Wars & Conflicts

Explore the wars, occupations, rebellions, and uneasy settlements that shaped the Old Republic galaxy. This directory within History & Context introduces their principal participants, outcomes, and lasting consequences—from damaged worlds and displaced households to institutions, alliances, and inherited grievances.

The focus is the wider struggle and what survived it. For individual battles and turning points, consult the Event Directory. The Galactic Timeline provides dates and sequence, while Era Overview explains the circumstances surrounding each historical period.

These conflicts may fall within a character’s lifetime, depending on their age and circumstances. Participation could mean military service, civilian employment, childhood under occupation, resistance work, or recovery after the fighting passed elsewhere.

The entries provide information for players. A character’s knowledge of secret operations, private confrontations, or concealed motives still depends on what they witnessed or could credibly learn.

The Great Galactic War

The restored Sith Empire launched an invasion of the Galactic Republic, beginning twenty-eight years of fighting. Republic resistance prolonged the struggle, but the Imperial assault on Coruscant during peace negotiations forced a settlement favorable to the Empire. The Treaty of Coruscant ended the war while leaving territorial concessions, devastated communities, and strained confidence in the Jedi.

Its consequences could endure through resettled families, interrupted careers, military traditions, and contested property. A younger character might inherit those circumstances without remembering the fighting that produced them.

The Cold War

The Treaty of Coruscant established an unstable peace. Both powers rebuilt while espionage, territorial pressure, political interference, and localized fighting continued. SWTOR’s original class stories begin during this period and follow the deterioration of the settlement.

For communities near a contested frontier, formal peace offered limited reassurance. Elsewhere, trade and reconstruction could resume under the expectation of another war. The period provides context for covert service, fragile diplomatic relationships, and commercial arrangements that later hostilities disrupted.

The Renewed Galactic War

Renewed Republic–Imperial warfare coincided with challenges that neither government could treat as ordinary enemy action. Darth Malgus rebelled against Imperial leadership, and the Hutt Cartel’s occupation of Makeb made its isotope-5 deposits a strategic prize.

The Order of Revan subsequently infiltrated both powers, prompting cooperation against a common threat. Defeating Revan did not stop the Sith Emperor’s renewed activity; his devastation of Ziost followed. These crises left room for temporary partnerships, divided responsibilities, and personal debts without ending the underlying war.

The Zakuulan Conquest & War Against the Eternal Empire

The Eternal Empire used its fleet to overcome the Republic and Sith Empire, forcing both surviving governments to accept Zakuulan supremacy and tribute demands. Experiences of that domination varied between worlds and communities.

An Alliance based on Odessen assembled personnel and resources from rival factions and independent groups. Its struggle against Arcann and Vaylin culminated in the Commander claiming the Eternal Throne, giving the Eternal Alliance exceptional military influence.

The end of Zakuulan rule left reconstruction, former occupiers, displaced people, and cross-faction service relationships behind. Victory did not determine whether every participant returned home, remained with the Alliance, or found a different allegiance.

The Renewed Republic–Imperial War

Competition over Iokath’s weapons brought Republic and Imperial forces into confrontation. The subsequent Nathema crisis destroyed much of the Alliance’s fleet strength, weakening its ability to dominate the wider balance of power.

The Imperial attack on the hidden Jedi settlement on Ossus opened a renewed phase of warfare. Campaigns involving Onderon, Mek-Sha, and Corellia demonstrated the importance of political support, fuel, and shipbuilding. Fighting on Manaan extended that competition to kolto, a vital medical resource.

Transport crews, industrial workers, medical staff, and civilian purchasers could all encounter these pressures. Current Setting explains the war’s circumstances in StarForgeRP’s shared present.

The Hidden Chain Conflict

Heta Kol’s Hidden Chain challenged Shae Vizla’s leadership, arguing that Mandalorians should direct their strength toward their own ambitions. Her accusation that Shae served outsiders was a political position, not a judgment shared by every clan.

The rebellion’s campaigns included the assault on the Spirit of Vengeance II and fighting on Ruhnuk. Its involvement with Darth Nul’s research eventually brought the struggle to Khar Shian.

For most SWTOR-era characters, these conflicts belong to inherited history. Their consequences remain accessible through ruins, institutions, teachings, family traditions, and surviving records.

The historical archive markers below identify SWTOR holorecords rather than complete date ranges for the wars. Consult the Galactic Timeline for broader chronological placement.

The Great Hyperspace War

Naga Sadow led the ancient Sith Empire into war against the Republic. Sith defeat and the Republic’s counteroffensive were followed by the flight of survivors whose rebuilding eventually produced the concealed Empire encountered in SWTOR.

That sequence underlies later Imperial narratives of exile, survival, and vengeance. Tombs, ruined settlements, and inherited accounts can preserve different parts of the history. An investigation might ask what a particular community experienced without assuming that later political claims fully explain its remains.

The Exar Kun War

Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma united Sith forces against the Republic and Jedi. The conflict brought devastation to Ossus, dispersing knowledge associated with its great library. Kun’s defeat ended his military campaign but left his spirit imprisoned in the temples of Yavin 4.

The war’s surviving influence includes damaged scholarly traditions, dangerous teachings, and places associated with exploitation and conquest. A recovered object might interest historians and Force practitioners for different reasons; its survival does not establish an uninterrupted community of followers.

The Mandalorian Wars

Mandalore the Ultimate’s Neo-Crusader expansion brought the Mandalorians into conflict with the Republic. Revan, Malak, and other Jedi intervened despite the Jedi Council’s prohibition, helping secure a Republic victory.

Their intervention left enduring arguments about responsibility, obedience, and the costs of military success. Mandalorian defeat also left a legacy that later leaders could selectively invoke. Heta Kol’s admiration for the Neo-Crusaders belonged to that later reinterpretation; it did not make the Hidden Chain the same organization. Movements, Ideologies & Legacies explores these changing uses of the past.

The Jedi Civil War

Revan and Malak returned to Republic space as Sith conquerors, drawing military resources from the Rakatan Star Forge. Malak betrayed his master, but Revan ultimately returned to the Republic’s side. Malak’s defeat and the destruction of the Star Forge ended the war.

The ruins of Taris preserve the consequences of Malak’s bombardment. Revan’s changing reputation supplied another inheritance, later reinterpreted by the Order of Revan.

Choose a consequence that still asks something of the character: an unresolved obligation, a damaged place, a former colleague, or an account they have reason to question. Establish when and how the connection began.

Wartime experience also has limits. Serving in a campaign does not establish knowledge of every operation, and people who lived through the same conflict may remember it differently.

• Revisit a former posting when a recovery project brings veterans and residents together over competing priorities.

• Investigate a disputed home or workshop whose ownership records were damaged during an evacuation.

• Arrange assistance between former Alliance colleagues whose current employers stand on opposing sides.

• Compare a unit’s celebrated account with testimony from civilians affected by the same operation.

• Trace a wartime shipment or missing passenger without assuming that incomplete records prove wrongdoing.

• Negotiate the return of a campaign relic when its custodians and the community it came from understand its significance differently.

• Historical Powers & Civilizations — Explore the states and societies behind these wars and what survived their transformation or collapse.

• Historical Figures — Follow the decisions and legacies of influential participants.

• Historical Overviews — Examine relationships that developed across several conflicts or periods.