AlanC9 wrote...
Dean_the_Young wrote...
You know what Star Wars doesn't end with?
What happens to the Empire after the Death Star blows up with the Emperor. There are millions or even billions of more worlds, massive fleets, and the Rebel Alliance is still outgunned, and we get no indication of how or even why the system should collapse.
That's a pretty big deal, even if we don't consider what Luke will do with his life next, what Han and Leia will do, and so on. RotJ doesn't end with an indication of what happens 48 hours after the credits start, let alone 48 weeks.
Come to think of it, according to the EU doesn't the war just drag on for a long anticlimactic time?
Yes and no. There's conflict for the next two decades or so, but it's pretty much resolved within... five years?
By the EU, the Empire effectively breaks apart as Moffs and Warlords, controlling various systems and fleets, begin to fight eachother as much as the Rebels. Besides a few strong contenders, it's mostly a case of the Alliance taking one foe at a time, usually with the Alliance being the stronger one.
It's been awhile, but IIRC...
Ysanne Isard, Director of Imperial Intelligence, took over Coruscant following the Emperor's Death. She was the defacto leader of the central part of the Empire, by virtue of controlling the capital, but didn't have that much military strength. After the fall of Coruscant, which she laced with an alien-killing plague to stress the resources of the Alliance, her strength rested primarily in controlling the Bacta-homeworld Thyferra and her own Super Star Destroyer.
In capturing Coruscant and Thyferra, the Rebel Alliance transitioned into the New Republic, moving from an insurgency to claiming legitimacy as the ruling power.
Warlord Zsinj was the most powerful warlord in the post-Emperor Empire, at his peak controlling something like a third of the galaxy and rivaling both the New Republic and the rest of the Empire. Zsinj had numerous fleets, an extensive web of alliances and monetary backing from the more independent systems, as well as a super star destroyer. He died after the Republic struck an alliance with the Hapes Cluster, and without him his one-pony show fell apart.
As the greatest of the Warlords, the fall of Zsinj marked the end of the Warlord Era in the sense of whether the Warlords would take over the galaxy and leave the Republic a minor force, and marked the last time in the Republic fought a near-equal force of Imperials. For the most part afterwards, the Republic was the big side either forcing a capitulation or capture of smaller systems.
The last Imperial threat, about a decade after Endor, was Grand Admiral Thrawn. Thrawn's forces were smaller, but his tactics were superior. Combined with the rediscovery and usage of cloning facilities, as well as the recovery of a lost Clone Wars-era fleet, Thrawn was a viable threat to the New Republic. Thrawn conducted a number of major victories and operations against the Republic, even threatening Coruscant, until he was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
Thrawn was the last credible Imperial military threat the Republic faced, though smaller warlords and the occassional Palpatine-era super-weapons popped up here and there. After Thrawn, most of the Republic's crisis were political in nature, until the arrival of the Yuuzhan Vong.
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