I'm aware of what happened on Endor. [Even if he wasn't present--his ability to think had been burned out after spending far too long working over data consoles with other slicers in the Rebel Alliance's employ to decrypt the data that the Bothans sent them. With so many lives lost during acquisition and transit, it was worth every second of it.]

And Thrawn was a special case, but it takes a certain kind of personality to take the forefront. That's more you, not me.