If you were a Galactic Imperial Officer and had to give bad news about letting the Ghost Crew escape from battle, who would you be scared to tell first?
Thrawn is just fucking awesome
That's the nice part of thrawn, he either would blame himself for not accounting for your incompetence or blame himself for a flawed plan. As long as you tried your best and understand your shortcomings, he'll be chill about it.
Also as long as it’s clear you’re not overconfident in your own tactics and resources, Thrawn is pretty willing to give you a few teaching moments before he starts outright calling you incompetent. You can definitely tell officers who are used to Tarkin are visibly surprised when Thrawn doesn’t shoot them when they fail. Like on Lothal, since he took over operations that have been ongoing he points out that they’re used to doing things a certain way, but that way doesn’t work. So they have to change.
In the legends thrawn trilogy there’s a part where the chimera is attempting to lock onto Luke’s x-wing with a tractor beam, and they nearly get him but Luke escapes - and everyone on the bridge is sure they’re about to see thrawn execute the lieutenant operating the tractor beam for failing, and instead thrawn just asks the kid what he did, which was actually a good idea that didn’t pan out, which was why it had been as close a call as it was. Thrawn ends up impressed and rewards the guy because he says that he needs his officers thinking creatively and on their feet, and so long as they’re doing that and otherwise giving their best efforts they won’t be punished for not meeting objectives…at least not with summary execution like Vader was known for.
And then, later (or earlier, it's been a bit since I've read the books) the same thing happens, and the targeting officer, iirc, tries to blame everything but his ability, and Thrawn does execute him, because instead of taking responsibility and owning up to his failure he instead tried to shunt the blame onto everything but himself.
It was earlier, which is why everyone expects thrawn to execute the guy that almost got luke.
I recall in the OG Thrawn trilogy where he demotes an officer who failed in some task and Pellaeon thinks it’s a harsh punishment but still better than Vader’s murderous tendencies.
Tmw space Nazis are more forgiving than my coworkers
Your coworkers execute subordinates?
Fear in the imperial officers really did fuck them over in the long run
The whole Tarkin Doctrine really fucked over the Empire. It turned citizens against them, gave their opponents nothing to lose, and blocked any chance of creative and competent officers rising to power
"A competent officer?
In My Imperial Navy?
It's more likely than you'd think." -Galatic Emperor Palpatine
Thrawn will also evaluate what you tried to do. There's a bit in his intro in Legends where he promotes a guy who let Luke Skywalker escape because he understands that Luke is just that good a pilot and the tractor beam operator had tried to improvise and almost got him.
my favourite part of the books
That was the one where Luke launched a cloud of glitter-shrapnel to diffuse and deflect the tractor beam, right?
cloud of glitter-shrapnel
Worlds earliest gender reveal
Luke getting back at imperial porch pirates lmao
Yep. It was a combo of going against a Jedi and a brand new trick that let him get away. The Tractor Beam Operator was already somewhat trying to figure out how to prevent that in the future, so Thrawn had very little blame for him.
Right, but don't forget he had another tractor operator killed in front of his crew when failing to capture Skywalker for letting a mistake become an error.
Legends Thrawn was cold-blooded to any officer that was stupid, incapable of learning, or not useful.
He wasn't executed for failing. He was executed for trying to shift the blame thinking it would get someone else executed. If the operator said "I was the reason for the error." then at worse it's a demotion.
Right, which is why I said he was executed for letting a mistake become an error when failing to capture skywalker not for failing to capture skywalker.
Also if he said "I was the reason for the error", Thrawn would have agreed before he had him killed.
Do you know the difference between a mistake and an error? Anyone can make a mistake, like you misreading my comment, but it only becomes an error when one refuses to correct it.
The operator should have said "I made a mistake".
Good guy Thrawn
Came here to say exactly this
He is also incredibly resourceful and probably wouldn’t kill his own men out of frustration unless they were consistently coming up shott
That’s the correct answer, and what I came to say as well. Tarkin will kill you because he’s a numbers guy. Thrawn either has a plan and will tell you what to do, or it’s possible he missed something. And Thrawn doesn’t just murder subordinates because he’s pissed. He’s realistic. But he expects people to follow orders too.
Or some u forseen variable or OTHER commanders (constantine) getting in the way
With Thrawn there's also a decent chance that, when you tell him the Ghost has escaped, he explains that he knew it would and was banking on them escaping so he could track their next jump.
I doubt even canon Thrawn would consider killing a lowly officer. He would probably teach them how it is done
Idk how this is a question.
Tarkin will death star your home planet just to prove a point.
Thrawn will give a VERY mild smirk and say "en passant" before dismissing you.
I'd like to contribute another reason to a Thrawn plan failing. A backstabbing glory-hound of an imperial officer ruining everything in his attempts to show how great he is. I mean really, what is the Empire doing in their officer academies?
Pitting them against each other in cutthroat competitions where the winners are rewarded and the losers are punished. You see it in the episode where Ezra pretends to be a cadet to steal intel. They are literally rewarding them for backstabbing each other. Only the ruthless and selfish rise to the top.
Thrawn is also more likely to explain where you fucked up
Sometimes thrawn is also looking for the learning opportunities within the failure as well
Bratty bottom Tarkin
Thrawn is less likely to kill the messenger. He'd be happy you got him the intel immediately.
Thrawn would see executing you as a waste of imperial resources and would most likely just transfer you somewhere else
Thrawn would also admit if he's been outplayed. I love that one scene in Rebels where he decided not to pursue the crew because he felt they earned the victory. Or something like that.
He also accepts that failure can happen. In the Thrawn book, an officer makes a mistake, but instead of sending it off to his subordinate, he took responsibility for the failure, as well as explaining why it failed. Thrawn accepted that, took what was said into consideration, and made adjustments to his plan to lessen the chance of said failure happening again, all because he took a second to actually LISTEN to his people and use the information they give him to better adjust and adapt. To him, failure is the most important learning moment
Thrawn might punish you if you are repeatedly incompetent. But I’d guess it’s more like getting fired or moved to a much less important posting, or simply another’s command.
Yeah, if you could provide something useful about how they escaped Thrawn would appreciate it. Tarkin would stop you before you could get it out.
You’re not wrong but all Tarkin is going to do is talk down to you. It’s onlyy a worry if Vader is nearby.
This is the answer.
EXACTLY!
Definitely Tarkin
Thrawn would give a deep philosophical speech about the battle & art of war
Tarkin would have me disposed of in the airlock
Thrawn would likely have already planned for that event and wouldn't even be that mad.
Indeed, thrawn would evaluate and just conclude that we're now on foreseen path number 32 out of 214 different possible strategies that all let allow him victory.
"Hmmm regrettable, but a testament to Hera Syndulla's skill as a combat pilot. Have the tractor beam operators assigned reflex training for the next rotation"
Tarkin would have you summarily shot. The airlock is for your corpse
Tarkin. Thrawn is a curious guy, so he’ll ask you what happened more out of genuine curiosity. If you own up to your mistake, you will live. A dude found himself in that exact position during the Heir To The Empire trilogy of Ye Olde Legends Lore and did exactly that, explaining what he was trying to do and how he’d failed. Thrawn, impressed at the junior officer’s humility and ingenuity, promoted that guy and tasked him with training his comrades on that maneuver. Another lieutenant tried to shunt the blame onto someone else and immediately got killed.
Grand Moff Tarkin just… does not care. You either succeed or you do not. If you fail, you are done.
This is THE answer right here lol
Eh. If the answer was “I chose not to study the manual/Ignores my training” then Legends Thrawn would execute you on the spot.
Cannon Thrawn is way more forgiving.
Tarkin.
Thrawn would be methodical and explain my errors and tell me to do better. Also most of the time Thrawn comes up with the plans and strategies himself, so he’s the one to blame if it goes wrong. (Unless you’re a fucking idiot)
Tarkin would have me shot before a firing squad, especially if it was his fault.
You aren't even getting to the firing squad, I'm scared of the Grand Inquisitor hovering over Tarkin's shoulder in that pic
Tarkin
There’s a nonzero chance that Tarkin dumps you into the wilderness and hunts you for sport if you fail. I’m taking Thrawn any day that ends in “y”
Tarkin, because Thrawn probably already had seen it coming anyway😂
Tarkin, Thrawn would just thank you and say it’s all part of his strategy.
Tarkin. Will sacrifice anything and anyone for a speedy victory no matter how hollow the victory. If he doesn't get what he wants he kills to make an example.
Thrawn is reasonable and doesn't waste resources. There's a reason his underlings tend to be more loyal to him. The reason he was angry with Price is because she was stupid enough to destroy the tie defender program in her efforts to eliminate the ghost crew.
Tarkin is an idiot that can't think outside of the box, ever, he's constantly being out-played by people who improvise as their primary plan of attack.
Thrawn however is terrifying. He gets out-played by people who think outside of the box too, and sometimes he even lets the rebels get away with stuff, but he has a significantly higher victory count than Tarkin.
Tarkin always underestimated the Rebels.
And that was his downfall.
Also that since he spent a so much time executing people, no one actually learns anything beside don’t call things in when you make a mistake.
Anyone but Thrawn tbh. He’s the most reasonable
Tarkin. YOU ABOSULYE blaster fire or knife fight Thrawn. Don't worry commander, you disrupted their fuel up and tried your best. We may have not won the battle but we have gained an advantage
Tarkin. He wants victory. Thrown will be like "how interesting" and then just show his backup plan, because unless there are space whales, he seems to always have one!
*thrawn
I wouldn’t be afraid to tell Thrawn at all, because based on the Ahsoka show, he’d just be like, “Not to worry, they may have escaped, but they’ve only helped advance our plans for inevitable galactic domination.” And I’d be thinking, “uh how exactly?” But then I’d just bow my head and walk away rather than saying that out loud, obviously.
Tarkin. Plane and simple. Thrawn would just be disappointed and re-assign me to a different task, Tarkin might just have me shot right there ngl 😭
Tarkin, Thrawn would at least have mercy
Tarkin. Thrawn would only be mad if you massively screwed up. Tarken gets mad at you just for failing
Thrawn unless I’m like that one dude with the interceptor would probably expect it and forgive me, I just might not get a promotion for longer then expected, I’d be terrified with tarkin of being executed
The only way you’d ever be at threat of punishment from Thrawn is if you mess up seriously badly Tarkin will kill you for something that isn’t your fault
Thrawn was more forgiving
Whoever my direct superior is, maybe they lose their head?
How much was bad luck versus my own incompetence?
Thrawn isn't going to hold bad Intel or the crew pulling a deus ex machina escape against me, so it's probably rather report to him.
Definitely Tarkin... Thrawn is not an opportunistic asshole...
If I was in the Star Wars universe, and had the option to side with Thrawn; I would. Honestly a character I sympathise with, and even agree with morally. At least in his depictions by Timothy Zahn, so I would definitely be more frightened to report to Tarkin.
This comparison is ridiculous. Tarkin is a ruthless authoritarian and purely evil Imperial. He hunts for fun, enjoys violence and ordered multiple genocides. Thrawn on the other hand is possibly one of the most genuine and nicest Imperial officers if we go by his canon depiction. He frequently explains his tactics to his subordinates and does not lose his temper with them. He respects his subordinates and even protected them from Vader after Vader had subtly threatened them with execution if they failed him. Thrawn was not a killer and saw each person as a resource and their usefulness, however incompetent they might have seemed
Think the emperor is more forgiving than Tarkin. I never seen the emperor lose his rag over someone failing in TV / film canon
That’s because he himself barely speaks to people one on one, that’s usually delegated to Vader or Tarkin
Definitely Tarkin!
Tarkin because thrawn likely wouldn't execute me
Thrawn would just be like “I expected you to fail, just not so completely.” Then he sends a holo message to a short angry guy while I leave the room.
Tarkin would be like “You have failed me, despite my constant support of your efforts(he gave me 5 days and a storm trooper battalion to destroy some rebels). For your repeated failures(this is the first time you have ever failed him) you must be relieved of duty.” He would then gesture for me to be taken out of the room and shot.
Thrawn would use it as a teaching moment and discuss with you how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Tarkin will assassinate you,Thrawn will at least understand and tell you how to do better next time.I’m more scared of what Tarkin can do.
I just noticed how big Tarkin's forehead is
Love how the consensus down here in the comments is 100% on the Grand Admiral’s side 🫡 Tarkin can go Moff himself, oh wait Luke already Moffed him for us 💥😂
Thrawn easily
The Death Star was destroyed but Tarkin escaped
“So tarkin…how’s that demotion going?”
Tarkin
Thrawn would be more willing to forgive an error if you confessed to it, explained how it went wrong, and what steps you had taken to fix it. He’s not a tyrant. He’ll be angry, maybe will even demote you if he feels you were entirely at fault, but he’s reasonable. The only time he’d ever have you killed is if you massively destroyed his plans or if you shirked the blame on someone else and refused to admit your part. He can’t stand carelessness or arrogance.
There’s a story where one of Vader’s former crew members is placed under Thrawn. He’s terrified to admit he did something wrong and everyone holds their breath expecting Thrawn to explode when he admits what happened. Thrawn just calmly asks him what he’s doing to fix the error and then promotes him. He’s a brilliant tactician and plans steps ahead. Likely, he has a backup plan for what failed. Plus, if it was something completely out of your control or his, he won’t blame you for the error.
Tarkin is just a psychopath.
Tarkin. He’d have killed me if I took longer than he expected the mission to last. If I succeeded he would have given me a more impossible task that would definitely gotten me killed.
Thrawn would have expected my failure to end in my death and if I some how survived then it’s outside his calculations meaning he will want to keep me alive long enough to see where the error was. Also I could probably improve the odds of survival by bringing back a cultural artefact from the planet I was on.
Thrawn would be disappointed and make you feel bad, like in a guilt inducing parental way.
Tarkin would send you off to some shithole station where you’d probably die or never be seen from again.
The inquisitors or the Sith would just straight up kill you.
Tarkin, he has the calm angry so you can never tell what he's up to or how he feels about your failure til he has the grand Inquisitor stick you like a kebab.
Thrawn? So long as you do exactly as he says exactly how you're told to do it, the only way you'll fail is if he, specifically, fucked up, or whoever you've been assigned to work with fucked up.
Thrawn won't kill you for failing once.
I would be scared to tell Tarkin. Thrawn is calm asf, like in his first book when he got attacked by cadets and bro suggested they get a higher rank
Tarkin. Thrawn can accept failure if it’s reasonable and not gross incompetence and stupidity. Tarkin will just have you shot in the spot. Especially if the grand inquisitor is there with him, then it’s a lightsaber to the heart or decapitation.
I'd be scared to tell tarkin. Thrawn would be irritated but accept that battles are never certain. At worst he may not entrust higher priority duties to me. Tarkin could probably do much worse
Thrawn is definitely the cool boss lol
Thrown would evaluate the encounter and initiate training and position changes to improve future outcomes.
Tarkin absolutely. Though I doubt I would have anything done too me specifically seeing that I was just a messager. Though I would loathe having to tell Thrawn because I'd hate to have to disappoint the man.
It really depends on why/how the Ghost escaped.
Thrawn doesn't suffer incompetence, so if it was my fault.. odds are I'm dead. If it wasn't my fault though, especially if I can offer some insight into how we can keep how they got away from happening again, I should come out unscathed.
Tarkin, on the other hand, even if it's entirely his fault will still blame someone else (me) - but he's less likely to just off someone for their (or his own) incompetence, so I'm more likely to be demoted and shuffled off to some horrible post somewhere that I'll surely still die... but that is the better option if it was my fault the Ghost got away because there's at least a chance I survive the horrible post.
Vader, you would die for sure.
Thrawn would already know so there's no point in being scared about that one, unless you were the one who lost them specifically. I'm pretty sure Tarkin would bury you so deep you might as well be dead, or.. well.
Vader
Tarkin cuz he doesn’t care and isn’t involved and will dispose of you without care
Thrawn is a certified monologuer though and will realize the flaw within you/empire is easily outsmarted by the rebel cell and may punish you but definitely sees the beauty of the enemy winning sometimes
I’m loving all the Tarkin hate lol. The man deserves all of it.
That one is easy. It's Tarkin.
Definitely Theawn. I feel like he'll play some sick, twisted game with me before having me killed
Tarkin. I’d probably end up at the fatal side of a blaster squad
Thrawn i would probably be lectured on how to do better and maybe transferred to a position I’d do better in
Tarkin. He'd kill you without a second thought.
Thrawn would take interest and have advice for how you can approve. He'd use the failure as a learning opportunity and set better precautions.
Thrawn is quite resonable
Tarkin for sure.
However, OG Thrawn would be a close second, especially if you make a mistake instead of an error lol.
“Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake? Anyone can make an error. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”― Grand Admiral Thrawn
I would be MIA, presumed dead amidst the failure, and probably become some kind of moisture farmer on tatooine or smth
Tarkin and it's not even close.
Both of their foreheads are equally as large
All 3 infact
Thrawn can be understanding particularly if you do everything possible to make up for an accident. Such as log their heading alert everything take detailed notes. Diagnose the cause of the failure and try to find possible ways to avoid it.
With thrawn providing i did everything right and don't lie i'll be fine. Tarkin by contrast is a sadist and a sociopath
Vader, he can force choke kill you if you mess up
Tarkin is definitely the one I wouldn’t want to report to at all, the only time we have ever seen Thrawn loose his cool was with Admiral Constantine when he sacrificed his position to go after Commander Sato and it allowed the rebels to escape which Thrawn handled well and placed the blame exactly where it was meant to be, then with the Captain who was occupying Ryloth when he disrespected the Syndulla family Kalikori, then with Governor Pryce who blew up the fuel depot putting his TIE defender program at risk. While Tarkin killed Rupert and Grint without hesitation due to them not stopping Spectre sqaud.
I'd rather tell Thrawn than Tarkin, he's mostly understanding and won't be lenient to you if your failure is consistent. He's definitely better than Tarkin. Who was basically the rebellion's greatest ally, considering how many imperials he killed due to the fact he didn't care about imperial casualties and motivated most people to join the rebel alliance through his cruel actions. Like, I love Tarkin as a character, but the dude was a fucking idiot.
Tarkin thran at least will hear your side first in detail and try to find a plan to make out of it rather than outright execute you
Tarkin. No doubt!! Thrawn isn't as trivial or short sided, or whatever you want to call it. Tarkin has no patience for that.
Definitely Tarkin. Tarkin is not afraid to kill for incompetence. Thrawn meanwhile has shown on numerous occasions that incompetence alone is not a death sentence
Tarkin’s back story is so awesome
Tarkin hands down.
Thrown would call you an idiot and walk away. Taking would call you a hopeless idiot and likely fantasize about killing you in front of the others to make a point.
Tarkin.
I know if I told Thrawn, he would at least still see me as a good officer
Tarkin, he is just welll I don't want him as my boss
Thrawn on the other hand, I will learn from him
Thrawn would probably say some shit like... "Ah they escaped? Now we know how they escape, and that's a win"
It would be very unlikely for Thrawn to kill you unless he saw you serving no purpose. Unlike most other imperial officers who kill to show their might and power, Thrawn has a more strategic mind that says killing randomly will deplete the empire's man power, which only goes against his plans.
Tarkin looks soo annoyed
Since I am probably dead I might as well take my killer with me.
Problem is that the first one has a force user. He would feel my intentions.
The second one already lost his sensibility.
I would prefer to "report" my failure to the second.
Tarkin
My commanding officer... no way I'm a CO
Grand Moff is nothing to mess with
Nah I wouldn’t be scared of them I’ll be terrified if I had to give Vader the news
Tarkin. I'd be lucky to even SURVIVE that conversation
Tarkin would just kill your ass for failing. At least with thrawn at worst he'll probably just demote you or force you out of the military
Tarkin would kill me. Thrawn would demote and lecture me.
Thrawn:
Imperial officer: sir I followed your commands to the t but the blasted ghost crew still got away and killed over half of my men. Thrawn: Thank you I guess my plan was a failure.
Tarkin
Imperial officer: sir we almost had these blasted rebels but they jumped before we could truly finish them. Tarkin: how many rebels did you end up killing we killed about 500 sir but the ghost crew were the only ones to survive and escape.
Definitely tell thrawn first as he genuinely was quite forgiving to those who tried their best. Along as you didn't mess up repeatedly and disastrously he would simply make sure you understood where you went wrong. Tarkin on the otherhand would likley harshly punish you no matter the context of your failure.
Definitely tell thrawn first as he genuinely was quite forgiving to those who tried their best. Along as you didn't mess up repeatedly and disastrously he would simply make sure you understood where you went wrong. Tarkin on the otherhand would likley harshly punish you no matter the context of your failure.
Tarkin 100%. If you failed for Thrawn then he'd just make you try it again but differently or give you a minor demotion. Tarkin would.... well...
Tarkin is an opportunistic Machiavellian with no room for failure.
Thrawn is calculating, thoughtful, wise, respectable, and forgiving of minor failures and setbacks.
The answer to which I’d rather tell bad news should be self-evident to all who like living
Tarkin, objectively. Thrawn would be pissed at you but as long as you were just incompetent (or, more often than not, just not As Good as the Ghost Crew) but not actively collaborating with the rebels he'd let it go with a reimpand (maybe have you redeployed somewhere else). Tarkin would (and did, on screen) literally fucking kill you if he wanted to "make a point".
Tarkin: "let's see what Lord Vader has to say about this" Thrawn: "ah yes all according to plan"
Definitely be more scared of Tarkin
Tarkin
Definitely Tarkin. Thrawn respects mistakes so long as you learn from them.
Tarkin 100 percent as long as its not incompetence as far as i can tell thrawn is understanding if you got outsmarted thrawn would be fuming but professional tarkin would just throw a fit instantly
Tarkin
Thrawn would prob already know
Tarkin, EU showed man will throw hands at you. If it was an understandable defeat I feel Thrawn will just reprimand harshly you at worst and then drill you and your subordinates for every detail to formulate a better plan.
Definitely not telling Tarkin.
I’ll just tell Thrawn that letting them go furthers our goals somehow and he’ll probably promote me.
Tarkin.
Thrawn doesn't kill people if he doesn't have to.
Tarkin will kill me. Thrawn MIGHT kill me, or he'll give me a lecture on what I did wrong and give me pointers on how to improve.
You posted a picture of Tarkin who's about to order the execution of two officers, seems like a no brainer
Thrawn just let them go on at least one occasion simply for outmaneuvering his plan. I’d feel much safer reporting failure to Thrawn
Tarkin can be insanely petty and quick tempered, and it’s worse when he expects swift results. I think Thrawn wouldn’t be pleased but understands that setbacks happen.
Depends: Did I foul up?
If yes, am I trying to shift blame onto a subordinate?
If yes, Grand Admiral Thrawn.
If I'm owning my mistake, Tarkin.
Tarkin taking over my Project Cookie Monster after Hera blew up my fleet of 7 ISD's
Anyone, I would be afraid to tell anyone. Lol
Thrawn wouldn’t kill you but he’d be really disappointed, which is almost worse
You'd be pleading for Thrawn's forgiveness and he'd just turn around and admit that he fully intended for the Ghost crew to escape as it's part of his master plan and you played your part in it as he predicted. He monologues for a bit, but warns you that should you fail him again, it won't be a part of some master plan and he'll "handle" you then.
Depending on the extent of your failure, Tarkin will either demote you to some remote outpost or just have you killed.
So the answer is Tarkin.
Thrawn would just tell me how it’s all according to his grand plan, then start talking about how to understand your enemies culture. In the background, organ music plays
But Darth Vader would be the most scary to tell
Just ask the officer who had to apologize in the empire strikes back.
Tarkin. Man outranks Vader even.
Fuck I don’t think I’d want to tell either but mostly Tarkin. I’d definitely defect because I’d probably die anyways.
I'd freak out telling Tarkin because Thrawn is far more reasonable
Tarkin… he destroyed a planet because he was annoyed with a teenager
Thrawne by AUs, Tarkin is a bully to busy collecting and strutting his proverbial plumage, Thrawne on the other hand is an unforgiving menace upon all who cross the Empire.
Def thrawn, he’s probably just tell you he put at tracker on the ghost or something
Tarkin.
At the end of the day if there was no incompetence or missteps Thrawn is just going to recognize it as.the skill of the adversary not the failure of his men. He's a leader, he's more likely to blame himself for not properly setting the trap than he is you for their escape.
Tarkin is a bureaucratic dickhead who loves to blame his mistakes on others.
Definitely tarken
That dude is down right insane behind a facade if Calm collectiveness, He once was so annoyed at his team on the death star for hesitating to fire the laser that he imaged beating one of his members to death Outta annoyance infront of all his crew.
Thrawn will simply ask for details on how they got away what went wrong and give you some discipline and even teach you not to make the same mistakes twice
Let’s not pretend Thrawn is some kind of altruist, he’s simply smart and patient enough to know when fear isn’t the most effective way to motivate.
Definitely Tarkin. He just wants you to complete your task, and he'll most likely punish you for not doing so. Thrawn likes to see things play out, and to not focus on small losses like these, so he'd probably let you off.
Tarkin will launch you out of the airlock, Thrawn will at least let you try again
In a weird way, Thrawn. Because I’d hate to disappoint him.
Thrawn would probably play your failure off as a larger part of his plan, so you'd probably be fine.
A simple read of the comics demonstrates you DON'T want to upset Tarkin
I think it depends on how often the Ghost Crew ger away from you, and whether or not it was the same mistake every time.
Tarkin had two officers executed constantly failing, whereas Thrawn was willing to let you learn from your mistakes, so long as you didn't let it happen too often, or if you followed your part of the plan as best you could.
if I told thrawn he'd give me a philosophical lesson then send me to a top imperial academy so I can learn to be better if I told tarkin theirs a chance I could hear a robotic Mufasa voice
“Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake ?”
Thrawn is a forgiving and understanding person. He'd give constructive criticism and turn the failure into a lesson (and not a violent punishing one)
Was thrown in the bad batch? Or clone wars? I can’t remember
If they escaped, it was probably Thrawn's plan to let them escape. I'm just there to inform him about the events, which I'm sure he already knows.
Tarkin.
Thrawn would analyze what you did and give you feedback to correct it in the future. Tarkin would basically hang you out to dry for the slightest of mistakes.
Thrawn doesn’t seem to do executions, because he can always find a use for you, no matter how you may be lacking in the braincell department. Tarkin, though, he’ll have you executed if you fail him too much.
Tarkin. Thrawn will be chill, just like everyone else is saying. The fact is that he’d still account for it and win in the end.
Thrawn in the books at least the first one in the series seems to be a better boss than most of the other imperials he is still a jerk but I think he has an appreciation for those under his command because he knows they are necessary to his plans.
Tarkin is ruthless bastard.
Tarkin because Tarkin is a petty dick.
Thrawn would be like “and what fancy trick did they use to get past our SOP? Write it down and come up with a counter.”
Legends Thrawn promoted a guy for trying a creative method to catch a ship breaking out of a tractor beam. It paid off two books later when he made a method that worked.
My mom, because what the hell am I doing working for the empire! No good bunch of boot-shining, goose-stepping, facists. That Darth never called his mother once, and don’t get me started on his insistence on wearing capes. It’s a disgrace is what it is … [mother walks off, muttering unintelligibly to herself]
my mother of course
depends on how useful i am. the empire was stupid cause it killed good leaders for simple mistakes. thrawn would keep me around so long my benefit outweighs my fuck up
Thrawn is by far the absolute best commander to serve under. You will improve. You will win. You will serve with many like minded people who all want to succeed and help each other do so.
Tarkin is much less intelligence and far more arrogant than Thrawn, he’d absolutely throw a fit and have you killed. Thrawn would shake his head disappointingly, get up to stare at artwork, and later have your career flatlined instead.
Damn Tarkin forehead so big it can’t even fit in one shot
Definitely the GRAND ADMIRAL!
Thrawn would have you sit down, ask what happened in detail, then point out where you made a mistake, or when the Ghost Crew simply did something unpredictable
I'd definitely be more scared to tell Tarkin.
Tarkin wants results, and that's it. He leaves the strategy and everything else up to you, and punishes you when you fail.
Thrawn will tell you exactly what to do, so if you fail, either you didn't do what he said or his own plan was at fault. And if he was at fault, you wouldn't be punished.
As well, Thrawn doesn't really care about trivial stuff like that. As long at it doesn't basically destroy his overall plan, he probably wouldn't have you executed like he tried with Pryce. Tarkin though, he's a just a dick and would 100% have you killed.