Whatever their origins, they obviously have a great deal of resources at their disposal.
Perhaps that’s where The First Order comes from, and maybe they’re the biggest, baddest kid on the block.
It’s easy to imagine that in the wake of Return of the Jedi, that it splintered into different cells and factions as new leaders rose and tried to take over. Instead of 30 years of peace and prosperity, perhaps it’s been a constant state of struggle and war.Įven though they cut the head off of the proverbial snake, the Empire was still a massive, sprawling enterprise full of power hungry dudes. At lot of people expected something like the Galactic Republic from the Star Wars expanded universe to emerge, but it’s starting to look like that may not be the case. The Resistance isn’t a name you give to a big, stable government that rules a far, far away galaxy.
But maybe this moniker tells us a few things about how successful, or not, the Rebels were post- Jedi. The First Order is a way cooler name than the Resistance.
