A to Z Challenge: Veers & Ventress

 General Veers was an Imperial commander who led the invasion of the Rebel base on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back.  My favorite part is when he's in the lead AT-AT about to take out the Rebel's shield generator.  He says, "Target, maximum firepower!"  And then a laser blast from the AT-AT takes out some random Rebel soldier on the ground before the AT-AT blows up the generator.  Like they were calibrating the weapons by targeting Bob the Rebel Soldier or something.  

I don't think Veers ever shows up in any of the other movies but he's probably in some books and shit.  He was one of the guys you could get in the old Rebellion video game to command your ground troops or maybe to help research new ground troops.  They had a lot of other Imperial commanders from the movies in that like Grand Admiral Thrawn, Admiral Piett, Admiral Ozzel (the dude Vader strangles before promoting Piett), and Captain Needa, who was also strangled after his ship lost the Millennium Falcon.  

Thrawn and Piett also have "action" figures made of them as well as Grand Moff Tarkin.  Not that any of them did a lot of action, but I guess they were more important than cantina bar patrons or dudes who were standing around Jabba's palace.

A recent addition to the lineup is Asajj Ventress, a villainess who was introduced in the Clone Wars animated movie as a protégé to Count Dooku.  Over the course of the series she fell out with him, went back to her homeworld with the "Night Sisters" and barely survived their slaughter to become a bounty hunter.

I don't remember if she survived into Rebels or if she could appear on The Mandalorian or anything.  After Ahsoka Tano she was the next most interesting original character to come out of that show.