Galactic Civil War

## Combatants

Galactic Empire
Alliance to Restore The Republic

Criminal Organizations

## Commanders

Emperor Palpatine
Darth Vader
Council of Moffs
Various Others

Alliance High Command
Various

Various

## Strength

Imperial Navy
Imperial Army

Various

Various

## Casualties

Unreported
Unknown

Unknown

**The Galactic Civil War** was a major Galaxy spanning conflict between the Alliance to Restore The Republic and The Galactic Empire.

## Prelude

The Galactic Civil War began officially in 2BBY, with the signing of the Treaty of Corellia. Rebel cells had existed as far back the end of The Clone Wars, this treaty would unite the majority of them into one united force. The Rebel Alliance would stage their first takeovers of weakly defended Imperial governments and worlds. Not by military action but by other methods they conquered several systems across The Galaxy.

With the growing authoritarian nature of The Empire, this became more difficult, it only became harder when different laws were introduced that would limit planetary autonomy. The Rebels would stay as an underground and hidden organization with holds throughout the outer to mid rims. Several independent Rebel cells would continue to exist as protest against the managing of the organized alliance.

The Rebel Alliance was formed out of former Separatists, former Republic loyalists, and other freedom fighting groups, they had strong alliances throughout the minor criminal syndicates and would work closely with them.

## Early Beginnings

The Rebellion struggled to remain together, with many viewing full scale military conflict as a death sentence such as Senator Tynnra Pamlo of Taris who thought that if organized The Rebellion remained at threat of being destroyed easier and all at once. Some did not like the idea of direct warfare and preferred using small militia groups and terrorist attacks when the opportunity came. This ideology was used primarily by Saw Garrera and his Partisans. Former Republic and original Corellian Treaty signatory General Garm Bel Iblis felt that the ruling council of the rebel alliance was weak and unable to properly lead, this lead to him initially breaking away before the Battle of Yavin.

The war-hawks of the alliance felt that the politicians and politics should be disposed of, and that they should become one giant military entity that could rule the Galaxy.

What started the true unification of the alliance was whispers of a planet-killing superweapon in the Despayre system. A rebel lucrehulk was used to scout the area and attempt an attack but was thwarted.

Several smaller missions would occur during this time, such as the adventures of The Ghost Crew, Red Squadron's capture of X-wings on Bestine, and several other smaller fights.

### Stealing The Plans

The Empire would conquer the system of Polis Massa and used it as an outpost to store the Death Star's Plans, The Rebels sent a team to steal the plans only for them all to be killed. The second attempt was made by former Partisan Jyn Erso, and Imperial defector Kyle Katarn along with the rest of a group called "Rogue One." This group would manage to steal the Death Star schematics during the Battle of Scarif. All except Erso, Katarn, droid K-2SO and pilot Jan Ors were killed during the mission. The Alliance fleet was also severely damaged with the majority of Blue Squadron being killed as well as a good portion of Admiral Raddus's fleet. Raddus himself died in the battle to Darth Vader and the 501st Legion.

After the plans were successfully beamed aboard Alderaanian Princess Leia's personal ship the Tantive IV the ship would flee to the Tatooine system to try and recruit exiled Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi to their aid and bring him to Alderaan to meet with Leia's father Viceroy Bail Organa. The ship was intercepted however with Captain Raymus Antilles being killed and the crew, including Leia herself being captured. Luckily for the alliance the plans were ejected onto Tatooine inside the memory systems of astromancy R2D2 who along with protocol droid C3P0 were put in charge of getting those plans to Alderaan. The droids would be captured by Jawas and sold to Owen Lars, uncle of Lyra Skywalker who would find a message explaining the purpose of the droids inside R2D2's memory banks. She would lead Lyra and the droids to Obi Wan Kenobi and his personal astromech R4-P17 who would go on to accompany the trio on their journey, taking Lyra on as an apprentice. The group would hire Captain Han Solo and his first mate Chewbacca to take them to Alderaan.

Little did the group know however that the system had just been destroyed by The Death Star. The group were captured by The Empire and would split up, with Kenobi going to disable the tractor beam while Lyra, Han, and Chewbacca went to search for Leia.

### Rescuing the Princess

Solo, Skywalker, and the Wookiee would rescue Princess Leia and release all the prisoners on the station, starting a revolt. Before they could escape Obi Wan was struck down by Darth Vader in a duel. The group would flee a tie fighter assault group and make their way back to the rebel base, unbeknownst to them their ship was being tracked.

### The Battle of Yavin IV

Lyra would join Red Squadron and act as red five to assist the rebels in their assault on the death star. Using the recovered plans they found a weak spot in the station and went on the attack, this assault managed to destroy the station and kill the majority of Imperial Command including Grand Moff Tarkin. Only Darth Vader, Cassio Tagge, and a small number of soldiers including a portion of the 501st Legion survived.

The Rebels would hold a brief medal ceremony for Solo and Skywalker and a tribute to those who had fallen in the assault before the Empire could reorganize. The majority of the Alliance had escaped off the moon by the time Vader's personal fleet had arrived. Those who remained were almost entirely wiped out.
Imperials Commander Bow and Captain Ulric Tagge were left stranded on the planet after the Millennium Falcon destroyed the primary command bridge of the Executor and in doing so killed Admiral Griff in the process. Vader would be recovered shortly after the battle and would be called back to Coruscant in to answer for his apparent weakness in letting the Death Star be destroyed.

## 0ABY

### Mission to Sullust

Rogue Squadron, created out of the remnants of Red and Gold Squadrons along with several other skilled pilots were assembled above Sernpidal to carry out a mission that would mean gaining several ships from a Sullustan underground rebel cell led by Admiral Sien Sovv.

The Rebels would secure the Sullustan fleet only to be caught by an interdictor and a small assault group led by Imperial Admiral Jerjerrod. In order to escape the system the Rebels would have to destroy the interdictor that was behind the Imperial fleet. The fleet would quickly destroy half of the Sullustan reinforcement group and kill Col Takbright before the alliance were able to destroy the interdictor and flee the system. This event earned Admiral Jerjerrod who would be promoted to the rank of Moff and given a larger fleet to command by the Emperor's orders.

### Vader's Retribution

Vader would be punished for his failure on the Death Star by being appointed to fellow survivor the recently promoted Moff Cassio Tagge who had successfully pointed out several flaws in the battle station before its demise and had managed to abandon it before its destruction at the hands of the Rebel Alliance. Vader wished to know the pilot that had destroyed the station but Tagge disliked the idea and preferred Vader be serving on the front lines, carrying out other tasks. During this period Vader would secretly hire bounty hunters Boba Fett, Black Krrsantan, Dengar, and Bossk to discover the pilot's identity. Fett would be the one to discover the Jedi's identity and would give the information to Vader who ragefully killed Tagge in order to pursue them.

### Splinter of The Mind's Eye

Lyra would discover a journal belonging to Obi Wan Kenobi in his hut that would lead her, Leia, C3P0, and R2D2 to Mimban to uncover an ancient artifact said to unlock ultimate power within the force. Once on world they would infiltrate an Imperial search operation for the so called original "Kaiburr crystal." The emperor himself wished for this crystal to expand his abilities and prevent it's use as a weapon in rebel hands.

The duo were found out by Imperial Supervisor Grammel who informed Darth Vader. Believing Lyra to be one of the two Vader flew their immediately. Grammel who did not wish to wait confronted Lyra and Leia, shooting Lyra in the chest. The pair were saved by an apparent ex Jedi named Halla who would heal Lyra and lead them to the site of the crystal.

Vader would then arrive on Mimban and after learning of what Grammel did would kill the man, ordering a search to locate the women. The Stormtroopers who found the trio would attack, Lyra would attempt to use the crystal to fight back but found herself too unskilled to use it, the group would flee and Lyra would ask Halla to train her so that she could better use it, Halla then revealed that she wasn't really a Jedi and was in fact a charlatan and that all her supposed powers were illusions she created. Vader would then arrive and confront them, killing Halla and fighting Lyra for the crystal with the force, this struggle between two of the strongest force users shattered the crystal, which in turn levelled the majority of Mimban. Leia, Lyra, and the droids only surviving due to intervention from Obi Wan Kenobi's ghost who revealed that he only told Lyra to go to the system for this to happen and for the crystal not to fall into the hands of The Empire. A severely injured Vader then takes on Lyra in a duel, Lyra fails and Leia takes her place only to also be defeated. The four would flee on an Imperial shuttle off world and link back up with the alliance to live another day.

### The Siege of Manaan

mOne of the Rebellion aligned systems closest to the core worlds, Manaan became a quick and easy target for The Empire, moving a strong fleet to the system to blockade them, this backfired however as below citizens became angrier and would hijack a hypervelocity canon that was used to destroy three Star Destroyers before the planet's capital city was bombarded to ash.

### Rise of The Zahn Consortium

Criminal leader Tyber Zahn would break out of prison on Kessel in a revolt staged by Jabba The Hutt. Tyber, along with his right hand man Urai Fen would bring together several bounty hunters and star systems together to form his own faction The Zahn Consortium which ruled out of Ryloth. Though Ryloth's citizens were more loyal to the alliance Zahn was viewed as a better alternative to the Empire and was allowed to control the planet by most. Once he amassed enough power Tyber soon declared war on both factions, wishing to rule the southern outer rim to create a criminal safe haven.

### Hunt for Han Solo

Boba Fett, still tasked with tracking down Lyra finds the rebels on Sernpidal. He attempts to capture her but she is saved by Han Solo who believes Boba is there for him. Han attempts to escape to Tatooine and give his reward he got from the Alliance to Jabba The Hutt, only for him to be constantly intercepted by Boba and several other bounty hunters. In the end Han choses to give up his credits in order to save Lyra's life.

### Attack At Sernpidal

Death Squadron arrives at Sernpidal and attacks the rebel forces before they can fully retreat. In the resulting battle Jan Dodonna is killed along with a sizeable portion of the fleet, it's only when Garm Bel Iblis arrives with a fleet dreadnaught class ships that the Rebels manage to escape. Iblis makes an agreement to house the alliance on Yaga Minor for the time being while they recover and find a new hideout.

### Attack on The Carida Academy

Admiral Firmus Nantz convinces the Heroes of Yavin, a group consisting of Leia Organa, Han Solo, Lyra Skywalker, C3P0, Chewbacca, and R2D2 to go to Carida and assist several rebel sympathizers in their escape of the local Imperial Academy. This resulted in the destruction of the academy.

### Learning to be a Jedi

Lyra is sent to find Galen Marek and Rahm Kota on the planet Mygeeto and help them take full control over the planet with Kota's rebel cell. Kota initially refuses to help Lyra due to what happened to her father but Marek manages to convince him to teach her basic skills. Mygeeto soon falls to the trio of Jedi.

### Recruitment of Droid Forces

Lyra, Marek, and Kota are sent to Geonosis to attempt to restart the underground droid foundries, there they meet a surviving Geonosian Queen who takes over Kota's body and uses it against the other two. The Queen is later convinced to help the alliance's cause when the Zahn Consortium arrives to take control of the planet. The Queen decides that she will pick a side depending on who wins the ensuing battle. The trio of Jedi lose said battle but a large amount of native geonosians side with them anyway, providing them with three divisions of battle droids along with much Clone Wars era military equipment and vehicles.

### Destroying the Fondor Instillation

Captain Rex, who was leading a small squadron of clone troopers is assigned to assist Lyra, Marek, and Kota with destroying an Imperial weapons facility on Fondor. During this time Kota learns to overcome his hatred of clones while Lyra and Rex bond over Lyra's father.

### The Yag'Dhul Genocide

After a terrorist attack on Thyferra leads the Empire to Yag'Dhul, the planet is invaded and the native species of Givin were marked for termination. This resulted in the near wipe out of the entire race which were forced to flee as refugees into Rebel-aligned worlds.

### The Founding of New Alderaan

Princess Leia was put in charge of the establishment of a refugee planet for surving citizens of Alderaan and in doing so discovered an abandonded star system in the outer rim. The planet was initially selected as a place for the alliance to live by Mon Mothma however Leia put her foot down and allowed the planet to become "New Alderaan." After this event Leia was crowned Queen of the planet. Leia would appoint a local prime minister and governor-general to lead while she was away in the war.

### Capture of Darth Vader

After a strange signal calling Darth Vader to Yinchorr was heard across The Galaxy, the dark lord arrives only to be captured by the surviving Zeta Magnus who would pit Vader against an army of imperfect abominations cloned from DNA of the strongest beings in the Galaxy. Vader would end up defeating them all and killing Magnus for once and for all.

### Confrontation on Bestine IV

Vader, after learning the tactic from Magnus would send a distress call asking for Lyra Skywalker to come to the planet Bestine IV to rescue a local from The Empire. Vader would then attack Lyra who would be saved by Rahm Kota at the last moment. Kota had followed Lyra to the system knowing it would be a trap. Vader then killed Kota as Lyra fled.

### Helping Honoghr

After Urai Fen and nightsister Silri killed the governor of Honoghr and set up operations on the planet, the surviving Rogue One members were sent to the system to try and clear the Consortium out and make the native Noghri their allies. Unbeknownst to either side was that the Noghri had pledged allegiance to Darth Vader himself who came to the planet and ordered them to kill everyone. Urai, Silri, and Rogue One were forced to escape the planet together.

### Confrontation On Lannik IV

Darth Vader met with Jabba The Hutt in order to gain information relating to Lyra's existence. Jabba knew little and refused to provide Vader with what he did have only for Vader to force the information out of the Hutt. Jabba revealed to Vader that his records knew of a Lyra Lars living in the dune sea. Vader would visit the ruined location himself to find the dead bodies of Owen and Beru Lars. He would discover a partially working droid in the wreckage and use it's memory systems to learn of Lyra's childhood which then led him to her friend Janek Sunber who was acting as an Imperial cadet. Vader would use Sunber as a hostage to try and draw out Skywalker. Lyra arrived to challenge Vader and recover her friend. Vader would use the deaths of Kenobi, Owen, Beru, Kota, and Biggs to bring out Lyra's anger and hostility. Obi Wan's spirit then contacts Lyra, convincing her to calm down. Lyra escapes with Janek and they return to the alliance.