Rebel Alliance

The Alliance to Restore the Republic, also known as the Rebel Alliance or simply Alliance and, informally as the Rebellion, was a loose alliance of planetary, system, and sector-level insurrectionist factions. They were generally united in common cause, against a common enemy in the form of the Galactic Empire. In order to achieve their primary goal in restoring the former Galactic Republic, the Alliance aimed to remove Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader from power, and his hegemonic New Order from the galaxy. Members of the Rebellion were known as "Rebels," "Rebs," or "Rebel scum" by stormtroopers and other Imperials.

The origins of the overall anti-Imperial movement dated back to 1957, shortly before the Galactic Republic's transformation into the Empire. Some of the Alliance's core founders, such as senators Bail Organa and Mon Mothma of the Loyalist Committee, joined the Delegation of 2000 in its opposition against the authoritarian leadership of then-Chancellor Palpatine. In 1959, barely a year into the Empire's existence, military resistance had already been formed in opposition to the new regime; one of which was a group of insurgents known as The Eleven, joined by the fugitive Jedi Ferus Olin. By 1975, several resistance groups including Hera Syndulla's Spectres were unified into a single rebellion, thus creating the Rebel Alliance. Mothma later declared open rebellion in an address over the planet Dantooine onboard the Ghost after escaping from Imperial forces commanded by Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Hence, the Galactic Civil War erupted with the fledgling Alliance challenging the Empire for control of the galaxy. Rather than challenging the Empire directly, the rebels fought a war of attrition, destroying key Imperial targets and liberating numerous worlds beginning with Lothal. Though vastly outnumbered in manpower, starships, weapons and various other resources, the Rebels themselves possessed a strong will to fight. By and large, the Alliance was composed of well-trained soldiers and brilliant commanders, some of whom dedicated their lives to the Rebellion after defecting from the Empire due to the atrocities that were committed by the Imperial regime. After securing an early victory against the Empire at the Battle of Scarif, the Rebels achieved one of their most significant triumphs at the Battle of Yavin, in which a Rebel pilot named Luke Skywalker destroyed the Imperial battle station code-named Death Star. In 1983, Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader both perished during the Battle of Endor.

In the wake of their victory at Endor, the Rebel Alliance reorganized itself into a more formal state that was originally known as the Alliance of Free Planets before its reorganization into the New Republic with Mothma taking the title of Chief of State. The New Republic would enjoy years of prosperity as The Empire became consumed by in-fighting between warlords. In 2003, the New Republic and the Empire signed the Pellaeon-Gavrison Treaty ending the Galactic Civil War. This also came as the Empire had also lost a major battle against the Power Rangers and the militaries of the planet Earth. This resulted in the Empire being reformed into the Remnant creating a peace in The Galaxy that lasted until the First Order made itself known in 2018.