On the planet of Arkanis, during 1 BBY and the reign of the Galactic Empire, Armitage Hux was born. His father was Commandant [Brendol Hux](/article/brendol_hux], but his mother was not Brendol's wife, Maratelle; instead, she was a kitchen woman, making Armitage the commandant's illegitimate offspring. He never knew his mother and remained without friends during his childhood. As a youngling, he was a frequent subject of gossip among the Imperial officers' ranks, who whispered about Brendol's bastard son and his mother.

Brendol openly displayed his low opinion of his son, viewing him as a fragile and weak-willed boy, although not entirely without potential. Grand Admiral Rae Sloane suspected that Hux was subjected to regular abuse, both psychological and physical, which turned out to be true. Hux drew strength from his father's tales of the Empire bringing peace to a galaxy that had suffered through the chaos of the Clone Wars, which consoled him even as he endured abuse from his father. His Imperial heritage instilled in him a sense of grandeur, and he believed he had a right to rule from the throne that governed the galaxy. At a young age, Hux vowed to prove his father wrong about him. Inspired by the legacy of Sheev Palpatine, the Naboo senator who rose to become the Galactic Emperor, Hux believed he could also attain absolute power. He envisioned himself as the future ruler of the galaxy, a savior bringing order to the chaos for which he blamed the New Republic.

The young Hux became acquainted with his father's colleagues, including Enric Pryde, a friend of both Brendol and Maratelle, and Admiral Brooks, who openly mocked Hux's illegitimacy. Brooks once ridiculed Armitage after he accidentally spilled refreshments, suggesting that the illegitimate son of a kitchen woman should at least be capable of serving drinks. As Brendol expressed his contempt for his son, calling him pathetic and useless, Hux promised to clean the mess, to which Brooks suggested that he lick the floor. Hux looked to his father for help before acquiescing to the admiral's request. Brendol, however, watched Armitage with disgust and began to physically accost his son.

The Empire was nearing its end due to the Rebel victory at Endor. In 5 ABY, as the New Republic besieged Arkanis, Armitage and his father were compelled to evacuate their homeworld. Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax, a political protégé of the late Emperor Palpatine, took a special interest in Armitage Hux due to his father's innovative ideas about stormtrooper training. At Rax's request, Sloane hired the bounty hunter Mercurial Swift to rescue the Huxes, ensuring that neither Brendol nor his son would become prisoners of the New Republic. Unbeknownst to Sloane, Rax was executing the Emperor's Contingency, a clandestine operation designed to dismantle the Empire from within and ensure its rebirth in the Unknown Regions of galactic space.

Following the Attack on Chandrila, Armitage and Brendol journeyed to the planet Jakku to meet with the Imperial Military. In the months leading up to the Battle of Jakku, the Huxes remained close to Rax, who led the Imperial show government as the self-proclaimed Counselor to the Empire. While Brendol trained twenty-four local orphans, Hux tried to avoid his abusive father. By the end of their training, these child soldiers became Counselor Rax's personal bodyguards.

When the New Republic Defense Force invaded Jakku, a transport carried Armitage, his father, Counselor Rax, Yupe Tashu (the Emperor's adviser), and the child soldiers to the Jakku Observatory in the Plaintive Hand plateau. As part of the Contingency, Rax intended to use the observatory to detonate Jakku's planetary core, obliterating both the New Republic and the Empire simultaneously, before taking Armitage and Brendol to the Unknown Regions to establish a new Empire. En route to the observatory, Armitage found himself alone in the transport hold with the child soldiers. The older children intimidated him, having been trained by his father to be ruthless killers. Although Rax had planned to use Brendol's training methods to build the army of the new Empire, the Counselor deemed Armitage's role as Brendol's successor more crucial.

Counselor Rax ultimately gifted the child soldiers to Armitage, recognizing that Hux would continue his father's work by training a new generation of soldiers bred for warfare. With that, Rax addressed his troops personally, informing them that they would follow Hux's orders to the death and without question. Testing his newfound authority, Hux ordered one of the boys to strike his comrade. Upon reaching the observatory, the Huxes were invited by the Counselor to board his luxury yacht—a replica of the Emperor's Imperialis. However, Sloane killed Rax before he could execute his plan to destroy Jakku. Seizing the opportunity to shape the next Empire according to her vision, Sloane accompanied Hux and Brendol on their journey to uncharted space.

During the voyage, Sloane befriended Hux, who began to see the Grand Admiral as his protector from Brendol. Hux, in turn, protected Sloane from the child soldiers, who remained loyal only to him as per Rax's final wishes. Sloane reprimanded Brendol, warning him to stop abusing his son. However, she also wanted Hux to benefit from his father's experience, and Brendol was ordered to educate his illegitimate son as he would a proper heir. For several months, the Imperialis traversed the Unknown Regions, and during that time, Hux and his soldiers grew even more vicious under Brendol's tutelage. Even Sloane was taken aback by Hux's cruelty, which she considered an unusual trait for such a young boy. Their travels eventually led them to the discovery of the Emperor's Super Star Destroyer, the Eclipse.

Despite the Empire's surrender to the New Republic and the signing of the Galactic Concordance that marked the end of the Galactic Civil War, the principles of the New Order lived on through a new generation of followers. Armitage Hux was among them, having grown up hearing stories of legendary Imperial leaders. As part of his upbringing, Hux was taught that the Empire had saved the galaxy from the chaos of the Clone Wars, while the New Republic lacked the strength to maintain such order.

Simultaneously, various elements of the Old Empire merged to form a new regime, uniting the Empire's political, military, and spiritual survivors under a movement known as the First Order. As the son of an Imperial Academy commandant, Hux belonged to the military branch that served as the foundation of the First Order military. He eventually achieved the rank of general, becoming the youngest First Order officer to hold that military rank while also serving as a member of First Order High Command. However, Hux desired to control both branches of the military—the First Order Navy and the First Order Army—as Grand Marshal, a title that Supreme Leader Snoke denied him.

Having dedicated his life to the ideal of Imperial power, General Hux continued his father's legacy, including Brendol's radical ideas on training soldiers from birth. This approach led to a new generation of stormtroopers, starting with Brendol and continuing through Hux, who also revived another Imperial ideal—achieving military dominance through technological terror.

At some point, Hux traveled to Parnassos in response to the distress signal sent by Brendol from the crash site of his ship. Hux personally arrived at the crash site, greeting his father, Phasma, Siv, and Frey in a detached manner and welcoming Phasma and Frey into the First Order. Hux informed his father that his disappearance had caused concern among the higher ranks of the First Order and that he needed to return immediately, as the Supreme Leader had many matters to discuss with him.

As he rode with Brendol, Phasma, and Frey to the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Absolution, Hux witnessed Brendol's orbital bombardment of Parnassos. Footage recovered from the shuttle that transported them to the Absolution was later obtained by Resistance intelligence agents. One of these agents, Vi Moradi, viewed the recording and noted that the look Armitage gave Brendol was one of pure hatred.

Throughout his ascent to power, the young general ruthlessly eliminated numerous enemies and potential rivals before they could pose a significant threat. This included the discreet elimination of Hux's father, Brendol, the elder General Hux. Aware of his father's true feelings towards him, Hux decided to kill his father, although this was not the sole reason for his patricidal actions. Driven by ambition and a sense of destiny, he viewed Brendol as an obstacle to gaining greater power. To that end, he sought the assistance of Captain Phasma, and the two conspirators agreed that the old Imperial veteran had to be permanently removed to advance their own interests.

Although Hux had no qualms about committing patricide, he delegated the actual killing to his co-conspirator, instructing her to use an untraceable method to avoid the murder being traced back to him. Phasma, therefore, employed a toxin derived from the bite of a Parnassos beetle to assassinate Brendol. Once the deed was done, Hux proceeded with formalities by addressing the members of the First Order Stormtrooper Corps, informing them of their founder's death. After concluding his speech, Hux wasted no time in positioning himself as his father's successor, even taking possession of Brendol's suite on the Absolution.

In the years following Brendol's death, Hux restructured the First Order army according to his vision, promoting Phasma to complete the older stormtrooper cadets' training. Her methods emphasized loyalty, obedience, and ruthlessness, qualities that met with Armitage's approval. Continuing his practice of eliminating potential threats, Hux sidelined Captain Cardinal, knowing that the latter was a loyal supporter of the general's late father. Cardinal eventually deduced that Phasma was responsible for his mentor's death, though he was unaware of Hux's involvement. He reported his findings to Hux, who revealed his own role in the conspiracy to assassinate his father. Although Cardinal ultimately deferred to Hux due to his authority, Hux remained skeptical of Cardinal's loyalty and expected Phasma to eliminate him as well.

As a precaution, Hux excluded Cardinal from a meeting of senior First Order officials. When Cardinal arrived with evidence of Phasma's crimes, Hux curtly dismissed the captain, informing him that his services were no longer required. Having spent a lifetime following protocol, Cardinal complied but later attempted to avenge Brendol by killing Phasma. However, he was defeated by his fellow captain in single combat and severely wounded. Cardinal only escaped with Moradi's help. Ultimately, his idealized view of the First Order was shattered by the actions of Hux and Phasma. As the new leaders of Project Resurrection, Hux and Phasma enlisted Jinata Security to assist the First Order in capturing infants to mold into new stormtroopers.

At some point prior to the cold war, Hux allegedly harbored a distaste for First Order Security Bureau agent Terex, a belief largely founded on Terex's past as a criminal. Terex had begun a manhunt against Resistance agent Poe Dameron, an action harshly opposed by Hux and other First Order leaders.

Hux, Kylo Ren, and two First Order admirals convened in a conference room aboard the Finalizer above the planet GUHL-JO387O. Their discussion centered on traveling to a planet in the Western Reaches. The conference was interrupted when the creature being pursued by FN-2187 turned off the lights.

While in hyperspace, a shuttle carrying Hux and Ren crashed on a terrestrial forested planet. They survived due to Ren's mastery of the Force, although the dark warrior admitted that Hux's survival was purely accidental. After determining that the ship had been sabotaged, Hux engaged in an argument with Ren, mocking him by stating that Ren's grandfather, Darth Vader, needed his mask to survive, while Ren used his mask for show and to hide his parents' faces. This angered Ren, who ignited his lightsaber and threatened to kill Hux, reasoning that no one would find out. Hux countered that Supreme Leader Snoke would discover the act and punish Ren. Ren deactivated his lightsaber but questioned why Snoke kept Hux alive.

Suddenly, the two men noticed an animal's leg. Hux identified it as bait just as a massive beast known as a norwood emerged from the shrubbery, surprising them. Ren activated his lightsaber and instructed Hux to stand behind him, but Hux had already fled. Kylo then used the Force to injure the norwood. Believing the beast was dead, Ren approached it. The enraged beast then rose and struck Ren, knocking his helmet off and rendering him unconscious.

Hux, concealed amongst the trees, observed the unfolding events. He noticed a man, blaster in hand, approaching the creatures. This man spotted Hux, aimed his blaster, and commanded him to reveal himself. Hux complied and emerged from his hiding place, astonished by the man's apparent control over the norwoods. Examining the man's attire, Hux identified him as a Palace Guard. The man informed Hux that he had been away from Alderaan when the Death Star annihilated it. Subsequently, he fled as far as possible from the Empire, eventually arriving on this planet. After learning the man's name was Bylsma, Hux revealed that the Empire had fallen years prior. Bylsma, doubtful, questioned how Hux could possibly know the truth. Hux responded by mentioning Kylo Ren, explaining that Kylo Ren was Ben Solo, son of Leia Organa, Princess of Alderaan, and that Ben's parents had been victorious in the war. Bylsma then inquired about the Death Star. Hux explained that both the Death Star and its successor had been destroyed. Bylsma expressed surprise upon learning that the Empire had constructed a second Death Star. Hux retorted that the Galactic Empire was never known for its innovative thinking. Bylsma then mentioned that he had known Ben's mother and grandfather.

As they made their way back to Bylsma's dwelling, Hux questioned Bylsma about his continued presence on the planet. Bylsma responded that he was uncertain who would receive his transmission, and he didn't want to risk discovery after already losing one world. After placing Ben on a bed, Hux, feigning concern, persuaded Bylsma to allow him to use the communication array, so that they could both enjoy the peace that had been won. Eventually, Kylo awoke, and Hux informed him that the shuttle would arrive shortly, thanks to Bylsma.

Ultimately, a First Order shuttle, carrying Phasma and a small squad of stormtroopers, landed on the planet. As the shuttle doors opened, Phasma and her stormtroopers fatally shot Bylsma's norwoods. Hux, now revealing his true allegiance, instructed Phasma to spare Bylsma's life, stating that he intended to use the planet for target practice once Starkiller Base became operational. The shuttle then departed, leaving a shocked and saddened Bylsma behind.

Following a holographic conversation with Snoke on Starkiller Base, Hux received permission to deal with the radar technician. Hux took care of the radar technician. But he wasn't done yet. He arranged a meeting with Admiral Brooks, a friend of his father and an enemy of his own. After instructing Phasma to seize Brook's weapon, Hux took Phasma's blaster and dismissed her, requesting privacy.

Once Phasma had departed, Hux ordered Brooks to sit down. Brooks asserted that he had not sabotaged the shuttle. Hux responded that he was aware of this and had already dealt with the saboteur. However, Hux informed Brooks that as the radar technician's superior, Brooks bore ultimate responsibility. Brooks reminded Hux that he had known him since childhood, recalling a specific incident. Hux acknowledged remembering the incident. Brooks declared that Hux was as spineless as he had been as a child and that Brendol had a low opinion of him. Hux retorted that this was one of the reasons he had his father killed, before shooting Brooks dead.

Three decades after the Battle of Endor, Hux held the rank of general and commanded Starkiller Base, the First Order's main operational hub, as well as the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer, reporting directly to Supreme Leader Snoke. Considering Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi, to be a threat to the First Order, both Hux and Ren received directives to locate him. Although the First Order possessed maps from the Empire that could lead them to Skywalker's hiding place, they were missing the final piece. Consequently, the Finalizer journeyed to Jakku and deployed a squad of stormtroopers to attack the settlement of Tuanul, where Ren apprehended a Resistance pilot named Poe Dameron, who had already acquired and concealed the final map fragment. Following Ren's interrogation of Dameron, he informed Hux that the prisoner had entrusted the map to the BB-series astromech droid BB-8. Hux dispatched stormtroopers back to Jakku to search for the droid and placed a bounty on it.

Subsequently, Dameron was liberated by a stormtrooper, and the pair attempted to escape aboard a TIE/sf space superiority fighter, disabling the Finalizer's turbolasers. Hux ordered the ventral cannons to destroy the fighter, causing it to crash on Jakku. Upon informing Ren of the incident, the dark knight deduced that the traitorous stormtrooper was FN-2187. Hux confirmed this with Phasma, who noted that this was FN-2187's first offense.

Subsequently, Supreme Leader Snoke issued orders to capture or destroy BB-8 if necessary. When Hux informed Ren, the latter questioned the competence of their stormtroopers, given that one of them had committed high treason, and suggested that the First Order should instead adopt a clone army, similar to the Galactic Republic and the early Empire. Hux assured him that his stormtroopers were trained from birth for success and cautioned Ren against allowing his obsession with Skywalker to interfere with their mission.

After BB-8 fled Jakku aboard the Millennium Falcon, Hux and Ren returned to Starkiller Base, where they communicated with Supreme Leader Snoke via hologram. Snoke expressed no surprise that they had allowed the droid to escape, stating that the Jedi would rise again if the map reached the Resistance. Hux humbly accepted full responsibility for his failure, but the Supreme Leader interrupted him, declaring that their strategy needed to change. Hux proposed using the superweapon to destroy the New Republic for supporting the Resistance, thereby weakening their enemies. After receiving authorization for this action, Hux assembled the First Order army at Starkiller Base and delivered a grandiose speech, essentially a Neo-Imperial manifesto, proclaiming that the destruction of the Republic would mark the beginning of the First Order's ascent to power in the galaxy. Hux transmitted his speech via hologram to the First Order's garrison at the Colossus station on Castilon. Upon his signal, the Starkiller weapon fired and destroyed the Hosnian system, which at the time housed the Republic's capital and Senate, eliminating its leadership and fleet.

Subsequently, the First Order received information from an informant on Takodana that BB-8 was present, prompting Ren to lead an attack squadron. However, Ren instead captured BB-8's accomplice, the Jakku scavenger Rey, because she had seen the map, and ordered the division to retreat as the Resistance engaged them. Ren brought Rey back to Starkiller Base and attempted to extract the map from her mind, only to discover that the girl was strong in the Force and turned his own mind probe against him. Hux later interrupted a conversation between Ren and Snoke, with the latter inquiring about BB-8's whereabouts. The general humiliated his colleague by informing the Supreme Leader that Ren had decided the droid was no longer essential to the First Order's mission and that the girl was all they needed. He then informed Snoke that they had tracked the Resistance scout ship performing reconnaissance on Starkiller Base back to the Ileenium system. Snoke instructed Hux to use the superweapon to destroy the Resistance before they could locate Skywalker.

However, while its weapon was charging, the Resistance launched a starfighter assault against Starkiller Base, leading to the planet's imminent collapse before it could fire on D'Qar. Snoke then ordered Hux to evacuate the base and take the defeated Kylo Ren with him, a task that Hux, harboring a very low opinion of Ren, was all too eager to fulfill, knowing that Ren had suffered a humiliating defeat.

As he was evacuating the base, Hux's path led him near the quarters of the Jerjerrod couple, which had been struck by debris from a crashed TIE fighter. There, he briefly observed the ongoing battle between First Order forces and members of the Resistance's J-Squadron. Officer Jul Jerjerrod requested assistance from him, which Hux granted, assigning several of his accompanying stormtrooper detachment to aid in the capture of the squadron.

A few days after the assault on Starkiller Base, Hux personally greeted Phasma aboard his ship, the Finalizer. He questioned Phasma's delayed return, to which she responded that she had been occupied with chasing down and eliminating the true culprit behind the individual who had deactivated the shields at Starkiller Base. She identified Lieutenant Sol Rivas as the perpetrator. Hux complimented her and promptly departed, leaving Phasma to gaze at the sight of the First Order fleet gathering in large numbers.

Following the assault on Starkiller Base, Hux led a First Order fleet, including a Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought, to the evacuated main Resistance base on D'Qar. Prioritizing spectacle over tactical considerations, Hux forbade fighter deployments, opting instead to obliterate the base and fleet from orbit using the dreadnought. However, he was briefly distracted by an insulting transmission from Poe Dameron, who repeatedly referred to Hux by the mocking term "General Hugs" and implied that Organa intended to send a message about Hux's mother. Hux responded that he would not negotiate with the Resistance, but Dameron continued as if he couldn't hear him. After several more attempts that increased Hux's anger, he ultimately ordered the dreadnought to destroy the Resistance base, and then the main fleet.

When Dameron launched a head-on attack against the dreadnought, Hux dismissed it as an insane maneuver, only to watch in shock and disbelief as the Resistance ace proceeded to destroy the dreadnought's surface cannons one by one, prompting him to hail the dreadnought's commanding officer and angrily demand why he was not blasting "that puny ship." The dreadnought's captain, a veteran of the Old Empire with little patience for Hux, retorted that the ship was too small and too close and ordered the ship's fighters deployed, contradicting Hux's prior orders.

Although the base was ultimately destroyed, the victory proved to be largely pyrrhic because it had been completely evacuated, and the Resistance deployed bombers that annihilated the dreadnought, allowing the Resistance fleet to escape. Hux was then contacted and subjected to painful humiliation by Snoke, who slammed the general into the floor of the bridge with the Force for his failure to destroy the Resistance. Hux, though injured and with a bleeding lip, replied that he had a plan to track the Resistance through hyperspace, a plan which he fully explained to the Supreme Leader aboard his flagship, the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy.

During the assault on the Resistance fleet, Hux grew frustrated that the Resistance fleet, consisting of only three cruisers, was able to stay far enough ahead of them to render the First Order cannons ineffective against their shields, lamenting this latest setback with his adjutant, Captain Edrison Peavey.

Despite its ineffectiveness, Hux ordered the barrage to continue, specifically targeting the MC85 Star Cruiser Raddus. After the Resistance's medical frigate ran out of fuel, Hux ordered its destruction as soon as it was within range, although the ship was successfully evacuated prior to its destruction.

When Finn and Rose Tico were captured while attempting to disable the tracker on the Supremacy, they were taken to an assembly area of stormtroopers in the hangar, overseen by General Hux. Hux then struck Finn on the cheek, displaying his contempt for him. After insulting the people of the Otomok system, Tico's home system, she bit Hux on the hand, enraging him. Shortly afterward, Hux left the pair to be executed by Captain Phasma, having deduced the Resistance's plan to escape via thirty U-55 orbital loadlifters, thanks to DJ divulging this information to the First Order. He also proceeded to have the fleet pick off any and all escape ships one by one. Focused on the annihilation of the transports, Hux dismissed the news that the Raddus was preparing a hyperspace jump as a failed ploy to distract them, unaware that Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo intended to jump the Raddus to lightspeed directly at the Supremacy. Upon seeing she had turned about face, Hux realized her intentions and frantically ordered all firepower concentrated on the Raddus, but it was too late. The faster-than-lightspeed collision sliced the Mega-Destroyer in two, also annihilating twenty other nearby Resurgent-class Star Destroyers as well.

After Holdo's suicide attack, General Hux went to the throne room to report to and check on Snoke. Upon reaching it, however, he found the place in shambles, littered with the bodies of Snoke's Elite Praetorian Guard, who were killed by Kylo Ren and Rey, Snoke's dismembered corpse lying near the throne and Kylo Ren lying unconscious in the wreckage. Hux attempted to exploit the situation to kill his rival, but Kylo awoke before he could act. After expressing disbelief at seeing Snoke's dead body, Kylo told him that Rey killed Snoke and ordered him to move the men to Crait, to crush the Resistance once and for all. Hux protested, stating than Kylo had no rights to command him or his men but Kylo merely seized Hux in a crushing Force choke until he acknowledged him as the new Supreme Leader.

Hux was aboard Kylo Ren's command shuttle during the Battle of Crait. Once Kylo Ren gave the order to advance, Hux also attempted to issue the command, resulting in a sidelong stare by Kylo. After Kylo Ren fired on Luke Skywalker's force projection with All Terrain MegaCaliber Six and First Order All Terrain Armored Transport walkers, Hux shouted at the pilots to stop firing, thinking that Skywalker had been completely destroyed by the barrage. Hux asked if Ren thought he got him, but was startled when the smoke cleared to reveal Skywalker completely unharmed. Ren ordered the command shuttle to land only for Hux to protest that Ren was getting distracted. In response, Kylo Ren hurled Hux against a wall with the Force, temporarily knocking him out. By the time Hux regained consciousness, the Resistance had already fled and reorganized itself into the Rebellion. He and Kylo Ren accompanied the First Order snowtroopers as they searched through the now-abandoned base.

A period of confusion and uncertainty ensued as word of Supreme Leader Snoke's death spread through the ranks of the First Order. A group of First Order officers discussed among themselves the ramifications of their ruler's demise, and wondered if General Hux had taken the reins of power as the First Order's new Supreme Leader.

Under the new Supreme Leader's reign, Hux traveled to the First Order supertanker, the Titan, to meet with Commander Pyre as Supreme Leader Ren wanted an update on the First Order's stock of refueling stations and hunt for the Resistance cells. While on the station, he and his stormtrooper attache asked Kazuda Xiono, who was disguised as a First Order technician, to lead him to the briefing room of the station. Xiono, a native of Hosnian Prime who was aware of Hux's role in the destruction of the planet, almost attacked Hux for revenge as the General spoke in a disdainful manner to his subordinate. Upon arriving to the briefing area, Hux delivered more orders to Pyre regarding the attainment of valuable supertanker assets, notably to quell the resistance cell on the Colossus. During the later meeting, Hux became frustrated with the interruption to the meeting caused by Xiono's theft of the Titan's radiation deflector.

Hux then led a fleet that destroyed the planet of Tah'Nuhna because of its assistance to the Resistance, despite pleading from its leaders about their long-standing neutrality in galactic affairs. At the order of Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, Hux also ordered the Kendoh Gang to get Resistance operative Finn when they alerted him that they'd spotted him, though Hux had initially refuted the validity of the gang's claims.

Hux was eventually contacted by Chadkol Gee regarding the Resistance presence on Mon Cala. Upon arriving to Mon Cala, Hux ordered the destruction of rebellious Quarren and Mon Calamari fighters. Following the skirmish, Hux deduced that Mon Cala had finally sided with the Resistance.

In the aftermath of the devastation of Aeos Prime, Hux was informed via holoprojector by Commander Pyre and Agent Tierny that the suppression of the Aeos system was complete and that there was no longer any Resistance presence in the sector. Hux then walked away so Supreme Leader Ren could talk with Pyre and Tierny about the matter of the only Resistance presence left in the sector, the Colossus.

During the Battle of Batuu, stormtrooper CF-8011 noted that Hux seemed more impatient than usual. During the battle, Hux, alongside Supreme Leader Ren, was in command of the Finalizer when it captured a Resistance Intersystem Transport Ship. However, Commander Dameron managed to escape before returning with a sizeable fleet that caught the First Order off-guard.

Following the Battle of Crait, in the year that followed, a strange transmission echoed throughout the galaxy, carrying the voice of Emperor Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious, who had been thought to have perished at Endor decades before. Much to Hux's frustration, Ren shifted his focus from the Resistance to the potential danger the spectral Emperor posed to his authority, a threat Hux dismissed as a mere figment of Ren's imagination. To locate Sidious, Ren needed a Sith wayfinder, which, despite Hux's disdain, he eventually discovered on the fiery planet of Mustafar, once the domain of Ren's grandfather, Darth Vader, and the location of his fortress, Fortress Vader.

Hux journeyed to Mustafar with Ren and Allegiant General Enric Pryde, who had become his adversary since the debacle at Crait; Hux described the planet as a "desolate hellscape." Upon arrival, Ren and a group of stormtroopers engaged in combat with the Alazmec of Winsit, a persistent group of Sith cultists dedicated to guarding Corvax Fen and who worshipped Vader as a god of the dark side. Hux and Pryde observed the battle from a safe distance. As they watched, Pryde inquired if Hux was displeased to see Ren fighting, to which Hux replied that Ren was acting irrationally by prioritizing the Emperor's rumored return over the ongoing rebellion, leading Pryde to remind Hux that someone was behind the broadcast and that Leader Ren answered to no one because of the sacrifices he made to gain his power.

Ultimately, Ren reached Fortress Vader and retrieved Vader's wayfinder, which guided him to the ancient Sith world of Exegol. There, Ren learned that Darth Sidious' essence had somehow survived, and through his power as Emperor and Sith Lord, he had established a hidden Empire on the galaxy's fringes. With the assistance of the Sith Eternal from Exegol, Sidious had created the Final Order—one of the largest fleets ever assembled. After an initial confrontation with a hostile Ren, Sidious convinced him to bolster his forces with the Sith fleet and seize total galactic control as the new Emperor. Simultaneously, Ren tasked Hux's victorious First Order military with eradicating the remaining Resistance forces, who, despite continuing to fight after Crait, had largely been driven underground by the oppressive regime. During these operations, several TIE fighters pursued the Millennium Falcon as it gathered information from Boolio about a spy within the First Order who could lead the Resistance to the resurrected Sidious.

Shortly after the TIEs pursued the Falcon from the Sinta Glacier Colony, the Supreme Leader and his Knights of Ren arrived, interrogated, and then murdered Boolio, presenting his severed head to a meeting of the First Order Supreme Council, which included Pryde and Hux. Ren informed his subordinates that a traitor existed among them. Sensing unease, the Supreme Leader asked if his newly repaired helmet made Hux uncomfortable; the General quietly replied that it did not and congratulated him for fixing it. A comment from General Bellava Parnadee that she liked the mask briefly paused the meeting.

General Domaric Quinn suggested that Sidious and his followers resembled a cult more than anything else. Pryde dismissed this concern, but Quinn persisted, questioning if the Sith fleet promised by the Dark Lord was a gift and what he might demand in return. Enraged, Ren used the Force to choke General Quinn and throw his body to the ceiling. As Quinn died, Ren announced to the remaining assembly that his mission was hunting Rey with the Knights of Ren while they focus on crushing any worlds that defy them.

Following a brief battle between First Order troops and Rey's Resistance group on Pasaana, Hux presented Pryde with a "valuable prisoner" captured during the fighting: Chewbacca, who was presumed dead by his allies. The elder commander, unfazed by the Wookiee's roars, ordered immediate interrogation. Shortly after, Ren returned to the Steadfast, having failed to accomplish the task set by Darth Sidious.

The Steadfast eventually arrived at Kijimi shortly after Rey's group, and Ren quickly departed to assist his knights in hunting the scavenger and her allies. Through a former associate of Dameron, the fugitives managed to sneak aboard the ship to free Chewbacca from First Order custody, Rey having learned of his survival through the Force. Although they killed several stormtroopers, all members of the strike team except Rey were eventually overwhelmed and captured. Hux soon arrived to confront the prisoners and ordered their immediate execution. He chose to accompany the group of troopers selected for the duty as they escorted Finn, Dameron, and Chewbacca to a secluded area of the ship.

Just before the sentence was carried out, Hux announced that he wished to join the firing squad. Taking a blaster from one of the troopers, the general quickly turned and killed the troopers, revealing himself as the spy that Ren and Pryde had been searching for within their ranks. Offering his assistance to the surprised Resistance agents, he quickly led them to the imprisoned Falcon, lingering behind as they blasted their way through his own troops.

Stopping Finn before he could board the Falcon, Hux demanded that the former stormtrooper shoot him in the arm to validate his story that he had been forced to help their escape. Out of spite, Finn shot the general in the thigh. He then asked why Hux would betray the First Order he had helped create; disdainfully, the general stated that he didn't care if the Resistance won, as long as Ren lost. The Resistance agents then completed their escape, rejoining Rey as she ended her latest duel with Ren, who had returned to the Steadfast after discovering she was aboard.

Hux received treatment for his injured leg with bacta gel, which caused the wound to itch, and had it bandaged before reporting to Pryde on the bridge of the Steadfast. He gave Pryde a false account of the Resistance's escape to conceal his acts of treason and murder. He then planned to frame Ren as the spy who provided the Resistance with information about the fleet on Exegol, believing this was his chance to seize power from his rival.

Hux's attempt at deception failed to fool Pryde. Instead, Hux inadvertently revealed his treachery to the Allegiant General, who turned and requested to communicate with Supreme Leader Kylo Ren before snatching a blaster from a nearby stormtrooper, turning back and blasting Hux dead for betraying the First Order just so he could have vengeance against the Supreme Leader, sending Hux's body sliding down through the aisle behind him. The general's last thought was about Rey, whom he blamed for the failure of his plans. Although Hux hated the scavenger, her defiance allowed him to die with a sense of hope that Ren would still lose the war.

General Armitage Hux spent his final days under the command of Supreme Leader Kylo Ren and Allegiant General Enric Pryde, both of whom outranked the ambitious officer who aspired to rule the galaxy through the First Order. Pryde held Hux personally responsible for the loss of Starkiller Base; as a result, he welcomed the First Order's alliance with the Sith Eternal, believing they needed their allies' warships to replace the resources lost after Starkiller's destruction.

General Hux's jealousy and insecurities led him to take desperate actions with significant consequences, resulting not only in his death but also the downfall of the First Order. Following Hux's death and Ren's subsequent renunciation of the dark side, Pryde traveled to Exegol to oversee the deployment of the Sith fleet, having sworn allegiance and giving complete control of the First Order to the resurrected Emperor. However, the Final Order fleet was destroyed by the Resistance and its allies during the Battle of Exegol. Consequently, the First Order lost its dominance over the galaxy as multiple worlds, including Bespin, Jakku, and Endor, revolted against military rule.

General Armitage Hux, a human male, stood at 1.85 meters tall and weighed 75 kilograms. He possessed red hair, green eyes, and pale skin due to a lack of sunlight exposure. His preferred beverage was bitter tarine tea. He was a merciless officer in the First Order and a follower of the Galactic Empire's ideals. Like others of his generation, who served as the vanguard of First Order leadership, Hux was remarkably young, the youngest general in its ranks. However, he compensated for his lack of experience and wisdom with his intense dedication. Due to his youth, Hux's experience in warfare was purely theoretical. Although recognized for the thoroughness and complexity of his simulations, Hux received little respect for his abilities as a warrior.

As the son of a high-ranking official in the old Imperial Academy, Hux was raised to revere his Imperial heritage. He grew up idolizing historical Imperials who became legends in the First Order. Hux believed that the Empire had saved the galaxy from the violence of the Clone Wars and that the galaxy once again needed saving from itself. This responsibility fell to the First Order, as the New Republic, in Hux's opinion, was too weak to prevent the inevitable chaos. Hux felt only contempt for the New Republic, a regime he considered corrupt, illegitimate, and treacherous for secretly supporting the Resistance, another organization the general despised.

In addition to his views on the New Republic, Hux saw the First Order not as a continuation of the Old Empire, but as its successor. Despite his admiration for the Empire's achievements and his desire to relive its past glories, Hux believed the Empire fell due to internal flaws, while he saw the First Order as a more refined and pure version of what the Empire had aspired to become, but never achieved. This perspective led Hux to look down on the older generation of Imperial veterans who founded the First Order. In Hux's mind, officers like Captain Edrison Peavey belonged to a bygone era and had outlived their usefulness.

Due to his domineering nature, Hux sought far greater authority than his official rank as general and dreamed of becoming the man who would save the galaxy from chaos. Although his ultimate ambition was to become Supreme Leader, Hux was content to wield authority over both the armies and fleets of the First Order as Grand Marshal while Snoke reigned. Undeterred by Snoke's refusal to grant this title, the young general continued to seek the Supreme Leader's favor to advance his military career, resulting in his appointment as commander of Starkiller Base. With his ruler's support, Hux proudly took charge of the Starkiller project, determined to become the face of the First Order regime. Hux took great care to conceal his ambitions, occasionally stopping himself from referring to himself as "Supreme Leader Hux," aware of the First Order's extensive surveillance system. Besides the Supreme Leader's title, Hux coveted Snoke's flagship, the Supremacy, and would often transfer his command ship from the Finalizer to the gargantuan Mega-class Star Dreadnought. Hux respected Snoke for building the First Order from a group of Imperial refugees exiled to the Unknown Regions, but privately believed that only he was capable of directing the galaxy's industries, fostering innovation, and commanding the citizens' respect.

Hux was obsessed with his appearance, believing it essential for maintaining discipline. He always wore a parade uniform designed to project his authority as general. Even his posture reflected this belief, as Hux often stood in a formal parade stance. In addition to his uniform and bearing, Hux's hair was styled to his exacting standards. Hux carried an officer's version of the SE-44C with dark plaster instead of the standard white blaster pistol.

Hux had little understanding or patience for the mystical ways of the Force. While he did not doubt its existence, having witnessed its power and even experienced it as punishment, Hux considered it the core of an outdated religion from a bygone era. The future, Hux believed, would be governed by industry and innovation, and he saw himself as a man of science and technology. Despite his lack of faith in the Force, Hux believed in himself and considered it his destiny to rule the galaxy. When accompanying Kylo Ren to Mustafar, Hux desperately wanted to leave the volcanic planet and even considered joining the Supreme Leader's fight with the Alazmec of Winsit to speed things up, but knowing that his fighting skills weren't as good to those of Ren and considering himself to be too valuable to risk, Hux preferred allowing Ren to do all the dirty work.

A rival of Kylo Ren, Hux loathed the Supreme Leader's apprentice, whom he scornfully called "Snoke's loathsome creature." Their competition for the Supreme Leader's approval created a tense rivalry between Hux and Ren. Hux viewed Ren as immature and self-absorbed, while Ren saw Hux as useless without the mystical side of the First Order, which Hux cared little for. Despite their mutual contempt, Hux respected Ren's Force abilities, although Ren had little to say about Hux's fighting skills. Ren also considered Hux a coward, a view reinforced when Hux once fled from a hostile animal, leaving his rival to defend himself while he hid in tall grass. In hating Ren, Hux took pleasure in his adversary's failures and Snoke's anger with his apprentice. The fact that Ren needed rescuing from Starkiller Base after losing to a lightsaber novice particularly delighted the young general.

His hatred for Ren extended to his followers, the Knights of Ren, whom he despised for their unkempt appearance and their tendency to track dirt into the polished halls of First Order capital ships. By the end of the war, Hux considered Ren a mindless dog and a blunt instrument in combat. Another trait of Ren's that Hux greatly disliked was the Supreme Leader's messy hair, to the point where Hux was glad that Ren repaired his mask so he would no longer have to see what he deemed an indignant detail a good leader shouldn't have. Hux vowed that the first thing he would do if he ever took the role of Supreme Leader would be to order Ren to cut his hair.

Hux was raised in the military branch of the First Order. As a general, he inherited the stormtrooper training regimen pioneered by his father, Brendol, whose views on military training influenced the new generation of soldiers who served the First Order. Hux had complete faith in his father's idea that stormtroopers trained through vivid simulations made the most loyal troopers. Openly proud to be the inheritor of his father's legacy, Hux refused to stand by while Ren criticized the stormtroopers trained under two generations of the Hux family. Having invested a lifetime in their training, Hux considered his stormtroopers examples of the perfect warrior—soldiers trained from birth and programmed for absolute loyalty. Though baffled by the treasonous actions of FN-2187, Hux believed the renegade trooper was an anomaly whose isolated case had no bearing on the reliability of the other stormtroopers who obeyed their orders without question.

Ultimately, Hux was an unscrupulous man who craved power above all else. He was utterly remorseless, with a predisposition to killing that had existed since early childhood. As he rose to power, Hux eliminated many enemies and potential foes, including his own father, the elder General Brendol Hux. As the commanding officer of Starkiller Base, the younger Hux was responsible for the deaths of billions. He took pride in the weapon the First Order had built into a planet, marveling at its destructive power and certain that the new galactic war would be won with a single shot. Throughout his career, Hux used assassination and sabotage to eliminate his enemies, both within and outside the First Order, although he rarely carried out such tactics himself, preferring to have his allies or subordinates do the work. However, Hux made an exception for Admiral Brooks. Never forgetting how Brooks treated him as a child, Hux shot the elder officer in the shoulder and proceeded to torture him, ignoring Brooks' pleas for mercy before finally executing the injured, unarmed man.

Beneath Hux's pride and ambition lay a burning shame that began with the abuse he suffered under his father's care. Although he also enjoyed a privileged life due to Brendol's high position in the early First Order, young Armitage was the object of Brendol's scorn and lived in fear of his father. Brendol considered his son pathetic, weak, sniveling, and utterly useless. Hux likewise loathed his father and regarded Brendol as an "old bastard" whose death brought him relief. Nevertheless, Hux was proud of his ties to the Empire, being the son of an Imperial Academy commandant. However, he was forced to live with the shame of being his father's illegitimate son by a kitchen woman, rather than a legitimate heir by Brendol's lawful wife, Maratelle. For all his imperiousness and sense of manifest destiny, Hux never forgot his origins—he was the unloved, illegitimate son of a man who hated him—and he never forgave his abusers. As an adult, Hux had a fragile ego that was easily wounded by mockery, such as Poe Dameron's deliberate mispronunciation of his name as "General Hugs."

Vaunting the technological might of Starkiller Base was the last time Hux felt certain of anything. He watched helplessly as his fortunes declined, with Ren ascending to the rank of Supreme Leader after Snoke's unexpected death, and his other rival, Allegiant General Enric Pryde, gaining greater favor in the new regime at Hux's expense. His deviousness and years of jockeying for power worked against him, as the new Supreme Leader considered Hux untrustworthy and gave him no important responsibilities. After Ren seized power, Hux lost much of the enthusiasm he had under Snoke's reign, despite surviving under his rival's rule. By then, Hux no longer aspired to the title of Grand Marshal, as that role had essentially been taken by the Allegiant General.

He continued to follow military protocol, but without genuine conviction. Although he was given a seat on the Supreme Council, Hux maintained an uncharacteristically silent presence, careful not to provoke Ren's temper as he had in the past. Without Snoke's protection, Hux began addressing Ren with the deference due to his power and rank. In private, however, he strongly disapproved of Ren's leadership of the First Order and his handling of the war, convinced that Ren had gone mad for diverting his attention from the Resistance to investigate Darth Sidious' return. In particular, he believed that Ren was turning the regime into his own personal military to pursue whatever crusade he felt like on any given day.

Even as he watched his career trajectory veer off course, Hux did not completely abandon his scheming nature. Ultimately, the general who led the vanguard of the First Order's invasion of the galaxy committed treason by spying for the Resistance. However, he was not motivated by regret or a newfound belief in the Resistance's cause. Hux remained remorseless to the end; all he had left was his rivalry with Ren, whose reign he sought to undermine until it ended in defeat. Hux thought his actions against Ren were the greatest act of loyalty he could carry out for the First Order, even if to others they were the acts of a traitor, and did so in the name of protecting everything he had worked to build from falling apart at Ren's hands.

As a child, Armitage Hux was seen as feeble and ineffective by his father, Brendol Hux, who considered his son to be generally untrustworthy. However, Gallius Rax, in contrast to Hux's father, recognized Hux's potential value for his future strategies, particularly regarding the next generation of soldiers, whose leadership he entrusted to Hux. Supreme Leader Snoke also regarded Hux as a valuable asset to his own schemes. Consequently, he championed the general's advancement, despite Kylo Ren's disapproval of a "rabid cur" holding a significant position within the First Order.

Hux's ascent to power, and his approach to conflict, were characterized by precision and meticulousness. A blend of patience and internalized shame fueled his ambition to seize greater influence at the expense of his adversaries, including his own father, whom he had assassinated. With an appreciation for advanced technology, Hux spearheaded the development of groundbreaking innovations like the Starkiller Base superweapon and active hyperspace tracking. He also possessed in-depth knowledge of the operational systems of both a Resurgent-class Star Destroyer and Starkiller Base.

General Hux's attire consisted of a charcoal grey general's uniform, complemented by black gloves, a gleaming officer's buckle, traditionally tailored flared-hip breeches, and insulated boots. Completing his ensemble was a crested command cap displaying the First Order insignia and a gaberwool officer's greatcoat. Hux firmly believed that a neat appearance was crucial for maintaining discipline. When addressing his troops, he donned a parade uniform specifically designed to project his authority as a First Order General.

Following the Battle of Starkiller Base, Hux carried a SE-44C blaster pistol in a cross-draw holster, along with a monomolecular dagger concealed within his sleeve.

The character known as General Hux was conceived for the 2015 cinematic release, Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, where he is brought to life by Domhnall Gleeson. Gleeson's casting in the film occurred in April 2014, merely a day prior to his appearance in a promotional image of the cast participating in a table read of the script. Subsequently, he booked a private screening room in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland, and viewed all three films from the original Star Wars trilogy to prepare for shooting the new film—he has described arriving on the set of a Star Wars movie on his first day of shooting as a breathtaking, "pinch me" moment. Public revelation of details regarding Gleeson's character, inclusive of the name General Hux, occurred first at the San Diego Comic-Con in July 2015.

During the character development phase for Hux, Gleeson and the film's production team theorized that he was an obsessive character who does not get a lot of sleep. They designed his appearance accordingly: pale complexion, dark circles around the eyes, and an unwavering focus on his objectives. J.J. Abrams, the director of The Force Awakens, has characterized Hux as a ruthless figure, while Gleeson has depicted him as someone who relishes authority and clings to it tenaciously. He has also commented that Hux "would just like a little bit more order in the universe" and would do whatever it takes to achieve that order. Leading up to the film's premiere, he quipped that Hux was clearly a villain due to his British accent, a characteristic shared by many Star Wars antagonists. Gleeson expressed enthusiasm for portraying such a character, as it diverged from his previous acting roles and allowed him to explore the concept of authority. StarWars.com later confirmed Gleeson's return in Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi.

During the filming of The Force Awakens, multiple iterations of a scene featuring Hux addressing the First Order troops were filmed, as J.J. Abrams aimed to experiment with varying levels of intensity. Ultimately, he "wanted it big," and he and screenplay writer Lawrence Kasdan considered it to be Hux's defining moment in the film. Although the sheer number of stormtrooper extras present for the scene initially made Gleeson apprehensive, he also felt it conveyed the magnitude of the speech's intended impact. The speech has drawn comparisons to Adolf Hitler's addresses at a Nuremberg Rally. Star Wars Insider 192 satirized Hux's speech by depicting it as irritating the stormtroopers.

Prior to the release of The Force Awakens, the character Brendol Hux was presented in Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy, a book aimed at young readers by Jason Fry that acts as a companion piece to the television show Star Wars Rebels. Within the book, Brendol Hux reveals his ambition to cultivate an army of soldiers devoted to the Galactic Empire from their very beginnings. A StarWars.com Databank entry later clarified that Brendol Hux is General Hux's father, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary further substantiated that Hux's army of stormtroopers in the film—indoctrinated from infancy to be loyal to the First Order—are an extension of his father's group, the Commandant's Cadets.

Fry's initial conception of the cadets was to further a plot point in his narrative, but he struggled to find a goal or purpose for them that would eventually materialize. The idea of linking them to General Hux arose in November 2014 during a meeting with Lucasfilm Ltd. regarding another project, Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Incredible Cross-Sections, where he was given access to concept art, stills, and a summary of the forthcoming movie. He then proposed to Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group that the concept of training children to become stormtroopers originated with Hux's father during the Star Wars Rebels era, and upon Hidalgo's escalation of the idea, a positive response was received. Fry considered including a "red-haired baby" Hux in his book, under the care of a sinister nanny droid, but ultimately deemed it a reference for the sake of a reference and removed it from the final version.

Domhnall Gleeson's brother Brian Gleeson portrayed the character's father Brendol Hux in The Mandalorian episode Chapter 23: The Spies.

General Hux was introduced as a playable character of the same name in the 2015 mobile game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes in 2019, which features characters and ships from both the canon and Legends continuities.