However, under the command of Darth Vader, the Imperial forces succeeded in defeating the Alliance on Hoth, forcing the Alliance to scatter its forces in order to survive.Įventually, the Alliance prevailed against the Empire and critically damaged it by launching an attack against the second Death Star during its construction in what would become the Battle of Endor. The Rebellion continued to engage in battles with the Empire in the Galactic Civil War. When the Alliance stole the plans for the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, and destroyed the space station in the Battle of Yavin with the help of Luke Skywalker, the tide of the war began to turn, and the Rebel threat began to prove a severe thorn in the Empire's side. Clone Wars veterans, such as Captain Rex also assisted in the initial movement.Īs opposed to waging all-out war, the Alliance waged a war of attrition against the Empire, establishing small bases across the galaxy instead of controlling an entire planet. Founded and united by Organa and Ahsoka Tano, the early rebels were assisted by surviving Jedi, such as Kanan Jarrus, and his Padawan, Ezra Bridger. Its members were citizens of the Empire or defectors from the Imperial Military, such as Jan Dodonna, Ryder Azadi, and Wedge Antilles. Its efforts were often led by renegade members in the Imperial Senate such as Mothma, Organa, and later, his daughter Leia Organa. The Alliance and the cells it united were born from the overall discontent within the Empire of those who wished the Old Republic restored. The Atrivis Resistance Group was one of the first cells to join what Mothma began calling " the Alliance" before the formal formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Such early groups and the eventual Alliance came together from a number of unrelated rebel cells, including the crew of the Ghost and the Phoenix Cell. Indeed, the concept of a "Rebel Alliance" had its roots in smaller movements that had worked to unite disconnected cells, such as a movement secretly led by fellow Senator Bail Prestor Organa and a rebel network formed by revolutionary Luthen Rael, who received funding and aid from Mothma. The Alliance was publicly and formally declared with the Declaration of the Rebel Alliance, which brought numerous rebel cells together as a common force opposed to the Empire. The Alliance to Restore the Republic ( 2 BBY– 4 ABY), commonly known as the Rebel Alliance, Alliance, and the Rebellion, was a resistance movement formed by Senator Mon Mothma to oppose the reign of the Galactic Empire. To these ends, we pledge our property, our honor, and our lives." ―Declaration of Rebellion " We, the Rebel Alliance, do therefore in the name-and by the authority-of the free beings of the Galaxy, solemnly publish and declare our intentions: To fight and oppose you and your forces, by any and all means at our disposal To refuse any Imperial law contrary to the rights of free beings To bring about your destruction and the destruction of the Galactic Empire To make forever free all beings in the galaxy.
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