Imperial Remnants

The **Imperial Remnants**, were many various fractured constituents of the Galactic Empire which were formed following a great defeat at the Battle of Endor with the death of Emperor Palpatine. After the Emperor's death, some members of the Imperial Ruling Council attempted to consolidate their areas of influence, while their distant Governors and Imperial officers seized what territories they could. As a result, the Empire had splintered into several remnants such as a faction ruled by Governor Adelhard, the faction controlled by Grand Moff Randd in the Queluhan Nebula, and the faction ruled by Grand Admiral Rae Sloane in the Unknown Regions. By around a year after the death of Palpatine, Counselor to the Empire Gallius Rax gathered remnants of the Imperial Military on their planet Jakku, leading the New Republic forces to launch a direct attack on the Empire in a attempt to end the war. Although fighting would continue for months, Battle of Jakku was a victory for the Republic. With Rax's death and a military shattered, Grand Vizier Mas Amedda surrendered the Empire with the signing of the Galactic Concordance. In spite of the Empire's defeat, few Imperials evaded capture by fleeing to the Unknown Regions of the galaxy where Rae Sloane intended to build a new Empire. In addition, several remnants continued to oppose the Republic, although they were few due to the effects of a Contingency. Following the Galactic Concordance, various Remnants continued to exist, all of which sought independence from the New Republic.

## Precursor Remnants (First Order)

A series of the **Imperial Remnants** still continued to exist even after their devastating defeat at the Battle of Jakku, but though the war continued for a time the Empire proved unable to score major victories against the New Republic. After a Grand Vizier Mas Amedda successfully managed to negotiate the official surrender with Chancellor Mon Mothma of a New Republic, the two met and signed what became known as the Galactic Concordance. The truce stated all Imperial fleets were to be relocated to the Core Worlds and Inner Rim, where new borders of the Imperial Remnants were drawn, all Imperials Academies were to be closed, which would halt the continued training of Stormtroopers, and the heavy war reparations were to be paid to the Republic. The Imperial Remnant in the Core had agreed to the terms of the treaty and ordered all remaining Imperial vessels into its new predetermined borders, with officers who did not agree to the treaty's terms were ultimately branded as war criminals by Mothma. Still, many elements of the Empire refused to obey the New Republic's terms of peace as the Core Worlds did, opting to remain heavily militarized. These Imperial hardliners viewed themselves as true loyalists to the Empire, having inherited the struggle against the Rebel Alliance. This then led to thick tensions between the hardliners and the New Republic, despite the fact that both the factions were technically at peace.

Still, they proved viable threats to one-another after their conflict came to an end, both controlling militaries of their own, resulting in a Cold War between those unified factions of the Empire that refused surrender and the New Republic. Even as the other factions of the Old Empire remained at peace with or even opted to join New Republic, the hardliners would refuse to let what they believed to be the last true vestiges of the Empire die. At some point after the signing of Galactic Concordance, some supporters of the Old Empire would make their way into wings of the New Republic Senate, mostly lobbying to the Centrist movement, which would eventually gain power decades after the Battle of Yavin. Some Centrist members of the Party were secretly sympathizers of the Empire, wishing to partially restore it by returning central power to the Core Worlds under New Republic's jurisdiction and building up its navy once more. Even as Cold War continued, hard-liner forces would begin to relocate from Imperial space to the Unknown Regions, where they would have freer rein to expand just as Grand Admiral Rae Sloane did with her forces years prior. In the Unknown Regions, the remnant could escape the Senate's notice and rapidly rebuild their navy away from the Republic's prying eyes. While not fully regaining the strength the Empire once had, the remnant successfully laid the groundworks for a successor state, the First Order.

## Imperial Remnant of Gallius Rax

This **Imperial Remnant** was led and organized by Counselor to the Empire Gallius Rax, who gathered a remnant of their Imperial Military made up of starships and soldiers from both various splinter groups and a disorganized Imperial armed forces on the desert planet Jakku following an attack on Chandrila. Gallius Rax's military forces consisted of the Empire Star Destroyers and the purported last remaining Super Star Destroyer *Ravager*. Gallius also established a large Imperial base beyond the Goazon Badlands and the Sinking Fields. The main Imperial base housed a Stormtrooper garrison and a large number of walkers. Before Jakku, Rax served in an advisory role to the face of their remnant, their Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, who after the fall of the Imperial Future Council at Akiva served as their public head of the Empire. So while Rae Sloane was publicly recognized as leader of this remnant, in truth it was Gallius Rax who was the true leader of the Imperial Remnant. As such, Rax led a Imperial Remnant that stationed in the Vulpinus Nebula, the Almagest Nebula, the Recluse's Nebula, the Queluhan Nebula, the Ro-Loo Triangle, and the Inamorata Nebula. After their attack on Chandrila, Gallius Rax took over leadership of the remnant in the absence of Rae Sloane, who had been caught up in the events on Chandrila. As Counselor to the Empire, Rax ordered the Imperial remnants he commanded to travel to a world of Jakku.

This unified faction consisted of most of the remaining forces of the Galactic Empire. While Gallius Rax had claimed that he'd brought the Galactic Empire to Jakku in order to toughen and purify it for a final struggle against the New Republic, he actually planned to destroy the remnants of the Empire as part of a Contingency plan that the late Emperor Palpatine put in place. Unknown to the Shadow Council, the Jakku Observatory was central to Palpatine's Contingency to destroy the Empire in the event of his death. The Observatory had computer generated maps of the Unknown Regions and was built on top of a borehole that led to the planet's core. Rax planned to detonate the core in order to destroy Jakku along with much of the Empire and the New Republic Starfleet. Then he intended to lead a select group of Imperials whom he deemed worthy of joining him in the Unknown Regions to rebuild the Empire. Gallius Rax's forces including a contingent of child soldiers who were recruited from local orphans. Rax's plans were thwarted by his second-in-command, a Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, and their Imperial Remnant on Jakku disintegrated with the death of Rax, the disappearance of the Admiral Sloane, and the catastrophic defeat during the Battle of Jakku. While several other Imperial remnants remained, they posed little threat to the New Republic, as the fighting would continue for months despite an agreement of a truce.

### Leadership of Remnant

#### Imperial Shadow Council

The **Shadow Council** was the hypothetical name of a proposed ruling body of the shattered Empire following the Battle of Endor, made up of various political and military leaders. Envisioned by Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax, the Shadow Council would serve as a secret advisory council responsible for assisting him in governing the fragmented Galactic Empire from behind the scenes while supporting a official figurehead in the form of Grand Admiral Rae Sloane. The council consisted of the most talented and ablest Imperial minds within the Imperial military and bureaucracy, which was severely reduced as a result of the war. With the intent of having the council succeed the Imperial Ruling Council as an primary directorate of the Galactic Empire, Gallius Rax indented to be far more covert, serving as more of an advisor board as opposed to a actual oligarchal organization. The members of the council included Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, a Commandant Brendol Hux, Grand Moff Randd, General Hodnar Borrum, and Ferric Obdur. In secret, Gallius Rax planned to terminate Shadow Council members during the Battle of Jakku, with the exception of a Commandant Brendol Hux, whom he saw as a vital part to the future of their new Empire. In the aftermath of the battle, Shadow Council was apparently disbanded with the Empire, and with Rax, Obdur, and Yupe Tashu's death, the only known members left to live on were Randd and Borrum.

#### Imperial Future Council

The **Imperial Future Council**, or the **IFC**, was a group consisting of some high ranking officials of a fragmenting Empire who had met on the planet Akiva after the Battle of Endor to decide the future of the Empire. The members of this group included financier Arsin Crassus, General Jylia Shale, an adviser to the Emperor Yupe Tashu, Grand Moff Valco Pandion, and Admiral Rae Sloane. These members of the council could not come to a agreement on most issues, forcing Sloane, the leader and organizer of the meeting, to often make decisions on her own without the full consensus of Empire future council. When rebel affiliates and New Republic forces discovered the meeting, they set about to disrupt it, causing it to fall apart. Part of this involved rallying the Akiva citizens, who were angry at the Imperial occupation, causing the Empire to lose control over the planet after the leaders of Imperial Future Council were forced to flee. In the space above Akiva, the Imperial fleet was attacked by a New Republic fleet under the command of Kyrsta Agate. Crassus and Moff Pandion were killed while Shale and Tashu were captured by the New Republic, leaving Sloane as the only member of the IFC to escape, who retreated to the Imperial fleet and reported to Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax. It was later revealed that Rax lured the members of the IFC to Akiva where New Republic Fleet disrupted the emergency summit with the secret aid of Rax.

## Imperial Remnant of Adelhard

Upon learning of the Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine's death at the Battle of Endor, the Empire Governor of the Anoat Sector, Adelhard started his own well-organized **Imperial Remnant** in the same year as Palpatine's demise. He'd set up an Iron Blockade, preventing anyone from leaving the Sector. Like Governor Ecressys of the Velcar Sector, the Governor Adelhard also spread the lie that Palpatine was still alive. Among his assets, the Empire Governor Adelhard had counted the Commander Bragh and Imperial Purge Troopers, the black site prison facility called the "Crypt", various of garrisons across the Anoat Sector, and a Imperial Anoat Sector Starfleet of naval starships which would be used as the backbone to the Governor's Remnant, enabling him to set up Iron Blockade, including *Imperial*-Class Star Destroyer *Dread Omen*. Months into a time of the Iron Blockade, a freedom fighting movement galvanized around a young smuggler from Burnin Konn, which eventually became the Anoat Sector Uprising. The resistance movement dealt severe blows to this Imperial Remnant, their most notable among them being their raid of the "Crypt" and killing Commander Bragh. Eventually, after several months of fighting, Adelhard's faction crumbled. Its last holdouts holed up at Cloud City's casino level. With the combination of Bespin Wing Guards and the Republic soldiers, Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian flushed them out.

### Anoat Sector Imperial Military

The military forces of this Imperial Remnant were assigned with the task of defending the Anoat Sector in the Outer Rim Territories against any and all threats. Among the ranks came standard Imperial Stormtroopers, but also an elite class of feared elite soldiers who enforced the Empire's rule in the Anoat Sector on behalf of their Governor Adelhard, The Purge Troopers, led by the fearless Commander Bragh. Purge Troopers all wore a heavy suit of armor, the designs of which are similar to the fallen Galactic Empire's Dark Troopers, Imperial experimental units that were being evaluated at some time between the Battle of Yavin and the Battle of Hoth. Many of the Purge Troopers were recruited from gangs that fought in street wars, while others had been left on their own on the several crime-infested planets during their training in order to suppress their empathy. Although it was very rare for Purge Troopers to defect, and much less to survive doing so, a few of them did. After they ran from their former Imperial comrades for some time, those Imperial defectors ended up joining the rebel movement known as the Anoat Sector Uprising. Despite the efforts of their Imperial Military forces in the Anoat Sector, by the time of the Battle of Jakku, Adelhard's Imperial Remnant had crumbled under the siege led by Cloud City Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian, and the truth about Emperor Palpatine's death spread through their entire Sector.

## Imperial Faction of Lord Cronal

In the years following the destruction of the first Death Star, Lord Cronal of Imperial Intelligence would begin experiencing what seemed like madness to most, but in reality was clairvoyance into what was beyond the Unknown Regions. Eventually Cronal chose to abandon his position as Director of Intelligence of his own accord and venture into the Unknown Regions, where he started searching for the source of his visions. With all his years of serving under Darth Sidious, Cronal had gathered a wide array of knowledge of the ways of the Sith, and began to use this knowledge to prolong his life and increase his power. Using the teachings of the Sith, and his expertise in the field of modern technology, Cronal had given himself the skills and traits needed to gain power both politically and thought the Dark Side. In the wake of Palpatine's demise at Endor and the Galactic Empire's retreat into the Unknown Regions, Cronal began to set his plans of galactic domination in motion. Making contact with various factions of the Imperial Remnants, and convincing several severely depleted factions to join his cause after the results of the Emperor's Contingency, forming a new **Imperial Remnant** or as some referred it as a **Dark Empire**. It was his hope that with time and planning he could break the Republic's hold on the galaxy and bring forth an Imperial and Sith resurgence.

## Empire of the Hand

This **Imperial Remnant** faction also known as the **Chiss-Imperial Alliance** was their autocratic government established in the Unknown Regions by Grand Admiral Thrawn of the Galactic Empire. The creation of the alliance had resulted from both the Emperor Palpatine's desire to explore the Unknown Regions and the Grand Admiral Thrawn's vision of a united faction of Chiss and Imperial forces. Though this Remnant was originally made to act as an extension of the remnants of the Empire, the ideology were the amalgamation of Chiss and Imperial ideals. As a result of united concepts, aliens were permitted to enter the military service. Their main objective of their faction was to defend the galaxy from various threats in the Unknown Regions, including extra-galactic invaders. This was a political and military group that an Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn founded in the Unknown Regions by combining Chiss and Imperial ideologies and weaponry into a new military and political force. This Remnant was intended to establish the order and efficiency of Emperor Palpatine's New Order, but without the Emperor's megalomania, the Tarkin Doctrine, and the institutionalized xenophobia. Though largely based on the authoritarian structure of the Galactic Empire, this government operated more like as a confederation than the empire. It worked to form alliances with native governments within the Unknown Regions as opposed to brute force.

### Chiss-Imperial Military Forces

The military of the Chiss-Imperial Remnant maintained many visual connections to the Galactic Empire through many of the warships such as Star Destroyers, vehicles, use of Stormtrooper armor and Imperial uniforms. Many regular soldiers were given Stormtrooper variant armor to promote order amongst the Empire of their citizenry. The traditional, elite class of Stormtroopers remained, but were relatively rare. Unlike the Galactic Empire, this Remnant did allow and encouraged aliens of all worlds to join their ranks either as pilots, soldiers or as the Stormtroopers. The Chiss constituted the bulk of the Remnant forces, as they held admiration for the vision of Thrawn. With the combined workforce of Chiss and Empire engineers, new designs of starships and starfighters became developed, including the Nssis-Class Clawcraft which was the hybrid development of standard Imperial technology that was typically associated with the Chiss and was one of the better examples of Chiss and Imperial successful collaboration. During the course of Palpatine's rule, Thrawn attempted to attract the best elements of the Empire to form an alliance with Chiss. At some point, Thrawn's place within the Chiss society, enabled him to recruit Chiss sympathizers who could publicly voice support for his cause of unifying the Empire and the Chiss. Their ethics were based on Thrawn's vision of war, a original combination of an Chiss and Empire tactics.

## Pentastar Alignment

The **Pentastar Alignment of Powers**, best known simply as the **Pentastar Alignment**, was a splinter movement in the Galactic Empire and a political conglomerate in the Outer Rim. After the death of Emperor Palpatine during the Battle of Endor, the Galactic Empire fragmented into many pieces. Grand Moff Ardus Kaine, the successor of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, concentrated his forces in multiple sectors of largely undeveloped new territories north of the Hydian Way major hyperspace route. Kaine used the Imperial Star Destroyers of Scourge Squadron for some none-too-subtle intimidation as a venue to hold talks with representatives of multiple star systems and major factions. The talks were successful, and the Pentastar Alignment was founded in 4 ABY. The Alignment largely maintained an isolationist position, and sought to be on peaceful terms with all parties. This led to the New Republic reciprocating and largely ignoring the Alignment; but pirates and mercenaries continued to harry the Alignment.