Orchestrated by the Emperor’s counsel and Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax, the first Shadow Council was, as the name implied, meant to manage the Imperial Remnant’s counteroffensive against the New Republic from the shadows, with only Sloane, now a Grand Admiral, as its public figurehead. But although not as short-lived as the IFC, the first Shadow Council was doomed from the beginning, intentionally.
Rax, operating on direct orders from Palpatine posthumously released as part of Operation Cinder—Palpatine’s plans to destroy the apparatus of the Empire in the wake of his death so that Rebellion couldn’t co-opt it, and so it could be reborn in the Unknown Regions alongside himself—intentionally established the council to wipe most of its members off the board at Jakku, in a bid to destroy the planet itself, as well as the New Republic and Remnant fleets, in a singular conflict.
Rax was killed by Sloane above Jakku when she discovered his plans, and while most of the Shadow Council was killed at the battle as well, several survived. Grand Moff Randd fled to the Expansion region—the galactic space between the Inner and Mid rims—and formed his own Imperial Remnant. Meanwhile Sloane and her fellow councilor Brendol Hux, alongside his young son and several child soldiers, also escaped the chaos.
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