List of Imperial-type Star Wars states
In the Star Wars universe, many states, planetary and interplanetary, are similar to the tyrannical military dictatorship known as the Galactic Empire (19 BBY-4 ABY(canon)/19 BBY-11 ABY(Legends)), this is a list of this states.
Canon
Established 4 or more years after the Battle of Yavin
- First Order (Supreme Leader)
Legends
Established before 19 BBY
Planetary empires and states
- Sith Empire (Sith King, c. 28,000 BBY-6,900 BBY)[1]
Interplanetary empires and states
- Sith Empire (Dark Lord of the Sith, 6,900 BBY-5,000 BBY)
- [Exar Kun's] Sith Empire (various Dark Lords of the Sith, 3997 BBY-3,996 BBY)
- [Darth Revan's] Sith Empire (Dark Lord of the Sith, 3,959 BBY-3,950 BBY)
- Sith Triumvirate (three Sith Lords, 3,955 BBY-3,951 BBY)
- Sith Empire (Emperor of the Sith, 4,980 BBY-pre-2,000 BBY)
- New Sith (2,000 BBY-c. 1100 BBY)
Established after 4 ABY
- Former Imperial factions and other Imperial states
- Zsinj's Empire (4 ABY-8 ABY)
- Eriadu Authority (4 ABY-12 ABY)
- Empire Reborn (4 ABY-14 ABY)
- Imperial Core (4 ABY-)
- X1's faction (c. 4 ABY-)
- Pentastar Alignment of Powers (4 ABY-12 ABY)
- Trioculus' Empire (Emperor, 5 ABY-5 ABY)
- Dark Empire (Galactic Emperor, 10 ABY-11 ABY)[2]
- Crimson Empire (Galactic Emperor, 11 ABY-11 ABY)
- Imperial Remnant (Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet, 12 ABY-)
- Fel Empire (Emperor/Galactic Emperor, [between 44 ABY and 127 BBY]-130 ABY/138 ABY)
- Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire (Galactic Emperor/Dark Lord of the Sith, 130 ABY-138 ABY)
- Empire-in-exile (Emperor, 130 ABY-138 ABY)
The Empire of the Hand
In the Expanded Universe, Grand Admiral Thrawn is the leader of this empire, in the Unknown Regions of the galaxy.
The Empire of the Hand defends Palpatine's Empire from the Unknown Regions inhabitants and the Yuuzhan Vong.
The "Pentastar"
In the Legends Expanded Universe, this is a symbol invented by the Sith thousands of years prior the destruction of the first Death Star, a planet-destroying moon-seized space station.
The Galactic Republic is also often using this symbol, known also as the Imperial insignia.
Various states are also using this symbol as their insignia or emblem.