
Admiral Firmus Piett (Dates in Star Wars–Dates in Star Wars) is a character from the Star Wars universe. He was one of only two Galactic Empire (Star Wars) officers to appear in two Star Wars films (''The Empire Strikes Back'' and ''Return of the Jedi''), and was perhaps the only character in the entire trilogy to benefit from Darth Vader's propensity to summarily execute his officers for failures great and small. Piett was played by Kenneth Colley. Piett was born on the Outer Rim world of Axxila. In the Imperial Navy, it is always important to have Deep Core connections. Officers from the Outer Rim rarely received an important strategic posting. When he joined the Imperial Starfleet, he commanded a fleet that patrolled his home sector. Darth Vader later assigned Captain Piett to command the Imperial Star Destroyer ''Accuser'', under Admiral Griff. When Griff died at Yavin 4 during the Rebel evacuation, Piett became captain of the Star Dreadnought1 ''Super Star Destroyer'' after its current commander, Admiral Ozzel, was promoted to admiral and took command of Vader's fleet. Three years after the Battle of Yavin, Captain Piett and his command staff received a transmission from a probe droid in the Hoth that revealed the hidden Rebel Alliance (Star Wars) headquarters, Echo Base. When Piett promptly informed his superiors of this find, Admiral Ozzel dismissed it as something other than the Rebel base. However, Vader immediately accepted Piett’s finding and ordered his fleet, the Imperial Death Squadron, to the Hoth system. The fleet's exit point from hyperspace was close enough to the planet that the Rebels were able to detect it immediately, giving them time to raise an energy shield that would stop any orbital bombardment. Ozzel was swiftly killed by Vader for his incompetence and Piett was instantly promoted to admiral (crew members then started to bet on how long Piett had to live). While General Veers successfully captured the Rebel base, the ''Millennium Falcon'' escaped. Vader ordered the fleet to pursue, even though the ''Falcon'' had entered a nearby asteroid field. During the search for the ''Falcon'', the Star Destroyer ''Avenger'' found it, but it strangely vanished. The bounty hunter Boba Fett, commissioned by Lord Vader, who realized that the ''Falcon'' was in fact secretly docked on the ''Avenger'', followed and reported its movements as it disengaged and limped over to Bespin. While Han Solo, Leia Organa, and Chewbacca were being given a tour by Lando Calrissian, Piett's men deactivated the hyperdrive on the ''Falcon''. As the ''Falcon'' fled, it was nearly captured by the ''Executor's'' tractor beam, but R2-D2 was able to reactivate the hyperdrive and the ''Falcon'' again escaped Imperial custody. Despite this failure, Piett was allowed to live by Vader. This was probably because, unlike Admiral Ozzel or Captain Needa, it was not due to a misjudgment on Piett's part that the ''Falcon'' escaped. However, George Lucas provided an alternate explanation on the commentary track for the 2004 DVD. Vader's encounter with Luke had apparently left him deeply conflicted. Possibly this was because of his son's choice to die rather than walk down the same path as his father did. As such Darth Vader was able to find enough mercy within himself to spare Piett's life. One year later, Piett commanded the Imperial fleet at the Battle of Endor. If Piett had been allowed to engage the Rebel fleet, his ships could have easily destroyed them. Instead, he was ordered to hold position and just keep them from escaping so they could be vaporized one by one by the second Death Star's superlaser. The Palpatine plan backfired when the Rebels moved to attack the Star Destroyers at point-blank range. During the battle, Admiral Ackbar ordered all Rebel ships to concentrate their fire on the ''Executor''. This concentrated fire temporarily knocked out the shields, allowing two A-Wings to destroy a targeting dome on the ''Executor's'' bridge tower, cutting the vital flow of targeting information as well as lowering the shields protecting the bridge. In response to the lowering of the shields, Piett ordered the forward turbolaser batteries to intensify their firepower. Still, it was too late; moments later, a disabled A-wing piloted by Arvel Crynyd made a kamikaze maneuver and flew right into the bridge as Piett and his captain dived into a lower level of the bridge. Before the crew could regain control from the secondary command center, the ''Executor'' crashed into the Death Star and exploded. Piett was presumed dead in the crash. Piett's nephew, Captain Sarkli, also served at the Battle of Endor. Although he wasn't Force-sensitive, Piett was trained by Darth Vader in lightsaber combat, though Piett often prefered to use a blaster. ==Source== #''Inside the Worlds of the Star Wars Trilogy.'' Star Wars characters Star Wars Imperial characters Fictional admirals ==External links== [http://www.piett.org Admiral Piett fanclub]
I can't see the photo on this or any other Wikipedia page while using Firefox. What gives? - may 29, 2005 We need to get Piett's picture.-User:B-101 ---- Try to get a photo of Piett. And also, who keeps turning "super star destroyer" into "star dreadnought"? The ''Executor'' is a super-star destroyer, not a star dreadnought.- User:B-101 11:29, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC) The entire rebel fleet didn't take down the ''Executor''. The domes that are on the bridge towers are the shield generators. Some think they are sensor domes, but they protect the ship. It is said in the "Illustrated Guide to Weapons and Technology". The two A-wings disabled the shields which allowed that guy to plow into the bridge.- User:B-101 11:36, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC) == A-wings and Star Dreadnoughts == Admiral Ackbar ordered the fleet to "Concentrate all fire on that Super Star Destroyer." The rebel fleet then quickly brought down the Exector's shields. The 2 A-wings took advantage of the shield failure to strafe the sensor globe. Destroying the sensor globe reduced the accuracy of the Executor's weapons, which allowed the kamikaze A-wing to ram the bridge before the crew could get the shields back up. The claims of poorly researched books like the "Illustrated Guide to Weapons and Technology" are irrelevant. There are 8 globes clearly visible near the bridge on the model, so even if they ''were'' shield generators, only losing one wouldn't do much anyway. "Super Star Destroyer" is at best a slang term. Star Dreadnought is the proper designation for ships of the Executor's size as explicitly established in "Inside the Worlds of the Star Wars Trilogy", published on August 1, 2004. - User:Vermilion 04:58, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) :Is there any particular reason to consider "Inside the Worlds ..." more canonical than "Illustrated Guide ...", or indeed, the various and several SW computer games (which I play far more often than I watch the films), which clearly establish both that it's a Super Star Destroyer and that the globes are shield generators. Does it have some sort of "this is official truth and the rest of all that expanded universe stuff is a pack of lies" foreword from that nice Mr Lucas or something? User:Bth (Can't quite believe I'm getting involved in this, but never mind.) ::Generally, more recent books override older books when there's a contradiction. Most SW books and games just mindlessly repeat obviously incorrect information from WEG's RPG. The two series of books recently published by DK ("Incredible Cross Sections" and "Inside the Worlds"), are correcting many of the old WEG mistakes such as the length of the Executor and the sizes of the Death Stars. ::The overall stories of the games are canon but the games themselves are not canon. For example, in TIE Fighter, it would be canon that Grand Admiral Zarin developed the TIE Defender and tried to take over the Empire, but the exact events shown in each mission would not be canon. As another example, in X-wing Alliance, the Azzameen family joining the Rebellion would be canon, but obviously Ace Azzameen did not pilot the Falcon at Endor. - User:Vermilion 05:25, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Shield globes== Maybe the globes on the bridge tower are designated for shield duties, like the one the A-wings blew up. Maybe the ones that are seen throughout the model are the sensor globes. And also, even if the sensors weren't down, it would still be hard for the ''Executor's'' turbolasers to hit an A-wing. Those things are pretty darn fast.- User:B-101 13:36, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==New book== I honestly didn't know they had a new book about the original trilogy.- User:B-101 14:47, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) I went out and bought a copy of the new book. It really clears up what you were saying.- User:B-101 22:09, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Shields again== The new guide to weapons and technology says that the domes are the shield generators. I would like to change it again.- User:B-101 00:23, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) :It would be better to call them shield projectors, rather than generators. User:Vermilion 19:33, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::So, would it be okay to change that the statement that the Rebels fleet took down the shields to the two A-wings that blew up the domes?- User:B-101 23:53, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) :::Edit whatever you want, you don't need to ask permisson for anything. I mainly take issue with saying the A-wings alone brought down the shield. The domes themselves would be protected by the shield, so it would have to be taken down first for the A-wings to be able to hit them. That's what the fleet did. User:Vermilion 20:25, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC) :::I put in that the fleet disabled the shields for the projectors and the A-wings destroyed the bridge's projector. This should be a common agreement for us.- User:B-101 18:09, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::::Yes, that looks good. User:Vermilion 20:19, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC) ---- Hopefully, this is the last time I have to ask this. Get Piett's picture, please.- User:B-101 22:03, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC) ==Lightsabers?== What would be the point of Vader training Piett to use a lightsaber?User:Kuralyov 17:41, 29 May 2005 (UTC) :Possibly discipline? I'd imagine the training would help Piett keep focused and whatnot.--User:Kross 01:27, May 30, 2005 (UTC) == Speculation == ''Piett was probably married and "Sarkli" was his wife's maiden name.'' Er...why is this believed? I haven't read any Star Wars Extended Universe stuff, so I am just going from the text of the article on this, but if it is explained that Sarkli is his wife's maiden name, then it's not "probably." If it is not explained, I don't see why this is any more likely than any other explanation of a nephew with a different last name than his uncle, of which there are numerous possibilities - the son of Piett's sister, the son of Piett's half-brother, the son of Piett's wife's sister, the son of Piett's step-brother or sister... User:John Kenney User_talk:John Kenney 07:41, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) I understand the speculation. There really isn't much on Captain Sarkli. The only info on him is from his ''Star Wars'' trading card which says he is Piett's nephew and that he is an Imperial spy.- User:B-101 15:39, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Admiral Firmus Piett (Dates in Star Wars–Dates in Star Wars) is a character from the Star Wars universe. He was one of only two Galactic Empire (Star Wars) officers to appear in two Star Wars films (''The Empire Strikes Back'' and ''Return of the Jedi''), and was perhaps the only character in the entire trilogy to benefit from Darth Vader's propensity to summarily execute his officers for failures great and small. Piett was played by Kenneth Colley. Piett was born on the Outer Rim world of Axxila. In the Imperial Navy, it is always important to have Deep Core connections. Officers from the Outer Rim rarely received an important strategic posting. When he joined the Imperial Starfleet, he commanded a fleet that patrolled his home sector. Darth Vader later assigned Captain Piett to command the Imperial Star Destroyer ''Accuser'', under Admiral Griff. When Griff died at Yavin 4 during the Rebel evacuation, Piett became captain of the Star Dreadnought1 ''Super Star Destroyer'' after its current commander, Admiral Ozzel, was promoted to admiral and took command of Vader's fleet. Three years after the Battle of Yavin, Captain Piett and his command staff received a transmission from a probe droid in the Hoth that revealed the hidden Rebel Alliance (Star Wars) headquarters, Echo Base. When Piett promptly informed his superiors of this find, Admiral Ozzel dismissed it as something other than the Rebel base. However, Vader immediately accepted Piett’s finding and ordered his fleet, the Imperial Death Squadron, to the Hoth system. The fleet's exit point from hyperspace was close enough to the planet that the Rebels were able to detect it immediately, giving them time to raise an energy shield that would stop any orbital bombardment. Ozzel was swiftly killed by Vader for his incompetence and Piett was instantly promoted to admiral (crew members then started to bet on how long Piett had to live). While General Veers successfully captured the Rebel base, the ''Millennium Falcon'' escaped. Vader ordered the fleet to pursue, even though the ''Falcon'' had entered a nearby asteroid field. During the search for the ''Falcon'', the Star Destroyer ''Avenger'' found it, but it strangely vanished. The bounty hunter Boba Fett, commissioned by Lord Vader, who realized that the ''Falcon'' was in fact secretly docked on the ''Avenger'', followed and reported its movements as it disengaged and limped over to Bespin. While Han Solo, Leia Organa, and Chewbacca were being given a tour by Lando Calrissian, Piett's men deactivated the hyperdrive on the ''Falcon''. As the ''Falcon'' fled, it was nearly captured by the ''Executor's'' tractor beam, but R2-D2 was able to reactivate the hyperdrive and the ''Falcon'' again escaped Imperial custody. Despite this failure, Piett was allowed to live by Vader. This was probably because, unlike Admiral Ozzel or Captain Needa, it was not due to a misjudgment on Piett's part that the ''Falcon'' escaped. However, George Lucas provided an alternate explanation on the commentary track for the 2004 DVD. Vader's encounter with Luke had apparently left him deeply conflicted. Possibly this was because of his son's choice to die rather than walk down the same path as his father did. As such Darth Vader was able to find enough mercy within himself to spare Piett's life. One year later, Piett commanded the Imperial fleet at the Battle of Endor. If Piett had been allowed to engage the Rebel fleet, his ships could have easily destroyed them. Instead, he was ordered to hold position and just keep them from escaping so they could be vaporized one by one by the second Death Star's superlaser. The Palpatine plan backfired when the Rebels moved to attack the Star Destroyers at point-blank range. During the battle, Admiral Ackbar ordered all Rebel ships to concentrate their fire on the ''Executor''. This concentrated fire temporarily knocked out the shields, allowing two A-Wings to destroy a targeting dome on the ''Executor's'' bridge tower, cutting the vital flow of targeting information as well as lowering the shields protecting the bridge. In response to the lowering of the shields, Piett ordered the forward turbolaser batteries to intensify their firepower. Still, it was too late; moments later, a disabled A-wing piloted by Arvel Crynyd made a kamikaze maneuver and flew right into the bridge as Piett and his captain dived into a lower level of the bridge. Before the crew could regain control from the secondary command center, the ''Executor'' crashed into the Death Star and exploded. Piett was presumed dead in the crash. Piett's nephew, Captain Sarkli, also served at the Battle of Endor. Although he wasn't Force-sensitive, Piett was trained by Darth Vader in lightsaber combat, though Piett often prefered to use a blaster. ==Source== #''Inside the Worlds of the Star Wars Trilogy.'' Star Wars characters Star Wars Imperial characters Fictional admirals ==External links== [http://www.piett.org Admiral Piett fanclub]
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I can't see the photo on this or any other Wikipedia page while using Firefox. What gives? - may 29, 2005 We need to get Piett's picture.-User:B-101 ---- Try to get a photo of Piett. And also, who keeps turning "super star destroyer" into "star dreadnought"? The ''Executor'' is a super-star destroyer, not a star dreadnought.- User:B-101 11:29, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC) The entire rebel fleet didn't take down the ''Executor''. The domes that are on the bridge towers are the shield generators. Some think they are sensor domes, but they protect the ship. It is said in the "Illustrated Guide to Weapons and Technology". The two A-wings disabled the shields which allowed that guy to plow into the bridge.- User:B-101 11:36, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC) == A-wings and Star Dreadnoughts == Admiral Ackbar ordered the fleet to "Concentrate all fire on that Super Star Destroyer." The rebel fleet then quickly brought down the Exector's shields. The 2 A-wings took advantage of the shield failure to strafe the sensor globe. Destroying the sensor globe reduced the accuracy of the Executor's weapons, which allowed the kamikaze A-wing to ram the bridge before the crew could get the shields back up. The claims of poorly researched books like the "Illustrated Guide to Weapons and Technology" are irrelevant. There are 8 globes clearly visible near the bridge on the model, so even if they ''were'' shield generators, only losing one wouldn't do much anyway. "Super Star Destroyer" is at best a slang term. Star Dreadnought is the proper designation for ships of the Executor's size as explicitly established in "Inside the Worlds of the Star Wars Trilogy", published on August 1, 2004. - User:Vermilion 04:58, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) :Is there any particular reason to consider "Inside the Worlds ..." more canonical than "Illustrated Guide ...", or indeed, the various and several SW computer games (which I play far more often than I watch the films), which clearly establish both that it's a Super Star Destroyer and that the globes are shield generators. Does it have some sort of "this is official truth and the rest of all that expanded universe stuff is a pack of lies" foreword from that nice Mr Lucas or something? User:Bth (Can't quite believe I'm getting involved in this, but never mind.) ::Generally, more recent books override older books when there's a contradiction. Most SW books and games just mindlessly repeat obviously incorrect information from WEG's RPG. The two series of books recently published by DK ("Incredible Cross Sections" and "Inside the Worlds"), are correcting many of the old WEG mistakes such as the length of the Executor and the sizes of the Death Stars. ::The overall stories of the games are canon but the games themselves are not canon. For example, in TIE Fighter, it would be canon that Grand Admiral Zarin developed the TIE Defender and tried to take over the Empire, but the exact events shown in each mission would not be canon. As another example, in X-wing Alliance, the Azzameen family joining the Rebellion would be canon, but obviously Ace Azzameen did not pilot the Falcon at Endor. - User:Vermilion 05:25, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Shield globes== Maybe the globes on the bridge tower are designated for shield duties, like the one the A-wings blew up. Maybe the ones that are seen throughout the model are the sensor globes. And also, even if the sensors weren't down, it would still be hard for the ''Executor's'' turbolasers to hit an A-wing. Those things are pretty darn fast.- User:B-101 13:36, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==New book== I honestly didn't know they had a new book about the original trilogy.- User:B-101 14:47, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) I went out and bought a copy of the new book. It really clears up what you were saying.- User:B-101 22:09, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Shields again== The new guide to weapons and technology says that the domes are the shield generators. I would like to change it again.- User:B-101 00:23, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) :It would be better to call them shield projectors, rather than generators. User:Vermilion 19:33, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::So, would it be okay to change that the statement that the Rebels fleet took down the shields to the two A-wings that blew up the domes?- User:B-101 23:53, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) :::Edit whatever you want, you don't need to ask permisson for anything. I mainly take issue with saying the A-wings alone brought down the shield. The domes themselves would be protected by the shield, so it would have to be taken down first for the A-wings to be able to hit them. That's what the fleet did. User:Vermilion 20:25, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC) :::I put in that the fleet disabled the shields for the projectors and the A-wings destroyed the bridge's projector. This should be a common agreement for us.- User:B-101 18:09, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::::Yes, that looks good. User:Vermilion 20:19, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC) ---- Hopefully, this is the last time I have to ask this. Get Piett's picture, please.- User:B-101 22:03, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC) ==Lightsabers?== What would be the point of Vader training Piett to use a lightsaber?User:Kuralyov 17:41, 29 May 2005 (UTC) :Possibly discipline? I'd imagine the training would help Piett keep focused and whatnot.--User:Kross 01:27, May 30, 2005 (UTC) == Speculation == ''Piett was probably married and "Sarkli" was his wife's maiden name.'' Er...why is this believed? I haven't read any Star Wars Extended Universe stuff, so I am just going from the text of the article on this, but if it is explained that Sarkli is his wife's maiden name, then it's not "probably." If it is not explained, I don't see why this is any more likely than any other explanation of a nephew with a different last name than his uncle, of which there are numerous possibilities - the son of Piett's sister, the son of Piett's half-brother, the son of Piett's wife's sister, the son of Piett's step-brother or sister... User:John Kenney User_talk:John Kenney 07:41, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) I understand the speculation. There really isn't much on Captain Sarkli. The only info on him is from his ''Star Wars'' trading card which says he is Piett's nephew and that he is an Imperial spy.- User:B-101 15:39, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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