thought of an alternate reason for thrawn's exile yesterday and it goes like this
thurfian thinks if he can get thrawn married into another family for "diplomatic reasons", maybe he won't have to deal with him anymore
mitth family: hi thrawn we need you to marry this person
thrawn going instantly into aroace panic: i would literally rather die
thrawn: hold on that gives me an idea actually
he gets ar'alani and ba'kif to help him fake his own death and goes to live on another planet for a while and figures he'll come back when people have "forgotten about the whole thing"
while he's out there he figures he might as well infiltrate the empire to see if they can be of any help to the ascendancy. must i do everything myself.mp4
seamless transition into thrawn (2017)
