The COMPLETE History of Star Wars Legends After Endor - Every War and Conflict

today we'll be taking the deepest look at the post-endor history of star wars legends on youtube by examining every war and conflict that happened in the star wars galaxy after the battle of endor all of that and more in today's video [Music] hello and welcome to the video as described in the intro today we will be examining every war and conflict that took place in star wars legends after the battle of endor this video took a lot of time a lot of reading writing and research so if you enjoy these longer videos please make sure to like and share i would love to do one of these a month or even more frequently now this video will cover a lot of territory over 100 years of history if you want to skip around to a specific war or battle i've included time stamps down in the description also as i'm going through the history in the corner there i'm going to keep the year of the conflict that i'm discussing and its name at all times this history of course will be presented chronologically and i've tried to include pretty much every conflict that's important to the galaxy now for definitions sake a conflict will usually be something larger than a single battle however where one battle was exceptionally important or the focus of a major piece of star wars media there's a pretty good chance it makes it into this list with that being said let's get started in 4 aby the rebel alliance wins the battle of endor the imperial fleet with a broken chain of command scatters and the alliance navy is left to sit over the forest moon of endor and lick their wounds however in the direct aftermath the alliance intercepts a call for help this brings us to our first conflict the invasion of bakura the sai rook were a fierce alien species from the edge of the galaxy they had quietly been waging war against small colonies and outposts but in 4 aby had their sights set on the imperial planet of bakura although the bakurans would ask the empire for help the empire and the immediate aftermath was far too disorganized to respond and the rebel alliance now forming into the temporary government the alliance of free planets knew as much what they didn't realize was that bakura was only one stopping point for the syruc who planned to invade the entire galaxy the rebel alliance ended up making peace with the imperial forces at bakura and they were successful in driving off the sea rook in subsequent months the new republic would dispatch task forces to deal with remaining sea rook forces however they discovered that the aliens had largely been destroyed by the chiss ascendency as a note the sea rook did attempt a second invasion during the yuuzhan vong war but were ultimately unsuccessful in the days or perhaps weeks after the current invasion still in 4 aby the alliance of free planets dealt with another invasion from outside the galaxy the initial attack came from a species known as the nagai who themselves were supported by the dark lady lumaya and her forces however in reality than a guy were actually fleeing their own galaxy because of a brutal war with another alien race the toff the toff eventually invaded as well but the alliance of free planets was able to make peace with the nagai and push the barbarians out of the galaxy and away from the nagai's ancestral home with these first few conflicts braved the alliance of free planets reorganized into the new republic a legitimate galactic government as the new republic was attempting to consolidate power the galaxy was fractured by imperial warlords who were grabbing power of their own and forming boundaries out of old imperial space some of the most famous warlords of this era included zinge teradoc kane and more the new republic waged war early on against many of these factions with at least four fleets capturing swaths of territory throughout the galaxy five abyssa several strange events and conflict there was trioculus a mutant pretender claiming the imperial throne the new republic was responsible for a campaign against former imperial head of intelligence shadow spawn otherwise known as black hole or chronal kyle katarn faced off against cronell's own apprentice jarrek alongside several dark jedi under his command 6 aby however was the more significant year when it came to warfare earlier in 4 aby rogue squadron had successfully captured the key world of brental 4 then infiltrated a still imperial held coruscant softening up the planet's defenses for a full-scale invasion rogue squadrons covert insertion into coruscants and their subsequent success on the ground was an absolutely crucial moment of the post-endor conflict against the empire as capturing coruscant through conventional means was not seen as possible with coruscant held the new republic was seen as even more legitimate to those across the galaxy coruscant had been under the control of imperial director of intelligence izani aisard when isarrad fled the planet in her superstar destroyer lucentia the new republic was left with a planet poisoned by the krytas virus this led to the back to war in 7aby where the new republic was forced to fight for control of bacta throughout the galaxy which was necessary for treating those inflicted by the virus with azania isar free in her superstar destroyer she was really waging a war on multiple fronts she was conventionally attacking planets but was also using psychological warfare against the new republic for one the lucentia was still known as a reconditioning center and it was believed that there may be those within the new republic who were brainwashed by the empire the crytos virus crisis was also meant to break the new republic's morale their bank account and to cause aliens specifically as they were the only ones affected by the krytos virus to lose confidence in the new republic eventually isar would be defeated with her superstar destroyer captured by the new republic representing their first dreadnought she would appear later on as would a clone she produced but that would be of little consequence in the end as the new republic was facing the crytos virus they're also worried about warlord zinge which would take us to seven aby and the zinge campaign warlord zinge was the head of the most powerful imperial splinter faction the zinge campaign would see a new republic task force led by han solo hunt but ultimately failed to kill zinge the warlord would die inside his flagship the iron fist at the battle of dathomir with zinge out of the way from 7-9 aby the new republic fought against various smaller warlords securing key worlds like kuat and expanding their power and influence however their progress would be drastically uprooted by the thrawn campaign which started in 9 avy when grand admiral thrawn emerged from the unknown regions and raided the library at umbroa sky he was looking for information pertaining to the location of a secret imperial storehouse on the planet wayland thrawn would eventually discover weyland and would make use of both its exotic cloaking and cloning technology and also the cloned dark jedi stationed on the planet jorah sabaioth throughout the war major events of the thrawn campaign included the imperial raid of this sluice pawn shipyards thrawn's capture of the katana fleet in subsequent raids on new republic planets and of course the final pivotal battle of bill bringy the thrawn campaign was defined not only by the chiss grand admiral's incredible military tactics and strategy but also his use of misinformation and espionage against the new republic although victorious the thrawn campaign would seriously weaken the new republic's power and in subsequent months the new republic would continue fighting imperial warlords this takes us to 10 aby and mere months after the thrawn campaign the galaxy would experience its greatest upheaval since the formation of the empire emperor palpatine who had survived death through esoteric force techniques was revived secretly in a cloned body at bis and in the years prior to 10 aby had been preparing for his revenge against the new republic and for the formation of his new and final order since even before the thrawn campaign palpatine had angrily watched his former minions fighting for power for his territory while also recalling his most devoted to strongholds within the deep core the first stage of palpatine's plan was to have the now reunited imperial forces at his hand launch a massive attack against the new republic as secret fleets and dozens of dreadnoughts emerged from the deep core the new republic was hopelessly overwhelmed and essentially destroyed overnight the empire regained much of their territory and even recaptured coruscant however for some reason after their victory the empire fell into a massive and incredibly destructive period of infighting known as the imperial civil war which bled the faction of assets there are battles where multiple dreadnoughts were lost thousands of ships this is a loss that would be felt for a century the imperial civil war was likely the work of palpatine perhaps as a punishment to those who had abandoned him after his apparent death or as a way to cull the weak either way soon after this point palpatine would publicly reappear and proclaim himself ruler of the new dark empire palpatine's dark empire used new warships superweapons technology and more alongside a cadre of elite force users major events of the dark empire campaign include the launching of the world devastators in the attack on mon calamari the destruction of the first eclipse superstar destroyer the firing of the galaxy gun and the lost of the rebel base at tsuka 5 and the eventual final death of palpatine and the destruction of biss and its galaxy gun the empire which had briefly been unified during the dark empire campaign which ended in 11 aby just a year after it began once again was splintered and the imperial civil war continued the new republic used this period of chaos in 11 aby to recapture coruscant and begin rebuilding of course 11 aby also saw various high-profile imperial warlords grasped for the power vacuum left by palpatine's death including carnor jacks who claimed the title of sith lord and ruler of the crimson empire alongside various other imperial rulers largely hiding within the deep core eleven aby also saw admiral dala emerge from the mob she launched a brief but unsuccessful campaign against the new republic which despite its length was actually catastrophic when it came to the loss of human life dull launched attacks on several new republic worlds including a rebuilding mon calamari with her small fleet but the empire also suffered a major loss as the korita system was destroyed by the sun crusher although presumed dead by the end of her campaign in 12 aby dala re-emerged and unified the deep core warlord forces well sort of basically what dala did was kill most of the major warlords at what had ostensibly been a strategy meeting at toss beacon doll led a second campaign against the new republic led by her superstar destroyer nighthammer and bolstered by the crimson command she was successful in attacking several planets but she lost her superstar destroyer and most of her fleet during a failed attack on luke's jedi praxiom at yavin this was a failure for the empire at a crucial time they had just lost the thrawn campaign and had been devastated from a resource and morale perspective by the dark empire loss and the imperial civil war because of her failures dolla chose to relinquish command of the imperial remnant to admiral pellion and went off on her own he had a very different strategy rather than strike at places of new republic power pelyon decided to move the remnants out of the deep core and into the outer rim now some imperial holdouts would remain in the deep core and we'll talk about them a bit later but generally they would fail to create any sort of unified front in 12 aby pellion secured imperial borders in the outer rim with the orinda campaign which notably saw the new republic's captured superstar destroyer lucentia face off against another imperial superstar destroyer while the orinda campaign was successful afterwards pellion was ordered by the moff council to expand imperial borders and the empire suffered major defeats at the hands of the new republic even losing several superstar destroyers the empire as a whole would largely be silent for the next few years but the new republic would be tasked in other ways in 12 aby the empire reborn as led by lord heth rear admiral galik faiyar and a former jedi of luke's praxiom dassan attempted to create an army of dark jedi they would go so far as to attack luke's jedi temple but were unsuccessful and eventually defeated by the new republic in 14 aby the creator of the empire reborn heath rear would be killed by the strange entity known as waru on cressia station in this time the new republic also dealt with several smaller threats and in 13 aby specifically the death seed plague was released on the planet nomchorios however the new republic successfully kept the plague on planet and nomtorios would remain inaccessible to the galaxy from that point on 17 aby saw the black fleet crisis which strained the new republic both militarily and politically the new republic had recently created the fifth fleet which unlike the new republic's other four major fleet groupings had less of a defensive role and more of a roving even expansionary role or at least that's how its critics would define it the blackfleet crisis saw the new republic threatened by the avaithan dusk on league the avathans had previously been builders and engineers for the empire but shortly after the battle of endor as the empire was retreating and leaving their shipyards they managed to successfully launch a coup and secure dozens of imperial ships including several superstar destroyers and battle cruisers the blackfleet crisis waged a political war against princess leia but was eventually defeated by the new republic's fifth fleet in the same year the new republic senate was also bombed by a dark jedi known as queller who had plans for a rebellion against the new republic using droids across the galaxy moving now to 17 aby as peace between the new republic and empire seemed on the horizon after a break in outright hostilities dala was again offered control of the imperial remnant over palyon and led them in the columnist campaign where the empire was crushed under the weight of a now much more powerful new republic navy also during this year the aforementioned warlords remaining in the deep core known as the deep core replacement warlords harassed the new republic but also failed to accomplish anything significant they however would remain as a small power in the region for a very long time 18 aby saw the corellian crisis where factions within the five planets of the corellian system attempted to gain the use of centerpoint station and to use it against the new republic 1980y nearly saw a civil war of a different variety with the khalamos crisis the common laws crisis is fairly complex and there wasn't actually a lot of fighting that went on but essentially the planet of hamas had been glassed by the empire and new information linked the loss of kamas planetary shields to bothan infiltrators the orbit of bothwe became home to fleets and ships from across the galaxy basically ready to fire on each other and at the same point there was the rumored re-emergence of grand admiral thrawn thrawn of course had been killed at the end of his campaign and the new thranov was simply a ruse by three individuals but even the simple rumor of thrawn returning greatly exaggerated the very chaotic nature of the galaxy because of the crisis 198by also brought the reveal of the empire of the hand a secret faction which had been established by the empire and thrawn in the unknown regions and which would play a major role in coming conflicts usually allied with the new republic and galactic alliance but not always some within the new republic also learned that a thrawn clone was in fact being grown but it was inadvertently destroyed before it could reach completion the empire of the hand warned luke and mara jade of years of upcoming darkness after several years of relaxed tensions 19 aby also finally saw a formal peace declared between the new republic and the imperial remnant effectively ending the galactic civil war in 23 aby there was the second imperium crisis where brachus a student of luke and also later queller formed the second imperium and began abducting youth and training them in the dark side of the force the second imperium also collected military assets but never really on a large scale and they were eventually defeated this brought us a couple of years of peace before the main event 25 to 29 aby was the yujon vong war the yujian vong war is far far too important and expansive to cover in any real complete way but i'll give some highlights basically the yuuzhan vong were a race of aliens from another galaxy they had been present in the star wars galaxy for some time and had actually been inserting themselves through galactic society and in 25 aby were even stoking a war between the planets of ramamul and osarion in that same year a yuzhan vong advance force would invade at vector prime and the full armada would come soon after the yuuzhan vong would launch a very successful invasion against the galaxy but were eventually defeated they would capture planets as far inwards as coruscant the center of the galaxy and the war would kill trillions including chewbacca and the youngest solo child anakin the jean vong for a while were the single dominant power in the galaxy with the new republic finding their strategy and strange organic technology very difficult to counter with the fall of coruscant the new republic itself essentially was destroyed and it reformed into the galactic alliance full name the galactic federation of free alliances but usually just the galactic alliance or ga the galactic alliance worked cooperatively with the empire and other factions in the galaxy to secure several major victories late in the yuuzhan vong war including notably the battle of ebac 9 and the recapture of coruscant which the yuuzhan vong had renamed yuuzhan tar and horribly transformed through their vong forming technology the yuuzhan vong and the rest of the galaxy would find peace in 29 aby and the galaxy would get to rebuilding however not for too long because in 35 to 36 aby we have the swarm war the swarm war basically started as a border dispute between the kilik which were a hive mine species and the chiss however it expanded greatly and threatened to consume the entire galaxy however the next major galaxy shaking conflict would come four years later in 40 aby with the second galactic civil war after the swarm war the galactic alliance and as a reminder the galactic alliance is basically the reformed new republic passed several new laws relating to the regulation of sector military forces these laws required more contributions to the central ga fleet and also limited the size of local defense forces many systems unsurprisingly saw these laws as fairly imperial and protested against them when it became clear that the ga would not be making concessions several systems took action with corellia notably beginning to build ships in secret further increasing tension would be the fact that corellia would attempt to activate the ancient center point station which had sat dormant since its destructive firing at the battle of fondor during the yuuzhan vong war in response the galactic alliance was becoming increasingly militaristic as jason solo especially feared that the galaxy was on the brink of full war jason solo however would end up being the one who would take it there as he and sean niathal an admiral in the fleet facilitated a coup against the government and assumed control of the ga as joint chiefs of state at this point the jedi stopped supporting the government and even joined the confederation as led by corellia open war at this point spread across the galaxy factions either allied with the ga or the confederacy with even the imperial remnant becoming involved in the battle at fondue the legendary gilad paleon was assassinated loyalties across the galactic alliance split and the imperial remnant supported jason solo john nyethal who had been jason's joint chief of state separated from jason and claimed rule as the legitimate leader of the ga claiming that the government was now in exile against a tyranny shawn it all partnered with the jedi and others and the end of the war saw the death of another solo child as jason was killed by a sister jaina as well as mara jade and a galaxy which was again trying to unify after a brutal war in the years that would follow the ga would more closely align itself with the imperial remnant with admiral natasi dalla even being made chief of state but would be tested again by the near demigod abeloth who escaped from the maw following the destruction of centerpoint station during the second galactic civil war concurrently a lost tribe of the sith from the planet keshe re-entered the galaxy having been isolated and stranded for over 5 000 years initially there was a three-way conflict between abeloth the sith and the jedi who themselves were at various stage of conflict with the ga eventually even ousting head of state natasi dala abeloth would choose to ally herself with the sith and the two factions managed to take coruscant with apolog even covertly becoming the new chief of state and preparing to torture the citizens of the planet to gain power at this point the sith had infiltrated various levels of government but the jedi were able to at least temporarily kill avaloth and oust all sith on the planet this takes us not only the end of 41 aby but also to a big gap in star wars history we know very little about what happened between 41 aby and 127 aby the ga and the empire continued to work together the empire had actually turned democratic during aboloth's emergence but obviously reverted to old ways as by 127 aby the empire was again led by an emperor rowan fell descendant of jaggedfell who was the husband of jaina solo by 122 aby the galaxy was still attempting to repair the damage caused largely by the yuuzhan vong war however certain factions primarily the bothans who had declared a holy war against the vong were still unwilling to accept peace and let the surviving vong exist alongside the galactic community in 22 aby the vong and the jedi partnered for the aussis project which was a collaborative attempt between the jedi and the vong meant to rehabilitate and even fix worlds which had been destroyed by the war using of course the vong's unique terraforming technology the project however was sabotaged and blame was placed on the yuuzhan vong the galactic alliance however stood by the vong causing the empire who by this point were still allied with the ga to secede and declare war in 127 aby during the war a faction known as the one sith who had been building in secret for a century under the leadership of darth crate revealed themselves to the empire and took responsibility for sabotaging the asus project seeing an opportunity to gain power and defeat the ga with their combined forces the empire joined with the sith and soundly defeated the ga at several major battles primarily the battle of kawamas in 130 aby while much of the alliance and the jedi surrendered admiral garastasi fled and formed a government in exile jedi were purged on mass and eventually the sith refusing to share power betrayed the empire killing an individual they believed to be imperial emperor rhone fell but who was actually an imposter through the coup the sith were able to reform the sith empire to regain control of the galaxy and also seized a significant portion of former imperial forces they also started a campaign against the exiled remnants of the imperial faction in a conflict that was known as the second imperial civil war rhone fell in his faction of imperial knights jedi who had served the empire began open war against the sith and the jedi and galactic alliance quietly also engaged in hostilities the sith during this era committed several atrocities against the galaxy including an infamous genocide on mon calamari eventually the exiled empire and the remaining fleets of the galactic alliance under garasthazi's control would join against the sith empire alongside the jedi forming the galactic federation triumvirate in 138 aby cade skywalker descendant of luke would kill sith darth krait that same year effectively ending the war after krait's death the sith would continue efforts against the triumvirate but would suffer not only defeats at the hand of the jedi but also a culling by darth redd who attempted to move away from the rule of 1 ie 1 sith and many adherents as established by darth crate and to re-establish the rule of two darth redd however would also be defeated as would the other remaining sith spelling the end of open warfare in the end of our history of war in star wars legends so guys that's all i have for you today you may be able to tell this video was a lot of work and if you enjoyed that i hope you will pay it forward by dropping a like and a subscription and sharing the video if you have any friends that are interested in star wars legends and warfare hopefully you learned something because i know i did as i was going through the various source material i've got to give a special shout out to the essential guide to warfare which really helped synthesize a lot of material from different sources and of course also my podcast tapcraft transmissions which has forced me to basically re-read everything after the battle of endor anyway guys until next time thanks for watching be safe and may the force be with you [Music] so [Music] you

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Published: Wed Sep 01 2021

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[u/Collective_Insanity]

Thought this might be of interest to those of us who aren't as familiar with Legends lore.

The video briefly scans through various conflicts which occurred post-ROTJ. Some of which could have been interesting alternatives to what we ended up getting in the ST (essentially Rebels v Empire 2.0).

[u/seventysixgamer]

I've avoided post ROTJ stuff in legends for some time and only know so much from hearsay -- but since Mando will most likely be linked to the ST at some point I might as well just dive into the EU post ROTJ stuff.

But what little I know about it sounds much more creative and original than the ST.

But y'know there's "no source material" after all.

[u/Falcon_Gray]

The galaxy never knew peace in legends honestly lol

[u/TrollHumper]

The difference is, the old EU/Legends gave us actual sequels to ROTJ, not remakes pretending to be sequels.

[u/Geostomp]

The EU was a series of increasing bloody conflicts, but at least it was something for the galaxy’s future. The sequel era is terribly written that the writers are avoiding the entire period as trying to follow the gibberish of the movie timeline is practically radioactive.