First Order military

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> My men are exceptionally trained, programmed from birth.
>
> General Armitage Hux, Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens

The **First Order military** comprised the various branches of the armed forces of the First Order that was descended from the Imperial Military, it included the Army and the Navy as well as Special Forces, and was led by General Armitage Hux of First Order High Command, along with Snoke, who was the Supreme Leader until Kylo Ren killed him and took his place. The First Order fleet stood almost unchallenged due to the New Republic's push for galactic disarmament.

## History

### Origins

> You will read intelligence reports from Pheryon, Kaddak, and Sheh Soahi and captured surveys from the star systems of the Unknown Regions, where the Empire had hidden shipyards, armories, research-and-development labs, and academies. All of these facilities are now working day and night on a massive military buildup—one far larger than the First Order could possibly need to defend its member worlds.
>
> Part of an address to the Galactic Senate about the First Order in Leia Organa's Grace Report, The Last Jedi: Bomber Command

Following the defeat of the Galactic Empire, the First Order military rapidly expanded in the Unknown Regions—its leaders intending to eventually reclaim the galaxy from the New Republic—in clear violation of the Galactic Concordance and Republic laws. Within the Unknown Regions, military bases and shipyards were constructed to churn out some of the technologically superior weapons and starfighters utilized by the military, with many of the Old Empire's greatest military secrets falling into the hands of its successor state. To avoid treaty restrictions banning the sale of weaponry to the First Order, galactic arms manufacturers BlasTech Industries and Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc. spun off a subsidiary known as the Sonn-Blas Corporation, which manufactured much of the First Order's weaponry within First Order space, while Sienar-Jaemus Army Systems and Aratech-Loratus Corporation provided spacecraft and vehicles to the Order.

### Development

> Rescuing. Forging them into an army the likes of which this galaxy has never seen.
>
> Commander Gideon Hask, Star Wars Battlefront II

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In violation of New Republic laws regarding capital ships, the *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyer was developed by Kuat-Entralla Engineering. It featured more than three thousand turbolasers and ion cannons, and was specifically designed to evoke the fearful image of the Old Empire's *Imperial*-class Star Destroyers. Although the First Order's military might had been suspected to be significantly large, not even General Organa's worst-case estimates conceived of just how large the First Order built up their military.

Thirty years after the Battle of Endor one of the military's primary bases of operations was the Starkiller Base, an ice planet converted into a First Order stronghold. Utilizing it as their unofficial headquarters, the base was armed with a superweapon capable of destroying entire star systems by firing a planet-destroying beam through hyperspace. By then, the military was led by a triumvirate of General Armitage Hux, Kylo Ren and Captain Phasma.

### A new galactic war

> Today is the end of the Republic! The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder! At this very moment, in a system far from here the New Republic lies to the galaxy while secretly supporting the treachery of the loathsome Resistance. This fierce machine which you have built, upon which we stand, will bring an end to the Senate! To their cherished fleet! All remaining systems will bow to the First Order! And will remember this… as the last day of the Republic!
>
> General Hux, Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens

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Shortly after the Hosnian Cataclysm, Starkiller Base was destroyed in a Resistance attack. Before its destruction, the Supreme Leader ordered Hux to evacuate the base and return to him with Kylo Ren.

A First Order fleet then attacked the Resistance base at D'Qar. Although their dreadnought, the *Fulminatrix*, was destroyed, the First Order annihilated the base, destroyed the Resistance's entire bombing fleet, and forced them to flee to the Crait system. General Hux then used new hyperspace trackers to confront the Resistance with their massive flagship, the *Supremacy*. Attacks by Kylo Ren and his squad of TIE fighters destroyed the Resistance's starfighter squadrons, including Poe Dameron's own *Black One*, and its entire leadership team with the exception of General Leia Organa. They also destroyed their medical frigate and the *Ninka*.

Although former stormtrooper Finn and Resistance mechanic Rose Tico tried to deactivate the main hyperspace tracker on the *Supremacy*, with the help of the thief DJ, they were captured by First Order security bureau officers and stormtroopers. DJ later told General Hux about the Resistance's plan to flee in cloaked transports in exchange for money, who, upon which confirming the information, ordered the *Supremacy* to destroy the transports.

However, Admiral Amilyn Holdo turned the cruiser *Raddus* towards the *Supremacy* and made a hyperspace jump that cleaved the ship in half. This also stopped the execution of Finn and Rose, who later escaped on a stolen shuttle after defeating Captain Phasma and a few dozen stormtroopers. This sacrifice allowed the remaining Resistance transports to flee to the old Rebel outpost of Crait.

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Meanwhile, Kylo Ren brought the Force-sensitive scavenger Rey to Snoke in his Throne Room, upon which Snoke tried to get the location of Luke Skywalker out of her. Despite her resistance to his methods, including torture, Snoke ordered Kylo Ren to kill the restrained scavenger. However, Kylo Ren ignited Luke's lightsaber into Snoke's side and pulled it towards Rey, thus killing him and chopping his body in half. After defeating Snoke's guard, Rey rejected Ren's offer of ruling the galaxy together, instead trying to take Luke's lightsaber. The lightsaber split in two, but Rey recovered both parts and escaped the *Supremacy*. Meanwhile, Kylo declared himself new Supreme Leader after Force-choking Hux. He then ordered the First Order to assault the Resistance base on Crait.

The First Order brought a massive superlaser siege cannon to destroy the massive door. Despite a desperate Resistance counterattack with ski-speeders, the door was destroyed. However, a Force projection of Luke Skywalker delayed First Order forces by confronting Kylo Ren, which allowed time for the Resistance to escape on the *Millennium Falcon*.

## Organization

Although smaller than its predecessor organization the Galactic Empire, its individual units and groupings nevertheless followed the same Order of Battle.

### Ground forces

Main article: First Order army

> A real stormtrooper has no room for sympathy. A real stormtrooper is the extension of the First Order, of Supreme Leader Snoke's will, nothing less.
>
> Captain Phasma, Before the Awakening

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Like its predecessor, the First Order employed stormtroopers, including variants such as snowtroopers. It also utilized specialists including megablaster heavy assault troopers, flametroopers and riot control stormtroopers and selectively had one of the three variants placed in every ten-member stormtrooper squad. Unlike the inconsistent academy standards of the previous Galactic Empire, training of the new generation of stormtroopers emphasized improvisation and counterinsurgency operations, including guerrilla tactics. With the First Order lacking the numerical superiority of the Galactic Empire, better-equipped and -trained soldiers resulted in higher trooper proficiency than the previous Galactic Empire. Soldiers were often trained on capital ships and underwent vivid simulations to create the most loyal soldiers, which was an extension of the ideas of Commandant Brendol Hux and his Commandant's Cadets.

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To help infantry in snowy environments the Order deployed Light Infantry Utility Vehicles, fast snowspeeders. More armored were the All Terrain Mobile Artillery used, for example, on Starkiller Base.

### Naval forces

Main article: First Order Navy
The First Order Navy was mainly based on battle cruisers like its Imperial predecessor, with the Navy at its height constructing capital ships numbering well into the hundreds via Project Resurrection. *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyers were the threatening capital ships deployed against the First Order's targets, but the Resistance believed that vessels even larger than them existed. The First Order also used older *Imperial*-class Star Destroyers and smaller ships compared to *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyers, as *Lancer*-class frigates, Maxima-A class heavy cruisers, *Dissident*-class light cruisers and Nebulon-Ks.

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For ground assaults the Order made a great use of Atmospheric Assault Landers; a hundred of them could be carried by *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyers. They also used *Upsilon*-class command shuttles. To achieve space superiority the Order deployed TIEs in two variants: TIE/fo space superiority fighters and its two-seated version, the TIE/sf space superiority fighter, this one used by the First Order's Special Forces.

### Other

> We can and will chase every rumor, every scrap, every vapor trail across the galaxy! We will mobilize every bounty hunter and informant and turn over every rock to find *all* of them…and wipe every one of them out of existence!
>
> Kylo Ren, to Armitage Hux, Allegiance 1

Although its military acted as the face of the First Order, proxy elements such as double agents, hired thugs, and spies helped to spread its influence to an even greater extent.

## Appearances

* *Star Wars: Force Arena*
* *5-Minute Star Wars Villain Stories*
* *Star Wars Battlefront II*
* *Age of Resistance - Supreme Leader Snoke* 1
* *Phasma*
* *Age of Resistance - Finn* 1
* *Age of Resistance - Captain Phasma* 1
* *Before the Awakening*
* *Poe and the Missing Ship*
* *Age of Resistance - Rose Tico* 1
* *Poe Dameron* 1
* *Poe Dameron* 2
* *Poe Dameron* 3
* *Poe Dameron* 7
* *Poe Dameron* 11 (Appears in flashback(s))
* *Poe Dameron* 13
* *Poe Dameron* 14
* *Poe Dameron* 15
* *Poe Dameron* 16
* *Poe Dameron* 17
* *Poe Dameron* 18
* *Poe Dameron* 19
* *Poe Dameron Annual* 1
* *Poe Dameron Annual* 2
* "Robot Resistance"—*Age of Resistance Special 1*
* *Poe Dameron* 20 (Mentioned only)
* *Poe Dameron* 22
* *Poe Dameron* 23
* *Poe Dameron* 24
* *Poe Dameron* 25
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The Recruit"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The Triple Dark"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The High Tower"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The Children from Tehar"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "Synara's Score" Template:Hologram
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "Secrets and Holograms"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "Station Theta Black"
* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "All Aces Battle Royale"—*Star Wars Adventures* 16
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "Dangerous Business"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The Doza Dilemma"
* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "Sector 7-E"—*Star Wars Adventures* 17 Appears in dream
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The First Order Occupation"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The New Trooper"
* *Join the Resistance*
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* *Join the Resistance: Attack on Starkiller Base*
* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "Pest Control"—*Star Wars Adventures* 3
* *Age of Resistance - General Hux* 1
* *Age of Resistance - Kylo Ren* 1
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The Core Problem"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The Disappeared"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "Descent"
* *Force Collector*
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* File:Galaxy of Adventures logo.jpg *Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures* – "An Unlikely Friendship"
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* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "No Escape: Part 1"
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* File:ForcesOfDestinyLogo-Dplus.png *Star Wars: Forces of Destiny* – "Perilous Pursuit"
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* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png ""—*Star Wars Adventures* Ashcan (Appears in flashback(s))
* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "Rose Knows"—*Star Wars Adventures* 6
* *Star Wars*: Episode VIII *The Last Jedi*
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* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "A Quick Salvage Run"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "Live Fire"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The Engineer"
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* *Poe Dameron* 30 (Appears in flashback(s))
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* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "Station to Station"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The Missing Agent"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "Breakout"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "No Place Safe"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "Rebuilding the Resistance"
* File:SWResistanceLogo.jpg *Star Wars Resistance* – "The Escape"
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* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "Ghosts of Kashyyyk, Part 2"—*Star Wars Adventures* 28
* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "Ghosts of Kashyyyk, Part 3"—*Star Wars Adventures* 29
* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "Secret Agent Droids, Part 2"—*Star Wars Adventures* 28
* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "Secret Agent Droids, Part 3"—*Star Wars Adventures* 29
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* *A Crash of Fate*
* *Star Wars*: Galaxy's Edge
* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "The Battle for Horizon Base"—*Star Wars Adventures* 32
* "Black Spire: Return to a Shattered Planet"—*Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire*
* File:IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller.png "The Lost Stories, Part 1"—*Star Wars Adventures* 30
* *Star Wars*: Episode IX *The Rise of Skywalker*
* File:Galaxy of Adventures logo.jpg *Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures* – "Kylo Ren vs. Resistance Rebels"
* File:Galaxy of Adventures logo.jpg *Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures* – "The First Order vs. The Resistance"
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## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `TFA Visual Dictionary`
2. ↑ *Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Episode VII`
4. ↑ File:StarWars-DatabankII.png Starkiller Base in the Databank (backup link)
5. ↑ File:StarWars-DatabankII.png Captain Phasma in the Databank (backup link)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Episode VIII`
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `TROS VD`
8. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Before the Awakening`

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