Hermine Griffith was a former officer from a Colonies world in the Rebel Alliance. He was an able military tactician who preached a combat methodology based around swift, roving naval units striking at key locations, regardless of territory. He was endorsed to form his own units, which came to be known as Griffith's Griffons. They were set loose to perform operations throughout Core, Colonies, and "Old Sectors" space to a degree of success, but Griffith would begin to bristle at the route that the Alliance was taking as it approached what would be its endgame at the Battle of Endor. The "Old Man" would foment a move to sever ties with the Alliance, and entertained the suggestion of his second-in-command, a General Tallon, who had extensively mapped the Slice and had developed a contingency