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That is the speedy aftermath of Return of the Jedi: the second Loss of life Star has been destroyed over Endor, Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader are lifeless. Now what? An entire bunch of books and comics, principally.
The Insurgent Alliance shortly strikes to capitalize on its victory by formally dissolving shortly after the Battle of Endor and reforming because the New Republic, bringing a legitimacy to its declare to guide the galaxy within the wake of the Empire’s chaotic fragmentation with out management. The heroes of the unique trilogy of flicks additionally disperse their separate methods: Luke begins looking for Jedi and Sith artefacts hoarded by Palpatine over his life, in search of a greater understanding of the Drive and his place in it, whereas Han and Leia, married on Endor after the battle, discover themselves tasked by Mon Mothma with an interplanetary Disney World trip aboard the Halcyon through the occasions of Beth Revis’ novel The Princess and The Scoundrel, travelling to completely different worlds the place Imperial affect continues to be tenuous to persuade those who the times of the Empire are actually over.
However simply because the Rebels defeated Palpatine at Endor doesn’t imply the Galactic Civil Conflict is definitely over. Throughout the Aftermath trilogy of novels by Chuck Wendig, we see Mon Mothma, now instated as the primary Chancellor of the New Republic—and the Senate is reformed on her homeworld of Chandrila—start to enact a demilitarization pact that largely intends to interrupt up the Alliance Navy right into a a lot smaller New Republic Fleet, transitioning navy issues to the planetary defence forces of Republic member worlds. In the meantime the remnants of the Empire start to launch counterattacks within the type of Operation Cinder, a posthumous plan created by Palpatine to sow chaos by way of strikes on choose worlds both sympathetic to the Riot or problematic loyalist Imperial worlds by way of climate manipulation satellites.
As Warlordism sees a number of former Grand Moffs or main Imperial generals set up their very own small fiefdoms, a bigger Imperial Remnant begins to type out of a collective of short-lived councils of Imperial allies—first with the Imperial Future Council, which is basically eradicated through the liberation of the planet Akiva, after which the primary Imperial Shadow Council…