The Dark Nest trilogy by Troy Denning includes two types of Star Destroyers used by the Chiss Ascendancy and the Star Destroyer Admiral Ackbar used by the Galactic Alliance.

He was known as one of the most brilliant military commanders in the Star Wars universe and was superior to even geniuses such as General Garm Bel Iblis ( who only later joined the New Republic due to personal issues with the Rebel Alliance's leader Mon Mothma ) and Admiral Ackbar, who led the Rebellion to victory in many crucial battles.

Nonetheless, after the losing on Hoth and towards the end of the movie Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance regroups and is then commanded by Admiral Ackbar, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Lando Calrissian.

With his distinctive salmon-colored skin, high-domed head and large fish-like eyes, Admiral Ackbar was realized in Return of the Jedi through the use of a half-body puppet and slip-on mask, depending on the camera angles used.

Admiral Ackbar was designed for the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the final entry in the original Star Wars trilogy.

Starting with the rank of Rebel commander, Ackbar helped design the B-wing, a powerful line of starfighters, which prompted Rebel leader Mon Mothma to promote him to Admiral.

Although his role in Return of the Jedi was relatively brief, Admiral Ackbar became a prominent character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which encompasses all licensed stories in the Star Wars universe outside of the six main feature films, such as novels, comic books, video games and television shows.

During filming of the 2005 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Lucas was so impressed with the animatron mask used on the Mon Calamari character Meena Tills, that he briefly considered reediting Return of the Jedi and replacing footage of Admiral Ackbar with an improved mask, although he never did.

The voice of Admiral Ackbar in Return of the Jedi was performed by Erik Bauersfeld, a radio dramatist who also voiced Bib Fortuna in the film.

Admiral Ackbar ranked number 16 in 1998 list of the " Top 20 Star Wars Characters " featured in the magazine Star Wars Insider.

Admiral Ackbar can be played as a hidden character in the Nintendo Wii version of the 2008 video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed if the player enters the cheat code " ITSATWAP ".

The sketch is a commercial for " Admiral Ackbar Cereal ", with Ackbar presenting the breakfast cereal to two children and declaring, " Your tongues can't repel flavor of that magnitude!

Morgan Phillips, an independent hip-hop musician and disc jockey, included a song about the character called " Admiral Ackbar Please " on his album Star Wars Breakbeats.

When the University of Mississippi began a process to find a new mascot in 2010, some students started a campaign to have Admiral Ackbar selected.

The campaign quickly went viral and received national news media attention, and Lucasfilm issued a tongue-in-cheek statement about the matter which read, " The last time we checked in with Admiral Ackbar he was leading the Rebel Alliance Fleet on a critical mission so it will be difficult for him to show up for the games!

* Admiral Ackbar in the Official Star Wars. com Encyclopedia

* Mark Adair Rios as Admiral Ackbar

It also saw the deaths of many of the major characters, including, but not limited to, Chewbacca, Anakin Solo, and Admiral Ackbar, as well as 365 trillion sentient beings.

Unique to these decks were the Admiral Piett and Admiral Ackbar cards.

The New Republic forces, now assembled on the water world of Mon Calamari, plan their next attack on the Yuuzhan Vong with the aid of the now-retired Admiral Ackbar.

General Madine, who appears in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi alongside Admiral Ackbar and Mon Mothma, had died in the novel Darksaber, published in 1995.

Mon Mothma's death occurred a few weeks before the events of Vector Prime, and Admiral Ackbar died towards the end of the New Jedi Order series.

* 1945 – World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U. S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

The current Chief of Naval Operations is Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert.

* 1973 – The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.

The current commander is Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

* 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.

The northernmost point of the Island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1909.

The shipwrecked Ottoman Admiral Seydi Ali Reis is known to have introduced the earliest type of Matchlock which were utilized against the Portuguese during the Siege of Diu ( 1531 ).

He is accompanied by Admiral Pavlos Koundouriotis ( left ) and General Maurice Sarrail ( right ).

There is even a theory that Hitler ordered a research journey for such an opening in Antarctica, based on a speech of Admiral Dönitz in front of a German submarine in 1944, when he claimed " The German submarine fleet is proud of having built an invisible fortification for the Führer, anywhere in the world.

* 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U. S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.

* 1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

Admiral Nagano summed up his service's ambivalent attitude during this period by observing " The government has decided that if there is no war, the fate of the nation is sealed.

The current Commander in Chief of the Lithuanian Navy is Rear Admiral Kęstutis Macijauskas.

* 1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard for breach of the Articles of War.