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class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_New_Order"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1.4</span> <span>The New Order</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_New_Order-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Government</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Legislature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legislature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.1</span> <span>Legislature</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legislature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Executive" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Executive"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.2</span> <span>Executive</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Executive-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Imperial_Ruling_Council" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Imperial_Ruling_Council"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.2.1</span> <span>Imperial Ruling Council</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Imperial_Ruling_Council-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Imperial_High_Command" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Imperial_High_Command"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.2.2</span> <span>Imperial High Command</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Imperial_High_Command-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Council_of_Moffs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Council_of_Moffs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.2.3</span> <span>Council of Moffs</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Council_of_Moffs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Judiciary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Judiciary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.3</span> <span>Judiciary</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Judiciary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Imperial_Security_Bureau" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Imperial_Security_Bureau"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.3.1</span> <span>Imperial Security Bureau</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Imperial_Security_Bureau-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Inquisitorius" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Inquisitorius"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.3.2</span> <span>Inquisitorius</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Inquisitorius-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Military" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Military"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Military</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Military-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Notable_officers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_officers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.1</span> <span>Notable officers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_officers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tarkin_Doctrine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tarkin_Doctrine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.2</span> <span>Tarkin Doctrine</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tarkin_Doctrine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Imperial_Navy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Imperial_Navy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.3</span> <span>Imperial Navy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Imperial_Navy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Imperial_Starfighter_Corps" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Imperial_Starfighter_Corps"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.3.1</span> <span>Imperial Starfighter Corps</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Imperial_Starfighter_Corps-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Imperial_Army" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Imperial_Army"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.4</span> <span>Imperial Army</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Imperial_Army-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Imperial_Stormtrooper_Corps" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Imperial_Stormtrooper_Corps"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.4.1</span> <span>Imperial Stormtrooper Corps</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Imperial_Stormtrooper_Corps-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Galactic_Civil_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Galactic_Civil_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Galactic Civil War</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Galactic_Civil_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_Republic_Era" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_Republic_Era"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>New Republic Era</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_Republic_Era-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Successor" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Successor"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Successor</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Successor-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legends" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legends"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span><i>Legends</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legends-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Thrawn_trilogy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Thrawn_trilogy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.1</span> <span><i>Thrawn</i> trilogy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Thrawn_trilogy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Agent_of_the_Empire" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Agent_of_the_Empire"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.2</span> <span><i>Agent of the Empire</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Agent_of_the_Empire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Jedi_Prince" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Jedi_Prince"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.3</span> <span><i>Jedi Prince</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Jedi_Prince-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dark_Empire" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dark_Empire"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.4</span> <span><i>Dark Empire</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dark_Empire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Jedi_Academy_trilogy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Jedi_Academy_trilogy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.5</span> <span><i>Jedi Academy</i> trilogy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Jedi_Academy_trilogy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Darksaber" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Darksaber"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.6</span> <span><i>Darksaber</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Darksaber-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_Jedi_Order" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_Jedi_Order"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.7</span> <span><i>New Jedi Order</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_Jedi_Order-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.8</span> <span><i>Legacy</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> 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Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Galaktické impérium" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_Galaktiske_Imperium" title="Det Galaktiske Imperium – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Det Galaktiske Imperium" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaktika_Impeerium" title="Galaktika Impeerium – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Galaktika Impeerium" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background: #DEDEE2;">Galactic Empire</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_First_Galactic_Empire.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Emblem_of_the_First_Galactic_Empire.svg/200px-Emblem_of_the_First_Galactic_Empire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Emblem_of_the_First_Galactic_Empire.svg/300px-Emblem_of_the_First_Galactic_Empire.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Emblem_of_the_First_Galactic_Empire.svg/400px-Emblem_of_the_First_Galactic_Empire.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Emblem of the Galactic Empire</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fictional_universe" title="Fictional universe">Universe</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #DEDEE2;">In-universe information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascist">Fascist</a> <a href="/wiki/Absolute_monarchy" title="Absolute monarchy">absolute monarchy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">19 <a href="/wiki/Yavin" class="mw-redirect" title="Yavin">BBY</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Republic" title="Galactic Republic">Galactic Republic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data"><style 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href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_planets_and_moons" title="List of Star Wars planets and moons">Star Wars galaxy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data">Galactic Emperor: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palpatine" title="Palpatine">Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious</a> (19 BBY–4 ABY)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Leader of the Contingency:<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mas_Amedda" class="mw-redirect" title="Mas Amedda">Mas Amedda</a> (4–5 ABY) (Emperor <i>de jure</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gallius_Rax" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallius Rax">Gallius Rax</a> (5 ABY) (<i>Counselor to the Empire</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rae_Sloane" class="mw-redirect" title="Rae Sloane">Rae Sloane</a> (5 ABY)</li></ul> <p>Legislative: </p> <ul><li>Imperial Senate (19–0 BBY)</li></ul> <p>Executive: </p> <ul><li>Imperial Ruling Council (19 BBY–4 ABY)</li> <li>Imperial High Command (19 BBY–4 ABY)</li> <li>Council of Moffs (14 BBY–4 ABY)</li> <li>Imperial Future Council (4 ABY)</li> <li>Shadow Council (5 ABY, 9 ABY)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Key people</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palpatine" title="Palpatine">Emperor Palpatine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Commander-in-Chief Darth Vader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mas_Amedda" class="mw-redirect" title="Mas Amedda">Grand Vizier Mas Amedda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Moff_Tarkin" title="Grand Moff Tarkin">Grand Moff Tarkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Admiral_Thrawn" title="Grand Admiral Thrawn">Grand Admiral Thrawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Inquisitor_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Inquisitor (Star Wars)">The Grand Inquisitor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moff_Gideon" title="Moff Gideon">Moff Gideon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sith" title="Sith">Sith Order</a> <ul><li>Sith Empire (precursor)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stormtrooper_(Star_Wars)" title="Stormtrooper (Star Wars)">Stormtroopers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Enemies</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jedi" title="Jedi">Jedi Order</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebel_Alliance" title="Rebel Alliance">Rebel Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_species_(U%E2%80%93Z)#Yuuzhan_Vong_/_Grysk" title="List of Star Wars species (U–Z)">Grysk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data">Galactic Standard Credit (Imperial Dataries)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Coruscant" title="Coruscant">Coruscant</a> (Senate District, Imperial Center)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Basic_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Basic (Star Wars)">Imperial Basic</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Galactic Empire</b>, also known simply as <b>the Empire</b>, is a fictional <a href="/wiki/Autocracy" title="Autocracy">autocracy</a> featured in the <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i> franchise. Introduced in the 1977 film <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a>,</i> it is the main antagonistic faction of <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_original_trilogy" title="Star Wars original trilogy">the original trilogy</a>, which also includes <i><a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a></i> (1980) and <i><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a></i> (1983). An oppressive <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictatorship</a> with a complicated bureaucracy, the Galactic Empire seeks the rule and <a href="/wiki/Social_control" title="Social control">social control</a> of every planet and civilization within the <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_galaxy" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars galaxy">galaxy</a>, based on <a href="/wiki/Anthropocentrism" title="Anthropocentrism">anthropocentrism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nationalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalisation">nationalisation</a>, <a href="/wiki/State_terrorism" title="State terrorism">state terrorism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Power_projection" title="Power projection">power projection</a>, and threat of lethal force.<sup id="cite_ref-Sansweet224_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sansweet224-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Galactic Empire's rise was not a violent takeover by force, but rather a calculated dismantling of the Galaxy's most powerful institutions by rewriting constitutional foundations, controlling the Jedi Council, weakening the Senate and the appointment of <a href="/wiki/Cronyism" title="Cronyism">loyal Governors</a>. At its peak, the Galactic Empire sprawls over much of the known <i>Star Wars</i> galaxy, which consists of millions of star systems and billions more fringe colonies, shipyards, fortress worlds, and outer territories. The Empire's origins are depicted in the prequel film <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_%E2%80%93_Revenge_of_the_Sith" title="Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith">Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith</a></i> (2005), where it replaces the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Republic" title="Galactic Republic">Galactic Republic</a> at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Clone_Wars_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clone Wars (Star Wars)">Clone Wars</a> orchestrated by the Republic's Supreme Chancellor, <a href="/wiki/Palpatine" title="Palpatine">Palpatine</a>. Palpatine is also secretly the <a href="/wiki/Sith_Lord" class="mw-redirect" title="Sith Lord">Sith Lord</a> Darth Sidious, who masterminds the war to destroy the <a href="/wiki/Jedi" title="Jedi">Jedi</a> and restore the Sith to power. </p><p>Palpatine falsely accuses the Jedi of causing the <a href="/wiki/Secessionism" class="mw-redirect" title="Secessionism">secessionist</a> Clone Wars to weaken the Republic and gain power. He manipulates the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Galactic Senate">Galactic Senate</a> into using <a href="/wiki/Clone_trooper" title="Clone trooper">clone troopers</a> created during the conflict to purge the Jedi. After engineering these threats, Palpatine reorganizes the Republic into a state meant to "ensure the security and continuing stability, and a safe and secure society": the Galactic Empire, with himself as Emperor. The Senate overwhelmingly supports this decision and lauds his apparent resolve, bravery, and selflessness. </p><p>With Emperor Palpatine keeping mostly to the shadows, his Sith apprentice, <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a> maintains a more public presence and leads the Imperial forces, acting as a personification of the Galactic Empire's power. By the time of <i>Episode IV – A New Hope</i>, the faction has transformed into a fully <a href="/wiki/Autocratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Autocratic">autocratic</a> regime, though it is opposed by the insurgent <a href="/wiki/Rebel_Alliance" title="Rebel Alliance">Rebel Alliance</a>. The completion of the <a href="/wiki/Death_Star" title="Death Star">Death Star</a>, a planet-destroying battle station, allows Emperor Palpatine to instigate a <a href="/wiki/Self-coup" title="Self-coup">self-coup</a>, dissolving the Imperial Senate and transferring power to <i><a href="/wiki/Praetor" title="Praetor">Praetor</a></i>-officers called Imperial Moffs, such as <a href="/wiki/Grand_Moff_Tarkin" title="Grand Moff Tarkin">Grand Moff Tarkin</a>. </p><p>The Galactic Empire collapses after the events of <i>Return of the Jedi.</i> Its remnants form the <a href="/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars)" title="First Order (Star Wars)">First Order</a> in <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy" title="Star Wars sequel trilogy">the sequel trilogy</a>, set 30 years later. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-3"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Appearances_in_chronological_order">Appearances in chronological order</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Appearances in chronological order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_%E2%80%93_Revenge_of_the_Sith" title="Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith">Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_(2008_TV_series)" title="Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)">Star Wars: The Clone Wars</a></i> (2008–2020) (Briefly)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Bad_Batch" title="Star Wars: The Bad Batch">Star Wars: The Bad Batch</a></i> (2021–2024)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Solo:_A_Star_Wars_Story" title="Solo: A Star Wars Story">Solo: A Star Wars Story</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi_(miniseries)" title="Obi-Wan Kenobi (miniseries)">Obi-Wan Kenobi</a></i> (2022)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Andor_(TV_series)" title="Andor (TV series)">Andor</a></i> (2022–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Rebels" title="Star Wars Rebels">Star Wars Rebels</a></i> (2014–2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rogue_One" title="Rogue One"><i>Rogue One: A Star Wars Story</i></a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope</a></i> (1977) (First appearance)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mandalorian" title="The Mandalorian">The Mandalorian</a></i> (2019–present) (Mentioned only)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ahsoka_(TV_series)" title="Ahsoka (TV series)">Ahsoka</a></i> (2023) (Mentioned only)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Resistance" title="Star Wars Resistance">Star Wars Resistance</a></i> (2018-2020) (Mentioned only)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens" title="Star Wars: The Force Awakens">Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens</a></i> (2015) (Mentioned only)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Last_Jedi" title="Star Wars: The Last Jedi">Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi</a></i> (2017) (Mentioned only)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Rise_of_Skywalker" title="Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker">Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker</a></i> (2019) (Mentioned only)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_sources_and_analogues" title="Star Wars sources and analogues">Star Wars sources and analogues</a></div> <p><i>Star Wars</i> creator <a href="/wiki/George_Lucas" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a> sought to make the First Galactic Empire aesthetically and thematically similar to <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> and to appear to be <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MaryHenderson1997-184_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MaryHenderson1997-184-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar to Nazi Germany, the Galactic Empire is a dictatorship based on rigid control of society that dissolved a previous democracy and is led by an all-powerful supreme ruler.<sup id="cite_ref-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._146_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._146-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Empire, like the Nazis, desires the creation of <a href="/wiki/Totalitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Totalitarian">totalitarian</a> order<sup id="cite_ref-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._153_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._153-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and utilizes <a href="/wiki/Excessive_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Excessive force">excessive force</a> and violence to achieve their ends.<sup id="cite_ref-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._153_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._153-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The title of the Empire's main soldiers, the <a href="/wiki/Stormtrooper_(Star_Wars)" title="Stormtrooper (Star Wars)">stormtroopers</a>, is somewhat similar to the name given to <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>'s <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Sturmabteilung" title="Sturmabteilung">Sturmabteilung</a></i></span> (SA, "storm department") <a href="/wiki/Paramilitary" title="Paramilitary">paramilitary</a> bodyguards.<sup id="cite_ref-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._146_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._146-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The visual appearance of <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a> in his all-black uniform combined with his fanatical obedience to Palpatine has allusion to the black-uniformed Nazi <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">Schutzstaffel</a></i></span> (SS).<sup id="cite_ref-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._146_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mary_Henderson_1997._Pp._146-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to a Lucasfilm-authorized source, Darth Vader's relationship with Palpatine is akin to SS leader <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Heinrich Himmler</a>'s relationship with Hitler.<sup id="cite_ref-Star_Wars_and_History_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Star_Wars_and_History-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The uniforms of Imperial military officers also bear resemblance to uniforms used in Nazi Germany, as well as 19th century Polish <i><a href="/wiki/Uhlan" title="Uhlan">ulans</a></i> (mounted lancers)—who wore tunics, riding breeches, and boots like the Empire's officers wear—as well as the Imperial officers' cap resembling the field caps historically worn by German and Austrian troops.<sup id="cite_ref-MaryHenderson1997-184_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MaryHenderson1997-184-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to Nazi Germany, there was also at least one portion of the Galactic Empire that was based on the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, which is the various military personnel and <a href="/wiki/TIE_Fighter" class="mw-redirect" title="TIE Fighter">TIE Fighters</a> that are flying in formation as Palpatine arrives on the second Death Star in <i><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a></i>. According to Lucas, the ceremony for the Emperor's arrival was inspired by <a href="/wiki/October_Revolution_Day" title="October Revolution Day">October Revolution Day</a> military parades in the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucas has also indicated that the Galactic Empire's struggle against a smaller <a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" title="Guerrilla warfare">guerilla force</a> was inspired by the United States' involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> and his surprise at how relatively few people spoke up against the war.<sup id="cite_ref-How_Star_Wars_Conquered_the_Universe_2015._Pp._87-88_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-How_Star_Wars_Conquered_the_Universe_2015._Pp._87-88-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Conversations:_Walter_Murch_and_the_Art_of_Editing_Film_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Conversations:_Walter_Murch_and_the_Art_of_Editing_Film-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Palpatine's rise to power has been related to <a href="/wiki/Political_strongman" title="Political strongman">political strongman</a> of <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Caesar" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustus Caesar">Augustus Caesar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon Bonaparte">Napoleon Bonaparte</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Star_Wars_and_History_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Star_Wars_and_History-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Palpatine's consolidation of power and declaring himself emperor is like the Roman political figure Augustus Caesar, in that Augustus manipulated the Roman Senate as Palpatine did with the Galactic Senate; he legitimized authoritarian rule by saying that corruption in the Senate was hampering the powers of the head of state; he pressured the Roman Senate to give him extraordinary powers as Consul of the Republic to deal with a crisis and he falsely claimed that he would rescind those powers once the crisis was over; and, as with the transition of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>, Augustus, like Palpatine, relied on his strong control over military force.<sup id="cite_ref-Star_Wars_and_History_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Star_Wars_and_History-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many Imperial officers speak with the <a href="/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" title="Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a> accent (known in-universe as <a href="/wiki/Coruscant" title="Coruscant">Coruscanti</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Irvin_Kershner" title="Irvin Kershner">Irvin Kershner</a> "deliberately cast British actors as the high-rank imperials for <i>The Empire Strikes Back</i> to mirror the composition of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American revolution</a>, with the rebels mostly Americans".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Depiction">Depiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Depiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg/170px-August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="367" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg/255px-August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg/340px-August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1275" data-file-height="2754" /></a><figcaption>Augustus in the robes and cloak of his position as <i><a href="/wiki/Pontifex_Maximus" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontifex Maximus">Pontifex Maximus</a></i>, served as inspiration in the creation of the character Palpatine.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origins">Origins</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Note</b>: All dates in this article are in the BBY/ABY format. This is a fictional in-universe dating system centred on the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Yavin" title="Battle of Yavin">Battle of Yavin</a> in <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)"><i>Episode IV: A New Hope</i></a> in which the first Death Star is destroyed. BBY is Before the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Yavin" title="Battle of Yavin">Battle of Yavin</a>; ABY is After the Battle of Yavin.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Twilight_of_the_Republic">The Twilight of the Republic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Twilight of the Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Galactic Empire is born out of the collapsing <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Republic" title="Galactic Republic">Galactic Republic</a>; the rise of the empire wasn't sudden but instead unfolded gradually, step by step with one power grab after the next. However, its seeds of <a href="/wiki/Decadence" title="Decadence">decadence</a> are planted and nurtured by the Sith over a period of centuries, that bore fruit during the <a href="/wiki/Clone_Wars_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clone Wars (Star Wars)">Clone Wars</a>, the epic war between the Republic and the separatist Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS) depicted in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_II_%E2%80%93_Attack_of_the_Clones" title="Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones">Episode II: Attack of the Clones</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_%E2%80%93_Revenge_of_the_Sith" title="Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith">Episode III: Revenge of the Sith</a></i>. Palpatine's ascension came with the final layer of poison instilled into a governmental system on the brink of collapse. Because of the hubristic Jedi, the corrupt senate and a civil war, Palatine was seen by many as a savior and is easily able to take near-complete control of the Republic. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_I_%E2%80%93_The_Phantom_Menace" title="Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace">Episode I: The Phantom Menace</a></i>, amid a trade dispute and invasion of his homeworld of <a href="/wiki/Naboo" title="Naboo">Naboo</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Senator Palpatine convinces Queen <a href="/wiki/Padm%C3%A9_Amidala" title="Padmé Amidala">Padmé Amidala</a> to call for a <a href="/wiki/Vote_of_no_confidence" class="mw-redirect" title="Vote of no confidence">vote of no confidence</a> in Supreme Chancellor of the Republic <a href="/wiki/Finis_Valorum" class="mw-redirect" title="Finis Valorum">Finis Valorum</a>. Palpatine is elected Supreme Chancellor in Valorum's place.<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Clone_Wars">The Clone Wars</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Clone Wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Clone_Wars" title="Clone Wars">Clone Wars</a></div> <p>As the Seperatists Crisis fighting intensifies in <i>Episode II</i>, the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Galactic Senate">Galactic Senate</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Legislature" title="Legislature">legislature</a> of the Republic, grants Palpatine <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency" title="State of emergency">emergency powers</a> to deal with the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Palpatine promise safety at the cost of individual freedoms, all while tightening his own control over every facset of society; promises to relinquish his powers once peace and order is restored. His first executive order is to create a massive army of <a href="/wiki/Clone_trooper" title="Clone trooper">clone troopers</a>. His second executive order was to conscript the Jedi as commissioned officers of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) armed forces; by seizing influence over the Jedi Council, Palatine indirectly has complete Command over the GAR. His third executive order is to nationalize the military-industrial and financial sectors to finance the war effort. He intentionally prolonged and exploits the Clone Wars to amass unprecedented political power, using his apprentice <a href="/wiki/Count_Dooku" title="Count Dooku">Darth Tyranus</a>, Head of State of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, as a pawn to keep everyone distracted and focused on ending the war. </p><p>By the time of <i>Episode III</i>, he is effectively a <a href="/wiki/Dictator" title="Dictator">dictator</a> who overstayed his term limits; he exploits the people's fears, systematically rewrites constitutional laws and crushes the institutions that threaten his goals. He orchestrated his own kidnapping by the Separatists by leaking classified information, and thereby bringing the war to the Capitol, <a href="/wiki/Coruscant" title="Coruscant">Coruscant</a>, to further spread terror. The <a href="/wiki/Jedi" title="Jedi">Jedi</a> are overstretched across the galaxy trying the end the war; they distrust Palpatine's motives, fearing he has come under the influence of a <a href="/wiki/Dark_Lord_of_the_Sith" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark Lord of the Sith">Dark Lord of the Sith</a> named Darth Sidious. Their concerns are shared by several loyalist senators trying to preserve democracy, who suspect Palpatine may not return his emergency powers once the war ends. These senators set into motion plans that will eventually lead to the creation of <a href="/wiki/Rebel_Alliance" title="Rebel Alliance">the Rebellion</a>. The film eventually reveals that Palpatine and Sidious are one and the same, and Palpatine engineered the conflicts as a <a href="/wiki/False_flag" title="False flag">false flag</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Purge">The Purge</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Purge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Great_Jedi_Purge" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Jedi Purge">Great Jedi Purge</a></div> <p>Palpatine reveals himself as a Sith Lord to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, promising to save Padmé, Skywalker's secret wife, from dying in childbirth as Anakin has foreseen. Skywalker reports Palpatine's true identity to the Jedi. However, when Jedi Master <a href="/wiki/Mace_Windu" title="Mace Windu">Mace Windu</a> confronts Palpatine, Anakin comes to Palpatine's aid and helps him kill Windu. Desperate to save Padmé, Anakin pledges himself to the <a href="/wiki/Dark_side_of_the_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark side of the Force">dark side of the Force</a> and becomes Palpatine's third apprentice, <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a>. Palpatine declares the Jedi to be traitors, providing "irrefutable evidence" that they were the masterminds behind the Clone Wars, and all but <a href="/wiki/Great_Jedi_Purge" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Jedi Purge">exterminates the Jedi Order</a> in a galaxy-wide slaughter, while sending Vader to kill everyone in the <a href="/wiki/Jedi_Temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Jedi Temple">Jedi Temple</a> and assassinate the Separatist leaders. Vader then immediately ends the Clone War by transmitting deactivation codes to all Seperatist droids in galaxy.<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two remaining Jedi, <a href="/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi" title="Obi-Wan Kenobi">Obi-Wan Kenobi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yoda" title="Yoda">Yoda</a>, mount a counterattack. Obi-Wan defeats Vader and leaves him for dead, but Yoda's duel with Palpatine ends in a stalemate; both Jedi are forced to go into exile. Grievously wounded, Vader is rescued by Palpatine and fitted with cybernetics and a black suit of armor with a life support system. After Padmé dies giving birth to twins, Yoda and Obi-Wan decide to separate the children – <a href="/wiki/Luke_Skywalker" title="Luke Skywalker">Luke</a> and <a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia" title="Princess Leia">Leia</a> – in order to hide them from the Sith. Luke goes to Vader's stepfamily on <a href="/wiki/Tatooine" title="Tatooine">Tatooine</a>, while Leia is adopted by Senator <a href="/wiki/Bail_Organa" class="mw-redirect" title="Bail Organa">Bail Organa</a> of <a href="/wiki/Alderaan" title="Alderaan">Alderaan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_New_Order">The New Order</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The New Order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Having "won" the war, with GAR liberators occupying every known Star system, Palpatine orders them to permanently annex planets, suppress the sectors and subjugate the people. Secured in his power and position, with no one left stop him, Palpatine reorganizes the Republic into the Galactic Empire, with himself as Emperor for life.<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He moves on to his final political opposition, the Senate; rather than dismantling it outright, he reduces it to a powerless symbol that exists only as an illusion of representation. Senators with no dedication to Public Service were easily bribed or coerced into being an assembly line that rubberstamped Palpatine's policy; the remaining Senators who actually cared about the people, were spied upon, arrested, extorted, assassinated, or otherwise made to disappear. Instead Palpatine appointed Governors to oversee all Star systems in the Republic; these Governors, later known as Imperial Moffs, report directly to Palpatine and were appointed without a vote or approval from any Senators. This effectively sidelines the Senate leaving it unable to influence how the Galaxy is actually governed. </p><p>The Old Republic symbolisms were discarded on favor of the Imperial crest; an emblem which itself comes from the vendu galactic roundel symbol. Originally this was a symbol of unity and non-confrontation; Palpatine would pervert this peaceful symbol by removing two spokes from the wheel; similar to how Hitler took the <a href="/wiki/Swastika" title="Swastika">swastika</a> from ancient Eastern religions like <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Government">Government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Legislature">Legislature</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Legislature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Senate, now known as the Imperial Senate, nominally continues to exist, though it is virtually powerless. Palpatine dissolves the Senate (off-camera) in <i>A New Hope</i> after discovering that several members of the Senate are founding members of the <a href="/wiki/Rebel_Alliance" title="Rebel Alliance">Rebel Alliance</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Guerrilla" class="mw-redirect" title="Guerrilla">guerrilla</a> army dedicated to overthrowing the Empire and restoring the Republic.<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Executive">Executive</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Executive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the end of the Clone Wars, the purge of the Jedi Order and the formation of the First Galactic Empire, Palpatine rules with absolute power as Emperor. Between the events of <i>Revenge of the Sith</i> and <i>A New Hope</i>, Palpatine rules the galaxy from the confines of his heavily guarded Imperial Palace on <a href="/wiki/Coruscant" title="Coruscant">Coruscant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coruscant was introduced in <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Zahn" title="Timothy Zahn">Timothy Zahn</a>'s then-<a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_canon" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars canon">canon</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/Heir_to_the_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Heir to the Empire">Heir to the Empire</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It made its film debut in the special edition of <i>Return of the Jedi</i>. Inspiration for the world-spanning city came from 1940s science fiction works, especially <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Trantor" class="mw-redirect" title="Trantor">Trantor</a></i>. Visually, it resembles the <a href="/wiki/Art_Deco" title="Art Deco">Art Deco</a> skyscrapers of <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_(2017_video_game)" title="Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game)">Star Wars Battlefront II (2017)</a></i> depicts Palpatine as intentionally having no clear line of succession, desiring either immortality or the destruction of the Empire. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Imperial_Ruling_Council">Imperial Ruling Council</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Imperial Ruling Council"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unwilling to embroil himself in the day-to-day running of the Galactic Empire, the Emperor leaves the mundane work to the Imperial Ruling Council (IRC), an advisory body with whom he confers on vital affairs of state. The group is made up of Imperial Advisors, "yes-men" who serve as ministers and counselors. The spokesman of the Imperial Ruling Council is the Grand Vizier Mas Amedda, who attends most of the Imperial Senate's sessions. Amedda functions as an intermediary for Palpatine, managing his schedule, screening his calls and contacting other Imperial dignitaries and officers on his behalf. The Imperial Ruling Council also keeps tabs on the progress of the Imperial Military and delivers news from Imperial High Command to the Emperor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Imperial_High_Command">Imperial High Command</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Imperial High Command"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Emperor leaves the actual martial management to Imperial High Command (IHC), a central command structure that notably coordinates the Galactic Empire's war effort. The cabinet enjoys much power within the government's hierarchy, being responsible for: sanctioning weapons programs (such as the TIE Defender project), supervising the armed forces, forming strategies and organizing expansionary or pacification campaigns. Despite this, Imperial High Command was unable to take any serious action against Rebel sympathizers with allies in the Imperial Senate. The group works closely with the Council of Moffs and notifies the Imperial Ruling Council on important developments. Imperial High Command's overseer is <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a> - also a Sith Lord - who relentlessly pursues the fledging Rebel Alliance, in addition to quelling insurgencies and purging the last of the Jedi Order. As Emperor Palpatine's second-in-command, Vader is treated with almost the same deference as his master and has his personal battalion and armada- the 501st Legion and "Death Squadron", respectively - at his beck and call. </p><p>Imperial High Command maintained a number of subdivisions, each charged with directing the naval, ground and intelligence assets of the Imperial Military. The most important of these were the Joint Chiefs, an executive group of senior officers who advised both the Emperor and the Commander-in-Chief on all martial-related matters. Other members included the Grand Admirals, a cadre of the 12 highest-ranking naval officers that helmed large Imperial fleets and policed Imperial Space; <a href="/wiki/Grand_Admiral_Thrawn" title="Grand Admiral Thrawn">Grand Admiral Thrawn</a>, the commander of the 7th Fleet, is the most famous of their number. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Council_of_Moffs">Council of Moffs</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Council of Moffs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Aside from the Imperial Ruling Council and Imperial High Command, power resides in the hands of "<i><a href="/wiki/Praetor" title="Praetor">Praetorian</a></i> administrators" (<a href="/wiki/Planetary_system" title="Planetary system">planetary</a> governors) that form the Council of Moffs. The cabinet is composed of 20 Moffs (<a href="/wiki/Star_cluster" title="Star cluster">sector</a> governors) and their superiors, the "Grand Moffs" (oversector governors), all of whom answer directly to the Emperor. The Moffs are senior officials who held the governorship over Administrators of minor provinces and commanded a Sector Fleet-size imperial armed forces at the sector level.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Grand Moffs are among the Galactic Empire's top figures, being on equal-footing with the Grand Vizier and the Commander-in-Chief and having been similarly appointed by the Emperor himself. The Council of Moffs works closely with Imperial High Command and is therefore able to dispose of the Imperial Military's assets to enforce the Emperor's authority in its "provinces". Governor <a href="/wiki/Grand_Moff_Tarkin" title="Grand Moff Tarkin">Wilhuff Tarkin</a> is the most prominent Grand Moff, having suggested the creation of the role<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and thus holds the distinction of being the first.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Judiciary">Judiciary</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Judiciary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the series <i>Andor</i>, the Galactic Empire is depicted as arbitrary and cruel in its rule over ordinary people, particularly when it comes to certain agencies such as the Imperial Security Bureau (ISB), which acts as a <a href="/wiki/Secret_police" title="Secret police">secret police</a> force. In the latter part of the series, the autocracy takes to retroactively extending the sentences of prisoners, moving prisoners around to different facilities after they are due to be released, <a href="/wiki/Involuntary_euthanasia" title="Involuntary euthanasia">euthanizing</a> labor camp prisoners when they become too ill to work, not permitting defendants in criminal cases to present a defense, and committing mass murder when its officers feel they are losing control of a situation. It also engages in <a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">torture</a> of subjects of interest and carries out arbitrary executions for political purposes. ISB agents are assigned to spy on political dissidents in the Imperial Senate, such as Senator <a href="/wiki/Mon_Mothma" title="Mon Mothma">Mon Mothma</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Imperial_Security_Bureau">Imperial Security Bureau</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Imperial Security Bureau"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) is the politically aligned and indoctrinated civilian intelligence branch of the Galactic Empire that is charged with matters of internal state security and law enforcement, being analogous to the <a href="/wiki/Gestapo" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">Schutzstaffel</a>, as well as the <a href="/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a>. The ISB was not a national agency, but a part of <b>COMPOR</b> (<i>Commission for the Preservation of the New Order</i>); Palpatine's own political party. Because the ISB is so directly connected and fanatically loyal to Palpatine, there are no checks and balances to their power as they did whatever Palatine wanted them to do. </p><p>Consisting of several supervisors overseeing multiple sectors, they are charged with matters of counter-terrorism, criminal investigation, <a href="/wiki/Internal_affairs_(law_enforcement)" title="Internal affairs (law enforcement)">internal affairs</a>, state security, state-sponsored propaganda and ensuring the political loyalty of citizens to the Galactic Empire. Each supervisor had at least one ISB attendant assigned to them that helped them do their duties. Veteran Colonel Wullf Yularen acts as ISB's main figurehead and spokesman, answering to the likes of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader and Amedda. </p><p>Towards the end of the Galactic Empire's reign after the death of Emperor Palpatine, ISB officers were entrusted with carrying out <b>Operation Cinder</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cinder_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cinder-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When that operation fails and the empire collapses, some former ISB officers, such as <a href="/wiki/Moff_Gideon" title="Moff Gideon">Moff Gideon</a>, become warlords and part of the Imperial remnants.<sup id="cite_ref-Saavedra1227_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Saavedra1227-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Inquisitorius">Inquisitorius</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Inquisitorius"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sith" title="Sith">Sith</a></div> <p>Outside the formal <a href="/wiki/Chain_of_command" class="mw-redirect" title="Chain of command">chain of command</a>, the Galactic Empire's reins are <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> held by the Sith, a cult of Force-wielders - called Sith Lords - that call on the dark side in their plot to dominate the galaxy and destroy the Jedi. Both Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader are part of this cult, although this is known to or guessed by only a very few figures in the regime's upper echelons, such as Governor Tarkin. The Imperial Inquisition, or Inquisitorius, acts as an extension of the Sith Order and its Force-attuned operatives, the Inquisitors, are routinely given control of Imperial Military assets to hunt down the Jedi Knights that survived the initial purge. The Inquisitors' lack of proper rank within the armed forces, as well as their reliance on "occult" ways, earn the ire of the standard officers. The Inquisitorius was founded by the Emperor and is governed by the Commander-in-Chief, but the agency is virtually led by a Grand Inquisitor who defers to both. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military">Military</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Military"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Notable_officers">Notable officers</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Notable officers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a> - Dark Lord of the Sith, thus Palpatine's second-in-command, until his death in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Endor" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Endor">Battle of Endor</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mas_Amedda" class="mw-redirect" title="Mas Amedda">Mas Amedda</a> – Grand Vizier of the Imperial Ruling Council and Vice-Chair of the Imperial Senate, later installed by Gallius Rax as puppet leader following Palpatine's death in <i><a href="/wiki/Aftermath:_Life_Debt" class="mw-redirect" title="Aftermath: Life Debt">Aftermath: Life Debt</a></i>. Amedda formally surrenders the Galactic Empire to the New Republic in <i><a href="/wiki/Aftermath:_Empire%27s_End" class="mw-redirect" title="Aftermath: Empire's End">Aftermath: Empire's End</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Moff_Tarkin" title="Grand Moff Tarkin">Wilhuff Tarkin</a> – Grand Moff of the Oversector Outer and commander of the Death Star, until his death in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Yavin" title="Battle of Yavin">Battle of Yavin</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Admiral_Thrawn" title="Grand Admiral Thrawn">Thrawn</a> – Grand Admiral of the 7th Fleet of the Imperial Navy, until being MIA upon his defeat in the liberation of Lothal.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orson_Krennic" title="Orson Krennic">Orson Krennic</a> – Head of Imperial Weapons Division<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and director of the Death Star, until his death in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Scarif" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Scarif">Battle of Scarif</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Krennic was also the Head of Advanced Weapons research.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Tarkin_Doctrine">Tarkin Doctrine</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Tarkin Doctrine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i>Star Wars</i>, the Tarkin Doctrine was the plan presented by Tarkin himself to Palpatine in 18 BBY that outlined the Empire's goal and structure: bringing order to the galaxy and restoring <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law">rule of law</a> to sectors overtaken by piracy and <a href="/wiki/Organized_crime" title="Organized crime">organized crime</a>, ending destructive conflicts through <a href="/wiki/Grand_strategy" title="Grand strategy">grand strategy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Military_doctrine" title="Military doctrine">military doctrine</a>, a plan for maximizing social control and <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a>, maintaining economic order and increasing security in the Galactic Empire. Tarkin believed the chief factor that contributed most to the demise of the Republic was not, in fact, <a href="/wiki/Clone_Wars_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clone Wars (Star Wars)">the war</a>, but rampant self-interest, which left the body politic feckless and corrupt.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Consider the self-interest of the Core Worlds, <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">unwavering in their exploitation</a> of the Outer Systems for their resources; the Outer Systems themselves, undermined, by their permissive disregard of smuggling and slavery; those ambitious members of the Senate who sought only status and opportunity. By partitioning the galaxy into regions, we, The Empire, actually achieve a unity previously absent; where once our loyalties and allegiances were divided, they now serve one being, with one goal: a cohesive galaxy in which everyone prospers. For the first time in one thousand generations our sector governors will not be working solely to enrich Coruscant and the Core Worlds, but to advance the <a href="/wiki/Quality_of_life" title="Quality of life">quality of life</a> in the star systems that make up each sector — keeping the <a href="/wiki/Trade_route" title="Trade route">spaceways safe</a>, maintaining open and accessible <a href="/wiki/Communication" title="Communication">communications</a>, assuring that <a href="/wiki/Tax_revenue" title="Tax revenue">tax revenues</a> are properly levied and allocated to improving the <a href="/wiki/Infrastructure" title="Infrastructure">infrastructure</a>.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Grand Moff Tarkin, in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Tarkin" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars: Tarkin">Star Wars: Tarkin</a></i></cite></div></blockquote> <p>The plan which Palpatine ultimately had implemented in its entirety contained three main principles: territorial consolidation, rapid communication, and <a href="/wiki/Coercive_diplomacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Coercive diplomacy">coercive diplomacy</a>. Tarkin's concept was that rule could be established and maintained "through fear of force rather than force itself", and he believed grand displays of power—when combined with oppressive means of terrorizing communities—could suppress dissent and crush any would-be rebellion. This Doctrine became the Empire's core military doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Peacekeeping" title="Peacekeeping">peacekeeping</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internal_security" title="Internal security">internal security</a>, <a href="/wiki/Counter-insurgency" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-insurgency">counter-insurgency</a>, and <a href="/wiki/State_terrorism" title="State terrorism">state terrorism</a>-philosophy. The instrument of this power is the military, which includes the Imperial stormtroopers, a massive fleet of about 1,000 <a href="/wiki/Star_Destroyer" title="Star Destroyer">Star Destroyers</a>, a couple of Super Star Destroyers, and the <a href="/wiki/Death_Star" title="Death Star">Death Star</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">moon</a>-sized <a href="/wiki/Superweapon" class="mw-redirect" title="Superweapon">superweapon</a> capable of destroying entire planets.<sup id="cite_ref-strategy_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strategy-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Plans for the Death Star first appear (in <a href="/wiki/Fictional_universe" title="Fictional universe">universe</a> chronology) in <i>Attack of the Clones</i> and construction begins at the end of <i>Revenge of the Sith</i>. Summarized measures set forth by the Tarkin Doctrine: </p> <ul><li>Establish "Oversectors" which contain tumultuous systems; to monitor and react to rebellious activities within those systems. Oversectors would be formed without regard for the borders of standard sectors and would receive more forces than other regions of the Empire. This Imperial presence would be designed to stop small rebel factions before they could become a larger established threat. An average of three Sector Groups would be deployed in an Oversector.</li> <li>Assign command of each Oversector to a single individual who reports directly to the Emperor, in order to eliminate any delays created by political opportunism by Imperial advisors.</li> <li>Improve communication resources and Imperial response time by placing modified HoloNet transceivers (cannibalized from existing HoloNet transceivers) aboard each flagship of every Sector Group within an Oversector command. Place similar facilities aboard the Emperor's flagship and in Imperial City on Imperial Centre (formally Coruscant).</li> <li>Control unruly portions of the Galaxy through a fear of force rather than force itself. Through the combination of superior coordination of multiple Oversector groups and the control of information (news media) an impression of overwhelming force will be installed within the citizenry, thereby instilling the idea that resistance is futile.</li> <li>Continue to research and develop new and more powerful starships and weapons designed to inspire fear in the resistant systems. Present the citizen with a weapon so powerful, so immense as to defy all conceivable attack against it, a weapon invulnerable and invincible in battle, that shall become a symbol for the Empire. This weapon must possess a power great enough to dispatch an entire system. Only a handful or one of these weapons would be required to accomplish this task.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Imperial_Navy">Imperial Navy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Imperial Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Star_Destroyer" title="Star Destroyer">Star Destroyer</a></div> <p>The Imperial Naval Command (INC), also referred to as the Imperial Starfleet, is the foremost military arm of the Galactic Empire in charge of maintaining security, peace and order in the galaxy. Led by Darth Vader, it absorbed the military forces of the Galactic Republic after Emperor Palpatine's declaration of the New Order. </p><p>At its peak, the Imperial Navy fields millions of warships, including an estimated 25,000 Star Destroyers, fulfilling the Emperor's will throughout the galaxy. The Empire's central warship cadre is well structured and uniformed, but the Imperial Navy suffers against strike craft, largely due to the inadequacies of its own starfighters and point defense. The Empire's focus on size, firepower, and terror comes at the expense of a well-balanced fleet. After its defeat at the Battle of Endor, the Galactic Empire splits up into warring factions, and the Imperial Starfleet along with it. While much of the remnants of the Imperial Navy are later reunited under impressive Imperial commanders, the military organization ceases to exist shortly after the death of the Emperor. </p><p>Specific responsibilities of the Imperial Navy include defending Imperial citizens from space-based threats (such as pirates, smugglers and rebel contingents), enforcing Imperial will, and overseeing commerce through customs and blockade operations. The Imperial Navy also performs orbital bombardments and transports major ground force deployments, supporting them with space, orbital, and aerial support. Imperial Navy officers wear the same standard uniform that their Army counterparts use but is colored grey, and both services use colored chest plaques to denote rank. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Imperial_Starfighter_Corps">Imperial Starfighter Corps</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Imperial Starfighter Corps"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/TIE_fighter" title="TIE fighter">TIE fighter</a></div> <p>The Imperial Starfighter Corps (ISC) was the starfighter pilot branch of the Galactic Empire. Although the Corps was a component of the Navy,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> most pilots were assigned to ground operations with the Imperial Army.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Imperial starfighters include TIE (Twin Ion Engine) fighters, TIE interceptors, TIE Defenders, TIE Brutes, TIE strikers, and TIE bombers. The Corps were scattered after the Battle of Endor (4 ABY). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Imperial_Army">Imperial Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Imperial Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Imperial Army was the ground based force. Imperial Army enlisted soldiers wore gray uniforms with a mandarin collar and four pockets along with chest pieces similar to Stormtroopers but in black. Corporals displayed their rank on one of their shoulder pauldrons with a single white diagonal stripe. They also wore a gray Imperial kepi or Imperial Combat Helmet </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Imperial_Stormtrooper_Corps">Imperial Stormtrooper Corps</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Imperial Stormtrooper Corps"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Stormtrooper_(Star_Wars)" title="Stormtrooper (Star Wars)">Stormtrooper (Star Wars)</a></div> <p>Imperial Stormtrooper Corps (ISC) are elite corps of rapid response all-environment <a href="/wiki/Shock_troops" title="Shock troops">shock troops</a>—organized like the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Marine_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Marine Corps">U.S. Marine Corps</a> with their own separate divisions. The Stormtroopers operate in conjunction with the Army Ground Troopers and Navy Marine Troopers—who were used as garrison forces—to reinforce and hold defensive positions until the regular military arrived. When not in their signature white armor, stormtrooper officers wear black uniforms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Galactic_Civil_War">Galactic Civil War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Galactic Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the formation of the Empire and the purge of the Jedi, Palpatine declares <a href="/wiki/Martial_law" title="Martial law">martial law</a> throughout the galaxy. Those in hiding, or attempting to either flee from or oppose the New Imperial Order, are subject to persecution or death. This is the start of the bloody decades-long Galactic Civil War fought between the Empire and the <a href="/wiki/Rebel_Alliance" title="Rebel Alliance">Rebel Alliance</a>. </p><p>As portrayed in the live-action series <i><a href="/wiki/Andor_(TV_series)" title="Andor (TV series)">Andor</a></i>, one single moment in Galactic history completely changed the Empire's policy towards its citizens and therefore changed its relationship with its citizens. In 5 BBY, on the relatively unremarkable planet of Aldhani, a small Rebel team managed to infiltrate the local Imperial depository, stealing a decent portion of the sector payroll. This created a massive Imperial overreaction, increasing their security spending and draconian law enforcement policies, making all future rebellious activity even more costly and difficult, which is exactly what the mastermind of this heist <a href="/wiki/Luthen_Rael" class="mw-redirect" title="Luthen Rael">Luthen Rael</a> wanted. </p><p>As portrayed in the animated series <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Rebels" title="Star Wars Rebels">Star Wars Rebels</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Bad_Batch" title="Star Wars: The Bad Batch">The Bad Batch</a></i>, the Empire explores ways to weaponize Force-sensitive <a href="/wiki/Kyber_crystal" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyber crystal">kyber crystals</a>, which are sacred to the Jedi and are at the core of every <a href="/wiki/Lightsaber" title="Lightsaber">lightsaber</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They mine for kyber crystals across worlds, but are thwarted twice in securing massive crystals by the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_Rebels_characters#Main_characters" title="List of Star Wars Rebels characters"><i>Ghost</i> crew</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saw_Gerrera" title="Saw Gerrera">Saw Gerrera</a>. On <a href="/wiki/Jedha" class="mw-redirect" title="Jedha">Jedha</a>, however, the Empire uncovers a surplus of kyber, with which they power the Death Star. </p><p>The Death Star, a moon-sized battle station with sufficient firepower to destroy an entire planet, is designed to be the ultimate weapon of the Empire's power. Tarkin, the station's commander, demonstrates that power in <i>A New Hope</i> when he destroys <a href="/wiki/Alderaan" title="Alderaan">Alderaan</a> as a show of force.<sup id="cite_ref-strategy_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strategy-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Yavin" title="Battle of Yavin">film's climactic scene</a>, however, the station is attacked by Rebel starfighters who have come into possession of the station's blueprints. The battle ends with the Death Star's destruction at the hands of <a href="/wiki/Luke_Skywalker" title="Luke Skywalker">Luke Skywalker</a>, which is the Rebel Alliance's first major military success against the Empire.<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Politically, Alderann's destruction was a watershed moment for most Imperial Loyalists, many whom would later defect to the Alliance; it revealed the Empire's willingness to kill loyalists on Alderaan, along with millions of innocents, just to prove a point to a rebellious Senator. Tarkin's Doctine, meant to perpetually "tighten the noose" and instill fear of being killed for engaging in Rebellion, eventually get overridden by people realizing that no one was actually safe. </p><p>After the <i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Yavin" title="Battle of Yavin">Battle of Yavin</a></i>, Vader's special powers as Commander-in-Chief are increased by Palpatine, granting him full command over all other officials and officers to ease his campaign against the Rebellion. In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a></i>, Vader becomes obsessed with finding the <a href="/wiki/The_Force" title="The Force">Force</a>-sensitive Luke<sup id="cite_ref-Darth_Vader_Databank_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Darth_Vader_Databank-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and leads his <a href="/wiki/Imperial_stormtrooper" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial stormtrooper">stormtroopers</a> to attack on the Rebel base on <a href="/wiki/Hoth" title="Hoth">Hoth</a>, but the Rebels escape. Vader would continue to systematically and ruthlessly dismantle Alliance assets, and to hunt for Luke in the process, forcing Alliance survivors to abandon all static bases and regroup with <a href="/wiki/Home_One" class="mw-redirect" title="Home One">Alliance HQ</a> and remain nomadic. </p><p>In <i>Return of the Jedi</i>, after four years of conflict and near constant harassments by Vader's forces, the Alliance achieves a decisive victory over the Empire during the <i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Endor" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Endor">Battle of Endor</a></i>. In the film's climactic battle, the Rebellion destroys the second Death Star and a number of capital ships that contain a great portion of the Imperial Navy's highest-ranking officers. During this battle, Vader redeems himself by sacrificing his life to kill Palpatine in order to save his son, Luke Skywalker.<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The dual loss of the Emperor and his right-hand, the Commander-in-Chief, creates a power vacuum of chaos and instability. By design, the Empire had no clear line of succession; and there was no next-in-line after Palpatine and Vader. Revolts, infighting, <a href="/wiki/Fiefdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiefdom">fiefdoms</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warlord" title="Warlord">warlordism</a> gradually fracture the Empire apart more effectively than any damage capable of being inflicted by the Rebel Alliance, as the Moffs and Grand Moffs maneuver to grab power for themselves amidst civil unrest. </p><p>Palpatine left posthumous orders. Upon verification of his death, messenger droids are sent to select Imperial officers to relay his last orders: to begin <i>Operation: Cinder</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Scorched_earth_policy" class="mw-redirect" title="Scorched earth policy">scorched earth policy</a> tasking hardline Imperials to destroy entire planets so the Rebellion cannot claim them.<sup id="cite_ref-A_Long_Time_Ago_14-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Long_Time_Ago-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fallen Emperor does not desire the Empire to continue without his presence; if he cannot live forever as the galaxy's Emperor, he would rather see it destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A year after the Battle of Endor, the bolstered Rebellion <a href="/wiki/Ceasefire" title="Ceasefire">defeats</a> the weakened Empire during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jakku" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Jakku">Battle of Jakku</a> and formally establishes the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Republic" title="Galactic Republic">New Republic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Republic_Era">New Republic Era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: New Republic Era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the time of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mandalorian" title="The Mandalorian">The Mandalorian</a></i>, set five years after the Battle of Endor, the Galactic Empire no longer exists as an official government or a major power and is essentially a <a href="/wiki/Failed_state" title="Failed state">failed state</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its former leaders who are now <a href="/wiki/Warlord" title="Warlord">warlords</a> that represent several different <a href="/wiki/Rump_state" title="Rump state">rump states</a>, are <a href="/wiki/Civil_war" title="Civil war">competing with each other</a>, <a href="/wiki/Two-front_war" title="Two-front war">as well as</a> the New Republic over the <a href="/wiki/Power_vacuum" title="Power vacuum">power vacuum</a> left behind. One Imperial remnant established a base on the planet Nevarro, where <a href="/wiki/Mandalorian" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandalorian">Mandalorian</a> bounty hunter <a href="/wiki/The_Mandalorian_(character)" title="The Mandalorian (character)">Din Djarin</a> was hired to acquire an asset, later revealed to be a Force-sensitive infant named <a href="/wiki/Grogu" title="Grogu">Grogu</a>. Djarin abandoned his job and decided to protect the child, making him an enemy of the Imperial warlord <a href="/wiki/Moff_Gideon" title="Moff Gideon">Moff Gideon</a> and his army of mercenary stormtroopers. </p><p>Djarin later returned to Nevarro, reuniting with his allies <a href="/wiki/Greef_Karga" title="Greef Karga">Greef Karga</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cara_Dune" title="Cara Dune">Cara Dune</a>, as well as an unnamed Mythrol, to take down an Imperial facility to eradicate the Empire's presence on the planet. The group soon discovered that it was housing Imperial experiments, using blood rich in <a href="/wiki/Midichlorians" class="mw-redirect" title="Midichlorians">midichlorians</a> obtained from Grogu. The group succeeded in taking down the base. Gideon was informed of the developments while overseeing a unit of enhanced droids known as darktroopers, who would later help him capture Grogu. Djarin led a mission to rescue Grogu, assisted by several allies including Dune, <a href="/wiki/Boba_Fett" title="Boba Fett">Boba Fett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fennec_Shand" title="Fennec Shand">Fennec Shand</a>, and Mandalorian warrior <a href="/wiki/Bo-Katan_Kryze" title="Bo-Katan Kryze">Bo-Katan Kryze</a>. The group boarded Gideon's command ship and subdued him. Djarin turned Grogu over to Luke Skywalker, who took down the Moff's darktroopers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Successor">Successor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Successor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars)" title="First Order (Star Wars)">First Order (Star Wars)</a></div> <p>The most successful remnants of the Empire reformed as the <a href="/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars)" title="First Order (Star Wars)">First Order</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_Snoke" title="Supreme Leader Snoke">Supreme Leader Snoke</a> and former Imperial officers. They become a major faction in the galaxy in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens" title="Star Wars: The Force Awakens">The Force Awakens</a></i> and face a reformed Rebel Alliance called the Resistance. The First Order rises to power through the use of Starkiller Base, a planet-converted superweapon that later destroys the Hosnian system, the location of the New Republic's capital. Starkiller Base is destroyed by the Resistance in <i>The Force Awakens</i>. In the sequel <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Last_Jedi" title="Star Wars: The Last Jedi">The Last Jedi</a></i>, however, First Order forces draw the Resistance out of hiding and wipe out a majority of their fleet. During the battle, Snoke is killed by his apprentice <a href="/wiki/Kylo_Ren" title="Kylo Ren">Kylo Ren</a>, who assumes the title of Supreme Leader. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Rise_of_Skywalker" title="Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker">The Rise of Skywalker</a></i>, the final film in <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy" title="Star Wars sequel trilogy">the sequel trilogy</a>, the First Order allies itself with the <a href="/wiki/Sith#Sith_Eternal" title="Sith">Sith Eternal</a>, a cult led by Palpatine, who had transferred his essence into a cloned body and formerly positioned himself to control the First Order over Snoke, a <a href="/wiki/Puppet_ruler" title="Puppet ruler">puppet ruler</a>. The cult is stationed on the isolated Sith planet of Exegol. Palpatine offers Ren, who had tracked him to the planet, control of the Sith Eternal's fleet, the Final Order, in exchange for killing the young Jedi <a href="/wiki/Rey_(Star_Wars)" title="Rey (Star Wars)">Rey</a>, Palpatine's own granddaughter. Ren initially accepts the assignment, but later forsakes the dark side after a duel with Rey in the wreckage of the second Death Star. With Ren's defection, Palpatine turns command over to Allegiant General <a href="/wiki/Enric_Pryde" class="mw-redirect" title="Enric Pryde">Enric Pryde</a>, previously an Imperial officer. </p><p>With help from the spirit of Luke Skywalker, Rey eventually makes her way to Exegol, guiding the Resistance away to the planet to take down the Sith Eternal forces, including the Sith fleet. With help from a redeemed Ren and the spirits of Jedi past, she resists Palpatine's promises of power and turns his own <a href="/wiki/Force_lightning" class="mw-redirect" title="Force lightning">Force lightning</a> against him, destroying the Sith Lord once and for all. The Resistance, with help from their allies across the galaxy, destroys the remaining Sith forces and prevents an establishment of a new Sith Empire. Without reinforcements of the Sith, people across the galaxy rises up against the First Order. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legends"><i>Legends</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Legends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Legends" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars Legends">Star Wars Legends</a></div> <p>With the 2012 acquisition of <a href="/wiki/Lucasfilm" title="Lucasfilm">Lucasfilm</a> by <a href="/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">The Walt Disney Company</a>, most of the licensed <i>Star Wars</i> Expanded Universe material was rebranded as <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Legends" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars Legends">Star Wars Legends</a></i> and declared <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_canon" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars canon">non-canon to the franchise</a> on April 25, 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-SW_Adult_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SW_Adult-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-THR_Legends_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-THR_Legends-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SW_Legends_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SW_Legends-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Thrawn_trilogy"><i>Thrawn</i> trilogy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Thrawn trilogy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Zahn" title="Timothy Zahn">Timothy Zahn</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Thrawn_trilogy" title="Thrawn trilogy">Thrawn trilogy</a>" of novels – <i><a href="/wiki/Heir_to_the_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Heir to the Empire">Heir to the Empire</a></i> (1991), <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Force_Rising" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark Force Rising">Dark Force Rising</a></i> (1992), and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Command_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Last Command (novel)">The Last Command</a></i> (1993) – an army of former Imperials, led by <a href="/wiki/Grand_Admiral_Thrawn" title="Grand Admiral Thrawn">Grand Admiral Thrawn</a>, attempt to overthrow the New Republic and install a dictatorship known as the Empire of the Hand. The backstory of the series explains that following their defeat at the Battle of Endor, the galactic sectors that are still under Imperial control are now governed by several different <a href="/wiki/Military_junta" title="Military junta">military juntas</a> that <a href="/wiki/Civil_war" title="Civil war">fight each other</a> in a conflict known as the Imperial Civil War, all the while <a href="/wiki/Two-front_war" title="Two-front war">resuming</a> the Galactic Civil War with the Rebellion's successor, the New Republic, for control of the galaxy for years until mostly uniting under Grand Admiral Thrawn. By the time of <i>The Last Command</i>, Thrawn has nearly defeated the New Republic, but they claim victory in a last-ditch effort, and Thrawn is killed by his bodyguard, shattering the Empire's unity. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Agent_of_the_Empire"><i>Agent of the Empire</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Agent of the Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Agent of the Empire</i> is a 10-issue comic book series published by <a href="/wiki/Dark_Horse_Comics" title="Dark Horse Comics">Dark Horse Comics</a> from 2011 to 2013. It was written by <a href="/wiki/John_Ostrander" title="John Ostrander">John Ostrander</a> and illustrated by <a href="/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Roux_(comics)" title="Stéphane Roux (comics)">Stephane Roux</a>, and is set three years before the original <i>Star Wars</i> film. Two five-issue story arcs follow an Imperial <a href="/wiki/Secret_agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret agent">secret agent</a>, and feature characters such as <a href="/wiki/Han_Solo" title="Han Solo">Han Solo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia" title="Princess Leia">Princess Leia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boba_Fett" title="Boba Fett">Boba Fett</a>. Both arcs were collected in <a href="/wiki/Trade_paperback_(comics)" title="Trade paperback (comics)">trade paperback</a> volumes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Jedi_Prince"><i>Jedi Prince</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Jedi Prince"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Jedi_Prince" class="mw-redirect" title="Jedi Prince">Jedi Prince</a></i> novel series, a group of impostors calling themselves the Prophets of the Dark Side install a three-eyed <a href="/wiki/Mutant_(fiction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mutant (fiction)">mutant</a> named <a href="/wiki/Trioculus" class="mw-redirect" title="Trioculus">Trioculus</a> as Emperor by claiming that he is Palpatine's son, reforming the Empire (as Trioculus's Empire). By the end of the series, Palpatine's true son, Triclops, helps the New Republic defeat this new enemy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Dark_Empire"><i>Dark Empire</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Dark Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Empire" title="Dark Empire">Dark Empire</a></i> comic book series, Palpatine is reborn in a <a href="/wiki/Cloning" title="Cloning">clone</a> body and unites most of the scattered remnants of the Empire (forming the Dark Empire), hoping to retake control of the galaxy. By the sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/Empire%27s_End" class="mw-redirect" title="Empire's End">Empire's End</a></i>, he is defeated and destroyed once and for all. Following the final death of Palpatine, Luke Skywalker, influenced by the force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi, starts the New Jedi Order in an ancient temple on <a href="/wiki/Yavin_4" title="Yavin 4">Yavin 4</a>, which had undone the Emperor's purge of the Old Jedi Order 28 years earlier at the rise of the Galactic Empire. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Jedi_Academy_trilogy"><i>Jedi Academy</i> trilogy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Jedi Academy trilogy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Jedi_Academy_trilogy" title="Jedi Academy trilogy"><i>Jedi Academy</i> trilogy</a>, an Imperial admiral named <a href="/wiki/Admiral_Natasi_Daala" class="mw-redirect" title="Admiral Natasi Daala">Daala</a> commandeers the remainder of the Imperial Navy (the Crimson Empire) and mounts a ferocious assault on the New Republic. She nearly succeeds in taking over the galaxy, but is foiled by New Republic pilots <a href="/wiki/Wedge_Antilles" title="Wedge Antilles">Wedge Antilles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lando_Calrissian" title="Lando Calrissian">Lando Calrissian</a> in the final entry, <i><a href="/wiki/Champions_of_the_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Champions of the Force">Champions of the Force</a></i>. A year later she would arrange the assassination of the rival Imperial warlords to unify the feuding Imperial factions into the Imperial Remnant and bring an end to the Imperial Civil War. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Darksaber"><i>Darksaber</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Darksaber"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1995 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Darksaber_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Darksaber (novel)">Darksaber</a></i>, Daala, frustrated with the Imperial warlords in the Core fighting and bickering amongst themselves, orchestrates the warlords' deaths and unites and becomes the leader of the remaining Imperial forces. After being defeated in battle once again by the New Republic, she resigns and selects <a href="/wiki/Gilad_Pellaeon" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilad Pellaeon">Gilad Pellaeon</a> (originally in the <a href="/wiki/Thrawn_trilogy" title="Thrawn trilogy"><i>Thrawn</i> trilogy</a>) as the new leader, where he becomes Grand Admiral Pellaeon. At the end of the novel, he signs a <a href="/wiki/Ceasefire" title="Ceasefire">peace treaty</a> with the New Republic representative Ponc Gavrisom and finally ends the Galactic Civil War. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_Jedi_Order"><i>New Jedi Order</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: New Jedi Order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the time of the <i><a href="/wiki/New_Jedi_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="New Jedi Order">New Jedi Order</a></i> series, the remaining Imperial military factions sign a truce with the New Republic, becoming the Imperial Remnant. The former enemies then become allies against the invading <a href="/wiki/Yuuzhan_Vong" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuuzhan Vong">Yuuzhan Vong</a>. A few years later, the Remnant help the Galactic Alliance fight an assimilating insect species known as the Killiks, which become a third party in the Second Galactic Civil War. Eventually, they make peace with the Alliance and Confederation. All three of these are represented by former Imperial commanders. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Legacy"><i>Legacy</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Legacy" title="Star Wars: Legacy">Star Wars: Legacy</a></i> comic book series, set 127 years after the original <i>Star Wars</i> film, explains that, during a <a href="/wiki/Civil_war" title="Civil war">civil war</a>, the New Galactic Empire known as the Fel Empire declares war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (Galactic Alliance), the successor state of the New Republic, after 83 years of a <a href="/wiki/Cold_war_(term)" title="Cold war (term)">cold war</a> that began in 44 ABY. This conflict begins the Sith-Imperial War, which after three years leads to the eventual defeat of the Galactic Alliance and the Galactic Empire asserting its domination over the galaxy once again in 130 ABY. A few months later, the Sith <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">overthrows</a> the Fel Empire. The Sith Lord <a href="/wiki/Darth_Krayt" class="mw-redirect" title="Darth Krayt">Darth Krayt</a>, the leader of the One Sith, usurps the throne and forces Emperor Roan Fel to take refuge in the fortress planet of Bastion. </p><p>In 138 ABY, the Galactic Alliance Remnant led by Admiral Gar Stazi, Fel's forces known as the Empire-in-exile led by Empress Marasiah Fel, and the New Jedi Order led by Jedi Master K'Krukk unite against Krayt's empire and eventually destroy it in the Battle of Coruscant, after a grand total of 157 years of its existence. The three united factions form a new galactic government called the Galactic Federation Triumvirate. </p><p>The One Sith, led by Darth Wredd, remains at large and wages a war against the GFT. One year later, the former Empire-in-exile works with the other two factions, killing Wredd, rounding up all surviving members including their new leader Darth Nihl, and permanently dissolving the One Sith and the Sith religion itself for good. The next year, the GFT defeats the secular alliances of the One Sith and in the aftermath of that conflict, the galaxy after 172 years of Palpatine's influence, enters an era of peace and unity for the first time since before the Clone Wars. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Isaac_Asimov)" class="mw-redirect" title="Galactic Empire (Isaac Asimov)">Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperium_(Warhammer_40,000)" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperium (Warhammer 40,000)">Imperium of Mankind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_characters" title="List of Star Wars characters">List of <i>Star Wars</i> characters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction" title="Utopian and dystopian fiction">Utopian and dystopian fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_terrorism" title="State terrorism">State terrorism</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The following, (disputed) commissionary heads of the Galactic Empire, Mas Amedda (4 ABY–5 ABY), Rae Sloane (5 ABY) and Gallius Rax (5 ABY), were not called Emperors and did not hold full powers. Max Amedda was officially the Empire’s Leader in name, but lacked any power</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Which later becomes the <a href="/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars)" title="First Order (Star Wars)">First Order</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A standard Sector Group was composed of 2,400 military assets, of which 24 were <i>Imperial</i>-class star destroyers; an additional 1,600 were escort and auxiliary warships</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cinder-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Cinder_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">As seen in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_(2017_video_game)" title="Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game)">Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game)</a></i>, and introduced in the 2015 Marvel Comics miniseries <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Shattered_Empire" title="Star Wars: Shattered Empire">Shattered Empire</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-avclub_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-avclub-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Sansweet224-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Sansweet224_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSansweet1998" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Steve_Sansweet" title="Steve Sansweet">Sansweet, Steve</a>, ed. 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(January 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">George Lucas, commentary, <i>Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi</i>, Special Edition (DVD, 20th Century Fox, 2004), disc 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-How_Star_Wars_Conquered_the_Universe_2015._Pp._87-88-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-How_Star_Wars_Conquered_the_Universe_2015._Pp._87-88_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTaylor2015" class="citation book cs1">Taylor, Chris (2015). <i>How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise</i>. 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_films" title="List of Star Wars films">Films</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Admiral_Ackbar" title="Admiral Ackbar">Admiral Ackbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padm%C3%A9_Amidala" title="Padmé Amidala">Padmé Amidala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassian_Andor" title="Cassian Andor">Cassian Andor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wedge_Antilles" title="Wedge Antilles">Wedge Antilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BB-8" title="BB-8">BB-8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tobias_Beckett" title="Tobias Beckett">Tobias Beckett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jar_Jar_Binks" title="Jar Jar Binks">Jar Jar Binks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-3PO" title="C-3PO">C-3PO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lando_Calrissian" title="Lando Calrissian">Lando Calrissian</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Qui-Gon_Jinn" title="Qui-Gon Jinn">Qui-Gon Jinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K-2SO" title="K-2SO">K-2SO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maz_Kanata" title="Maz Kanata">Maz Kanata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi" title="Obi-Wan Kenobi">Obi-Wan Kenobi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orson_Krennic" title="Orson Krennic">Orson Krennic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darth_Maul" title="Darth Maul">Darth Maul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mon_Mothma" title="Mon Mothma">Mon Mothma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nien_Nunb" class="mw-redirect" title="Nien Nunb">Nien Nunb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia" title="Princess Leia">Leia Organa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palpatine" title="Palpatine">Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captain_Phasma" title="Captain Phasma">Captain Phasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiral_Piett" title="Admiral Piett">Admiral Piett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qi%27ra" title="Qi'ra">Qi'ra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R2-D2" title="R2-D2">R2-D2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kylo_Ren" title="Kylo Ren">Kylo Ren / Ben Solo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rey_(Star_Wars)" title="Rey (Star Wars)">Rey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luke_Skywalker" title="Luke Skywalker">Luke Skywalker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_Snoke" title="Supreme Leader Snoke">Supreme Leader Snoke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Solo" title="Han Solo">Han Solo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Moff_Tarkin" title="Grand Moff Tarkin">Grand Moff Tarkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Tico" title="Rose Tico">Rose Tico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quinlan_Vos" title="Quinlan Vos">Quinlan Vos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wicket_W._Warrick" class="mw-redirect" title="Wicket W. Warrick">Wicket W. Warrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watto" title="Watto">Watto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mace_Windu" title="Mace Windu">Mace Windu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoda" title="Yoda">Yoda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_television_series" title="List of Star Wars television series">Television<br />series</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Armorer" title="The Armorer">The Armorer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cad_Bane" title="Cad Bane">Cad Bane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezra_Bridger" title="Ezra Bridger">Ezra Bridger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Client_(Star_Wars)" title="The Client (Star Wars)">The Client</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cara_Dune" title="Cara Dune">Cara Dune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moff_Gideon" title="Moff Gideon">Moff Gideon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grogu" title="Grogu">Din Grogu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IG-11" title="IG-11">IG-11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanan_Jarrus" title="Kanan Jarrus">Kanan Jarrus / Caleb Dume</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greef_Karga" title="Greef Karga">Greef Karga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo-Katan_Kryze" title="Bo-Katan Kryze">Bo-Katan Kryze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuiil" title="Kuiil">Kuiil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Mandalorian_(character)" title="The Mandalorian (character)">The Mandalorian / Din Djarin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Migs_Mayfeld" title="Migs Mayfeld">Migs Mayfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captain_Rex" title="Captain Rex">Captain Rex / CT-7567</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fennec_Shand" title="Fennec Shand">Fennec Shand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hera_Syndulla" title="Hera Syndulla">Hera Syndulla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahsoka_Tano" title="Ahsoka Tano">Ahsoka Tano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asajj_Ventress" title="Asajj Ventress">Asajj Ventress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paz_Vizsla" title="Paz Vizsla">Paz Vizsla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabine_Wren" title="Sabine Wren">Sabine Wren</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4em"><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_video_games" title="Star Wars video games">Video games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HK-47" title="HK-47">B-1 (Mister Bones)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cal_Kestis" title="Cal Kestis">Cal Kestis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iden_Versio" title="Iden Versio">Iden Versio</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4em">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Aphra" title="Doctor Aphra">Doctor Aphra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darth_Bane" title="Darth Bane">Darth Bane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Krrsantan" title="Black Krrsantan">Black Krrsantan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darth_Plagueis" title="Darth Plagueis">Darth Plagueis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren_(Star_Wars)" title="Ren (Star Wars)">Ren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Admiral_Thrawn" title="Grand Admiral Thrawn">Grand Admiral Thrawn / Mitth'raw'nuruodo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cobb_Vanth" title="Cobb Vanth">Cobb Vanth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4em"><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Legends" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars Legends">Legends</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4em">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mara_Jade" title="Mara Jade">Mara Jade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacen_Solo" title="Jacen Solo">Jacen Solo / Darth Caedus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tag_and_Bink" title="Tag and Bink">Tag and Bink</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4em">Video games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HK-47" title="HK-47">HK-47</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kreia" title="Kreia">Kreia / Darth Traya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4em">Lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_Rebels_characters" title="List of Star Wars Rebels characters">Rebels</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_The_Mandalorian_characters" title="List of The Mandalorian characters">The Mandalorian</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_The_Book_of_Boba_Fett_characters" title="List of The Book of Boba Fett characters">The Book of Boba Fett</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_Legends_characters" title="List of Star Wars Legends characters">Legends</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Characters_of_the_Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic_series" title="Characters of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series">Knights of the Old Republic</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4em">Groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Skywalker_family" title="Skywalker family">Skywalker family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Rebo_Band" title="Max Rebo Band">Max Rebo Band</a></li> <li>Military groups <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clone_trooper" title="Clone trooper">Clone troopers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stormtrooper_(Star_Wars)" title="Stormtrooper (Star Wars)">Stormtroopers</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Republican factions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jedi" title="Jedi">Jedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galactic_Republic" title="Galactic Republic">Galactic Republic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_High_Republic" title="Star Wars: The High Republic">High Republic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebel_Alliance" title="Rebel Alliance">Rebel Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resistance_(Star_Wars)" title="Resistance (Star Wars)">Resistance</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Imperialist factions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sith" title="Sith">Sith</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Galactic Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars)" title="First Order (Star Wars)">First Order</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Independent factions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clone_Wars_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clone Wars (Star Wars)">Confederacy of Independent Systems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guardians_of_the_Whills" title="Guardians of the Whills">Guardians of the Whills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandalorians" title="Mandalorians">Mandalorians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_planets_and_moons" title="List of Star Wars planets and moons">Planets<br />and moons</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alderaan" title="Alderaan">Alderaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coruscant" title="Coruscant">Coruscant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagobah" title="Dagobah">Dagobah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endor_(Star_Wars)" title="Endor (Star Wars)">Endor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoth" title="Hoth">Hoth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jakku" title="Jakku">Jakku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naboo" title="Naboo">Naboo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatooine" title="Tatooine">Tatooine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mos_Eisley" title="Mos Eisley">Mos Eisley</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yavin" class="mw-redirect" title="Yavin">Yavin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_creatures" title="List of Star Wars creatures">Creatures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Sapient species</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_species_(A%E2%80%93E)" title="List of Star Wars species (A–E)">A–E</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ewok" title="Ewok">Ewok</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_species_(F%E2%80%93J)" title="List of Star Wars species (F–J)">F–J</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hutt_(Star_Wars)" title="Hutt (Star Wars)">Hutt</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_species_(K%E2%80%93O)" title="List of Star Wars species (K–O)">K–O</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_species_(P%E2%80%93T)" title="List of Star Wars species (P–T)">P–T</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tusken_Raiders" title="Tusken Raiders">Tusken Raiders</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_species_(U%E2%80%93Z)" title="List of Star Wars species (U–Z)">U–Z</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wookiee" title="Wookiee">Wookiee</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em">Other creatures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bantha" title="Bantha">Bantha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Droid_(Star_Wars)" title="Droid (Star Wars)">Droid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarlacc" title="Sarlacc">Sarlacc</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Technology_in_Star_Wars" title="Technology in Star Wars">Technology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_weapons" title="List of Star Wars weapons">Weapons</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blaster_(Star_Wars)" title="Blaster (Star Wars)">Blaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lightsaber" title="Lightsaber">Lightsaber</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:10em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_air,_aquatic,_and_ground_vehicles" title="List of Star Wars air, 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