The Alliance to
Restore the Republic
With its beginnings as the Delegation
of 2,000 during what were literally the last days of the Old Republic and the
early weeks of the formation of the New Order, the Alliance to Restore the
Republic soon became a bit more aggressive, killing their enemies rather than
trying to debate them. Palpatine's new Empire was headed by Sith Lords, and it
was not a good sign. These fair-minded politicians and their supporters found
that under the Empire, thousands of atrocities thought impossible to be even
dreamed of were wantonly committed and endorsed, even doled out themselves by
the Imperials. The military stagnated both in skill and morals, compensated for
by a grandiose fleet of Star Destroyers and massive mechanical walkers and tanks
built only for terror and
destruction. Many grew uneasy with the Galactic Empire's actions;
many of those same people were executed as traitors. The Jedi were
hunted down and extinguished. Imperial stormtroopers and officers
were soon going from door to door conscripting young Human males
into their ranks. Alien species with the exception of those who
looked similar enough to Humans to be thought relatively inoffensive
were subjugated. Some were discriminated against and some were
enslaved. Some, like the Mon Calamarians, were brutally attacked;
and some, like the Firrerreos, were wiped to near-extinction. The Declaration of
Rebellion and the Corellian Treaty, the two most important pieces of
literature in the history of the “Rebel Alliance”, were drafted by
Mon Mothma of Chandrila, Garm bel Iblis of Corellia, and Bail Organa
of Alderaan – the three interim leaders of the Alliance. Mon
Mothma’s influence and power soon grew to surpass the other two. Her
former political rival, Bail Organa, was accepting of this, but Garm
bel Iblis was distrustful and secretly feared that if and when the
Rebel Alliance supplanted the Empire, a new Empire, with Mon Mothma
at its head, would simply rise in its place. Unfortunately, when the
Death Star fired on Alderaan and destroyed it, Bail Organa was
killed. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin that killed that same
Death Star, Garm bel Iblis and Mon Mothma had a falling-out. The
former tossed accusations of totalitarianism and lack of crucial
strategic knowledge, and when his home was attacked by Imperial
stormtroopers and his family killed on Anchoron, Garm bel Iblis
faked his own death and quietly retreated to fight his own
behind-the-scenes war against the Empire...
- Captain Admirison
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