Campaign
Coruscant civil war
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After the death of Galactic Emperor Palpatine at the Battle of Endor, a civil war broke out on Coruscant, the capital of the Galactic Empire, when celebrating crowds turned into riots when confronted with brutal repression. In the ensuing months, whole sectors of Coruscant freed themselves from Imperial rule supported by rebel fighters as the Imperial Military, mostly stormtroopers and the Imperial Security Bureau led by Grand Vizier Mas Amedda, remained entrenched in government districts.
The New Republic imposed a blockade over the planet, and eventually the fighting reached the Federal District as Mas Amedda was placed under house arrest inside his Imperial Palace quarters. Once he was freed by rebel youths, he officially signed the surrender of the Empire with the Galactic Concordance, ending the civil war. Amedda was installed as a figure head of a provisional government with New Republic overseers.
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Facts
- Conc
- Uprisings against the Galactic Empire
- Conflict
- Galactic Civil War
- Begin
- 4 ABY
- End
- 5 ABY
- Place
- Imperial City, Coruscant
- Result
- Rebel victory
- Coruscant becomes a member of the New Republic
- Establishment of a provisional government
- Battles
- Riot in Monument Plaza
- Side 1
- Coruscanti rebels
- Alliance to Restore the Republic
- New Republic
- Side 2
- Galactic Empire
- Commanders (side 2)
- Grand Vizier Mas Amedda
- Commander Orkin Kaw
- Forces1
- Coruscanti (rebel faction)
- Anklebiter Brigade
- Rebel resistance fighters
- New Republic troops
- Forces2
- Imperial Security Bureau†
- Coruscant blockade
- ISB starships
- ISB patrol craft
- Stormtroopers
- TIE/ln space superiority starfighters
- Coruscant Security Force
- Coruscanti (Imperial loyalists)
- Civilian
- Many civilians killed
Appearances
9 works, in story order
- Lost Stars (indirect mention)
- Hidden Empire 5
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (first appearance)
- The Veteran
- Aftermath
- Shadow Fall: An Alphabet Squadron Novel (indirect mention)
- Aftermath: Life Debt
- Victory's Price: An Alphabet Squadron Novel
- Aftermath: Empire's End
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