Unknown Regions Imperial remnant

In the aftermath of the Battle of Jakku, a major remnant of the Galactic Empire that secretly regrouped in the Unknown Regions commanded by Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, and would go on to form the basis of the military of the First Order. Its creation was planned out decades in advance as part of Darth Sidious' Contingency plan, which called for key assets and personnel to flee into the Unknown Regions and the other portion of the Empire to be destroyed. The seeds for a Imperial resurgence were laid in the Unknown Regions, which had been secretly been explored and prepared by the Galactic Empire.

After Sidious' death at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, the Contingency, led by the Emperor's protégé, Gallius Rax, began to make preparations for the exodus to the Unknown Regions. Rax gathered the majority of the Imperial Navy at Jakku, with the intent of luring the New Republic into a trap and destroying both forces.

However, Rax was killed by Sloane during the Battle of Jakku, and, urged on by the dying Rax, who anointed her as his successor, went into hiding with surviving Imperial ships, along with other select personnel, into the Unknown Regions to regroup and rebuild a new stronger and purer Empire. By 9 ABY, the remnant was collaborating with the Imperial Remnant in known space on Project Necromancer. In 21 ABY, the remnant had reformed into the First Order, a fascist military junta intent on destroying the New Republic. The First Order was itself destroyed in a series of uprisings in 35 ABY.

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