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Welcome, <insert name here>, to my sandbox.

Yes, this might be insane, but it will only be a super long term project for now. Collecting sources, ect, until it is ready for expansion. As a general note, please do not edit in this workbench. Any questions belong in this workbench's talk page. Thanks.

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GenCassioTagge-ANH
Cassio Tagge
Biographical information
Homeworld

Tepasi[1]

Died

0 BBY (35:3),[2] Death Star I, Yavin system[3]

Physical description
Species

Human[3]

Gender

Male[3]

Height

1.8 meters[3]

Hair color

Brown[4]

Eye color

Brown[4]

Skin color

Fair[4]

Chronological and political information
Era(s)
Affiliation
[Source]
"Until this battle station is fully operational, we are vulnerable. The Rebel Alliance is too well equipped…They're more dangerous than you realize."
―Cassio Tagge to Conan Antonio Motti[src]

Cassio Tagge (pronounced /ˈtæɡ/) was a Human male and a member of the wealthy House of Tagge, a family from the planet Tepasi that was respected by Emperor Palpatine of the Galactic Empire. With his brother Ulric, Cassio Tagge enlisted into the Empire's army at a young age. During his time in the Imperial Army, Tagge rose to the rank of General and earned a leadership position aboard Palpatine's planetary destroying superweapon, the Death Star, which was supervised by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. Despite being at a younger age, Tagge was a senior-grade Imperial officer aboard the Death Star and was responsible for the battle station's day-to-day operations, which included monitoring system functions and defensive armaments. General Moradmin Bast, who was Tarkin's aide and the Death Star's chief manager, became Tagge's subordinate on the station.

The House of Tagge's respect on Coruscant allowed Tagge to hold a stable friendship with Palpatine, and later started to have good ties with Tarkin, which enabled him to become the Grand Moff's adviser. Because of his friendships with Palaptine and Tarkin, Admiral Conan Antonio Motti, Tagge's equal and the Death Star's lead Naval operations officer, feared Tagge to the point of not trusting him. In 0 BBY, the battle station's officers, which included Tagge and Motti, gathered in the station's conference room for a meeting to discuss the increasing threat of the Rebel Alliance. Even though Tagge found it difficult to accept the Sith Lord Darth Vader's presence on the Death Star, it was Motti who was bold enough to question the Sith Lord's inability to find the Rebel's base and the Death Star plans, which were stolen by the Rebels during the Battle of Toprawa. Tagge believed that the Rebels would find a weakness in the Death Star's superstructure. His worry would later become a reality when the Rebels attempted to destroy the battle station via firing proton torpedoes in an exhaust port. They succeeded and successfully destroyed the Death Star, killing Tagge and everyone aboard.

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BiographyEdit

YouthEdit

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Cassio Tagge, age eighteen.

Cassio Tagge was born on the planet of Tepasi, a few years before the Invasion of Naboo. He was one of four sons born to Sanya Tagge, head of the influential House of Tagge. Despite his family wealth, for much of his life Cassio was a cautious, low-key individual.

During the Clone Wars, Cassio's elder brother Orman assumed the title of baron of the House of Tagge.

By 18 BBY, Cassio had enlisted in officer training for the Imperial Army, against the advice of his elder brother Orman. They discussed the new Empire on Tepasi, where, despite Orman's optimism, a skeptical Cassio warned his brother to be careful of dealing with Palpatine and Darth Vader.

Cassio's caution proved well-founded, as Orman fell victim to Vader's wrath, losing his eyesight as a consequence. Learning from his brother's misfortune, Cassio would never be as unwise as to misjudge the competence of his enemies.

The Death StarEdit

Almost two decades later, High General Tagge was commander of all Army forces stationed aboard the first Death Star. It was not just his family connections that had assured him the position—Tagge was a capable officer, if not a bold one, and he refused to participate in the usual political realities of the Imperial Court, preferring to focus on loyal service to the Empire. His aide onboard the station, General Moradmin Bast felt the same. However, he could not escape the politicking altogether: he often butted heads with the lower-ranking Admiral Conan Antonio Motti at meetings of the station's command staff.

Unlike other officers, General Tagge sternly protested that the Rebel Alliance was an underestimated foe that the Imperial Navy should have taken more seriously. He also raised concerns about the suspension of the Imperial Senate, believing that the Emperor would find it impossible to "maintain control without the bureaucracy." It was for this reason that his concerns about the vulnerability of the battle station were ignored, and his fears mostly dismissed by his fellow officers (save for his loyal aide Bast), but they were vindicated at the Battle of Yavin, when the station was destroyed by Rebel forces, and Tagge along with it.

He was survived by his three brothers, Orman, Silas, and Ulric; and by a sister: Domina.

Personality and traitsEdit

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Cassio and Domina Tagge

As the chief of Army operations on the Death Star, Tagge's role placed him as third-in-command of the station, underneath chief of Navy operations Motti (whose branch was far more represented than Tagge's), and Governor Tarkin. Despite this, the General never complained; he refused to partake in the political games that his allies and rivals played, simply wishing to serve the Empire to the best of his ability. Unlike his fellow members of the battle station's command staff, he took the Rebel Alliance seriously, and indeed his fears were vindicated at the Battle of Yavin.

Tagge chose to wear the prominent sideburns that were popular among the Imperial officer class at the time.[7] Other serving Imperial officers who wore their hair in this fashion, many of whom were also assigned to the Death Star, included Motti, Moradmin Bast, Nahdonnis Praji, and Pol Treidum. They also spent time in the bathroom together.

Behind the scenesEdit

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Good friends

PortrayalEdit

Cassio Tagge was portrayed by Don Henderson. In the end credits for A New Hope, Henderson is credited as playing "General Taggi" (sic).

ContinuityEdit

Though Motti references Tagge as head of the Imperial Navy, he is actually an Army commander. Motti is a commander in the Navy.

General Ulric Tagge, from the Marvel Comics, was originally intended to be the same character as the General Tagge seen in A New Hope. However, other sources showed that the General Tagge portrayed in the film indeed died aboard the Death Star, and to make matters worse, the Marvel Tagge seemed to resemble the character Motti more closely than he did the Imperial played by Henderson. The discrepancy was reconciled in Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds, which revealed that the two Tagges were indeed different persons, and that A New Hope's Tagge's first name was Cassio.

Though fans typically[source?] point to Janek "Tank" Sunber as a movie character who was unexplored for a long period in the Expanded Universe, Tagge in fact beat his "record", of sorts, by appearing in Evasive Action: End Game years after Tank appeared in Star Wars: Empire: To the Last Man. Also, Tank never appeared in the films, and was only alluded to in passing, while Tagge actually appeared on-screen. As such, Tagge currently holds the record between appearances.

General Taggi in the ANH end credits http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0156763/

AppearancesEdit

SourcesEdit

Notes and referencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
  2. ↑ [[The Essential Atlas
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Databank title General Tagge in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  5. ↑ Evasive Action: End Game
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Star Wars: Death Star
  7. ↑ The Jedi Academy Sourcebook

See alsoEdit

External linksEdit

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