 Edmund Duke is ranking officer in first the Confederacy and later the Dominion.Duke also appears in several novels, including "Liberty's Crusade", "Shadow of the Xel'Naga", and "Queen of Blades".A scion of one of the influential Old Families of Confederacy with a long career in the military, Duke is a methodical and experienced tactician, but also as an egotistical and xenophobic man.