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"We call it the Remnant, but to these people it's still the Empire.''" "''An Empire without an Emperor."

- Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo

Imperial Remnant.

Overview
"Jag, do you need to get back to the Imperial Remnant embassy?''" "''Galactic Empire. And yes."

- Jaina Solo and Imperial Head of State Jagged Fel, in 43 ABY

The Imperial Remnant was an Empire that emerged in 12 ABY when Admiral Gilad Pellaeon led his United Warlord Fleets out of the Deep Core and pledged them to the protection of Imperial Warlord factions in the Mid Rim and Outer Rim Territories, provided that said factions joined him. The Galactic Empire had ceased to exist one year previously, its remnants reduced to squabbling warlord fleets and Moffs answerable to no one. The unified Remnant was the new locus of Imperial power, and it continued to prosecute the Empire's Galactic Civil War against the New Republic until the two sides signed the Bastion Accords in 19 ABY and brought the war to a peaceful end.

In the Remnant's early years, Pellaeon called it the "true Empire" to distinguish it from remaining Imperial Warlord factions, but it was also known as "Pellaeon's Empire." Imperial and New Republic individuals alike also used the term "remnants of the Empire," which had previously been applied to the Galactic Empire in the years after Galactic Emperor Palpatine's death at the Battle of Endor. The Remnant was also known as simply the "Empire," and by 43 ABY, Imperial individuals had revived the term "Galactic Empire," although "Imperial Remnant" was still the most common nomenclature used by the rest of the galaxy. The Remnant was symbolically represented by the traditional Imperial crest.

Government
"Join the Galactic Alliance? Have you gone mad? You can't believe that any of us would ever agree to this!''" "''I don't need your agreement, Kurlen. When I say that I am advising the council, I am only following a formality. This is the way it will be, because this is the way it has to be. I am simply saving you the need to think it through for yourselves."

- Moff Kurlen Flennic and Supreme Commander Gilad Pellaeon, in 28 ABY

Admiral Pellaeon held the rank of Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet and was the leader of the Remnant despite being technically subordinate to the organization's Council of Moffs. The Moffs appointed him Supreme Commander and Grand Admiral, and their consensus was required before Pellaeon could make any large-scale decisions. In 19 ABY, the Supreme Commander addressed each Moff as "Your Excellency." By 28 ABY, Pellaeon was picking and choosing what information he shared with the Moffs, asserting to outsiders that the Remnant was not run by a committee. In that year, he explicitly told the council that he considered their consensus to be a mere formality.

When Pellaeon temporarily retired following the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Council of Moffs led the Remnant in his absence. They again took the Remnant's reigns following Pellaeon's death in 41 ABY. Moff Drikl Lecersen served as their de facto leader in the latter instance. Later in the year, the Moffs agreed to install a young man named Jagged Fel as the Remnant's new Head of State, a decision forced upon them by the Jedi Coalition as an alternative to facing the consequences of war crimes which they had recently committed. The Head of State position became a democratically electable one by the Remnant's citizens three years later as part of a wave of democratic reforms instituted by Fel. Although Admiral Vitor Reige won the election, the Remnant was eventually reorganized into a monarchy known as the Fel Empire with Fel as its first Emperor.

The Remnant's government sat on the planet Orinda from 12 ABY to 17 ABY, after which they relocated to Bastion. In 28 ABY, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Remnant joined the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances in order to combine their strength against the extra-galactic, invading Yuuzhan Vong. Pellaeon was integrated into Galactic Alliance High Command in 29 ABY during the final stages of the war. However, the events of the later Second Galactic Civil War strained the relationship of the two governments, and the Remnant had broken from the Alliance by 43 ABY.

Some aspects of Palpatine's Empire that the Remnant maintained included a strong military and limited venues of public expression, but the Remnant was far more progressive than the Empire had been, abolishing both slavery and anti-alien sentiment. However, the Remnant unobtrusively adhered to the strict tenets of Palpatine's New Order and consequently found itself growing increasingly irrelevant to galactic affairs during the Yuuzhan Vong War. In 44 ABY, Jagged Fel's democratic reforms saw him charge the Imperial News Network with with reporting on government affairs at every level in order to ensure complete governmental accountability.

Military
"We still hold eight sectors&mdash;over a thousand inhabited systems. We have the Fleet, nearly two hundred Star Destroyers strong. We're still very much a force to be reckoned with."

- Captain Ardiff, in 19 ABY

The Imperial Remnant's state was based on having a strong military and a Supreme Commander as its leader. The Imperial Military consisted of the Imperial Navy, Imperial Army, and the Stormtrooper Corps. The military was answerable to Imperial High Command. Each Moff governed as sector and commanded a Sector Fleet; the various fleets of the navy were made up of Star Destroyers, 200 of which composed the Imperial Fleet in 19 ABY&mdash;Pellaeon lamented the number as being a pale shadow of the 25,000+ arsenal that had once been boasted by the Galactic Empire.

Throughout the Remnant's history, its Star Destroyer complement included Executor-class Star Dreadnoughts and other Star Dreadnoughts, Sorannan-class Star Destroyers, Imperial I-class Star Destroyers, Imperial II-class Star Destroyers, Victory II-class Star Destroyers, Interdictor-class Star Destroyers, and Turbulent-class Star Destroyers. Also in the fleet were freighters, frigates, Lambda-class shuttles, and tugs. Starfighters employed by the Remnant were TIE fighters, TIE interceptors, TIE bombers, TIE defenders, and starhunters. Preybird-class starfighters were briefly utilized by the fleet in 19 ABY through a deal that Moff Vilim Disra struck with the Cavrilhu Pirates. The Imperial army included AT-AT and AT-ST walkers, and stormtroopers were the Remnant's footsoldiers.

Imperial Intelligence was used by the Imperial Remnant, as was Fleet Intelligence. Imperial agents were routinely dispatched to worlds outside of Imperial Space, including planets such as Belkadan where general intelligence-gathering occurred.

Territory


"Can we hold on to our territory, though? The New Republic has perpetuated the lie that we rule by terror and force. Won't they insist on our destruction, treaty or not?''" "''I don't think so. I believe we can convince even the most rabid of them that the worlds currently under Imperial rule remain with us by their own choice."

- Moff Edan and Supreme Commander Pellaeon discuss the idea of a treaty with the New Republic

The Remnant's territory originally stretched from Wild Space to the Mid Rim, but after seven years of losing ground to the New Republic, it had been reduced to eight sectors in the Outer Rim, consisting of over a thousand habitable systems. By 41 ABY, their territory had increased in size considerably, stretching through the Mid Rim and the Expansion Region into the Inner Rim. Each sector was governed by a Moff, and the systems within remained under Imperial rule by their own choice, preferring the efficiencies of New Order policy. However, some systems were ceded to the Remnant by the Galactic Alliance in 41 ABY in return for aid leant during the Second Galactic Civil War.

Economic development in the Remnant proceeded slowly in the years after the Bastion Accords. Only a few pockets of Imperial Space had amenities available that were comparable to those of the New Republic, and citizens of some Imperial worlds lived in grinding poverty. Industries were crippled due to the availability of cheap imported goods from the New Republic, which led to unrest and rioting.

An Empire falls
In 4 ABY, the Galactic Empire suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Endor to the Rebel Alliance, their opponent in the Galactic Civil War. The Alliance Fleet destroyed the Empire's Death Star II battlestation, and Emperor Palpatine was killed; the battle also saw the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Executor, flagship of the Imperial Navy's Death Squadron, and the battlecruiser Pride of Tarlandia destroyed. Admiral Horst Strage, commander of the next communications ship in line&mdash;the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Chimaera&mdash;was killed when an ion blast overloaded his neural shunt, and command of the fleet was left in the hands of the Chimeara Captain Gilad Pellaeon. Finding his forces in disarray, Pellaeon ordered a retreat to the planet Annaj.

With the fleet regrouped, Pellaeon called a council of war and advocated that they return to Endor and crush the Rebels. When Adye Prittick, the ranking admiral, proved indecisive, Admiral Blitzer Harrsk took part of the fleet and retreated into the Deep Core until a clear chain of command could be established. As the Emperor had never provided a succession plan in the event of his death, other naval officers followed Harrsk's example and fortified their holdings, declaring themselves independent warlords. Grand Vizier Sate Pestage claimed the Imperial throne and, wary of Alliance strikes against key targets, fortified strategic systems and fortress worlds, which put the Empire on the defensive despite their numerical and economic advantages over the Rebels. Countless worlds flocked to the fold of the New Republic, the successor state of the Alliance, after hearing news of the Emperor's death.

The Republic consolidated their holdings and won worlds over through diplomacy before executing an aggressive military push into the Core against an Empire that was crumbling from within due to the machinations of its own ambitious politicians. By 9 ABY, the Empire's territory had been reduced to a quarter of its former size, and the state was widely considered to be merely the "remnants of the Empire." Campaigns by Grand Admiral Thrawn and by the reborn Palpatine reclaimed swaths of lost territory, but Palpatine's final death saw the fleet again splinter into warlordism and Imperial territory reduced to a narrow band stretching from the Outer Rim to the Colonies. Following the death of self-proclaimed Emperor Xandel Carivus in 11 ABY, utter collapse of Imperial authority ensued, and the Empire ceased to exist.

Rising from the ashes
Later in 11 ABY, Imperial Admiral Natasi Daala's Maw fleet emerged from years of seclusion in the Maw and prosecuted a disastrous military campaign against the New Republic. After limping into the Deep Core aboard her sole remaining ship, the Gorgon, she declared herself a freelance ambassador and spent one year traveling to the various warlords' fortress worlds espousing a message of unification. Unwilling to give up their power, the feuding warlords dismissed her ideas and continued their Imperial Civil War against each other. While she was at the fortress of "Supreme Warlord" Blitzer Harrsk in 12 ABY, the forces of "High Admiral" Treuten Teradoc attacked, fleeing after destroying the flagship of Harrsk's fleet. Harrsk ordered her at blasterpoint to lead a counterassault, and in orbit above Teradoc's own fortress, Daala, fed up with the warlords' squabbling, fired an ion cannon from the bridge of the Star Destroyer Firestorm at Harrsk's own Whirlwind and ordered the fleet to stand down.

Pellaeon, now a Vice Admiral in Teradoc's fleet, found himself agreeing with Daala's assertions over an open comm channel that the warlords needed to stop fighting amongst themselves and focus their efforts against the New Republic. He ordered Teradoc's defensive fleet to similarly stand down and took a shuttle from his Victory-class Star Destroyer 13X to join Daala on the bridge of the Firestorm. The ship fled into hyperspace along with the 13X and one more of Pellaeon's Destroyers to a negotiating point in the dead of space, where Daala and Pellaeon agreed that a a leader needed to be chosen from among the warlords and proposed a detente council. Using both of their reputations as pull, he convinced thirteen Deep Core warlords&mdash;including Harrsk, Teradoc, Sander Delvardus, and Yzu &mdash;to convene at a space station called Tsoss Beacon, where they met inside of a storeroom. Daala insisted that they unite their forces and choose a nominal leader, but when three hours' worth of arguing amounted to nothing, she donned a breath mask. Pellaeon quickly put on one of his own as the Admiral released a nerve gas into the room, ending both the discussion and the warlords's lives.

The fleets of the dead warlords pledged themselves to Daala, the architect of the Imperial Reunification. In a departure from Palpatine's Humanocentrism, she welcomed women and non-Humans to actively participate in military service. Daala intended to relinquish control of the United Warlord Fleets after launching a devastating strike at the New Republic; her target was the jungle moon Yavin 4, home to the New Republic–allied New Jedi Order. However, the Force powers of the Jedi students were able to blast Pellaeon's vanguard fleet of twelve Star Destroyers out of orbit, and Daala's Super Star Destroyer Knight Hammer was disabled following an infiltration by the Jedi student Callista Ming. The Battle for Yavin 4 was a disaster for the Imperials, and with her plans having fallen to rubble, Daala relinquished full command of the United Warlord Fleets to Pellaeon.

Although not the type to seize power, Pellaeon proved himself an extremely capable leader. He strengthened ties with the Moffs of warlord factions in the Outer and Mid Rims, and decided to withdraw all of his fleets and war arsenals from the Deep Core, which he felt would keep his new Empire bottled up. Before leaving, he discovered squadrons of robotic TIEs, caches of arms, mines, and the Star Dreadnoughts Megador and Dominion within abandoned Deep Core armories. As the Outer and Mid Rims offered more resources, better-traveled hyperlanes, and favorable opportunities to harass New republic shipping, Pellaeon pledged his fleets to protect the Imperial Rim factions on the condition that they joined his Empire. The Moffs of the Rim factions agreed that the Megador, Dominion, and the Reaper&mdash;a third dreadnaught under Pellaeon's command&mdash;were enough to defend against the New Republic, and named Pellaeon the Supreme Commander of the new Imperial Remnant. The Remnant was a well-defined Empire stretching from the Mid Rim to Wild Space with additional scattered holdings in other regions of the galaxy. Pellaeon referred to the new state as the "true Empire," but it was also known as "Pellaeon's Empire" in order to distinguish it from the surviving Warlord factions.

Later sections
Between 19 ABY and 25 ABY: A number of unreconstructed Imperial fled to the Remnant, taking a vast amount of wealth with them.

When Pelly was the GA Supreme Commander, the Remnant became more and more integrated into the Alliance.

Behind the scenes
Although the seeds of the Imperial Remnant were sown when Admiral Daala unified thirteen Warlord holdings in Kevin J. Anderson's 1995 novel Darksaber, 2009's The Essential Atlas established that the Remnant was only born after the events of the novel, when Pellaeon took the unified Imperial forces out of the Deep Core and united them with various Imperial Warlord factions in the Outer Rim. 2012's The Essential Guide to Warfare later established that Daala's forces in Darksaber were a unique Imperial faction known as the "United Warlord Fleets." The first appearance of the Imperial Remnant can thus be said to be Timothy Zahn's 1997 novel Specter of the Past, which features Pellaeon and his Empire seven years after the events of Darksaber. The term "Imperial Remnant" was first used in Michael A. Stackpole's 2000 novel Dark Tide I: Onslaught, although the Galactic Empire in the years after the Battle of Endor had been referred to as the "remnants of the Empire" as early as 1992's Heir to the Empire Sourcebook.

The Imperial Remnant's entry in 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia asserts that Pellaeon's Empire did not adopt the name "Imperial Remnant" until after the signing of the Bastion Accords in 19 ABY, as does Pellaeon's entry in 2002's The New Essential Guide to Characters. However, this has been retconned by more recent sources such as The Essential Atlas and 2012's The Essential Guide to Warfare, both of which state that Pellaeon's Empire was known as the Imperial Remnant at the time of its birth in 12 ABY. Additionally, the comic series Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost, released throughout 2011 and 2012, features characters who call Pellaeon's Empire the "Imperial Remnant" in 13 ABY. A lone sentence in Warfare mistakenly asserts that the Imperial Remnant participated in the post-Zsinj campaign of 8 ABY rather than the Galactic Empire.

The Imperial Remnant was going to play a role in Elaine Cunningham's novel Blood Oath, which was set to feature a plotline involving Jagged Fel and the Moff Council during Fel's early days as Head of State. However, the book was canceled by Del Rey and never published.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
 * X-wing: Starfighters of Adumar
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future
 * Red Sky, Blue Flame
 * Young Jedi Knights: Shards of Alderaan
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Star Wars: Invasion: Revelations
 * Dark Tide II: Ruin
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
 * Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Star by Star
 * Destiny's Way
 * Force Heretic I: Remnant
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Betrayal
 * Exile
 * Fury
 * Revelation
 * Invincible
 * Outcast
 * Omen
 * Abyss
 * Backlash
 * Allies
 * Vortex
 * Ascension
 * Apocalypse
 * Star Wars: Legacy 8: Allies
 * Star Wars: Legacy 3: Broken, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Legacy 15: Claws of the Dragon, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Legacy 15: Claws of the Dragon, Part 2