After Order 66: The Empire's War on the Jedi Order

After Order 66: The Empire's War on the Jedi Order was a text authored by the scholar Ril Shiwer that questioned why the Galactic Empire, despite facing other more pressing military matters in its early years, devoted so much resource to the eradication of the remaining members of the Jedi Order in the Great Jedi Purge after killing the majority during Order 66 in 19 BBY. In 35 ABY, the historian Beaumont Kin cited the text in his book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire.

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