Imperial Remnant

The **Imperial Remnant**, also referred to as the **Imperial Remnants**, the **Galactic Empire**, **Pellaeon's Empire**, the **true Empire**, or simply as the **Remnant** or the **Empire**, was an oligarchic state in the Outer Rim of the galaxy. The Imperial Remnant was led initially by Supreme Commander Gilad Pellaeon from the planetary capital of Bastion and continued to preserve the Imperial ideology as a successor to the Galactic Empire. The Imperial Remnant exerted it influence and challenged the New Republic authority and sought the Empire's restoration. However, the Remnant was forced sue for peace with the New Republic. In the years that followed, the Imperial Remnant entered the Yuuzhan Vong War, and joined the Galactic Alliance. However, during another war, it left the Alliance. Soon after, Jagged Fel was elected as Head of State during the Remnant transition into a democracy, however Fel would be returned to power and would go on to transform the Remnant into a empire once more.

After the Imperial Reunification by Admiral Natasi Daala that formed the "United Warlord Fleets" out of the Deep Core, Daala began a campaign against the New Republic. However, Daala relinquished full command fleets to Gilad Pellaeon, a devoted follower of the late Grand Admiral Thrawn after the campaign failed, who pulled fleets out of the Deep Core into the Mid Rim and Outer Rim. Pellaeon restored the Imperial Navy and Army and formed sizeable holdings, and established the Council of Moffs that was determined to rebuild the Empire, and able to expand it borders through the successful Orinda campaign in that year. However, New Republic advances over the next seven years reduced the Imperial Remnants to the edge of the Outer Rim. The Imperial Remnant at long last, dropped it ambition for rebuilding the Empire after was reduced to only to eight sectors. Pellaeon realized that the war was lost and made peace with the New Republic, ending the Galactic Civil War in 19 ABY.

The Imperial Remnant then became a legitimate successor of the Old Empire, and entered into a tense but peaceful relationship with the New Republic, and when the latter requested Imperial assistance in repelling an invasion by the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong in 25 ABY, the Moffs elected to instead sit the war out and fortify their own territory against the invaders. After conquering much of the galaxy and capturing the New Republic capital of Coruscant, the Yuuzhan Vong attacked Bastion in 28 ABY and forced an Imperial retreat. Pellaeon was finally able to convince the reluctant Moff Council to take the fight to the enemy, and under his direction, the Imperial Remnant joined the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, the New Republic's successor state. 29 ABY saw the Yuuzhan Vong defeated by the Galactic Alliance's combined fleets at Coruscant, and Pellaeon later retired.

As a member of the Galactic Alliance, the Imperial Remnant took part in the brief, but devastating Swarm War in the Unknown Regions along side the Chiss Ascendancy against the Colony during a period of great expansion by the Killik. 41 ABY saw Pellaeon returned as the new Imperial leader when Galactic Alliance Chief of State Darth Caedus requested aid in the Second Galactic Civil War against a Confederation of breakaway planets. When Pellaeon refused to support Caedus' brutal tactics in the Second Battle of Fondor, he was assassinated with Drikl Lecersen acting as their *de facto* leader, who authorized the creation of a nanovirus that targeted the bloodline of the royal family of the Hapes Consortium. After the war, the Galactic Allaince confronted the Moffs with an ultimatum: face war crime trials, or install a young man named Jagged Fel as their new Head of State and force the outmatched Confederation to surrender.

Once again referred to as the *Galactic Empire*, it withdrew from the Galactic Alliance after the war, but in 43 ABY, Fel participated in attempts at reunification. He survived an assassination attempt in 44 ABY by a power-hungry Admiral Daala, who hoped to usurp control of the Remnant. Fel subsequently issued reforms and called a general election among the Remnant's citizens, and with his assistance, Admiral Vitor Reige defeated the popular Daala and became the new Head of State. Fel later returned to the post and used his "Victory Without War" initiative to spread Imperial influence throughout the galaxy while aiding poverty-stricken worlds, and the Remnant absorbed some of the Galactic Alliance's territory as Fel ascended as Emperor, whose reign reorganized the Remnant.