroyer was damaged and she made an emergency hyperspace jump.

In 12 ABY, Daala attempted to unify the Imperial warlords, but found little success. She executed them, then took command of their forces. She once again attempted to destroy the New Republic, this time with the aid of commander Gilad Pellaeon. However, she was defeated, and relinquished command to Pellaeon, resigning from the military. A year later, she re-appeared to aid the New Republic against the corrupt Moff Getelles, then disappeared, swearing she was done with military service. However, in 14 ABY she once again attacked the New Republic, but was defeated. The New Republic believed she was dead, but Daala once again stunned them, when, in 40 ABY, she revealed herself. Commander of a new fleet, she split from the Imperial Remnant to join the Mandalorians and fight against Darth Caedus, the despotic leader of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.

Early career


Daala was born on an unknown world sometime before the Battle of Yavin.

While she was a talented student and officer at the Imperial Academy, she was continually passed over for promotion due to her gender, though accounts by Imperial military officers said that she argued too much when she was passed over for promotions. To take out her frustrations toward the male-dominated military, she made herself a false computer identity. Under this alias, Daala was able to defeat many high-level officers, including some of her own instructors, in simulated battles. Many of her tactics were based upon ideas formed by the venerated general Jan Dodonna. Her tactics were studied and implemented throughout the entire Imperial military. Despite graduating from the Academy, she ended up a non-commissioned officer in the Imperial Army.Verify

She soon gained the attention of Moff Tarkin. He investigated Daala's hidden exploits at the Academy, hiring two black-market slicers who worked for several months to find the identity of the hidden strategist. He was surprised to discover not only her identity, but that she was female. At the time, Daala held the rank of corporal and had first been a computer clerk, then a member of the kitchen staff preparing food for Star Destroyers. When the Carida staff discovered her identity, they planned to reassign her to a meteorological station at the planet's southern pole. However, Tarkin took her on as his protégé, using his influence to bypass the normal military hierarchy and promote her. Daala eventually received the rank of admiral, the first and only female to do so (though, in later years, her badge would come to represent the rank of Grand Moff).

Many quietly complained that Daala was sleeping her way to the top. When one of those remarks made its way back to Tarkin, he searched out the officer who had made it. He had the officer sealed inside an environmental suit and ejected him into the space over a planet as punishment. Tarkin had the suit's radio left on so that others could hear the man over the course of 24 hours as his orbit decayed. The officer's orbit decayed to the point where he finally entered the planet's atmosphere and burned up on reentry. However, the allegations were in fact accurate, as Daala did have an affair with Tarkin once she transferred under his command.

At the same time as she was carrying on her affair with Tarkin, Daala was also engaged in a romance with the holo faker Liegeus Vorn.

Maw Installation
By 2 BBY, Daala had risen to the rank of admiral, aided by Tarkin, who would become the first Grand Moff. Tarkin entrusted Daala with overseeing and protecting the Maw Installation, birthplace of the Death Stars, World Devastators, and the Sun Crusher. This facility was hidden away even from the rest of the Empire, and four Imperial-class Star Destroyers were stationed there (Basilisk, Gorgon, Hydra, and Manticore). After having her promoted to admiral, Tarkin ordered Daala never to abandon her post or break communication silence unless he returned, as she had no authority outside Tarkin's command. Very few beings, perhaps only Tarkin, Vader and Palpatine were aware of this facility. So after his death, Daala stayed isolated in the Maw with no news of the Galaxy outside and no one aware of her existence.

Though Daala believed not even the Emperor knew about the Maw Installation, in truth he was one of the very few he did, something Tarkin was aware of.

However, Tarkin broke his own orders (and Palpatine's) when he recalled her from the Maw on at least one instance. The two lovers had grown tired of their jobs, tedious overseeing of projects, and wished to see each other. In 0 BBY, when he was supervising the construction of the First Death Star, Tarkin had her brought to the site. He was also investigating an incident of sabotage when a Star Destroyer at the site exploded, an act of obvious sabotage, as it was the second ship to be destroyed near the Death Star's skeletal structure. Daala tried to help him solve the mystery of who was behind the sabotage.

Daala was injured during the Destruction of Despayre, when a Rebel freighter carrying a squad of X-wings attacked the Death Star. Though the Rebel ships were destroyed, routed by TIE Fighters, her Star Destroyer suffered damage. Daala suffered memory loss, but recovered with the aid of Doctor Kornell Divini. After this incident, Tarkin erased all records of her being there and sent her back to the Maw.



In 11 ABY, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Kyp Durron escaped from Kessel and accidentally discovered the Maw Installation. Daala captured and interrogated them, learning for the first time about the destruction of the Death Stars and the deaths of Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, and Tarkin. Daala knew that her orders were obsolete and decided to leave the Maw to strike back at the Rebels. However, her plans were partially sabotaged when her prisoners, aided by researcher Qwi Xux, escaped with the Sun Crusher.

She attacked Mon Calamari after the self-exiled Ackbar accidentally triggered a probe droid's signal. She caught the planet by surprise, and was able to destroy a city before Ackbar took control of the defenses. As a former slave of Tarkin, from whom Daala had learned many of her tactics, he recognized her strategy. She planned to draw fire with two of her ships on the far side of the planet while bringing the other Destroyer out from behind the moon and crashing it into the shipyards, essentially crippling them. Ackbar was able to remotely steer an unoccupied capital ship into her ship, destroying both and saving the shipyard.

Though she had caused great amounts of damage, she had lost one of her Star Destroyers, reducing their number to two, and had failed to cause the terror she hoped.

Though she made a valiant attempt and was armed with "the power to turn planets into slag", Daala was ultimately foiled. She lost one Star Destroyer in the Maw, when Han Solo piloted the Sun Crusher directly through the ship's bridge. Pursuing the diminutive superweapon out of the Maw, she ran into Moruth Doole's sizable mercenary fleet and defeated them in a confused brawl, albeit with more losses incurred. Undaunted, Daala continued to raid various planets, including Dantooine, where the original Eol Sha colonists had relocated. After determining that Mon Calamari was of some importance, she decided to attack the watery world. Although she was initially successful, a second ship was destroyed by Admiral Ackbar in orbit around Mon Calamari.

Following her defeat at Mon Calamari, Daala retreated to the Cauldron Nebula. She had planned to go down fighting, striking a fatal blow against the New Republic by evacuating one of her two remaining Star Destroyers of personnel and equipment, and send it crashing down upon the surface of Coruscant. This last desperate plan was again met with defeat when Kyp Durron ignited the stars in the nebula with the Sun Crusher, destroying the mostly abandoned Star Destroyer. Weary of her continuous failed efforts, Daala decided to return with Gorgon to the Maw, vowing to return to Tarkin's assigned mission, and defend it to the death.

What she found there, however, was total chaos. The Republic had already moved to seize Maw Installation, while Tol Sivron and the remaining scientists had sabotaged the facility and absconded with the prototype Death Star. Both Daala and Sivron returned to attack the occupied facility, though the re-appearance of the Sun Crusher distracted both of them. As the facility exploded, Daala desperately escaped the Maw, dejectedly setting a course for the splintered Empire.

The reunification of the Empire
"I didn't want to rule. I had no intention of becoming a political leader. &hellip;but you have given me no choice. I cannot leave the Empire in the hands of fools like you."

- Admiral Daala to other Imperial warlords at Tsoss Beacon



The remnants of the Imperial command dismantled Gorgon and distributed her surviving crew among the various commanders. Daala chose not to join with anyone, instead serving as a roaming ambassador amongst the warlords in an attempt to unify them. After "Supreme Warlord" Harrsk pressed her into his service on the threat of death, Daala at last grew tired of the chaotic state of the Empire. Feuding over what was left of a formerly Galaxy-spanning government, the warlords were slowly destroying what remained. Daala sought to change that and joined forces with then-Vice Admiral Gilad Pellaeon, forcing the most powerful warlords to meet in order to negotiate and discuss the future of the Empire at Tsoss Beacon in 12 ABY. After hours of petty squabbling and arguing, Daala executed the warlords, sealing them in a room and poisoning the air, leaving herself as the effective head-of-state and commander-in-chief of what was left of the Galactic Empire, under the self appointed title of Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet, with Pellaeon as her second-in-command. In this way, she has been attributed as the founder of the modern Imperial Remnant.

Following the warlords' deaths, Daala took command of their forces, consolidating fleets of Victory-class and Imperial-class Star Destroyers, Skipray Blastboats, and even a single Star Dreadnought, Knight Hammer taken from "Superior General" Delvardus. Additionally, Daala instituted societal reforms in the Imperial military, ending decades of oppression against women and nonhumans. Her fleet successfully raided a few systems before executing a poorly planned assault against the New Republic and Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin IV, which resulted in the destruction of Knight Hammer, several Victory-class Star Destroyers, and the damage of the forty-five Imperial-class Star Destroyers under Pellaeon's direct command. At the start of the battle, Daala's fleet landed a large number of ground troops on Yavin IV, but they were defeated by the Jedi there. In space, Ackbar arrived with a small fleet and engaged Daala's numerically superior fleet, though Ackbar would soon be reinforced by a much larger New Republic fleet. Defeated, Daala managed to overcome the Jedi Knight Callista Ming, and escaped from the dying wake of Knight Hammer after Callista sabotaged the behemoth vessel, only to relinquish command, promoting Pellaeon to the rank of Admiral and Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet, apparently resigning Imperial service for good.

Later life


Expand She settled temporarily on Pedducis Chorios as an independent faction leader, leading a group of settlers (mostly retired or disillusioned Imperial military members) on the distant world&mdash;albeit settlers with a sizable military force, including capital ships. Daala would return to service, however, when she learned of Moff Getelles's plan to use the Death Seed plague to take over the Meridian Sector from R2-D2 and C-3PO, whom she found on Cybloc XII after receiving their distress call. Feeling nothing but contempt for Getelles's actions, Daala assisted New Republic forces in defeating a fleet under Admiral Larm at Nam Chorios. After the battle she was reunited with her old flame Liegeus Vorn and the two returned to Peduccis Chorios together.

Almost a year later, Daala resurfaced in the Deep Core looking to establish another fleet. She united the squabbling factions under warlords including Foga Brill and Moff Tethys and prepared to strike once more at the New Republic. Though she did make an attack against the Republic a short time later, General Garm Bel Iblis defeated her soundly, causing her ship to make a blind hyperspace jump. Her activities and whereabouts after this defeat remain unknown. She was presumed killed in battle, but New Republic Intelligence consistently refused to remove her name from the list of potential threats.

However, she had survived, fleeing back to the May Installation where she had remained for many years. This would not be so, though, as in 40 ABY she was contacted by Gilad Pellaeon, due to the GA-C war. Pellaeon warned her of Chief of State Jacen Solo's offer to ally with the Imperial Remnant and give them Borleias and Bilbringi in exchange for aid at Fondor. Daala agreed to meet him in person, coming to the Bloodfin, Pellaeon's flagship. She informed him of her well-being, telling him that her husband Liegeus Vorn was killed in 35 ABY after the two had a son, and she lost her eye to a thermal detonator in the same incident. She re-appeared at the Second Battle of Fondor to fight Jacen Solo with her Maw Irregular Fleet, led by the historied Chimaera. She fought the treacherous Moffs when Pellaeon was killed by Tahiri Veila. She contacted Boba Fett.

She was now fighting alongside Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo, her enemies for so long.

She did stuff in Invincible too.

Personality and traits
Daala was an aggressive commander who harbored much frustration at being so poorly treated in the Imperial command structure. She was in some ways charismatic, but due to her gender and suspect manner of promotion this was often ignored. She also could be ruthless, ordering the bombardment of colonies, the destruction of merchant vessels, the torture of prisoners, and the destruction of worlds with seemingly no remorse. She was described as a loose cannon, one without a proper strategy. Indeed, she intended only to do as much damage as she could in her first campaign.

She was disgraced by her failures, leading to her resigning command to Pellaeon, as she had lost many battles. Her self-confidence was damaged, and she believed her soldiers did not deserve to serve under a failed commander, which she thought she had proven herself to be.

Daala was also devoted to the cause of the Empire almost to the point of irrationalism&mdash;at least in the eyes of the post-Endor warlords&mdash;and to following orders, remaining at the Maw installation for years without any outside contact. She also was willing to go to great lengths to further that cause, including killing other Imperial leaders, wanting to sacrifice a Star Destroyer to destroy Coruscant, and sacrificing her own life for the Empire.

However, despite her combative nature, Daala did have a soft side, which she displayed towards those she respected, such as her long time second-in-command and her former lover. This side of her personality was almost never seen however.

After her defeat in 12 ABY, she attempted to vanish from the galactic stage, but was unable to leave the lifestyle of an Imperial admiral behind, as she tried once more to attack the New Republic. Following her reappearance in 40 ABY, she joined the Alliance, because, unlike many Imperials, she did not support the tyrannical policies of self-appointed Chief of State Jacen Solo.She was now fighting alongside Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo, her enemies for so long. She was able to look past their differences, and, like she had in 13 ABY, fight for a cause she believed in against a enemy leader.

Behind the scenes
Admiral Daala was created by Kevin J. Anderson for the Jedi Academy Trilogy as the main antagonist. After this, Daala appeared in Anderson's Darksaber, where she was again one of the antagonists. She appeared in Planet of Twilight, written just a year later, and then, aside from a brief mention which stated she was believed to be dead in the New Essential Chronolgy, disappeared from canon for 10 years. In 2008, Daala re-appeared in the eighth book in the Legacy of the Force series, Revelation, this time fighting alongside her former enemies.

All of Daala's Star Destroyers (Basilisk, Gorgon, Hydra, and Manticore) are named after mythical beasts, perhaps implying that they are sister ships of the famous Chimaera.

Appearances



 * Death Star
 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Jedi Search
 * Dark Apprentice
 * Champions of the Force
 * Darksaber
 * Jedi Academy: Leviathan
 * Planet of Twilight
 * Before the Storm
 * Shield of Lies
 * The New Rebellion
 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future
 * Star Wars: Union
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * The Unifying Force
 * Revelation
 * Invincible

Quotes
"&hellip;And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as THE SON OF THE SUNS."

- Journal of the Whills, 3:127

"Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

"You've failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

- Luke Skywalker

"The enemy has found me, Ulic, but the enemy knows only darkness. I know what the enemy does not&hellip;I know the Light."

- Arca Jeth

"Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free."

- The Sith Code

"Concentrate all fire on that Super Star Destroyer!"

- Ackbar