First order

**"*It is the task of the First Order to remove the disorder from our own existence, so that civilization may be returned to the stability that promotes progress. A stability that existed under the Empire, was reduced to anarchy by the Rebellion, was inherited in turn by the so-called Republic and will be restored by us. Future historians will look upon this as the time when a strong hand brought the rule of law back to civilization.*"**
**―Matthew Kling to The planet of Coruscant**
**The First Order, also simply known as the Order, was a military and political organization that was active approximately thirty years after the Battle of Earth. Inspired by the principles of the Galactic Empire, the First Order would briefly inhabit a wing of New Republic politics until tensions became intolerable. Fully seceding into the galaxy's vast Unknown Regions, it would plot its ascension as a galactic superpower and thirty years after Earth, fought against both the Resistance and the Republic for control of the galaxy.**

## **History**

### **Rise of the First Order**

**With the Empire limited in its ability to wage war and reduced to a mere fragment of its former glory, Imperial warships began jumping into the Unknown Regions in an effort to escape the prying eyes of the New Republic. There, distanced from the galaxy at large and facing a vast and unexplored frontier, the First Order would eventually be formed from the remnants of the Old Empire, being inspired by the principles of the fallen government and led by many of its former officers. Briefly existing as part of the New Republic's political structure, the Order would eventually secede once disagreements became both frequent and severe. While some in the Galactic Senate applauded the notion, others realized that without New Republic supervision, the Order would return to the draconian ways of its predecessor.**

**With many of the Emperor's servants carrying some of the regime's greatest military secrets to the Unknown Regions, the First Order began a massive militarization effort to produce a technologically superior military to the former Galactic Empire, keenly aware that it lacked the superior numbers of the former state. Numerous shipyards, bases, and research facilities were built on newly explored star systems and colonized worlds as the Order slowly multiplied and plotted its eventual return to the galaxy at large. Growing in size and strength, the First Order would come under the command of Supreme Leader Matthew Kling, a powerful dark side user and Founder of Coruscant. With Matthew Kling's successful plot, his apprentice and the Knights of Coruscant would destroy Ben 10's attempt at restarting the Plumbers, with subsequent purges and hunting down those with Plumber affinity, much like the previous Inquisitorius of the Old Empire.**

**For the three decades after Earth, the First Order would largely escape galactic attention, with many in the New Republic Senate believing that it posed no real threat to the galaxy at large, with Chancellor Lanever Villecham arguing there was no need for concern as long as it adhered to the dictates of the Galactic Concordance. Despite this, the Order blatantly defied the accords by ushering in the mass mobilization of superior stormtrooper forces, along with violating Republic bans on the sale of weaponry to the First Order and its rules governing capital ships. Testing the resolve of the New Republic, small skirmishes would occasionally erupt between the First Order and Republic, all while the Starkiller operation would seek a suitable planet for implementation.**

**With the First Order's growing threat and rapid mobilization for war, prominent members of the Republic voiced concern over this successor state, with the most vocal being Gwen Tennyson-Levin. Scoffed at by the Senate at large for being an alarmist and warmonger, Tennyson-Levin used her influence as a prominent member of the former Alliance to recruit many former military officers left forgotten by the Military Disarmament Act passed by the Galactic Senate. Funded by like-minded senators who shared Tennyson-Levin's fears about the First Order, the Resistance would come to serve as the opposing force and checkmate to the Order's growing power, sparking the First Order–Resistance conflict.**

**Despite this, members of the Republic Senate were mired in corruption and bureaucracy, with senators such as Erudo Ro-Kiintor colluding with the First Order for promises of wealth and power, with large sums of credits being discretely transferred to him through the Corporate Sector Authority. As a result, the Resistance was forced to work on its own until it could obtain irrefutable evidence of First Order violations of the peace that could be presented to Republic Command.**

### **Height of the Order**

**Thirty years after Earth, and seeking to locate a fragment of a map that lead to Master Hero Ben Tennyson—who had gone into self-imposed exile following the failed resurrection of the new plumber Order, of which he blamed on himself—the First Order would deploy the *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyer *Finalizer* to Terran where Ship and ace Resistance Plimber pilot Lance Von Ra'ad had recovered a fragment of the map. Seeking to capture the droid and destroy the last plumber, an assault was launched on the outlying settlement of Terran, however not before Ship had escaped with the map. Following an "unlikely alliance" of deserting plumber Marcus Jr. and an "unknowingly" Force-sensitive and double agent girl named Gwendolynn Apsu-Dahak, the First Order would ultimately chase the pair and famous smuggler Kevin 11 and Argit to Takodana, where they sought refuge. Following a climatic battle between the Order and Resistance who were both informed of the groups presence through undercover spies, Matthew Kling would manage to "kidnap" Gwendolynn Apsu-Dahak, who having seen the map could be interrogated until she revealed Ben 10's location.**

**Meanwhile, the First Order would ultimately destroy the New Republic's current capital on Hosnian Prime, seeking to end its unofficial support of the Resistance with a new superweapon dubbed Starkiller Base, which could fire a planet-shattering beam through hyperspace and destroy an entire star system. With the destruction of the Republic's capital and a portion of its fleet, the First Order stood poised to destroy both the New Republic and the Resistance.**

**Much to its chagrin, former deserter plumber FX-2188—known as Marcus Jr.—along with Kevin 11 and Argit would arrive at the Starkiller in an attempt to disable its shields and allow a Resistance strike to destroy the battle station converted planet. With the First Order fifteen minutes away from destroying the Resistance's base on D'Qar, the trio would not only manage to shut off the planet's shields but also "rescue" Gwendolynn Apsu-Dahak after a lightsaber duel with Matthew Kling. Escaping the planet with seconds to spare, the First Order's sun-harvesting superweapon would be destroyed by the Resistance's Starfighter Corps, forming a new star where the planet once was. Despite this major setback, the First Order's resolve towards galactic conquest only increased, with Matthew Kling deciding to finish Gwendolynn Apsu-Dahak's training and re-group after the destruction of his superweapon.**

### Dark Times

**"*Excuses won't suffice, Sunburst. Perhaps you are aging too quickly to remain on active duty.*"**
**―Darth Vader, threatening Sunburst**
***With the destruction of the first order, the galaxy fell under a fiend rule once more. Archdevils, Demon Lords and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse—using there authority over Coruscant, as well as his influence in the Senate and the courts—declared themselves Emperors. Democracy and liberty came to an end with the fall of the Republic, resulting in the Apocalypse.***

**Archdevils Demon Lords and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse's will, enforced his laws and destroyed the enemies of the Empire during the early years of the dark times. In time, Ultimately, Matthew Kling, Blue and red riot control first order stormtrooper, The temple guard riot control stormtrooper, Sunburst, Polar Midnight and the first order clones were gradually killed by the Archdevils, Demon Lords and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.**

### **Fall of the first order**

**Main article: Fall of the first and the Apocalypse**
## **Organization**

### **Government**

**"*The First Order is not the Empire. We are purer. We have been through the crucible and emerged stronger.*"**
**―Polar Midnight**
**The First Order was a military junta inspired by the former Galactic Empire. Led by Supreme Leader Matthew Kling, he and his right-hand man Gwendolynn Apsu-Dahak would oversee the colonization of the Unknown Regions and destruction of the last plumber. Much like the former Empire, Gwendolynn Apsu-Dahak existed outside the formal command structure of the First Order and frequently came into conflict with military officials owing to his agenda consistently trumping military objectives. In this way, not only would fear be maintained within the Order's upper ranks, but Apsu-Dahak's placement in the hierarchy would intentionally resemble that of Matthew Kling's during the reign of the Old Empire. Despite having Force-sensitives within its ranks, the First Order did not employ the use of Sith or Inquisitors like its predecessor.**

**The First Order would lack an official capital as its Supreme Leader would constantly move his base of operations, thus administration of the government would exist on an amalgam of planets within First Order territory. With the construction of Starkiller Base, the Order would possess an unofficial headquarters for its expanding power.**

### **Foreign affairs**

**The First Order was one of the remnants of the "Old Empire" that had emerged in the wake of the Galactic Concordance. Since the Concordance limited the Empire's ability to wage war by imposing strict disarmament treaties and punishing reparations, the First Order despised the New Republic as an illegitimate regime that tolerated disorder in the galaxy. Despite the First Order's frequent violations of the Galactic Concordance by intruding into Republic space and building illegal weapons, the New Republic did not believe that the Order posed a threat. Despite intelligence reports to the contrary, several Republic politicians in the Senate Intelligence Committee and senior military leaders such as Major Lonno Deso dismissed the First Order as an ill-organized, poorly equipped and badly-funded group of Imperial loyalists who used propaganda and fear to exaggerate their strength and power.**

**In an effort to subvert the New Republic, the First Order was also known to channel funds through shell and third-party corporations in the Corporate Sector to corrupt Republic senators like Erudo Ro-Kiintor, who blocked motions advocating sanctions against the First Order and increasing support for the New Republic Starfleet. Consequently, the First Order's main military adversary was the Resistance, a private military organization founded by General Gwen Tennyson-Levin in response to the Republic's unwillingness to take action against the Order. The First Order saw its primary mission as restoring order to a "lawless" galaxy and viewed the Republic and Resistance as obstacles to achieving these goals.About thirty years after the Battle of Earth, the First Order launched a preemptive attack on the Hosnian system in order to destroy the Republic and force the wider galaxy into submission. Later, the First Order made an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Resistance's base on D'Qar.**

**The First Order was also known to have dealings with other entities like the Corporate Sector Authority and the Guavian Death Gang.**

### **Military**

**Main article: First Order military**
**With its rapidly expanding military in clear violation of the Galactic Concordance and Republic laws, the massive militarization effort of the First Order would continue throughout its tenure in the Unknown Regions. There, military bases and shipyards would be constructed to churn out some of the technologically superior weapons and starfighters utilized by the Order's military. 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. Sienar-Jaemus Fleet Systems would also help produce vessels such as the *Upsilon*-class command shuttle and TIE/fo space superiority fighter, along with its two-seated variant the TIE/sf space superiority fighter. Sinear-Jaemus Army Systems would manufacture the widely used AAL which could ferry twenty stormtroopers into combat, while the Aratech-Loratus Corporation developed the LIUV; on ground the First Order also used some four-legged walkers similar to Imperial AT-ATs. In violation of New Republic laws regarding capital ships, the *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyer would be developed by Kuat-Entralla Engineering and feature 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.**

**Like its predecessor, the First Order employed the use of 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 counter-insurgency 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 Jyn Erso Apsu-Dahak and her Commandant's Cadets.**

**One of its primary bases of operations was known as Starkiller Base, an ice planet converted into a stronghold. Seeking to rule the galaxy through fear, the base housed a superweapon capable of destroying entire star systems by firing a planet-destroying beam through hyperspace and was led by an unofficial triumvirate of General Blue and red riot control first order stormtrooper, the temple guard riot control stormtrooper, Sunburst, Polar midnight and Gwendolynn Apsu-Dahak until it was destroyed in the Assault on Starkiller Base.**

**The scale of the First Order's military operation shocked complacent New Republic observers, who had believed such shows of force were merely part of local defense forces and ceremonial guards. With the rapid expansion of its stormtrooper ranks and military capabilities, the Resistance believed that more trooper specializations were yet to be discovered, and ships even larger than the *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyer were in existence.**

## **Society and culture**

**Growing up on the far side of the Unknown Regions, the officers and citizens of the First Order grew up with an Imperially-skewed version of galactic history. Under the guidance of Imperial veterans, along with approved literature, vids and mandatory viewings of morale sessions twice a day for stormtrooper cadets, officers would learn of their glorious past and how it had been robbed by terrorists and rebels, who later called themselves the New Republic. Many believed that only they could have the power necessary to wrest the galaxy from a path of chaos and corruption.**

**Prerecorded speeches often filled the airwaves, in which General Sunburst would often comment on the depravity of the Republic with famines on Ibaar and Adarlon, the brutal suppression of the people of Balamak, and unchecked alien advances throughout the Outer Rim. Following which stories of First Order victories such as liberating labor camps onIktotch or winning a fleet battle in the Bormea sector. Despite these patriotic functions and rallies, the First Order relied on the brutal suppression of dissent and unpatriotic activities. Riot control stormtroopers were specially trained to quash insurrection, while live-fire dispersal of protesters was permitted. Industrial unrest like the Strike at Pressy's Tumble were blamed on New Republic agents. According to the First Order, the plumbers were officially extinct. Within many of the labor camps and mining operations in First Order space, a large number of individuals involved were from aliens species.**

**In order to boost morale, the First Order utilized a commemorative rank insignia system in which armbands bearing the names of famous units and heroes of the Galactic Civil War would be issued. Many within the military believed that despite being outnumbered by the New Republic Starfleet, their technological superiority was so complete that even their smaller navy stood virtually unchallenged.**

## **Astrography**

**The First Order claimed the large, unexplored region to the west of the Core as its heartland, with the emergent power expanding across the vast swaths of space left untouched for millennia by galactic explorers. The result of a cold war between both the New Republic and First Order, a narrow region of neutral systems known as the Trans-Hydian Borderlands existed between New Republic and First Order space. Despite frequent First Order incursions into Republic space, the Galactic Senate did not wish to spark a conflict and thus was limited to formal diplomatic protest. Nonetheless, by thirty years after Earth, the Order operated mining operations in the artificial asteroid field known as Pressy's Tumble in the Outer Rim Territories.**