Lenang O'Pali was an Imperial partisan and polemicist who wrote the publication Mitth'raw'nuruodo Reconsidered: A Patriot's Perspective in 55 ABY. O'Pali's piece was an account of the role played in galactic history by the Chiss Mitth'raw'nuruodo, better known as Grand Admiral Thrawn. O'Pali took a revisionist position and believed Thrawn and Emperor Palpatine to be heroes, who had been devoted to preparing the galaxy to face the threat of the Yuuzhan Vong. O'Pali also attacked the Rebel Alliance and New Republic as having left the galaxy defenseless before the Yuuzhan Vong War by overthrowing the Galactic Empire.