

The two fleets clashed in orbit, and the scant Imperial forces left at Ord Cantrell were quickly overwhelmed by D'Asta's cruisers and corvettes. Not long afterward, Baron D'Asta's armada attacked Ord Cantrell, and the mustachioed officer led the defense from the bridge of his flagship. The officer again contacted his Emperor and passed the information on. An Empire falls įollowing his discussion with Carivus, the mustachioed officer received an urgent communiqué from the crime lord Grappa the Hutt stating that he had captured Kir Kanos. The mustachioed officer received the message aboard his flagship and contacted Carivus on Ord Cantrell's surface, but the Emperor dismissed the Baron's threats as hollow and told the officer to deal with them himself. Baron Ragez D'Asta, the father of Feena and an Imperial-allied shipping magnate who commanded a large private fleet, consequently threatened to withdraw his support from the Empire in a message sent to Ord Cantrell. When Carivus disbanded the Ruling Council and declared himself Emperor, he imprisoned his fellow councilors, including Feena D'Asta. The mustachioed officer took command of a military that was thinly spread due to the Empire's ongoing Galactic Civil War with the New Republic, a manhunt for former Emperor's Royal Guard Kir Kanos called by council leader Xandel Carivus, and trouble raised by the Whiphid species following the death of Whiphid councilor Ch'Unkk. Following the deaths of navy Admiral Llon Banjeer and army General Immodet, the mustachioed officer was placed in supreme command of the Empire's fleets as an admiral and in charge of Ord Cantrell's troops as a general.


11 ABY saw several council members assassinated by Nom Anor-an advance agent of the invading extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong species who was trying to hasten the Empire's collapse -and by members of the criminal organization Black Sun. The Imperial Interim Ruling Council led the Empire from a villa in the planet Ord Cantrell's city of De-Purteen, where the mustachioed officer was also stationed. Having emerged from the ruins of Emperor Palpatine's Dark Empire, the Crimson Empire held the only territory still answerable to centralized Imperial control. A Human male with white hair and a mustache served as an officer in the Imperial Military in 11 ABY, during the Galactic Empire's incarnation as the Crimson Empire.
