Imperial Remnant

Imperial Remnant

TheImperial Remnant, also referred to as theImperial Remnants,Pellaeon's Empire, thetrue Empire or just theRemnant, was anoligarchicalstatelet formed from various fractured elements of theoustedGalactic Empire. Among its people, it continued to be referred to officially as theGalactic Empire or simply theEmpire like its previous incarnation. The Imperial Remnant was located in theOuter Rim Territories ofthe galaxy with itsplanetarycapital onBastion. With the Empiredefeat, theNew Republic wasformed while the Imperial Remnant began to resist the Republic and sought to regain control ofthe galaxy under its leadership, leading to a renewal of conflict. UnderSupreme CommanderGilad Pellaeon, the Remnant began to dramatically lose territory, which eventually forced it to negotiate atreaty for peaceful coexistence with the New Republic. In theyears that followed, it entered theYuuzhan Vong War, and joined theGalactic Alliance. However, duringanother war, the Remnant departed the Alliance. Soon after,Jagged Felwas elected asHead of State during the transition into ademocracy, however Fel would be returned to power and would go on to transform the Remnant into adynasticmonarchy.

After the fall of the Empire,AdmiralNatasi Daala formed the "United Warlord Fleets" out of theDeep Core and began a campaign against the New Republic. However she failed, and relinquished full commandfleets to Gilad Pellaeon, who after the campaign failed pulled fleets out of the Deep Core, and annexed thePentastar Alignment and seized fortifiedsectors on the fringes of thegalaxy and established theCouncil of Moffs on a temporary headquarters onOrinda. It maintained a strong military and limited venues of public expression, but did notrule by terror and force and abolished bothslavery and anti-alien sentiment. The Imperial Remnant was able to expand it's borders through a successfulcampaign in that year. However, Republic advances over the next seven years reduced the Remnant to just eightsectors and it's headquarters relocated to Bastion as a result. Here, Pellaeon realized that the war was lost and sued for peace with the New Republic, ending the Galactic Civil War in19 ABY.

The Imperial Remnant then entered into a tense but peaceful relationship with the New Republic, while for the next six years, a number of unrepentant Imperials fled to the Remnant, taking a vast amount of wealth with them to parts unknown. When the Republic requested Remnant assistance in repelling an invasion by theextra-galacticYuuzhan Vong in25 ABY, the Moffs elected to instead sit the war out and fortify their own territory against the invaders. Afterconquering much of the galaxy andcapturing the New Republic capital ofCoruscant, the Yuuzhan Vongattacked Bastion in28 ABY and forced an Imperial retreat. Pellaeon was finally able to convince the reluctant Moff Council to take the fight to the enemy, and under his direction, the Imperial Remnant joined the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, the New Republic's successor state.29 ABY saw the Yuuzhan Vongdefeated by the Galactic Alliance's combined fleets at Coruscant, and Pellaeon later retired.

As a member of the Galactic Alliance, the Remnant took part in the brief, but devastatingSwarm War in theUnknown Regions along side theChiss Ascendancy againstthe Colony during a period of great expansion by theKillik.41 ABY saw Pellaeon returned as the new Imperial leader when Galactic AllianceChief of State Darth Caedus requested aid in the Second Galactic Civil War against aConfederation of breakawayplanets. When Pellaeon refused to support Caedus' brutal tactics in theSecond Battle of Fondor, he was assassinated withDrikl Lecersen acting as theirde facto leader, who authorized the creation of ananovirus that targeted thebloodline of theroyal family of theHapes Consortium. After the war, the Galactic Alliance confronted the Moffs with an ultimatum: face war crime trials, or install a young man named Jagged Fel as their new Head of State and force the outmatched Confederation to surrender.

The Imperial Remnant withdrew from the Galactic Alliance after the war, but in 43 ABY, Fel participated in attempts atreunification. He survived an assassination attempt in44 ABY by a power-hungry Admiral Daala, who hoped to usurp control of the Remnant. Fel subsequently issued reforms and called a general election among the Remnant's citizens, and with his assistance, AdmiralVitor Reige defeated the popular Daala and became the new Head of State. Fel later returned to the post and used his "Victory Without War" initiative to spread Imperial influence throughout the galaxy whileaiding poverty-stricken worlds, and the Remnant absorbed some of the Galactic Alliance's territory as Felascended as Emperor, whose reign reorganized the Remnant.

History[]

The birth of the Remnant[]

In4 ABY, the Galactic Empire suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle ofEndor to theRebel Alliance, their opponent in the Galactic Civil War. TheAlliance Fleet destroyed the Empire'sDeath Star IIbattle station, and Emperor Palpatine, also known as theSith LordDarth Sidious, waskilled by his formerapprenticeAnakin Skywalker, who previously served him as the Imperial enforcer Darth Vader.^[1] The battle also saw theExecutor-class Star DreadnoughtExecutor,flagship of Lord Vader and theImperial Navy'sDeath Squadron, and thebattlecruiserPride of Tarlandia destroyed. AdmiralHorst Strage, commander of the next communicationsship in line—theImperial II-class Star DestroyerChimaera—was killed when anion blast overloaded his neural shunt, and command of the fleet was left in the hands of theChimaera'sCaptain Gilad Pellaeon. Finding his forces in disarray, Pellaeon ordered a retreat to the planetAnnaj.^[6]

With the fleet regrouped, Pellaeon called a council of war and advocated that they return to Endor and crush the Rebels. WhenAdye Prittick, theranking admiral, proved indecisive, AdmiralBlitzer Harrsk took part of the fleet and retreated into the Deep Core until a clear chain of command could be established. As the Emperor had never provided a succession plan in the event of his death, othernavalofficers followed Harrsk's example and fortified their holdings, declaring themselves independent warlords.^[6]Grand VizierSate Pestage claimed the Imperial throne and, wary of Alliance strikes against key targets, fortified strategic systems andfortress worlds, which put the Empire on the defensive despite their numerical and economic advantages over the Rebels.^[1] Countless worlds flocked to the fold of theNew Republic, the successor state of the Alliance, after hearing news of the Emperor's death.^[10]

The New Republic consolidated their holdings and won worlds over through diplomacy before executing an aggressivemilitary push into the Core against an Empire that was crumbling from within due to the machinations of its own ambitiouspoliticians. By9 ABY, the Empire's territory had been reduced to a quarter of its former size,^[10] and the state was widely considered to be merely the "remnants of the Empire."^{[11][12][13][5]} Campaignsby Grand AdmiralThrawn andby thereborn Darth Sidiousreclaimed swaths of lost territory, but Palpatine'sfinal death saw the fleet again splinter into warlordism andImperial territory reduced to a narrow band stretching from the Outer Rim to theColonies.^[10] Despite the self-proclaimed EmperorXandel Carivus in 11 ABY, its remnants consisted of squabbling warlord factions, standoffish fortress worlds, and Moffs and governors which did not acknowledge Carivus.^[1]

Later in 11 ABY, Admiral Natasi Daala'sMaw fleet emerged from years of seclusion inthe Maw and prosecuted an ultimately disastrousmilitary campaign against the New Republic.^[10] After limping into the Deep Core aboard her sole remaining ship, theGorgon, she declared herself a freelanceambassador and spent one year traveling to the various Deep Core warlords' fortress worlds espousing a message of unification. Unwilling to give up their power, the feuding warlords dismissed her ideas and continued theirImperial Civil War against each other. While she was at thefortress of "Supreme Warlord"Blitzer Harrsk in 12 ABY, theforces of "High Admiral"Treuten Teradocattacked, fleeing after destroying theflagship ofHarrsk's fleet. Harrsk ordered her atblasterpoint to lead acounterassault, and inorbit aboveTeradoc's own fortress, Daala, fed up with the warlords' squabbling, fired an ion cannon from thebridge of theStar DestroyerFirestorm at Harrsk's ownWhirlwind and ordered the fleet to stand down.^[7]

Pellaeon, now aVice Admiral in Teradoc's fleet, found himself agreeing with Daala's assertions over an opencomm channel that the warlords needed to stop fighting amongst themselves and focus their efforts against the New Republic. He ordered Teradoc's defensive fleet to similarly stand down and took a shuttle from hisVictory-class Star Destroyer13X to join Daala on the bridge of theFirestorm. The ship fled intohyperspace along with the13X and one more of Pellaeon'sDestroyers to a negotiating point in the dead of space, where Daala and Pellaeon agreed that a leader needed to be chosen from among the warlords, and proposed a detente council. Using both of their reputations as pull, Pellaeon convinced thirteen Deep Core warlords—including Harrsk, Teradoc,Sander Delvardus,^[7] andMalfkla Yzu^[14]—to convene at aspace station calledTsoss Beacon, where they met inside of a storeroom. Daala insisted that they unite their forces and choose a nominal leader, but when threehours' worth of arguing amounted to nothing, she donned abreath mask. Pellaeon quickly put on one of his own as the Admiral released anerve gas into the room, ending both the discussion and the warlords' lives.^[7]

The fleets of the dead warlords pledged themselves to Daala, the architect of theImperial Reunification.^[7] In a departure from Palpatine'sHumanocentrism, she welcomedwomen and non-Humans to actively participate in military service. Daala intended to relinquish control of the United Warlord Fleets after launching a devastating strike at the New Republic; her target was the junglemoonYavin 4,home to the New Republic–alliedNew Jedi Order.^[10] However, theForce powers of theJedi students were able toblast Pellaeon's vanguard fleet of seventeen Star Destroyers out of orbit,^[7] and Daala'sSuper Star DestroyerKnight Hammer was disabled following an infiltration by the Jedi studentCallista Ming. TheAssault on Yavin 4 was a disaster for the Imperials, and with her plans having fallen to rubble, Daala relinquished full command of the United Warlord Fleets to Pellaeon.^[10]

Although not the type to seize power, Pellaeon proved himself an extremely capable leader.^[10] He strengthened ties with the Moffs of surviving Imperial factions in the Outer and Mid Rims—who had earlier supported Daala's United Warlord Fleets with with credits and war matériel—and decided to withdraw all of his fleets and war arsenals from the Deep Core, which he felt would keep his new statelet bottled up.^[1] Before leaving, he discoveredsquadrons of roboticTIEs, caches of arms,mines, and the Star DreadnoughtsMegador andDominion within abandoned Deep Core armories.^[6] As the Outer and Mid Rims offered more resources, better-traveledhyperlanes, and favorable opportunities to harass New Republic shipping,^[10] Pellaeon pledged his fleets to protect the Imperial Rim factions on the condition that they merged their territories under him.^[1] The Moffs of the Rim factions,^[6] including the Pentastar Alignment,^[1] agreed that theMegador,Dominion, and theReaper—a dreadnaught belonging to the Pentastar Alignment—were enough to defend against the New Republic, and named Pellaeon the Supreme Commander^[6] of the new Imperial Remnant.^[1] Donated to the statelet were their carefully-hoarded stores of munitions and war matériel.^[10]

The borders of the Remnant were initially well-defined, stretching from the Mid Rim to Wild Space, with additional scattered holdings in other regions of thegalaxy.^[10] These holdings included systems in the formerBorderland Regions that acknowledged the rule of the planet Sartinaynian, which was defiantly renamed "Bastion." Pellaeon referred to his new state as the "true Empire,"^[1] but it was also known as simply the "Empire."^[4] The Remnant was also called "Pellaeon's Empire" in order to distinguish it from surviving Warlord factions,^[14] such as theConstitutional Protectorate of Prakith and several Warlords who remained in the Deep Core.^[1]

Expansion through conquest[]

Resumption of fighting[]

Pellaeon knew that the Remnant was not capable of mounting a serious offensive against the galaxy's inner systems,^[1] but he believed that the Outer and Mid Rims contained hundreds of thousands of worlds that were ripe for conquering.^[10] Both he and the Moffs were aware that some factions in the New Republic would prefer to see the Imperial Remnant wiped out completely; indeed, New Republic pickets were routinely pushing deep into the Northern Quadrant. As such, Pellaeon decided to show his enemies that the New Order was not yet dead by defending what he saw as the Remnant's borders.^[1] While the fleet was preparing to mount an offensive against the New Republic, Imperial agents took over theNew Republic embassy on the planetDathomir in order to investigate the ancientStar Temple and determine if theInfinity Wavesuperweapon could be used in the war. After finding that there was nothing left of theInfinity Gate's control chamber,GeneralVit attempted to salvage the mission by training the localNightsisters asForce-using Imperialtroops.^[15]

Around the same time, fallen JediDal Konur was on a one-man mission toassassinate the members of the Moff Council. After encountering and escaping from the Imperial fleet, which was gathering nearAgamar, he landed on Dathomir and was recruited to serve as a trainer in General Vit's "Project Nightsaber." However, Konur and Vit were defeated by a team of Jedi-allied heroes and a formerEmperor's Royal Guard,Kir Kanos, who had come to Dathomir in search of Imperial scientistSigit Ranth. Dathomir was accordingly liberated from the Remnant.^[15]

Sixmonths after Daala's resignation,^[10] Pellaeon took theReaper to the planetBorosk and retrieved a complement of fighters from the legendary181st Imperial Fighter Group, which was led by starfighteraceTurr Phennir. Pellaeon and Phennir kicked off theOrinda campaign by swiftlycapturing Orinda and six systems coreward of it along theEntralla Route,takingLonnaw last. The Supreme Commander believed that holding Orinda would sufficiently demonstrate Imperial power without provoking an aggressive response, and as such, he dispatched emissaries toOrd Mantell who stated that no further offensives would be launched if the Remnant's new borders were respected.^[6]

The New Republic responded with force, as they feared another assault on the Core, and dispatched GeneralWedge Antilles to the front lines aboard theExecutor-class Star DreadnoughtLusankya, accompanied by the famousRogue Squadron ofX-wing starfighters. Before Antilles's fleet arrived, PellaeontooktheCorthenia andUrce systems while Phennir, accompanied by a complement ofImperial-class Star Destroyers,capturedthe defenseless systems ofHewett andTartaglia The arrival of theLusankya at the front sparked a series of strikes and parries between the 181st and the Rogues as theReaper and theLusankya stalked each other throughout the Mid Rim; the first engagements came in theDarkon andTraval-Pacor systems, andbothbattles were won by the New Republic, who secured the systems.^[6]

The 181st were able to best theLusankya in abid for control of theTyan system afterbattling the Rogues to a stalemate atOrocco, and citizens of both the Remnant and the New Republic became enthralled by tales of the duels between the great capital ships of the opposing fleets. A less captivated New Republic military sent AdmiralAreta Bell and thefleet carrierEndurance to back Antilles up, and Pellaeon gradually fell back. Antilles and Belldefeated theReaper and the 181st in theObredaan system, and afinal showdown came at Orinda, where Pellaeon sprang a trap. Sixinterdictor cruisers and theDominion—whose existence had been kept a secret—decanted fromhyperspace and destroyed theEndurance along with the squadrons ofE-wing fighters it held. TheLusankya fled with the Rogues, and the Remnant's southern borders were secured.^[6] The New Republic fortified surrounding systems, however,^[10] and border clashes became routine. Both governments maneuvered for position with neutral planets such asAdumar.^[6]

Also in 12 ABY, a New Republic investigation into possible Imperial Remnant activity on the planetKejim^[16] revealed a sinister plot by the Imperial splinter faction known as theEmpire Reborn.^[17]

Force and counterforce[]

The Wild Space planet Adumar, rich with ordnance-producing resources, had recently discovered the wider galaxy and was interested in joining either the Remnant or the New Republic. As the Adumari held fighter pilots in high esteem, Phennir and three other members of the 181st were invited to the planet in13 ABY as diplomatic ambassadors, as were Wedge Antilles and three members of Rogue Squadron. AdmiralTeren Rogriss ferried the 181st pilots to Adumar aboard the Star DestroyerAgonizer and gave his word to a representative of the planet's nation-state ofCartann: if Adumar ultimately joined the New Republic, theAgonizer would leave thesystem within the hour. However, Rogriss's instructions from on high were to disregard the order and return with an invasion force. The Admiral accordingly underwent a deep internal struggle regarding the question of honor.^[19]

Phennir and his men flew for Cartann when it declaredwar on Adumar's other nation-states, but only Phennir survived Cartann's defeat to the Antilles-ledAdumari Union.After being offered New Republic clemency by Antilles if he decided to keep the word he had given, Rogriss defected from the Remnant and locked down theAgonizer'sholocomm unit, thereby preventing the Imperials from alerting their superiors until they returned to Imperial space. A Remnant task force did return to Adumar andattack, but strong resistance from New Republic and Adumari forces forced a retreat.^[19] Pellaeon did not give up the conquest and initiated a protracted campaign against Adumar,^[10]bombarding the planet from the bridge of theReaper.^[5]

13 ABY also saw MoffTol Getelles of theAntemeridian sector conspire with the formerOld RepublicsenatorSeti Ashgad to take over theMeridian sector. The Meridian sector lay on the contentious Imperial–New Republic border, and the neighboring Antemeridian was one of the various pockets of the Remnant that was still under the sway of petty governors and greedy Moffs.^[10] Getelles, still considered a warlord,^[6] was resentful of his new reality of having to pay fealty to Pellaeon, and his plan would see Ashgad cripple the Meridian sector by unleashing theDeath Seed plague, after which Getelles's Sector Fleet would invade with the aid ofneedle fighters secured from theLoronar Corporation. However, Getelles's fleet wasdefeated by a makeshift New Republic force that had been hastily assembled by the Republic-alliedHan Solo andLando Calrissian^[10] concurrently with the Adumar mission.^[19]

Solo and Calrissian were backed up by a fleet of theIndependent Company of Settlers, which was led by a retired Admiral Daala, who was disgusted with Getelles's actions and fought against him in the name of Imperial honor. Not long afterward, the New Republic pressed their advantage by bringing two fleets into the Antemeridian sector, where theydefeated Getelles and claimed both the sector and a large chunk of neighboring space.^[10] After the New Republic pushed through the Borderlands and toward theHydian Way and Imperial territory, the Council of Moffs—fearing a power grab^[1] and emboldened by Pellaeon's victory in the Orinda campaign—ordered the Supreme Commander,^[6] who was preoccupied at Adumar,^[10] to go on the offensive^[6] and send his forces across the Hydian Way.^[1]

Adumar ultimately remained a New Republic world^[18] as a reluctant Pellaeon^[6] launched Remnant fleets from Imperial space and attacked the New Republic on two fronts,scoringvictories at bothBarison andLucazec. Grievous losses were inflicted against the Remnant's enemies, but thenextbattles, fought atArda andQuell, were both won by the New Republic. Pellaeon was forced back toCelanon,^[1] where he wassoundly defeated by the New Republic's AdmiralEtahn A'baht, losing theReaper in the process.^[6] Rather than push their advantage, the New Republic chose to cool the fires of war by jump-starting commerce,^[1] while Pellaeon attempted to build up the Remnant's defenses and turn it into a functioning state that could co-exist with the New Republic.^[6] At some point during the year, the subterranean research-and-developmentlaboratories of anImperial Navy base on the planetRyvester weredestroyed by members of the New Republic'sWraith Squadron, after the Imperial AdmiralKosh Teradoc inadvertently smuggled a bomb of theirs inside.^[20]

Before the year came to an end, Pellaeon was made aware thatBaronRagez D'Asta^[18]—a powerful shipping magnate whoseprivate fleet had once served the Galactic Empire^[21]—was considering joining the Remnant. TheBaron's daughter,Feena, visited Pellaeon on Orinda and revealed that herfather was concerned about the drain on the Remnant's resources that the ongoing war was causing. If Pellaeon were to seek a truce with the New Republic, the Baron would intercede with the Moffs and give the Supreme Commander his full backing.^[18] While Pellaeon considered her proposal, Imperial forces weredefeated by a New Republic fleet atPallaxides.^[22] Feena D'Asta soon after represented the Remnant at peace negotiations withMirith Sinn, a representative of the New Republic, but the talks wereambushed by stormtroopers of theRestored Empire,^[23] an Imperial splinter faction whose leadership hoped to take down both the Remnant and the New Republic.^[22] Feena D'Asta was killed, and Pellaeon—believing the New Republic was responsible—ordered an immediate retaliatory strike atCoruscant, the New Republic's capital, in order to demonstrate solidarity to theD'Astan sector.^[23]

Thanks to a tip from Kir Kanos,^[24] the Supreme Commander made a contingency plan and arranged for part of D'Asta's fleet to hide behindOrinda's moon.^[25] While the Orinda fleet was en route to Coruscant, the nearly defenseless Imperial capital wasattacked by theVenator-class Star Destroyers of the Restored Empire,^[23] and when the faction's stormtroopers landed on-world and blasted their way right to Pellaeon, the Supreme Commander was confronted by the Restored Empire's leader,Ennix Devian. Pellaeon shot and killed his dignitaryZam Basdor after learning that the man had been secretly reporting to Devian, and was then given an ultimatum: join Devian and restore the Empire, or die. Pellaeon instead revealed that Devian's Venators were even then being destroyed by the D'Asta fleet, and the Baron himself arrived on the scene with his own stormtrooper complement. The resulting skirmish saw Devian killed in combat with Kir Kanos, and the Restored Empire was defeated.^[25]

Losing ground[]

In14 ABY, the Remnant cooperated with aSith cult known as theDisciples of Ragnos, who sought to resurrect the spirit of theSith LordMarka Ragnos and rebuild a newSith Empire. During theDisciples of Ragnos crisis, the Remnant was active at locations such as anold power station onBakura,Echo Base onHoth,Bast Castle onVjun,Kril'Dor,Dosuun,Yalara, the remains ofByss, andTaspir III. The Remnant had several run-ins with members of the New Jedi Order, and the Master-and-apprentice pair ofKyle Katarn andJaden Korr proved to be thorns in their side, thwarting Remnant operations time and again. For instance, the Imperial Army officerRax Joris was killed by Korr on Dosuun. Under the command of theDark JediTavion Axmis, Remnant troops fought alongsideSith Cultists and otherNew Reborn Dark Jedi, as well asmercenaries hired by the Disciples of Ragnos. A few Remnant troops were present at theBattle of Korriban, but were not involved in the fighting until they were attacked by Jaden Korr who single-handedly managed to eliminate them all and move on to defeat Axmis, thus ending the cooperation between the Remnant and the Sith Cult for good.^[27]

Over the next several years, the Remnant continued to wilt, but Pellaeon scored a personal victory when he reclaimed theChimaera, his old flagship, from the New Republic's AdmiralAckbar at theBattle of Gravlex Med.^[5] In the year17 ABY, two Star Destroyers of the long-lostBlack Fleet emerged from theKoornacht Cluster and joined the Remnant, as did the experimental weapons test bedEF-X.^[10] During this largely peaceful period, Imperial systems near the Hydian Way began to push for an end to the hostilities between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic, an offer made all the more enticing in17 ABY when^[1] the New Republic Senate made apeace offering by allowing former Imperials to hold elected office. The Council of Moffs believed it to be a prelude to invasion^[6] and secretly contacted Admiral Daala, who had united a group ofreplacement warlords in the Deep Core. They proposed that she aid the Remnant in a decisive campaign against the New Republic,^[1] and when she obliged, they similarly ordered Pellaeon into battle.^[6] Although he believed the plan to be a mad one, he acquiesced to the council's wishes, hoping that a handful of victories would allow him to convince the Moffs to seek a peace treaty.^[1] The Remnant thus launched theircampaign to reclaim formerly-held sectors, believing that the New Republic would decline to respond in full force out of a fear of creating a public relations debacle.^[10]

After scoring avictory at Adumar, Pellaeon launchedsurprisestrikes atTaris andChampala, the latter anInner Rim world. Both battles were Imperial victories; concurrently, Daala was handilydefeated atColumus by theNew Republic Fourth Fleet under GeneralGarm Bel Iblis. With Daala out of the war,^[1] Bel Iblis's fourth fleet, as well as theThird andfifth fleets under Admiral Ackbar, routed Pellaeon's forces atChampala,^[6]Taris,^[1]Ketaris, andTangrene. Thefinal engagement came atAnx Minor, where Pellaeon deployed theDominion,Megador, and theEF-X—renamed theRakehell—hoping for a repeat of Orinda. However,New Republic Intelligence knew of a weak point in theRakehell'sarmor, against which Ackbar ordered multiple strikes. The ship'santimatter reservoir exploded,^[6] destroying six Star Destroyers,^[14] damaging theMegador, and prompting Pellaeon to order a retreat to Bastion.^[6] The Remnant's navy was decimated,^[5] and it found itself controlling a mere eight sectors in a strategically unimportant area of the Outer Rim^[10] with a single majorshipyard.^[4] Pellaeon told the eight remaining Moffs that he was finished obeying their orders; as five years of work had been undone in a matter of weeks, they accepted his proclamation.^[6]One year later, when theCorellian Crisis erupted, the New Republic kept a tight lid on the Remnant throughout the duration of the conflict.^[1]

Peace at last[]

In19 ABY, the failure of newComputerized Combat Predictor technology to live up to expectations was the last straw for Pellaeon, and he finally accepted that the war was over—the Imperial Remnant, with its limited territory and inferior fleet, had lost. He was able to convince the Council of Moffs that a negotiated treaty with the New Republic would allow them to keep their territory rather than lose what little they had left, but an attempt at thwarting his plans was quickly set into motion by aSinister Triumvirate of Imperials: MoffVilim Disra of theBraxant sector, former Emperor's Royal GuardGrodin Tierce, and thecon artistFlim, who was posing as a reborn Grand Admiral Thrawn. Several Star Destroyer captains in Disra'ssector fleet pledged their loyalty to the man they believed to be a reborn Thrawn, and they were dispatched on a number of missions whose purposes they did not understand, including theinterception of Pellaeon's peace courier to the New Republic atMorishim.^[4]

While Pellaeon was touring Imperial space in order to present his peace plan to other senior officials, the New Republic remained unaware of his entreaty, all the while dealing with a majorinternal crisis regarding the recent discovery of a partial copy of theCaamas Document. The document revealed that severalBothans were responsible for thelong-agoCaamas Firestorm, and agents loyal to Disra worked to fuel the fires brewing within New Republic member worlds whose citizens were calling for retribution against the entire Bothan species. The Triumvirate's goal was to bring about the New Republic's collapse from within, thus allowing them to take over the galaxy after seizing power within the Remnant. "Thrawn" made himself known to the New Republic, offering to personally sit down with theBothan clan leaders and discern specifically whom was responsible for the Caamas Firestorm, and his offer served the Triumvirate's goals by prompting a large amount of political infighting in the New Republic Senate.^[4]

When Pellaeon arrived in thePesitiin system, where he hoped to meet with New Republic General Garm Bel Iblis, theChimaera was attacked by the Disra-loyalCavrilhu Pirates, who were posing asCorellian Defense Force ships loyal to Bel Iblis. They were handily defeated by Pellaeon, who did not fall for the ruse and who decided to continue waiting for Bel Iblis to arrive.^[4] Not even word of Thrawn's return could sway him from his course. When the New RepublicslicerZakarisz Ghent was able to decrypt the garbled recording of Pellaeon's peace offer thatColonelMeizh Vermel had attempted to transmit at Morishim before being captured, CouncilorLeia Organa Solo rushed to Pesitiin and met with Pellaeon. Preliminary peace discussions were conducted aboard her starship, theMillennium Falcon, and Pellaeon offered the Empire's complete copy of the Caamas Document—which included the names of the specific Bothans responsible—in exchange for favorable peace terms. He thus arranged for Ghent to slice into the Ubiqtorate station at Yaga Minor to retrieve a complete copy from the Emperor'sSpecial Files—documents to which even the Supreme Commander did not have access.^[28]

Meanwhile, the Triumvirate ordered Imperial CaptainNalgol to take thecloaked Star DestroyersTyrannic,Obliterator, andIronhand to theBoth system^[4] and wait for the nearby New Republic warships—half of which supported the Bothans and half of which called for their punishment—to come to blows. Orders from "Thrawn" were sent out tosleeper cells ofclones that the former Grand Admiral had placed throughout the galaxy ten years prior, and the Triumvirate attempted to learn more about what Thrawn's greater goals had been by investigating secret mentions of something called the "Hand of Thrawn." Imperial territory was bolstered when the planetKroctar requested re-admission into the Remnant, and when Flim, with the help of Tierce's tactical genius, was able to help members of theRuurian species ward off an attack from theirDiamala rivals. The move prompted the grateful Ruurians to pledge both theRuuria system and theUnified Ruurian Colonies to the Remnant. Around the same time, the Triumvirate cut off their ties with the Cavrilhu Pirates and began to pursue a partnership with the deadlyMistryl Shadow Guards.^[28] 19 ABY also saw the Remnant'sMulvar Sensor Station in the Outer Rim destroyed by Wraith Squadron.^[20]

Pellaeon returned to Bastion to confront Disra, who (he had learned) had recently accessed the Special Files at Yaga Minor. Although Disra denied the accusation, he left his office to attend to an urgent matter, and Pellaeon and CommanderDreyf founddatacards in his desk that contained incriminating evidence. They also learned that Colonel Vermel had been kidnapped by Disra's agents and imprisoned on Yaga Minor, and they immediately left to retrieve him. Disra's urgent matter was the New Republic's Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, who were on Bastion, attempting to steal a copy of the Caamas Document. "Thrawn" appeared before them and gave them a datacard, claiming that it contained the information they sought; he also asserted that recent riots onBothawui had actually been instigated by the New Republic's SenatorBorsk Fey'lya. The lies shook up Solo and Calrissian, who left with their prize, unaware that it was in fact an altered copy.^[28]

When Pellaeon returned to Bastion, he learned that Disra and Thrawn had gone to Yaga Minor, but before he could follow, an unknown alien ship appeared in space and hailed him, offering him something that it claimed he desperately wanted. At the same time, Disra's agentDrend Navett was able to sabotage Bothawui'splanetary shield, and his allies infiltrated theIshori warcruiserPredominance and fired on the planet. The Triumvirate's plans for the New Republic came to fruition as a largebattle erupted among the New Republic vessels, threatening to start an all-out civil war. However, in the midst of the chaos, Han Solo spotted Captain Nalgol's cloaked Star Destroyers and the New Republic forces united against their common enemy.^[28]

General Bel Iblis led a concurrent New Republicstrike at Yaga Minor in an attempt to retrieve the Caamas Document, but the Triumvirate had expected his attack and caught the General'sflagship in atractor beam. However, Pellaeon arrived at Yaga Minor and confronted the Triumvirate aboard the Star DestroyerRelentless. Aboard the unknown alien ship had been theinformation brokerTalon Karrde, who had uncovered a datacard deep in theKathol sector that revealed the Triumvirate's ruse, and had instantly brought the information to Pellaeon. The Supreme Commander revealed to everyone on theRelentless's bridge that "Thrawn" was an impostor, and that Tierce was a mere clone of theoriginal Grodin Tierce who existed as a failed genetic experiment of Thrawn's. Karrde's associateShada D'ukal killed Tierce before the clone could shoot Pellaeon, and Flim—in fact relieved that the ruse was over—followed Pellaeon's order to tell all Imperial ships in the battle to stand down. With the Triumvirate defeated, the Mistryl Shadow Guards disappeared back into the galaxy.^[28]

While the Battles of Bothawui and Yaga Minor had been raging, a complete copy of theCaamas Document had been discovered on theUnknown Regions planetNirauan by theJedi MasterLuke Skywalker, formerEmperor's Hand-turned-New Republic-allyMara Jade, and Skywalker'sastromech droidR2-D2. With the galactic crisis averted, Pellaeon signedpeace accords with New RepublicPresidentPonc Gavrisom aboard theChimaera, and the war was finally brought to an end.^[28] Over the next six years, a number of unreconstructed Imperials fled to the Remnant, taking a vast amount of wealth with them,^[29] although some were picked off by theprivateerUrias Xhaxin while en route to Imperial space.^[30] Within the Remnant's borders, economic development after the treaty was slow, with only a handful of pockets of space having available amenities which were comparable to New Republic goods. Those New Republic goods could be imported cheaply, which crippled Imperial industries, caused some Imperial citizens to live in grinding poverty, and led to both unrest and rioting.^[29]

Among those hit by the economic hardships were a disgruntled group of Imperials who met on the planetDolis 3 just after the peace declaration. Hurt by budget cuts and delayed paychecks from Yaga Minor, they rallied under former MoffDerran Takkar and hatched a plot to exact vengeance upon the New Republic by sabotaging thewedding of Skywalker and Jade.^[31] The group traveled to Coruscant and scouted out the site of the upcoming ceremony, butBanner Sumptor began doubting their mission and saved Skywalker from harm's way during abar fight that erupted at the Jedi Master's bachelor party.^[32] FormerEmperor's Royal GuardChik Apla was swiftly knockedunconscious by Jade when he attacked her during herdress fitting,^[33] and an attempt to corner dressmakerJari'kyn on the day of the nuptials was foiled by Sumptor, who had had a full change ofheart. Sumptor then tipped Skywalker off to Takkar's plans, and the wedding's ushers were able to hold back the attacking Imperials and their hiredswoop gangs. Only Takkar successfully slipped through and crashed the ceremony, where he threatened to download acomputer virus into the New Republic's systems and publicly decried the destruction of Imperial culture. Skywalker talked him out of it, however, and the wedding went on as planned.^[34] The marriage was seen by many as a symbolic healing of the longtime rift between Rebels and Imperials.^[31]

By22 ABY, Pellaeon and a handful of his trusted advisors had had some limited contact withVoss Parck^[35] and former ImperialBaronSoontir Fel^[36] of theEmpire of the Hand, an organization that Skywalker and Jade had encountered on Nirauan.^[35] Parck's Nirauan base was in fact the "Hand of Thrawn" for which the Triumvirate had been searching, and his earlier efforts to turn his fleet over to the Remnant had been thwarted by Skywalker and Jade, who at the time had feared that the consequent bolstering of the Imperial Military would only have prolonged the war.^[28] Diplomatic relations between the Remnant and the New Republic remained cordial after the treaty, in no small part due to the efforts of Talon Karrde, who had created an agency to facilitate the exchange of intelligence between the two governments. Suspicions between them were consequently low, even among hardliners,^[29] but the Remnant nevertheless kept a wary watch on both the New Republic and on the Unknown Regions.^[37]

Yuuzhan Vong War[]

The Empire adopted an isolationist stance until the New Republic's formerChief of State,Leia Organa Solo, went on a diplomatic mission to the Remnant to seek an alliance against the Yuuzhan Vong shortly after theBattle of Dantooine. Grand Admiral Pellaeon, seeing the threat the Yuuzhan Vong posed to the galaxy, persuaded the Council of Moffs to send a fleet to assist the New Republic.

The Imperials rescued a New Republic task force and aided in theeventually futile defense of the planetIthor. When Ithor was devastated by the Yuuzhan Vong's biological weapons, the Council of Moffs ordered Grand Admiral Pellaeon to return to Imperial space and ready Imperial defenses against a possible attack by the extragalactic aliens. Grudgingly, Pellaeon obeyed. Curiously, Pellaeon did not withdraw the entirety of Imperial forces from Republic space, as a small Imperial task force centered around theStar DestroyerErinnic continued to assist New Republic forces until theBattle of Ord Mantell. It appeared some Imperial elements defended Bilbringi prior to theBattle of Fondor.

As the war between the New Republic and the Yuuzhan Vong continued, the Imperial government and general populace grew increasingly convinced that the Yuuzhan Vong would simply bypass the Remnant. For a number of years, they were correct. Even though Pellaeon personally favored of joining the military campaign against the Yuuzhan Vong, the political leadership of the Empire remained officially neutral. Despite yet another attempt on Leia Organa Solo's part to forge a military alliance between the two states, the Remnant continued to stay out of the fighting. Grand Admiral Pellaeon, however, supplied the New Republic with the Empire's highly classified star charts of the Deep Core regions as a gesture of good faith. The New Republic would later use these state secrets to plan a highly successful trap atEbaq 9.

Perhaps in retaliation for the Empire's hand in the preparation of theBattle of Ebaq, the Yuuzhan Vonglaunched an invasion of the Imperial Remnant. Despite achieving the element of surprise and burning the capital city of the Empire to the ground from orbit, the attack would prove disastrous for the Yuuzhan Vong.

Grand Admiral Pellaeon, although confined to abacta tank after the initial assault on Bastion, was able to defeat the Yuuzhan Vong at theBattle of Borosk, forcing the alien invasion force to retreat and abandon its attempts to knock the Imperial Remnant out of the war. Following the victory at Borosk, Grand Admiral Pellaeon was again able to ram an alliance down the collective throat of the Imperial Council of Moffs, despite extreme resistance from old guard Imperial politicians such as MoffFlennic, who came close to attempting an assassination on the "Old Man of the Empire".

While the Remnant lent its fleets to assisting the Galactic Alliance, Grand Admiral Pellaeon personally commanded a squadron that chased down the surviving vessels from the Yuuzhan Vong fleet that had invaded the Empire. After a string of indecisive victories, Pellaeon routed the Yuuzhan Vong fleet at theBattle of Esfandia.

In the operation to retake theBilbringi system, a handful of Imperials took part in the near-disastrous battle. Those who found their way into the system wereTIE/D Defender pilots from theinterdictorWrack, including the ship's captain,Mynar Devis. All the Imperials were killed when they attempted to disable a Yuuzhan Vong picket ship. Gilad Pellaeon's reaction to learning of Captain Devis's death ledJaina Solo to believe Devis was somehow Pellaeon's son.

The Empire participated in numerous other battles near the end of the war, most notably in the defense of the Galactic Alliance's provisional capital onDac and the invasion and liberation of occupiedCoruscant. In a private ceremony following the surrender of the Yuuzhan Vong, Grand Admiral Pellaeon presented Han and Leia Organa Solo with a piece of art from his own personal collection—Killik Twilight, a painting that Pellaeon had inherited from his mentor, Grand Admiral Thrawn.

In a Galactic Alliance[]

By35 ABY, Pellaeon had retired from his post and the Imperial Remnant had become a member state of the Galactic Alliance, while retaining a degree of autonomy over its own affairs. When Pellaeon was the Supreme Commander of the Galactic Alliance, the Remnant became more and more integrated into the Alliance.^[38]

After the death ofCal Omas, Pellaeon returned to the Remnant and chose to fight against the Sith LordDarth Caedus, the grandson of Darth Vader and the AllianceChief of State formerly known as Jacen Solo. This action stood in contrast to the Moff Council, who wished to side with him. Pellaeon recalledDaala and her personalfleet. Shortly thereafter Pellaeon was assassinated by Jacen Solo's apprenticeTahiri Veila. After recovering Pellaeon's body, Daala and her faction allied themselves with theMandalorians, while the Moff Council sent in their fleets to fight for Caedus, who they may have seen as a newGalactic Emperor in the making.

Democratization[]

Following the death of Darth Caedus, and the conclusion of theSecond Galactic Civil War,Luke Skywalker offered the Moffs a peace plan so as to end the war: they would have to acceptJagged Fel as Head of State so that he could supervise the Moffs. Another clause was delivered by Daala, newly electedChief of State of the Galactic Alliance, that half the Moffs would have to be women. The Moffs accepted as the alternative was to be delivered to the Hapans as prisoners of war after theirnanovirus attack on their Queen Mother's ship, supposedly killing her daughterAllana.The Remnant at this time possessed at least one Super Star Destroyer of unknown class, theDominion, and fielded it during theBattle of Roche.

Two years after the end of the war, Fel started to negotiate with Natasi Daala, the new Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance, and Turr Phennir to unite their respective governments in a single galactic power. However, the Moffs, led byDrikl Lecersen, were plotting to undermine Fel until they could amass enough incriminating evidence about his secret alliance with the Jedi against Daala's anti-Jedi policies to destroy him and take control of the Remnant. Lecersen soon joined forces withKuati SenatorHaydnat Treen who was planning to reunify the Remnant and the Alliance into a new Galactic Empire. The first step in this process was removing Daala and Fel from the leaderships of both galactic powers.

As the unification talks on Coruscant continued, a galactic crisis erupted when galaxywide slave uprisings, assisted by the abolitionist movement known as theFreedom Flight, begun to overthrow planetary governments and slave organizations. Daala, who feared the political instability that would come from these movements, assignedMandalorians to put down the uprisings. However, during the repression of theBlaudu Sextus revolt, the tensions between the Jedi and Daala finally came from push to shove: the Jedi assigned to Blaudu Sextus intervened to stop the massacre and the media assumed this meant that the Jedi had decided to support the slave uprisings. The Jedi Council, taking this mistake as a sign from the Force as to what they should do, decided to start assisting the uprisings.

In the meantime, Fel had managed to convince the Moffs to fully join the Galactic Alliance. However, his worry over Daala's management of the crisis, specifically when she threatened him into providing Imperial ships so that she could put down the uprisings, led Fel to pull the Remnant out of the talks. A few days later, Daala was arrested by acoup orchestrated by both the Jedi and Lecersen's conspirators. Fel openly proclaimed himself in support of the coup which led the Moff Council to denounce him.

Daalaescaped from prison with help fromBoba Fett and set about taking revenge on those who imprisoned her. She started by gathering herMaw Irregular Fleet and then by coercing the Moffs into supporting her. Most joined her and formed a fleet to take over the Remnant.

An election was held in 44 ABY that saw Admiral Vitor Reige become the Remnant's Head of State.^[8] TheChiloon Riftnebula inWild Space which contained one of the largest and most bountifulasteroid fields in the galaxy, was located midway between the Imperial Remnant andCorporate Sector Authority by45 ABY.^[39]

Legacy[]

Jagged Fel eventually retuned to lead the Remnant, and was able to reclaim considerable territory from the Galactic Alliance,^[1], who reorganized the Imperial Remnant into adynastic monarchy known as theFel Empire,^[9] and morphed into its first Emperor.^[1]

In130 ABY, the throne of Fel's grandson, EmperorRoan Fel, wasusurped by the Dark Lord of the Sith,Darth Krayt.^[41] His new empire,Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire, was opposed by Fel'sEmpire-in-exile in theSecond Imperial Civil War.^[42] MoffGeist of Krayt's Empire rued being a servant to the Sith and in137 ABY longed for the days of the Imperial Remnant, which had granted its Moffs considerable power.^[40]

Organization[]

Government[]

Main articles:Head of State (Imperial Remnant) andCouncil of Moffs

The Imperial Remnant was aoligarchy statelet that emerged in12 ABY from the formerGalactic Empire who continued to prosecute thewar against theNew Republic until the two sides signed theBastion Accords in19 ABY and brought the war to a final peaceful end.^[1] Admiral Pellaeon held the rank ofSupreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet,^[4] and by28 ABY had become aGrand Admiral.^[44] He was the leader of the Remnant despite being technically subordinate to the organization'sCouncil of Moffs.^[5] The Moffs appointed him Supreme Commander, and they had the authority to order the fleet into military action. However, several disastrous offensives against the New Republic that lost large swaths of Imperial territory prompted Pellaeon to tell the council in17 ABY that he was finished with obeying their orders. The chastened Moffs accepted his declaration,^[6] but their consensus was yet required before Pellaeon could make any large-scale decisions. In 19 ABY, the Supreme Commander addressed each Moff as "Your Excellency,"^[4] but following the Bastion Accords, he maintained a system of checks and balances that prevented any one Moff from creating disorder.^[37] By 28 ABY, Pellaeon was picking and choosing what information he shared with the Council, asserting to outsiders that the Remnant was not run by a committee.^[44] In that year, he explicitly told the Moff Council that he considered their consensus to be a mere formality.^[43]

When Pellaeon temporarily retired following theYuuzhan Vong War, the Council of Moffs led the Remnant in his absence.^[45][46] They again took the Remnant's reins following Pellaeon'sdeath in41 ABY. MoffDrikl Lecersen served as theirde facto leader in the latter instance. Later in the year, the Moffs agreed to install a young man namedJagged Fel as the Remnant's newHead of State, a decision forced upon them by theJedi Coalition as an alternative to facing the consequences of war crimes which they had recently committed.^[2] The Head of State position became a democratically electable one by the Remnant's citizensthree years later as part of a wave of democratic reforms instituted by Fel. Although AdmiralVitor Reige won theelection,^[8] the Remnant was eventually reorganized into adynasticmonarchy known as theFel Empire^[9] with Fel as its firstEmperor.^[47]

The Imperial Remnant structure of government was asectorialgovernorship system, sat on theplanetOrinda from 12 ABY to 17 ABY, after which they relocated toBastion.^[6] In 28 ABY, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Remnant joined theGalactic Federation of Free Alliances in order to combine their strength against theextra-galactic, invadingYuuzhan Vong.^[43] Pellaeon was integrated intoGalactic Alliance High Command in29 ABY during the final stages of the war.^[48] However, the events of the laterSecond Galactic Civil War strained the relationship of the two governments, and the Remnant had broken from the Alliance by 43 ABY.^[49]

Some aspects of the Old Empire that the Remnant maintained included a strong military and limited venues of public expression.^[46] Although the Remnant was a military regime in it early days,^[44] but was far more progressive than the Old Empire had been, abolishing bothslavery and anti-alien sentiment. However, the Remnant unobtrusively adhered to the strict tenets of Palpatine'sNew Order and consequently found itself growing increasingly irrelevant to galactic affairs during the Yuuzhan Vong War.^[46] A number of Moffs were killed during the Second Galactic Civil War,^[50] and when Jagged Fel was appointed Head of State at the end of the conflict, he negotiated a deal with new Galactic AllianceChief of StateNatasi Daala which stipulated that half of the new Moffs would be female.^[2] Traditionally Imperial Moffs such as Lecersen were uncomfortable with the deal.^[51] Further reforms came in 44 ABY when Jagged Fel called a democratic election; he also charged theImperial News Network with reporting on government affairs at every level in order to ensure complete governmental accountability.^[8] The end of the Second Galactic Civil War also saw thepilot Han Solo suggest that the Moffs atone for their war crimes by setting up a mission to aid poverty-stricken worlds;^[2] this idea was later realized as theImperial Mission, born from Jagged Fel's "Victory Without War" initiative.^[52] During Fel's leadership, he used "Victory Without War" to expand Imperial territory and influence through peaceful diplomacy.^[1]

Military[]

Main article:Imperial Military

The Imperial Remnant's state was based on having a strong military^[46] and a SupremeCommander as its leader.^[5] TheImperial Military consisted of theImperial Navy,^[4]Imperial Army,^[48] and theStormtrooper Corps. The military was answerable toImperial High Command.Imperial Intelligence was used by the Imperial Remnant,^[4] as wereFleet Intelligence^[43] andCommunications Intelligence,^[53] and aUbiqtoratestation was kept at the planetYaga Minor.^[4]Rimcee Station was a prison complex housing enemies of the Imperial Remnant. Another space station includedMulvar Sensor Station. Imperialagents were routinely dispatched to worlds outside ofImperial Space,^[29] and by the early stages of the Yuuzhan Vong War, they had infiltrated such New Republic operations as theSenate and various planetary governments.^[37]

Each Moffgoverned asector and commanded aSector Fleet. The various fleets of thenavy were largely made up ofStar Destroyers, 200 of which composed the Imperial Fleet in 19 ABY—Pellaeon lamented the number as being a pale shadow of the 25,000+ arsenal which the Galactic Empire had once boasted.^[4] Throughout the Remnant's history, its StarDestroyer complement included at leastthreestardreadnoughts,Sorannan-class Star Destroyers,^[6]Imperial I-class Star Destroyers,Imperial II-class Star Destroyers,^[4]Victory II-class Star Destroyers,Interdictor-class Star Destroyers,^[43]Interdictor-class heavy cruisers,^[6]Turbulent-class Star Destroyers,^[50]. Also in the fleet werefreighters,frigates,Lambda-class shuttles,tugs,Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers,^[43]Crusader-class corvettes,^[54]Victory II-class frigates,^[55] andStrike-class medium cruisers—for a time, the Remnant depended on theStrike-class more heavily than on even Star Destroyers, as it was one of the few classes ofcapital ships which they had the capacity to produce in large numbers.^[56] As early as 44 ABY, Remnant space was patrolled byBurst Fire-class Deep-Space Patrol Vessels, ships whose small bays contained boxy military-grade rescueshuttles.^[20]Golan Defense Platforms were used to guard the Remnant's planets.Baradium warheads, powerful missiles capable of devastating planets, were used as well.

As Imperial Head of State, Jagged Fel secretly maintained theEmpire of the Hand,^[57] a state to which he had once belonged.^[29] The Empire fleet includedChiss Star Destroyers andNssis-class Clawcraftstarfighters.^[57] Other starfighters employed by the Remnant wereTIE fighters,^[4]TIE interceptors,^[28]TIE bombers,TIE/sr starfighters,TIE defenders,^[48] andstarhunters.^[2]Preybird-class starfighters were briefly utilized by the fleet in 19 ABY through a deal that MoffVilim Disra struck with theCavrilhu Pirates.^[4] The Imperialarmy includedAll Terrain Armored Transports,All Terrain Scout Transports,HAVw A5 Juggernauts,TIE crawlers,HAVr A9 Floating Fortresses, and including theAll Terrain Scout Transport/Assaults.Sentinel-class landing craft were used as primary transports.Stormtroopers were the remnant's footsoldiers,^[58] some of whom served in theImperial Elite Guard.^[2] The Remnant's eliteshock troopers were said to be as good in combat as the legendary501st Legion that was historically employed by the ImperialDark Lord of the Sith,Darth Vader.^[50]scout troopers,hazard troopers,Phase Zero dark troopers,snowtroopers,rocket troopers,Imperial commandos were also employed,^[27] andNavy troopers were utilized by the Imperial Navy.^[20]DXR-6 disruptor rifles were used by the Remnant's soldiers,Imperial Saboteurs were known to use them. Imperial soldiers, usedE-11 blaster rifles,E-15 blaster rifles,E-18 blaster rifles,E-19 blaster rifles,4-X blaster rifles,rail detonator guns, which firedrail charges,heavy repeaters,FC-1 flechette launchers,ARC casters,PLX-2M portable missile launchers,Destructive Electromagnetic Pulse 2 ion carbines, andStouker concussion rifles.E-Web heavy repeating blasters were also used.Thermal detonators,concussion grenades, andlaser trip mines were used as well. VariousBioweapons, such as theDeath Seed plague ornanoviruses, were also used. Before thePellaeon–Gavrisom Treaty,cloaking technology was still used by the Imperial Remnant, a notable example was theComputerized Combat Predictor, a failed data analyzer. In27 ABY, Imperial technicians developed thegravitic amplitude modulator, which was capable of controllinggravity in a area.Defender Ion Mines, and planetaryturbolaser batteries,ion cannons, and planetary shield generators were used as orbital defense weapons, notably during theBattle of Borosk.

Society and culture[]

In the Imperial Remnant earlyyears,AdmiralGilad Pellaeon, called it the "true Empire" to distinguish it from remaining Imperial warlord factions,^[1] but it was also known as "Pellaeon's Empire."^[14] Imperial and New Republic individuals alike also used the term "remnants of the Empire,"^[4] which had previously been applied to the Galactic Empire in the years afterGalactic EmperorPalpatine'sdeath at theBattle of Endor.^[11][12]

The Imperial Remnant was also known as simply the "Empire,"^[4] and by43 ABY, Imperial individuals had revived the term "Galactic Empire" once more, although "Imperial Remnant" was still the most common nomenclature used by the rest ofthe galaxy.^[49] The Remnant was symbolically represented by the traditionalImperial crest.^[23]

Astrography[]

Main article:Imperial Space

Each sector in Imperial Space was governed by a Moff, and the systems within remained under Imperial rule by their own choice, preferring the efficiencies of Impeiral policy.^[4][60] An exception, however, was when some systems were ceded to the Remnant by the Galactic Alliance in 41 ABY in return for aid lent during the Second Galactic Civil War.^[50] Economic development in the Remnant proceeded slowly in the years after the Bastion Accords. Only a few pockets of Imperial Space had amenities available that were comparable to those of the New Republic, and citizens of some worlds lived in grinding poverty. Industries were crippled due to the availability of cheap imported goods from the New Republic, which led to unrest and rioting.^[29]

The Remnant's territory originally consisted of space that had previously belonged to thePentastar Alignment and the other Imperial Rim factions that joined with Pellaeon to restore the Old Empire in 12 ABY.^[1] Imperial territory stretched fromWild Space to the Mid Rim,^[10] but after seven years of losing ground to the New Republic,^[6] it had been reduced to eight sectors in the Outer Rim, consisting of over a thousand habitablesystems^[4] that all fell within former Pentastar Alignment space. The Remnant's borders remained as such until at least 35 ABY, but by 41 ABY, their territory had increased in size considerably, stretching through the Mid Rim and theExpansion Region into theInner Rim.^[1] Following the Second Galactic Civil War, the Remnant's influence grew, as people across the galaxy appreciated its stability following several tumultuous years of Galactic Alliance rule.^[61]

During Jagged Fel's reign as Imperial head of state, the Remnant believed that "Victory Without War" was the key to its future. The guiding philosophy was peaceful yet expansionist, and the Imperial Mission worked across the galaxy to aid impoverished worlds while simultaneously pushing the Imperial credo. Over time, the Remnant absorbed much of the Galactic Alliance's former territory.^[1]

Behind the scenes[]

Although the1995 novelAmbush at Corellia, set in18 ABY, features Mara Jade musing that the Empire is dead with no "Imperial remnant" still remaining,^[62] the seeds of the Imperial Remnant were sown later in 1995 when Admiral Daala unified thirteen Warlord holdings and passed their command on to Gilad Pellaeon inKevin J. Anderson's novelDarksaber, set six years beforeAmbush.^[7] A post-Darksaber Empire was later referenced throughout1996 and1997 in several novels,^{[63][64][65][66]} andTimothy Zahn's 1997 novelSpecter of the Past, set one year afterAmbush, depicted the Empire with Pellaeon as its leader.^[4] The term "Imperial Remnant" was first used in theopening issue ofMichael A. Stackpole's1999–2000comic seriesStar Wars: Union,^[31] although the Galactic Empire in the years after the Battle of Endor had been referred to as the "remnants of the Empire" as early as1992'sHeir to the Empire Sourcebook.^[11]

Later sources, such as2009'sThe Essential Atlas, established that the Imperial Remnant was only born after the events ofDarksaber, when Pellaeon took Daala's unified Imperial forces out of the Deep Core and united them with various surviving Imperial factions in the Outer and Mid Rims.^[1]2012'sThe Essential Guide to Warfare confirmed that Daala's forces inDarksaber were a unique Imperial faction known as the "United Warlord Fleets."^[6][67] The first appearance of the Imperial Remnant can thus be said to beBarbara Hambly's 1997 novelPlanet of Twilight—published several months beforeSpecter of the Past—which features an Imperial fleet belonging to Moff Tol Getelles and which references Pellaeon as the leader of the Empire.^[68] However, a Force-basedFallanassiillusion of several Imperial Intelligence agents had previously appeared in 1996'sBefore the Storm, set four years afterDarksaber.^[69] The Remnant has since gone on to play large roles in such novel series asThe New Jedi Order,^[29][43][70]Star Wars: Legacy of the Force,^[50][2] andFate of the Jedi.^[8][49][57]Elaine Cunningham's novelBlood Oath was set to feature a plotline involving Jagged Fel and the Moff Council during Fel's early days as the Remnant's Head of State,^[71] but the book was canceled byDel Rey and never published.^[72]

The Imperial Remnant's entry in2008'sThe Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia asserts that Pellaeon's Empire did not adopt the name "Imperial Remnant" until after the signing of the Bastion Accords in 19 ABY,^[73] as does Pellaeon's entry in2002'sThe New Essential Guide to Characters.^[5] However, this has beenretconned by more recent sources such asThe Essential Atlas andThe Essential Guide to Warfare, both of which state that Pellaeon's Empire was known as the Imperial Remnant at the time of its birth in 12 ABY.^[1][6] Additionally, the comic seriesStar Wars: Crimson Empire III—Empire Lost, released throughout2011 and 2012, features characters who call Pellaeon's Empire the "Imperial Remnant" in 13 ABY.^[18] Although the 2002video gameStar Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast refers to its Imperial antagonists as the "Imperial Remnant,"^[16] they were later retconned into in fact being representatives of the Empire Reborn,^[17] an Imperial splinter faction first introduced in the1994 novelThe Crystal Star.^[74]

The Remnant's entry inThe Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia presents another discrepancy by captioning a picture of the Moffs of the Fel Empire as "Imperial Remnant leaders"^[73]—the comic seriesStar Wars: Legacy had earlier confirmed that the Fel Empire was a unique successor state of the Remnant, created at some point before 127 ABY.^[9]Legacy's assertion of the Fel Empire as a unique state is confirmed elsewhere inThe Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.^[75] Another error regarding the Remnant occurs inWarfare, where a lone sentence mistakenly asserts that the Imperial Remnant participated in thepost–Zsinj campaigns of8 ABY.^[6]

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