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Natasi Daala was the first female in the Imperial Navy to obtain the rank of Admiral. She was a protégé of Grand Moff Tarkin and was placed in command of his top-secret weapons research facility known as the Maw Installation. Tarkin entrusted Daala with his most important secret projects and given additional command of four Star Destroyers to protect the Maw Installation. She proved to be a thorn in the New Republic's side for several years before disappearing for more than two decades. When she did reappear it was to save the galaxy from a new Sith Lord. Grateful of her support she would eventually become the Chief of State of a Republic she had originally sworn to destroy.

own lack of field and battle experience when Admiral Ackbar recognises the strategy, being a former slave of Tarkin. Ackbar countermove destroys another of Daala's Star Destroyers and so she retaliates by attacking several Mon Calamari floating cities before retreating.
With just two Star Destroyers remaining, Daala plans her most ambitious and desperate attack: crashing one of the Star Destroyers into the New Republic capital, Coruscant. Unfortunately, Kyp Durron, now a Jedi Knight, prevents the attack when he uses the Sun Crusher to cause a star to go supernova which destroys the sacrificed Star Destroyer before it can enter Coruscant space.
With her last remaining Star Destroyer, Daala returns to the Maw Installation only to find that the New Republic have laid siege to it. Worse still, disaffected scientists within the facility were sabotaging it. Realising that the facility was lost Daala was able to acquire all of its remaining secrets before destroying it herself. (stories: Jedi Search, Dark Apprentice, Champions of the Force)

Having lost her base of operations, the Maw Installation, Daala was forced to retreat to the splintered Imperial forces where she believed she could use her diplomatic skills to unite the warring factions. However her efforts were in vain as the factions continued to fight amongst themselves. Eventually Daala met Vice Admiral Gilad Pellaeon (who had once been Grand Admiral Thrawn's second-in-command) and who also believed that the continual inter-faction fighting was self-destructive and between Daala and Pellaeon they assassinated thirteen of the most important Imperial warlords.
Taking control of the factions, Daala named herself Supreme Commander and appointed Pellaeon as her second-in-command, and prepared the Imperial forces for an assault on the newly formed Jedi Academy on Yavin IV.
However, Jedi trainees Kyp Durron and Dorsk 81 had infiltrated the Imperial camp and learned of Daala's plans for the attack on Yavin IV. During their escape the two Jedi Knights fled to the planet Khomm forcing Daala to split her forces in two: hers to track the escapees, while Pellaeon's would begin the assault on the Jedi Academy. Daala's fleet ravaged Khomm but were unable to capture the two Jedi Knights. Meanwhile, pre-warned the Jedi Academy successfully prevented Pellaeon's attack using, what Pellaeon described as "Jedi sorcery", so when Daala's fleet finally arrived at Yavin IV there was no sign of Pellaeon's fleet. Instead Admiral Ackbar had arrived to protect the Academy with a small New Republic fleet and during the ensuing battle Daala's Super Star Destroyer, the Knight Hammer (pun intended), was sabotaged by Jedi Knight Callista Ming. Unable to control her ship, it eventually crashed into the gas giant plant Yavin but not before Daala had evacuated in an escape pod.
When her pod was recovered by Pellaeon, Daala had realised that her personal vendetta against the New Republic was costing too many Imperial lives and so she relinquished her command to Pellaeon and discharged herself from the military. (story: Darksaber)

Two years later, Daala was settling with a colony of 3,000 on Peduccis Chorios when they discovered that the planet had been poisoned with the Death Seed plague. She learnt that the plague had been released by an ex-Senator, Seti Ashgad; a corrupt Moff, Getelles; and by the Loronar Corporation, and so she decided to fight against Seti, Getelles and the Loronar Corporation even though it meant cooperating with New Republic forces. Following the defeats of Getelles, Seti and the Loronar Corporation, thanks in part to Daala, she settled down with her old lover Liegeus Vorn. (story: Planet of Twilight)

own fleet, the Maw Irregular sided with the Jedi Coalition that included the Wookiees, Mandalorians and disaffected Galactic Alliance forces. With new weapons developed at the Maw Installation, Daala's fleet was instrumental in defeating Darth Caedus's and when Caedus was eventually killed, Daala was nominated to become the Chief of State for the restored Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. A position she accepted. (stories: Revelation, Invincible)

Stories featuring Admiral Natasi Daala (in chronological order):

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