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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3082063" data-attributes="member: 14159">This new Empire is the same empire as before, the one that was crushed down to being the Imperial Remnant, but after a century they had built up enough, and the Galactic Alliance had been weakened enough, that they made their play for galactic power.   Gilead Pellaeon's rulership of the Imperial Remnant as Supreme Commander apparently morphs in the aftermath of the Yuuzhan Vong war into being a new Emperor, which is chosen by the Moffs.As for the Imperial Knights, they were created when the Empire surged back to prominence, and instead of seeking the extermination of the Jedi, or even them turning to the Dark Side, the Empire demanded that the Jedi pledge their loyalty to the Emperor himself, and not the Jedi Order or the Jedi Code (thus they aren't inherently dark-side, but there's nothing to stop them, if not a encouragement from their Sith masters).  The Imperial Knights have a uniform assigned to them by the Empire, a sort of red/black battle armor that evokes memories of both the Royal Guard and Darth Vader, and their lightsabers are all identical.   Many Jedi refused this heresy, and they became fugitives for refusing to swear fealty to the Emperor (the headquarters of the Jedi Order on Ossus has been razed by the Empire).As for the Sith, actually that's a nice thing in continuity, they didn't pull that out of nowhere, it had been set up literally two decades earlier.  Before the "Rule of Two" was set down, in canon Star Wars there was a character who had been established as having recieved rudimentary Sith training from Darth Vader: Lumiya, from the old Star Wars Marvel Comics (which are considered C-Canon in the canon system), and was the only Sith not accounted for in the canon, so after Vader and Palpatine were both dead, she went into hiding/exile apparently for decades, until emerging to attempt to rebuild the Sith order.  Besides the Legacy comic books, there is the Legacy of the Force novels set at around 40 years after Yavin, which sets some of this up, like the Sith being rebuilt by Lumiya.  Then they jump the timeline roughly 100 years.  Given that from the prequels to the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the galaxy has been in a state of general war for almost 70 years, letting the setting have a few decades of relative peace after three cataclysmic wars (Clone Wars, Galactic Civil War, Yuuzhan Vong War) only makes sense, they are literally worn out (the books set after the Vong war all keep talking about how galactic civilization is worn out from so many major wars in such a relatively short time).I'm not one so much for the Legacy era stuff myself, my personal favorite is the New Republic era: the Jedi Order is being rebuilt slowly (so Jedi are rare, but PC's can learn to be Jedi), the Empire is still a military might but it can be fought and won against in open warfare, The New Republic gives the rebels some attempt at legitimacy, the galaxy is torn between the "legitimate" Empire and the "free" New Republic and a lot of the galaxy is sitting it out and trying to be neutral or independent.</blockquote>

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