Empress/Legends

Empress was a title for a sovereign leader with ultimate authority over her dominions. Empress Teta cared for her star system with the support of Jedi advisors, and she represented her people at the Galactic Republic's Senate Hall and personally led their fleet in the Unification Wars and the Great Hyperspace War. Although the galaxy was divided by warfare and Sith-led oppression for millennia, Empress Marasiah Fel was part of the Galactic Federation Triumvirate that attempted to reconcile factions alongside the New Jedi Order.
==History==
===Empress for a Republic===
====Unifying seven worlds====
Empress Teta led the seven worlds of the Koros system as part of the Galactic Republic. At some point prior, Republic Supreme Chancellor Fattum's administration gave control of that star system to its aristocrats. Teta ruled from the Imperial Palace in Cinnagar, a city on the planet Koros Major. The Koros system was an important source of carbonite ore, used in sleeper ships that colonized the Core Worlds and expand the Republic, which was based at the Senate Hall on the Core World Coruscant. With the backing of the galactic capital and her Jedi advisor Memit Nadill, the Empress waged the Unification Wars to cement her government's control over the Koros system's carbonite trade.The Essential Atlas She converted her ceremonial throne room into a military command center, focusing on battling the remaining rebels of the planet Kirrek after they slaughtered fifty hostages in 5000 BBY. The Jedi Knight Odan-Urr joined Nadill and the Empress, using battle meditation to help her soldiers and depress the rebels, though some were driven to desperation and destroyed the Daragons' supply ship.Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 0
Following the end of the Unification Wars, Empress Teta and her Jedi advisors attended various events such as pageants, parades, inspection tours, and diplomatic receptions while ordering war-crime trials, with the judiciary also holding amnesty hearings.Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 1 Meanwhile, the hyperspace scouts Gav and Jori Daragon—having lost their parents at the end of the war on Kirrek and been cared for by, but indebted to, Aarrba the Hutt—took their parents' old starship from Aarrba's Repair Dock on Cinnagar and left the Koros system. They fled from the pressure of the merchant lords of Cinnagar's commerce sector, but Aarrba believed that the young Daragons had betrayed his kindess. The Hutt requested a personal audience with Empress Teta, explaining his situation and pleading for the Empress not to let word spread that he had extended credit. She promised to keep his secret and affirmed that Koros' unified worlds must follow her empire's laws. On the same day,Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 2 Odan-Urr told Nadill and the Empress that he had a vision of the fabled Sith Empire, formed of exiled adversaries of the Jedi and the Republic. Odan-Urr wanted to avoid another war, and he, Nadill, and Empress Teta later traveled to Coruscant to alert the Galactic Senate of the potential threat; despite the Empress' political experience, the trio's concerns were dismissed by senators at a scheduled session of assembly, but the Empress promised to the Jedi that they had her backingTales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 4 and continued maintaining the Koros fleet for her worlds' defense.
====Ending the Golden Age of the Sith====
At the end of their hyperspace journey, Gav and Jori Daragon stumbled upon the Sith Empire. The Sith had grown in power among an isolated cluster of worlds in the Outer Rim Territories. Amidst a divided Sith Council over whether to use the Daragon Trail to expand into the Republic, the Sith Lord Naga Sadow stoked fears that the Daragon siblings were Republic spies and gathered sufficient support to become the new Dark Lord of the Sith. Sadow then separated the Daragons, sending Jori back to the Koros system with a tracker while persuading Gav that the Republic was an "oppressive system" and he could return home as a hero to help his sister rather than as a destitute debtor, paving way for the Sith Empire to invade the Republic in what would be known as the Great Hyperspace War.
Back in Cinnagar, Jori worried about the threat of the Sith and intended to warn Empress Teta, but she was deemed mad by the authorities arresting her for previous criminal violations upon arrival. As Jori was sent to the prison colony world Ronika, she wondered if the courts were eager to sentence war criminals to colony planets only to increase the number of cheap workers, but she kept faith in the Empress, believing that she would personally believe her tale. Jori soon made her escape back to Cinnagar again, sneaking into the Empress Teta's throne room and pleading to the Empress herself about the threat of the Sith Empire. With the Jedi's fear confirmed, Empress Teta was confident that her unified forces could defend the Koros sector but worried that the rest of the Republic was unprepared.Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 2
Indeed, Empress Teta and her court analyzed the Sith Empire's attacks across the Republic, with surprised Jedi on Coruscant trying to defend the Senate Hall. The Empress accepted Kirrek rebel leader Llaban's pleas for amnesty should his people join her forces against the Sith, and she further called on the prisoners of war in exile on the colony worlds to help the Republic in return for amnesty after the war.Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 3 When the Sith attacked Kirrek, Llaban's rebels held strong with the help of Odan-Urr and the sacrifice of his Jedi Master, Ooroo. Additionally, the Empress, true to her word, sent prisoners from Ronika as reinforcements to Kirrek, gaining the rebels' trust.
When Gav Daragon realized the destructiveness of the Sith, he hunted for Naga Sadow while Jori, Empress Teta, and her fleet followed him—to Primus Goluud, where the Dark Lord left Gav to die, but not before the latter announced that the Sith Empire had been left largely undefended. The Empress and her fleet thus pursued Sadow and his surviving ships into the Sith Empire, defeating the armada at Korriban and the Denarii Nova, where Sadow took advantage of the chaos of the exploding nova to flee. Regretting the "terrible cost" to Koros' fleet, Empress Teta declared her triumph and returned to Cinnagar, where reconstruction efforts began in earnest, as with elsewhere in the Republic. The Empress later helped Jori fulfill her wish of taking charge of Aarrba's Repair Dock. The Koros system was eventually renamed the "Empress Teta system" in honor of its ruler, and Koros Major was likewise renamed "Empress Teta."
===Wars of the Old Republic===
While Naga Sadow had fled to Yavin 4, Supreme Chancellor Pultimo of the Republic ordered a counterinvasion of the Sith Worlds to dismantle the Sith Empire's institutions. The Sith Lord Vitiate secretly gathered the strongest of the Sith and oversaw the building of a reconstituted Sith Empire over a thousand years, sustaining himself on his constant quest for immortality. Empress Teta's heirs, Queen Mother Magda Keto and her brother Lord Keto, continued ruling the Empress Teta system by working with the carbonite mining corporate interests. They neglected their children, Aleema and Satal Keto, and were overthrown by them in the Sith-inspired Krath Holy Crusade, which led to the Great Sith War against the Republic in 3996 BBY. The Republic endured subsequent wars against Mandalorians and among Jedi in a cycle of betrayals until Meetra Surik, the Exiled Jedi with her Lost Jedi followers, destroyed the last of the Sith ideologies and suffering on Malachor V.The New Essential Chronology
However, the "true," direct lineage of Sith secretly cultivated by the Sith Emperor since the Great Hyperspace War took advantage of the oblivious Republic. The new Sith Empire waged the Great Galactic War but resulted in stalemate—the Sith Emperor, his foresight and fate tied to his Jedi hostage Revan, seemingly disappeared, though he regathered his strength on Yavin 4. In 3636 BBY, he mobilized his so-called Eternal Empire of Zakuul to conquer both the Sith Empire and the Republic, forcing their remnant forces into disarray. While the Eternal Emperor was busy confronting the the Outlander, his children battled for the Eternal Throne and Arcann became Emperor. In the chaos, the advanced artificial intelligence droid SCORPIO outmaneuvered the Humans in taking the throne to give the GEMINI droid captains of the Eternal Fleet free will. SCORPIO then decided to be an advisor to the daughter, Vaylin, allowing her to rule as the Eternal Empress. Sadistic and derisory, Vaylin directed her Empire's forces to fight the Outlander's new Eternal Alliance, and during the war, Darth Acina declared herself Empress of the Sith Empire. Vaylin's hatred for her father contributed to his eventual final destruction by the Alliance Commander. After the Eternal Empire's collapse, both the Republic and the Sith Empire attempted to reconsolidate their forces during the War on Iokath, where Empress Acina met her demise and was succeeded by Darth Vowrawn as Emperor of the Sith.
Eventually, the Sith were defeated in 1000 BBY and the Galactic Republic enjoyed one thousand years of relative peace until decades of oppression and warfare with the rise of Palpatine's Galactic Empire. Before the Jedi Order was wiped out at the end of the Clone Wars, Empress Sephani of Simocadia sought help from her Jedi Master friend Mace Windu to subdue the stone giant awakened by her son, Prince Yojan.The Clone Wars: The Colossus of Destiny A Sith Lord, Palpatine's regime was partly inspired by the successful Atrisian Empire.Imperial Sourcebook, Second Edition Centuries prior, Oeana Tching, known as the Invisible Empress, mastered the Sayings of the fifty-forth Atrisian Emperor, Uueg Tching, who unified his planet 3000 years before Palpatine's time. Long before the Imperial Period, two forested planets in the Arkanis Regency were called "Teeda's Eyes" after the green eyes of Empress Teeda.
During the Galactic Civil War between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire, Emperor Alor Keto had been ruling Empress Teta as a weak puppet of the Mining Guild while his neice and rightful heir to the Tetan throne, Eara Lota, protested the poor working conditions of miners in her star system and living conditions of prisoners on Ronika.Nexus of Power After Emperor Palpatine was killed in battle against the Rebellion and its forming of the New Republic on the galactic capital of Coruscant, the Empire splintered into warring factions. The Priamsta nobles of Eiattu 6 requested the rebel Isplourrdacartha Estillo, the surviving member of the royal family that the aristocrats ousted in a bid to deal directly with the Empire, to return to her homeworld as the Empress Apparent-Heir and Princess of the Realm. She served as a unity figure given the threat of Imperial forces and the local People's Liberation Battalion.X-Wing Rogue Squadron 13
===New empires and alliances===
Imperial Admiral Betl Oxtroe later attempted to negotiate for the Empire's continuation by presenting Palpatine's eleven-year-old great-niece, Ederlathh Pallopides, to the New Republic Provisional Council and proposing that the Empire to be reformed as a constitutional monarchy, with "Empress" Pallopides as a figurehead and the New Republic's leadership acting as Imperial Advisors.Dark Empire Sourcebook Galactic warfare nevertheless dragged on, and when Director Ysanne Isard of Imperial Intelligence claimed succession to the notional Imperial throne, she pitted Grand Vizier Sate Pestage and the Imperial Ruling Council against each other, planning to rule as Empress herself. However, Isard and the Imperial warlords failed to maim efforts toward democracy. Admirals Natasi Daala and Gilad Pellaeon reunified the Imperial Remnant and made peace with the New Republic, which transformed into the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.
After Daala was elected as the Galactic Alliance's Chief of State, she consolidated government power over the New Jedi Order, prompting rebel veterans in opposition to derisively nicknamed her "Empress Palpatina."Fate of the Jedi: Ascension Clear-sighted leaders of the Jedi, the Galactic Alliance, and the Imperial Remnant of Jagged Fel united to destroy the self-styled "Beloved Queen of the Stars," Abeloth, during the Lost Tribe of Sith emergence in 44 ABY. The galaxy remained at relative peace between the Galactic Alliance and the Empire until 127 ABY,The Essential Reader's Companion with the overthrow of Empress Elliah and Emperor Roan Fel by Darth Krayt and the One Sith.Legacy—War 2 The renewed Sith conquests were countered by a Galactic Federation Triumvirate formed of Galactic Alliance remnants, Princess Marasiah Fel's Imperials, and the New Jedi Order that reunited the galaxy. Empress Marasiah Fel later commissioned a communications project to further improve connections with the Outer Rim Territories.
==Appearances==
*Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 0
*Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 1
*Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 2
*Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith 4
*Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 1
*Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 2
*Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 3
*Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 4
*Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire 5
*Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire
*Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne
*Star Wars: The Old Republic: Onslaught
*Star Wars: The Old Republic: Legacy of the Sith
*The Clone Wars: The Colossus of Destiny
*X-Wing Rogue Squadron 13 
*Fate of the Jedi: Ascension 
*Legacy—War 2 
*Legacy (2013) 1
==Sources==
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*Dark Empire Sourcebook
*The Essential Atlas
*The New Essential Chronology
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*Nexus of Power
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