The
origins of the New Republic stretch back over many years. Starting
out as the Rebel Alliance, a rag tag group of freedom fighters quickly
gained support through out the galaxy, and with the signing of the Corellian
Treaty became an officle fighting force, opposeing the tyranical rule of
Emperor Palpatine. The Rebellion fought as valiantly as they could,
winning minor vicotries through fighter sortee's launched from dozens of
tiny outposts scaterd through out the outer rim, large scale fleet engagements
were all but an impossibiliy, untill the brave people of Mon Calamari,
led by the now famous Admiral Ackbar and useing only simple tools and scientific
instruments, overthrew there Imperial overseers and began converting there
large pleasure cruisers into ships of war. Even with this addition
to the Rebel Alliance millitary they were still out-manned and out-gunned,
and avoided conflicts at all costs. It looked as if the Rebellion
would go on for decades without end, untill a set of plans intercepted
by spys and transferd to Rebellion leader Leia Organa who proceded aboard
her Corellian Corvette ,Tantave 4, to the remote desert world of
Tatooine, to seek out the legendary, General Obi-Wan Kenobi. This
event was the turning point of the Rebellion, after her capture, two droids
made there way into the hands of a young moisture farmer named Luke Skywalker,
who then through a miraculous chain of events found General Kenobi, who
discoverd the secret carried by one of the droids. The unsuspecting
hero's did as they were instructed and began to make there way to the planet
Alderan, employing two spice smugglers, Han Solo and Chewbaca to transport
them to Alderan. They found the planet destroyed by the Galatic
Empires newest ultimate terror weapon, The Death Star, and were
quickly tractored aboard the massive vessle. A daring raid insued
from that point, a runing blaster fight over several decks of the massive
ship, this bold manuver caused the rescue of Princess Leia and the escape
of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbaca and the droids from the Death Star,
it also unfortunatly cost them the life of the great Obi Wan Kenobi, who
valiantly sacrificed him self so the others could escape. With the
plans for the Death Star within the hands of Rebellion tacticians
they quickly found a weakness and set about to launch an attack against
the massive station, which had tracked the Millenium Falcon to the
Rebel base on Yavin 4. A massive fighter melee broke out over the
surfice of the massive station, and a well placed shot by the young man,
Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death Star. This event lit a
fire within the Rebellion that had not yet be known, and 4 years after
the Battle of Yavin, the Rebel Alliance found victory over the moon of
Endor, in the fire of the second Death Star's destruction the New
Republic found its birth.
