Recaps

After the Imperial fleet suffered devastating losses at Ord Mantell and Kinasar Planet, Dunn Vesex withdrew forces toward Parlin-Minor while the Kingdom of Dawn expanded its Bilbrin base and prepared for a future assault on Scipio. The chapter ended as alarms sounded over Scipio and an unidentified fleet began destroying Imperial Interdictors along the hyperspace routes.

• General Trench pursued the retreating Imperial fleet to Kinasar Planet, where the Archangel Titan warship deployed a Hyperspace Beacon and Imperial forces fled in disorder.
• The Imperial fleet returned to Parlin-Minor with fewer than 300 capital ships, and Admiral Gillard Perine was hospitalized with serious injuries.
• Dunn Vesex ordered Lieutenant General Dagon Nielz to abandon Bilbrin Planet, requested Executor-class reinforcements, and recalled warships to Parlin-Minor.
• Dagon Nielz urged an attack on the Kingdom of Dawn's growing Bilbrin forward base, while General Trench ordered Luo Huacheng to hold the defensive line.
• On May 24, Luo Huacheng learned that Imperial warships were leaving Bilbrin Planet, and he requested more construction equipment and Dawn's Radiance-class motherships.
• On May 30, alarms sounded over Scipio as an unknown fleet attacked the Interdictors guarding its hyperspace routes.

The Galactic Empire’s defenses at Scipio came under attack as Geth fleets destroyed Interdictors and drew Imperial ships into pursuit. Major General Mosh Barris’s fleet was ambushed by an unfamiliar, fast-moving force whose powerful weapons began sinking Imperial-class Star Destroyers.

• The chapter described the Muun-Human struggle that split the InterGalactic Banking Clan and led to the Kingdom of Dawn’s earlier raid on Scipio.
• Alarms sounded as Geth fleets attacked Interdictors around Scipio, prompting Oswald Tessik to send Imperial forces after them and reinforce the system.
• Mosh Barris destroyed a Geth fleet and staged the destruction of another vessel for a war correspondent, dismissing further alarms.
• An unfamiliar fleet of thirty warships emerged from warp travel less than a thousand kilometers from Mosh Barris’s formation and charged at extreme speed.
• The unfamiliar ships unleashed rapid kinetic fire at close range, breached Imperial shields, and began sinking Imperial-class Star Destroyers within minutes.

Marshal Oswald Tessik confronted Moff Barris over abandoning his fleet during a Geth attack that destroyed most of the Imperial force. As Imperial technicians examined the wreckage, they found a strange designation: T-34-1.

• Oswald Tessik reprimanded Moff Barris for fleeing the battle and leaving his fleet to fight alone.
• Tessik reviewed the battlefield, where thirty Geth warships had destroyed twenty-eight Imperial-class Star Destroyers before all were eliminated.
• Imperial reports revealed that the Geth warships could accelerate rapidly, warp precisely beside their targets, and inflict powerful close-range attacks through shields and armor.
• Imperial technicians collected wreckage from the battlefield and found the designation T-34-1 on a damaged bridge console.

Marshal Oswald Tessik received a technical report on the Geth-operated T-34-1 King of Kings-class battlecruisers and learned that their crude construction concealed powerful weapons and engines. He dismissed the Separatists’ attrition strategy until he heard that the ships’ armor was made from mining scrap and might eventually fall apart.

• Technicians identified the recovered warships’ model as Megathron and reported that nearly all carried the T-34-1 designation.
• The Head of Technical Department told Marshal Oswald Tessik that the King of Kings-class battlecruisers lacked shields, life support, and anti-gravity systems but had fifteen-meter-thick armor and were controlled by Geth.
• The Head of Technical Department explained that the ships had advanced engines and Large Neutron Rapid Cannons that attacked with both particle beams and physical force.
• Marshal Oswald Tessik concluded that the Separatists were using cheap Geth-operated ships for attrition and mocked their strategy against the Empire’s industrial capacity.
• The Head of Technical Department reported that the ships’ uneven, impurity-laden armor appeared to be mining scrap and could begin falling off after extended use, wiping the smile from Tessik’s face.

Dagon Nierz’s attack on the Kingdom of Dawn’s Bilbrin base failed against Luo Huacheng’s prepared defenses, triggering a struggle over the Imperial fleet’s orders and withdrawal. At Ord Mantell, Tang Xiao convened a conference to decide whether to proceed against Scipio as the uncertain movements of Darth Vader’s Death Fleet threatened the Northern Fleet.

• Dagon Nierz ignored Dunn Vesex’s demand to preserve the fleet and attacked Bilbrin Planet with roughly 600 capital ships and 1,500 smaller warships.
• Luo Huacheng’s four defensive formations held against the Imperial assault, while Kingdom of Dawn fighters gained air superiority and inflicted heavy losses.
• After the offensive faltered, Dunn Vesex removed Dagon Nierz from command, and the Imperial fleet began withdrawing as the two authorities disputed whether it should leave Bilbrin Planet.
• Dunn Vesex and Supreme Strategic Command compromised on a partial withdrawal from Bilbrin and sent two Assertor-class Dreadnoughts to reinforce Parlin Minor Planet.
• Trench led the Kingdom of Dawn Northern Fleet in capturing Ithor Planet and advancing toward Parlin Minor Planet.
• Tang Xiao convened a military conference on Ord Mantell, where Qi Jian recommended postponing the attack on Scipio because Darth Vader’s Death Fleet might threaten Fondor or Kira Planet.

Tang Xiao demanded that Scipio be taken within three months, forcing Qi Jian and General Trench to consider a landing operation. After the meeting, Qi Jian reviewed the Kingdom of Dawn’s sprawling territory and fleet deployments, which showed how its military was organized around Titan warships.

• Tang Xiao ordered Qi Jian to take Scipio within three months, regardless of the cost, and warned that the next battle plan might be Qi Jian’s last.
• General Trench told Qi Jian that a landing operation was the only way to attack Scipio.
• Qi Jian examined a classified star map detailing the Kingdom of Dawn’s thirteen sectors and four Special Defense Zones.
• Qi Jian assessed that the Kingdom of Dawn controlled territory approaching one-third of the galaxy and had become the Galactic Empire’s greatest threat.
• Qi Jian reviewed the mobile fleets, including the Northern Territory fleet formed by merging the Taowu-centered home fleet with the Archangel-centered commercial fleet.

The chapter detailed the Kingdom of Dawn’s combat fleets, planetary defense forces, and immense logistical and escort networks. It ended by noting that the Kingdom’s military system also included the Geth, the Protoss, the Vasari, and former vassal states of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

• The Kingdom of Dawn’s main battle fleets, mobile squadrons, and defense fleets were described, including their deployments and strengths.
• The chapter explained how the Kingdom of Dawn’s defense fleets protected key worlds and strategic salients despite many of their ships being outdated or damaged.
• The Kingdom of Dawn’s logistics network was outlined, with more than 300,000 support vessels serving over 40,000 routes.
• The Kingdom of Dawn’s escort fleets were described, including more than 8,000 Grey Horse-class escort carriers and over 300,000 fighters.
• The Kingdom of Dawn’s military system was said to include the Geth, the Protoss, the Vasari, and former vassal states of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Former Confederacy of Independent Systems powers increasingly joined or supported the Kingdom of Dawn as its Eastern Territory expanded, while the Geth rebuilt their fleet with new technology and developed into three distinct factions. The chapter leaves the Kingdom of Dawn with a growing network of vassals and subordinate forces, including a Protoss community considering greater military involvement.

• Former Confederacy powers joined the Kingdom of Dawn as its fleet expanded into the Eastern Outer Rim, while others, including the Technological Alliance, secretly supported it or waited for protection.
• Lin Nanyi and General Grievous secured vassal states such as the Quarren and Semirians, giving the Eastern Territory greater stability and adding roughly 300 capital ships and thousands of smaller warships.
• Tang Xiao lifted technological restrictions on the Geth and supplied them with Gallente Federation technology, allowing them to build T-34-1 and standard King of Kings-class Battlecruisers.
• The Geth divided into Northern, Southern, and Drai II factions, with the Southern Geth integrating into the Kingdom of Dawn and the Drai II group developing under Protoss influence.
• The Protoss planned to combine their Purifiers technology with the Drai II Geth, and they began showing greater willingness to deploy their fleet alongside the Kingdom of Dawn.

The chapter contrasted the Protoss’ and Vasari’s plans to expand their power within the Fourth Civilization, while Qi Jian struggled to plan the Northern Territory Campaign without knowing the Vasari fleet’s strength. It ended with an Ayrou representative asking to deliver a Bird Spirit revelation directly to Tang Xiao.

• The Protoss planned to expand their forces by producing Geth Purifiers as laborers and combatants, while building up their fleet and increasing their population of Purifiers.
• The Vasari grew rapidly through genetic modification and prepared a hidden main fleet under Grand Strategist Kelslak, while adding warships to the Kingdom of Dawn Navy and secretly building a Titan.
• Qi Jian drafted plans to reinforce the Northern Territory and manage threats including Darth Vader, then summoned the Ayrou representative to ask about her people’s recent sacrifices.
• The Ayrou representative explained that the sacrifices celebrated the Bird Spirit’s revelation and said she wanted to report its contents directly to Tang Xiao.

Qi Jian reported that the Ayrou’s Great Bird Spirit God supposedly came from Dawn Star Planet, prompting Tang Xiao to investigate while he argued with Daughter about becoming the Force’s new Son. Tang Xiao rejected her proposed destiny but was shaken by the possibility that an unknown force had controlled his life, then left to meet the Ayrou.

• The Ayrou representative told Qi Jian that the Great Bird Spirit God had come from Dawn Star Planet, and Qi Jian agreed to report the claim to Tang Xiao.
• Daughter urged Darth Malthael to become the new Son, but he refused and questioned the sealed memories and downfall of the Kilik Swarm.
• Daughter argued that Darth Malthael’s use of Son’s power drew him toward that role, while he proposed joining forces to kill Darth Sidious.
• Qi Jian called Tang Xiao about the Ayrou’s oracle, and Tang Xiao ordered the representative to explain it in person after linking the claim to the Prisoner Olegar.
• Tang Xiao confronted Daughter about the unknown being that had brought him to this universe, but she said she knew nothing and called him the greatest variable in the universe.
• Tang Xiao declared that he would follow his own path and left for the Ayrou, while Daughter wondered whether even the Celestials could have experienced what he had.

Tang Xiao investigated the newly awakened Prisoner and learned that the Ayrou’s so-called Great Bird Spirit God was Skrand Sharp-Bick, the last survivor of a destroyed avian civilization. Skrand offered to serve Tang Xiao and provide the blueprints for his civilization’s most powerful warship, the Talon.

• Tang Xiao returned to Dawn Star Planet, approved the Golden Plan’s second-phase battle plan, and ordered Qi Jian to summon Hari Seldon while he met the Ayrou delegation.
• Tang Xiao questioned Baron Odar about the Glory mothership’s defenses and hibernation pods, then found the Ayrou delegates waiting beside a cloning pod.
• Shira introduced the dying Ayrou male in the pod as a vessel for the Great Bird Spirit God, whose true body remained in the Glory mothership’s hibernation pod.
• Tang Xiao spoke with the Great Bird Spirit God, who explained his desire to help the Ayrou and admitted he hoped to use their genetic similarities to rebuild his race.
• The Great Bird Spirit God identified himself as Skrand Sharp-Bick of destroyed Skaravyd, offered his service and the Talon blueprints, and Tang Xiao recognized him as a legendary leader from Stellaris.

Tang Xiao uncovered a disturbing mismatch in Skrand Sharpbeak’s memories, then appointed him a Kingdom of Dawn admiral and arranged for the Ayrou and Fourth Group to support his eventual release from the mothership. He left the Salarians with the Claw Titan Warship blueprints, while Skrand’s origins and the truth behind the mothership remained unresolved.

• Tang Xiao learned that Skrand Sharpbeak remembered the Abominor and the Yuuzhan Vong, prompting him to question whether Skrand’s memories—and his own reality—were genuine.
• Skrand told Tang Xiao he could not be released until a suitable body was prepared using technology associated with a god, and Tang Xiao suspected Kolman Lao’s alchemy might be required.
• After reflecting on his doubts, Tang Xiao asked Skrand to help him conquer the galaxy, and Skrand agreed to serve him.
• Tang Xiao appointed Skrand a Kingdom of Dawn admiral, tied the Ayrou’s future fortunes to his service, and arranged for the Fourth Group to build Skrand’s 35,000-meter Claw Titan Warship.
• Tang Xiao gave the Claw Titan Warship blueprints to Arroyo Barlow on Kef Bir, and the Salarians were stunned by the design.

Tang Xiao investigated the technology carried by Skrand Sharpbeak while Sefrans Tann’s fleet battled the Kilik Swarm near Jorib Planet. The Swarm’s hidden fleet attacked and reached Nogu Satellite, threatening Abathur.

• Tang Xiao learned that the complete Talon blueprint was hidden in Skrand Sharpbeak’s soul and ordered Arroyo Barlow to research its advanced technologies.
• Tang Xiao examined Korman Lao’s recorder and considered what the God of Destruction’s techniques could bring back to the galaxy.
• Abathur established a Togot Swarm nest on Nogu Satellite, identified three concealed Kilik hives, and helped Sefrans Tann locate them.
• Sefrans Tann ordered the fleet to bombard Eyyl Satellite, where Kilik units emerged and attacked the Kingdom of Dawn ships.
• Sefrans Tann detected a Kilik fleet emerging from Jorib Planet’s atmosphere and ordered her ships to regroup and defend Nogu Satellite.
• The infected fleet bypassed the Kingdom of Dawn ships and began dropping Kilik Creatures onto Nogu Satellite while Abathur remained there.

Sefrans Tann’s forces defeated an infected Kilik Swarm fleet and rescued Abathur on Nogu Satellite, but the appearance of Jedi Knights among the swarm and a new attack near Chiss territory revealed a wider threat. As Anita offered the Holy Advent Cult’s forces to help, Darth Vader arrived at Ukio and crushed the Rebel uprising with the 501st Legion.

• Sefrans Tann sent Marines and reinforcements to Nogu Satellite as the Kilik Swarm’s fighters destroyed four Steadfast-class Cruisers with precise Proton Torpedo strikes.
• The Kilik Swarm overwhelmed Abathur’s guards until Kingdom of Dawn tanks and Marines landed, turning the ground battle in their favor.
• Sefrans Tann’s capital ships annihilated the infected fleet, and she ordered a sweep of the surrounding satellites while requesting nuclear warheads and Valkyrie-class Missile Frigates.
• A report warned Sefrans Tann that an infected fleet threatened Ginar Planet, and Anita offered the Holy Advent Cult’s warships and Psionic Link to help locate the swarm.
• Darth Vader brought Death Squadron to Ukio, led the 501st Legion into battle, and swiftly crushed the Rebel Alliance uprising.

Darth Vader launched a rapid campaign against the Rebel Alliance, crushing its forces on Ukio and Od Paldorlan within a week. The Empire recaptured both worlds and captured many senior Rebel officials, while the Kingdom of Dawn’s fleet remained safely away from the fighting.

• Darth Vader led Imperial forces out from Denon Planet, leaving Lieutenant General Malcolm Granger’s fleet on Christophsis and giving General Ling time to await reinforcements at Fondor Planet.
• Darth Vader blockaded Od Paldorlan and surrounded Ukio with one hundred Imperial-class Star Destroyers, while Gial Ackbar’s Deep Sea Fleet stayed away.
• The Empire overwhelmed the Rebel defenses on Ukio, and the 501st Legion captured the planet’s capital after three days.
• Darth Vader’s forces turned back to Od Paldorlan, where the Rebels attempted to resist with a small fleet and the planet’s substantial supplies.
• Darth Vader deployed a Torpedo Sphere to destroy Od Paldorlan’s planetary shield, and Imperial forces captured the planet after five days.
• Darth Vader entered Od Paldorlan’s administrative capital as the Imperial flag was raised, and the Empire captured many senior Rebel officials.

After the Rebel Alliance’s defeat, Darth Vader trapped Gial Ackbar’s Deep Sea Fleet while Isanne Isard launched a sweeping purge of suspected Imperial collaborators. The investigation ensnared Mon Mothma, placed Bail Organa under surveillance, and implicated Garm Bel Iblis.

• Darth Vader sent 200 capital ships into the Thirteenth Army’s territory and sealed its routes, trapping Gial Ackbar’s Deep Sea Fleet.
• Gial Ackbar warned the Rebel Alliance to withdraw, but Bail Organa and the Leader supported resisting the Empire.
• Isanne Isard tortured captured rebels, ordered public executions, and investigated Imperial finances for suspected treason and rebel funding.
• Isanne Isard traced a covert hyperspace communicator to an antique shop, but its owner had disappeared.
• Isanne Isard investigated Mon Mothma over her ties to the shop and missing funds, and the Intelligence Bureau took her away.
• Isanne Isard linked Bail Organa to the uprising, restricted his travel, and implicated Garm Bel Iblis, though direct evidence against Bail had not been found.

After K Fleet’s identification codes exposed the Rebel Alliance’s connection to Garm Bel Iblis, Isanne Isard summoned him, but he fled to Corellia. Isard arrested Mon Mothma on corruption and dereliction charges, and Bail Organa responded by leading senators in an impeachment and threatening a tax revolt.

• Imperial Navy verification revealed that twelve K Fleet warships were at Ukio instead of Corellian shipyards, and Isanne Isard summoned Garm Bel Iblis for questioning.
• Garm Bel Iblis ignored Isard’s summons and returned to Corellia.
• Isanne Isard confronted Mon Mothma about her finances and explained how the Empire had twisted her political proposals to serve its own ends.
• Isard accused Mon Mothma of involvement with the Rebel Alliance, had agents restrain her, and formally arrested her on charges of dereliction of duty and corruption.
• Bail Organa gathered senators to impeach the Imperial Intelligence Bureau and threatened that their sectors would withhold taxes and withdraw investments.

The chapter explained how Core Worlds Noble Houses accumulated economic and political power over twenty-five thousand years, making them difficult for the Galactic Empire to challenge. Mon Mothma’s arrest threatened to provoke their long-awaited counterattack, with the Rebel Alliance serving as their instrument.

• The chapter described how Core Worlds families used wealth, capital, and connections to control planets, industries, and political offices across the galaxy.
• It explained that the Galactic Republic and later the Galactic Empire avoided directly confronting the Noble Houses because their combined influence could paralyze the galaxy.
• Palpatine worked to weaken the Noble Houses by promoting new officials, building loyal political organizations, expanding the military, and establishing the Gouvernorat system.
• Palpatine’s strategy ultimately aimed to use governors and military power to break the Noble Houses’ foundations, as the Death Star would have done in the original storyline.
• Mon Mothma’s arrest set the Galactic Empire against the Noble Houses’ impending counterattack, while the Rebel Alliance served as their tool.

Bail Organa’s efforts to secure Mon Mothma’s release failed as Palpatine defended her arrest and Isanne Isard continued her crackdown. A shuttlecraft then attacked the station holding Mon Mothma and the other senators, evading its defenses.

• Bail Organa gathered more than a thousand senators to demand an investigation and the release of Mon Mothma and the other detained senators, but his protest failed.
• Imperial Intelligence Bureau agents attacked Garm Bel Iblis near his residence, accidentally killed his daughter, and arrested him.
• Palpatine addressed the Senate, defended the investigation into the destruction of the Thirteenth Imperial Army, and confirmed the arrest warrants for Mon Mothma, Garm Bel Iblis, and more than thirty other senators.
• Bail Organa remained under surveillance, while Isanne Isard continued mass arrests and public executions in Imperial Center.
• A Lambda-class shuttlecraft with an expired IFF code approached the station holding Mon Mothma and the other senators, then charged toward it as the station’s point-defense lasers missed.

Galen Malek broke Mon Mothma, Garm Bail Iblis, and other imprisoned senators out of an Imperial space station, revealing that Darth Vader had sent him to kill them before he turned against his orders. They escaped aboard a shuttlecraft, and Emperor Palpatine used the prison break to justify a massive purge across the Empire.

• Galen Malek smashed through the station’s defenses, freed the prisoners, and told Mon Mothma and Garm Bail Iblis that he had been sent by Darth Vader to kill them but had chosen to rescue them instead.
• Garm Bail Iblis and Mon Mothma agreed to escape with Galen Malek, who killed a Dark Jedi Knight and fought through Imperial troops and reinforcements.
• Galen Malek led the senators back to the hangar, protected Mon Mothma and Iblis, and escaped aboard his shuttlecraft while many other senators were left behind and killed.
• Galen Malek rammed an Imperial transport aircraft, evaded the surrounding warships, and escaped into hyperspace with Mon Mothma and Iblis.
• Emperor Palpatine issued a galaxy-wide reward for the fugitives, blamed the prison break on traitors, and ordered a massive purge within the Empire.

Isanne Isard recruited millions of abandoned Kaminoan clone troopers into the Imperial Homeland Defense Bureau, expanding the Empire’s crackdown and forming a power bloc with Ruffan Digorinus and Sate Pestage. Meanwhile, Galen Malek evaded Imperial pursuit and brought Mon Mothma and the others to Kashyyyk, where Mon refused to reveal their leader.

• Isanne Isard proposed recalling retired Kaminoan clone troopers as Intelligence Bureau agents, and Palpatine approved the plan.
• Isard recalled more than three million clone veterans and established the Imperial Homeland Defense Bureau, whose gray-coated troops became known as Graycoats.
• Ruffan Digorinus took command of the new bureau as its director, while he, Isard, and Sate Pestage formed a powerful alliance.
• Galen Malek piloted a Lambda-class shuttlecraft past Imperial pursuit and hid it near Kashyyyk.
• Galen asked Mon Mothma and the others where they wanted to go next, and Mon said they would not take him to their leader.

Galen-Malek brought Mon-Mothma and Garm-Bail-Iblis to Kashyyyk, where he revealed his past as Darth Vader’s assassin and his desire to save the Wookiees. He left to fight the Empire in his own way, while Mon-Mothma and Iblis prepared to flee and contact their allies.

• Galen-Malek explained that Kashyyyk’s Imperial forces were disorganized and said his ship could remain unnoticed there for now.
• Galen-Malek revealed that Darth Vader had killed his Jedi father and that his mother, Maris Malek, had died during a mission to rescue Wookiee slaves.
• Galen-Malek confessed that he had served as the Imperial agent Star Killer, carrying out missions that involved killing many people.
• Garm-Bail-Iblis condemned Galen-Malek for killing Rebel comrades, and Galen-Malek left them his ship before departing to save the Wookiees.
• Garm-Bail-Iblis recognized Galen-Malek’s father as Master Kento Malek but refused to accept Galen-Malek as an ally.
• Mon-Mothma and Garm-Bail-Iblis decided to leave Kashyyyk and find a safe place to contact their people.

Garm Bel Iblis and Mon Mothma arrived at Yavin 4 and discovered that the secretive Leader was Padmé Amidala, alive and directing the resistance. Padmé called for rebuilding the Republic while the group debated how to overcome their military weakness and protect rebellious planets.

• Garm Bel Iblis and Mon Mothma received the Leader’s summons and traveled to Yavin 4.
• Rebel Alliance soldiers searched their shuttle and escorted them to a concealed base beneath an abandoned temple.
• Padmé Amidala revealed herself as the Leader, shocking Mon Mothma and Garm Bel Iblis.
• Padmé explained that she wanted to overthrow Palpatine and rebuild the Republic while correcting its past failures.
• Garm Bel Iblis and Mon Mothma described the resistance’s scattered forces, poor supply routes, and fears that Imperial reprisals would devastate rebelling planets.

Padmé Amidala confronted divisions in the Rebel Alliance and set out a new strategy: protect civilians by operating from a remote base and fight the Galactic Empire as an independent military organization. She renamed the movement the Republic Restoration Alliance and proposed two major departments, leaving their formation and the rescue of General Ackbar ahead.

• Jan Dodonna urged the Alliance to create a Military Committee and prioritize rescuing General Gial Ackbar and the Deep Sea Fleet, while Borsk Fey'lya argued for recruiting more allies.
• Bail Organa, Mon Mothma, and Garm Bel Iblis challenged Fey'lya's proposal to approach Felucia and debated whether former Imperial and Separatist figures could be trusted.
• Jan Dodonna left to prepare a rescue plan, and Padmé Amidala called the meeting to order and admitted that the Alliance's previous strategies had failed.
• Padmé declared that the Alliance must overthrow the Galactic Empire by force, leave inhabited resistance planets, and establish a remote base where it could protect and recruit those seeking to resist.
• Padmé renamed the movement the Republic Restoration Alliance and proposed establishing the Alliance Consultative Committee and the Alliance Military Committee.

Padmé Amidala reorganized the Rebel Alliance as the Republic Restoration Alliance and set out a strategy to undermine the Galactic Empire by coordinating resistance across the galaxy. As the new alliance began its work, General Gial Ackbar’s Deep Sea Fleet remained trapped and faced destruction by Darth Vader’s forces.

• Padmé Amidala presented the Yavin Declaration, defining the Republic Restoration Alliance’s goal of rebuilding the Republic and its strategy for working with peripheral members against the Galactic Empire.
• Padmé announced a secret founding agreement would be signed at a conference on Corellia one month later, and the Alliance established administrative, industrial, intelligence, and military organizations.
• General Jan Dodonna sent small X-wing units to raid Darth Vader’s supply lines, and Alliance pilots destroyed Imperial escorts and two Imperial-class Star Destroyers in one attack.
• Darth Vader ignored the difficult-to-catch X-wing fighters and concentrated his forces on finding General Gial Ackbar’s trapped Deep Sea Fleet.