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Admiral Tolwyn first appears in Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi. In the full motion video cut scenes beginning in Wing Commander III, Tolwyn is portrayed by Malcolm McDowell, who also voices him in the animated series Wing Commander Academy. In the 1999 Wing Commander movie, Tolwyn is portrayed by David Warner, as McDowell was unavailable.

1 Youth and Young Adulthood

Admiral Tolwyn is a relatively young man, forty-three years old as of the beginning of Wing Commander 1. The only son of a British baronet, Admiral Tolwyn grew up from a very young age as part of the last remaining vestige of nobility in the world. He was born in 2612, during an era of relative peace. He attended the Confederation Navy Academy and graduated during a time when many in the Confederation were questioning the very necessity of the armed forces and when Confederation senators were looking to bolster their votes by cutting "wasteful" military programs; all during the slow, steady build of tensions between the Confederation and the Kilrathi Empire. Tolwyn was assigned as a special operations officer straight out of the academy after a run-in with a Senator over a controversial bill to close the academy in which Tolwyn brought up ugly personal motives for the senator's blockage of a new starfighter program to replace the aging "Wildcat" medium fighter.

2 Beginning of the Kilrathi War

During the Battle of McAuliffe, Ensign Geoffrey Tolwyn was a fighter pilot in the cockpit of a Wildcat, with barely five hundred flying hours under his belt. He managed to survive both of his sorties, including a battle against the then-Crown Prince of Kilrah (who committed ritual suicide because of his shame at being defeated by a "mere human"). After that battle, Tolwyn was promoted to Lieutenant and given command of a frigate.

3 Rise to Flag Rank

From 2639 to 2654, Tolwyn rose, rocket-like, to prominence in the Confederation Navy, rising from Lt. J.G. to Commodore in the 15 years. His driven nature was as much a hindrance as a blessing, however, and he developed as many enemies in the Admiralty as friends; some of whom blocked his ascension to Rear Admiral for a number of years. Finally his chance to prove himself as a force commander came on the Tiger's Claw's cadet cruise of 2653-4, where he commanded the carrier and its battlegroup (and its load of student-pilots) through a number of harrowing engagements with the Kilrathi. After the completion of this task, Tolwyn was promoted to Rear Admiral and command of 14th Fleet.

4 On the Concordia

In 2656, Tolwyn's flagship, TCS Concordia, a Confederation-class dreadnought, was commissioned. Now with a ship, Tolwyn's command was shunted to 3rd Fleet and to the front lines of the war. With his flag in Concordia, Tolwyn spent the next decade plus on the spearhead of the Confederation's war efforts, battling in multiple theatres of the war, in both Vega and Enigma Sectors. In 2664, Tolwyn was reunited with Christopher Blair - this time under much more adversarial circumstances - and they fought together, albeit grudgingly, during the most dangerous campaigns of the war. Tolwyn commanded the fleet during the Battle of Earth, and won the battle which was mankind's most perilous hour. However, the fleet he inherited after the battle was worn and dangerously thinned, and Tolwyn was reduced to sending decades-old light carriers to battle the Kilrathi in engagements that before would have required full fleet carriers.

5 War's End

In 2669, the Behemoth project was tested. Its major weapon, a superconducting particle beam cannon, was perfect and destroyed the target planet (Loki VI). However, a Kilrathi spy in the fleet leaked the weak points in Behemoth's defenses to the enemy, and a massive bomber strike on the weapon destroyed it, and Tolwyn's hopes. Fortunately, General James "Paladin" Taggert 's Temblor Bomb program was there to pick up the slack and save the war for humanity. As a result, Paladin was elected to the Confederation senate after the war.

6 Peacetime Tolwyn, the SRA and the Black Lance Conspiracy

After the end of the Kilrathi War in 2669, Admiral Tolwyn, burning with humiliation from Behemoth's destruction, was assigned to the Strategic Readiness Agency and promptly converted the agency into his personal fief. He was brought into the Agency's two-decade-old Black Lance project and found that he had a personal skill for malappropriating funding from other projects to fulfill the Black Lance's agenda. Tolwyn's fanatical personality had found his ultimate fulfillment: the "perfection" of humanity into a fighting force unparallelled in the galaxy. By 2674, the biogenic plague intended to destroy the unworthy was prepared and test runs were made against planets in the Border Worlds, but before the plan could fully unfold (which included war with the Border Worlds), Colonel Christopher Blair - operating with Border Worlds forces - uncovered Tolwyn's plot and revealed it to the Senate in an impromptu but impassioned speech. Tolwyn was arrested and arraigned on charges relating to crimes against humanity.

After being found guilty on all charges stemming from the Black Lance conspiracy, convicted and stripped of rank, Geoffrey Tolwyn committed suicide in his prison cell on the eve of his execution in 2674, believing he had failed humanity.

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