I hope you stay.
To bring you the cliff-notes of what happened:
The New Republic floundered and died from Inactivity, leaving the Empire to become the local super-power. Then the Wrath-virus hit and everyone gets knocked down to one planet and no fleet.
Since then the remaining light-side factions formed the Coalition, and another merger has been approved between the Coalition and the Outer Rim Soverignty that'll make them the closest thing to a light-side superpower on TRF.
Recently the two groups - TNO on one side, and Coalition & friends on the other - have tangled but the good guys lost. They also lost the last war. Ironically both wars were started because I was bored and made a crappy takeover of Kamino.
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