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|goal = Bring order to the Galaxy<br>Rule the galaxy through fear and tyranny}}
|goal = Bring order to the Galaxy<br>Rule the galaxy through fear and tyranny}}
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The '''Galactic Empire''' was a tyrannical, dictatorial government formed by [[Galactic Republic]] Supreme Chancellor [[Emperor Palpatine|Sheev Palpatine]] that brought him to power as the self-declared Galactic Emperor, replacing the Republic in 19 BBY. Like the Republic before it, the Empire ruled the overwhelming majority of [[The galaxy|the galaxy]].
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The '''Galactic Empire''' was a tyrannical, dictatorial government formed by [[Galactic Republic]] Supreme Chancellor [[Emperor Palpatine|Sheev Palpatine]] that brought him to power as the self-declared Galactic Emperor, replacing the Republic in 19 BBY. Like the Republic before it, the Empire ruled the overwhelming majority of [[The galaxy|the galaxy]].
Unlike the Republic, however, it was very cruel and oppressive towards its citizens.
The formation of the Empire was part of Palpatine's plan to instill full power of the [[Sith]] over the galaxy, which included the rise of [[Darth Vader]], the extermination of the [[Jedi|Jedi Order]], and the reorganization of the Republic into the first and long-standing Empire.
The formation of the Empire was part of Palpatine's plan to instill full power of the [[Sith]] over the galaxy, which included the rise of [[Darth Vader]], the extermination of the [[Jedi|Jedi Order]], and the reorganization of the Republic into the first and long-standing Empire.
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In 32 BBY, Senator [[Emperor Palpatine|Sheev Palpatine]], secretly the Sith Lord [[Emperor Palpatine|Darth Sidious]], privately lamented the declining state of the Senate, noting that the Republic was "not what it once was". For his rise to power, he orchestrated an invasion on his own homeworld Naboo made by the Trade Federation in order to create a leadership crisis in the Senate. Sidious used the crisis to manipulate the then–Queen of the Naboo, Padmé Amidala, into calling a Vote of No Confidence against sitting Chancellor Finis Valorum. The vote passed despite the Jedi getting in the invasion's way and defeating his apprentice [[Darth Maul]], and in the subsequent election, Sidious, in his public persona of Palpatine, secured the position of Supreme Chancellor of the Republic for himself. In the decade that followed, Sidious secretly manipulated galactic events to the extent that war became inevitable. Besides persuading a dead Jedi Knight to create a secret clone army for the Republic, he also tasked his new apprentice, Darth Tyrannus with exacerbating political tensions in the Republic and engineering a Secessionist Movement. These actions would culminate in the outbreak of the [[Clone Wars]], the last conflict of the Republic, while Palpatine himself "reluctantly" accepted emergency powers.
In 32 BBY, Senator [[Emperor Palpatine|Sheev Palpatine]], secretly the Sith Lord [[Emperor Palpatine|Darth Sidious]], privately lamented the declining state of the Senate, noting that the Republic was "not what it once was". For his rise to power, he orchestrated an invasion on his own homeworld Naboo made by the Trade Federation in order to create a leadership crisis in the Senate. Sidious used the crisis to manipulate the then–Queen of the Naboo, Padmé Amidala, into calling a Vote of No Confidence against sitting Chancellor Finis Valorum. The vote passed despite the Jedi getting in the invasion's way and defeating his apprentice [[Darth Maul]], and in the subsequent election, Sidious, in his public persona of Palpatine, secured the position of Supreme Chancellor of the Republic for himself. In the decade that followed, Sidious secretly manipulated galactic events to the extent that war became inevitable. Besides persuading a dead Jedi Knight to create a secret clone army for the Republic, he also tasked his new apprentice, Darth Tyrannus with exacerbating political tensions in the Republic and engineering a Secessionist Movement. These actions would culminate in the outbreak of the [[Clone Wars]], the last conflict of the Republic, while Palpatine himself "reluctantly" accepted emergency powers.
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The war raged on for three years with the Clone Army's help for the Jedi to eliminate the Separatists, and Palpatine remained remained in office at the will of the Senate far longer than his term technically allowed. He continued to centralize his own power to pave the way for his eventual ascension to Emperor. As the war drew toward its end, Tyrannus was killed and the Jedi learned of Palpatine's true identity as a Sith Lord. Following an attempt to arrest him, a brief but vicious fight ensued in which several Jedi were killed and Palpatine himself visibly injured. Fortunately for him, Jedi Master [[Mace Windu]] left Sidious' execution to the one Jedi destined to destroy the Sith and bring balance back to the Force, [[Anakin Skywalker]], whose close friendship with Palpatine
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drove him into helping the Sith kill Windu and turning to the dark side as Sidious' third apprentice, [[Darth Vader]]. The Sith immediately seized this oppertunity to give the clone army [[Order 66]], a command which branded all Jedi as traitors to the Republic and ordered for their execution, causing them into betraying and murdering their Jedi generals. However, a few Jedi were able to survive the this purge. Among them were Jedi Grand Master [[Yoda]], Skywalker's Jedi Master [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and old apprentice [[Ahsoka Tano]] (who actually left the Jedi before the purge occurred), and [[Kanan Jarrus|Caleb Dume]], a fourteen-year-old apprentice of Master [[Depa Billaba]] who adopted the name "Kanan Jarrus" as he went into hiding. Shortly afterward, Sidious dispatched Vader to wipe out the Separatists on [[Mustafar]], following which Imperial financier Arsin Crassus plundered the Trade Federation's accounts to fund the new Imperial government.
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The war raged on for three years with the Clone Army's help for the Jedi to eliminate the Separatists, and Palpatine remained remained in office at the will of the Senate far longer than his term technically allowed. He continued to centralize his own power to pave the way for his eventual ascension to Emperor. As the war drew toward its end, Tyrannus was killed and the Jedi learned of Palpatine's true identity as a Sith Lord. Following an attempt to arrest him, a brief but vicious fight ensued in which several Jedi were killed and Palpatine himself visibly injured. Fortunately for him, Jedi Master [[Mace Windu]] left Sidious' execution to the one Jedi destined to destroy the Sith and bring balance back to the Force, [[Anakin Skywalker]], whose close friendship with Palpatine
instead
drove him into helping the Sith kill Windu and turning to the dark side as Sidious' third apprentice, [[Darth Vader]]. The Sith immediately seized this oppertunity to give the clone army [[Order 66]], a command which branded all Jedi as traitors to the Republic and ordered for their execution, causing them into betraying and murdering their Jedi generals. However, a few Jedi were able to survive the this purge. Among them were Jedi Grand Master [[Yoda]], Skywalker's Jedi Master [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and old apprentice [[Ahsoka Tano]] (who actually left the Jedi before the purge occurred), and [[Kanan Jarrus|Caleb Dume]], a fourteen-year-old apprentice of Master [[Depa Billaba]] who adopted the name "Kanan Jarrus" as he went into hiding. Shortly afterward, Sidious dispatched Vader to wipe out the Separatists on [[Mustafar]], following which Imperial financier Arsin Crassus plundered the Trade Federation's accounts to fund the new Imperial government.
Now able to demonstrate threats to the Republic from both within and without, a visibly injured and scarred Sidious addressed the Galactic Senate to announce the reforms which had been his endgame since the beginning. To the thunderous applause of many senators except [[Bail Organa]] and Amidala, Sidious—now known publicly as Emperor Sheev Palpatine—announced that in order to ensure safety and security, the Republic would be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire. Meanwhile, Vader was found by his former Jedi master on Mustafar and, after a ferocious duel, had his legs and left arm sliced off by Kenobi, who left suffering severe burns when flames from the lava river engulfed his body. The Emperor, having sensed this during a battle with Yoda on Coruscant, left to help his apprentice and returned to reconstruct him into a frightening figure wearing a black life-support suit for the rest of his life, then have Vader to continue the rest of his life serving as Palpatine's right hand and chief enforcer in the Empire.
Now able to demonstrate threats to the Republic from both within and without, a visibly injured and scarred Sidious addressed the Galactic Senate to announce the reforms which had been his endgame since the beginning. To the thunderous applause of many senators except [[Bail Organa]] and Amidala, Sidious—now known publicly as Emperor Sheev Palpatine—announced that in order to ensure safety and security, the Republic would be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire. Meanwhile, Vader was found by his former Jedi master on Mustafar and, after a ferocious duel, had his legs and left arm sliced off by Kenobi, who left suffering severe burns when flames from the lava river engulfed his body. The Emperor, having sensed this during a battle with Yoda on Coruscant, left to help his apprentice and returned to reconstruct him into a frightening figure wearing a black life-support suit for the rest of his life, then have Vader to continue the rest of his life serving as Palpatine's right hand and chief enforcer in the Empire.
=== Grip On The Galaxy ===
=== Grip On The Galaxy ===
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With the creation of the Empire, Palpatine became one step closer to his ultimate plan of ruling the entire galaxy and unlocking the secrets of the Sith who came before him: to posses the powers of the dark side to reshape reality itself into something of his own creation, and an omnipotent Empire would allow all the galaxy's inhabitants to be held in his dark embrace. Existing government bodies were renamed to reflect the change in authority. The Grand Army of the Republic became the Imperial Army, the Republic Navy became the Imperial Navy and the Galactic Senate was rechristened as the [[Imperial Senate]]. For the next decade and a half, Imperial rule, bolstered by the military created to fight in the Clone Wars, dominated the galaxy largely unchallenged, and the Empire soon began to upgrade their military hardware. They replaced V-wing and [[ARC-170 starfighter|ARC-170 Starfighters]] with [[TIE Fighter|TIE Fighters]] and Phase 2 clone trooper armor with superior armor belonging to the established [[Stormtrooper]] Corps, which occupants became limited to joining through a network of [[Imperial Academy|Imperial Academies]] across the galaxy for recruiting civilians into the Imperial Army after the Emperor retired the clones. Some of these greatest recruits went on to form the [[Imperial Security Bureau |Imperial Security Bureau (ISB)]], an intelligence law enforcement dedicated to ensuring the galaxy's loyalty to the Empire rooting out rebellion against it. But in order to hunt down any Jedi who survived Order 66 and lure any Force-sensitive children the Jedi in question take as their apprentices to the dark side, Palpatine had Vader establish and lead an agency of Dark Jedi known as the [[Inquisitors]] to find and destroy those remaining Jedi and prevent any Force-sensitive youth from being used by the Jedi against the Empire.
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With the creation of the Empire, Palpatine became one step closer to his ultimate plan of ruling the entire galaxy and unlocking the secrets of the Sith who came before him: to posses the powers of the dark side to reshape reality itself into something of his own creation, and an omnipotent Empire would allow all the galaxy's inhabitants to be held in his dark embrace. Existing government bodies were renamed to reflect the change in authority. The Grand Army of the Republic became the Imperial Army, the Republic Navy became the Imperial Navy and the Galactic Senate was rechristened as the [[Imperial Senate]]. For the next decade and a half, Imperial rule, bolstered by the military created to fight in the Clone Wars, dominated the galaxy largely unchallenged, and the Empire soon began to upgrade their military hardware. They replaced V-wing and [[ARC-170 starfighter|ARC-170 Starfighters]] with [[TIE Fighter|TIE Fighters]] and Phase 2 clone trooper armor with superior armor belonging to the established [[Stormtrooper]] Corps, which occupants became limited to joining through a network of [[Imperial Academy|Imperial Academies]] across the galaxy for recruiting civilians into the Imperial Army after the Emperor retired the clones. Some of these greatest recruits went on to form the [[Imperial Security Bureau |Imperial Security Bureau (ISB)]], an intelligence law enforcement dedicated to ensuring the galaxy's loyalty to the Empire rooting out rebellion against it. But in order to hunt down any Jedi who survived Order 66 and lure any Force-sensitive children the Jedi in question
might
take as their apprentices to the dark side, Palpatine had Vader establish and lead an agency of Dark Jedi known as the [[Inquisitors]] to find and destroy those remaining Jedi and prevent any Force-sensitive youth from being used by the Jedi against the Empire.
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Meanwhile, the Empire itself began construction on a massive battle station with enough firepower to destroy an entire planet, later known simply as the Death Star, that had formerly been a Separatist project with supplies coming from various planets and locations such as Sentinel Base and [[Geonosis]]. Conceived by one of the Empire's highest-ranking officers and Outer Rim governor, [[Wilhuff Tarkin|Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin]], as part of his doctrine of Rule by Fear, the Death Star would strike terror throughout the galaxy that no world would dare defy or disobey an Imperial command.
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Meanwhile, the Empire itself began construction on a massive battle station with enough firepower to destroy an entire planet, later known simply as the Death Star, that had formerly been a Separatist project with supplies coming from various planets and locations such as Sentinel Base and [[Geonosis]]. Conceived by one of the Empire's highest-ranking officers and Outer Rim governor, [[Wilhuff Tarkin|Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin]], as part of his doctrine of Rule by Fear, the Death Star would strike terror throughout the galaxy that no world would dare defy or disobey an Imperial command.
The Death Star was moved from its original construction site over the Separatist world of [[Geonosis]], whose population was subsequently exterminated to prevent the existence of the battle station from leaking out.
==== Operation on Kashyyyk ====
==== Operation on Kashyyyk ====
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==== Operation on Lasan ====
==== Operation on Lasan ====
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Despite the galaxy's support for the Empire, many native species who believed in the Force recognized its tyrannical reign to be centered by the dark side and rose against it in its early days. In 6 BBY, the mysterious [[Lasat]] species became the first of these peoples ever to have done so, using the Outer Rim rainforest planet [[Lasan]] as a sanctuary while their original homeworld, [[Lirasan]], was reduced to myth. As a means of halting this uprising, ISB [[Agent Kallus]] was tasked with massacring the planet to make an example of what would happen if a planet rebelled against Imperial rule. Despite being outgunned by the Imperial Army's new [[T-7 Ion Disruptor|T-7 ion disruptors]], the [[Lasan Honor Guard]] fought to the end while protecting their world but were unable to stop the Empire from marching into the Lasat Royal Palace. By then, they were nearly finished when bomb was set off, destroying the palace grounds and every single Lasat there. Having witnessed what harm the T-7s were capable of, the Imperial Senate banned their use, but the Empire secretly planned to acquire
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the last remaining stock to restart production of the disruptors. This led to a strong hatred of such weapons from the Lasat, and many of those who survived the massacre on their planet were enslaved. Luckily for them, only a few avoided capture, such as Honor Guard captain [[Garazeb Orrelios|Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios]] and his grandmother, who thought themselves as the only Lasats left and lost hope waiting for a future for their people.
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Despite the galaxy's support for the Empire, many native species who believed in the Force recognized its tyrannical reign to be centered by the dark side and rose against it in its early days. In 6 BBY, the mysterious [[Lasat]] species became the first of these peoples ever to have done so, using the Outer Rim rainforest planet [[Lasan]] as a sanctuary while their original homeworld, [[Lirasan]], was reduced to myth. As a means of halting this uprising, ISB [[Agent Kallus]] was tasked with massacring the planet to make an example of what would happen if a planet rebelled against Imperial rule. Despite being outgunned by the Imperial Army's new [[T-7 Ion Disruptor|T-7 ion disruptors]], the [[Lasan Honor Guard]] fought to the end while protecting their world but were unable to stop the Empire from marching into the Lasat Royal Palace. By then, they were nearly finished when bomb was set off, destroying the palace grounds and every single Lasat there. Having witnessed what harm the T-7s were capable of, the Imperial Senate banned their use, but the Empire secretly planned to acquire the last remaining stock to restart production of the disruptors. This led to a strong hatred of such weapons from the Lasat, and many of those who survived the massacre on their planet were enslaved. Luckily for them, only a few avoided capture, such as Honor Guard captain [[Garazeb Orrelios|Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios]] and his grandmother, who thought themselves as the only Lasats left and lost hope waiting for a future for their people.
==== Operation on Mandalore ====
==== Operation on Mandalore ====