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[Star Wars] How would Darth Vader and Grand Admiral Thrawn interact?
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In the EU, Thrawn and Vader were allies for a while. Vader recognized Thrawn as an intelligent person who could be trusted on to be loyal to the Empire and to not play the power games that the other Admirals and Moffs and high-mucky-mucks of the Empire played and Thrawn recognized Vader as being more than a brutal murderer in a suit. Prior to the Battle of Hoth, Thrawn and Vader were allies in a push to get the Empire to switch away from the TIE Fighter strategy of throwing huge numbers of pilots and ships at the enemy and overwhelming them and instead focusing on smaller numbers of better equipped fighters like the Advanced and the Defender piloted by capable, valuable pilots who aren't considered expendable. They were up against entrenched interests though, so when it came time for Vader to hunt down the Rebels and Thrawn to start dealing with the Outer Rim, they went their separate ways and not much came of it.