Destruction of Kijimi

The destruction of Kijimi took place in 35 ABY, after the escape of the Resistance operatives off of Kijimi when Darth Sidious ordered Allegiant General Enric Pryde and the Sith Eternal to destroy the planet.
==Prelude==
Shortly after the duel on Kef Bir, a crew of Resistance members, except for Jedi apprentice Rey, returned to the Ajan Kloss base in defeat. Soon after, they learned of Leia Organa's death, herself the princess of a world destroyed by the Empire's wrath.
Sensing Organa's death and Ben Solo's redemption, Darth Sidious contacted First Order Allegiant General Enric Pryde to launch the Sith Eternal plan. After Pryde pledged himself to the Sith Lord, Sidious ordered him to send a Xyston-class Star Destroyer of the Sith Eternal's fleet, the Final Order, to a world the Resistance was familiar with. Pryde chose Kijimi, ostensibly on the basis that some of its denizens had recently consorted with members of the Resistance during Ben Solo's search for Rey in the final hours before his turn to the light.
==Destruction==
The Sith Star Destroyer Derriphan was sent to Kijimi shortly thereafter. First Order personnel who had been on-planet during the hunt for the Jedi Rey and her compatriots were evacuated prior to the planet's destruction using the Imperial Protocol 13. 
After Captain Chesille Sabrond gave the command, the Derriphan's superlaser destroyed the entire planet. The act took several moments of continuous fire from the Derriphan's axial superlaser, a longer period than the near-instantaneous destruction of Alderaan by the ship's predecessor, the Death Star. Nonetheless, the world was shattered by the power of the weapon, informing the galaxy at large of the resurrected Emperor's continued capacity for planetary destruction.
==Aftermath==
The Resistance quickly learned about the world's destruction. Due to General Organa's death during the Kef Bir duel between her son and erstwhile Padawan, Poe Dameron was made general and leader of the Resistance at large. Going to Leia's corpse, Dameron admitted to her that he did not know what to do and said he was not ready. Just then Galactic Civil War veteran General Lando Calrissian arrived, informing Dameron that he, Organa, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker had also not been ready for their war. After Dameron asked how they were able to defeat the Galactic Empire with almost nothing, Calrissian simply responded that they had each other.
Reinvigorated, Dameron made Finn a general, and the latter revealed the droid D-O possessed information on Exegol. After discovering that Rey sent intel to R2-D2 regarding the map to Exegol, the Resistance developed a plan to attack the Sith fleet while Calrissian and Chewbacca would use the Millennium Falcon to call out for allies.
==Appearances==
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*Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition 
*Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: A Junior Novel 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary 
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*Star Wars: Timelines
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*Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Category:Battles of the Occupation of Kijimi
Category:Genocides and massacres
Category:Orbital bombardments