
The Rebels amounted an attack against the incomplete Death Star II which resulted in the deaths of Han Solo and Leia Organa on the ground, while aboard the station, Vader was slain by his son Luke Skywalker, who took his place by the Emperor. The Alliance scored further victories for the next four years, but fell for a trap set up by the Emperor over Endor in 4 ABY. Beginning in 2 BBY, a war between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance occurred, with the Alliance scoring their first major blow against the Empire at the Battle of Yavin, destroying the Death Star. However, he turned to the light side of the Force and sacrificed himself for them to escape, and the Alliance to Restore the Republic was founded. Darth Vader's apprentice, Galen Marek, rounded up the top dissidents and they were arrested, imprisoned on the Death Star. Over the next several years, the true authoritarian nature of the Empire became known, leading to several uprisings and rebellions springing up across the galaxy against Imperial rule. A galaxy-spanning hunt was issued against any surviving Jedi. Palpatine declared himself Emperor shortly afterward, ending the Republic that had existed for 25,034 years. That, combined with the massacre of Jedi at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant by the 501st Legion and Palpatine's apprentice, Darth Vader, led to the near extinction of the Jedi Order. Palpatine issued Order 66, a contingency order for the Grand Army of the Republic, which tasked all clone troopers with executing their Jedi leaders. However, in actuality, it was part of a thousand year-old grand plan executed by the Sith to take over the galaxy.Īfter the deaths of Count Dooku over Coruscant, General Grievous at Utapau, and the Separatist Council on Mustafar, the Confederacy was dissolved, and it's droid armies deactivated. Officially, Palpatine formed it to eliminate the corruption and bureaucracy of the old Republic, and to provide further security, in order to prevent another Separatist movement.

Declaring himself the Galactic Emperor, he reformed the old Republic into the Empire following the political turmoil caused by the Clone Wars. The Galactic Empire, also known as the New Order, the Galactic Imperium, Palpatine's Empire, or more simply, the Empire, was a galactic government founded in 19 BBY by the last Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, Palpatine. Of a safe and secure society! We are an Empire that will stand for ten thousand years!

We are an Empire ruled by the majority! An Empire ruled by a new Constitution! An Empire of laws, not of politicians! An Empire devoted to the preservation of a just society.
