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! colspan="2" style="font-size: 1.15em; padding: 8px;" | First Order
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| style="width: 50%; height: 160px; padding: 1px; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid #ddd;" | ![[Flag_of_the_First_Order.svg|180px]]
| style="padding: 1px; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid #ddd;" | ![[Emblem_of_the_First_Order_black.svg|110px]]<hr>![[Emblem_of_the_First_Order_white.svg|80px]]
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! style="color: #000; width: 32%; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Type
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Fascism|Fascist]] military dictatorship
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Founded
| style="text-align: left;" | 21 ABY (in secret)
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Publicly formed
| style="text-align: left;" | 29 ABY
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Dissolved
| style="text-align: left;" | 35 ABY
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Supreme Leaders
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Star Wars/Snoke]] (–34 ABY)<br>[[Star Wars/Kylo Ren]] (34–35 ABY)
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Hidden ruler
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Star Wars/Palpatine|Darth Sidious]]
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Headquarters
| style="text-align: left;" | Mobile (the ''Supremacy'', later the ''Steadfast'')
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Home territory
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Star Wars/Unknown Regions|Unknown Regions]]
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Military
| style="text-align: left;" | First Order military ([[Star Wars/Stormtrooper|stormtroopers]], navy)
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Came from
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Star Wars/Galactic Empire]]
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! style="color: #000; text-align: left; padding: 5px 8px;" | Main enemies
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Star Wars/New Republic]] · [[Star Wars/Resistance]]
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| style="background-color: #000; padding: 5px;" | '''{{Colorlink|Star Wars/Galactic Empire|#fff|Galactic Empire}}'''
| style="background-color: #c00000; padding: 5px;" | '''{{Colorlink|Star Wars/Final Order|#fff|Final Order}}'''
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The '''First Order''' was a fascist military dictatorship in the ''Star Wars'' galaxy, introduced in the 2015 film [[Star Wars/Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens|The Force Awakens]]. It was built in secret from the remains of the [[Star Wars/Galactic Empire]] after the Empire's defeat, hidden deep in the unexplored [[Star Wars/Unknown Regions|Unknown Regions]] of space.

The First Order was ruled by a Supreme Leader instead of a senate or a king, and it had no fixed capital planet. Its leaders commanded the Order from giant warships that moved from place to place. Although most of its members never knew it, the First Order was secretly controlled by [[Star Wars/Palpatine|Emperor Palpatine]], the Sith Lord everyone believed had died at the Battle of Endor.

In 34 ABY, the First Order used its superweapon, [[Star Wars/Starkiller Base]], to destroy the capital of the [[Star Wars/New Republic]] in a single strike. It then invaded and conquered much of the galaxy. One year later, the [[Star Wars/Resistance]] defeated the Order's hidden masters at the Battle of Exegol, and people across the galaxy rose up and brought the First Order down.

= History =

== Out of the Empire's ashes ==
After Emperor Palpatine died at the Battle of Endor, the Galactic Empire fell apart. The Empire lost its final battle against the New Republic over the desert planet Jakku in 5 ABY. But Palpatine had planned for his own death. For years he had secretly sent ships, scientists, and supplies into the Unknown Regions, a huge unexplored part of the galaxy, so that a new and stronger Empire could be born there someday.

Following this plan, a group of Imperial officers, warlords, and their fleets escaped into the Unknown Regions instead of surrendering. Leaders like Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and Commandant Brendol Hux wanted to build something purer and stronger than the old Empire. Over many years, these survivors built hidden shipyards, bases, and factories. They also kidnapped children from distant worlds and trained them from birth to become a new generation of [[Star Wars/Stormtrooper|stormtroopers]]. In 21 ABY, the scattered Imperial holdouts joined together and officially became the First Order.

== The rise of Snoke ==
A mysterious being named [[Star Wars/Snoke]] rose to lead the First Order as its Supreme Leader. Snoke was strong in the dark side of the Force, and his followers knew secret routes through the Unknown Regions that kept the Order alive. What no one knew was that Snoke was not really in charge. He was an artificial being created by Palpatine, who had survived death in a cloned body on the hidden Sith world of Exegol. Through Snoke, Palpatine controlled the First Order from the shadows while his cult, the Sith Eternal, built him a massive secret fleet.

Snoke also turned [[Star Wars/Ben Solo|Ben Solo]], the son of [[Star Wars/Han Solo]] and [[Star Wars/Leia Organa]], to the dark side. Ben took the name [[Star Wars/Kylo Ren]] and became Snoke's apprentice and enforcer.

== Cold War with the New Republic ==
In 29 ABY, a group of star systems that wanted a stronger central government left the New Republic and publicly joined the First Order. This made the Order an official government and started a tense standoff known as the Cold War. The First Order kept building its military, which broke the peace treaty it had signed, but the New Republic's senate refused to believe the Order was a real threat.

Leia Organa disagreed. She founded the [[Star Wars/Resistance]], a small private military, to watch the First Order and prepare for war. Meanwhile, both sides raced to find the missing Jedi Master [[Star Wars/Luke Skywalker]]. Snoke feared that if Skywalker returned, a new generation of [[Star Wars/Jedi]] would rise to fight him.

== War with the Resistance ==
In 34 ABY, the First Order fired Starkiller Base, a superweapon built inside an entire planet, and destroyed the Hosnian system. The New Republic's capital, senate, and home fleet were wiped out in moments. The Resistance struck back and [[Star Wars/Battle of Starkiller Base|destroyed the superweapon]], but the damage was done. With the Republic gone, the First Order's fleets spread across the galaxy almost unopposed.

The Order chased the few surviving Resistance ships across space. During the chase, Kylo Ren killed Snoke and took his place as Supreme Leader. At the [[Star Wars/Battle of Crait|Battle of Crait]], Luke Skywalker sacrificed himself to help the last members of the Resistance escape. Under Ren's rule, the First Order conquered world after world and punished any contact with the Resistance as treason.

== Downfall ==
In 35 ABY, Palpatine revealed that he was alive and offered Kylo Ren command of the Sith Eternal's enormous new fleet, the Final Order, if Ren killed the Jedi apprentice [[Star Wars/Rey]]. Instead, Ren turned back to the light side and became Ben Solo again. Allegiant General Enric Pryde, an old Imperial loyalist, pledged the First Order directly to Palpatine.

At the [[Star Wars/Battle of Exegol|Battle of Exegol]], the Resistance and a huge fleet of ordinary citizens defeated the Sith forces. Rey destroyed Palpatine forever, and [[Star Wars/Finn]] and the Resistance destroyed Pryde's command ship, trapping the Sith fleet on Exegol. News of the victory spread, and people on Bespin, Endor, Jakku, Coruscant, and countless other worlds rose up against their occupiers. Without its leaders or its promised fleet, the First Order collapsed.

= Government and military =
The First Order had no separation between its army and its government. The Supreme Leader held absolute power and handed authority down to generals and officers known as High Command. Under Kylo Ren, a Supreme Council of generals and admirals helped plan the conquest of the galaxy.

The First Order's military was smaller than the old Imperial military, but its technology was better. Its navy was built around ''Resurgent''-class Star Destroyers, designed to remind people of the feared Star Destroyers of the Empire. Its stormtroopers were taken as children, given numbers instead of names, and trained their whole lives to fight. Because of this training, First Order troopers were more skilled and more loyal than the Empire's soldiers had been. The Order also developed frightening new technology, including hyperspace tracking, a giant siege cannon, and Starkiller Base itself, which could destroy entire star systems from across the galaxy.

= Society =
Life inside the First Order was strict and controlled. Citizens were taught a twisted version of history in which the Empire was a golden age that rebels and terrorists had destroyed. Propaganda filled the airwaves, disloyalty was punished with public executions, and even speaking badly about the Supreme Leader was a crime.

The Order's relationship with the old Empire caused arguments inside its own ranks. Older officers like Enric Pryde wanted to bring the Empire back exactly as it was. Younger leaders like Armitage Hux and Kylo Ren believed the Empire had failed because it was flawed, and that the First Order should become something newer and purer instead.

= Behind the scenes =
The First Order was created for ''The Force Awakens'' (2015). Director [[J.J. Abrams]] said the idea came from the production team asking what might have happened if Nazi officers who fled to Argentina after World War II had secretly started working together again, building a group that admired the fallen regime and wanted to finish its work. Costume designer Michael Kaplan gave the Order's uniforms sharp, angular shoulders inspired by the fashion designer Thierry Mugler.

= Other wikis =
* [https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/First_Order First Order] on Wookieepedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars) First Order] on Wikipedia