I went down a Wookiepedia hole and apparently, 150 years of timeline after the original trilogy is nothing but people reinventing the Republic, the Empire, and the Alliance over an over again until they eventually all merge into a single state.
The succession of Empires is an unbelievable project straight out of fanfic's baby-est reaches, with authors doing their damnest to turn it into "Fourth Reich, but we're actually anti-Nazi now" that has both a force-sensitive Emperor and not!Jedi Force Knights.
Just... just let it die already. You don't need to do Empire vs. Rebel Alliance forever!
