With that in mind, here are 12 things you might not have known about Star Wars' Grand Admiral Thrawn. Outside his own race, the Chiss, the Grand Admiral simply goes by "Thrawn". This is because ...

The only alien to ever ascend to the rank of Grand Admiral, Thrawn is a strategic genius who hails from an isolationist race ...

Thrawn's background as a member of the mysterious far-flung Chiss was expanded; though he pretended to be in exile from his species, he was in fact sent to study the Empire as much as serve it.