I thought Blissex appeared as a background character in one of the Home One briefing scenes. If so wouldn't that make him as canon as Vanden Willard who only appeared in one or two short scenes in A New Hope?

That was a much LATER recton, and a very shoehorned recton at that, the film character used does not look like the art for the original West End Game Blissex, the actor Decipher pegged as their Blissex is younger, has a full head of hair and no beard, as opposed to Blissex who should be in his 80's at the time of Return of the Jedi and is bearded and bald.

Willard is named in the novels in 1976 and seen in the movie in 1977. Blissex was a creation of West End Games in 1989, and his art is depicted as such . Decipher much later used used this actor as a stand in for Blissex in their card game for the Endor Expansion in 1998/1999 some 10 years after the original character concept.

That being said I LOVE that Fantasy Flight continues to other game sources for their own material because it further builds upon gamer canon, and I think Blissex would be an ideal character/card for Star Wars Armada .

Man, the force is strong with this one.

A powerful Sith he will become!

former contributor and editor for West End Games

During my youth in the 90s, WEG and Timony Zahn transformed a mild fascination for Star Wars into to a life-long obsession. I still have my copy of the Imperial Sourcebook on my bookshelf.

My hat is off to you.

Even though I was playing the WEG RPG from shortly before second edition came out I didn't get into the EU novels until much later. I made the mistake of reading the Lando Calrissian Adventures trilogy shortly before Heir to the Empire came out. I hated them so much that I refused to read any new Star Wars novels for years. Right after the first book of the Corellian trilogy came out I picked it up in desperation at an airport bookstore because we had overslept and I forgot to pack a book in my carry on luggage in my haste. I liked it enough that I read the others in the trilogy and picked up the first novel in the X-Wing series and the Black Fleet Crisis when they came out then started catching up on the ones I had missed..

I've mentioned it before, but the raider would be perfectly suited to represent the "Carrion Spike" which was Tarkins personnel stealth ship before he upgraded to a star destroyer

It fits the description and fluff of the ship and would be a great way of cannonising the FFG developed ship