Loyalist forces of the Imperial Navy came to be publicly led by Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, though she was a figurehead for Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax and his Shadow Council. With the Emperor and Vader dead, factionalism overcame the Empire as it fractured into fiefdoms led by Moffs, admirals, and generals, many of whom ignored Grand Vizier Mas Amedda's authority at the capital and became warlords. During the battle, Emperor Palpatine was slain at the hands of his Sith apprentice Vader, who also died shortly thereafter. The following years saw initial Alliance successes until a major Imperial victory on Hoth in 3 ABY, but the Empire suffered a devastating defeat one year later at the Battle of Endor.
These rebel cells formed the Alliance to Restore the Republic in 2 BBY, and the Rebel Alliance itself achieved its first major victory with the theft of the Death Star plans on Scarif which, in turn, led to the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY. The Empire stood virtually unchallenged until numerous insurgent cells united to initiate the Galactic Civil War, with the growing rebellion winning its first major victory over Mustafar in 4 BBY.
The subsequent Age of the Empire would last only two decades in contrast to the centuries of the Republic Era, but not before the Jedi Order was systematically purged and the galaxy largely conquered and oppressed. The Empire rose to power with a groundswell of populist support, promising peace and stability from the destructive Clone Wars and capitalizing on anti-Jedi and anti-droid sentiment and human- ethnocentrism. The Empire was secretly controlled by the Sith, however, for its ruler was Darth Sidious, known publicly as Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine, whose reign was enforced by Darth Vader. The Galactic Empire, declared as the First Galactic Empire, commonly referred to as simply the Empire, also known as the New Order, and remembered as the Old Empire, was the fascist galactic dictatorship that replaced the Galactic Republic at the end of the Clone Wars and ushered the galaxy into a new age. " Imperius Unitada ober Totallex" ― Atrisian Basic motto and name of a propaganda piece, literally translating to "Empire united over all"
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