Galactic Empire

The **Galactic Empire**, declared as the **First Galactic Empire**, commonly referred to as simply the **Empire**or **Palpatine's Empire**, also known as the **New Order**, and remembered as the **Old Empire**, was the fascist galactic dictatorship that replaced the Galactic Republic at the end of the Clone Wars and ushered the galaxy into a new age. The Empire was secretly controlled by the Sith, however, for its ruler was Darth Sidious, known publicly as Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine, whose reign was enforced by Darth Vader.

The Empire rose to power with a groundswell of populist support, promising peace and stability from the destructive Clone Wars and capitalizing on anti-Jedi and anti-droid sentiment and human-ethnocentrism. The subsequent Age of the Empire would last only two decades in contrast to the centuries of the Republic Era, but not before the Jedi Order was systematically purged and the galaxy largely conquered and oppressed.

The Empire stood virtually unchallenged until numerous insurgent cells united to initiate the Galactic Civil War, with the growing rebellion winning its first major victory over Mustafar in 4 BBY. These rebel cells formed the Alliance to Restore the Republic in 2 BBY, and the Rebel Alliance itself achieved its first major victory with the theft of the Death Star plans on Scarif which, in turn, led to the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY. The following years saw initial Alliance successes until a major Imperial victory on Hoth in 3 ABY, but the Empire suffered a devastating defeat one year later at the Battle of Endor. During the battle, Emperor Palpatine was slain at the hands of his Sith apprentice Vader, who redeemed himself as Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, and died shortly thereafter.

With the Emperor and Vader dead, factionalism overcame the Empire as it fractured into fiefdoms led by Moffs, admirals, and generals, many of whom ignored Grand Vizier Mas Amedda's authority at the capital and became warlords. Loyalist forces of the Imperial Navy came to be publicly led by Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, though she was a figurehead for Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax and his Shadow Council. Ultimately, Rax seized control over their forces, removing Sloane from power and becoming Emperor-in-effect through his new position as Counselor to the Empire. Under Rax's command, the Empire made its final stand at the Battle of Jakku in 5 ABY, ultimately losing to the New Republic. While several Imperial holdouts continued to exist, the Empire formally capitulated to the New Republic with the signing of the Galactic Concordance.

During the New Republic Era, war reparations and disarmament treaties reduced the once mighty Empire to a mere rump state, with one remnant stateforced to remain within predetermined borders of the Core, Colonies, and Inner Rim, agreeing to punitive stipulations, while another remnant state remained locked in the Cold War with the New Republic. The former central government on Coruscant was reorganized into a provisional administration overseen by the New Republic. However, the Imperial legacy endured, for in the Unknown Regions, former Imperial officers, nobles, technologists, and warlords that fled known space following the New Republic's rise regrouped and plotted their return to power; their movement eventually became known as the First Order. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Unknown Regions, hidden Sith loyalists that worshiped Emperor Palpatine's efforts to bring about a Sith Empiresecretly created a massive military force designed to establish a new Sith Empire with the Final Order. Their efforts would ultimately fail, however, preventing the restoration of the Empire.

## Leaders

* Sheev Palpatine
* Darth Vader

### Officers:

* Willhuff Tarkin
* Conan Antonio Motti
* Wullf Yularen
* Canonhaus
* Kendal Ozzel
* Cassio Tagge
* Maximilian Veers
* Sotorus Ramda

* Firmus Piett
* Lorth Needa
* Daine Jir
* Chiraneau
* Enric Pryde
* Gallius Rax
* Gideon
* Thrawn
* Praji
* Dyer
* Renz
* Hewex
* Igar
* Newland
* Iden Versio
* Shaef Corssin
* Nemet
* Lennox
* Rae Sloane
* Canonhaus
* Jhared Montferrat
* Orson Callan Krennic