Danetta Pitta
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Grand Admiral Daneeta Pitta was Star Wars Expanded Universe character, a Grand Admiral of the Imperial Starfleet. He was one of the original 12 Grand Admirals, raised to that newly-created rank by the Emperor after the Battle of Yavin.
Pitta spent most of his time obsessed with the purity of the Imperial New Order, and especially the racial purity aspects of it (reputedly, even COMPNOR members felt he was a little too vociferous); in a classic case of psychological projection (since Pitta himself was not pure Human- he also had Etti and Borneck blood), Pitta spent considerable effort investigating varied people's racial background and purging ruthlessly those who were even the slightest bit "impure". When not investigating backgrounds, Pitta busied himself wandering around the Outer Rim with three of his Imperial dungeon ships (the Apocahk, the Angrix, and the Azgoghk) abducting aliens, and torturing, enslaving, or conducting medical experiments and vivisections on them. Despite this apparent lack of military ability or ambition, after the Emperor's death at the Battle of Endor, Pitta quickly bribed or otherwise coerced the Diktat of the Corellian System into accepting the new Warlord as his "protector", which gave Pitta control of the strategically valuable Corellian Sector, and its invaluable shipyards. About a year and a half after Endor, Pitta obtained a torpedo sphere from an unknown source, and set about procuring the thousands of proton torpedoes necessary to render the sphere militarily useful. Hard on the heels of finishing refurbishment and supply, fellow Warlord and Grand Admiral Josef Grunger, invaded Corellia, which culminated in the Battle of Tralus. Pitta enjoyed initial success, his modest fleet savaging Grunger's armada amidst a devastating fusillade of proton torpedoes. Grunger, facing defeat in this battle, and the defeat in his larger aim of becoming the new Emperor, surveyed the wreckage of his once-mighty fleet, and in desperation ordered his Super Star Destroyer Aggressor to ram at full-speed Pitta's torpedo sphere. Both Grand Admirals were aboard their respective flagships, and both perished in the ensuing enormous explosion.
Though never published and thus not canonical, Star Wars Insider author Daniel Wallace indicates that Pitta's personal Star Destroyer was named the Impenetrable. See here. Further unpublished data, from "Grand Admirals: What Have They Got in their Pocketsses?" recounts that Pitta carried around an electrum-plated surgical scalpel. [1]
[edit] References
- Sic Transit Gloria: The Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire Part II: From the Rise of Isard to the Fall of Coruscant
- "Who's Who: Imperial Grand Admirals". Star Wars Insider #66, 2003. Pena, Abel G. and Daniel Wallace.
- The Essential Chronology, 1st edition. Kevin J. Anderson, Daniel Wallace, ISBN 0-345-43439-0. p. 72
- Star Wars, The New Essential Guide to Characters, 1st edition, 2002. Daniel Wallace, Michael Sutfin, New York: Del Rey. ISBN 0-345-44900-2
