The final years of the Old Republic were marked by the betrayal of the values upon which it
had been founded.
The dedication to justice, culture, and civic duty that for a thousand years had maintained
peace and balance across the galaxy rotted away under a tide of apathy and timidity.
Senators who had vowed to advance the interests of their people instead grew enamored with
fleeting distractions of fame and the cultivation of personal wealth.
The Core Worlds grew vain and capricious, demanding ever more from those relegated to
life on the Rim.
Those on the frontier became bitter, resenting a government increasingly distant and unfeeling.
Even in victory the Republic could not survive the Clone Wars.
The conflict had revealed to its citizens the full extent of its frailty and the treachery
of its most stalwart defenders.
When the Confederacy of Independent Systems was finally destroyed, there was no room for
weakness in a galaxy that countless billions had fought and died to win.
A decadent democracy was torn down, its corrupt institutions and abettors swept away.
In its place rose a New Order, a regime dedicated to pure ideals and a higher purpose.
In all the ages past and since, no declaration has shaken the very foundations of universe
so much as the establishment of the First.
Galactic.
Empire.
The Galactic Empire can trace its history to Peter Bixby, an egg and butter merchant
in Thistle’s Market, Wrexham, England and Zachary Thule, a struggling dentist operating
out of Garfield, New Jersey.
A chance encounter at the Liège International World’s Fair in 1907 led to a business partnership
between the two men, culminating in the establishment of Bixby-Thule Chemists Incorporated.
The death of Zachary Thule in 1915 and the declining health of Peter Bixby in the following
years led to the company being sold to the American based Liberty Drug Company in 1919.
With the deteriorating economic circumstances in North America throughout the 1930s however,
the company, now known as B&T, was sold to Sheev Palpatine, former governor of the British
Overseas Territory of Naboo.
Palpatine embraced the Austrian school of economics, the pathway to many abilities some
considered to be unnatural.
While B&T struggled during the Second World War, its acquisition of surplus wartime pharmaceuticals
allowed the company to open over 40 new locations across the United Kingdom by 1950.
Over the next decade, the company expanded internationally within the United States,
France, Belgium, and the Outer Rim Territories.
B&T became known for its competitive edge, diversifying into the research and manufacture
of drugs and achieving tremendous success with the development of the Ibuprofen painkiller
in the 1960s.
At the same time, it spearheaded a number of cost-cutting measures such as reusable
bags, and Wookiee slave labor.
The company’s largest single acquisition was the 1977 purchase of the DS-1 “Death
Star Battlestation” left abandoned and incomplete following the bankruptcy of Russel’s Pharmacy
the preceding year.
I’m sorry, but a lot of this isn’t sounding right to me, just give me one sec here.
Typing noises
Yeah, I knew it.
It’s “Robert’s Pharmacy” not “Russel’s” and the Liège International was in 1905,
not 1907.
Yeah somebody really screwed up here.
Give us a few months to a year, we’ll get this right.
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