Episode I - After Yavin

"By the time we landed on Yavin, whatever shock we'd felt at the destruction of the Death Star had been replaced by anger. For months we'd treated the Rebellion like a disobedient child, only to be repaid for our tolerance with treachery on an unimaginable scale. Frankly, I don't remember much of the fighting. I guess we won." -Journal of the 501st



Date
Year: 0 ABY

Preceeded by: Battle of Yavin

Succeeded by: Threat of the Conqueror

Events
Following the victory over Yavin IV, the Rebel Alliance quickly slipped the blockade onboard the New Hope at the cost of General Jan Dodonna. Recognizing the need for a supreme military commander, Mon Mothma contacted a renegade Alliance founder Garm Bel Iblis and offered him the position. Garm Bel Iblis quickly set about restructuring the Rebellion, gathering the support of wayward rebel leaders Airen Cracken and Tyr Taskeen.

Han Solo, hero of the Battle of Yavin, contacted his old friend Col Serra and brought him in as field commander for Rebel forces. Princess Leia Organa, now heir to Alliance founder Bail Organa's position in Alliance hierarchy, approved Rogue Squadron Commander Luke Skywalker's request to form a New Jedi Order. Meanwhile, Rogue Squadron pilot Wedge Antilles recruited his childhood friend, the pirate queen Mirax Terrik. With Airen Cracken and Col Serra's assistance, Mirax usurped the remains of the Zann Consortium. She claimed the Merciless, the modified prototype Aggressor-class Star Destroyer and Tyber Zann's flagship, as her own, renaming it the Pulsar Skate. The remaining Consortium fleet was supplied to Force Command; the Keldabe battleship Outrider, the Interceptor IV frigate Raven's Claw, the Vengeance frigate The Winning Gamble, and the Crusader corvette Moldy Crow.

Tyr Taskeen oversaw the defections of Imperial General Beri Tulon and Imperial strategist Major Brenn Tantor. Though initially wary, Tyr Taskeen later came to trust them both enough to allow them their own commands, SecForce and SpecForce respectively. Wedge Antilles married Mirax Terrik, and together, they rescued Booster Terrik, Mirax' father, from the Spice Mines of Kessel.