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With an arsenal of nightmarish military forces and superweapons, Palpatine brought the remaining Imperial forces under his command once again, forming the Dark Empire and attacking key New Republic strongholds during Operation Shadow Hand. Palpatine himself returned from the dead, revealing a hidden backup portion of the Empire in the Deep Core. Notably, Grand Admiral Thrawn nearly unified the Imperial warlords under his rule during the Thrawn Campaign, Thrawn’s death at the Battle of Bilbringi led to the Empire’s fragmentation once more and the in-fighting resumed. The Imperial warlords fought amongst themselves almost as often as they did against the New Republic, but attempts at unity were made. Without his leadership, however, the Galactic Empire fractured into various sub-factions, each led by an Imperial warlord who controlled portions of the Empire’s territory. In Legends, the Galactic Civil War was far from over when the Emperor seemingly died at the Battle of Endor. Unknown to the senators, however, this was functionally little more than pretense, as the Separatist Council and the Sith Order were the true leaders of the Separatist Alliance. In Canon, the CIS was generally referred to as the Separatist Alliance, and unlike Legends, it had a capital world (Raxus) with a Separatist Parliament to represent its member worlds. In addition to blaming the Jedi for manufacturing the CIS, Palpatine also used them long after their defeat to discredit the Rebel Alliance as a resurgence of the Separatist movement. The power behind the Separatist Council and Count Dooku, however, was Darth Sidious, who successfully created the perfect threat to the Republic, forcing them to give him ever-increasing amounts of emergency power. In truth, the CIS was a corporate oligarchy, ruled by a cabal of the galaxy’s most unscrupulous tycoons and greedy politicians, making it far more corrupt than the Republic it seceded from. Officially founded by the former Jedi Count Dooku (now the Sith Lord Darth Tyrannus), the Legends-era Confederacy of Independent Systems was a Separatist movement who felt that the Republic’s bureaucracy and corruption left it beyond repair and that it was time to establish a more laissez-faire government to allow planets and sectors to manage themselves their way.