Galactic Empire

### Overview:

The Galactic Empire was the successor State to the Galactic Republic and founded in 19bby by Palpatine right after the jedi made an attempt on his life. The Empire also won the clone wars against the Confederacy of Independent systems, and ended up finishing off the Remnants of the CIS. During the early Imperial era, the galaxy was rebuilding and recovering from the clone wars. Much more stability and security was brought, piracy was eradicated, and military innovation kept improving. Lots of new weapons and technology was invented which increased the size of capital ships, with even massive titans like the Executer class being formed. The Empire also brought upon an economical golden age for the galaxy and provided trillions of jobs, with billions in combat and many more in non combat roles. But it was not to last as a Rebellion formed in around 2bby and raged a great galactic scale civil war against the Empire. This Rebellion eventually succeeded in winning in 4ab when they managed to blow up the 2nd Death Star, which contained both Darth Vader and Palpatine, the 2 highest Imperial Leaders. Without, the Empire began to severely weaken, and fractured into the Imperial Remnant.

### History:

#### Clone Wars Origin:

During the bloody Clone wars, which raged on for 3 years, supreme chancellar palpatine had slowly acquired more and more emergency executive powers in order to maintain stability and order over the Republic. He had done this with the approval of most of the galaxy. The Moff governor system, which the galaxy hadnt seen for thousands of years had been brought back as well to centralize galactic planning and logistics. Still even with such changes, the Clone Wars had proven to be a brutal civil war and claimed the lives of billions as it raged accross the stars, and it was rare to find someone who hadnt been impacted by it in one way or another. During the Early years of the Clone Wars, the Republic kept getting crushed and seemed to be losing the war, with the CIS seemingly able to chase them out of the outer rim, and evem attacking Republic core worlds. Major loses were experienced here and the Republic was forced to turtle in the core. It would take about 2 years for the Republic industrial complex to be able to produce enough war machines and equipment to be able to push the CIS back, and by late 20aby, that is what began to happen, with the Republic finally pushing out the CIS from the core and forcing them to into the midrim and outerim. Seeing this oppurtunity, Chancellar Palpatine ordered, with the help of the Jedi Council, for the Outer Rim sieges to begin, with an emphasis on knocking out the Confederacies triad of Terror of Felucia, Mygeeto, and Salecami. This resulted in alot of forces being moved into the outer rim and away from Coruscant.

Late into the war in 19aby, the Confederacy did the unthinkable. With most of the Republic fleet distracted, the Confederate leader General Grevious launched a surprise attack on Coruscant, and even went as far as kidnapping Supreme Chancellar Palpatine. This was ultimately foiled as Jedi Knights Obiwan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker boarded Grevious's flagship and rescued the supreme chancellar, killing Confederate head of state Count Dooku in the process. With Dooku gone, Palpatine free, and the Confederate fleet severely battery, General Grevious was forced to retreat. Finally the dreaded Clone wars was nearing an end, and the Republic set its sights on finding and killing Grevious. Eventually Grevious was spotted and General Kenobi was sent to Utapua to stop him. In the meantime the Jedi began suspecting Palpatine of being a sith and sent Anakin Skywalker to spy on him. A few days later, Grevious was finally slain. Upon hearing this and wanting to force Palpatine to step down from chancellarship by force Jedi Master Mace Windu and a team of 3 other jedi went to his office and demanded Palpatine surrender and step down. As Palpatine refused, Mace Windu threatened and attacked him, with Palpatine fighting back and taking out 3 out of the 4 attackers. It wouldve been the end of him had Anakin not shown up to save him from this Jedi coup.

With the first part of the jedi rebellion foiled, Palpatine tasked Anakin with hunting down the rest of the Jedi, thus Anakin marched with his army into the Jedi temple. Meanwhile Palpatine had sent out a special message to the clone commanders leading fights on other worlds which called for Order 66 to be executed. Order 66 was an order for the clone army to execute the Jedi for treason against the Republic. With the Jedi rebellion foiled, Anakin went off to finish off the seperatist council while Palpatine had a special meeting of congress. Anakin successfully killed off the CIS leadership and deactivated the CIS droid armies. Finally the Clone Wars was finally over and the Jedi Rebellion dealt with. Meanwhile Palpatine had continued his speech and had mentioned how the Jedi rebellion was foiled and the traitors would be "hunted down and eliminated". Palpatine also declared the Republic will be transformed into the First Galactic Empire in order to maintain peace and stability. A new era was about to begin.

#### Imperial Golden Age:

The clone wars was finally over, the republic became the Empire, and peace finally reentered the galaxy.

While the Clone Wars was offically over and most of the fighting stopped, this didnt stop many Seperatist holdouts from fighting back, and thus skirmishes continued for a few years. Using their clone army, whose clone troopers were now known as stormtroopers, the newly christened Empire launched a series of campaigns to eradicated the last remnants of the CIS. While it took some time, the Empire was successful; (What little remained of the CIS remnants ended up being incorporated into the Rebel alliance).

As a result of that, the Empire ended up being in relative peace. Many new starship and weapon designs were made. Ships became larger, and manifacturing increased. Meanwhile the Empire itself became a major source of stable employment and provided many galactic jobs wether it be military based (such as a fighter pilot, soldier, ot officer) or computer based (security, IT,etc) or even living based (such as janitors, cooks, mechanics). In the meantime since its Clone army was aging rapidiliy and quite heavily depleted from the Clone Wars conflict, the Empire began a campaign to recruit many new soldiers and crewmembers. Afterall it needes to have millions of its planets defended, 25000 Imperial Star destroyers and millions of smaller ships crewed, and to have a reserve. As a result of this, the clone army became a minority in the Imperial army, with most of the remaining Clones being moved into the 501st legion, which remained Jango Fett only up till the Empires collapse. Unfortunately for the Empire the effectiveness of its armies ended up severly dropping due to them using recruits over clones, but still due to its vast numbers the Empire was adequately protected. Up until 2bby, some clone troopers were still grown until Kamino rebelled, after which cloning was shut down permanently. Other than that most of the Early Imperial era stayed relatively stable with most of the Galaxy approving Palpatine reign. The only real conflicts that wete still seen was between Imperial ships and that of pirates and other criminal scum like that, whom ended up being eradicated by the Imperial navy.

#### Early Rebellion and Galactic Civil War:

The first rebellions against the Empire had begun during its foundation in 18aby, but those were tiny and quickly put down. Many others such as Gizar Delsos and Ferus Olins rebellion had started but failed as well. It wasnt until Starkiller had a hand in getting the Corellian Treaty signed, where a legitamite Rebel Alliance had been started with Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, Bel Iblis, Rahm Kota, and a few other Rebel leaders; this in turn marked the start of the Galactic Civil War. Early on the Rebels severly sturggled against the Empire, as they had little sympathy or support from the galaxy, minus from a few remaining CIS remnants who joined them. Most of their ships were rejects and scraps as well and fared poorly against the militsry and industrial might of the Empire. Their armies were poorly disiplined and trained early on as well as losing badly. Thus the Rebela realized they needed a change of tactics. Rather than challenging the Empire directly, the rebels fought a war of attrition, destroying key Imperial targets and liberating numerous worlds. Though vastly outnumbered in manpower, starships, weapons and various other resources, the Rebels themselves possessed a strong will to fight. Similarily the Imperials wanted to eliminate the Rebellion asap.

Later into the Galactic Civil War, the Alliance was composed of well-trained soldiers and brilliant commanders, some of whom defected from the Empire. After the Rebellion got some early victories against the Empire on Kamino and stole the Imperial X wing starfighter prototypes, the Empire was dealt a serious blowback at the Battle of Yavin, where a Rebel pilot named Luke Skywalker destroyed Death Star. This cost the Imperials millions of lives, lots of ships and supplies, and trillions of credits. It also marked the rebellion as a real threat to be taken seriously. As a result the Imperials began building a new death star above Endor and also deployed a new Dreadnought class ship called the Executer which was about 12km on lenght. Later on the Empire scored a big victory against the Rebellion in the Battle of Hoth, but this was short lived as in 4 ABY, Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader both perished during the Battle of Endor when the Rebellion Destroyed the second Death Star. The Empire had finally been decapitated and broken.

#### Post Endor:

The Galactic Empire proved to be the losers of the Galactic Civil War. With Palpatine and Vader gone, the Imperial Warlords began infighting to become the next Leaders of the Empire. See Imperial Remnant for what happened to the Galactic Empire.