Galactic Cold War

NOTE: This is my version of the backround/context for what happened leading up to the Force Awakens!

The Galactic Cold War was a tense 27-year standoff between the New Republic and the remnants of the Galactic Empire, in addition with the latter's major break-away factions, notably the Pentastar Alignment. The Cold War featured two major flashpoints, the Trigon Delta Crisis and the Invasion of Mon Calamari, the latter of which sparked the New Galactic War. This era also saw the creation and rise of the First Order, the Empire's major successor.

Prelude
Following the decisive Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance, reorganized as the New Republic, launched a military campaign against the substantially weakened Galactic Empire. The Empire continued to weaken over time as more and more territories broke away from the core to form their own separate warlord governments, or flee to the Unknown Regions to avoid New Republic persecution.