"Under your command, we have confidence that we can defeat any enemy!" First Officer Sandars said loudly. "Colonel Thrawn!"
"This fleet is already exhausted. Coming through unscathed is only an illusion. Let's return," said the Galactic Empire commander known as Thrawn, shaking his head.
Blue skin, blood-red eyes—he was unmistakably a Chiss! A Chiss like Sefrans Tann, the famed Separatist general!
He looked barely over thirty, remarkably young, yet he had already become a colonel in the Imperial Navy and commanded a patrol fleet like this.
"Yes!" the first officer replied loudly. He felt no discomfort whatsoever at being commanded by a Chiss.
And yet, within the Galactic Empire's military, that was something almost impossible!
Since the Galactic Empire was founded, Emperor Palpatine had subtly promoted Human Supremacy. Though he had never stated it openly, and some Imperial media outlets still loudly championed racial equality, in reality, all non-human species were gradually being squeezed out of the heart of the Galactic Empire.
Those non-human species began to discover that they could not obtain work opportunities at all. Even if they were retained because they could not yet be replaced, they would still face all kinds of criticism—being deliberately obstructed at work, gradually isolated in their daily social lives...
If a Human and a non-human species got into a fight on the streets of Imperial Center, the result would undoubtedly be Imperial military police hauling the non-Human off to jail while sending the Human home.
Nor was that all. Companies established by non-Human merchants were constantly being suppressed. They could not get orders, could not buy raw materials, saw large numbers of Human employees resign, and were subjected to investigations by the Imperial tax authorities every day.
The military was even worse. At the very beginning of the Galactic Empire, all