Rise of the Empire
From the Naboo crisis to the first night of the New Order
An original Holonet briefing that walks existing archive records: how a senator from Naboo used a manufactured war to bury the Republic and the Jedi in a single generation.
- STOP 1 · EVENT
Invasion of Naboo
The Trade Federation blockade looks like a trade dispute. In the archives it is the first visible move of Darth Sidious: isolate a Mid Rim world, force a vote, and put a sympathetic chancellor in the chair.
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Naboo
Naboo is not a battlefield planet by nature. Plasma, lakes, and two peoples who barely spoke — until the invasion forced Queen Amidala and the Gungans onto the same field. Open the dossier before you follow the players.
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Naboo from the scout
Take the stick. The Naboo system is already in the archive: the green world, its sun-baked inner planets, and the cold giants beyond. This hop is a briefing, not a battle. Look, then read the next file.
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Sheev Palpatine
The senator who comforts Naboo is also the Sith who ordered the invasion. His personnel file is the spine of this tour: every later crisis widens his emergency powers.
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Battle of Geonosis
Ten years later the Separatist crisis detonates on Geonosis. The army Sifo-Dyas ordered — and Palpatine inherited — marches in public for the first time. The Republic cheers a rescue. The Sith open a war.
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Geonosis on the map
From orbit the Arkanis sector looks like any Outer Rim industrial knot. On the map, Geonosis sits close to Tatooine and the routes that will later carry Death Star parts. Zoom the cartography; the war has a geography.
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Anakin Skywalker
The Chosen One is already a general and a secret husband. Fear of loss is the lever Sidious will pull. Read the file as a warning label, not a hero plaque.
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Order 66
The inhibitor chips fire. Jedi die at the hands of soldiers who called them generals that morning. This is the operational end of the Order, not a metaphor.
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The Empire proclaimed
In the Senate, thunderous applause buries the Republic. Palpatine does not seize the building. He is given it. The Holonet of that hour calls it peace.
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Coruscant
The capital does not fall. It rebrands. The Jedi Temple becomes a palace. If you need a single world that explains the New Order, this is the dossier.
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Coruscant from the scout
From the chart the Core is a knot. Jump in and the system is eleven worlds around Coruscant Prime. The archive already has the orbits. You are here to see how small the palace looks against its own sun.
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Duel on Mustafar
The last personal cost of the coup: Obi-Wan leaves Anakin burning on a lava bank, and Darth Vader is assembled in a suit. The Republic's war hero is gone. The Emperor's enforcer is online.
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Mustafar from the scout
The lava world sits between two giants that never let it rest. Fly the system after you have read the duel. The geography is the last sentence of the coup.
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Padmé Amidala
Close on the senator who tried to vote the emergency powers down. Her death and the hidden twins are the only part of this story the Empire does not get to write.
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