Miltin Takel

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Grand Admiral Miltin Takel, a Star Wars Expanded Universe character, was 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.

Native to the planet Gargon in the Mandalore Sector, Takel was a flamboyant, street-talking man with a taste for hobnobbing with the upper crust of Imperial society, as well as for spice and women—including a secret enjoyment of women of other species. Takel received sanctuary with his brother, Griff Takel, the Imperial governor of Esseles, in order to pursue his depraved interests with impunity; this was in exchange for Griff gaining access to Miltin's wide range of military contacts.

Despite his character flaws, Grand Admiral Takel possessed a keen strategic mind, which he augmented with the mind-reading abilities glitterstim spice provided. He gets his high-quality spice from Wendell Wright-Sims, an importer with express permission from Palpatine himself to provide spice to Coruscant's elite. Takel's spice habit gave him an empathic edge he needed to achieve victory at the Siege of Trasemene.

Perhaps in recognition of his success at Trasemene, Takel was one of several officers to make an appearance on Coruscant with the Emperor and Darth Vader for New Year Fete Week in 1 ABY. Not long after, Takel mingled with Coruscanti elite at a gala celebrating the opening night of the famous Brentaal opera known as the Kallea Cycle, in the former Senate chambers on Coruscant.

Shortly before the Battle of Endor, the people of Mandalore, rallied by Mandalorian Supercommando Fenn Shysa, rose up against Takel's forces, whose territory included his home Mandalore Sector. This failed.

While aboard Death Star II, Takel's glitterstim-enhanced senses let him notice Grand Admiral Nial Declann's Force-prescient edginess; he did not disregard these cues, and fled in time to avoid the station's destruction. Meanwhile, Grand Admiral Josef Grunger, having just learned of Palpatine's death while assisting Takel's second officer patrol for "white-skinned marauders" (presumably the Nagai), killed Takel's second officer, and incorporated Takel's forces into his when he became a Warlord. Grunger immediately seized the spice (not glitterstim; that is exclusive to Kessel. It is perhaps a form of Ryll.) producing world of Gargon as his headquarters.

After Grand Admiral Makati successfully killed the false Prophets of the Dark Side, Isard grew disquieted by Grunger's conquests, which were poising him to take Isard's holdings in the Core and especially Imperial Center, and ordered Takel to remove Gargon from Grunger's control, reasoning that since it was his homeworld, he would be more effective than her other available loyalist Grand Admiral (the status of Grand Admiral Thrawn at this time is unclear; Isard claimed in Wedge's Gamble that she counted Thrawn as a Loyalist, but since Thrawn used Isard to kidnap Baron Soontir Fel for him, this view of their relationship is in some doubt). Takel attempted it but failed to oust Grunger from his homeworld, and his failure earned the ire of Ysanne Isard. Takel went to the convocation of Grand Moffs on Kessel, where the Central Committee of Grand Moffs presented Trioculus as the Son of Palpatine. In a glitterstim spice-induced haze, Takel somehow felt connected to the three-eyed slavelord, even after he was zapped by Trioculus's fraudulent "Lightning Power of the Dark Side." The feeling of connection was reinforced when Trioculus promised to deal with the upstart Grunger, but ultimately, Takel's questioning of Trioculus while on another spice binge led to his execution by Grand Moff Hissa at Trioculus's unspoken order.

Though never published and thus not canonical, Star Wars Insider author Daniel Wallace indicates that Takel's personal Star Destroyer was named Magic Dragon. See here.

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