#Colonel Wullf Yularen

[twinsoulvisionary]

Where there is Colonel Wullf Yularen there is Agent Kallus and Grand Admiral Thrawn, read on....

[blackmonitor]

Wullf Yularen

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[jedi-valjean]

What I find fascinating about Yularen in this episode is that it completely shatters the idea that he's still fundamentally a good guy who happens to be on the wrong side. In TCW he's a heroic admiral fighting for justice. The assumption made is that he doesn't see the difference between the Empire and the Republic and is still trying to do what's right. We see him in Rebels and we can still assume he's misguided. But Andor shows a much darker side of Yularen. The Empire rules by fear and he is actively, willfully participating in it. The things he's saying are completely inexcusable. This scene proves he is not the same man he was during the Clone Wars.

Or, perhaps, quite possibly, this is who he's been the entire time.

[mayhaps-a-blog]

The thing about Yularen is that he is a soldier.

Yes, he’s a reasonable soldier; he hates wasted lives, he detested the massacre at Batonn and the horrors of the Clone Wars, all he wants is a safe and peaceful galaxy.

But his desperate efforts to achieve that peace, with the strategies of the soldier, is what puts him squarely in the Empire’s camp.

In his speech, Yularen says, “This is why we work so hard when we are at peace.” He thought they were at peace, and now they are at war. Before, they were preparing, planning for a future conflict; today, that conflict is here.

He didn’t see the violence during that “peace.” He didn’t consider it a problem; it was simply the necessary precautions to ensure that peace. He doesn’t see the people suffering across the galaxy; he saw potential militants and helpless civilians, making the necessary sacrifices to Keep The Peace.

Now, to Yularen, they are at war. He knows what to do at war; call in the troops, crack down on dissidents, hunt down the enemy. He doesn’t see it as extreme or abusive; all’s fair in war, after all.

And that’s what makes Yularen a sympathetic Imperial in the Thrawn novels. And that’s what makes him the monstrous hand of the Empire in Andor, in A New Hope. He is a man who believes in peace, and will do anything, anything, to keep it.

It’s for the greater good, after all.

[gia-batmm-crickle22]

Reading Chapter 27 of Thrawn (2017) makes me wonder if Yularen suspected Thrawn of being the Rebel Spy in Rebels at least once. Yularen had the experience of seeing the possibility once, it wouldn't be surprising if the suspicion was kept.

[piedalchemist]

[itsagrimm]

Let's check what's on todays to do list for imperial officer Yularen:

Babysitting Thrawn

Okay then.

[spockvarietyhour]

Oh, Colonel Yularin

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

me seeing Yularen in any post-Clone Wars show like ‘ah. there he is. that traitor.’

[twinsoulvisionary]

This is big, HUGE!  Yes Yavin 4 to be highlighted in Andor Season 2 is the excitement for ALL beloved Rebels characters and more!!!

[singswan-springswan]

bro it's so sad knowing what Yularen becomes

[jedi-valjean]

Still wondering exactly how much thought was put into Yularen’s casting. Feels like they just picked the first white Brit with a mustache they could find. And I understand why they might not think it’s a big deal, and it’s not, it’s just… Yularen has a very iconic look and voice and they white mustache is really all that actor’s got going for him

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Wullf Yularen was a human who served the Republic and Imperial military. Raised on Anaxes, Yularen worked as an intelligence officer before being convinced by Chancellor Palpatine to become a colonel in the Republic navy during the Clone Wars. Under the command of Anakin Skywalker until the end of the war, Yularen returned to his roots and became an agent of the Imperial Security Bureau, specializing in finding traitors in the Empire’s ranks. He was stern and committed to following orders.

Source: Star Wars: The Card Game - Imperial Entanglements Card: Colonel Yularen (Art: Jeff Lee Johnson; 2015)

First Appearance: Star Wars (1977)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

[piedalchemist]

[permian-tropos]

IDK why but I forgot about the detail from Life Debt that while he was working for the Naval Intelligence Agency, Rax made all his official reports to Wullf Yularen, until Yularen died. Which is a long span of time, nearly two decades. 

I haven’t seen everything Yularen is in but I already know that he couldn’t be more different from Rax. Would Yularen have been in on the Contingency plan? I doubt it, since Yularen is even more of a lawful neutral Imperial than Sloane. So Rax was probably keeping plenty of secrets from him, but besides that what kind of working relationship did they have? 

They can’t have gotten along, Yularen is such a stiff-upper-lip English gentleman that he would have probably provoked young Commander Rax’s inner uncouth disobedient brat.