New Republic

The **New Republic**, sometimes referred as the **New Galactic Republic**, the **Second Galactic Republic** or simply as the **Republic**, was an interstellar republic and restoration of the Galactic Republic that replaced the Galactic Empire as the new galactic authority at the end of the Galactic Civil War. The Republic was composed of various member worlds spread across light-years of space. Instead of affixing the Galactic Senate to Coruscant, the galaxy's historical seat of government, the capital shifted from one Republic world to another on a rotating basis, beginning with the Core World Chandrila, homeworld of Chancellor Mon Mothma.

With the death of Emperor Palpatine at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, the Alliance to Restore the Republic was reorganized into the New Republic, which was officially founded a year later. Modeled on the principles of its predecessor, the New Republic strove to dismantle Palpatine's New Order by restoring democracy after an era of Imperial rule. After the Battle of Jakku, the Republic accepted the Empire's formal surrender in 5 ABY, resulting in the Galactic Concordance peace treaty that ended the civil war in the same year. The New Republic Defense Force was significantly reduced, serving as a peacekeeping force while individual member worlds raised their own planetary defense forces. The Republic was only a fraction of the size of its predecessors, and therefore, relied on egalitarian policies to remain on friendly terms with neutral star systems.

The New Republic then turned its attention to reshaping galactic politics. The Senate pursued diplomatic trade relations with neutral systems and ex-Imperial governors, some of whom joined their worlds with the New Republic. Nevertheless, remnants of the Empire who did not recognize the surrender continued to persist across the galaxy, particularly in the Outer Rim Territories, where Imperial warlords gained footholds on distant worlds clinging to what little power they had left. Activity of these Imperial holdouts had increased by 9 ABY, yet the people on the Core Worlds did not believe it.

## History

### The Republic restored

Owing to their success in the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance began to reorganize into a fledgling new government known as the New Republic. The Alliance pressed its advantage against the Empire by pursuing shattered Imperial forces throughout the galaxy, hoping to prevent them from regrouping into a larger foe once more. Though many celebrated the death of the Empire's dictatorial ruler, including a riot in Monument Plaza, the Empire still initially maintained military superiority over the fledgling Rebellion. Seeking to prevent the disheartened Imperial forces from reorganizing, the Alliance embarked on campaigns such as the Beltire Liberation and Battle of Cawa City, with both operations seeing the Alliance victories and Imperial blunders. Twenty days after the Battle of Endor, Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, who had been sent by Mon Mothma, Chancellor of the Alliance, visited the Queen of Naboo, Sosha Soruna. In the royal palace's throne room, Organa asked for Naboo's support in the establishment of a New Republic and the restoration of the senate. The queen accepted Organa's offer, claiming that the Naboo felt great shame over Palpatine's actions.

Although the Empire attempted to destroy Naboo and a variety of other worlds such as Burnin Konn, Candovant, Abednedo, and Commenor using climate disruption arrays during Palpatine's posthumous contingency plan Operation: Cinder, the plan was ultimately foiled by Alliance forces. During the subsequent Invasions of Naboo, with Imperials who sought to claim Naboo as a rallying point around their defeated leader's former homeworld, the New Republic continued to successfully defend the planet, its efforts there led by Thane Kyrell and Corona Squadron, along with several Imperial deserters who informed the Republic of Imperial strategy. As chaos and hope slowly gripped the galaxy, Imperial propaganda soon began touting several contradictory messages, with some claiming that the Emperor lived on, or that the so-called New Republic slowly plundered innocent star systems for its terrorist organization, while others feared legitimizing it by referring to it as anything other than a criminal organization. Governor Ubrik Adelhard locked down all communication and travel from the Anoat sector, hunting down any that spoke word of the Emperor's death with his Purge Troopers. Nonetheless, New Republic forces quickly began to swell as propaganda broadcasts featuring the destruction of the second Death Star rallied thousands of individuals to take up arms against the Empire.

Officially founded a year after the Battle of Endor, the New Republic and its fledgling government soon chose Chandrila as their capital, while the Galactic Senate was re-established and its newly seated members elected Mon Mothma as the Chancellor. Chancellor Mon Mothma, former leader of the Alliance to Restore the Republic knew that a unified, singular message would be required to win the hearts and minds of civilians across the galaxy. Making clear that her new position was merely provisional, Republic communications bureaus worked around the chrono, crafting inspiration messages of hope, rebirth, empowerment, and self-determination. The Empire soon installed an actor to play the role of Palpatine, however, some were able to see through the facsimile. Inevitably, the truth of the Emperor's demise became known to the general citizenry, while ambitious men announced their ascension to the Imperial throne almost every day. In reality, Grand Vizier Mas Amedda, the former aide to the Emperor who had served him since the Clone Wars would hold all the real power, and embark on the impossible task of maintaining the administrative and military functions of the Empire.

### The war goes on

While the New Republic appeared unstoppable following the destruction of the Death Star II, several Republic leaders, such as recently promoted Fleet Admiral Mon Calamari Gial Ackbar knew that the Alliance's victory at Endor was nothing more than pure luck. Despite major victories on Sevarcos and Malastare, along with foiling an attempt to restart the droid foundries on Geonosis by SpecForces, the Republic still feared what a unified, singular thrust against populated New Republic systems could spell for the movement. Luckily for the Republic, the Imperial leadership could barely contend with themselves let alone an external threat.

Ambitious members of the Imperial Council soon began carving up pieces of the Emperor's territories for themselves, while ambitious Moffs, such as Valco Pandion and Randd began a rapid process of self-promotion and aggrandizement. While the Imperial Military maintained a semblance of unity owing to old loyalists and a common fear of the Rebellion, a few senior Imperials counted the days until someone of prominence broke away from the fold, ushering in the true collapse of the Empire.

With numerous splinter fleets and factions of the Empire rising up, several of them retreated to worlds in the Outer Rim to escape the attention of the New Republic as it made inroads into the Outer Rim, gaining many victories, while strategically unimportant worlds such as Naalol would see heavy fighting in the months following the Emperor's death, with the Imperials using them as fallback positions as other worlds slowly eluded its grasp. To several Republic leaders, the shift of the Empire to worlds in the Outer Systems only made sense with the foreknowledge that many of the original seeds of the Empire originated there. Meanwhile the Iron blockade in the Anoat sector was into it first few months, forcing citizens of local worlds such as Burnin Konn to turn to crime bosses and the black market to obtain the food and supplies they needed to survive as the shortage was beginning to spark a substantial demand for smuggled goods.

Wedge Antilles, a New Republic starfighter pilot, eventually tracked a gathering of Imperial forces on the Outer Rim world of Akiva, but was captured by the Star Destroyer *Vigilance* before he could report to the New Republic, necessitating a mission to rescue him. In reality, the military build-up would be the result of Admiral Rae Sloane, who attempted to bring some of the last leaders of the Empire together in the Imperial Future Council, where they would discuss the Empire's long-term strategy and appoint a new Emperor. Before any progress could be made, the resulting Rebellion on Akiva which was inspired by Norra Wexley saw several key Imperial figures killed or captured, with the New Republic Defense Fleet interrupting the gathering owing to Imperial admiral Gallius Rax, who had been feeding the Republic information under the codename the "Operator."

The Operator had in fact been providing the New Republic with sensitive Imperial information for months following Endor, with the intentions of removing those he saw as weak from leadership positions to 'cleanse' the Order from the inside out. With the summit exposed, Admiral Sloane was forced to end the council dealings and the decision on a future Emperor was halted. But their escape plans were complicated by the destruction of their shuttles at the hands of Norra and was further complicated when Akivan protesters tried to storm the Satrapy of Myrra palace. Commander Kyrsta Agate would then arrive and would lead the Republic intervention force as the uprising against Imperial rule grew. With the eventual defeat of the Imperial fleet and garrison, the Satrapy of Myrra then capitulated and with Akiva becoming the first Outer Rim world to join the New Republic, dealt yet another major blow to the Empire.

### Rise of Project Starhawk

The New Republic turned resources towards Project Starhawk, an effort under the command of General Hera Syndulla to construct *Starhawk*-class battleships out of captured Imperial Star Destroyers. Based in the Nadiri Dockyards of the Bormea sector, rumors of the project spread throughout the fleet, and Vanguard Squadron was assigned to protect the construction. The first prototype under construction was known simply as the *Starhawk*. Around the same time, the New Republic's Orange Squadron was also active, patrolling the Mid Rim and helping to turn loyalists against the remnants of the Empire. Another fighter group was Pink Squadron, yet all records of their actions were either classified or redacted.

Among Vanguard Squadron's first actions for Project Starhawk was assisting in the capture of the destroyer *Victorum* in order to use it for the program. Nevertheless, the Empire also came to hear of the project, so Admiral Sloane tasked Captain Terisa Kerrill—who had known Vanguard Squadron officer Lindon Javes before his defection from the Empire—and her Star Destroyer, the *Overseer*, to deal with it. The Imperial fleet battled Vanguard Squadron for control over the captured *Victorum*, yet Kerrill's fleet was held off. Following the Imperial Titan Squadron's mission to Hosnian Prime, Kerrill's forces managed to secure the sector coordinates for Project Starhawk during a battle above Desevro.

In order to stall the Imperial search for their project, the New Republic attacked and destroyed an Imperial listening post over the planet Esseles, and the *Starhawk* was deployed to battle against the *Overseer* in the Zavian Abyss, where the prototype successfully damaged the Star Destroyer. In the aftermath of several other battles, however, the *Overseer* attacked the Nadiri Dockyards and crippled the *Starhawk*. The *Starhawk* was soon destroyed in the battle of Galitan, but the New Republic's fleet managed to evacuate the program's engineers. Thus, Project Starhawk was able to continue, enabling the Republic to begin making a fleet of the ships.

### Success at Kashyyyk and Kuat

Several months after the Battle at Naboo, General Han Solo went to Takodana to seek out an Imperial defector Ralsius Paldora, who knew where the data cubes were stored in the nearby forest that contained information crucial to both the Republic and to help free Kashyyyk. However, a skirmish broke out when the Imperial Military discovered his treachery and interdicted the general, however, Inferno Squad's arrival allowed Solo and Paldora to escape with the intelligence.

Following the victory on Akiva, Princess Leia Organa persistently lobbied the new Galactic Senate on the matter of liberating the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk from Imperial occupation. Her husband, Han Solo's Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca came from Kashyyyk and Solo wanted to return a favor to Chewbacca, who owed him a life debt. The planet was governed by Grand Moff Lozen Tolruck, who had turned Kashyyyk into a planetwide slave labor camp and fitted every Wookiee on the planet with inhibitor chips. The Wookiees were exploited as disposable slave labor by the Empire and endured brutal conditions. However, the Republic was preoccupied with its military offensive against the remnants of the Empire.

In frustration, Solo resigned his commission as a general and embarked on a hastily-scrambled campaign with Chewbacca to liberate the Wookiee homeworld. Despite rallying Wookiee smugglers and refugees at Warrin Station, the initial campaign failed due to an Imperial trap. Solo managed to escape, but Chewbacca was captured by the Empire and imprisoned at the bleak automated prison of Ashmead's Lock on Kashyyyk. After losing contact with her husband, Organa turned to the New Republic officer Norra Wexley and her team for help in rescuing her husband. Norra and her team which included her son Temmin Wexley, his B1-series battle droid Mister Bones, the former Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus, the Zabrak bounty hunter Jas Emari, and Republic soldier Jom Barell had been participating in a campaign to hunt down Imperial war criminals including Vice Admiral Perwin Gedde.

Meanwhile, New Republic forces took more former Imperial worlds including Arkanis, Kuat, and clashed with Imperial forces on Nag Ubdur. With the relaxation of censorship, HoloNet networks such as Queen of the Core Network freely reported on the New Republic's war efforts and Imperial atrocities and suicide attacks. While the Imperial capital Coruscant fell a true state of civil war, with some sectors remaining free from Imperial control and Rebel resistance fighters entrenching themselves with Rebel resistance fighters.

Meanwhile, other loyal sectors actively fought against the rebels. Grand Vizier Mas Amedda took control of Imperial forces on Coruscant with the Imperial Security Bureau coordinate the planetary forces. In the face of the Republic's military advances and growing internal unrest, Vizier Amedda secretly met with Chancellor Mothma and Senator Organa of the Alderaan sector on the watery planet of Velusia to offer his surrender. However, the Republic leadership rejected his surrender and ordered him to find a way for the Empire to surrender.

In response, Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax established a Shadow Council consisting of Grand Admiral Sloane, former Commandant Brendol Hux, Grand Moff Randd, General Hodnar Borrum, and Imperial propagandist Ferric Obdur to manage the dwindling remnants of the Empire. Rax mustered sizeable Imperial fleets in the Vulpinus Nebula, the Almagest, the Recluse's Nebula, the Queluhan Nebula, the Ro-Loo Triangle, and the Inamorata. He planned to launch a coordinated strike against the New Republic from the Imperial holdout worlds of Zhadalene, Korrus, and Belladoon in the Outer Rim. In the midst of the fighting, criminal elements like the pirate Eleodie Maracavanya took advantage of the lawlessness to expand their criminal enterprises. Answering Organa's call, Norra Wexley and her commander Wedge Antilles tracked Solo's last coordinates to the edge of Wild Space.

After being rescued from Imperial forces, Wexley resigned her commission in the New Republic Starfleet after Admiral Ackbar refused to sanction her mission to rescue Solo and ordered her to resume her hunt for Imperial war criminals. After Sinjir acquired information about Ashmead's Lock from the captive Yupe Tashu, Wexley and her team subsequently traveled to the Siniteen prison builder Golas Aram's redoubt on the planet Irudiru. After reuniting with Solo, the rebels joined forces to storm Aram's compound and force Aram to divulge information on Ashmead's Lock. Using this information, Wexley's team and Solo traveled to Kashyyyk where they managed to infiltrated the automated prison. After disabling the computer system SOL-GDA, the Rebels managed to free Chewbacca and a hundred other prisoners, including Norra's husband and Temmin's father, Brentin Lore Wexley.

The Republic had also launched an assault on the Kuat shipyards utilized by Kuat Drive Yards where after weeks of fighting, the guild head and the sector governor Moff Pollus Maksim conceded to the Republic. Grand Admiral Sloane shortly after opened up peace talks at ending the war with Mothma agreeing to convene an emergency session of the Senate to discuss the Imperial offer. While Norra and Temmin flew the prisoners on the *Millennium Falcon* back to Chandrila, Solo, Chewbacca, Sinjir, Jas Emari, and Jom stayed behind to organize a campaign to end Imperial domination over the Wookiees of Kashyyyk. For the next month, Jas recruited several smugglers and Wookiee refugees including the former slave Greybok.

Solo and his team also searched for Grand Moff Tolruck's hidden island fortress, from where he presided over his slave empire. Meanwhile, Grand Admiral Sloane grew disillusioned with Fleet Admiral Rax's leadership and agenda. After uncovering information about his connection to the late Emperor and the planet Jakku, Sloane became privy to Rax's plan to launch an attack on Chandrila, the New Republic capital. To lull the New Republic into a sense of complacency, Sloane had already posed as the Operator and offered to enter into peace talks with Chancellor Mothma and Admiral Ackbar in the aftermath of the Empire defeat over Kuat. Believing that the Empire was near capitulation, the Senate had agreed to peace talks.

Meanwhile, on Kashyyyk, Solo and Chewbacca's team managed to infiltrate Grand Moff Tolruck's island fortress and disable his inhibitor chips. This triggered a mass planetwide uprising which saw the rapid overthrow of the Imperial garrison on Kashyyyk. In desperation, Tolruck ordered the orbiting Imperial Star Destroyers to initiate orbital bombardment of Kashyyyk. However, Tolruck's order was intercepted by a New Republic probe droid which transmitted the footage to Leia, who alerted Wedge Antilles, Chancellor Mothma, and Admiral Ackbar. Han and his team also managed to hijack the Star Destroyer *Dominion* and destroy one of the other Destroyers. When Leia, Antilles, and Ackbar arrived with reinforcements, the remaining Imperial forces on Kashyyyk capitulated. The Wookiees regained control of their homeworld and began mopping up operations against the remaining Imperial holdouts on the planet.

The liberation of Kashyyyk was accompanied by the Empire's abandonment of its remaining garrisons on the Twi'lek homeworld of Ryloth, which was subsequently liberated by the Free Ryloth Movement. In Chandrila's capital Hanna City, Chancellor Mothma organized a celebration called Liberation Day to honor the Ashmead Lock's prisoners. This celebration coincided with Grand Admiral Sloane's arrival on Chandrila for the peace talks. Unknown to the New Republic, Fleet Admiral Rax had fitted the prisoners with inorganic biochips. After the Imperial agent Windom Traducier activated a transponder at the top of the Hanna City opera house, the liberated prisoners including Brentin involuntarily attacked several New Republic officials. Mon Mothma narrowly escaped assassination but numerous officials were maimed or murdered.

Disgusted with Rax's tactics, Sloane turned against Rax and narrowly escaped death at the hands of her aide Adea Rite, who was a secret agent of Rax. The attack on Chandrila had serious repercussions for the New Republic's public image since the violence had been broadcast live on HoloNet. Several systems that had been considering joining the Republic withdrew their applications. Some advocated moving the Republic's capital from Chandrila to a more secure system. Some proposed forming an alternate Independent Systems Alliance.

The New Republic also suspended hiring bounty hunters since soliciting their services made the Republic's security and military forces look weak. Following the Liberation Day attacks, Fleet Admiral Rax assumed control of the Shadow Council on the pretext of Sloane's alleged death. Appointing himself as Counselor to the Empire, Rax marshaled the Imperial armadas for a pitched battle against the New Republic on the barren Inner Rim world of Jakku. Meanwhile, the fugitive Sloane joined forces with Brentin to hunt down and kill Rax. As the New Republic prepared for a final showdown with the remnants of the Empire, Norra, her son, and their team decided to hunt down Sloane, believing that she was responsible for the attack on Chandrila.

### The road to victory

In the months following the Imperial resurgence on Chandrila, the New Republic had to contend with new factions, including the New Separatist Union, the Confederacy of Corporate Systems, and the pirate state known as the Sovereign Latitudes of Maracavanya. Chancellor Mon Mothma also had to contend with a political rival in the form of Senator Tolwar Wartol, who accused her of being weak and advocated a stronger, more centralized, and militarized New Republic. These problems coincided with the New Republic's efforts to relocate its capital to the Mid Rim agrarian world of Nakadia. Chancellor Mothma apportioned resources and infrastructure for worlds devastated by the Empire during a meeting of the Committee for Imperial Reallocation, which was formed to deal with redistributing the resources of the Empire.

Growing weary, Mothma advocated ending the meeting early and delaying it until next month. Despite maintaining a strong military, Mothma made sure that it was not too powerful in an effort to differentiate her government from the Empire. During a secret gathering, Mothma pointed out the fact that Senator Organa had authorized Norra Wexley's team a mission to hunt for Rae Sloane was the jurisdiction of the Senate and responded that they had to be careful before proceeding to Jakku, she further explained that she was unable to authorize the deployment of military forces consulting the Senate. But Wartol, however, found out about the meeting and leaked the news to HoloNet News and took the opportunity to attack Chancellor for being secretive and indecisive.

Meanwhile, Wexley's team including her son Temmin managed to track down Sloane to Jakku. However, they found that the remnants of the Empire military had fled there. While Norra and the bounty hunter Jas Emari went to Jakku to search for Sloane, Temmin and Sinjir returned to Chandrila to warn the New Republic. Chancellor Mothma urged the Galactic Senate to vote for military intervention on Jakku. However, the bill fell short of a majority by five votes. Before a re-vote could take place, the New Republic began the process of relocating to Nakadia.

Despite the instability, the war raged on with Inferno Squad heading to the Chinook Station on Bespin with the objective to find and capture Agent Gideon Hask after discovering from Ralsius Paldora that Admiral Garrick Versio's fleet had been refueling at Chinook for several months but failed to capture Hask but were able to shut down the operation. While General Lando Calrissian and Shriv Suurgav went to Sullust to recover the weapons in the depot for the Republic before the Empire could. However, the Empire had secretly restarted the weapons factory and Calrissian felt it was far better to destroy the depot to prevent the Empire from producing anymore weapons.

Mon Mothma meanwhile had delayed the re-vote by stalling Senator Tolwar Warto with an impromptu biosecurity inspection above Nakadia, Han Solo, along with Sinjir, Temmin, Jom Barell, and Conder Kyl, discovered that the five senators had been coerced by the Black Sun and Red Key crime syndicates into derailing the bill in order to prolong the Galactic Civil War. The chancellor was able to escape an assassination attempt by senator Wartol. After rescuing Senator Nim Tar's child, Sinjir managed to rectify the situation by offering to pardon the senators if they supported Mothma's bill during the re-vote. As a result, Chancellor Mothma managed to pass a bill sending the New Republic military to Jakku. Following the death of her adviser Auxi Kray Korbin, Sinjir and Sondiv Sella were appointed as Mothma's new advisers.

On Bespin, Adelhard had escaped with his forces having mostly crumbled under General Calrissian's campaign who had led a joint task force of both Bespin Wing Guards and New Republic soldiers as they led the effort to clear out the remaining holdouts in Cloud City after the Liberation of Cloud City. Wing Guard Captain Gladstone informed him that the Imperials were holed up inside in the Casino level, Calrissian managed to convince a dozen Imperials holed up to surrender by telling them that Adelhard's story about Palpatine was false and offered to spare their lives, give them food and allow them to depart Cloud City, but a sergeant tried to kill Calrissian but he managed to kill the sergeant, ending the war on Bespin.

### Battle of Jakku

Following the vote, Battle of Jakku commenced with Admiral Ackbar leading the New Republic fleet to the desolate stronghold of the Empire. Ground forces led by Lieutenant General Brockway were also deployed to attack Rax's main Imperial base and a weapons facility. Despite outnumbering the Empire, the New Republic fleet was unable to break through the Imperial defensive lines. Fearing that Jakku could be a ruse, the Republic decided to kept a force led by General Tyben on Chandrila and the new galactic capital of Nakadia, who would be kept up to date on the progress of the battle with Admiral Ackbar via hologram.

Unknown to the New Republic, Counselor Rax had engineered the battle as a means of destroying both the Galactic Empire and the New Republic forces as part of the Emperor's Contingency and Rax own version for a renewed Empire. The late Palpatine did not want the Empire to survive his death and tasked Rax with executing his will. As part of the Contingency plan, Rax planned to blow up Jakku itself and the two belligerent forces along with it.

Inferno Squad, led by Iden Versio, assisted with the planetside operations. Seeing an opportunity to save her father, Iden crashed her X-Wing onto the hull of the *Eviscerator*, almost falling to her death in the process. Iden pleaded with her father to come with her, but Garrick refused, urging Iden to survive. Parting with her father on good terms, Iden managed to reach an escape pod before the ship crashed into the planet below.

Due to Rax's fierce and unconventional tactics, the Battle of Jakku initially went in the Imperial remnants' favor. The Imperial fleet formed a defensive cordon around the Super Star Destroyer *Ravager*, which blunted the New Republic assault. The Imperial formation was broken when the Star Destroyer *Punishment* rammed the New Republic *Starhawk*-class battleship *Amity*. This created a gap which allowed Commodore Kyrsta Agate's warship *Concord* to attack the *Ravager*. Despite being crippled, the *Concord* managed to drag the *Ravager* to Jakku's surface; turning the tide of the battle.

New Republic forces then attacked the Imperial remnants on multiple fronts on space and land. New Republic boarders including the former TIE fighter pilot Thane Kyrell also tried to capture several Star Destroyers including the *Inflictor*. Due to the fierce fighting, Jakku's surface was littered with the wreckage of starships and other vehicles for decades to come, including those of the *Inflictor* itself. Meanwhile, Sloane joined forces with Norra and Brentin Lore Wexley to kill Rax and stop his plot to destroy Jakku. Sloane along with the former Commandant Brendol Hux and his son, Armitage then fled into the Unknown Regions.

As the Battle of Jakku drew to a close, Grand Vizier Amedda emerged from hiding and announced his intention to call for a cease-fire between the Galactic Empire and New Republic. Chancellor Mothma and Grand Vizier Amedda signed the Imperial Instruments of Surrender and the Galactic Concordance on the formal Republic capital Chandrila; Mothma was accompanied by Princess Leia Organa, and her advisers, Sinjir and Sondiv Sella, when she ordered the Empire to surrender. The concordance imposed strict rules on the remnants of the Empire by the Republic who imposed harsh reparations and terms such as the abandonment of the Imperial Academies and the surrender of Coruscant to the New Republic.

Mothma also signed a further declaration classifying all surviving Imperial officers who did not adhere to the terms of surrender as war criminals. However, non-combatant functionaries including Amedda were granted conditional pardons. The Imperial remnants were to also to accede to the demands of the concordance and surrender Coruscant to the New Republic. Despite the concordance, fighting on Jakku's surface continued for several months. In addition, several Imperial remnants who disagreed or refused to acknowledge the former Empire decision to end the war, whom continued to resist the New Republic. As a result, the New Republic Starfleet remained on war footing for some time with the Empire finally expected to officially surrender.

### A new era

#### Peace and demobilization

One of the first acts of the Senate following the signing of the Galactic Concordance was the passing of the Military Disarmament Act which drastically cut the New Republic's military to a large but operationally-limited peacekeeping force, an early goal of Mon Mothma's. The move was lauded by most who believed that the remaining Imperial hardliners posed no threat. Leia Organa disagreed and was sidelined from the New Republic's political process. The act also legitimized the mandated disarmament of the Imperial Military as outlined in the Concordance, further promoting the goal of a peaceful coexistence between the two demilitarized powers. This would also help bolster the training and funding for the local planetary defense forces to prevent the Empire's abuses and the Old Republic's failings.

#### Remnants of the Empire

Remnants of the Empire continued to persist in the form of Imperial holdouts, fragments of the former regime which gained footholds on distant worlds, after the Empire's collapse. Former Imperials became warlords while remnant stormtroopers dissolved into mercenary bands in service to the ex-Imperial warlords. One such Imperial remnant was led by Moff Gideon, a former officer in the Imperial Security Bureau during the Great Purge of Mandalore, who formed his faction out of the remains of the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy to achieve his ends. The Dark Empire, which was secretly led by the reborn Palpatine, launched several attacks against New Republic naval forces with its flagship *Eclipse*, though the Republic was able to destroy the vessel near the Vanqor system.

By 9 ABY, the New Republic did not have complete control over the galaxy, particularly in the Outer Rim. There was little economic stability or rule of law, especially in backwater planets. Additionally, the New Republic engaged in a losing conflict against the Pirate Nation in the Mid Rim. Despite New Republic pilots, such as Captain Carson Teva and Trapper Wolf patrolling the Outer Rim in search of Imperial holdouts, Gideon's remnant activity was not interfered by the New Republic. During one patrol, Teva and Wolf chased the Mandalorian Din Djarin.

After an incident with Gideon's remnant on Nevarro, Teva had suspicions regarding the activity of the remnants, yet the leadership on the Core Worlds did not believe it. Teva recruited Carasynthia Dune, as he believed that the New Republic needed local support to stop the remnants. Valin Hess, who was an officer that served in the remnants on Morak, claimed that the Imperial remnant was growing stronger in the face of a New Republic that was "in complete disarray." Following a battle on Tython, Djarin requested Dune's help to locate Grogu. Dune used her authority to take Migs Mayfeld out of prison, to help with locating Gideon. Gideon was later arrested and was sent to the New Republic Tribunal, but he was extracted mid-transport.

The New Republic Amnesty Program was established for former Imperials who joined the New Republic in exchange for amnesty. Doctor Penn Pershing joined the program, as well as Elia Kane. Pershing and Kane resided on Coruscant, in the Amnesty Housing complex on Coruscant, along with other members of the program. The Coruscant Accords disallowed Pershing to continue his research on cloning and genetic engineering. A parole droid supervised him during the program and inquired his thoughts.