Similar to the AT-ST walker, the AT-AC walkers are deployed to patrol the streets of Ord Mantell and enforce Imperial rule.

As clone troopers are gradually phased out of Imperial ranks, the TK stormtroopers begin to fill the dwindling regiments with naturally-born human recruits. Initially trained in secret by aging clone commandos, the TK troopers are deployed on many missions during the early days of Emperor Palpatine’s reign. With gleaming white prototype armor and helmets fashioned from a never-used Phase III clone design, the troopers quickly become the striking physical manifestation of Imperial control.

The marriage of repulsorlift technology and heavy armor has resulted in formidable floating tanks known as AATs or Armored Assault Tanks. These assault tanks form the frontline of Trade Federation armored infantry divisions, as well as Separatist forces during the Clone Wars. A crew of battle droids drives the battle tank and operates the array of laser and projectile weaponry carried by the vehicle.

Rancors are towering hulks of muscle and reptilian flesh that walk on two stubby legs and use their disproportionately long arms to capture prey. A salivating, tooth-filled maw dominates their flat faces, and their armored skin is so tough that they can shrug off blaster bolts as little more than annoyances. While not inherently vicious -- Felucia’s farmers co-existed relatively peaceably with spined, brightly colored jungle rancors -- these creatures were prized as trophies by crimelords and other wealthy, amoral individuals. Jabba the Hutt kept a rancor in a shadowy chamber beneath his Tatooine throne room. After Luke Skywalker killed the beast, an outraged Jabba ordered the public execution of the Jedi and his friends.

A battered veteran of the Clone Wars, at the dawn of the Empire Saw Gerrera continues to lead a band of insurgents and extremists, the first of what will become countless rebel cells locked in a civil war with the Empire. Saw loses much in his decades of combat, but occasional flashes of the charismatic and caring man he once was shine through his calloused exterior. Even in his later years, when Gerrera is bunkered on the ancient world of Jedha, coordinating a prolonged insurgency against the Imperial occupation, his ailing health does little to wither his resolve to fight.

A member of Alderaan's royal family and the planet's representative to the Republic Senate since the time of the Clone Wars, Bail Organa earned respect on Coruscant for his honesty and his commitment to justice. Prior to the fall of the Republic, Bail served alongside Senator Padmé Amidala as a member of Chancellor Palpatine's Loyalist Committee. The two became close friends, and recruited like-minded allies to prevent Palpatine's alarming grabs for power. At the end of the war, Bail Organa adopted Padmé's daughter Leia and raised her as an Alderaanian princess. While representing Alderaan in the Imperial Senate, he continued to work secretly with allies such as Mon Mothma and Ahsoka Tano to assist rebel cells scattered across the galaxy, working towards the day that a unified Rebellion could emerge.

The capital of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Raxus was a lush world in the Outer Rim. The Separatist Senate met on Raxus, with Count Dooku generally presiding via hologram. The planet was the site of secret discussions between the Republic’s Padmé Amidala and her old friend, Separatist Senator Mina Bonteri, which led to a brief-lived Separatist peace proposal. Later in the war, Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos tried and failed to assassinate Dooku on Raxus.

The Zygerrians were a powerful people in the days of the Old Republic, before the Jedi Knights tore down their empire of slavery. When slavery was outlawed in Republic space, the Jedi Knights liberated countless beings from bondage, and the despicable trade the Zygerrians excelled in was pushed into the shadows of the underworld and beyond, with some operating in the ruins of places like Old Ord Mantell City. After the end of the Clone Wars, some Zygerrians are actively plotting a return to the old ways.

On the world of Wayland, the Empire has hidden a secret military operation in the peak of Mount Tantiss. Concealed by the jagged landscape, deep underground Imperial scientists are continuing the work that began on Kamino, harnessing a deeper understanding of cloning technology at Emperor Palpatine's behest.

The world of Veelo holds many dangers for those who dare to tread here. The atmosphere is noxious for many travelers without proper equipment. But even those who survive their first steps must contend with mines dotting the murky waters and swamps teeming with hungry gryzards hunting for their next meal.

Skara Nal is a desolate place, uninhabitable by most sentient beings and creatures of the galaxy. There are no cities or other signs of civilizations on the vast, barren landscape, just fossilized rock and dull stone outcroppings marking the inhospitable resting place of a storied treasure.

Life on the temperate world of Silla is usually slow-paced and serene, with villages spread over the soft grasslands. But in the age of the Empire, the arrival of a downed Imperial cruiser and its dangerous cargo brings an end to the culture, with citizens rounded up by soldiers and whisked away from their homes to quell the panic amid the chaos.