Count Dooku commandeers a HoloNet relay station in the Raxus system. denounces the corruption of the Galactic Republic, and founds the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Count Dooku commandeers a HoloNet relay station in the Raxus system. denounces the corruption of the Galactic Republic, and founds the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine founds the Loyalist Committee to advise him during the Separatist Crisis.
Under orders from Count Dooku, General Greivous genocides the Nightsisters . Only Mother Talzin, Asajj Ventress, Jerserra, Merrin, Yenna, Falta, and Cani survive.
The Confederacy of Independent Systems attacks Coruscant , and almost succeed at kidnapping Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. Count Dooku, head of state of the Confederacy, is killed in the fighting. In response, the Supreme Chancellor consolidates power by granting himself the power to appoint Planetary Governors, declaring the Jedi Order to be treasonous, ordering the assassination of the Separatist Council, declaring himself Emperor of the First Galactic Empire, and arresting Senators who refuse to swear loyalty to him.
Darth Vader and Moff Wilhuff Tarkin crush a Wookiee & Jedi rebellion on Kashyyyk led by Jedi Master Quinlan Vos, though Master Vos is able to escape.
Moff Wilhuff Tarkin performs indiscriminate mass arrests, executions, and massacres of civilians on Antar 4, including pro-Imperial loyalists who had resisted the Separatist government, in order to make an example of worlds that resisted the Empire. Imperial fascism starts kicking off in earnest, with corresponding outcry as reporters, some aided by Berch Teller, report the truth that COMPNOR tries to hide.
Emperor Sheev Palpatine forms the Inquisitorius, made up of fallen Jedi, to track down the survivors of Order 66 and continue the Jedi Purge.
Former Galactic Republic Intelligence officer Berch Teller leads a failed rebel campaign againstGrand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin and the Galactic Empire. After Tarkin defeats the rebel cell, he is promoted to Grand Moff. Teller disappears and is presumed dead.