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There, she intended to board and saw an opportunity to rebuild the Empire; one that was stronger and purer, and not given to the backstabbing and incest of the Galactic Empire. Defeated at Jakku and facing severe internal unrest, the Empire was forced to sign the Galactic Concordance , severely limiting its ability to wage war and ushering in its transformation into a mere rump state.
Chancellor Mothma then issued another declaration designating all surviving Imperial officers as war criminals, [27] while the Empire had began to break into remnants.
A remnant of Imperial vessels was confined to predetermined boundaries by the New Republic in the Core and Inner Rim [28] while a provisional government led by Amedda was established on Coruscant , the former capital of the Old Republic [19] and throneworld of the Empire, where it was overseen by Republic observers. After the signing of the Galactic Concordance, the New Republic arrived in systems still under Imperial control to announce the signing of the historic peace treaty.
However, by the time the Republic reached these systems, Imperial fleets had already retreated to the Unknown Regions.
The battle's end at Jakku was marked by the sudden departure of the surviving Imperial warships into the Unknown Regions following the announcement of the treaty, where they had seemingly disappeared. Following the Battle of Jakku, [27] former Imperial officers , nobles , technologists , [31] and warlords [9] fled the Empire into the galaxy's Unknown Regions in an effort to escape the prying eyes of the New Republic [27] as part of an exodus. The First Order was secretly under the control of Darth Sidious, who had been resurrected on Exegol in a clone body of his original.
Just as many of the Emperor's servants carried the Old Empire's greatest military secrets to the Unknown Regions, so too did the creature known as Snoke , who rose to become [26] the Supreme Leader of the First Order. Snoke was, in fact, one of the many genetic experiments created by the Emperor and his cult following, the Sith Eternal, prior to his demise, and discarded as potential vessel for the Sith Lord's dark essence.
The Emperor's resurrection, the existence of his followers, the Sith Eternal, and their hidden base of operations, Exegol, were all secrets unknown to even the highest echelons of the First Order. Much of the First Order was even unaware of the Contingency itself nor their ultimate purpose in it, for as the First Order served as its military wing, the Sith Eternal lay at its spiritual heart.
The true leadership of the First Order operated from behind a veil of secrecy, driven by the tenets of the dark side of the Force and the ancient ways of the Sith. Snoke's choices when governing the faction only added to his mysterious nature. The dark side adept made no designs toward the old title Emperor, relied on mysticism and focusing on spiritual matters while allowing the generals wield the First Order military in his name, and was unwilling to meet in person with his subordinates, instead relying on large casting presence holograms to communicate with and to administer orders to the underlings who served him.
Gallius Rax, Rae Sloane, Ormes Apolin , and Brendol Hux were originally seen as potential leaders of the Empire's remnants by the admirals and generals who had survived the implosion of the Empire and the New Republic's wrath, but they were sidelined, co-opted, or destroyed by Snoke. Brendol's son, Armitage Hux, was spared in the long term by Snoke in order to use him as a political tool in his rise to power.
Captain Phasma and General Armitage Hux murdered the latter's father, thereby gaining control of the stormtrooper program. As part of this turnover, Phasma and Armitage Hux conspired to assassinate the latter's father, Brendol Hux, agreeing that it was time for Brendol to die; Armitage had been abused by his father from his youth, while Phasma sought to cover up her past.
Armitage left the actual murder up to Phasma with his only instruction being to make it untraceable. Phasma carried out the killing of Brendol Hux using the toxin from the bite of a Parnassos beetle. Armitage Hux then gave a brief address to Captain Cardinal and the Stormtrooper Corps informing them of Brendol's passing and ascended to his leadership role in the military, taking over from his late father.
At some point, a cargo ship was ambushed containing military gear which the ship's crew claimed was meant for the First Order. Among the possessions seized was a set of stormtrooper armor which was later presented to Terex , a former Imperial stormtrooper and, at the time, a crime lord of the Ranc gang. Terex immediately became curious about the modern design and confirmed that it was not of Imperial design.
After Terex asked of its origin, he continued to think about the implications of this new information. Sometime later, he subsequently joined the ranks of the First Order Security Bureau. The Amaxine warriors were a paramilitary group with secret ties to the First Order.
The First Order as a political movement within the New Republic, sought to restore the Galactic Empire and to generate funding to build up the new navy. The First Order had used a militia group called the Amaxine warriors as proxies to fund the Nikto crime lord Rinnrivin Di 's cartel to achieve this. Seven years prior to the " Napkin Bombing " at the New Republic senatorial complex on Hosnian Prime , the First Order used the Amaxines to inject billions of credits as start-up capital into Rinnrivin's cartel, turning the hitherto minor cartel into a major crime syndicate.
Establishing a mutual relationship with the Amaxines, Rinnrivin embarked on lucrative smuggling and gambling operations with the proceeds being channeled through shadowy corporations and Centrist sources back to the First Order, which used the money to rebuild its fleet. In addition, the Order also recruited several Centrist senators like Lady Carise Sindian as clandestine agents who worked to subvert the Republic from within.
Many Centrists, an informal faction who were the rivals to the Populists in the Republic's Galactic Senate, and who favored a greater central government and military, admired the Old Empire's leaders and practices.
While Hadrassian saw the Amaxines as the vanguard of the First Order, Lady Carise regarded her as too volatile to manage. Hadrassian in return was impatient with the Centrists for refusing to secede from the Republic. The First Order's operations were almost exposed when Rinnrivin Di's criminal activities began to exact a devastating toll on the planet Ryloth 's off-world trade.
In response, the New Republic senators Leia Organa and Ransolm Casterfo embarked on an investigation which uncovered Rinnrivin's links to the Amaxine warriors. However, the two senators failed to discover the Order's linkages to the Amaxines and Rinnrivin's cartel. In an attempt to sow chaos, Arliz Hadrassian bombed the New Republic's senatorial complex. This set in motion a chain of events that led to the death of Rinnrivin and the destruction of most of the Amaxine warriors' forces on the planet Sibensko.
Hadrassian killed herself after assassinating the Republic senator Tai-Lin Garr. While most Republic senators and the media believed that the demise of Rinnrivin's cartel and the Amaxines eliminated all threats to the Republic, Senator Organa disagreed with the New Republic's complacency. However, she was sidelined from the political process following a political scandal that led to the public relevation that her father was Darth Vader, which discredited Organa and forced her to resign from the Senate.
After the assassination of Tai-Lin Garr, Lady Carise and her Centrist counterparts began preparing a motion to secede from the New Republic in order to join and support the First Order. While some in the Galactic Senate applauded the notion, others realized that without New Republic supervision, the former Imperials would return to the draconian ways of their predecessors.
Supreme Leader Snoke initiated a vast rearmament program, which would go on to produce a technologically superior military over the one that once existed under the Galactic Empire, and began subverting the Republic, as the First Order was keenly aware that it lacked the superior numbers and support of the former Imperial state.
Meanwhile, the First Order had to contend with several threats that lurked within the Unknown Regions: hermetic kingdoms which were confronted by the Order. On Supreme Leader Snoke's instruction, the new military undertook a major offensive against several of these kingdoms to seize their worlds and resources to fuel their rise. The First Order emerged from the Unknown Regions and precipitated the return of fascism and militarism.
Despite mounting First Order aggression, the New Republic refused to take forceful military action against the Order, seeking to avoid provoking another devastating galactic war at all costs. The Resistance acted as a check on the military designs of the First Order.
The New Republic Senate believed that the First Order posed no real, credible threat to the galaxy at large and the hard-won galactic peace. Echoing these sentiments, Chancellor Lanever Villecham argued there was no need for concern as long as the Order adhered to the dictates of the Galactic Concordance.
Despite this, the First Order blatantly defied the accords by ushering in the mass mobilization of superior stormtrooper forces, along with violating Republic bans on the sale of weapons to the First Order. Testing the resolve of the New Republic, small skirmishes occasionally erupted between the First Order and Republic, all while the Starkiller operation sought a suitable planet for implementation.
With the First Order's growing threat and rapid mobilization for war, prominent members of the Republic voiced concern over the Imperial successor state, with the most vocal being former Senator Leia Organa. Scoffed at by the Senate at large for being an alarmist and warmonger, Organa used her influence as a prominent member of the former Rebel Alliance to recruit many former military officers who had been left forgotten by the Military Disarmament Act passed by the Galactic Senate.
Funded by like-minded senators who shared Organa's fears about the First Order, the Resistance came to serve as the opposing force to the Order's growing power, sparking a new phase of the continued Cold War. Meanwhile, the Republic Senate had become mired in corruption and bureaucracy, [2] amplified by the political gridlock caused by the divide between the Populists and the Centrists. As a result, the Resistance was forced to work on its own until it could obtain irrefutable evidence of First Order violations of the peace that could be presented to New Republic Command.
The First Order deployed stormtroopers to the Colossus , ostensibly to protect the station from piracy. The First Order began an occupation of the Colossus refueling station on the planet Castilon as part of their preparations for their planned war against the rest of the galaxy.
The First Order occupied the Colossus under the guise of peacekeepers in wake of several pirate raids on the platform, which the Order itself had secretly manufactured as a pretext of intervention so that the Colossus could be used as a staging ground.
The First Order had prior interest on the station; it had placed a large bounty of twenty thousand credits on Kel and Eila , which the Order claimed were members of a high-ranking First Order family from outside its military hierarchy. In actuality, Kel and Eila were orphaned survivors of the First Order's aggressive actions against the people on Tehar. The First Order's presence was welcomed by some civilians on the Colossus , but others opposed the Order's measures, leading to a riot among the alien population.
Ultimately, Terex and his landing force were defeated. To avoid war between the First Order and the New Republic, Terex and his surviving men were allowed to leave on their Maxima-A class heavy cruiser. Terex later obtained intelligence that Black Squadron were traveling to Megalox prison on the high-gravity world of Megalox Beta. Dameron traveled to the prison world to question Grakkus the Hutt about his knowledge of Lor San Tekka's whereabouts.
Terex bribed Warden Luta into abandoning Black Squadron to the prison population. Though Grakkus had made a deal with Terex to disclose the information, Grakkus changed his mind and decided to sell the information to whoever got him out first.
He planned to interrogate Grakkus and then kill him. While Black Squadron and Grakkus escaped, Terex and his mercenaries were pinned down by the high gravity. Terex managed to escape aboard the Carrion Spike and attacked the Megalox space station , seeking to punish Luta for letting Black Squadron escape. His ship blasted several shuttles but was forced to retreat when Black Squadron turned around and inflicted considerable damage on the Carrion Spike.
Captain Phasma summoned Terex back to First Order space to report for debriefing, but Terex instead chose to pursue his nemesis Dameron. Later, the Galaxy Beacon journalist and former New Republic Starfleet member Suralinda Javos discovered that the First Order was building military installations, shipyards, weapons research facilities, and "something bigger" in violation of the Galactic Concordance. She met with Dameron on the Inner Rim gas giant of Pheryon , hoping to sell the information to the Resistance in order to boost her journalistic career.
During interrogation, Javos managed to kill Weel and free Dameron. After escaping, Javos decided to join the Resistance.
Terex wanted to destroy the Resistance once and for all to aid the First Order's conquest of the galaxy. In addition, Oddy decided to break Terex's leverage on him by rescuing his wife Sowa Chuan and several slaves from Terex's flagship, Carrion Spike. While Terex led a landing party in pursuit of Dameron and the droids, Black Squadron assailed Terex's ship and armada of " Uglies. Terex's landing party was also wiped out by N1-ZX, who had been reprogrammed with Mister Bones 's droid personality template.
Terex also fought with Dameron and BB-8 but was disarmed following a struggle. Malarus had been dispatched by the First Order to arrest Terex, whose rogue mission violated Supreme Leader Snoke's directive to avoid open conflict with the New Republic and New Republic-aligned forces such as the Resistance.
Malarus also led a landing party who met with Poe and took the captive Terex into custody. She was confronted by an official of House Reya , who arrested her and said they would give her a trial. Supreme Leader Snoke prioritized the hunt for Skywalker, determined to prevent any chance of the Jedi Order's rebirth. Seeking to locate a fragment of a map that led to Jedi Master Luke Skywalker—who had gone into self-imposed exile following the failed resurrection of the Jedi Order, for which he blamed himself—Supreme Leader Snoke believed that if Skywalker were to ever return, the new Jedi would rise, which would threaten the First Order's rise to power.
Seeking to capture the droid, the First Order assaulted the Church of the Force settlement of Tuanul [9] where Tekka resided, but BB-8 was able to escape with the piece of the map. The villagers of Tuanul fought back but were defeated; the survivors were then herded into a large group while Tekka was brought to Ren himself, who demanded he turn over information on the map to the First Order.
Tekka claimed that Ren could not deny the truth that was his own family , causing Ren to slay the old man with his lightsaber. Dameron then fired on Ren in retaliation, but the dark warrior caught the blast while his stormtroopers captured the pilot and brought him to their flagship , the Resurgent -class Star Destroyer Finalizer. During their escape, Dameron dubbed the renegade stormtrooper Finn. Finn eventually found BB-8 alongside a scavenger named Rey , but the First Order also found them, leading them to mark Rey as well and pursue the three across Jakku.
They eventually stumbled on Rebellion war heroes and smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca in space, and the five of them traveled to Takodana , where they sought the help of Maz Kanata in order to deliver BB-8 and the map fragment to General Organa at the Resistance base.
Supreme Leader Snoke authorized the operation and dismissed Hux before he conferred with Kylo Ren, with whom he discussed an apparent awakening in the Force. The Supreme Leader then informed his dark apprentice that the droid had fallen into the hands of his father, Han Solo, before cutting his holographic transmission to Starkiller Base. On the very eve of the planned war, General Hux delivered a speech to the legions of stormtroopers under his command who assembled to witness the destructive firepower of the weapon.
Hux declared that the day would mark the end of the New Republic and denounced the Republic for lying to the galaxy, claiming that the Republic secretly supported the Resistance.
After proclaiming that the remaining systems would bow to the First Order, General Hux commanded that the weapon be fired, and massive beams of energy were fired across the galaxy from Ilum [8] towards the Hosnian system. When the beams arrived, the astronomical bodies of the system were destroyed , including the galactic capital of Hosnian Prime, and with it, the New Republic Senate and a portion of its Defense Fleet.
As the First Order rose to power through the Starkiller crisis , it continued the hunt for the map to Skywalker, seeking to prevent the rise of the new Jedi. Its forces swiftly laid siege to Maz Kanata's castle on Takodana and leveled it. Rey fled into the forests surrounding the castle, but Ren deployed stormtroopers to the woods before heading into the woods himself, hunting Rey down and eventually finding and capturing her.
He probed her mind with the Force and realized that she had seen the map. Ren then decided that he would not need the droid, believing that he could instead interrogate her to find out what she had seen. Ren was notified of a Resistance surprise attack by a stormtrooper officer, who requested more troops, but Ren instead ordered the First Order division to pull out, claiming that they had what they came for.
First Order troops then boarded their ships and withdrew, taking the unconscious Rey along with them. Aided by the deserter FN "Finn," Solo and Chewbacca infiltrated Starkiller Base to rescue Rey and disable the planetary shields, allowing a Resistance strike to destroy the planet-converted superweapon.
With the First Order minutes away from destroying the Resistance base on D'Qar , the team achieved their objectives, although Solo died in the process while trying to reconcile with Ren, his son with Organa. Escaping the planet with seconds to spare, the First Order's sun-harvesting superweapon was destroyed by the Resistance Starfighter Corps , forming a new star where the planet once was. Supreme Leader Snoke ordered General Hux to leave the planet and come to him with Kylo Ren in order to complete his training.
The First Order fleet had in large numbers regrouped for the new galactic war after the fall of Starkiller. Phasma returned from chasing down and dispatching the true culprit on Luprora who she blamed for being behind the one who had turned off the shields at Starkiller Base. They expressed a desire for vengeance and to prove themselves after failing to save the superweapon. In spite of Starkiller Base's destruction, the First Order stood poised to conquer the galaxy.
Despite the loss of Starkiller Base, the First Order still possessed a secure and intact chain of command and massive military strength in the form of hundreds of battle-cruisers and millions of troops, emerging from the shadows to seize control of the galaxy by force. Following the loss of the Galactic Senate and the Hosnian system, the New Republic lost its leadership and its entire home fleet, which, due to the Military Disarmament Act, had been the majority of the Republic military.
Because of this imbalance, the New Republic was virtually helpless as First Order fleets spread across the galaxy. Surviving senators dissolved the Republic's remaining task forces in an effort to protect their own homeworlds [26] while other worlds capitulated to the First Order in order to avoid direct military confrontation.
The few Republic military forces that remained were completely outclassed and destroyed by the First Order, which had spent thirty years training and preparing for the war, while the New Republic military stagnated in peace. This convinced many Republic member worlds to surrender to the First Order without a fight, rather than risk defeat and devastation. This was also a result of Republic political infighting and corruption, as Centrist senators and worlds enacted a long-planned mass secession from the New Republic to the First Order.
At the same time, many Outer Rim worlds that had been left defenseless and forgotten by the New Republic quickly became incited by the Order's promise of protection from the pirates and criminal cartels that preyed on them. The core Resistance group found itself greatly outmatched by the First Order, [11] though the First Order also had to contend with other Resistance cells. Setting their sights on the Resistance base, General Hux's forces arrived in battle and destroyed the base, but the Resistance was able to escape before the First Order could finish them off.
Despite escaping, the Resistance's speedy evacuation had cost them the vast majority of their remaining fleet and left them as fugitives wandering in space. Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Snoke summoned his apprentice, Kylo Ren, to his throne room on the Supremacy , the First Order flagship, and mocked him for his failure at Starkiller Base and his ambitions to emulate Darth Vader. The mobile supertanker fuel depot , the Colossus , shortly arrived in the aftermath of the D'Qar evacuation and tried to retrieve coaxium from the wreckage of the Fulminatrix.
Phasma tasked Pyre and Agent Tierny with recovering the station or destroying it if recovery proved impossible due to its strategic importance and sought to prevent them from gaining the fuel, however this effort failed and the Resistance was able to successfully recovers coaxium and flee. Pyre and Tierny vowed to hunt for the Colossus.
Posing as a stranded spacer, but was discovered as a First Order spy. Though Nena escaped, they were able to managed to undo her sabotage and escape First Order forces. Using hyperspace tracking , a newly developed technology descended and finally perfected from the Empire's Tarkin Initiative , the First Order tracked the Resistance to the Oetchi system , [65] catching them completely off guard and destroying one of their cruisers instantly.
Kylo Ren, leading a TIE squadron in his personal fighter, attacked the Resistance's command ship Raddus and blew up its hangar bay, taking out all of the Resistance's remaining fighters before he set his sights on the ship's bridge , where his mother, General Leia Organa, was. Though Ren was ultimately unable to bring himself to fire, his wingmen had no such qualms and fired on the bridge, exposing it to the vacuum of space and killing the majority of the Resistance's leadership, including Admiral Gial Ackbar.
Organa was able to use the Force to pull herself back aboard, but she was left incapacitated.
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