Virgillian Civil War

The Virgillian Civil War was an internal conflict fought between the revolutionary Virgillian Free Alignment and the ruling Aristocracy government of the Virgillia system from 25 BBY to approximately 4 ABY. Early in the war, an attempt by a Jedi envoy at mediation ended in the death of half the envoy, and the conflict continued through the end of the Galactic Republic and into the subsequent reign of the Galactic Empire. The Free Alignment was severely constrained by its lack of blaster technology and starships, but even when the Aristocracy aligned itself with the Empire and gained an Imperial military presence in the system, the Free Alignment was able to survive.

Soon after the beginning of the Galactic Civil War, the Rebel Alliance began supplying the Free Alignment with weaponry and ships, which turned the Virgillian conflict into a proxy war between the Alliance and the Empire. A few weeks before the end of the Virgillian Civil War, the Alliance's delivery of eight Quasar Fire-class bulk cruisers turned the tide of the war, which, when combined with the Empire's withdrawal from the system as the Galactic Civil War intensified, resulted in a Free Alignment victory shortly before the Battle of Endor. Virgillian forces later fought with the Alliance at Endor.

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