Second Great Galactic War (Smashb1996)

The Second Great Galactic War, also known as the Jedi-Sith War, the Second Draggulch Period, the Second Great War, and as Palpatine's Crusade, was a conflict initiated by the Sith Empire Reborn, led by its Emperor, a and a former  of the Galactic Republic, Darth Sidious, better known as Palpatine, who sought to control the galaxy, and destroy the. Faced with annihilation, the Jedi and the Republic faced the new Sith threat together, in spite of the massive ammount of losses suffered during the Clone Wars.

The war began when the Republic and Jedi investigated rumors that a new threat was on the rise in the, sending  and   to the planet of , where of the  had been established. There, the two Jedi discovered that another Sith Empire had been brought into existence, with Palpatine, who fled at the end of the Clone Wars, as its ruler.

Thus, for the first time since the, and Sith clashed, struggling over the fate of the galaxy. As the war raged on, countless lives were lost, and, at one point, it seemed that the Republic was doomed, as it lost control of the galaxy in.

However, behind, who led the Republic after 's death, she, along with the Jedi, rallied the Republic, in one of the greatest offensives in galactic history. This campaign was later credited as what saved the Republic from total destruction, in a period from  to.

The war lasted, in all, fourteen years, but it finally ended at the Battle of Yavin, where Skywalker killed Palpatine, causing the collapse of the Sith Empire Reborn, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the, and bringing balance to.