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Teradoc (d. 47 rS) was a space warfare officer (SWO) in the service of the Imperial State in the late 30s rS. According to Dame Winter in The Bacta
War, details on his background were sketchy at best, but available intelligence indicated that “most of his duty stations were Rimward” and that “he
was diligent in his duties and virulently anti-Rebel, but beyond that unremarkable”; at least some of this intelligence is of questionable accuracy, as
she also claimed that he “remained nominally loyal to the Empire until Coruscant fell,” whereas the New Republic Historical Council later wrote in
The Essential Chronology that “Admiral Teradoc followed Harrsk’s lead and established a miniature empire on the outskirts of the Deep Core, just
days after the Imperial debacle at Endor.” This, too, proved to be inaccurate, however, and in The New Essential Chronology the Historical Council
corrected this to say that he “established a miniature empire in the Mid Rim just days after Endor,” a statement that at least agrees with Dame
Winter’s remark that most of his duty stations had been in the Rim. It appears that before the Battle of Endor and his subsequent defection from
Imperial service, High Admiral Teradoc led “an anti-Rebel taskforce” that included an Interdictor cruiser, HIMS Aggregator, which would remain
under his control even after he abandoned the Empire and set himself up as a rogue warlord, according to The Bacta War. He was first mentioned as
an “Imperial wannabe” alongside Harrsk in Children of the Jedi.
Teradoc managed to hold onto his forces and his territory for six years, despite pressures from the New Republic, the Empire, and rival warlords.
During the so-called Bacta War in mid 42 rS, Teradoc loaned the use of his Interdictor Aggregator to Ysanne Isard – Director of Imperial Intelligence
and former Imperial regent, now the newly installed Chief of State of Thyferra and Chief Executive Officer of Xucphra Corporation – in exchange for
bacta shipments; although he loaned her the use of the ship, he did not loan her the embarked squadrons, and she was forced to use Thyferran Home
Defense Corps pilots and fighters instead, which prompted former Wing Commander Wedge Antilles to speculate that perhaps “Teradoc is running
low on trained personnel,” and “with a supply of bacta he can keep them alive a bit longer,” as “without unlimited Imperial resources, he’s having to
conserve people the way we [the rebel Alliance] did.” Smuggler chief Booster Terrik offered a somewhat more pragmatic interpretation: “a lack of
confidence by Teradoc in Isard.” Although Isard’s Commander Ait Convarion – judging by the fact that he is said by The Bacta War to outrank a
‘mere’ post captain, Convarion was probably a line captain – and his Victory Star Destroyer Corrupter had used Aggregator to ambush the rogue
Rogue Squadron, the tables were turned, Corrupter was destroyed, and Aggregator took damage before fleeing, prompting Teradoc to chide Isard
that “he’d only lend [her] toys if [she] would promise they would not return broken.”
Teradoc bided his time after the Bacta War and the various hunts for the self-titled Imperial Warlord Zsinj and his flagship, the Super Star Destroyer
Iron Fist. When Zsinj and his second in command, General Melvar, were killed at Dathomir in mid 43 rS, the Historical Council writes that the “self-
appointed High Admiral of the Mid Rim” made his move, sending his own forces into the late Zsinj’s territory in a bold attempt to annex it before
Empire or the New Republic, their own fleets under Fleet Admiral Teren Rogriss and Admiral Ackbar himself, respectively. The fighting was fierce,
and “Warlord Teradoc” made use of “hit-and-run strikes” to make up for his inability to stand toe to toe with the larger fleets (of all the rogue
warlords, only Zsinj had possessed enough power to actually fight the Empire or the New Republic on equal terms). In the end, Rogriss withdrew
from the fighting, and Teradoc also “scurried back to his own territory,” ceding Zsinj’s former pocket empire to the New Republic, at the cost of a
great deal of th New Republic Defense Force’s Star Destroyers, many of which were captured or destroyed in the fighting.
The Historical Council writes that in 45 rS, “surviving warlords such as Harrsk, Delvardus, and Teradoc swore obedience to the same master and
fought under the same banner,” joining the Loyalists of the Empire in a renewed offensive against the New Republic, which culminated in the
recapture of Coruscant, only to be rapidly followed by the Time of Destruction (also called the Mutiny, the Imperial Civil War, and the War of
Purification). Teradoc reaffirmed his loyalty to the Galactic Emperor – reincarnated and recently emerged from his occultation in the Deep Core –
and presumably served the revivified Empire as a fleet commander during Operation Shadow Hand (his activities during this time are not described in
any current source). The fact that Teradoc did know of the Galactic Emperor’s return before the Time of Destruction while Loyalist forces “did not
yet know of Palpatine’s return” suggests that he might have been one of those summoned to Byss during the ‘great interregnum’ of 39 - 45 rS in
order to reaffirm his allegiance to the Galactic Emperor and to serve as one of his ‘agents of chaos’ or ‘wreckers.’ After the Galactic Emperor’s death
and the destruction of Byss in early 47 rS, Teradoc abandoned the Empire a second time; the Historical Council writes in The New Essential
Chronology that he had “lost his Mid Rim holdings, but now carved out a kingdom in the Deep Core.”
According to Darksaber, Teradoc’s policy differed from rival warlords like Harrsk and Delvardus, who invested their resources in larger, more
powerful warships; Teradoc believed in “building up a huge fleet of smaller, more versatile ships,” and as a result both The Essential Chronology and
The New Essential Chronology affirm that he controlled “the largest intact military” of any of the Deep Core warlords after the final collapse of the
Imperial State. His private starfleet was seen to include as many as 73 Victory class Star Destroyers – all painted red – and he placed this starfleet
under his newly-joined second in command, Vice Admiral Gilad Pellaeon, the man who had illegally called the retreat at Endor and who had
subsequently served as flag captain under the late Grand Admiral Thrawn during Thrawn’s War in 44 rS. The New Essential Chronology calls this
starfleet “Crimson Command, a huge flotilla of red-hulled Victory-class Star Destroyers.” In addition to spending money on his military buildup,
Teradoc also maintained “highly useful spy files” in the central databanks of his flagship, and included in these spy files “the secret location of [rival
warlord] Delvardus’s fortress,” according to Darksaber.
Teradoc’s own hidden fortress was seen in Darksaber to be located in a system in the Deep Core with “a lavender-and-white gas giant,” surrounded
by a disk described as “a rocky swath of planetoids,” a “crumbling, ice-laden ring system” whose “rubble created tens of thousands of possible
targets, all places the High Admiral could have chosen to hide his fortress” (it was actually hidden within a “nondescript, medium-sized rock,”
equipped with “camouflaged weapons batteries” and a Führerbunker protected by “dozens of meters of the highest-quality shielding,” while dozens
of the other “small planetoids” were in fact “garrisons, hollowed-out rocks that served as hangars for the crimson Victory ships”). At least two of
the planetoids in the rings were rigged with proximity charges set to “detect the passage of incoming hostile ships,” and were powerful enough that
the two charges were able to destroy two of Supreme Warlord Harrsk’s Star Destroyers and cripple a third after Teradoc launched an assault on his
headquarters in retaliation for Teradoc’s own attack on Harrsk’s base in 47 rS, destroying his flagship Shockwave in exchange for the loss of ten of
his own Victory Star Destroyers. One of Harrsk’s Star Destroyers, Firestorm, drew close enough to Teradoc’s fortress to launch an attack, but her
commander, “Fleet Admiral” Daala – whose claim to that rank was even more spurious than Harrsk’s claim to be a grand admiral, for Harrsk at least
was a commissioned officer in the Imperial Navy – opted instead to incapacitate Harrsk’s own Star Destroyer Whirlwind and threatened to destroy
both if an immediate cessation to hostilities were not called. Teradoc’s second in command, Pellaeon, agreed to Daala’s terms against Teradoc’s
orders, and the two treacherous subordinates called for a détente council at Tsoss Beacon.
Teradoc was first of thirteen of the most powerful warlords to arrive at the peace talks, to be followed by Harrsk, Delvardus, and “an endless string
of High Moffs, Honored Overlords, Supreme Leaders, and other commanders with similarly pompous yet meaningless titles.” Teradoc quickly
realized that – contrary to expectations – Daala was insane and did not have any actual plan, offering only empty platitudes and useless sound bytes.
Teradoc dismissed her as an imbecile spouting “high-sounding nonsense”; when she insisted that they were talking about the fate of the Empire, he
rightly pointed out that the Empire no longer existed, having collapsed into oblivion after the assassination of Xandel Carivus: “We are the Empire,”
he said ironically, pointing to himself and his rival warlords, mortal enemies with only vague principles of Palpatinism in common, incapable of
laying aside their longstanding vendettas and rivalries. Instead of attempting to take the lead in these “talks,” Daala simply locked the warlords into a
room and sat silent for three hours while tempers flared, and then acted surprised when her so-called “détente council” turned out to be a farce. Faced
with the reality that she was as spectacularly useless a diplomat as she was a fleet commander, Daala simply murdered all of the warlords with nerve
gas, and usurped control of their resources, to dither it all away in a useless attack on Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Praxeum at Yavin IV in Darksaber.
In Darksaber, Teradoc was described as being morbidly obese, to the extent that his disloyal fleet commander Vice Admiral Pellaeon supposed that
“the man’s girth had increased threefold in the last year or so.” When he arrived at the détente council, he was described as “fat and sweaty-faced,
staggering even in the low gravity.” Surprisingly, Teradoc was the last of the warlords to die of the nerve gas, possibly because he did not attempt to
escape and rather remained seated, without increasing his blood circulation or breathing. He is mentioned in the non-canonical Invention section’s The
Test of Wills as one of the “six former Starfleet commanders” who participated in the capture of Coruscant along with the Emperor’s Ruling Circle, as
described in Dark Empire.
References:
War, details on his background were sketchy at best, but available intelligence indicated that “most of his duty stations were Rimward” and that “he
was diligent in his duties and virulently anti-Rebel, but beyond that unremarkable”; at least some of this intelligence is of questionable accuracy, as
she also claimed that he “remained nominally loyal to the Empire until Coruscant fell,” whereas the New Republic Historical Council later wrote in
The Essential Chronology that “Admiral Teradoc followed Harrsk’s lead and established a miniature empire on the outskirts of the Deep Core, just
days after the Imperial debacle at Endor.” This, too, proved to be inaccurate, however, and in The New Essential Chronology the Historical Council
corrected this to say that he “established a miniature empire in the Mid Rim just days after Endor,” a statement that at least agrees with Dame
Winter’s remark that most of his duty stations had been in the Rim. It appears that before the Battle of Endor and his subsequent defection from
Imperial service, High Admiral Teradoc led “an anti-Rebel taskforce” that included an Interdictor cruiser, HIMS Aggregator, which would remain
under his control even after he abandoned the Empire and set himself up as a rogue warlord, according to The Bacta War. He was first mentioned as
an “Imperial wannabe” alongside Harrsk in Children of the Jedi.
Teradoc managed to hold onto his forces and his territory for six years, despite pressures from the New Republic, the Empire, and rival warlords.
During the so-called Bacta War in mid 42 rS, Teradoc loaned the use of his Interdictor Aggregator to Ysanne Isard – Director of Imperial Intelligence
and former Imperial regent, now the newly installed Chief of State of Thyferra and Chief Executive Officer of Xucphra Corporation – in exchange for
bacta shipments; although he loaned her the use of the ship, he did not loan her the embarked squadrons, and she was forced to use Thyferran Home
Defense Corps pilots and fighters instead, which prompted former Wing Commander Wedge Antilles to speculate that perhaps “Teradoc is running
low on trained personnel,” and “with a supply of bacta he can keep them alive a bit longer,” as “without unlimited Imperial resources, he’s having to
conserve people the way we [the rebel Alliance] did.” Smuggler chief Booster Terrik offered a somewhat more pragmatic interpretation: “a lack of
confidence by Teradoc in Isard.” Although Isard’s Commander Ait Convarion – judging by the fact that he is said by The Bacta War to outrank a
‘mere’ post captain, Convarion was probably a line captain – and his Victory Star Destroyer Corrupter had used Aggregator to ambush the rogue
Rogue Squadron, the tables were turned, Corrupter was destroyed, and Aggregator took damage before fleeing, prompting Teradoc to chide Isard
that “he’d only lend [her] toys if [she] would promise they would not return broken.”
Teradoc bided his time after the Bacta War and the various hunts for the self-titled Imperial Warlord Zsinj and his flagship, the Super Star Destroyer
Iron Fist. When Zsinj and his second in command, General Melvar, were killed at Dathomir in mid 43 rS, the Historical Council writes that the “self-
appointed High Admiral of the Mid Rim” made his move, sending his own forces into the late Zsinj’s territory in a bold attempt to annex it before
Empire or the New Republic, their own fleets under Fleet Admiral Teren Rogriss and Admiral Ackbar himself, respectively. The fighting was fierce,
and “Warlord Teradoc” made use of “hit-and-run strikes” to make up for his inability to stand toe to toe with the larger fleets (of all the rogue
warlords, only Zsinj had possessed enough power to actually fight the Empire or the New Republic on equal terms). In the end, Rogriss withdrew
from the fighting, and Teradoc also “scurried back to his own territory,” ceding Zsinj’s former pocket empire to the New Republic, at the cost of a
great deal of th New Republic Defense Force’s Star Destroyers, many of which were captured or destroyed in the fighting.
The Historical Council writes that in 45 rS, “surviving warlords such as Harrsk, Delvardus, and Teradoc swore obedience to the same master and
fought under the same banner,” joining the Loyalists of the Empire in a renewed offensive against the New Republic, which culminated in the
recapture of Coruscant, only to be rapidly followed by the Time of Destruction (also called the Mutiny, the Imperial Civil War, and the War of
Purification). Teradoc reaffirmed his loyalty to the Galactic Emperor – reincarnated and recently emerged from his occultation in the Deep Core –
and presumably served the revivified Empire as a fleet commander during Operation Shadow Hand (his activities during this time are not described in
any current source). The fact that Teradoc did know of the Galactic Emperor’s return before the Time of Destruction while Loyalist forces “did not
yet know of Palpatine’s return” suggests that he might have been one of those summoned to Byss during the ‘great interregnum’ of 39 - 45 rS in
order to reaffirm his allegiance to the Galactic Emperor and to serve as one of his ‘agents of chaos’ or ‘wreckers.’ After the Galactic Emperor’s death
and the destruction of Byss in early 47 rS, Teradoc abandoned the Empire a second time; the Historical Council writes in The New Essential
Chronology that he had “lost his Mid Rim holdings, but now carved out a kingdom in the Deep Core.”
According to Darksaber, Teradoc’s policy differed from rival warlords like Harrsk and Delvardus, who invested their resources in larger, more
powerful warships; Teradoc believed in “building up a huge fleet of smaller, more versatile ships,” and as a result both The Essential Chronology and
The New Essential Chronology affirm that he controlled “the largest intact military” of any of the Deep Core warlords after the final collapse of the
Imperial State. His private starfleet was seen to include as many as 73 Victory class Star Destroyers – all painted red – and he placed this starfleet
under his newly-joined second in command, Vice Admiral Gilad Pellaeon, the man who had illegally called the retreat at Endor and who had
subsequently served as flag captain under the late Grand Admiral Thrawn during Thrawn’s War in 44 rS. The New Essential Chronology calls this
starfleet “Crimson Command, a huge flotilla of red-hulled Victory-class Star Destroyers.” In addition to spending money on his military buildup,
Teradoc also maintained “highly useful spy files” in the central databanks of his flagship, and included in these spy files “the secret location of [rival
warlord] Delvardus’s fortress,” according to Darksaber.
Teradoc’s own hidden fortress was seen in Darksaber to be located in a system in the Deep Core with “a lavender-and-white gas giant,” surrounded
by a disk described as “a rocky swath of planetoids,” a “crumbling, ice-laden ring system” whose “rubble created tens of thousands of possible
targets, all places the High Admiral could have chosen to hide his fortress” (it was actually hidden within a “nondescript, medium-sized rock,”
equipped with “camouflaged weapons batteries” and a Führerbunker protected by “dozens of meters of the highest-quality shielding,” while dozens
of the other “small planetoids” were in fact “garrisons, hollowed-out rocks that served as hangars for the crimson Victory ships”). At least two of
the planetoids in the rings were rigged with proximity charges set to “detect the passage of incoming hostile ships,” and were powerful enough that
the two charges were able to destroy two of Supreme Warlord Harrsk’s Star Destroyers and cripple a third after Teradoc launched an assault on his
headquarters in retaliation for Teradoc’s own attack on Harrsk’s base in 47 rS, destroying his flagship Shockwave in exchange for the loss of ten of
his own Victory Star Destroyers. One of Harrsk’s Star Destroyers, Firestorm, drew close enough to Teradoc’s fortress to launch an attack, but her
commander, “Fleet Admiral” Daala – whose claim to that rank was even more spurious than Harrsk’s claim to be a grand admiral, for Harrsk at least
was a commissioned officer in the Imperial Navy – opted instead to incapacitate Harrsk’s own Star Destroyer Whirlwind and threatened to destroy
both if an immediate cessation to hostilities were not called. Teradoc’s second in command, Pellaeon, agreed to Daala’s terms against Teradoc’s
orders, and the two treacherous subordinates called for a détente council at Tsoss Beacon.
Teradoc was first of thirteen of the most powerful warlords to arrive at the peace talks, to be followed by Harrsk, Delvardus, and “an endless string
of High Moffs, Honored Overlords, Supreme Leaders, and other commanders with similarly pompous yet meaningless titles.” Teradoc quickly
realized that – contrary to expectations – Daala was insane and did not have any actual plan, offering only empty platitudes and useless sound bytes.
Teradoc dismissed her as an imbecile spouting “high-sounding nonsense”; when she insisted that they were talking about the fate of the Empire, he
rightly pointed out that the Empire no longer existed, having collapsed into oblivion after the assassination of Xandel Carivus: “We are the Empire,”
he said ironically, pointing to himself and his rival warlords, mortal enemies with only vague principles of Palpatinism in common, incapable of
laying aside their longstanding vendettas and rivalries. Instead of attempting to take the lead in these “talks,” Daala simply locked the warlords into a
room and sat silent for three hours while tempers flared, and then acted surprised when her so-called “détente council” turned out to be a farce. Faced
with the reality that she was as spectacularly useless a diplomat as she was a fleet commander, Daala simply murdered all of the warlords with nerve
gas, and usurped control of their resources, to dither it all away in a useless attack on Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Praxeum at Yavin IV in Darksaber.
In Darksaber, Teradoc was described as being morbidly obese, to the extent that his disloyal fleet commander Vice Admiral Pellaeon supposed that
“the man’s girth had increased threefold in the last year or so.” When he arrived at the détente council, he was described as “fat and sweaty-faced,
staggering even in the low gravity.” Surprisingly, Teradoc was the last of the warlords to die of the nerve gas, possibly because he did not attempt to
escape and rather remained seated, without increasing his blood circulation or breathing. He is mentioned in the non-canonical Invention section’s The
Test of Wills as one of the “six former Starfleet commanders” who participated in the capture of Coruscant along with the Emperor’s Ruling Circle, as
described in Dark Empire.
References:
- Anderson, Kevin J. Darksaber. Bantam Books, 1995.
- Anderson, Kevin J. and Daniel E. Wallace. The Essential Chronology. Del Rey Books, 2000.
- Hambly, Barbara. Children of the Jedi. Bantam Books, 1995.
- Stackpole, Michael A. X-Wing: The Bacta War. Bantam Books, 1997.
- Veitch, Tom. Dark Empire. Dark Horse Comics, 1991 - 1992.
- Wallace, Daniel E. with Kevin J. Anderson. The New Essential Chronology. Del Rey Books, 2005.
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