Ante - Endor Association The Ante - Endor Association , or AEA for short , was a pro - Imperial organization based on Mrlsst , which claimed that the Battle of Endor never occurred and was a piece of Rebel Alliance propaganda . The group insisted that the Empire was still operating at full strength , further claiming that the Rebels had been responsible for the destruction of Alderaan , while testing a weapon to rival the Death Star . The group also declared that there were no more Jedi , referring to Luke Skywalker . The AEA was led by none other than Gade Yedan , the assistant to Gyr Keela , President of the Mrlsst Trade and Science Academy . When the Imperial captain Loka Hask came to Mrlsst during negotiations for cloaking technology , he made the members of the AEA his underlings , using them to steal precious datacards and frame the Rogue Squadron pilots , who represented the New Republic in said negotiations . Description . The Ante - Endor Association ' s raison d ' être was to contest the very existence of the Battle of Endor , during which the Galactic Empire was defeated by the enemy Rebel Alliance ; not only did the Alliance Fleet manage to destroy the Empire ' s second Death Star , a moon - sized battlestation , but Galactic Emperor Palpatine himself was killed during the battle by his own second - in - command , Darth Vader . The members of the AEA described the Alliance ' s account of the battle as a mere fable , putting forth their own revisionist version of the events . According to the AEA , the Rebels were too much of a ragtag army to be actually threatening to the second Death Star , a most striking symbol of the Empire ' s technological might . They also claimed that , a few years earlier , the Alliance scientists had blown up the planet of Alderaan while trying to invent a superweapon to match the Empire ' s original Death Star . In fact , Alderaan had been destroyed at the hands of the Imperial Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin , who had used the first Death Star ' s superlaser on the planet . The AEA also contested the claim that a Jedi was involved in the Battle of Endor , arguing that those ancient warriors did not exist anymore . Indeed , most Jedi had been systematically killed as part of Emperor Palpatine ' s Great Jedi Purge , which he had initiated immediately his creation of the Galactic Empire , in 19 BBY . In order to justify that slaughter , Palpatine had convinced the Senate that the Jedi had tried to assassinate him , which made their whole order traitors to the state . Despite that , the Rebel Alliance did have a Jedi in his ranks , the young Luke Skywalker , who had been trained by two of the Great Purge ' s rare survivors , Yoda and Obi - Wan Kenobi . While the AEA had their own way of negating the Rebel Alliance ' s victory at Endor , stating that the Emperor was still alive and that the Death Star was never destroyed , their version did not coincide with the official propaganda shown at the Imperial Museum on Coruscant . That propaganda suggested that the Death Stars had been nothing but benign Planetary Ore Extractors , and that the Alliance had stolen the second of those to use it on inhabited planets . The museum ' s version did not deny that the Emperor had died , although suggested that he had infiltrated the ore extractor to offer the Rebels offering these Rebels his forgiveness and a hand in friendship . However , his offer was supposedly rejected , and the Emperor was forced to destroy this Death Star himself , perishing in the process but allowing his citizens to live on . The same story also added that Darth Vader was slain in service to his Master . As symbol of their organization , the AEA members used a variant of the eight - spoked Imperial crest , which was itself a deformed version of the Order of Dai Bendu ' s Galactic Roundel . The AEA ' s version had a stylized Death Star superimposed on the right side of the crest . On the association ' s banner , the modified crest was inserted in a golden , diamond - shaped figure , which was itself placed on a crimson background . The members of the AEA wore uniforms that resembled those of the Imperial Military , comprizing a double - breasted tunic with a choke collar , matching flared trousers , a pair of boots , and gauntlet style gloves . That outfit was entirely black with the exception of a broad golden trim that extended across the chest on one side and across the midsection on the other . The upper part of each sleeve was also decorate with a similar golden armband . The AEA ' s crest was featured on the armbands and at the front center of the chest . History . The Ante - Endor Association emerged on the planet of Mrlsst in 4 ABY , within the two months that followed the Battle of Endor . The AEA held meetings on the university campus , claiming to enlighten students with the truth about Endor . As the Mrlssi prided themselves on freedom of speech , no matter who spoke , nothing could prevent the spread of the AEA ' s propaganda . Besides , a majority of teachers of the Mrlsst academies supported the Empire at the time . The AEA was headed by Gade Yedan , a Myke who also served as the assistant to Gyr Keela , President of the Mrlsst Trade and Science Academy . At that time , the Imperial captain Loka Hask came to Mrrlst in hopes of finding new cloaking technology from the Mrlssi , who had put up for bids their Phantom Project to the last holdings of the Empire and the burgeoning New Republic , born from the Rebel Alliance . The New Republic ' s representatives were the members of the Rogue Squadron , led by Wedge Antilles . Several members of the Rogue Squadron , namely Tycho Celchu , Derek Klivian , Plourr Ilo , and Dllr Nep , came across a speech being given by the association . Celchu , who had fought in the Battle of Endor , was particularly aghast at their propaganda , and decided to confront the group publicly . The AEA speakers shrugged off Celchu ' s argument , making a fool of him in front of the assembled students , and the Rogue pilot left the premises in a foul mood . Later that evening , the AEA members waylaid Celchu as he wandered on the campus . As he continued to insist that the Battle of Endor had occurred as the Alliance recounted , they began showering him with blows . However , Celchu still managed to defeat all members of the group but one , who struck him from behind . The Rebel was only saved by the arrival of what appeared to be the ghost of a Jedi , who struck the final attacker and then vanished . Shortly thereafter , the AEA members stole the datacards containing the plans for the Phantom Project and doctored the surveillance footage of their heist in order to implicate the Rogue Squadron pilots . However , the Endor negationists lost the datacards to a group of war droids belonging to the band Ghost Jedi . Later , at least one member of the AEA , namely Gade Yedan , accompanied Captain Hask when he raided a Doctor Rorax Falken ' s asteroid laboratory to steal the technology behind the secret gravitic polarization beam weapon . Yedan , however , was shot by Hask shortly before Falken ' s asteroid laboratory was consumed by a hyperspace wormhole .