


The subsequent Age of the Empire would last only two decades in contrast to the centuries of the Republic Era, but not before the Jedi Order was systematically purged and almost eradicated, and the galaxy largely conquered and oppressed. The Empire rose to power with a groundswell of populist support, promising peace and stability from the destructive Clone Wars and capitalizing on anti-Jedi and anti-droid sentiment and human- ethnocentrism. The Galactic Empire, declared as the First Galactic Empire, commonly referred to as simply the Empire or New Order, and remembered as the Old Empire, was the galactic fascist dictatorship ruling thousands of star systems spread across the galaxy that replaced the Galactic Republic at the end of the Clone Wars and ushered galaxy into a new era under the New Order and was ruled by Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine, who was secretly a Dark Lord of the Sith called Darth Sidious. " Imperius Unitada ober Totallex" ― Atrisian Basic motto and name of a propaganda piece, literally translating to "Empire united over all"
