Galactic Civil War (ASWS)

The Galactic Civil War was a major galactic conflict fought between the oppressive Galactic Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic, a rebel faction dedicated to the revival of the Galactic Empire the Empire had supplanted. Also involved in the conflict was the Bendu Order led by Ussej Padric Bac LXIV, an infamous band of Light Side Force users from the Ashlan Expanse, and the equally infamous band of Dark Side Force users known as the Dark Guardians of Lettow led by Kane Starkiller and Mara Jade.

Historians traced the origins of the conflict back to dissent in the Galactic Senate during the Clone War against the nearly authoritarian power of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Armed conflict did not commence, however, until a year after the Declaration of a New Order and the Great Jedi Purge when the Empire openly attacked Naboo and murdered its queen. On the outset, the Empire viewed the Alliance as a political threat rather than a military one. However, once the Bendu Order allied itself with the Alliance and became a threat to the Lettow the Empire realized that they may have misjudged the rebel band. This belief became more prominent once Luke Skywalker destroyed the first Death Star during the Battle of Yavin IV.

The decisive and final confrontation came during the Battle of Kashyyyk and the Final Battle of Coruscant when the Alliance Fleet faced that of the Empire and secured victory, destroying the remainder of the Death Stars and the Sun Crusher. The imperial forces were nearly wiped out, but enough lived on to form a small Imperial Remnant. However, five years before the Reunification War, the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant signed a peace treaty.