Galactic Civil War/Legends

The Galactic Civil War (approx. 1 BBY – 19 ABY) was a major galactic conflict fought between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance. It finally ended in 19 ABY when the remnants of the Empire signed a peace accord. The war led to the establishment of the New Republic, and was preceded by the Clone Wars and the Great Jedi Purge.

Origin of the Galactic Civil War


The collapse of the Old Republic in 19 BBY led to the establishment of the Empire under former Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, a scheming Sith Lord. Taking the title of Emperor, he established a dictatorial regime that quickly exterminated major resistance, including the ancient protectors of the Republic, the Jedi Order. Of the several thousand Jedi, very few survived the beginning of the Great Jedi Purge in 19 BBY, most notably Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda.

The Emperor's Sith apprentice, Darth Vader, was an integral part of the Purge and the establishment of the Empire. Before he turned to the Dark Side of the Force, he was known as Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi Knight and apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi. Darth Vader sought out and killed nearly all the Jedi, destroying what last fragments remained from the Jedi Order. His deceased wife Padmé Amidala had bore him two children, whom he thought had died along with her. These two children, Luke and Leia Skywalker, would later become leaders of the Rebel Alliance. Luke was taken to Tatooine and hidden with his uncle Owen Lars, while Leia was adopted by Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan.



After the Empire was established, the Galactic Senate was reorganized into the Imperial Senate. However, it quickly became a rubberstamp assembly. The Empire's New Order also emphasized Human and, to a lesser extent, humanoid supremacy, with other alien species like Wookiees, Mon Calamari, Yuzzem and Lurrians subjected to slavery. Antislavery laws were repealed and legislation legalizing the persecution of aliens was passed. As a result, the vast majority of the Imperial armed forces were composed of humans, with only rare exceptions like Grand Admiral Thrawn climbing in the ranks of the military. Some argue that while the Empire was unquestionably xenophobic, there is little to suggest that the Emperor himself was. In fact, some believe that the privy councilors and advisors that filled Palpatine's court and ran the Empire on a day-to-day basis were the xenophobes, and applied "High Human Culture" on their own accord.

This exercise of power was backed up by the use of state terrorism in the form of the Tarkin Doctrine, named for Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. The Doctrine threated force rather than the use of force to control dissent; the Ghorman Massacre was an example. This made it clear that the Empire had no regard for sentient rights. The justification for the Tarkin Doctrine was the excessive cost and impracticality of the use of pure terror in the form of billions upon billions of troops and spaceships to maintain order. The instrument of enforcing the Doctrine was the Imperial military, which included the Imperial stormtroopers and a large fleet of intimidating warships like the Star Destroyers of the Imperial Navy and the All Terrain-Armored Transports (AT-ATs) of the Imperial Army, all of which which were intended in part to spread fear as well as destroy the enemy. This policy reached its zenith with the construction of the world-destroying Death Star.

When these developments became clear, a small group of senators, including Bail Organa and Mon Mothma, formed the Alliance to Restore the Republic. They issued their Declaration of Rebellion to legitimize their fight against the Empire and list their grievances. Thus began the Galactic Civil War, which was to rage over 20 years.

Disappearance of the Death Star Plans
From the beginning, the Rebel Alliance was vastly outmanned and outgunned by the much more powerful and better organized Imperial Navy, supplied with powerful warships by the Kuat Drive Yards. The secret defection of the Incom Corporation added badly needed capital ships to the Alliance. However, the Rebels were still forced to rely on hit and run tactics, which were orchestrated primarily to harass Imperial shipping and operations. Leia Organa, adopted daughter of Bail Organa, became an Imperial Senator for Alderaan and used her diplomatic immunity to conduct secret Rebel missions aboard her corvette Tantive IV.



The Rebel Alliance operated an efficient and widespread intelligence network of Bothan spies. Through this network, the Alliance learned of the construction of the Death Star, an extremely powerful space station capable of annihilating planets with its superlaser.

Rebel prisoners aboard the Death Star managed to riot (Death Star Uprising) and got control of a technical readout while Imperial-turned-Rebel Kyle Katarn retrieved further plans (Battle of Danuta). From there they beamed it to Leia's ship, the Tantive IV, while the 501st Legion, under Darth Vader, tracked Rebels to Polis Massa (Battle of Polis Massa), however this was only a set-up for the Empire. Even so, the Rebels who fought with the defensive upper hand, were crushed. Imperial forces soon discovered the true plot and the Star Destroyer Devastator, under the command of Darth Vader himself, captured the Tantive IV in a space battle above Tatooine (Attack on Tantive IV), where Leia had been trying to reach. She hoped to enlist the help of Obi-Wan Kenobi, who was a fugitive Jedi in hiding on the planet and was watching over the young Luke Skywalker.

As Vader's forces entered her ship, Leia Organa made a last desperate gamble and hid the plans of the Death Star aboard the astromech droid R2-D2. R2-D2, along with C-3PO, a protocol droid on the ship, used an escape pod to travel to Tatooine, where they were purchased from the Jawa scavengers who found them by Owen Lars, uncle of Luke Skywalker. Skywalker soon discovered a portion of the message in R2-D2 and became interested. However, R2-D2, operating under programming included with the plans, escaped and tried to find Obi-wan Kenobi. Skywalker, who conveniently met up with Kenobi in the Dune Sea, tracked him down. R2-D2 then played back for them Leia Organa's desperate plea for help. The two discovered that Imperial stormtroopers had attacked the Jawas who had sold them the two droid]s in a search for the plans. Luke returned to his home to find his aunt and uncle slaughtered at Imperial hands. He then accompanied Kenobi to [[Mos Eisley, where, evading Imperial troops, the two chartered space pirate Han Solo and his first mate Chewbacca to take them and the plans to Alderaan aboard the Millennium Falcon.



Meanwhile, Darth Vader had taken Leia Organa to the Death Star, which was under the control of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. When she refused to yield the location of the Rebel base or the whereabouts of the plans voluntarily or through tortutre, Tarkin destroyed Alderaan in an attempt to force her to confess. Fearing that Tarkin would use the superweapon on other peaceful worlds, she offered the false location of Dantooine. The Millennium Falcon arrived in the midst of the destroyed planet, after having barely escaped Imperial clutches above Tatooine. There, the Death Star's massive tractor beam captured the freighter. However, they managed to disable the tractor beam and free Princess Leia through an elaborate series of tricks. As they were escaping however, Darth Vader confronted Kenobi in a lightsaber duel that ended in Kenobi's death. The Millennium Falcon escaped, only to be tracked by Imperial troops to the Rebel base on Yavin IV. There, the technical readouts of the Death Star were analyzed for a weakness, and the rebels sent ships to destroy the Death Star, which was attempting to obliterate the Rebel base. Luke Skywalker managed gain a direct hit on a thermal exhaust port, which caused a chain reaction and destroyed the battle station at the last second (Battle of Yavin).

Capture of Yavin Base
After the destruction of the first Death Star, the Rebel Alliance prepared to evacuate the jungle moon, fearing Imperial reprisals. Fortunately, most of the Rebel fleet, including the Mon Calamari Star Cruisers under Ackbar and the refugee ships containing the Alliance government, had not been present during the battle and were scattered throughout the Galaxy.

Several garrisons of troopers escaped the Death Star, and their escape pods crashed into the moon. They combined their ranks and started to move toward the Great Temple. General Dodonna supervised the evacuation of the Yavin base. However, before the base's support staff could be completely evacuated, an armada of Imperial ships including Immobilizer 418 cruisers appeared in the Yavin system. Instead of attacking, the Imperial ships formed a blockade that prevented the Rebels from escaping into hyperspace. Members of the 501st Legion participated in the orbital battle, immobilizing a Mon Calamari Star Cruiser and destroying countless starfighters.

In fact, this blockade had been ordered by Darth Vader himself, who wanted to capture leading Rebels. Meanwhile, the Star Dreadnought Executor was nearing completion at the shipyards of Fondor. This mighty ship could take on an entire armada of smaller vessels and would serve as Vader's flagship. In retaliation for the destruction of the first Death Star, Vader wanted to use the Executor against the Rebels.

Later, Luke Skywalker and other Rebels continually evaded the Imperial blockade. First, they tried to sabotage the completion of the Executor, though they were betrayed and most of the task force was killed. Luke, however, managed to escaped and return to the Alliance with intelligence on the behemoth warship. During a second mission, Luke discovered the arctic planet of Hoth. After returning, he suggested to the Alliance that they evacuate to Hoth and set up another base there.



These evasions angered and frustrated the Imperial armada's commanders who eventually persuaded Darth Vader to launch an assault on Yavin 4. Meanwhile, the Rebel leaders including Dodonna were concerned, because while smaller ships could slip through the blockade, larger ships would be destroyed or captured. Dodonna then contacted Mon Mothma and Ackbar and arranged for them to stage a diversional assault. Rebel forces under Ackbar engaged Imperial forces in the Vallusk Cluster to divert Imperial forces at Yavin 4.

However, the completed Executor finally arrived at Yavin 4 with Lord Vader's Death Squadron fleet, as well as elements of the personal fleet of the Baron Orman Tagge, and the battle began. During the assault, the Empire launched an array of vehicles including A5 Juggernauts and AT-STs. TIE fighters and TIE Bombers would shell the jungle area.

Dodonna evacuated the base's fighters and transports though he refused to evacuate himself until everyone had left. Instead, the general planted several concussion charges that decimated a whole squadron of TIE Bombers. It was believed that he had died in action, though it was later revealed he had been captured and imprisoned in the Star Dreadnought Lusankya. Several key members of Alliance High Command stationed at the Rebel base were killed by the 501st Legion during its vengeful assault against the Rebel forces. Many of the surviving Rebels eventually made their way to the icy world of Hoth where they established a new base.

Dark Troopers
"Dark trooper: Release."

- General Rom Mohc



The Imperial attack on Yavin Base would be followed by the Battle of Talay, which saw the Dark Troopers first unleashed. During the battle, the Imperial factory ship Arc Hammer and Darth Vader's new flagship Executor formed a small blockade of the planet Talay. From Executor's bridge, General Rom Mohc ordered Captain Nonam to dispatch the dark troopers to assault Tak Base. The dark troopers were deployed from the Arc Hammer, and headed for the planet.

The dark troopers easily pierced Tak's shields, and attacked with high presicion and speed - the assault was so sudden that the Rebels had no chance to defend themselves let alone retaliate. Captain Bok attempted an evacuation of the base with his flagship, the Grey Damsel, and managed to escape with an unknown number of Rebels. Bok wanted to also rescue Admiral Toka from the surface, however Toka insisted that Bok leave without him and save the others.

Admiral Toka managed to transmit a general distress signal, however the transmission was cut short, and Toka was shot by a dark trooper. The crew of the Grey Damsel also suffered a similar fate, for they had failed to notice that a dark trooper had slipped aboard the ship. Bok and crew were all killed by the dark trooper as the ship entered hyperspace. The dark troopers caused total devastation of the base and its surrounding city, resulting in a massive amount of Rebel and civilian casualties. Darth Vader was most impressed with the assault, and gave Mohc full support for the project.

Shortly after the battle, Mon Mothma received Admiral Toka's distress signal, in addition to a communication from Imperial defector Crix Madine, revealing some information regarding the dark trooper project. She recruited Kyle Katarn to infiltrate the remains of Tak Base, in order to gather more information on the dark trooper project. After evading the new Imperial garrison there, Katarn discovered an abandoned firearm that no humanoid was capable of utilizing. The weapon was later confirmed to be one used by dark troopers, and was traced back to weapon designer Moff Rebus on Anoat.

Meanwhile, the crewless Grey Damsel reverted from hyperspace near Tatooine, and crashed on the planet's surface. The single dark trooper was responsible for causing much chaos near Mos Espa, before it was eventually destroyed by locals. Concerned about the potential threat of the dark troopers, Mon Mothma tasked Kyle Katarn with program’s destruction. Katarn succeeded in destroying Arc Hammer after killing Mohc. With the death of Mohc and the destruction of Arc Hammer, all research into the dark trooper project, and other battle droid programs, ended.

Imperial Repercussions
Vader meanwhile, who had escaped the destruction of the Death Star by luck, became obsessed with finding Skywalker and used imperial probe droids launched from his command ship, the Executor of the Imperial Death Squadron, to seek him and the Rebel Alliance out. The rebel base on Hoth was discovered and the rebels fled while they fought a last ditch stalling effort, which would become known as the Battle of Hoth. After much pursuit, Darth Vader captured Skywalker's friends on Cloud City, where they had been hoping to seek temporary asylum from Han Solo's friend, Lando Calrissian. Luke, under the advice of the Force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi, had traveled to Dagobah and had become a Jedi apprentice to Jedi Master Yoda. Through the Force, he became aware of his friend's suffering and despite the pleas of Yoda and Kenobi to stay, left Dagobah for Cloud City in an attempt to save his friends, who ended up saving him after he confronted Darth Vader. Vader also revealed to Luke in their battle that he was his father. At the last second, the friends escaped aboard the Millennium Falcon, though Han Solo was taken in carbonite to the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine by the bounty hunter Boba Fett.

The Rebels triumph


After freeing Han Solo on Tatooine, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian (along with the droids R2-D2 and C-3P0) met up with the Rebel Alliance near the system of Sullust. The Rebels were amassing their entire fleet for a new strike. The Bothan spies had reported that the Empire has begun construction on a new space station, the Death Star II, which would be much larger and much more powerful. The Rebels had determined to destroy it by launching a last ditch attack against it before it could be completed. The sense of urgency was heightened by the fact that the Emperor himself would be aboard the station, making a shot at the head of the Empire himself possible.

The Death Star was protected by force field generated from the forest moon of Endor. Han Solo, Chewbacca, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, and C-3P0 led an expedition to disable the shield and allow the attack to occur. Once on Endor however, Luke turned himself in to Darth Vader, his father, hoping to rescue him from the clutches of the Emperor and the Dark Side of The Force. Vader took him aboard the uncompleted Death Star and before the Emperor, who attempted to lure him to the Dark Side by placing him in combat with Vader, whom he defeated. However, instead of killing Vader, he renounced the Dark Side. Palpatine then attempted to kill him with a shower of deadly Force lightning, but Darth Vader threw him into a reactor core shaft, killing the Emperor. At this same moment, the Rebels managed to deactivate the shield. The resulting Battle of Endor led to the destruction of the Death Star, although Skywalker escaped with Vader's body. The Emperor was dead and the main Imperial fleet was defeated.

Incident at Bakura
Like in most rebellions, the last battle did not end the civil war. Just days after the Battle of Endor, an Imperial Emissary Droid Ship arrived in the Forest Moon carrying a message from the Imperial outpost of Bakura. Bakura was under attack by an unknown species from the Unknown Regions. Since the Emperor's fleet had been defeated, no Imperial troops were available to come to the aid of Bakura. In response, Mon Mothma gathered a small Rebel fleet to come to the defense of Bakura. Skywalker, still reeling from his battle with the Emperor, received a visit from the ghost of his mentor Kenobi. Kenobi commanded Skywalker to go to Bakura.

Thus, Luke Skywalker was named the commander of a fleet of five DP-20 Corellian Gunships, 1 modified Bulk Cruiser Flurry, 20 starfighters, and the Millennium Falcon. Upon arriving, they discovered that the attackers were an unknown reptilian species called the Ssi-ruuk. The Ssi-ruuk practiced entechment which involved transferring the life energies of a captive into a battle droid, starship or computer. At Bakura, the Rebel fleet signed a truce with the local Imperial garrison under Nereus. The Rebels and Imperials then fought to defend Bakura from the reptilian invaders. It was during this time that Leia received a visit from the ghost of her father Anakin Skywalker, who had been the infamous Darth Vader. She had only recently learned of her parentage recently and was unable to forget that Darth Vader had committed many atrocities including the destruction of Alderaan. The ghost vanished and never appeared to Leia again.

On the Ssi-ruuvi flagship Shriwirr, Admiral Ivpikkis prepared for battle. One of his officers owned a brainwashed Force-sensitive Human slave named Dev Sibwarra, who sensed the presence of Luke and alerted and alerted his masters. The Ssi-ruuk had intended to use his Force abilities to entech beings by proxy. To do this, Dev Sibwarra secretly contacted the Imperial governor Nereus and offered to leave Bakura alone if they haded Skywalker over. So, Skywalker was captured by the Ssi-ruuk and brought to a laboratory where they intended to entech him. However, he broke free of the entechment lab onboard the Shriwirr and together with Dev Sibwarra, the duo defeated the Ssi-Ruuk onboard the ship.

The Ssi-Ruuk then abandoned the Shriwirr rather than face the Jedi Knight in battle and the Shriwirr was then captured by the Rebel forces who refitted it and made part of their fleet. The Ssi-Ruuk were defeated and then the Imperial Commander Pter Thanas under orders from the Nereus, turned the turbolaser batteries of his flagship the Dominant on the Rebel Alliance ship Flurry, destroying it along with several Rebel starfighters.

The Bakuran resistance cells, however, under leadership of Eppie Belden, overthrew their Imperial rulers (in what was referred to as the Bakuran Revolution) and the Governor was slain. The Imperial garrison in Bakura then surrendered to the Rebel Alliance and Bakura became a member of the fledgling Alliance of Free Planets. New Republic Intelligence later referred to the battle as the "Bakura Incident", and believed that it would be best if the New Republic attempted to prevent widespread public knowledge of the Ssi-ruu - advise that was taken controversially at best.

The Alliance also sent a fleet consisting of Nebulon-B frigates and other smaller vessels under the captured Shriwirr which had been renamed Sibwarra. Upon arriving in the Ssi-ruuk Star Cluster, they discovered that the Ssi-ruuk had been attacked by an unknown foe, later revealed to be the Chiss Ascendancy. During an assault on the Ssi-ruuvi capital of Lwhekk, the Alliance fleet engaged Ivpikki's fleet though both sides eventually reached a standtill. Seeing a weakened foe, the fleet retreated and assisted in the libration of Clak'dor VII. It would be years until the Yuuzhan Vong War that the Ssi-ruuk resurfaced.

The Empire Fragments


Following the Rebel Alliance's victory at the Battle of Endor and the death of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader, riots and uprisings took place on a multitude of Imperial-held worlds, as the news spread across the Galaxy. The Empire also quickly began to disintegrate into sectors controlled by rival warlords.

On Coruscant, billions revelled in their new-found freedom, and an armed uprising sprang out from the non-human-dominated sectors. Imperial patrols were attacked in the streets, statues of Palpatine were toppled and other Imperial symbols were desecrated.

In the midst of all the celebrating and rioting, Imperial authorities ordered a massive crackdown on the rebellious elements in the city-planet's population and gave full power to the local military force to end the uprising and restore order to the system. The military retaliation was horrendous and the death-tolls rose as the Empire struck down the insurrectionists and brought the populace back under its control. Following this, Grand Vizier Sate Pestage assumed control over Coruscant. However, various members of the Inner Circle opposed his reign and he would later be betrayed by the Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard.

Liberation of Coruscant


In 6 BBY, the New Republic would liberate Coruscant from Imperial rule. The New Republic realised the importance of Coruscant as “000” in galactic charts, the center of the Galaxy. To control the Galaxy, one needed to control its capital. The New Republic decided to capture the planet in order to eliminate the Empire and began capturing strategic worlds near Coruscant, including Borleias.

However, Coruscant was protected by a powerful energy shield. Before the attack would begin, the shields would have to fall. So, Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron were sent undercover into Imperial City to sabotage the shield generator. Sixteen of the Galaxy's worst criminals were also freed from the prison colony of Kessel and loosed on Imperial City so that they could create trouble. The government would later regret this, since these criminals would later resurrect Black Sun



Meanwhile, Rogue Squadron decided that if they could condense a large amount of water and create a super storm, they could destroy the energy shield protecting Coruscant with lightning strikes. So, the Rogue operatives hijacked a Construction droid to take them to the command building. There, they took remote control of one of the orbiting solar mirrors. The tightly focused light beam from the solar mirror rapidly boiled one of the planet's reservoirs. This caused a huge storm and the shields soon collapsed.

With the shields down, a New Republic force led by Admiral Ackbar entered the Coruscant system. This task force easily overwhelmed the Imperial force, since Ysanne Isard kept only a few Imperial-class Star Destroyers to defend the capital world. Very soon, Coruscant was in the hands of the New Republic. However, Isard was not to be found in the Imperial Palace. Worse, the planet's alien population was being killed by an artificial virus called the Krytos virus.

The New Republic, however, would face it's two greatest threats: Grand Admiral Thrawn, possibly the greatest commander of the War, and Emperor Palpatine, reborn into a clone body. The Republic survived, but barely. Fifteen years after Endor, they signed a peace accord with the remains of the Empire, the Imperial Remnant, in 19 ABY.

Legacy of the Galactic Civil War
The Rebels formed the New Republic after the Battle of Endor, which eventually encompassed much of the Galaxy. It included a new Senate and a more powerful chief executive, the first of which was Mon Mothma. However, it was hampered by both fear of dictatorship and corruption, proving that the Galactic Civil War had not completely succeeded in its quest to restore the Old Republic. The New Republic ended with the invasion of the alien Yuuzhan Vong, when it was reorganized several times.

Politics of the Civil War
Many different species and planets supported the Rebel Alliance's bid to overthrow the Emperor, including the Mon Calamari and Bail Organa's own home planet of Alderaan. Although early on the Rebels used positions in the Imperial Senate to gain influence and took advantage of the diplomatic immunity provided, the Senate was abolished in 0 BBY and many Rebel Senators were discovered. Mon Mothma, leader of the Rebel Alliance, barely escaped capture by the Imperial Security Bureau, the Empire's ruthless secret police force.

The Empire continued to erode freedoms during this period, using the conflict as an excuse. Under Tarkin's suggestion, the Emperor mandated the Tarkin Doctrine, which stated that the Empire would use fear of force rather than force itself to control dissent. This culminated in the construction of the first Death Star. Its use at Alderaan was to be one of its only uses; its purpose was to demonstrate Imperial power, not to eliminate countless worlds. The Emperor also began to come under the influence of what became known as his Inner Circle. These men, including the devious Sate Pestage, eventually took control of the day-to-day operations of the Empire. Although evil enough in his own right, Palpatine allowed his bureaucracy to grow exceedingly large and corrupt under the influence of these men. The Empire also instituted a system of xenophobic racism, which left only human beings in control of most Imperial operations. This encouraged species like the Mon Calamari to support the Rebel Alliance.

Timeline of Major Events

 * 19 BBY - Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, in the wake of the Clone Wars and in response to an alleged rebellion by the Jedi, declares the formation of the Galactic Empire with himself as Emperor for life.
 * 1 BBY - The Rebel Alliance takes shape.
 * 1 BBY - The Kwymar Suppressions take place, devestating the Kwymar Sector.
 * 7 BBY Death Star Uprising A mass prison break occurs, the Rebels get half the Death Star plans
 * 7 BBY Battle of Danuta Kyle Katarn steals a set of Death Star plans from Danuta
 * 3 BBY Battle of Polis Massa Attempt at recovering Death Star plans
 * 3 BBY Attack on Tantive IV Another attempt at recovering plans
 * 3 BBY Third Battle of Tatooine 3rd attempt at recovering plans
 * 3 BBY Battle of Rhen Var Failed attempt at capturing an Imperial outpost
 * 0 BBY - Battle of Yavin The Rebel Alliance achieves its first large-scale victory against the Empire with the destruction of the first Death Star, marking a turning point in both the war and galactic history.
 * 0.5 BBY - First Battle of Yavin Base The Rebels evacuate Yavin
 * 2 ABY Battle of Ralltiir Attempt at capturing Rebel scientists.
 * 2 ABY - Battle of Talay Introduction of Darktroopers.
 * 3 ABY - Battle of Hoth The Empire discovers the Alliance's secret base on the sixth planet of the Hoth System and launches a successful attack on the Rebel base, with many Rebel casualties.
 * 3.5 ABY - Raid on the Maw Prisoners from Hoth are rescued
 * 3.5 ABY - Battle of Kothlis Rebels get plans for Death Star II
 * 3.6 ABY - Battle of Bespin Bespin joins the Rebel Alliance
 * 3.6 ABY - Raid at Bakura Prisoners are rescued
 * 3.7 ABY - Battle of Dubrillion Imperial superlaser destroyed
 * 3.7 ABY-Battle of Gall Attempt at rescuing Han Solo, a Rebel Commander
 * 3.9 ABY-Battle of Fondor Creation of an Imperial Super Star Destroyer is sabataged
 * 4 ABY-Skirmish at Carkoon Han Solo is rescued
 * 4 ABY-Mission on Prefsbelt IV The Imperial Shuttle Tydirium is stolen
 * 4 ABY - Battle of Endor Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles and Nien Nunb destroy the second Death Star. Admiral Piett dies when the Executor crashes into the Death Star. Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker is redeemed by the efforts of Luke Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker destroys Palpatine, saving his son's life, and dies peacefully. The Empire as the Galaxy knows it is brought to an end and begins to tear itself apart through individualistic-crusade wars from various warlords.
 * 4 ABY - Battle of Bakura The Rebel Alliance and the Imperial garrison on Bakura negotiate a temporary truce in order to repel an invasion by the Ssi-Ruuvi.
 * 6 ABY - Battle of Coruscant The New Republic recaptures Coruscant from Imperial Intelligence director Ysanne Isard.
 * 7 ABY - The Krytos virus - an artificial virus created by Evir Derricote - begins killing most of Coruscant's alien population. This starts the small yet important conflict known as the The Bacta War.
 * 8 ABY - The Hapan Consortium forms an alliance with the New Republic. The Nightsisters are defeated in Dathomir. Zsinj is killed.
 * 9 ABY - Grand Admiral Thrawn begins his campaign against the New Republic. The long lost Katana Fleet is rediscovered. The Noghri turn against the Galactic Empire. Thrawn is slain by the Noghri Rukh onboard his flagship Chimaera.
 * 10 ABY - Emperor Palpatine returns in a series of clone bodies and begins terrorising the New Republic. Coruscant and several other key Core Worlds are reconquered by the Galactic Empire.
 * 11 ABY - The reborn Emperor is finally destroyed. Carnor Jax takes over the reins of the Empire. Luke Skywalker starts the Jedi Academy and begins training a new generation of Jedi Knights. Kyp Durron, under the influence of the Sith Lord Exar Kun, destroys the Cauldron Nebula and Carida.
 * 12 ABY - Roganda Ismaren locates the Eye of Palpatine and tries to use it against the New Republic. Durga the Hutt constructs the Darksaber superweapon in an attempt to start an empire. Admiral Daala returns and tries to destroy the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4.
 * 13 ABY - The Empire under Admiral Daala and Gilad Pellaeon regroups.
 * 14 ABY - Battle of the Jedi Praxeum Admiral Galak Fyyar and Dark Jedi Desann attempt to destroy the Academy at Yavin 4
 * 16 - 17 ABY - Black Fleet Crisis
 * 19 ABY - The New Republic - under acting Chief of State Ponc Gavrisom - and the last fragments of the Empire sign the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty, ending all formal conflict between the two governments. At this time the Imperial Remnant, led by now-Grand Admiral Pellaeon, consisted of 8 backwater sectors bordering the Unknown Regions in the Outer Rim.