Gallius Rax's speech

At the beginning of the Battle of Jakku in 5 ABY, Counselor to the Empire Gallius Rax gave a speech to the forces of the Galactic Empire on Jakku prior to the showdown with the New Republic. He spent several months rehearsing his speech, which he regarded as an exercise in propaganda to assure the troops of their role in the climactic battle. Rax delivered the speech in front of a podium at the Imperial headquarters beneath a massive flickering holostatue projection of himself. He wanted to invoke the image of a god issuing divine commands to the faithful. Unknown to his own soldiers, Rax was planning to destroy Jakku along with the amassed Imperial and New Republic forces as part of the Contingency.

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