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  • Galactic Empire

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    Galactic Empire

    The Galactic Empire ruled for years through fear, intimidation, and tyranny. With a mighty military force including stormtroopers, spy technology like probe droids, and the planet-destroying Death Star, Emperor Palpatine’s regime seemed unstoppable and permanent. But some dared to strike back…

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Appearances
  • Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV)
  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V)
  • Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Episode VI)
  • Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  • Solo: A Star Wars Story
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi
  • Star Wars Rebels
Affiliations
  • Imperial Royal Guard
  • Stormtroopers
  • Scout Troopers
  • Snowtroopers
  • Imperial Pilots
  • AT-AT Pilots
  • Sienar Fleet Systems
  • Death Star Gunners
  • Imperial Death Troopers
  • Death Star Troopers
  • Imperial combat assault tank commanders
  • Jumptroopers
  • Sandtroopers
  • Death Star Scientists
  • Imperial combat assault tank pilots
  • Imperial ground crew
  • Inferno Squad
  • patrol troopers
  • Shoretroopers
  • range troopers
  • Mudtroopers
  • Imperial Mobile Surgical Unit
  • Imperial medics
  • Purge Troopers
  • Artillery Stormtrooper
Locations
  • Alderaan
  • Death Star
  • Coruscant
  • The Spire
  • Stygeon Prime
  • Reklam Station
  • Skystrike Academy
  • Scarif
  • Eadu
  • Wobani
  • Death Star II
  • Imperial Academy
  • Geonosis
  • Mustafar
  • Horizon Base
  • Jedha
  • Killun Station
  • Lothal Imperial Factory
  • Thrawn's Office
  • Jalindi Station
  • Lothal Imperial airfield
  • Fondor
  • Lothal fuel depot
droid
  • Mouse Droid
  • Imperial sentry droid
  • E-XD Infiltrator Droid
  • Imperial Probe Droid
  • Viper probe droid
Vehicles
  • Speeder Bike
  • Patrol Transport
  • Imperial Shuttle
  • Imperial Sentinel-Class Shuttle
  • Imperial Star Destroyer
  • AT-DP Walker
  • Executor
  • Super Star Destroyer
  • Lothal Speeder Bike
  • Inquisitor's TIE Advanced Prototype
  • Imperial Light Cruiser
  • TIE Bomber
  • Darth Vader's TIE Fighter
  • TIE Interceptor
  • V-wing Fighter
  • Imperial Interdictor
  • Imperial Cargo Ship
  • AT-ACT walker
  • Krennic’s Imperial Shuttle
  • AT-AT Walker (All Terrain Armored Transport)
  • Imperial Troop Transport (ITT)
  • TIE Fighter
  • AT-ST Walker
  • Imperial listener ship
  • TIE defender
  • Zeta-class Imperial Shuttle
  • Tactical Infiltration Pod
  • TIE striker
  • TIE defender elite
  • Mobile Command center
  • Imperial Planetary Occupation Facility (I.P.O.F.)
  • Conveyex
  • TIE Brute
  • AT-Hauler
  • AT-DT walker
  • Imperial patrol speeder
  • Imperial Assault Carrier
  • Juggernaut Transport Vehicle
  • Venator-class Star Destroyer
Tool
  • Lobot-Tech Headgear
  • Imperial XX-23 S-Thread Tracer
  • Imperial Construction Module
  • Simulator pods
  • Interrogation Chair
  • Chain Code
Weapons
  • Electrostaff
  • HoloNet News
  • T-7 Ion Disruptor Rifles
  • The Grand Inquisitor's Lightsaber
  • Death Star Superlaser
  • E-11 Blaster Rifle
  • DLT-19 Heavy Blaster Rifle
  • Palpatine's lightsaber
  • Death Trooper BlasTech E-11D Rifle
  • The Duchess
  • Anti-air turbolaser tower
  • SX-21 Blaster Rifle
  • Force Pike

Video

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    So This is How Liberty Dies

    As Supreme Chancellor Palpatine declares the emergence of the first Galactic Empire, senators Amidala and Organa look on in disbelief.

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History

Darth Sidious declaring himself Emperor

At the end of the Clone Wars, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine claimed he was the victim of an attempted coup by Jedi traitors. In response, he issued Order 66 -- the eradication of the Jedi Order -- and reorganized the Republic into the first Galactic Empire. He promised peace and security, and an end to the corruption and ineptitude of the old ways. The once-Senator of Naboo -- secretly a Sith Lord called Darth Sidious -- was now Emperor, with a massive military at his disposal, the black-clad Darth Vader as his tyrannical hand, and a planet-sized space station under construction.

Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin

For decades, the Galactic Empire reigned supreme. The Emperor remained all-powerful, with Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader acting as his primary enforcers. Their space station, the dreaded Death Star, had been completed -- a development that allowed the Emperor to permanently dissolve the Senate. He instead handed rule over to regional governors, who would keep dissident systems in through the fear of his new battle station. Tarkin would test the firepower of this technological terror on Alderaan, destroying the planet with one powerful blast.

Despite the might of the Empire, an organized Rebellion had taken shape, stealing plans to the Death Star. Eventually, these schematics were analyzed and a weakness in the space station was found. In the Battle of Yavin, the Rebel Alliance launched a desperate, full scale attack. While most of the fleet of Rebel starfighters was wiped out, a young Rebel named Luke Skywalker -- with help from his friend Han Solo -- piloted an X-wing through the Death Star’s trench. He made a precise shot, firing a proton torpedo directly into an exhaust port, and destroyed the terrible weapon. Tarkin, who pompously refused to evacuate, was killed in the resulting explosion.

Vader's Super Star Destroyer alongside an Imperial-class Star Destroyer

While the Rebel Alliance had destroyed the Death Star, the Galactic Empire was far from defeated. Indeed, Darth Vader was obsessed with finding Luke Skywalker and dispatched probe droids throughout the galaxy. Finally, one of his spy satellites picked up something on the remote ice planet Hoth; while some Imperials were skeptical, Vader was convinced it was the location of the Rebel base.

Traveling on his Super Star Destroyer, the Sith and his fleet arrived at the system and deployed troops for a ground assault. AT-AT walkers, gargantuan weaponized transports, led the attack. The base was overrun by the Empire’s snowtroopers, but by the time Vader arrived, Skywalker and the Rebels had fled. It was still a victory for the Empire, and Skywalker and his friends would later suffer terrible defeats at the hands of Vader.

The Rebel fleet assaulting the Death Star II

Looking to finally crush the Rebellion and cement its galactic authority, the Empire began construction of Death Star II. The Emperor himself visited the new space station to oversee its completion, his intimidating presence ensuring it would be finished on schedule.

This new megaweapon was protected by a shield stemming from Endor, a nearby forest moon; the Alliance’s Bothan spies discovered this information, however, and a multi-pronged attack was planned. Yet this is just what the Emperor wanted: he had set a trap for the Rebels. The Sith Lord’s arrogance blinded him, though, as the Empire lost the resulting Battle of Endor, Death Star II was destroyed, and Darth Vader betrayed him. The vaunted Galactic Empire’s reign was over, and the Rebel Alliance could begin the long process of restoring freedom to the galaxy.

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