Armitage Hux
General Hux is a male film character that features in Star Wars.
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Biography
Armitage Hux was a male human who lived in the galaxy far, far away where he grew up in the years following the Battle of Endor. He was noted to had spent his life in thrall to the idea of Imperial power and was the son of an Imperial Academy commandant. The death of Emperor Palpatine saw the collapse of the Galactic Empire though a number of former officers managed to flee where they went about to create the First Order. This military regime that operated within the Unknown Regions looked to conquer the galaxy from the New Republic that was formed by the Rebel Alliance. Within this government, Hux rose through the ranks where he eventually reached the position of General within its military hierarchy. It was noted that he was responsible for reviving an old Imperial ideal which was to achieve military superiority through technological terror. This saw him come to the position of commander of the vaunted Starkiller Base that was a planet-sized superweapon which the First Order had built in secret.
Thirty years after the Battle of Endor, Hux was the general who commanded Starkiller Base, the primary base of operations of the First Order, as well as the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer and answered to Supreme Leader Snoke. Deeming Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi, to be a threat to the First Order, Hux, along with Ren, were given the directive. Though the First Order possessed maps from the Empire that would lead them to the planet where Skywalker was hiding, they lacked a final piece. To that end, the Finalizer traveled to Jakku and dispatched a group of stormtroopers to attack the settlement of Tuanul, where Ren captured a Resistance pilot named Poe Dameron, who already acquired and hid the final piece of the map. After Ren interrogated Dameron, he informed Hux that the prisoner had entrusted the map to the BB-series astromech droid BB-8. Hux dispatched stormtroopers back to Jakku to search for it and posted a bounty on the droid. Subsequently, Dameron was freed by a stormtrooper and the pair attempted to escape on a TIE/sf space superiority fighter, disabling the Finalizer's turbolasers. Hux ordered the ventral cannons to shoot down the fighter, causing it to crash-land on Jakku. Upon informing Ren of the incident, the dark knight deduced that the traitorous stormtrooper was FN-2187. Hux checked with Phasma, who noted that this was FN-2187's first offense. Subsequently, Supreme Leader Snoke ordered BB-8 captured or destroyed if necessary. When Hux informed Ren, the latter questioned the competency of their stormtroopers, given that one of them committed high treason, and suggested that the First Order instead appropriate a clone army like the Galactic Republic and early Empire before them. Hux assured him that his stormtroopers were trained from birth to succeed and reminded Ren not to let his obsession with Skywalker interfere with their mission.
After BB-8 fled Jakku aboard the Millennium Falcon, Hux and Ren returned to Starkiller Base, where they spoke to a hologram of Supreme Leader Snoke. Snoke was not surprised that they let the droid slip through their fingers and stated that the Jedi would rise again if the map got to the Resistance. Hux humbly took full responsibility for his failure, but the Supreme Leader interrupted him, declaring that their strategy had to change. Hux suggested testing the superweapon and destroy the New Republic for supporting the Resistance, leaving their enemies vulnerable. After receiving authorization for the undertaking, Hux then assembled the First Order army at Starkiller Base and gave a grand speech proclaiming that the destruction of the Republic would be the beginning of the First Order's rise to power in the galaxy. At his signal, the Starkiller weapon fired and destroyed the Hosnian system, which at the time hosted the Republic's capital and Senate, wiping away its leadership and fleet. Subsequently, the First Order received a tip from an informant on Takodana that BB-8 was there, so Ren led an attack squadron. However, Ren instead captured BB-8's accomplice, the Jakku scavenger Rey, because she had seen the map, and ordered the division to retreat as the Resistance engaged them. Ren brought Rey back to Starkiller Base and attempted to extract the map from her mind, only to learn that the girl was strong in the Force and turned his own mind probe against him. Hux later walked in a conversation between Ren and Snoke, the latter asking what happened to BB-8. The general humiliated his colleague by telling the Supreme Leader that Ren decided the droid was no longer valuable to the First Order's mission, and that the girl was all they needed. He then informed Snoke that they tracked the Resistance scout ship performing recon on Starkiller Base back to the Ileenium system. Snoke ordered Hux to use the superweapon to destroy the Resistance before they could find Skywalker. However, while its weapon was charging up, the Resistance led a starfighter assault against Starkiller Base, which resulted in the planet's oncoming collapse before it could fire on D'Qar. Hux was then ordered by Snoke to evacuate the base and to take the defeated Kylo Ren with him.
After the destruction of Starkiller Base, Hux led First Order forces that drove the Resistance from D’Qar. He led a First Order fleet, including a Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought, to the evacuated main Resistance base on D'Qar. Placing more emphasis on spectacle than tactical sense, Hux ordered no fighter deployments in favor of annihilating the base and fleet from orbit with the dreadnought. He was, however, briefly distracted by an insulting transmission from Poe Dameron, who repeatedly referred to Hux by the mocking term "General Hugs" and implied that Organa wanted to send a message about Hux's mother. Hux responded that he would not negotiate with the Resistance, but Dameron responded as if he couldn't hear him. After a few more attempts which made Hux increasingly angry, he ultimately ordered the dreadnought to destroy the Resistance base, and afterwards, the main fleet.
General Hux came to work closely with Commander Pyre to quash the last vestiges of the Resistance in a planet-by-planet sweep in an effort to eliminate all who were rebellious toward the First Order’s regime.
The hatred he felt for Kylo Ren led to Hux serving as a spy who was feeding intelligence to the Resistance. This was primarily done so to subvert the Supreme Leader and ensure his failure. When Emperor Palpatine re-emerged in the galaxy, Hux secretly fed this information to the Resistance where he informed them about the rise of the Sith and the deployment of the Final Order.
Arriving around Kijimi, Hux and Pryde reported to Supreme Leader Kylo Ren that the Resistance had been tracked to the planet. At first, General Hux suggested an orbital bombardment but was cut off by Kylo Ren who instead lead the search for Rey on the planet. Unknown to the First Order, the Resistance had infiltrated the Star Destroyer in order to free Chewbacca from the detention centre. They succeeded in freeing the Wookiee but were surrounded by the First Order with Allegiant-General Pryde ordering their execution. The band of Resistance fighters were then taken to be shot by Stormtroopers with General Hux in attendance where he eliminated the troopers and freed the rebels. It was then that he revealed that he was the spy and aided in their escape. He jammed all surveillance and took the Resistance fighters to the hangar holding the Millennium Falcon where he asked Finn to shoot him to make it appear that Hux had resisted but was forced to aid them. After departing, Hux reported to Pryde that the Resistance fighters had escaped despite his efforts but the Allegiant-General then killed him. He then reported to Kylo Ren that Hux had been the spy in their ranks that had been aiding the Resistance.
Overview
Personality and attributes
General Hux wore a charcoal grey general's uniform, black gloves, a polished officer's buckle, traditional flared-hip breeches, and insulated boots. He also wore a crested command cap emblazoned with the insignia of the First Order and a gaberwool officer's greatcoat. Hux believed that a tidy appearance was essential to maintaining discipline. When addressing his men, he wore a parade uniform designed to broadcast his authority as a First Order General.
He was noted for being a young and ruthless officer of the First Order who had complete confidence in his troops, training methods along with weaponry.
As the son of a highly placed official in the old Imperial Academy, Hux was raised to celebrate his Imperial heritage. He grew up idolizing historical Imperials who became legends in the First Order. Hux was convinced that the Empire delivered the galaxy from the violence of the Clone Wars, and that the galaxy once again needed to be saved from itself. This responsibility fell to the First Order, as the New Republic, in Hux's view, was too weak to prevent the inevitable chao
Hux considered it his destiny to rule the galaxy.
In addition to his views on the New Republic, Hux did not view the First Order as a continuation of the Old Empire, but rather its successor. Despite his admiration for the Empire's accomplishments and his desire to relive the glories of its past, Hux believed the Empire fell due to internal flaws, whereas he saw the First Order as a more refined and pure version of what the Empire sought to become, but never achieved. This viewpoint led Hux to look down on the older generation of Imperial veterans who founded the First Order.
Ultimately, he cared little about aiding the Resistance as his goal was to ensure that Kylo Ren was defeated.
His father was noted for his radical ideas about training soldiers which became a key part of the First Order’s vision.
Powers and abilities
Hux was born an ordinary human with no special abilities.
Hux was precise and methodical in his rise to power as well as his approach to warfare. He possessed a combination of patience and inner shame, both of which motivated his desire to gain greater power at the expense of his rivals.
As a high-ranking officer, he was armed with a blaster pistol and was trained in it use.
He commanded a Resurgent-class Star Destroyer known as the Finalizer.
Notes
- General Hux was created by J. J. Abrams with him being portrayed by actor Domhnall Gleeson and featuring in the Star Wars universe.
In other media
Television
Video games
- In Star Wars: Force Arena, General Hux appeared as a playable Dark Side squad leader in the setting of the MOBA video game.
Comics
Books
Appearances
- Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens: (2015)
- Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi: (2017)
- Star Wars: Resistance:
- Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker: (2019)
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