Great Galactic War

The Great Galactic War, known as the Great War or Republic–Sith War, was a twenty-eight-year-long galactic war between the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire between 3681 BBY and 3653 BBY. The war was the culmination of a 1300-year grudge held by survivors of the original Sith Empire against the Republic for their defeat in the Great Hyperspace War.

The war would cost countless lives and devastate worlds from the Core to the Rim, as well as having dramatic galactic consequences otherwise. The Republic economy was shattered, its leader dead, and its capital in ruins, while roughly half the galaxy would end up under Sith dominion. Furthermore, the Jedi Order would withdraw from the galactic capital of Coruscant to establish a new home on their ancient homeworld of Tython.

But it would not ultimately be conclusive. While a strategic defeat for the Republic, the end of the war left both powers standing, engaged in an undeclared conflict for supremacy on numerous disputed worlds.

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