

First Order/Resistance War A new galactic war By then, the military was led by a triumvirate of General Armitage Hux, Kylo Ren and Captain Phasma. Utilizing it as their unofficial headquarters, the base was armed with a superweapon capable of destroying entire star systems by firing a planet-destroying beam through hyperspace. Thirty years after the Battle of Endor one of the military's primary bases of operations was the Starkiller Base, an ice planet converted into a First Order stronghold. Although the First Order's military might had been suspected to be significantly large, not even General Leia Organa's worst-case estimates conceived of just how large the First Order built up their military. It featured more than 1,500 turbolasers, point-defense laser cannons and ion cannons, and was specifically designed to evoke the fearful image of the Old Empire's Imperial-class Star Destroyers. In violation of New Republic laws regarding capital ships, the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer was developed by Kuat-Entralla Engineering. The First Order carried out a policy of rearmament in spite of the Galactic Concordance peace treaty. " They're flying state-of-the-art TIEs, they're using commando boarding parties and latest generation attack shuttles in clear violation of the Galactic Concordance." ―Poe Dameron spun off a subsidiary known as the Sonn-Blas Corporation, which manufactured much of the First Order's weaponry within First Order space, while Sienar-Jaemus Army Systems and Aratech-Loratus Corporation provided spacecraft and vehicles to the Order. To avoid treaty restrictions banning the sale of weaponry to the First Order, galactic arms manufacturers BlasTech Industries and Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc. Within the Unknown Regions, military bases and shipyards were constructed to churn out some of the technologically superior weapons and starfighters utilized by the military, with many of the Old Empire's greatest secrets falling into the hands of the First Order. Over the years following the defeat of the Galactic Empire, elements of the former Imperial Military founded the First Order, located in the far corners of the Unknown Regions, and began rapidly rearming- intending to eventually reclaim the galaxy from the New Republic-in clear violation of the Galactic Concordance and Republic laws. The First Order military traced its roots to the Imperial forces that lost the Galactic Civil War. Through Snoke, I would make certain that the First Order would be mine to control." ―Darth Sidious


" Through my manipulation of Snoke, I began gathering forces, building an army capable of opposing the New Republic that had arisen in my absence.
