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There is a petition to try and call another referendum about the EU, with a rule asking for a 60% majority before a decision is made. Yes this is a shitty time, but hopefully there’s still a chance to fix things. The Leave campaign have already gone back on some of their promises before the referendum, so please, if you can, can you sign this? If we get 100 000 signatures parliament have to debate it, so please. Even if you’re not in the UK if you can share this to try and get it out there, that would be fantastic. Here’s the link:

Reblog if you like/ love kylo Ren, Ben solo, Adam Driver.

So, The First Order wiki page (that cites the Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary a great deal, as well as the official Star Wars Databank.) has a fuckton of good info. 

What happened right after the Galactic Civil War?

It basically ended after this huge ass brawl above Jakku, where the Empire made their last stand. 

Obvious, since we see all the fallen bits and pieces of Empire stuff all over Jakku.

But after this, the Empire was forced to sign basically a peace treaty with the hopes that it’d neuter them. This was called the Galactic Concordance. 

With this agreement this, the Empire had to:

Stay within certain areas set by the Republic.

IMMEDIATELY stop their acts of aggression.

Cut that shit out with the stormtroopers: don’t recruit, don’t mobilize. 

Finally, abandon their famed Imperial Academies where they trained people for their army/navy/etc.

Fun Fact: Luke actually wanted to join up, but his uncle forbade him. (That’s an AU in the making…)

Additionally, Galactic Republic companies were restricted from selling weapons/etc to them. 

How did they get away and rebuild?

They fucked right off into the unknown, that’s how. Literally into the Unknown Regions, away from where the Republic could see their shenanigans.

Still wanting to carry out the Empire’s principles, former Officers came together to form the First Order. 

They started colonizing worlds, building shipyards and research centers and training troops, essentially licking their wounds and preparing for another mass militarization effort.

Snoke caught notice and decided to bequeath himself to the First Order. It’s not stated how exactly how he got to be in charge.

It’s implied he already had Kylo Ren under him as an apprentice by then, but definitely not stated explicitly.

The First Order military itself

Knowing that the Republic was now the powerhouse in terms of numbers, First Order training shifted.

Guerrilla tactics and improvisation became standard.

Troops used vivid simulations for training exercises.

Training continued onboard on capital ships.

They also wanted to be better equipped. Several Galactic companies spun off subsidiaries just to sell to the First Order, to work around Galactic Republic Restrictions.

Sonn-Blas Corporation, Sinear-Jaemus Army Systems, Aratech-Loratus Corporation, Kuat-Entralla Engineering are listed as creators of a huge amount of Order equipment, ships, and weaponry. 

Basically: they had help. They didn’t make all their tech all themselves.

A note regarding out favorite TR-8R: Every ten member sqad had one of three specialized stormtroopers: 

the megablaster heavy assault troopers – the automatic/high rate of fure weaponry

flametroopers

riot control stormtroopers– much like TR-8R!

Colonization and the population of the First order at large

 Snoke and Kylo Ren (specifically noted) continue to colonize the Unknown Regions over the years.

Because of this colonization, the First Order lacked an official capital. Snoke often moved it before Starkiller became the unofficial base. 

Because of the Order’s early work, a new generation was born and raised exclusively in the off world planets, treated to a sterilized and Empire-favored slant on history.

Pre-recorded propaganda often played, playing up the Order and down the Republic.

While they favored the patriotic, they were ruthless on those that weren’t/protestors. Live-fire dispersal was permitted.

A number– if not most– of them are like Finn, raised from birth into first order training. no name, possibly taken from a family, etc.

Additionally, it’s noted that there are many labor camps and mining operations in First Order space, mostly populated by non-human species.

Kylo Ren

Kylo and his Knights of Ren did not just destroy Luke Skywalker’s attempt at restarting the Jedi Order: they also subsequently purged and hunted down those with Force affinity.

He was granted independent power separate from the military ranks of the Order.

Sound familiar? This was a deliberate move to mirror to Vader’s own role.

Bonus effect: this kept upper ranking military officials afraid of him/Snoke by extension, as they often ran into him when trying to accomplish their own goals that were in conflict with Kylo’s.

How did they get away with it?

The New Republic Senate basically believed that the Order posed no real threat to the galaxy at large– as long as they followed the rules.

Yeah. So of course they didn’t.

They blatantly defied that, as outlined above.

Prominent members of the Republic voiced concern over this, but especially Leia .

They were scoffed at by the Senate, and her especially for being an alarmist and warmonger.

Saying fuck THIS, Leia recruited as many former and forgotten military officers as possible to form the Resistance.

The Republic had passed the Military Disarmament Act which was designed to cut the size of the Republic military.

They were funded by like minded members of the Republic Senate, as noted in the film.

Phew! That’s a lot of shit. If any of it is wrong please let me know, I tried to put it in as much order as I could. 

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Some pictures from the rally today at Columbia. So much wonderful support for my sister and I! Emma and I are truly grateful to everyone who came, and everyone who was there in spirit.