Another galaxy, another time.

The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time.

No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that…it was the

Republic.

Once, under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights,

the Republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass

beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have

greed to match.

So it was with the Republic at its height. Like the greatest of trees, able to

withstand any external attack, the Republic rotted from within though the danger was

not visible from outside.

Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government,

and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself

to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected

among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic.

Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from

the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had

appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears.

Having exterminated through treachery and deception the Jedi Knights,

guardians of justice in the galaxy, the Imperial governors and bureaucrats prepared to

institute a reign of terror among the disheartened worlds of the galaxy. Many used

the imperial forces and the name of the increasingly isolated Emperor to further their

own personal ambitions.

But a small number of systems rebelled at these new outrages. Declaring

themselves opposed to the New Order they began the great battle to restore the Old

Republic.

From the beginning they were vastly outnumbered by the system held in thrall by

the Emperor. In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance

would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of

oppressed and beaten peoples…

From the First Saga

Journal of the Whills

"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes."

Leia Organa of Alderaan,

Senator

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