Prologue
News of the destruction of the evil Empire's second superweapon, the Death Star II, at the hands of the Rebel Alliance, had spread quickly across the galaxy by way of rebel transmissions, bootleg holograms, or word of mouth. Stories of how a simple scoundrel, a young farm boy, and a pampered princess, had headed the assault traveled along trade routes and across sectors.
The cracks in the once-invincible Empire had begun to show. People all across the galaxy, from hundreds of star systems began to look up, and imagine a life without the Empire, and without the oppression they had grown to know all too familiarly.
With the largest construction project ever seen in the history of the galaxy destroyed, and the Emperor himself assumed dead, the Empire is scrambling everything it has to keep itself together. With the Imperial fleets in full retreat, and local populations in revolt, the Rebel Alliance is preparing their second all-out assault on the mid-rim systems...