How the Rebel Alliance Was Formed in Star Wars‘ Expanded Universe

While we already know a few key details about the moment the Alliance to Restore the Republic came into being in current Star Wars continuity, Andor‘s second season next month will kick off a year-by-year examination of the work that happened to bring us that moment (and what came after), giving us our best look yet at the origins of the Rebellion as we knew it by Star Wars‘ original trilogy. There’s plenty of parallels between that process and how the Rebel Alliance came to be in the old Expanded Universe—but there are equally some big divergences. Early Dissent to the New Order Although formal organized resistance to the Galactic Empire wouldn’t exist on an interstellar scale until just a handful of years before the Battle of Yavin, the seeds of that resistance were sown almost from the very beginning of the Galactic Empire’s founding and the end of the Clone War. Palpatine pushed his military to act quickly and brutally to any indicators of potential dissent, targeting the member ... Read full article.