Galactic Empire (Dark Times)

"We are an Empire ruled by the majority! An Empire ruled by a new Constitution! An Empire of laws, not of politicians! An Empire devoted to the preservation of a just society. Of a safe and secure society! We are an Empire that will stand for ten thousand years!"

- Emperor Palpatine addressing the Imperial public The Galactic Empire, also known as Palpatine's New Order, the Imperium, or more commonly as the Empire, is the galactic government that was established in 19 BBY at the end of the Clone Wars that succeeded the Galactic Republic and absorbed the memer worlds of both the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems following the end of the war. Founded by the last Supreme Chancellor, Sheeve Palpatine, the Empire was stated to be a new government to restore the freedom and democracy that was stolen by the "tyrants" of the Jedi Order and bring peace to the galaxy after the devestating Clone Wars which left the galaxy in ruins.

After the Galactic Republic had gone through a period of intense economic, social, and political turmoil during the Separatist Crisis, the Republic saw thousands of its worlds leave to join the Separatist Alliance and eventually fought the Confederacy throughout the Clone Wars, the war was used by Darth Sidious to usurp power within the Republic and take over the galaxy by having the Separatist leadership wiped out and its droid armies deactivated while also having the Jedi Order destroyed in Order 66 and the Republic reorganized into the "First Galactic Empire" as he declared it in front of the Galactic Senate. The Empire however, was really a plot to restore Sith control over the galaxy.