Almanian Uprising The Almanian Uprising , also known as the Almania Crisis , of 17 ABY was a conflict engineered by the Dark Jedi and former Jedi Academy student Kueller , who was attempting to bring down the New Republic , and with it , the revived Jedi Order . The conflict was defined by a series of bombings across the New Republic and a pitched space battle above Almania , the protagonists of whom the Galactic Empire dubbed as the New Rebellion . Origins . Almania itself was a little known Wild Space world located not too far from the Corporate Sector . A backwater known to few , the planet was orbited by the moons of wealthy Pydyr , Auyemesh and Drewwa . The planet was relatively ignored by the Empire and Rebel Alliance - sympathetic , Auyemesh and Pydyr the only real intergalactic ports of call in the system . This easily allowed the rise of the Je ' har , who became the tyrannical upper caste of the planet , and unfortunately the planet was also keenly raided by slavers . Dolph was a very young Almanian man when he was discovered to have an affinity to the Force . One of the first of Luke Skywalker ' s Yavin 4 Jedi Academy students , Dolph was enlisted for less than a year when he was informed that his parents had been killed by the Je ' har . Enraged , and with few friends despite Brakiss , Dolph took off for his homeworld to identify the corpses . He never returned to Yavin 4 . He arrived on Almania to see his parents both impaled in front of the Je ' har palace . Overwhelmed with disgust and hatred he fell into the whirlpool of the dark side , vowing to bring down the Je ' har regime . Despite his lack of training in the dark arts , he knew enough to focus his anger and became a dangerous savage . He organized his homeworld into a resistance movement and hid himself behind a new identity : Kueller , the name of a long dead Almanian general . As part of his mystique , he always wore a Hendanyn death mask , which made him rather reminiscent of Darth Vader . His forces fell in easily behind him , and his army destroyed the Je ' har completely , torching all sympathizers of the Je ' har . Seeing himself as a visionary , and misguided by the dark side — similar to Anakin Skywalker ' s fall into the abyss — he turned his sights on the New Republic , thinking he could prevent mass murder on the scale of the Je ' har . He got in contact with his friend , the Imperial mole in Skywalker ' s academy , Brakiss , who Skywalker had scared off by guiding Brakiss to look inside himself . Brakiss , a young blonde man of rich blood , had taken control of a vast droid - building facility on Telti . Bombings . Leia Organa Solo , Chief of State of the New Republic and President of the Senate , had been under intense pressure from the Black Fleet Crisis political situation . Organa Solo , however , was determined to put it behind her . Her new term of the Senate was full of ex - Imperial Senators and ex - Imperial worlds , such as the Senator for Exodeen . Despite reassurance from Mon Mothma , she was unsure of the situation . Halfway across the galaxy , her brother , Luke Skywalker , felt an odd feeling resonating from Coruscant and feeling a tragic disturbance in the Force . Concerned , he took off from Yavin 4 for Coruscant as soon as he could . Han Solo , meanwhile , was busy taking a request from a former smuggler friend Jarril , who requested that he check out a big disturbance on the Smuggler ' s Run . Jarril noticed that many smugglers had been suddenly getting rocketing rich — and then passing away . The two smugglers got separated after a massive explosion rocked the Coruscant skyline . As Organa Solo took the podium and started into an inspired speech , powerful bombs rocked the Imperial Palace Senate chamber . Leia was knocked off her feet , over a hundred Senators were dead or wounded and Leia herself had lost her hearing . Just prior , at calm and settled Pydyr , 1 , 651 , 305 natives died in an instant - almost the entire population , and the factor that brought about the prior disturbance in the Force . Han immediately headed to Leia ' s side , finding that many of Leia ' s supporters had been killed in the blasts . The Senate Hall was ruined , and Jarril had apparently gone missing . Investigations and more bombs . Luke arrived at Coruscant and immediately sensed that Brakiss was somehow behind the incident and started to investigate . Han , reassured that his wife was safe and well , sought to talk to Jarril and found that he had vanished off the face of the galaxy . He decided the best place to search for him would be at the Smuggler ' s Run . Near Kessel , the site of Lando Calrissian ' s current business , Lando ran into Jarril ' s ship , the " Spicy Lady " , drifting in space . In Jarril ' s ship , modeled incidentally after his former ship the " Millennium Falcon " , he discovered the message : " Cargo delivered . Fireworks spectacular . Solo knows . We can count on his involvement . " and Jarril ' s dead body . Troubled , he found Han through smuggler Talon Karrde , and uncertainly headed back to the Smuggler ' s Run , hoping not to run into Nandreeson — a powerful pirate with a grudge against Lando . Meanwhile , C - 3PO and R2 - D2 accidentally began their own investigation into the incident , with them finding Luke ' s X - wing had been disassembled and re - assembled by Kloperian mechanics — and the X - Wing had a bomb inside it ' s computer . Tatooine mechanic Cole Fardreamer , who dreamt of meeting Luke Skywalker , discovered bombs in other starfighters . When the Kloperian ' s discovered him however , they opened fire on R2 - D2 . The political situation of Coruscant worsened . The Senate had somehow learned of Jarril ' s message and promptly blamed Han for the bombing , placing Leia under yet more pressure . Luke had tracked Brakiss to a droid factory on Telti , where his former student was easily defeated by Skywalker in a short lightsaber duel . Brakiss pleaded for him to go to Almania , then weakly attempted to get him to turn back to his Yavin Academy . Luke headed off for Almania , and as he attempted to land , the bomb in his ship ' s supposedly safe central computer exploded , causing Skywalker to crash - land . At the capital , a message from Kueller to the Chief of State demanded that Organa Solo hand over the reigns of the Republic to him — or he would kill her family . As the message ended , Kueller wiped out the entire population of Auyemesh . In total disgust , Leia resigned from her post , placing Mon Mothma as caretaker and took off quietly for Almania , aided by a small fleet commanded by General Antilles . Han and Lando ' s investigation on the Run was foiled , with Nandreeson capturing the two and planting suspicions that he knew what was going on . The situation was grim for the Heroes of Yavin . Artificial Intelligence . Wedge Antilles ' fleet , including three MC90 Star Cruiser s — " Tatooine " , " Yavin " and " Calamari " – and twenty smaller ships , including Leia ' s personal transport " Alderaan " , arrived in the system before the Senate could realize what the Chief of State had done . In opposition , three of Kueller ' s " Victory " - class Star Destroyer ' s emerged from hyperspace and the two forces engaged in a fierce battle . Leia set off immediately to find her brother , as Cole Fardreamer headed for Telti to investigate the droids . Han and Lando successfully dealt with Nandreeson — until most of the droids on the Smuggler ' s Run exploded . These droids had incidentally been Jarril ' s business — stealing droids from Coruscant . Han hauled the injured off the Run , and met up with Talon Karrde . The smugglers decided to head for Almania . The injured Luke finally met Kueller in battle , who was more than a match for the injured Master . Skywalker was captured , but with the aid of a Pydyrian healing stick and a native thernbee he managed to escape and meet up with his sister . Leia insisted that they leave , but Luke stopped , to face Kueller , with Kueller attempting to persuade Luke to turn to the dark side . Luke decided the only thing he can do is give up and let Kueller kill him , allowing his spirit to help Leia . But the timely arrival of Han , Mara and some Ysalamir i weakened Kueller . Enraged , Kueller threatened to destroy the Republic with the flick of his fingers , but as he activated the bombing droids , Artoo Detoo managed to disable the bombs from the base on Telti , despite a meeting with a security force made up of droids called the " Red Terror " . As Kueller sinisterly waited for the disturbance in the force , Leia , not caring if her actions were of the dark side , shooting Kueller dead with a shot from behind . As she knelt down next to his body and pulled off his mask , she realized who she had killed — it was just a boy . Wedge Antilles had already craftily destroyed the enemy flotilla — the fleet had been manned wholly by droids . Antilles and his co - commander General Ceousa had manipulated the droid weaknesses , destroying them doing so . The task force and the Skywalker - Solo family returned to Coruscant as heroes . Aftermath . The second vote of no confidence against the Chief of State ' s leadership was a total failure , the new Senators rallying around Leia Organa Solo . However continued pressure and the Black Fleet and Almanian political crisis ' had put her under far too much pressure . The Corellian Insurrection ' s political impact would also contribute to her stepping down from the Presidency for an indefinite period . The Senate would reconvene in temporary chambers until the Grand Convocation Chamber could be reconstructed . Luke Skywalker successfully lobbied for emergency relief teams to be sent to the Almanian system to protect the Thernbees and survivors of the bombings . His former apprentice , Brakiss , disappeared off the face of Telti , but would later resurface to cause trouble with the Second Imperium . On the Imperial front , Admiral Gilad Pellaeon and Admiral Natasi Daala , thinking the New Republic wouldn ' t have the backbone to fight the Empire off , launched a string of attacks in the wake of the Uprising at Almania . They were sorely mistaken . The Imperial Remnant was left in tatters in both the Deep Core and Outer Rim Territories — there was no way for them to recover . They were now an overlooked backwater . Positively , the Fallanassi , who rose to prominence in the previous Black Fleet Crisis , would settle on Pydyr following the resolution of the crisis .