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The Galactic Concordance was the peace treaty signed between Chancellor Mon Mothma of the New Republic and Grand Vizier Mas Amedda of the Galactic Empire in 5 ABY to officially mark the end of the Galactic Civil War. The treaty's terms are as follows.

Terms:

1. Galactic Empire surrenders to the New Republic.

2. End of the Galactic Civil War.

3. Abandonment of Imperial Academies across the galaxy with recruitment and mobilization of stormtrooper forces forbidden.

4. Strict disarmament limitations on military technology and production on ex-Imperial factions.

5. Galactic corporations prohibited from working with the remnants of the Empire.

6. The New Republic pledges to demilitarize. 90% of its military will be demilitarized while the remaining 10% is kept for peacekeeping duties.

7. Punishing reparations placed on former Imperial governors inside the New Republic.

8. All Imperial officers who did not adhere to the treaty's terms are to be classified as war criminals.

9. Confinement of the remainder of the Imperial Navy to predetermined boundaries in the Core, Colonies, and Inner Rim.

10. Surrender of Coruscant to the New Republic.

As you can see, while the New Republic demilitarized itself, the First Order continuously violated the treaty's terms by ramping up their militarization with ships like the Resurgent Star Destroyer. Worse, the NR didn't take the First Order seriously and had grown complacent while the FO kept getting stronger until it resulted in the Hosnian Cataclysm.

But had the NR enforced the treaty's terms by not demilitarizing itself and ensuring the Empire honored their word, they could have mitigated some of the First Order's damage. There is nothing wrong with the treaty's terms, in fact I quite like it, it's just that the NR should have capitalized more on the Empire's capitulation.

To start with, the NR made peace with a Galactic Empire that didn't disarm itself, so confisacting as much of the Imperial military hardware and placing it in the hands of Planetary Security Forces (PSFs) is a good way to return central authority back to the people. It also helps protect them from the Imperials if they betray their word and other threats like pirates and slavers.

The New Republic also should have incorporated the abandoned Imperial academies into their own military, struck business deals with corporations to discourage them from dealing with the Empire, and shifted to Coruscant as their capital.

Though I do understand the rationale behind a roving capital shift across member worlds by process of election to persuade worlds the NR wasn't the Empire, and the fact it convinced many disasstisfied star systems to join the NR proves it was successful. Especially since those same systems formed the Confederacy of Independent Systems decades earlier.

However, declaring all Imperial officers who don't respect the treaty's terms as war criminals is overkill. Instead, I would have reserved the label of war criminal only for Imperial Warlords who abandoned the Empire to form their own rogue states. Since they're technically not part of the Empire anymore, the treaty's terms don't protect them from reprisal from a galaxy eager for revenge. And the Empire itself isn't obligated to protect these Warlords either.

In short, had the New Republic enforced the Galactic Concordance, they could have blunted the First Order's damage long before the Hosnian Cataclysm.

After all, the planet-destroying beam was generated from the combined power of enormous kyber crystals. A gigantic lightsaber, in a sense. And not even red like the Sith, but green, which is typical of the Jedi.

What the Jedi wielded for thousands of years, maintaining peace and balance in the galaxy, now became a tool of terror in the hands of their greatest enemies.

He's one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, Force user in the history of the galaxy, and at this very moment, he's at the peak of his dark side powers. He's the embodiment of 1,000 years of development of the Bane Sith line.

And you're telling me someone like that could be thrown down a shaft like some lifeless effigy?

Sure, I can understand that, distracted by the joy of torturing Luke with Force lightning, he could have been surprised by Anakin and even picked up, but I can't imagine him not immediately realizing what was happening and not trying to defend himself with at least a Force push.

I realize that the plot required it, but in that case one could say that it was the emperor's greatest weakness, not his overconfidence.

PS, I know Lucas tried to explain it by saying that Palpatine had become so powerful in the dark side of the Force that he no longer understood any positive emotions (if Vader had attacked him out of anger rather than love for his son, Palpatine would have realized it and fried him) and was certain he had broken Vader, which is why he was defeated so easily. Still, it just doesn't convince me.

This is part of Rodolfo Damaggio's concept art for The Last Jedi. I flipped through the Visual Guides for the Sequels but couldn't find a species that looked similar. It reminds me the most of the Tostonian from Kenobi, but there seem to be some differences between the two, aside from the colour.

I'm surprised they remembered this even in the Clone Wars.

Nicely emphasizes the difference in power.

Almost done with my reread of Darth Vader (2017) and Momin was just such a fun character for what little time we had with him. One of the more unique Sith we have in that he preferred to "create" and be an artist in his own twisted way.

And even though we're given the basics of his backstory in the comic I think there's plenty of room to expand his story into a novel in between the key moments of his life we were already shown. Clearly Momin had an obsession with controlling time itself as evidenced by his disastrous attempt to freeze an apocalypse in place and what we were later shown with the Fermata Cage with Momin having created it for currently unknown purposes, it would be interesting to further dive into this particular fixation of his and how that came about.

Technically they could even do something with him set past the events of Darth Vader since comics such as Lando and New Legacy have shown us that Momin's mask and therefore his spirit survived his defeat by Vader. We already have a couple novels spinning off from this particular comic run (Rise of the Red Blade and Master of Evil) and I could think of no better candidate for a character from that comic deserving of the spotlight than Momin. Though perhaps I shouldn't say that too loudly, he'll hear and never shut up about it, lol.