I love this story so far. I love how the people in charge are smart. Keep up the good work.

Sheev Palpatine

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius. True to his title, Darth Sidious was a master of subterfuge and guile, smoothly navigating galactic politics into the position of Supreme Chancellor despite the cutthroat competition and rampant corruption in the Senate at the time. As Supreme Chancellor he successfully commissioned the creation of the Clone Army and seized emergency powers to consolidate his position while simultaneously running the Separatist Alliance with the Jedi none the wiser, thus paving the path for the Jedi's extermination with the galaxy-spanning Clone Wars. His promises of power also successfully turned many of the greatest Jedi to the Dark Side, including Count Dooku and Anakin Skywalker, making them feared symbols of the Sith while disposing of them as necessary. His ruthlessness and cunning as a political strategist were only matched by his incredible mastery of the Dark Side of the Force. Spending decades studying the most arcane and forbidden arts of both the Jedi and the Sith, he was a master of virtually every Force ability while developing new abilities to use at his leisure, becoming so powerful that he was a nexus of the Dark Side itself and utilizing techniques wielded by the greatest Sith Lords in history to become the mightiest of them all. Despite treating it as a mere game, Sidious was also a nearly unrivalled lightsaber duelist. Having mastered every form of lightsaber combat, he cut down several of the finest duelists in the Jedi Order with a single stroke each while facing multiple Jedi Masters at a time, including the mighty Mace Windu, and easily fended off the likes of Darth Maul and Savage Opress simultaneously. Effortlessly blending his mastery of the two arts in combat, he tended to lull his foes into a false sense of security by underperforming before cutting them down with his full strength or simply electrocuting them with his powerful Force Lightning. Sidious is also a tactical genius, single-handedly preventing the Imperial fleet from losing ground against the rebel forces through his use of battle meditation, coordinating the movements of hundreds of ships and countless starfighters single-handedly from his throne in the Death Star II. He also supplemented his already staggering genius with his mastery of foresight, allowing him glimpses into the future to overtake his opponents and plan for potentially dangerous events, even laying the ground for his return after his death in the Legends continuity. However, for all of his brilliance, he suffered from a critical flaw of the Sith: overconfidence. Sidious underestimated Windu's ability to match him in lightsaber combat and was thus horribly scarred when Windu reflected Sidious' Force Lightning. He also failed to account for Vader's paternal instincts during his confrontation with Luke Skywalker aboard the Death Star, leading to Sidious' death when his sadism led Vader to betray Sidious and throw him into the reactor core

Grand Admiral Thrawn

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius. Capable of outsmarting Captain Parack's seasoned Stormtroopers and officers, while stranded on a planet for over a basic year's time, if not longer, without any modern equipment or technology, could completely confuse and disorient even military geniuses such as Admiral Ackbar, Admiral Draysen, General Belis on a routine basis; was more than efficient in using a limited number of Star Destroyers, and other warships for maximum effectiveness against much more powerful and larger New Republic ships; nearly captured Luke Skywalker twice with his plans and ambush techniques and was almost always on the offensive, never losing except for one setback dealt to him by the main heroes of the New Republic and another during the final battle of Sluis Van when Grand Admiral Thrawn was assassinated by his bodyguard. Overall, absolutely terrifying as a military opponent; almost twenty years later even promising admirals in the New Republic such as Kre'fay were using Thrawn's personality and intelligence in simulated AI battles as an opponent for a benchmark of the highest competence as commanders of large scale tactical and strategic battles before the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. Extraordinary Genius. A brilliant military leader, strategist, tactician, and schemer. Managed to crush a rebellion in an entire sector with limited forces and resources at his disposal. Can discern the psychology of individuals and even entire races from their artwork and history. Master manipulator who uses what personnel and resources he has at his disposal to carry out plans which seem like failures in the short term but reap benefits in the long term. Also, a skilled investigator who can quickly identify potential moles and other internal threats. Has cracked cases which baffled the likes of Wilhuff Tarkin and Wullf Yularen, themselves gifted officers whose intelligence and problem-solving capabilities are held in high regard by the likes of Darth Sidious and Darth Vader. Deciphered the strategic and tactical acumen of Balanhai Savit - a fellow Grand Admiral and master schemer himself - just from his musical talent and body language. Faced down and defeated a traitorous Imperial Navy task force which outnumbered his four-to-one without a single life lost on either side, even managing to turn half of the enemy's forces to his side via a brilliant ruse. Managed to get a grasp of the psychology and combat doctrine of the Grysk Hegemony's naval forces based on artwork created - not by the Grysk themselves - but by Grysk client species and slaves. Anticipated the behaviours and tactics of Grysk client species members based on their artwork and brief conversations with captured Grysk slaves. Has proven that he has a high level understanding of physics and astrophysics, using his knowledge in these fields to successfully seek out and destroy cloaked interdiction generators and cloaked warships of the Grysk hegemony, feats which impressed Darth Vader and even Admiral Ar'alani (herself a genius and one of the most brilliant officers of the Chiss Ascendency Defence Fleet). Thrawn is also a brilliant mentor. He helped bring out the innate talents of Eli Vanto and Karyn Faro, turning them from blindly loyal and unremarkable soldiers into brilliant officers in a relatively short span of time. He appears to have done the same with most of the crew members of his flagship and many members of the Seventh Fleet. Commander Kimmund of Darth Vader's First Legion stated that if Thrawn's leadership and mentorship styles were emulated and spread across the imperial military hierarchy, the Galactic Empire could become an unbeatable force that would survive forever.

love the story, hoping for more

I gotta say I really enjoy it so far! Can't wait to see more of your work. Through, I wonder how Ozpin and Salem react and prepare against Darth Sidious if the Force give them vision. And correct me if I was wrong but I recall that both of them have immortality something no doubt Sidious take notice.

I would say it isn't control that the clock would show, but the amount of reliance that Ozpin puts on teamwork and working together. Just like you said, the problem with it is any one cog failing will cause the whole thing to fail. It's the same with teams. Your team will fail if any one part lets you down. However, in a team, if all the cogs mesh and work together well, then it can do what a single cog by itself cannot. That's what I get from the clock. That he has a plan for everyone, as like you said all the cogs are differently sized and needed to be created specifically for that job, but also the reliance in team work. Anyways, good story so far! Can't wait for more!

Just let me get this off my chest first...YOU KILLED NEO! HOW DARE YOU KILL OFF MY ADORABLY PSYCHOPATHIC ICE-CREAM WAIFU! WAAAHHH! THIS STORY SUCKS DONKEY BALLS NOW!
Ahem. Moving on, I'm impressed by how well you've captured Thrawn in this chapter. I personally don't mind the lack of action and dialogue heavy parts, because that's just Thrawn's way. He's as much a thinker as a warrior. If someone like Veers is a club, Thrawn's a scalpel.
Come to think of it, Thrawn's the perfect imperial protagonist for Remnant. I'm already looking forward to the moment that he realises how high a regard art is held in after the Great War. I can just imagine the Atlas charity art auction from RWBY season 4, and Jackass Schnee has to walk out and rather sheepishly tell the crowd "Sorry, but you came here for nothing. An alien admiral bought all the art..."

First off, I'm loving this fic the fight scenes are fun to read but I personally love the dialogue aspect the most. I feel like that this IS Thrawn.
I can't wait to see more.

If each academy basically became its own kingdom but reliant on their host kingdoms for supplies and recruits, they could work much more effectively instead of waiting for job requests and instead be pro-active. Kinda like Naruto universe hidden villages.

To be fair to the Empire (both), it doesn’t have enough ships to oppress anyone and its worlds usually have very large defense forces and more than a few planets have fleets of ships capable of fighting Star Destroyers. And planets are left almost entirely to their own sovereignty but with the Empire enduring their governments follow law instead of bloating themselves. This “for the people” approach is a large part of how the Empire secured power. It has 300.2 million worlds and a mere twenty five thousand star destroyers of various classes. If anything, its military is way too damn tiny.

There is good reason why canonically (well legends) Rebel Alliance was made almost entirely of literal pirates, genuine terrorists, smugglers, and other criminals. If your freedom fighters are the very sort of violent, terrible criminals you created the Empire to destroy then maaaaaybe the Empire is the good guy. Sure they destroyed a planet, but that was basically a terrorist base. Sure they enslaved populations, but those were prisoners of war when those entire populations violently rebelled.

Heck, the Rebellion itself is just trying to violently force everyone else to govern their way. At least the Empire was a genuinely legal transfer of power supported by the public.

Pretty noice.

Enjoying the story so far, but is it wrong that I imagine Thrawn's voice being the same as in Rebels? Same thing with The Imperial Commando, Code having Dee Bradley Baker's voice? Anyway, amazing work.

So Remnant is humanity's true homeworld, The Empire is they ever find this out will flood the planet with troops and imperial structures as finding and owning the homeworld of the Empire's main species who they also think are the master species is going to make recruitment and popularity soar. This will also mean the Empire will play nice with them for propaganda reasons as it would shoot themselves in the foot to show their true tyrannical self to Remnant.

Thrawn, psychologist, military genius, multi-planetary leader and art connoisseur. An excellent portrayal, of him. Perhaps he can start doing that art thing on Rwby and Jnpr. Not only about their clothing, but their weapons too. Say Weiss for instance, her clothing indicates wealth and her weapon says nobility. Art forms come in many ways, and weapons are often their own art in history. He would definitely benefit from having Remnant, I'm sure individuals with soul powered force fields and powers would be awesome to have. Plus if any ancient civilizations left their stuff, they can grab it once they get off Remnant. Great to have you back.

so Neo is dead, man that's kinda rough.

Damn, you captured Thrawn absolutely perfect here. It almost made me feel like I’m reading Thrawn’s dialogues written by Timothy Zahn himself.

The losses Thrawn’s task force suffered is unfortunate. By chance, will more ships from the Empire of the Hand appear? Considering the vastness of the Empire of the Hand’s territory, Thrawn should have an armada at his disposal. Maybe a mixture of Star Destroyers, Chiss Warships, Refitted Clone Wars era ships (Venators, Providences, Lucerhulks, etc.), and even little known Imperial ship classes like the Secutors, Bellators, Assertors, Victorys, Broadswords, Allegiances, Praetors, etc. It would give a logical explanation why many of these ships were rarely seen in the known galaxy.

Lastly, will SCAR Squad make an appearance?