He wants to cleanse the Empire of "burdens," and "Sick animals that had to be culled from the herd." From there, he could build something new, better, and worthy. This character’s goals, too, line up with a lot of the very Nazi-inspired imagery we’ve seen in The Force Awakens so far. It’s time to rebuild, to create a successor. That quote, more than anything, makes me think this fleet admiral is Snoke rather than Thrawn - particularly given his admission that the Empire has lost. An Empire worthy of the galaxy it will rule." If that’s not the sound of the First Order’s first seed, I don’t know what is. He’s the leader of First Order, which makes this epilogue quote particularly fascinating: "It’s time for something better. Again, we come back to the point of not naming characters with recognizable names - Snoke is a massively important character whose name we know. The fleet admiral on Ravager has no physical description beyond his gender. What if he’s Fleet Admiral Snoke? Andy Serkis’ character in The Force Awakens, Supreme Leader Snoke, is a performance-capture character, meaning it’s unlikely he’s human. Supreme Leader SnokeThrawn is the easiest fan theory to jump to, but the fleet admiral could very well be the deepest connection to The Force Awakens in all of Star Wars: Aftermath, and this is the big, wild conspiracy theory I'm most confident about. The fleet admiral in Aftermath could lead in nicely to a Grand Admiral promotion, the reveal of the character as a blue-skinned Chiss, and the canonical return of Thrawn. In the post-Return of the Jedi era of Star Wars stories, where Thrawn debuted, there’s a certain desire to see the best of the old Expanded Universe / Legends material return. Keeping things vague, leading the reader on, that entices them, makes them wonder about what isn’t said as much as what is.
The only reason you don’t outright name a mysterious figure like this, particularly in a book as dense with new names as Aftermath, is because the reader would recognize it.
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