Star Wars category
Galactic Empire
9 entries tagged Galactic Empire, 9 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Palpatine and Galactic Empire.
- Order 37: The Clone Order Worse Than Order 66Order 66 wiped out the Jedi in minutes. Order 37 was written to be used after it, and it worked by holding entire planets hostage until a Jedi fugitive gave themselves up. Here is exactly how it ran.
- Darth VaderAnakin Skywalker was the prophesied Chosen One, a Jedi Knight and hero of the Clone Wars who fell to the dark side and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader. He enforced the rule of the Galactic Empire for decades before his redemption and death at the Battle of Endor.
- Death StarThe Death Star, formally the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, was a moon-sized Imperial superweapon capable of destroying an entire planet with a single shot. It annihilated Alderaan before being destroyed at the Battle of Yavin through a flaw deliberately built into its design.
- Galactic EmpireThe Galactic Empire was the fascist regime that replaced the Galactic Republic when Sheev Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, proclaimed himself Emperor. It ruled the galaxy through fear, military power, and the hunt for the Jedi until its defeat at Endor and final collapse at Jakku.
- Grand Admiral ThrawnThrawn was a Chiss military genius who rose from the Chiss Ascendancy to become a Grand Admiral of the Galactic Empire. Renowned for studying the art and culture of his enemies to defeat them, he hunted the rebels of Lothal before being carried into exile by a pod of purrgil.
- Grand Moff TarkinWilhuff Tarkin was an ambitious officer who rose to become the first Grand Moff of the Galactic Empire and Governor of the Outer Rim Territories. A ruthless advocate of rule through fear, he oversaw the Death Star and met his end aboard it at the Battle of Yavin.
- PalpatineSheev Palpatine was the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who rose through the Galactic Senate to become Supreme Chancellor and then self-proclaimed Emperor. He orchestrated the fall of the Republic and the Jedi Order, ruled the galaxy for decades, and sought to cheat death itself.
- TatooineTatooine was a harsh, twin-sunned desert planet in the Outer Rim, homeworld of the Jawa and Tusken Raider species. Ruled by Hutt crime lords and largely beyond the reach of central government, it became the hiding place of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the boyhood home of Luke Skywalker.
- ThrawnMitth'raw'nuruodo, known as Thrawn, was a Chiss officer of the Chiss Ascendancy who rose to become a Grand Admiral in the Imperial Navy. A brilliant and ruthless strategist, he believed victory in war came from knowing the enemy.