Despite crushing the Alliance on Hoth, the Battle of Yavin and Endor would see the destruction of both Death Stars, following which the Empire would enter into a state of disarray as former military leaders formed splinter fleets, while the New Republic slowly pushed Imperial forces back towards the Coruscant Core. For years, the opposing sides fought across the galaxy for control of sectors, systems and the loyalties of their respective populations, with major encounters on the Outer Rim worlds of Yavin 4, Hoth and Endor. In the nineteen years following the Empire's rise, a growing rebellion would cause concern within the higher echelons of the Empire, ultimately resulting in the formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Embarking on a massive militarization effort in order to combat the remaining Separatist holdouts across the galaxy, as well as bring more worlds under Imperial control, the Imperial Military would serve as the primary means of Imperial enforcement and expansion from the Imperial Center. The new and expanded military force was created to reinforce the clone troopers of the former Republic Military, as the clones had a limited amount of time they could be in service thanks to their accelerated aging, and to ensure Imperial rule. ДЇormed from the force that fought for the Republic, the early Imperial Military made use of clones.

With vast portions of the galaxy still unconquered and outside Imperial dominion, the Emperor Palpatine transformed the Grand Army of the Republic into the Imperial Military composed of both the Army and Navy of the prior government. Formation ДЇollowing the end of the destructive three-year galaxy-wide conflict known as the Clone Wars, then Supreme Chancellor Palpatine ushered in the formation of the Galactic Empire, a dictatorship composed of the entirety of the former Galactic Republic and with himself as its head of state, the first Galactic Emperor. They're building Super Star Destroyers, and Super-Super Star Destroyers, and who knows what else!' вЂ•Clone Wars veteran Skelly, referring to the thorilide triangle theory. Oh, it's all being done in secret, but you can't keep everything secret. They're tied up-ownership, boards of directors-with the shipwrights that have sold the Empire on one construction project after another. Six months later, the Imperial Military suffered a sudden and crushing defeat at the Battle of Endor.ДЄfter successive defeats by New Republic as well as the power vacuum left in the wake of the Emperor's death following Endor, the Imperial Military finally collapsed on the Inner Rim world of Jakku and was officially disbanded by the New Republic shortly after the war ended. Even after the loss of the Death Star over Yavin, the Empire was able to almost defeat the rebels during the Battle of Hoth. The Imperial stormtroopers and Star Destroyers were deployed and fought across the galaxy to retain Imperial control. However it would be faced with a growing rebellion which caused concern within the military, ultimately resulting in the formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Civil War. Formed as a realignment of the Republic Military following the Clone Wars and the transformation from Galactic Republic to the Empire, the nascent Imperial Military was tasked with enforcement across the Empire and was used for suppressing planetary uprisings, the Jedi Purge, chasing holdouts of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and threats from the Unknown Regions. The Imperial Military, also referred to as the Imperial Armed Forces, comprised the various branches of the armed forces of the Galactic Empire, such as the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy and the Stormtrooper Corps, as well as agencies such as Imperial Intelligence. Look on our new military not as trespassers or interlopers, but as gatekeepers, here to shore up the Emperor's vision of a pacified and prosperous galaxy.' вЂ• Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, in his Tarkin Doctrine ' It may appear to some that the enactment of universal laws and the widespread deployment of a heavily armed military are steps toward galactic domination, but these actions are taken merely to protect us from those who would invade, enslave, exploit, or foment political dissent, and to punish accordingly any who engage in such acts.

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