What if the death of the Emperor really did shatter the Empire’s grip on the galaxy, eventually leading to the formation of the New Republic? In the thirty years since then, maybe that New Republic, once a shining beacon for peace and freedom, became corrupted by the same power and bureaucracy that felled the original Republic in the prequel movies. If, hypothetically, I required a crazy theory that will more than likely be wrong, could you give me one?
If this description is canon-accurate (again, if), then it would appear that the political landscape in the Star Wars universe is much more complex than the simple Rebel vs Empire dynamic of the original trilogy.
What’s all this business with “The Resistance” then? Unless this was an awful typo on the part of EA’s promotional department, it would appear that is the case. Taking place in the aftermath of the Rebel victory in the Battle of Endor, players will experience the events that created the massive, battle-scarred landscape of Jakku shown in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.Ī battle between Imperial holdouts and, wait, the New Republic? So there is officially a New Republic in The Force Awakens? See if you notice anything weird:įans who pre-order Star Wars Battlefront will be among the first players to experience the Battle of Jakku, the pivotal moment when the New Republic confronted key Imperial holdouts on a remote desert planet on the Outer Rim. Here is an excerpt from the official description for the Battle of Jakku DLC. Among the announcements was the fact that a piece of free DLC would feature Jakku (the desert planet from the movie teasers) and more specifically, a giant battle that took place there. What happened?ĮA released a ton of info on their upcoming video game, Star Wars Battlefront, this past week at Celebration. That is, until EA quietly, and perhaps accidentally, mentioned it in an official piece of marketing. Having seen that, a lot of us assumed that this was the going nomenclature, and that the idea of a New Republic was officially legacy material. Last week though, we found out that in The Force Awakens, instead of Rebels vs Empire, it would the Resistance against the First Order. It was meant to be a return to the ways of the Republic of the prequel-era (sans Palpatine of course), ruled by a representative parliament rather than a supreme leader.
The New Republic was a creation of the novels, and was basically the successor to the Rebel Alliance after the fall of the Empire. This included the idea of the New Republic, the government formed in the aftermath of the original trilogy’s civil war. When Disney gave the Star Wars Expanded Universe the boot, nearly everything outside of the movies found itself on the chopping block.
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