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Giel, Mils

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this Imperial Admiral was in command of a large fleet of warships, during the months following the Battle of Hoth. A self-sure man with strong opinions on how the Empire should be run, Giel demanded complete compliance with his orders. His confidence in his men and his fleet was admirable, but also short-sighted. When it was learned that the Alliance had stolen the fleet's travel routes from the outpost on Spindrift, Giel refused to believe that they could harm him. At the same time, Admiral Giel was ordered to return the only known specimen of teezl to Coruscant. He was unprepared when Luke Skywalker and a group of pilots managed to infiltrate his armada flying in modified TIE Fighters, and he quickly ordered the teezl to jam communications. Although communications among the Alliance was disrupted, Luke managed to get a shot away and destroy the teezl. Giel returned to the Empire empty-handed, but admitted his mistakes to Darth Vader. Vader spared his life, but demoted him to Lieutenant for the loss of the teezl. Giel was then dispatched to Golrath, to search the planet for clues as to where the Alliance went after leaving the planet. Giel hoped that, by locating the Alliance and turning them over to Vader, he could regain his Admiralty. It was Giel himself who triggered the reactor overload which would have destroyed Golrath Station, as part of an improvised plan to capture Leia. Leia managed to escape, as did the rest of the Alliance team, leaving Giel once again without any information to return to Lord Vader. He tried to return to Coruscant, but was shipwrecked on the planet Beheboth, where he discovered that he could use the Tirrith as agents to consolidate his power. Though five years of experimentation, he developed speciallized globes that could contain a small collection of Tirrith. He also began experimenting with ways to breed special colonies of Tirrith, bred for destruction. He managed to receive funding from a cousin on Ralltiir, buying a small moisture farm that was well away from any other settlement. The globes - designed around the systems of a standard vaporator - about the size of an astromech droid - could then used as weapons, releasing the specially-modified Tirrith to destroy certain outposts. Giel planned to use these Tirrith to destroy the Alliance, in an effort to regain his position of power. His plans were discovered by Darial Anglethorn, and although Giel managed to flee Beheboth, his plans were exposed by Luke Skywalker to the commanders of the Alliance.