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"The Battle of Starkiller Base has been won, but the war wages on..."
―General Leia Organa[src]

The war between the First Order and the Resistance began upon the escalation of the Cold war into full scale open warfare between the two factions for control over the galaxy. While the First Order, the successor to the fallen Galactic Empire, sought to conquer the known galaxy from the Unknown Regions, the Resistance sought to preserve the democracy restored by the shattered New Republic after their struggle against the Empire thirty years prior.[2]

The war officially began in the year 34 ABY when the First Order tested its planet-sized superweapon Starkiller Base on the Republic capital of Hosnian Prime, destroying the planet and the Galactic Senate and the New Republic Starfleet along with it. Shortly after, Resistance launched an assault on the superweapon, resulting in its destruction and the beginning of open warfare.[2] Template:Battle-stub/Canon

History

Prelude

At the end of the Clone Wars in 19 BBY,[1] Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, who was secretly in fact the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious, declared himself Emperor and reorganized the democratic Galactic Republic, which had governed the galaxy for a millennium, into the first Galactic Empire, replacing the Galactic Senate with the Imperial Senate. The Emperor had his new apprentice, the fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader, oversee the deaths of the remaining Separatist leaders and the purging of the remaining Jedi that had survived Order 66 and the march on the Jedi Temple, leaving the Jedi Order destroyed.[9]

File:Battle of Endor.png

After the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance formed the New Republic, following in the footsteps of the Old Republic.

Despite the promises of security and order that the Old Republic had failed to provide, the Empire eventually faced early rebellion that came to consolidate into the Alliance to Restore the Republic. The Rebel Alliance and the Empire soon came into conflict in the form of the Galactic Civil War, with the former securing a major victory at the Battle of Yavin where the Death Star was destroyed.[10] Four years into the war, in 4 ABY, the Emperor used himself and the second Death Star as bait to lure out the Alliance Fleet and Luke Skywalker, a new age Jedi and son of Darth Vader whom the Emperor sought to replace. However, at the Battle of Endor, Vader turned on the Emperor and killed him, saving his son and redeeming himself, fulfilling the prophecy of the Chosen One and leaving the Sith extinct. Anakin died in his son's arms moments later, though Luke was able to escape as the second Death Star exploded.[11] As the Rebel Alliance transformed into the New Republic and restored the Galactic Senate,[12] Luke set out on his path to restore the Jedi way to the galaxy.[13]

Battle of Jakku

The Battle of Jakku led to the defeat of the Old Empire and the rise of the New Republic to power.

The war between the New Republic and the Empire culminated at the Battle of Jakku one year later in 5 ABY. Though the Republic was victorious in battle, many select Imperial officers, nobles, and soldiers were able to retreat into the Unknown Regions as part of a secret Contingency plan devised by the late Emperor to rebuild the Empire, though the plot to destroy Jakku and thus cripple both the Old Empire and the New Republic had failed. Imperial remnants that continued to persist in the known galaxy agreed to the Imperial Instruments of Surrender[14] and signed the Galactic Concordance with the New Republic.

The cold war

In the aftermath of the war, the New Republic made an earnest effort to rebuild what was lost over the course of the five year conflict, also taking steps to ensure that nothing on that scale would ever happen again. The Galactic Senate passed the Military Disarmament Act, heavily demilitarizing the New Republic military and instead pressuring individual planets and star systems to rely on their local planetary defense forces. Despite the subsidized military, the New Republic was still faced with threats sizable in proportion. Choosing to ignore the stipulations of the Galactic Concordance, some united remnants of the Empire refused to yield, culminating in a cold war between the New Republic and Empire.[15]

Over the years, Imperial factions and remnants would briefly inhabit a wing of Republic politics while, hidden away in the Unknown Regions, other Imperial loyalists plotted their return to power, forming the First Order. The First Order colonized planets in the Unknown Regions and rapidly expanded their military power, rebuilding Imperial fleets and mobilizing stormtrooper forces within its armies, with the hopes of restoring Imperial glory. Tensions between Imperial sympathizers, many of whom were Centrists, and Republic loyalists, many of whom were Populists, would eventually reach an all time high that would cause many former Imperials to secede from the Republic and join with a growing First Order. While the notion was supported by many, others feared that, without Republic oversight, former Imperials would return to the draconian ways of the fallen Empire.[16]

Senator Leia Organa, the sister of Luke Skywalker, petitioned the Galactic Senate and Republic Command to take action, but found herself sidelined by the political realm of the New Republic, especially after the revelation that Darth Vader was in fact her and Luke's father in a political scandal between the Centrists and the Populists. With the Republic seeking to avoid another galactic war at all costs and not viewing the First Order as a credible threat to galactic peace and freedom, Princess Leia stepped down from her political office in 28 ABY and formed the breakaway Resistance, where she held the rank of General. Though not officially supported by the Republic, the Resistance was tolerated, and secretly some within the Galactic Senate assisted in funding the private military force.[17][18]

A declaration of war

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The capital of the New Republic was openly destroyed by the First Order thirty years after the Battle of Endor, greatly escalating the conflict.

Conflict began between the First Order and the Resistance while the government of the New Republic under Chancellor Lanever Villecham focused more on trade relations with neutral regions of the galaxy such as the Trans-Hydian Borderlands, unaware of the danger that they were in. In 34 ABY, the First Order, long hidden away in the shadows of the Unknown Regions, used its superweapon built into Starkiller Base to target and destroy the Hosnian system, where the Republic capital of Hosnian Prime was located, resulting in the Hosnian Cataclysm. The Galactic Senate and Defense Fleet were completely obliterated, and the Republic was shattered. In response, the Resistance retaliated by launching a successful assault on Starkiller Base, destroying the planetary superweapon and dealing a significant blow to the new war machine engineered by the First Order.[2]

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Though Starkiller Base was destroyed, open war had begun between the First Order and the Resistance.

Nevertheless, the First Order, still at strength, began mobilizing to launch its campaign of conquest while the Resistance began its evacuation from their base on D'Qar in order to continue their mission in combating the First Order and preserving the democracy, freedom, and justice in the galaxy that the New Republic and Rebel Alliance had restored. Open warfare had begun. But there was hope: General Organa sent the Force-sensitive scavenger Rey to the first Jedi temple on Ahch-To, where her brother, Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi, resided in self-exile after the destruction of his Jedi students some years earlier at the hands of Kylo Ren, the master of the Knights of Ren, student to Supreme Leader Snoke, and son of Leia Organa and Han Solo.[2][19]

Behind the scenes

Despite not having an official name, the First Order–Resistance war made its first appearance in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens[2] and continues in Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi.[19]

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens
  3. ↑ StarWars Star Wars: The Last Jedi Official Teaser on StarWars.com (backup link)
  4. ↑ Exclusive New Star Wars Images from The Last Jedi on Entertainment Weekly (August 9, 2017) (archived from the original on August 9, 2017)
  5. ↑ The 30 Weirdest Things In the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Footage on Entertainment Weekly (July 15, 2017) (backup link not verified!)
  6. ↑ StarWars Star Wars: The Last Jedi Official Trailer on StarWars.com (backup link)
  7. ↑ A Leader Named Leia
  8. ↑ StarWars Star Wars: The Last Jedi Props and Costumes on Display at SDCC on StarWars.com (backup link (/news/star-wars-the-last-jedi-props-and-costumes-on-display-at-sdcc) not verified!)
  9. ↑ Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
  10. ↑ Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
  11. ↑ Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
  12. ↑ Aftermath
  13. ↑ Shattered Empire, Part IV
  14. ↑ Aftermath: Empire's End
  15. ↑ Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary
  16. ↑ Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy
  17. ↑ Bloodline
  18. ↑ Before the Awakening
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi
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