conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Provide the first three paragraphs for a book with the title 'Heir to the Empire'.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Heir to the Empire
  What kind of person might Palpatine send? It would have to be someone competent, naturally. It would also have to be someone who could meet Luke's Jedi power head-on. Finally, it would have to be someone who was out of the normal chain of command, lest Vader get wind of the plan.
  Nowadays, the word refers to something made up of disparate parts (usually as a result of grafting or genetic manipulation), or something wildly and grotesquely imaginary.
  Fortunately, coming up with inventive ways to use limited and otherwise questionable technology is one of Thrawn's specialties.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Provide another paragraph.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Note that at the same time, he's maintaining the "glass half full" attitude vital to keeping up his troops' morale.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Provide the last five paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Note that at the same time, he's maintaining the "glass half full" attitude vital to keeping up his troops' morale.
  He's competent and capable, enough so that his troops can be assured that they have the best possible chance of winning whatever battle they're being sent into.
  Throw in the semi-mystical art thing (through which he can anticipate his enemies' moves), and make him an alien (because the Emperor disliked aliens, and would never give such a rank to one unless he was really, really good)...and when you've done all that, Grand Admiral Thrawn simply falls out of the equation.
  I think the greatest compliment Thrawn has ever received came from a U.S. serviceman. (I can't remember if he was a soldier or marine.) He told me he and his buddies had read the Thrawn Trilogy, and had agreed that they would unreservedly follow a commander like Thrawn.
  Oh, and what would have happened if Thrawn had been in command at Endor? The Rebels, in my humble opinion, would almost certainly have lost.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delete the first sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: He's competent and capable, enough so that his troops can be assured that they have the best possible chance of winning whatever battle they're being sent into.
  Throw in the semi-mystical art thing (through which he can anticipate his enemies' moves), and make him an alien (because the Emperor disliked aliens, and would never give such a rank to one unless he was really, really good)...and when you've done all that, Grand Admiral Thrawn simply falls out of the equation.
  I think the greatest compliment Thrawn has ever received came from a U.S. serviceman. (I can't remember if he was a soldier or marine.) He told me he and his buddies had read the Thrawn Trilogy, and had agreed that they would unreservedly follow a commander like Thrawn.
  Oh, and what would have happened if Thrawn had been in command at Endor? The Rebels, in my humble opinion, would almost certainly have lost.