Fall of the Republic

"Once more the Sith will rule the galaxy! And we shall have peace."

- Darth Sidous

The Fall of the Republic referred to the last thirteen years of the Galactic Republic's existence. It was marked by the Invasion of Naboo, the Clone Wars, and the extermination of the Jedi, which gained Supreme Chancellor Palpatine the Senate's approval to reorganize the Republic into the first Galactic Empire. All of these events were plotted by Palpatine, who was actually the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, to return the galaxy to the rule of the Sith.

The subsequent nineteen years before the Galactic Civil War were called the dark times.