<The First Order, also known as the Order, was a hermitic state that rose to power during the era of the New Republic, approximately three decades after the fall of the Galactic Empire. Though once a remnant of the Empire, the First Order gradually evolved into a separate faction yet nonetheless remained influenced by New Order ideology. Under the rule of Supreme Leader Snoke, the First Order military was formed through a clandestine rearmament program that violated the Galactic Concordance, a peace treaty that ended the Galactic Civil War. Emerging from their domain in the Unknown Regions, where the First Order's founders hid after the Empire's capitulation, the First Order all but declared war on the Republic, resulting in a tense cold war between the two governments as well as the Resistance—a paramilitary force that monitored the actions of the First Order. Whereas the Republic rotated its seat of government between member worlds, the First Order did not have a traditional planetary capital. At Snoke's insistence, the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy would serve as their mobile base of operations for the time being, until the First Order's goal of galactic conquest was achieved. In 34 ABY, thirty years after the Battle of Endor, the First Order unveiled its newly-completed superweapon known as Starkiller Base. Targeting the Republic capital of Hosnian Prime, Starkiller destroyed the Galactic Senate and a significant portion of its defense forces, effectively toppling the young democracy in one stroke. Despite Starkiller's subsequent destruction, the First Order was still able to deploy its armies and fleets across the galaxy, seizing military control of the many star systems left vulnerable in the wake of the Hosnian Cataclysm. At the same time, the First Order committed its resources to the galactic war against the Resistance, the group responsible for destroying the First Order's planetary battle station. During the First Order's attack on the Resistance fleet, Snoke was assassinated by his dark side apprentice Kylo Ren, whose rise to power was realized through his accession as the new Supreme Leader. The son of Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa, as well as the Sith Lord Darth Vader's grandson on his mother's side, Ren saw it as his destiny to rule over the citizens of the galaxy. As ruler of the First Order, he vowed to build a new galactic order by letting old things die—from Snoke and Luke Skywalker, the Jedi Order and the Sith, to the rebels and all who came before.>