Alliance to Restore the Republic

The Alliance to Restore the Republic, commonly known as the Rebel Alliance, the Alliance, the Rebellion, and rarely the Separatists, was a resistance movement formed by Senators Bail Organa and Mon Mothma, as well as Jedi Master Jarik Shan and Ahsoka Tano, to oppose the reign of the Galactic Empire. The Alliance was formed from a less organized movement to oppose the Empire, which was secretly led by Organa. This early group came together from a number of rebel cells, including the crew of the Ghost and Phoenix Cell. The Atrivis Resistance Group was one of the first cells to join what Mothma began calling "the Alliance" before the formal formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. The Alliance was publicly and formally declared with the Declaration of the Rebel Alliance and the document of the Declaration of Rebellion.
The Alliance and the cells before it were born from the overall discontent within the Empire of those who desired a restoration of the Old Republic. Its efforts were led by renegade members in the Imperial Senate such as Mon Mothma of Chandrila, Garm Bel Iblis of Corellia, and Bail and Leia Organa of Alderaan, and its members were citizens of the Empire and defectors from the Imperial military, such as General Jan Dodonna, Governor Ryder Azadi, Agent Alexsandr Kallus, and Commander Wedge Antilles. Founded and united by Organa, Tano, and Shan, the early rebels were assisted by surviving Jedi, such as Jedi Knights Kanan Jarrus and Cal Kestis, Jarrus' apprentice Ezra Bridger, and Tano and Shan's adoptive daughter Mara Jade. Clone Wars veterans such as Captain Rex and Boil also assisted in the initial movement.
As opposed to waging all-out war, the Alliance waged a war of attrition against the Empire, establishing small bases across the galaxy instead of controlling an entire planet. When the Alliance stole the plans for the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, and destroyed the space station along with killing Governor Wilhuff Tarkin and most of Imperial High Command in the Battle of Yavin with the help of aspiring Jedi Luke Skywalker, the tide of the war began to turn, and the Rebel threat began to prove a severe thorn in the Empire's side. The Rebellion continued to engage in battles with the Empire in the Galactic Civil War. However, under the command of Darth Vader, Imperial forces succeeded in defeating the Alliance on Hoth, forcing the Alliance to scatter its forces in order to survive.
Eventually, the Alliance prevailed against the Empire and critically damaged it by launching an attack against the second Death Star during its construction in what would become the Battle of Endor. Not only did the Alliance manage to destroy the battle station, but the Imperial Navy was severely crippled by the loss of the Executor, one of its Super Star Destroyers, and Skywalker redeemed his father, Darth Vader, who killed Dark Lord of the Sith and Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine, before succumbing to his injuries himself. The Alliance was soon reorganized into the fledgling New Republic, which went on to defeat the Empire at the Battle of Jakku the following and forced the Empire to surrender by signing the Galactic Concordance, effectively ending the war.
By the time of the Battle of Yavin, the Rebel Alliance had chosen a red starbird as its symbol and logo, itself a combination of Sabine Wren's Phoenix crest and the symbol of Saw Gerrera's Partisans.
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