Imperial Remnants

In the aftermath of Endor, the dual loss of the Emperor and the majority of decorated military leadership creates a power vacuum of chaos and instability. The Empire is a wounded beast thrashing around in a hundred directions, causing random and wanton destruction across the galaxy. By design, the Empire had no clear line of succession; and there was no second-in-command. The insidious kratocratic-philosophies of the Sith-Ideology were engineered into the Imperial administration and have permeated military culture of the Empire's remaining upper echelon. Revolts, infighting, fiefdoms and warlordism gradually fracture the Empire apart more effectively than any damage capable of being inflicted by the Rebel Alliance, as the Moffs and Grand Moffs maneuver to grab power for themselves amidst civil unrest.



Pentastar Alignment:
After the Empire's defeat at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, the Galactic Empire quickly began to fragment, with many high-ranking Imperials seeking to carve out their own kingdoms. Grand Moff Ardus Kaine, governor of Oversector Outer, moved quickly to consolidate his forces around the 14 sectors of the New Territories. After holding talks aboard his flagship, the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Reaper, the representatives from these sectors and from five major Imperial corporations formed the Pentastar Alignment.

Ships:

10x Acclamator Imperial Refit

16x Arquitens-class Light Cruiser

13x Enforcer-class Picket Cruiser

1x Executor-class Star Dreadnought

22x GAT-12 Skipray Blastboat

5x Gladiator-class Star Destroyer

8x Immobilizer 418 Cruiser

20x Imperial I-class Star Destroyer

24x Imperial II-class Star Destroyer

5x Interdictor-class Star Destroyer

6x Munificent-class Star Frigate

3x Praetor Mark II-class Battlecruiser

4x Procursator-class Star Destroyer

15x Raider-class Corvette

5x Secutor-class Star Destroyer

4x Venator-class Star Destroyer

1x Vengeance-class Star Dreadnought

8x Victory I-class Star Destroyer

4x Vindicator-class Heavy Cruiser

Kuati Holdouts:
As the Battle of Endor unfolded, most of the over-sector placed under Grand Moff Tichis Kuras his protection at the time, were set aflame as riots and revolts erupted across dozens of systems simultaneously. With the destruction of Alderaan still fresh in the mind of many of the worlds inside his over-sector, the death of the Emperor and Lord Vader had unleashed a tidal wave of Chaos across the galaxy.

Stormtrooper battalions deployed across these systems, in the absence of clear commands and desiring to avenge the death of the Emperor, began crushing down protests and riots in a particularly brutal fashion that only served to make the situation worse. As local Moffs quickly lost control of the situation, Tichis Kuras was forced to re-organise his own forces and even take direct control of those forces under commands of Moffs that were unable to pacify their own worlds and sectors.

In the tense weeks that followed, The Grand-Moff cycled out the Stormtroopers and deployed his Imperial Army forces and Navy under his direct command to quell many of the widespread revolts in a less bloody manner. In return, he deployed the Stormtrooper core to hit identified centers of organised, armed resistance only, avoiding more uncontrolled bloodshed across the over-sector. While this did not entirely solve the situation, it did seem to stop further exponential escalation. With the low morale of the Imperial Army forces hampering their capability to enforce decisive victory in many locations, the Grand Moff has, as of yet, been unable to regain full control of the entire Over-sector. Meaning that various worlds inside his sphere of control remain home to active fighting and systematic skirmishes between rebel sympathisers and Imperial garrisons.

Although the situation has threatened to spill over to complete anarchy multiple times in the immediate weeks and months after the battle of Endor, including the loss of entire planets and garrisons on several occasions, Grand Moff Kuras managed to consolidate his territory somewhat. Centered around the massive supply centers of Rendilli, Foundry and Kuat. These systems being home to large shipyards and supply centers, where the Grand-Moff can easily resupply and repair his forces and safely coordinate reinforcements and counter-attacks were necessary. A tactic that has been somewhat successful in the immediate months since the battle of Endor. When Commenor and Brenthaal were ignited in open revolt, not long ago, the Grand Moff acted swiftly. Realising the critical importance of these worlds, considering their positions on vital hyperspace lanes, he swiftly deployed portions of his forces to retake control over those systems.

But even without these additions, the Kuati holdouts would constitute a critical portion of Imperial infrastructure and resources that would prove disastrous if lost to the New Republic. Although toying with the possibility to use his new influence, power and the absence of Imperial authority to craft himself a more Independent role, the Grand Moff has declined to pursue such ambitions as of yet. Instead he has contacted nearby Moffs, Corrussant and other influential Imperial officers on multiple occasions in the hope to set up a meeting to discuss the succession properly. Although the chaotic advance of the New Republic has spoiled any attempts of doing so as of yet, it seems Imperial unity remains the current strategy of the Kuati Holdouts.

Ships:

1x Eclipse Class Super-Star Destroyer (Under Construction on Kuat)

1x Executor Class Super-Star Destroyer "Annihilator"

1x Bellator Class Super-Star Destroyer “Achilles”

1x Mandator I Class Star-Dreadnought (Kuat Self defense force)

1x Mandator II Class Star-Dreadnought (Kuat Self defense force)

1x Mandator III Class Star-Dreadnought (Kuat Self defense force)

1x Praetor Class Battlecruiser “Braela”

3x Secutor-class Star Destroyer

14x Imperial I Class Star Destroyer

9x Imperial II Class Star Destroyer

2x Venator Class Star Destroyer

13x Victory II Class Star Destroyers

11x Victory I Class Star Destroyer

3x Interdictor Class Star Destroyer

16x Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser

63x Vindicator Class Heavy Cruiser

7x Immobilizer 418 Class Cruiser

33x Ton Falk Escort-Carrier

6x Mod EF83 Nebelon B Frigates

52x EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate (Pulled from Mothball)

16x Gladiator Class Star Destroyer/Heavy Cruiser

253x Arquitens-class Light-cruiser

49x Quasar Fire I-class Cruiser-Carrier

118x Lancer Class Frigates

213x Tartan Class Patrol Cruiser

99x Vigil Class Heavy-Corvette

350x Gozanti Class Cruiser (Light-Corvette more likely...)

41x IGV-55 surveillance Corvette

199x Raider Class Corvette

208x CR90 Corvette

299x Guardian-class Light Cruiser (Light-Corvette more likely...)

46x Imperial-Model Acclamator Class Transport ships (Minimal weaponry-Fitted for Troop transport)

Task Force 117
When the Imperial order began to collapse and multiple worlds, systems and even entire sectors fell into panic, riots and open revolt after the battle of Endor, Task Force 117 was suddenly left adrift, with no clear chain of command. Conflicted orders came from seperate surviving members of High Command, several Moffs began creating semi-independent command structures in response and nobody had any idea who was to become the new emperor. The contested government of Corrussant began to slowly recall what loyalist forces he could muster and it seemed initially he held the most legal right to the Empire compared to others. But they were not popular and it seemed more than a few of the Moffs and Imperial Admiralty had begun to ignore them...

With this chaotic situation at hand, Admiral Helmar Farren, in command of the Star Destroyer "Bulwark" and its escort fleet, was forced to contemplate his options and make his own, independent decision. Given largely three choices to choose from. The first was to take his forces and hunker down, claim what stable territory he could, continue his current assignment and attempt to wait out the succession crisis in the core and wait for a clear successor. The second was to abandon the fighting entirely, with the increasing boldness of the rebellion and their success at Endor, it would not be an unreasonable answer... The third option and the choice Farren would eventually make, was to return to the Core himself and to involve himself personally in the succession crisis and, hopefully, help to stabilize the Imperial government as soon as possible. All to give them a fighting chance against the increasingly bold and numerous forces of the ARR.

A return to the Core was necessary to have any voice in the future of the Empire, to have a hand in the very question of its continued survival. Task force 117 would not immediately return to the Core, however. Farren instead decided to fight a series of bloody battles in his sector in order to evacuate several elements of the besieged Imperial Army and Stormtrooper corps garrisoned on nearby systems and worlds. They were being overwhelmed by the growing and rapidly spreading revolts all around the Colonies and outer-rim. By the time the 117th arrived at Fondor, weeks, if not months after the battle of Endor, it had doubled in fleet size, absorbing multiple smaller patrol fleets they had rescued along the Star destroyer "Nitsa". Next to these rescued Naval elements, were the surviving forces of Imperial garrisons and stormtrooper elements from over a dozen systems, now lost to open revolt and advances by the Rebellion.

With the uncertain nature of the Imperial succession and the chaos at Imperial High Command far from resolved, many of the demoralized officers in the 117th, many of them grateful to have been rescued, now looked to Admiral Farren for answers, Answers he could not yet provide, but promised he would find...

Titan Command:
When Admiral Blitzer Harrsk formed Zero Command and fled to the Deep Core with perhaps one of the most powerful fleets of the splintered Imperial Navy in the known galaxy, it would not take long for some level of grudging resentment to form within his upper ranks. His declaration of rank, of Lord High Admiral and Supreme Warlord, would only further this resentment and among those ranks a plot began to form. Lead by Admiral Halder, formerly of the 20th Sector Fleet and captain of the Imperial Star Destroyer Finio, this plot gathered support from many of the high ranking leadership within Zero Command before, finally, it was revealed. She declared the Lord High Admiral a traitor to the Empire, to the ideals of the Imperial Senate, to the very definition of the Imperial Navy. Before the assembled Admirals, Vice Admirals, and Captains of the fleet, she said that he had failed the citizens of the Galactic Empire and violated his oath to defend them. He had not lived up to the commitments of the Navy, it’s creed.

The resulting vote, while protested by the Lord High Admiral, would strip him of command authority and result in his execution while Admiral Halder, for her efforts and by the consent of the assembled Admiralty, assumed command. Renaming Zero Command as her own Titan Command, she has pushed resources into the rapid completion of the twin Star Dreadnoughts Dominion and Megador, bringing them online while consolidating her power into the Navy instead of working as a tyrant of planetary systems. Two months following her ascension, Admiral Halder would sign a treaty with the planetary governments of Kalist VI, Abregado-rae, Belgaroth, and some few others, trading her control over them for a payment of materials and a guarantee that, while they would not be forced to continue on the Imperial side of the fence, that they would not act to benefit or supply the New Republic or any other revolutionary group. The acting theory was that, even if they would turn unaligned in the interim, they could later be convinced to join the Galactic Empire if they succeeded accordingly. For now they would either be Imperial or neutral, nothing more, nothing less. The planetary governments would agree, some turning neutral, some staying Imperial. She had cemented herself as a naval commander in the eyes of the Admiralty, nothing more, nothing less.

To compensate for the loss of her planetary support structure, her ability to moor at will the vessels under Titan Command at planets within the Southern Core, Admiral Halder took drastic measures. Cannibalizing Deep 3 and several defense stations as well as a wrecked Imperial I-class ISD, she completed a mobile replenishment station, naming it Arbitration Point as the smallest bit of humor. Meanwhile, Titan Command detachments would begin to enter into combat against New Republic forces with alarming frequency. They took preference in striking against commerce raiders and lighter Republican squadrons, destroying them with brutal, focused firepower before exiting the system. Rare raids on planetary systems would occur, destroying New Republic infrastructure and stations before leaving as quickly as they came. Coordination has likewise begun to occur between Titan Command and other Imperial Remnant organizations, leading to their vessels often escorting convoys within the Southern Core area. In return, Adm Halder has received funds to support the organization and continue to operate as normal.

Ships:

2x Executor-class Star Dreadnought

1x Praetor II-class Star Dreadnought

3x Tector-class Star Destroyer

10x Imperial I-class Star Destroyer

10x Imperial II-class Star Destroyer

2x Interdictor-class Star Destroyer

11x Gladiator II-class Star Destroyer

12x Venator-class Star Destroyer

4x Immobilizer 418-class Cruiser

13x Victory I-class Star Destroyer

13x Victory II-class Star Destroyer

6x Vindicator-class Heavy Cruiser

12x Carrack-class Light Cruiser

11x EF76 Nebulon B-class Frigate

42x Gozanti-class Cruiser

14x Imperial II-class Frigate

22x Victory II-class Frigate

22x Ton-Falk-class Escort Carrier

50x CR90-class Corvette

33x DP20-class Frigate

62x Tartan-class Patrol Cruiser

20x Raider-class Corvette