Admiral Natasi Daala

An intellectual savant with regard to warfare tactics, Daala rose to rank of Admiral after revolutionizing the dominant ideology of the Imperial fleet - the Tarkin Doctrine. She now guards the secret weapons research facility of Maw Installation (see the Tarkin Initiative Scientists below).

Individual Directive Ability: Admiral Daala can use her individual directive abilities to control the Maw Installation facility, as well as the superweapon technologies in development there. She also has access to four Star Destroyers: the Basilisk, Gorgon, Hydra, and Manticore.

Featured in: Death Star (Novel)

Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo (Thrawn)

A warrior of the Chiss Ascendancy in the swirling Chaos of the Unknown Regions, Thrawn fights for the Empire in the belief that only a unified galactic military can combat the galactic threats he sees lying in wait in the Unknown Regions. To him, fighting the Rebellion is simply a quid-pro-quo in the process of centralizing military power. Thrawn has deep care and respect for his soldiers, but continually finds that he cannot understand people's whims and ambitions; he can see culture only through a militarial lens, which makes him blind in political endeavors.

Individual Directive Ability: If Thrawn uses a directive to acquire a species' or group's artwork, he can gain military insight into their tactics. Thrawn commands the Seventh Fleet, and its associated Star Destroyers, Arquitens-class command cruisers, twelve Gozanti-class cruisers, Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers, and Interdictor-class Star Destroyers. He directly commands the Chimaera, his flagship.

Featured in: Timothy Zahn's Thrawn and Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogies, Star Wars Rebels, Seasons 3-4

Admiral of the Navy Conan Antonio Motti

The highest ranking officer in the Imperial Navy, Motti is a smug and dismissive member of the Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military. Coming from a wealthy family in the Outer Rim, Motti is known for his egoism, which manifests itself in his total assurance and faith that the destruction of the Rebel Alliance will come the creation of larger and larger weapons of war.

Individual Directive Ability: Motti can broadly command the Imperial Navy with his indiviudal directives, and is its highest ranking officer. He also directly commands the Steel Talon Star Destroyer.

Featured in: A New Hope

Colonel Shakara Nuress

An ancient and harsh Colonel in the Imperial Navy, Nuress is the masterful commanding officer of the 204th Imperial Fighter Wing.

Individual Directive Ability: Nuress can directly command the 204th Imperial Fighter Wing, also known as Shadow Wing, with her individual directives. It was composed of six TIE Fighter Squadrons of TIE/ln Starfighters and TIE/in Interceptors, as well as four Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carriers.

Featured in: TIE Fighter (Comics), Alphabet Squadron Trilogy

Vice Admiral Screed

A strong militarist and rather reclusive ally of the Emperor, Vice Admiral Screed prefers the cold and dull screens of computers to human interaction. When talking with others, his temper is often short and his militarial strategy often resorts to annihilation.

Individual Directive Ability: Screed can control a small fleet and his flagship, the Gladiator-class Star Destroyer Demolisher, with his individual directives.

Featured in: Droids (TV Show), Tarkin (Novel)

General Casio Tagge

An influential member of the House of Tagge, General Casio Tagge is a methodical and arrogant high-ranking General within the Imperial Army. Tagge takes a more conservative and level-headed approach to the construction of mass weapons than his rival, Admiral Motti. Tagge also sees the criminal underworld as a greater threat than the rebellion, and focuses much of his efforts on its destruction.

Individual Directive Ability: A general, Tagge can use his individual directives to broadly commands large forces of Imperial Army troopers and their associated vehicles and weapons.

Featured in: A New Hope, Tarkin (Novel)

Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin

A cunning and cruel Imperial Governor, Tarkin directly controls Oversector Outer, which comprises much of the Outer Rim. He developed the Imperial Tarkin Doctrine, a fear-based fleet directive designed to subordinate the galaxy. In doing so, he developed the Tarkin Initiative (see Tarkin Initiative Scientists below), stationed at Maw Installation, to pursue superweapon research.

Individual Directive Ability: Through his individual directives, Tarkin can exercise his direct governance of most of the Outer Rim, and control the Star Destroyers Executrix and Sovereign. He established the Maw Installation facility, and remains in close contact with Admiral Daala. Tarkin is one of three most powerful figures in the entirety of the Galactic Empire.

Featured in: A New Hope, Star Wars Rebels, Seasons 1-4, Tarkin (Novel)

Grand Moff Lozen Tolruck

A sadistic and violent man, Grand Moff Tolruck commands Oversector 3, which contains the Wookie planet of Kashyyyk, exploited by the Grand Moff for slave labor. Tolruck is suspected to be insane, and has regard for humanity in his cruel policies.

Individual Directive Ability: Tolruck can use his individual directives to exert his control over Oversector 3, a mass portion of the galaxy, as well as use his political leverage from his command of the Wookie labor resources that the Empire uses for weapons development projects at Maw Installation.

Featured in: Aftermath: Life Debt (Novel)

Grand Moff Naomi Dargon

A descendent of the wealthy Corellian Dargon family, Naomi Dargon controls the Corellian Oversector. She's allowed the Black Sun Crime Syndicate to operate there in return for a nominal alliance between them and her Imperial forces.

Individual Directive Ability: Dargon controls the wealthy world of Corellia, and can use individual directives to pass notes directly cross-houses to the Black Sun Crime Syndicate, which has established an uneasy alliance with her.

Doctor Galen Erso

The foremost scholar in the galaxy on kyber crystals, Galen Erso once willingly participated in the Galactic Republic's Celestial Power program - which he believed would provide energy to impoverished worlds. He fled the program upon realizing that his research was being weaponized. He was later kidnapped by the Empire, and forced to work for the Tarkin Initiative, his research being utilized for Project Stardust: the creation of the "Death Star" DS-1 Orbital Battle Station. Erso's true sympathies lie against the Empire, and he is working from within to bring them down.

Individual Directive Ability: Though imprisoned working for the Tarkin Initiative, Erso enjoys a senior development on most weapons projects, and has the ability to sabotage them with his individual directives. He can also pass notes to the rebel Saw Gerrera, an old friend of Erso's.

Featured in: Catalyst (Novel), Rogue One

Director Orson Krennic

The director of the Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research, Krennic is a desperate man. Having worked for the Death Star Project since before the Empire even formed, he sees it as his sole way to rise in the Imperial Ranks, and the definitive way to crush the rebellion. He wishes to devote all resources possible to the Death Star, and wards off carefully any individuals - such as Tarkin and Motti - who wish to claim it for their own.

Individual Directive Ability: Krennic is privy to all the most secret weapons research at the Maw Installation facilities, the Tarkin Iniative at large, and Advanced Weapons Research. He can broadly control most of Advanced Weapons Research with his individual directives, and can request Imperial Security Bureau protection on his projects there.

Featured in: Catalyst (Novel), Rogue One

Bevel Lemelisk

The ambitious architect of the Death Star, Lemelisk is a giddy inventor anxious to observe the success of his creation. Lemelisk is a cruel man, with strict attention to deadlines and a mad imagination.

Individual Directive Ability: Due to his genius intellect, Lemelisk has mass access to the funds of the Tarkin Iniative for his new ideas and weapons research, which he can test with his individual directives.

Featured in: Darksaber (Novel)

Qwi Xux

A brilliant inventor, Qwi Xux has been deluded by the Empire into believing that her weapons designs are of no danger to anyone, leading to the creation of cruel new devices.

Individual Directive Ability: Qwi Xux has no moral perogative to speak of, and mass access to weapons research funds at Maw Installation, which she can use with her individual directives.

Featured in: Darksaber (Novel)

Doctor Royce Hemlock

A brutal scientist removed from the Republic Science Corps for the cruel unorthodoxy of his experimentation, Hemlock is the Chief Scientist of the Imperial Advanced Science Division, and leads the cloning efforts on Mount Tantiss.

Individual Directive Ability: Hemlock leads the Advanced Science Division, and has access to all the assets of the Mount Tantiss facility, including cloning technology and a cloned Zillo Beast, which he can utilize with his individual directives.

Featured in: The Bad Batch, Seasons 2-3

Doctor Penn Pershing

A researcher on cloning for the Advanced Science Division, Pershing was a simple advocate of organ cloning that ended up being moved to the Mount Tantiss facility, where he researches the advent of force-sensitive cloning.

Individual Directive Ability: Pershing is one of the foremost savants on cloning, and can use individual directives to perform experiments and access much of the Advanced Science Division budget.

Featured in: The Mandalorian, Seasons 1-3

Nala Se

The former Chief Medical Scientist for the Kaminoan cloners that contracted with the Galactic Republic, Nala Se is now forcibly working for the cloning department of the Advanced Science Division. 

Individual Directive Ability: Nala Se can use individual directives to try her own experiments, and can access a large budget for research and equipment through the Advanced Science Division.

Featured in: The Clone Wars, Season 6, The Bad Batch, Seasons 1-3

Director Armand Isard

A fiercely loyal and brilliant intelligence officer, Isard talks little but knows greatly about the happenings in the galaxy. He runs the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR), the ideological center of the Empire.

Individual Directive Ability: Through his complete control of COMPNOR, Isard effectively controls the dissemination of propaganda throughout the Empire. With his individual directives, he can utilize the many vassals of COMPNOR, such as the military CompForce and the intelligence-based ISB, to enact his whims.

Featured in: Tarkin (Novel)

Director Ysanne Isard

The daughter of Armand Isard, Ysanne Isard is the Director of Imperial Intelligence, a rival of the ISB that provides active intelligence to military on the ground. Absolutely ruthless, Ysanne Isard has a complete disregard for the lives of other beings, and is known for having loyalty only to the Empire.

Individual Directive Ability: Isard broadly controls Imperial Intelligence with her individual directives. Additionally, she has control of the Lusankya, a Executor-class Star Dreadnought buried under the city planet Coruscant that functions as a personal prison.

Featured in: The X-Wing Series

Agent Alexsandr Kallus

A firm beleiver in Imperial supremacy, Kallus led the ISB in the genocide of the Lasat species on Lasan. He serves as the protégé of Colonel Yularen, and undertakes many secretive missions of the ISB himself.

Individual Directive Ability: Kallus, as an ISB agent, has the responsibility of exposing the treasonous actions of other Imperial officers. He can use his individual directives to directly investigate the treasonous actions of other imperials, and spy on his brethren. ISB agents are some of the only Imperials able to formally charge others with sedition. As an agent, he has the training and ability to undertake undercover missions herself, with limited support.

Featured in: Star Wars Rebels, Seasons 1-4

Lieutenant Dedra Meero

An ambitious Lieutenant with the ISB, Meero is a capable and cutthroat officer totally dedicated towards the eradication of sedition and rebellion.

Individual Directive Ability: Meero, as an ISB officer, has the responsibility of exposing the treasonous actions of other Imperial officers. ISB agents are some of the only Imperials able to formally charge others with sedition. She can use her individual directives to investigate and spy upon other rival imperials. As an agent, she has the training and ability to undertake undercover missions herself, with limited support.

Featured in: Andor

Colonel Wullf Yularen

A kindly and yet strict veteran of the Clone Wars, Colonel Yularen leads the Imperial Security Bureau, the Imperial Intelligence agency dedication to rooting out sedition from the citizens of the Empire.

Individual Directive Ability: Yularen exhibits a heavy amount of control over the ISB, and can broadly control the organization with his individual directives. As an ISB officer, he has the responsibility of exposing the treasonous actions of other Imperial officers. He can use his individual directives to directly investigate and spy upon the treasonous actions of other imperials. ISB agents are some of the only Imperials able to formally charge others with sedition.

Featured in: The Clone Wars, Seasons 1-7, Star Wars Rebels, A New Hope, Andor