Editing Star Wars Setting (section)

== Nations and Organizations ==
* '''''The Galactic Empire''''': Ever seen an evil, fascist space empire imposing itself on the galaxy with huge, evil spaceships and cool mooks? Then it was probably inspired by the Empire. Itself inspired by the brutalist designs, prejudices, and rampant cruelty of Nazi Germany (though they take inspiration from some other historical factions as well like the Soviet Union and British Empire), the First Galactic Empire is overall ''the'' classic authoritarian dictatorship, propped up by legions of obedient but easily disposable troops, cool propaganda that paints them as the saviors of the galaxy and ambitious officers ready to be choked for their failures. The Empire was created from the infrastructure of the Republic when Emperor Sheev Palpatine took singular power of the Republic Senate, ostensibly to keep the galaxy safe after the Clone Wars, but totally because he was a powerful Sith Lord who wanted to get his evil fascist dick hard. Once the galaxy got wise to this, the Empire used fear to keep them in line, which is one of the reasons why they took a liking to huge Star Destroyers and Death Stars, since they look fucking terrifying. While evil overall (as our [[Emperor|Lord and Savior]] George of the Lucas proclaims it), individual people go from normal people who knows no better since they've lived with propaganda up their exhaust ports all their lives to genuine psychopaths like Palpatine and Grand Moff Tarkin (along with the obligatory Hermann Göring type corrupt hedonists taking advantage of their positions, and various sick fucks who Palpatine often puts into power for just that reason). Even so, The Empire still possessed deep flaws; apart from the authoritarian top-down rule, the Empire also wasted significant resources on its inefficient military, and their constant poaching of the Galaxy's brightest minds and permanent wartime economy meant the rest of the galaxy stagnated. Severe competition in the officer corps meant that infighting and backstabbing was not uncommon, either, and that the politically connected could still advance ahead of truly competent officers (that is, until their incompetency finally pissed off someone above them, as seen with Vader choking Admiral Ozzel). The Empire eventually broke apart after the Battle of Endor where the Emperor was killed (allegedly; it's more complicated than that...), his apprentice turned (back?) to the Light Side of the Force and the second Death Star blown up. The remains of the Empire's military became the Imperial Remnants who fought the New Republic and each other for control of resources.
** '''Stormtrooper Corps''': Covered above in the Villains section.
** '''Imperial Army/Navy Troopers''': As stated above, these guys formed the bulk of the Empire's military forces, but we don't really see much of them in most media. The reason for this is that most of the time they serve primarily as basic PDF units to garrison planets from static fortifications; The Stormtroopers meanwhile are the ones that go on the offensive. Whereas stormtroopers are politically indoctrinated fanatics with access to heavy weapons, are only referred to by designations, and wear de-individualizing and fear-inducing armor, Army and Navy troopers just act like normal soldiers, with many just being conscripts or looking for a paycheck rather than true believers. Which works fine for the Empire in their intended role, but as the Galactic Civil War ramped up, the Empire began leaning far more heavily on its Stormtrooper forces, especially when Army and Navy troopers were less likely to carry out morally dubious orders against fellow citizens.
** '''Imperial Security Bureau''': If the stormtroopers are the Waffen-SS, the ISB is the Gestapo/insert-three-letter-agency-here, complete with an interservice rivalry (as members of the more military-oriented branches of the Empire often look down on the ISB as a bunch of pencil-pushers who waste Imperial resources needlessly, and given what's shown in Andor they may just be right). They're not a military branch per se, but instead they're associated with COMPNOR, a political organization that focuses primarily on information warfare, including propaganda, law enforcement, Internal Affairs, and rounding up dissidents. The ISB is particularly feared and hated by both rebels and fellow Imperials, as they're always [[Inquisition|paranoid and ruthless when it comes to hunting down and dealing with any hint of disloyalty, and love using torture to extract information/confessions]]. The ISB had been depicted as early as the first movie through Colonel Wullf Yularen, but they hadn't been expanded upon much until after the original trilogy.

* '''''Imperial Remnant''''': What the Empire is known as post-Endor, since they're no longer in charge of the Galaxy. Both Legends and Disney explored this idea, but in substantially different ways:
** '''Legends''': In the original continuity, the Empire splintered into different warlord factions after the death of the Emperor and took several decades for the New Republic to defeat. At various points these remnants continued to threaten the New Republic for a long time, including the splinter lead by [[Creed|tactical genius Admiral Thrawn]]. They did team up temporarily to fight off the extra-galactic invaders, the Yuuzhan Vong. Eventually the largest remnant, which had greatly mellowed out its policies since Palpatine's death, made peace with the New Republic. It would continue to exist into Cade Skywalker's era 130+ years after the Battle of the Yavin, where it would split into two major factions; one that was more overtly associated with the Sith and reminiscent of the pre-Rule-of-Two Sith Empire, and the other lead by a royal family of Force sensitives more akin to Grey Jedi. After a war, the One Sith (faction name of the last Sith group) aligned faction is defeated, tries to go back into the shadows but is destroyed by a renegade One Sith, Darth Wredd, who wants to return to the Rule of Two but dies before taking an apprentice leaving the Sith extinct. The Fel Empire joins the New Republic successor government and the Jedi for to form the new galactic government.
** '''Disney''': In the Disney canon, the Emperor had a two-part plan in the event of his death; firstly, he'd destroy most of his remaining forces in Operation Cinder (this plan appears stupid on its head, but does serve a few purposes; it prevented Warlords from using Imperial resources to carve out their own empires, it tested the loyalty of the remaining officer corps, and denied assets to the New Republic. But mostly he was just a bitter asshole who wanted to take his ball and go home). In the second phase, those considered worthy enough were to retreat to secret fortress worlds in the Unknown Regions. Most of the remaining Imperial forces surrendered not long after the Battle of Endor, but various warlords still existed in the Outer Rim for at least five years since the fall of the Empire. The New Republic decides to just ignore them because fuck it Jar Jar Abrams wanted Rebels vs. Empire again, couldn't be asked to explain it and had no plans for the rest of the trilogy anyways. Considering how a large part of the Galaxy's history can be characterized as "Core Vs Outer Rim," and how the region had always been hard to control, its likely that the New Republic didn't want to fuck around with such a large clusterfuck of a region when they were still trying to consolidate the core, which unfortunately allowed for opportunists like Moff Gideon to grow in the shadows. There's also good evidence that Grand Admiral Thrawn, who's already been integrated into Disney Canon, will once again be a major power player in the Imperial Remnant. Whether he's still working for the Imperials in the Unknown Regions or in it for himself, we'll have to wait and see.
The problem is 90% has been retconned multiple times now and Operation Cinder has suffered from having four different interpretations. Currently evidence points to an Imperial Civil War breaking out have been retconed again and retcons have frequently become a problem. As such there are several schools of interpretation and the amount of factions.
# '''The Yomo Council''': A faction which rejected the authority of Gailus Rax and Coruscant. This group was made up of Imperial Army elements and their families which ended up getting brutally attacked by the Loyalist Shadow Wing and the New Republic.
# '''The Jakku Remnant''': The term for the Imperial Forces at Jakku during the battle under Fleet Admiral Rax. This was the force you see at Jakku and was the one who was defeated at the battle. After the battle the Imperial Forces are either killed, Captured and tried as War Criminals, or fled the battle to other Imperial Forces.
# '''The Shadow Council''': These are the main Imperials seen in The Mandalorian. They are pretty good shots and made up of Imperial Veterans; outwardly they appear to be disorganized warlords, but they are secretly united under Grand Admiral Thrawn's machinations. Moff Gideon is one such member, having at least nine acting members of council. The only reason they do not kill Mando is because of the literal plot armor. They also had Dark Troopers and some specialized Imperial Assets.
# '''The Iron Blockade''': A faction led by a Imperial Governor name Adhard who locked down the Sector and pretended palps wasn't dead, despite the blatant evidence to show otherwise. He held tough control of the Sector and had is own Purge Trooper Squads and custom Imperial Logo.
# '''The Outer Rims Remnants''': A group of Imperial forces who rejected the FO as a bunch of larping Fags. They decided to fight against them and the Emperor because they saw them as traitors to the Empire they had fought for. These guys are kind of a cool idea of something not explored.
# '''The Core World Remnants''': These are planets like Fondor, Kuat, the Deep Core, and Coruscant. They kept some Imperial Forces as defense forces and they desire the return of the Empire. Despite being banned by the New Republic from building armies and navies they built tons of weapons and warships from the FO without the NR [[FAIL|realizing]]..... When the FO took out Hosnian Prime, these forces joined up with the FO as sympathizers and auxiliary forces.

* '''The Republic''': Before the Empire, the galaxy was governed by a ''huge'' representative democracy, seen in the prequel movies. It's corrupt as fuck, and not really capable of much other than ignore the fact most of the galaxy is already at war with itself, entire species are being wiped out in ethnic purges faster than they can be counted in a census, and slavery is pretty much everywhere. Acts like one nation, functions as an economic forum for oligarchs while planets police themselves to varying degrees. And since, by law, the Republic had no army before the Clone Wars, planets that were too poor to fight off pirates and slavers had little recourse. Besides failing to act on the many atrocities happening in the galaxy (and those they do intervene in ended up sowing resentment into the future Separatists), a major issue was that Republic policies gave special treatment to the prosperous Core worlds and large corporations over the remote and impoverished Rim worlds, one of those being that the Senate has a limited number of seats, so a lot of the newer worlds have to share a single senator for entire sectors of space. Don’t fuck with Hutts, leaving them to do whatever they want in most of the galaxy, and until Sheev took over and made it the prelude to his Empire the only thing they ever did to get shit done is ask the Jedi to deal with it, whatever it is. The scary thing is that in the final years of the Republic, the Senate voluntarily laid the groundwork for the Empire long before the Declaration of the New Order and nobody even noticed it happened until decades later, when Palpatine received his emergency powers at the start of the Separatist Crisis and the opening of the Clone Wars. As Maul would point out before the end of the War, the Republic was already gone.
** '''High Republic''': A historical term, it was still the same Republic as the one mentioned above but before all the corruption kicked in full force, making this period 100-500 years before the Republic's fall seem like a golden age in retrospect. During this time, the Republic was at its peak and made genuine attempts at taming the outer rim. Though galaxy-wide wars did not happen, the Republic did face several threats during this time regardless, like marauders who would have preferred the Republic to just leave the Outer Rim alone so they could continue their anarchistic ways, and a cult that believes that the Force is sacred and should not be used. 

* '''The Old Republic''': The early Republic. Far less corrupt, and had a standing army made up of what can charitably be called a mix of rent-a-cop security and elite paramilitary volunteers, the Special Operations department was top notch (although it had a bit of a war crimes problem and had a humiliating defection in the Cold War phase of the Great Galactic War that only didn't destroy them because the rookie and the cynical intel officer in the defecting Havoc Squad and the hacker, the Sith Imperial defector, the demolitions unit and the prototype battle droid assigned to them to rebuild were even better than the traitors and managed to convince three to surrender and killed the psychos) and the Navy as well as the armored land units were great, infantry and random conscript from wherever not so much. It was also far smaller, as the Republic only gradually expanded in stages across the galaxy, with humans leading most colonization efforts. Still rely heavily on Jedi, but mostly just for dealing with Sith. Hutt territory is more formal rather than them operating everywhere. 
** '''Ruusan Reformation''': 1000 years before the Battle of Yavin, after the apparent destruction of the Sith, the Old Republic underwent a massive reorganization that made it into the modern Republic, but started with a dark age due to the damage caused by the war, during which the Republic had weakened to the point that in the eyes of later historians it had effectively ceased to exist. Used to reconcile a problem in the films where the Republic is said to have existed for both 1000 years and "a thousand generations". This also solves how many details about pre-Prequel works had substantially different depictions of the Republic and Jedi from what the prequels wound up doing, and how there were wars when a character says there hasn't been a full scale war since the formation of the Republic.

* '''The New Republic''': The post-Empire government that the Rebellion forms. 
** '''Legends''': Leia rules for a time, trying to manage the various monsters of the week and Imperial remnant groups, gradually stepping down to more minor titles to avoid being another Emperor.  Then they have to deal with things like the extra-galactic cenobite invaders that cause a galaxy-wide holocaust while her Jedi kids died or flirted with being evil.  Eventually it forms the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, a confederation that includes a less-evil Imperial remnants (which it had been at peace with for a while) and some other powers, remaining a stable force combating Sith and their empires ever.  During this time, Leia's granddaughter was prophesied to bring the Light Side of the Force into ascendance while a female Force-Cthulhu tried to co-opt the prophecy for herself. After Luke defeats her, a few decades are skipped and the Federation is defeated by a Sith backed Imperial Remnant faction, the Fel Empire. The Sith then backstab the Imperials and kick off the Sith-Imperial war. The Federation and the Jedi help the loyalists defeat the One Sith, and the Sith themselves are rendered extinct after Darth Wredd (who wanted to bring back the Rule of Two) kills them all and dies before taking an apprentice, leaving the Federation, the Fel Empire and the Jedi (who had suffered another purge before the Sith back-stabbed Emperor Roan Fel, who died at the hands of his Gray Jedi/Imperial Knight Bodyguard in the final battle after falling to the Dark Side and succeeded by his daughter Marasiah) to form the last known government, the Galactic Federation Triumvirate.
** '''Disney''': Focused on defeating the Empire, then dismantled the Rebellion militarily. Focused mostly on being an intermediary with independent planets, paying for each one in the alliance to have their own militia with treaties to support each other if attacked, while the Republic itself had a small fleet to bolster anyone in need. Despite sounding like the setup for World War 1, it actually is like the US/Soviet Cold War with the Imperial remnant then its successor the First Order, until the FO performed a Star Wars 9/11 and used a planet killer weapon to destroy all the planets in the sector of the New Republic capital then invaded the independent planets. [[what|Being essentially destroyed with their capital system despite being the galactic government which should have contingencies for such events since existence of planet killers is common knowledge]], the planets focused on their own survival until Lando performed a short planet-hopping tour to rile up the militias and all the scum, villainy, and pirates who wanted to see the true death of the Empire/First Order. During its reign it had far less control over the galaxy than the Republic or Empire, but clever administration and assigned leadership of the militias made traditionally dangerous and lawless planets like Tatooine finally civilized. Its ultimate fate is now unknown. 

* '''Confederacy of Independent Systems''': aka the Separatists. Due to the rampant corruption in the Republic, a lot of systems were very unhappy with the state of the galaxy and wanted out. However, many of these separatists included extremely powerful corporate goons, such as the Trade Federation, who simply wanted more power for themselves, and were willing to lease out their droid armies to that end. While outwardly they were simply disgruntled and neglected planets who wanted independence, in reality the CIS existence was deliberately engineered by the Sith in order to further their goals in the creation and maintenance of the Empire. Under the leadership of Count Dooku, they formed a formidable alliance that would threaten the core worlds of the Republic with the biggest army ever created, eventually leading to the Clone Wars that would throw the galaxy into one of the bloodiest conflicts in centuries. And despite Dooku's purported political idealism at the start of the war, the more idealistic and politically motivated worlds who wanted to escape the Republic's corruption found themselves sidelined by the big Corporate worlds who controlled the war effort and stationed their droid armies everywhere. These corporations liked to pretend that they were still neutral in the war and that any corporate executives openly engaging with the CIS were "rogue elements," if only because they still wanted to play both sides of the conflict with a little war profiteering. That being said, it was clear to anyone who was in the know that the corporations, under the Separatist Council, held much of the real power (the non-corporate CIS worlds simply didn't have the money or numbers to pose any real threat to the Core), and that the CIS Parliament was just a formality for getting the Outer Rim on their side. As the war progressed, bloodthirsty war criminals like General Grievous made the Republic fear and loathe any hint of disloyalty, which was a major PR problem for the early Rebellion. One of the big ironies is that, because the CIS turned out to be just as corrupt as the Republic, many Separatist worlds begrudgingly sided with the Empire as the "lesser of two evils" in their minds. The fact that the CIS was made up of powerful, alien corporations from the Outer Rim also served to justify the Empire's xenophobia, nationalization of virtually all heavy industry, and subjugation of worlds far away from the Core. Because the Separatists were simply an expendable puppet of the Sith, Palpatine had no qualms about sending Vader to destroy the remaining leaders once he secured his Empire and they'd outlived their usefulness. The Empire then proceeded to dismantle the remaining Confederate groups along with pirates and other anti-central government forces in the Reconquest of the Rim. Several remnants continued resistance and some helped Order 66 survivors escape. After the Rebel Alliance was formed, surviving Confederate Remnant forces joined it, for those who joined the CIS to fight against Old Republic corruption happily, and for those who were full on separatists somewhat unhappily as a lesser of two evils. Until at least 1 BBY one Imperial Moff, Conan Antonio Motti, referred to them as a threat alongside rebels and criminal enterprises. Presumably, the last few organics holdouts joined the rebels or took the opportunity to disband after the Death Star was destroyed. Handfuls of Droid units that didn't receive the deactivation signal remained active on Tatooine, Lok and Kashyyyhk and were destroyed by the Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG characters. A large leftover unit was present on Geonosis and were destroyed in a Galactic Civil War battle there in 3 ABY. A single Droideka, which had been infiltrated into the Outbound Flight voyage, was out of range of the shut down order and was destroyed by Luke and Mara in 22 ABY during their expedition to the Outbound Flight crash site, ending the last relic of the Confederate cause that was still nominally obeying CIS Parliament orders.

* '''The Rebel Alliance''': After Emperor Palpatine's political takeover succeeded and the Jedi murdered in a [[Horus|galaxy-wide act of backstabbery]], Senators Bail Organa, Padmé Amidala, Mon Mothma and a small group of sympathizers come together to form a resistance group, knowing fully well that the new Galactic Empire won't be going quietly with their new "doctrines", especially since the Empire's militarization only increased following the end of the Clone Wars. Prior to the Battle of Yavin, the "Rebel Alliance" was more like the "Rebel Coalition of guys who loosely agree on some things," being made up of individual cells under the coordination of a High Command unit. The rebellion's supporters were an odd mixture of former Separatists, Republic loyalists who found themselves betrayed such as Kashyyk and Mon Calamari, and the occasional Imperial defector who found Imperial service either too immoral or too dangerous. For the next twenty years, the Rebellion will infiltrate, sabotage and generally frustrate the Empire as best they can, but unfortunately doesn't manage to really make a big difference; that is, before a certain Luke Skywalker gets swept up by them and leads them to their first, grand victory against the Empire's first Death Star. From here on out, the Rebellion does their best keeping themselves hidden from the Empire while maintaining strong relations with their allies, who, while few, did let them create a small fleet of outdated vehicles. Eventually, the Rebellion's hard work bears fruit after the second Death Star blows up and the Emperor goes missing. From here, the Rebellion and their members become the New Republic.
** '''The Resistance''': From a first look, the Resistance looks extremely similar to the Rebellion visually (they are called "The Resistance" for Pete's sake!), but there's a little more going on under the hood. Feeling her hairbuns tingle with fear, Leia Organa realizes the First Order will become a galaxy-wide headache soon and moves to get the New Republic to give a shit - except they don't, because her father was Vader, and thinks she's a military maverick that just wants to feel important. Leia then begins to fund a secret militia of her own, looking for supporters among fellow senators and calling in old friends. The result is... Less than ideal. Functionally just a strikeforce of some twenty fighters and one or two capital ships (who by now are über-mega outdated), the Resistance can do jack ''shit'' against the First Order, who literally commands entire space empires by force. By the Force Awakens, they're pretty much fucked - but luckily gets themselves two new heroes to add to the fold (one who is among the most naturally talented forces users ever seen), re-connect with Han and Chewie AND find a fucking map to Luke Skywalker's personal pillowfort he left for some 5-10 years ago. Eventually fucked up after destroying the Starkiller Base and grinded to metal spacedust by a prolonged space chase, they eventually manage to ignite resistance in the entire galaxy, which gets a ''fuckhueg'' navy of ragtag ships to reinforce them at Exegol.

* '''Sith Empires''': The Old Republic's mortal enemies. In the many millenia leading up to the Ruusan Reformation, the Sith Empires held a significant chunk of the northeastern galaxy, holding thousands of worlds under their iron grip. The Sith engaged in several major wars against the Republic, oftentimes defeating the Republic and nearly exterminating the Jedi, only for their own empire to descend into chaos as Sith Lords backstabbed each other once they no longer had a common enemy. This pattern would continue until Bane killed all the remaining Sith Lords and instituted the Rule of Two, plotting to take over the galaxy and exterminate the Jedi through slow and careful planning rather than overwhelming force. Several different Sith Empires include:
** '''Ajunta Pall's Dark Jedi''': A predecessor group rather than an Empire, consisting of Jedi who turned to the dark side and were exiled by the Jedi, who then proceeded to fight the Jedi in what became known as the Hundred-Year Darkness 7000 years before the Galactic Empire. After their defeat, the Jedi, in a massive case of [[not as planned]] in retrospect, decided to exile them to the Unknown Regions rather than execute them as the Republic would have preferred, believing their exile would eventually turn them back to the light. They landed on Korriban, homeworld of a primitive species called Sith, where thanks to their Force-powers and advanced technology, the Sith basically saw them as gods. They then proceeded to take the planet over and Ajunta Pall became the first Dark Lord of the Sith.
** '''Old Sith Empire''': 5000 years before the Galactic Empire, the Republic had largely forgotten about the exiles and the Sith had lived in isolation from the rext of the galaxy, establishing an Empire of their own in their corner of the galaxy. That is until explorers from the Republic, attempting find a new hyperspace lane, accidentally found their way to Korriban. Learning of the Republic and territories to conquer, the Sith decided to invade the Republic in what became known as the Great Hyperspace War. The Republic, though suffering heavily in the war, would eventually defeat the Sith Empire, largely thanks to the Jedi. Some Sith survivors would then retreat to the Unknown Regions to the world of Dromund Kaas, where they would spend the next 1300 years in isolation, planning for revenge against the Republic and the Jedi.
** '''Exar Kun's Sith Empire''': 4000 years before the Galctic Empire, when an ambitious Jedi named Exar Kun became too immersed in studying the dark side and ancient Sith knowledge, he turned to dark side himself and decided to restore the Sith Empire and destroy the Republic and the Jedi in what became known as the Great Sith War. His Empire proved to be extremely short-lived, lasting only a year but would still leave a severe impact in the galaxy, with the Great Sith War being the first in a half a century worth of wars known as the Old Sith Wars.
** '''Darth Revan's Sith Empire''': 30 years after the Great Sith War, the Republic was invaded by the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders, who unlike the later Mandalorians who merely place great emphasis on martial values, effectively worshipped war itself. The Mandalorians were defeated primarily thanks to the Jedi led by Revan, who decided to fight the Mandalorians despite the opposition of the Jedi High Council. Revan, after defeating the Mandalorian leader, Mandalore the Ultimate, that the Mandalorians were manipulated by the Sith and he, together with his friend Alek, would go to Dromund Kaas where they would confront the Sith Emperor. The Sith Emperor turned out to be too powerful for both of them who would dominate their minds and turn them to the dark side, then send them back to the Republic to soften it up for later full-scale invasion by the Sith. The two would eventually regain the control of their minds, though still under the dark side, decided that the only way for the Republic to defeat the Sith invasion is for them to build their own Empire in its place. Assuming titles of Darth Revan and Darth Malak, the two would discover an ancient Rakatan shipyard known as Star Forge, which was capable of producing near-endless amounts of war material from seemingly nothing. The two would then challenge the Republic, supported by massive amounts of Republic and Jedi defectors, still loyal to Revan after the Mandalorian Wars. Their empire, thanks to Revan's [[tactical genius]], skills of Mandalorian Wars-veterans and near endless amounts of war materiel from the Star Forge, would then bring the Republic to its knees. The Jedi would eventually attempt to board Revan's flagship in an attempt to rob the Empire of their leader and greatest strategist but during the attempt, Malak betrayed Revan and fired on his ship. Revan however did not die and was captured by the Jedi, who proceeded to wipe his memory in a Force-induced amnesia in an attempt to turn him back to the light and discover the Star Forge so they could destroy it. In the meanwhile, the Empire continued its march. Robbed of Revan's strategies, under Malak it relied much more on brute force, enabled by the Star Forge materiel and already weakened Republic. The Star Forge would eventually be re-discovered by Revan, now redeemed, proceeded to defeat Malak after which the Star Forge was destroyed by the Republic Navy. Without the Star Forge and with Malak dead, the Empire was splintered as its remnants started to fight each other in the power vacuum. As in the eyes of the general public, there was little difference between the Jedi and the Sith and with many Sith being former Jedi themselves, this conflict came to be known as the Jedi Civil War.
*** '''Sith Triumvirate''': A notable remnant of Revan's Empire, led by Darth Traya, Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus. Though no longer capable of fighting the Republic and the Jedi head-on, they still managed to bring the already weakened Jedi Order to near-extinction, in what became to be known as the First Jedi Purge. Thanks to efforts of one of Revan's leading generals, Meetra Surik, the Triumvirate was eventually destroyed and the Jedi Order was restored.
** '''True Sith Empire''': Directly descended from the Old Sith Empire, built directly after its defeat in the Great Hyperspace War. After spending the next 1300 years hidden in the Unknown Regions, occasionally manipulating galactic events like the Mandalorian Wars and the Jedi Civil war, the Sith Empire would finally emerge in a full-scale invasion of the Republic, kicking of the Great Galactic War. Immediately capturing the ancient Sith World of Korriban, the Empire would then fight the Republic in a war that would least almost three decades. Though the Empire would take severe casualties in the war, preventing it from destroying the Republic and the Jedi outright, at the end of the war, it would still manage to sack the Republic capital of Coruscant and force the Republic to end the war by signing a humiliating peace treaty and leaving the galaxy in a state of cold war. We do not know the exact details of what ultimately happened to this Empire, as the storyline involving it is still on-going. We do however know that by 1400 years after the Great Galactic War, it had ceased to exist and as is the nature of the Sith, it was likely infighting that ultimately brought it down.
** '''New Sith Empire''': Formed 2000 years before the Galactic Empire by Darth Ruin, this is the Sith Empire that people speak of in the movies. For the next 1000 years it would regularly fight against the Republic and the Jedi. Throughout these conflicts, later known as New Sith Wars, worlds further away from the Core would regularly be effectively abandoned by the Republic while many of them would then be ruled by Jedi effectively as feudal lords. 900 years after Darth Ruin, the galaxy had entered a dark age and the Republic had practically ceased to exist and was likely spared a complete destruction only by Sith infighting, which fragmented the New Sith Empire and its territories also effectively became Sith-ruled feudal holdings.
*** '''Brotherhood of Darkness''': In the last decade of the Republic Dark Age, a Dark Lord named Skere Kaan attempted to reform the Sith under a more unified power structure which could finally defeat the less unified feudal lords of the Jedi. Realizing the threat this unified Sith faction presented, the Jedi Lord Hoth would form the Army of Light to oppose it. The Army of Light and the Brotherhood of Darkness would then fight throughout the decade until the conflict finally culminated in the Seventh Battle of Ruusan. The Army of Light would finally emerge victorious, ending the New Sith Wars. The Sith were now believed to be extinct.
** '''Order of the Sith Lords''' **: This is the Sith we see in the movies. Though the Sith were believed to be extinct after Ruusan, they still survived though in a much smaller form. Darth Bane realized that the Sith were ultimately destroyed less by their external enemies and more by their own infighting. Thus he decided to implement the Rule of Two: At any time, there is to be only two Sith Lords, a master to hold the power and an apprentice to crave it. Thus as apprentice betrays the master, the sith will grow stronger every time. For a thousand years, the Sith would then remain in the shadows in order to manipulate galactic events until they could finally reveal themselves at an opportune moment. Order of the Sith Lords under mastership of Palpatine then finally succeeded where the earlier Sith failed by completely destroying the Republic and replacing it with the Empire while also bringing the Jedi to near extinction. Despite the Sith rule and various dark side users serving the Empire, the Empire is still generally not considered a proper Sith Empire as it does not make the Sith-rule apparent.

* '''The Hutt Cartels''': Essentially the space mafia, if the mafia had the clout to influence the national government (like in Russia during the 90s with the Russian Mob). The Hutts managed to drive of the Rakatan Infinite Empire despite having no FTL at the time due to the Rakata losing their connection to  the force. The original Hutt empire, after fighting some wars of expansion against neighbors and fellow tyrants in Xim the Despot's regime suffered a massive civil war known as the Hutt Cataclysms which ruined their original homeworld and made them move to Nal Hutta (Nar Shadda is it's moon). To prevent things getting this bad, cartels were established between influential factions, all answering to the Council of Elders made up from the heads of houses. Hutt Space is nominally ruled by the Council but it essentially practices anarcho-capitalism and takes its cuts to rule the core planets and lets the cartels compete out of the core however they wish. If there's an affair that's illegal by legal standards, the Hutts probably have a hand in it. Keeps to themselves and doesn't care much for what the Sith and Republic is up to, though Jabba the Hutt, owner of Tatooine, takes part in the original trilogy because of Han Solo's longstanding debt to him, and Jabba had one of the biggest criminal empires at the time, competing with giants like the ancient Black Sun. Gets helped and funded by the Empire to do their dirty work and gets killed for his efforts, so there's a good reason why they keep out of all that. Hutt space has significant overlap with the cartels, but the two are technically separate as mentioned above, with the Council of Elders acting as a government for Hutt Space and as a mafia council for other holdings by the cartels. They get invaded during the Yuuzhan Vong war, but effectively form a guerilla force tying up major assets and reassert their rule after the Vong were defeated. After dealing with some slave revolts around the time of the Second Galactic Civil War and selling arms to Darth Caedus's uprising, they continue as they were until the Fel Empire (reformed Imperial Remnant), backed by the Sith, defeats the Federation. When the Sith backstabbed the Imperials, the Hutts secretly provide support to the Fed Remnants and Imperial Loyalists battling the Sith in the Sith-Imperial War. After the Sith blow up a Hutt temple, they officially declare war and join the anti-Sith coalition. Presumably they joined the Galactic Federation Triumvirate with at least nominal autonomy after the Darth Wredd Insurgency and the destruction of the Sith in 138 ABY.

* '''The First Order''': If the Empire was the textbook fascist dictatorship, Disney's First Order is the Nazi Party itself as a military organization/cult. After the Imperial Remnants began fighting amongst themselves, an Imperial admiral fled to the Unknown Regions to rebuild her version of the Empire. Here the First Order grew slowly as former Imperials joined them and they subjugated small local fiefdoms and kingdoms. Eventually the previously unknown Sith Lord Snoke took control as their Supreme Leader and Ben Solo joined him as his apprentice, becoming Kylo Ren. The New Republic eventually learned of the First Order, but thought they were just a paper tiger with no real power. In actuality, their military tech and capabilities were quite high for how relatively small they were... Oh yeah, and they had created a superweapon built into a trench in the planet Ilum that could ''destroy a whole star-system''. Eventually they fired the thing and waged a war of subjugation on the anarchic remains of the New Republic.
**RETCONS: The First Order apparently never existed until about 8 years before TFA meaning a lot of this does not make sense. Its assume a minor civil war happened in the Unknown Regions but again the FO is not given much lore. They also apparently had a fleet bigger the Empire's fleet at its Height..... just do not bother.
** SPOILERS: Behind the scenes, the Emperor had manipulated the creation of the First Order to retake the galaxy, using an artificial body double (Snoke) to take direct control while hiding on the Sith homeworld. The plan was to eventually add his own fleet of Star Destroyers with planet-destroying capabilities to the First Order and form the Final Order, the one and final armada to take the entire galaxy through force and fear.

* '''Galactic Federation Triumvirate''': The last known galactic government at the ends of the Legends continuity, formed from the Fel Empire, the Federation and the Jedi after the One Sith are defeated by a joint coalition of Fel Empire loyalists, Federation Troops and Jedi in 137 ABY. In 138 ABY, renegade One Sith Darth Wredd, wishing to restore the Rule of Two, manipulates the One Sith to destroy themselves and kills the survivors in the Darth Wredd Insurgency, before being killed himself without managing to take an apprentice in the last known battle, leaving the Sith extinct and the galaxy at least nominally unified by a well armed government.