Second Galactic Empire

The **Second Galactic Empire**, also known as the **Fel Empire**, **Second Empire**, **Reborn Empire** or the **New Empire**, was the name of a galactic government founded by Galactic Emperor Jagged Fel of Fel Family before the Galactic Cold War. Formed from the Imperial Core that maintained its peaceful relations with the New Republic, the Second Galactic Empire reflected the partial recovery of the First Galactic Empire's former power and prestige, but was described to be much different than the original government that Emperor Sheev Palpatine established in the aftermath of the Clone Wars.

Like the Old Empire, the Second Galactic Empire shared several characteristics, such as the Council of Moffs, centralised rule, the Force-sensitivity of the Emperor. There was no xenophobia, in which different sentient beings would join the Empire's ranks; the army or navy. Unlike the First Galactic Empire that caused harm and brutality to many innocent worlds across the galaxy, the Second Galactic Empire followed the true desires of peace and security, and would not pose a threat to any civilized worlds. There wasn't any Fascism, but militarism was one of the ideological features in this Empire. Unlike Palpatine's Empire, Jagged Fel encouraged the proliferation of light-side Force-users, even forming a Jedi analogue known as the Knights of the Empire.

During the Galactic Cold War, Jagged Fel had served as the first ruling Emperor of the Second Galactic Empire when he took the throne on Bastion. This new Empire took no part in siding with any of the rogue remnants that would establish a new hermit state called the First Order. Instead, they swore by oath to not violate the historic peace agreement, the Galactic Concordance, and the New Republic. After the First Order used Starkiller Base to destroy the entire Hosnian System, Emperor Fel led his forces within the Second Galactic Empire to stand against the First Order, which would lead to the Second Galactic Civil War.

## History

### Origins

With the purge of the Jedi and a massive military to enforce his will, Sidious remained largely unchallenged as Emperor throughout the initial nineteen years of his reign, embarking on a gradual conquest of the galaxy. Eventually, the Alliance to Restore the Republic was formed to oppose his aggressive expansion and genocidal actions, resulting in the outbreak of the First Galactic Civil War that spanned five years of galactic history. Four years after the destruction of the first Death Star by Luke Skywalker, the Empire suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Endor, where the more powerful DS-2 Death Star II Mobile Battle Station was destroyed, and along with it, the Emperor and his apprentice, Darth Vader.

## Organization

### Government

The title "Galactic Emperor" was a self-appointed position with absolute power over the Fel Empire. The Galactic Emperor delegated power to a number of high-ranking officers and advisors, but something that wasn't related to the Galactic Empire and the First Order.

### Administration and Bureaucracy

While the Emperor maintained a galactic armada, the Fel Empire had recruited Force-sensitives to be trained as honory Knights of the Empire. Unlike the Galactic Empire, who had Inquisitors trained in the dark side of the Force, the Knights of the Empire remained on the Light Side of the Force, owed their loyalty to the Emperor and to the Force itself. They acted as bodyguards to the Emperor, although they also had orders to immediately kill the Emperor should the latter irrevocably fall to the Dark Side.

### Judiciary

There was a line between the military and justice in the Second Galactic Empire. Imperial laws were made clear for all citizens and military personnel to obey. Genocide, Slavery, Mundicide, Abuse of Power, Unethical Experimentation, Kidnapping, Terrorism, Brainwashing, and Pollution were all declared illegal, and if any person attends to commit one of these acts would be arrested under charges of treason.

## Society and Culture

Unlike the First Galactic Empire and the First Order, the Second Galactic Empire wasn't a ethnocentric xenophobic regime that humans were not in control of. A large number of individuals in the Second Empire were non-human and near-human sentients, who were treated as first-class citizens.

Growing up in isolated worlds that didn't join the New Republic, officers and citizens of the Second Galactic Empire would follow important procedures from their Emperor. Under the guidance of Imperial veterans, along with approved literature, vids, and mandatory viewings of morale sessions once a day for Imperial cadets, officers learned of their glorious past, but what they knew was that the First Galactic Empire committed terrible atrocities, such as slavery, mass murder, mundicide, abuse of power, torture, unethical experimentation, abuse, war crimes, kidnapping, terrorism, brainwashing, and pollution. This was something that officers, soldiers, and citizens had to learn about and know that the Old Empire had committed a lot of illegal actions, which was why so many people across the galaxy rose up to overthrow the most brutal and tyrannical government out of power and joined the New Republic to restore the democracy that was taken away after the Clone Wars.

While those in the First Order believed only they could have the power necessary to wrest the galaxy from a path of chaos and corruption, Imperial loyalists in the Second Empire didn't side with this regime or even agree with their idea since their claim was not without some basis. When corruption and ineffectiveness had been growing within the New Republic, the Emperor dispatched its most trusted and intelligent spies to infiltrate the government and would learn that the First Order was responsible in order for its citizens to believe that the Rebellion was built on false promises, and that rebels could only tear down a government, not build one. However, since rebels were declared as criminals and terrorists, Imperial veterans revealed to many fellow citizens that the one and only reason they lost the war was that the Empire had terrorists and provided the destruction of Alderaan as an example of treason.

When the First Order had been conquering worlds and forcibly subjecting human children to military training, the Second Galactic Empire declared it illegal since their ways of training soldiers was the opposite to those being trained from birth. In contrast to the Empire's Sub-Adult Group, the Empire had many high-ranking officials that were young and smart. In hopes to prevent brutality from happening, the Second Empire's recruitment methods were much different than the First Order, who recruited many children from poor, impoverished Outer Rim worlds, where lawlessness was rampant and the residents had few to no prospects in life. Once recruited, citizens and soldiers of the Second Galactic Empire were indoctrinated to have a sense of duty, loyalty, and obedience to the state. Recruits don't have to abandon their previous lives and identities upon their induction into the Second Empire, but must carry a numerical code.