| “ | It is the task of the First Order to remove the disorder from our own existence, so that civilization may be returned to the stability that promotes progress. A stability that existed under the Empire, was reduced to anarchy by the Rebellion, was inherited in turn by the so-called Republic, and will be restored by us. Future historians will look upon this as the time when a strong hand brought the rule of law back to civilization. | „ |
| ~ Kylo Ren expressing his views on recent events in galactic history and the goals of the First Order. |
| “ | The First Order is a remnant born of a war thirty years gone. Yes, they persist, yes, they continue, but by all accounts they do so barely. They are, at best, an ill-organized, poorly equipped, and badly funded group of loyalists who use propaganda and fear to inflate their strength and their importance. | „ |
| ~ Major Lonno Deso of the Republic Navy's view on the First Order. |
The First Order are the main antagonists of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and the 2018 animated television series, Star Wars: Resistance.
The First Order is a reactionary, military, and political junta made up of the surviving remaining members and forces of the former Galactic Empire that were able to form together to create an organization bent on destroying the new Jedi Order, the New Republic, and the Resistance in order to restore the fallen Empire and bring it back into power.
History
Early Foundation
| “ | Through the ages I've seen evil take many forms. The Sith. The Empire. Today, it is the First Order. | „ |
| ~ Maz Kanata |
For roughly a thousand years, the Galactic Republic maintained peace and stability within the galaxy, aided by the efforts of the monastic Jedi Order and the Republic Judicial Forces. With the believed extinction of the Sith—ancient enemies of the Jedi Order and the Republic—the ruling Dark Lord Darth Sidious secretly plotted to overthrow the Republic with the formation of his own Sith Empire.
Sidious, along with his apprentice Count Dooku, orchestrated a secessionist movement by fomenting political chaos across the galaxy. Sidious secretly commanded a rival galactic government known as the Confederacy of Independent Systems in the destructive three-year Clone Wars, while ensuring himself elected as the next Supreme Chancellor of the Republic. Gradually amassing far more emergency powers than would be ordinarily allowed, along with changing the Galactic Constitution, Sidious eventually issued the Proclamation of the New Order, officially transforming the thousand-year-old democracy into the Galactic Empire in an instant and installing himself as the first Galactic Emperor.
During the Battle of Endor, the Galactic Empire lost Emperor Palpatine when Darth Vader redeemed himself and turned against the Sith Lord, throwing the Emperor down the second Death Star shaft to his doom. Vader became Anakin Skywalker once again in the last moments of his life. The Battle of Endor ended in victory for the Rebel Alliance. Soon after Endor, the Rebel Alliance formed a new galactic government called the New Republic.
Without the leadership of the two Sith Lords, the Empire began to dissolve into the Imperial remnants. Just over a year after the Battle of Endor Republic and Imperial forces met over Jakku, and that battle ended in a decisive victory for the New Republic.
The surviving Imperials, represented by Mas Amedda, were forced to sign the Galactic Concordance with the New Republic and one Imperial remnant founded in the Core Worlds and Inner Rim. Left unable to form an effective resistance against the New Republic, many Imperials fled to the Unknown Regions to escape and regroup in hopes of restoring the former Empire and founded the two Imperial remnants one locked in the cold war and the other in the Queluhan Nebula.
Origins
| “ | If an Empire cannot protect its Emperor then that Empire must be deemed a failure. It collapses not only because its central figure is gone, but because it must not be allowed to remain! | „ |
| ~ Emperor Sheev Palpatine, to Gallius Rax in regards to the Contingency. |
Amongst the fleeing officers were Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, Commandant Brendol Hux and his son Armitage, High Colonel Enric Pryde, and several child soldiers. Meeting with the Emperor's flagship Executor-class Star Dreadnought Eclipse, Sloane and other surviving Imperial Forces regrouped. Upon discovering the Eclipse, Sloane ordered the Sentinel piloting the replica of the Emperor's yacht Imperialis to bring the ship in and rejoin with the others. There, she intended to board and saw an opportunity to rebuild the Empire stronger and purer. As part of a contingency developed by Palpatine in the event of his demise, he commissioned the exploration of the Unknown Regions, where the Empire was to retreat and reestablish itself in the event of it's defeat. In addition to Contingency (which involved physical destruction of the Empire in the event of Palpatine's untimely death), secret bases, factories, shipyards and research laboratories were established in the Unknown Regions to act as a base for rebuilding the new Empire and it's war machine.
Not long after that the First Order was born and would model itself from the principals of the former Empire and would appoint former Imperial Officers to lead the order. Eventually the First Order would fall under the control of Snoke, a powerful being strong in the dark side of the Force, who assumed the title of Supreme Leader, with absolute control over the new regime. Through currently unknown means Snoke engineered the takeover of the First Order from old Imperial veterans such as Hux and Sloane.
However, same was done in part by creating a new generation of officers, trained and indoctrinated from birth in the ideology of the First Order, loyal to Snoke. He also managed to win over to his side Armitage Hux, the son of Brendol, who rose quickly through the ranks to General partly thanks to Snoke's favor, but also due to his own scheming, treachery and assassination of his rivals (including eventually his own father Brendol).
Rise of the First Order
| “ | It's time to start over. That is our first order. To begin again. And to get it right, this time. | „ |
| ~ Rae Sloane, to Brendol Hux. |
The First Order would soon continue to grow and prosper as the order saw more and more of the Empire's lost strength return. The former assistants to the late Emperor would return and became members of the First Order and began carrying out the order's greatest military secrets.
The First Order would later on begin to conduct mass militarization and growth and established multiple military bases, facilities, factories, and research centers to help speed up the growth of the order to help rebuild the strength of the former Empire to have a strong resistance against the New Republic. To circumvent laws passed by the New Republic banning arms sales to the First Order, many companies simply spun off subsidiaries (BlasTech and Mer-Sonn created Sonn-Blas, for example) that operated in First Order space.
The First Order would later go on to expand greatly with new fleets of Star Destroyers and the colonization of multiple worlds and control over vast star systems and planets that were previously left unexplored. General Armitage Hux was eventually put in charge of the regime's most important military projects, including Starkiller Base, which converted an entire planet into a hyperspace superweapon capable of destroying entire star systems. The indigenous inhabitants of the planet were exterminated or entirely enslaved to prevent the repeat of the Battle of Endor. Other projects including experimental technologies developed by the old Empire under the Tarkin Initiative, such as active hyperspace tracking.
Height of the First Order
Supreme Leader Snoke, through the use of the dark side of the Force, was able to manipulate a young Ben Solo into joining the dark side of the force. After Ben's former Jedi Master and uncle, Luke Skywalker was tempted to kill his nephew out of fear of the darkness inside him, Ben felt betrayed and went to Snoke, becoming his apprentice. Ben then sought a group of warriors called the Knights of Ren, he joined them and eventually became the master of the knights after killing their leader Ren. The Knights of Ren then became a faction of the First Order with Ben Solo as their new leader serving under Snoke, and Ben renamed himself Kylo Ren and became a First Order warlord. It became forbidden on all First Order controlled worlds to even pronounce Kylo Ren's original name, presumably under penalty of death.
The First Order remained unnoticed by the Galactic World for the first thirty years of its existence and the New Republic was reluctant to take any action even with the Chancellor going as far as to ignore them. Eventually however, the First Order began to violate Galactic Laws set up by the New Republic and soon, Leia Organa, along with many other senators who were concerned with the First Order, managed to fund and create the Resistance as a means of opposing them and soon war began between the two factions.
Thirty years after the Battle of Endor, the First Order has risen to power and is now at its height. The Order has been able to construct Starkiller Base on an ice planet called Ilum, which also serves as a superweapon which can destroy entire star systems when fired. On the planet of Jakku, the First Order sends down a division of stormtroopers led by Kylo Ren down to the surface to capture Poe and find a map which would lead them to Luke Skywalker, whom the First Order has been searching for sometime now after he went into self-exile for his failure to carry on the future of the Jedi Order.
They couldn't find the map, so they captured Poe and had the entire settlement massacred which lead to a First Order stormtrooper named Finn to free Poe and defect from the First Order. After his defection, a unit of stormtroopers were sent down to the surface of Jakku where they eventually found out where Finn was and attacked both him and Rey along with BB-8.
New Galactic War
| “ | Today is the end of the Republic! The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder! At this very moment, in a system far from here the New Republic lies to the galaxy while secretly supporting the treachery of the loathsome Resistance. This fierce machine which you have built, upon which we stand, will bring an end to the Senate! To their cherished fleet! ALL REMAINING SYSTEMS WILL BOW TO THE FIRST ORDER!! AND WILL REMEMBER THIS... AS THE LAST DAY OF THE REPUBLIC!!! | „ |
| ~ General Armitage Hux speech before the Hosnian Cataclysm. |
Sometime later, General Hux gave a speech to a large gathering of stormtroopers and other military personnel on Starkiller Base where he announced the end of the New Republic, the destruction of the Resistance, and the conquest of the galaxy under the banner of the First Order. Seconds afterwards, the Starkiller fired its planet-shattering beam and it managed to target and successfully destroy the Hosnian system where the New Republic's capital and main fleet was based at the time. Not long afterwards, the Starkiller was found and was destroyed in a bombing run by T-70 X-wings led by Poe Dameron, but the First Order leadership managed to escape, regroup, and survive.
After Starkiller Base was destroyed, the personnel killed on the base were avenged when the Resistance fleet was found and was ambushed by the First Order Navy. The effort was spear-headed by General Hux, but was later usurped by Snoke due to his failures. During the attack, the Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought Fulminatrix was destroyed, but the Resistance fleet was found and would be ambushed and destroyed one by one until only a few hundred remained alive and they evacuated to the planet of Crait to set up shop in an old Rebellion-era base.
While the fleet was being attacked, the New Republic began falling into disarray with the Core Worlds being weakened to the point that the First Order could conquer them within weeks and some Republic systems, most likely in the outer regions of New Republic territory, had already surrendered to the First Order, some of whom were already leaning towards the First Order due to a promise of order, others because of fear.
Kylo Ren brought Rey to Snoke's throne room on board the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy, but he ended up killing his master to save her life. Kylo joined forces with her to defeat Snoke's Elite Praetorian Guards before offering her a place by his side to rule the galaxy together, but she refused. The Supremacy itself was severely damaged when the last Resistance cruiser, the MC85 Star Cruiser Raddus, was used to cripple the Supremacy and destroy twenty other Resurgent-class Star Destroyers escorting the Mega-Destroyer via the hyperdrive.
Kylo Ren took over the title of the Supreme Leader and he, along with Hux, led the ground invasion of Crait where they attacked the Resistance forces on the planet with the intent on destroying them once and for all. Despite their best efforts though and most of the Resistance soldiers being killed, the remnants managed to escape and the First Order was left with the Resistance still active and an abandoned planet to annex into their territory. Despite the failed attempt at destroying the Resistance once and for all, the First Order has emerged as the new dominate galactic power as the New Republic is in disarray with some of its systems, Republic or not, already surrendering and the major member worlds are said to be conquered within a matter of weeks.
Fall of the First Order
One year following Crait, the First Order gained more power in the galaxy under Kylo's leadership as more worlds we’re either seized or submitted to his rule including Fondor. However, the stakes are raised when rumors of the return of Emperor Palpatine were confirmed after a message was broadcasted to the entire galaxy. Using a Sith wayfinder, Kylo tracked down Palpatine's location in the Sith world Exegol in the Unknown Regions. There, he learns that Palpatine revived himself inside a cloned body with the dark side, and that he was the true founder and benefactor of the First Order as he created Snoke as a figurehead to lure Kylo to the dark side. The Sith Lord also revealed that during his absence, he has created a cult called the Sith Eternal and a new massive fleet of Xyston-class Star Destroyers, the Final Order, that is capable of destroying planets. Palpatine offers Kylo a chance of power by tasking him to track down and kill a scavenger girl named Rey, who turns out to be the granddaughter of the Emperor.
Kylo then directs the First Order to search for Rey, and when they tracked her down, Kylo explains to her about her true lineage and offers her a place by his side again, but she refuses and escapes. Right after, Allegiant General Pryde learns that Hux has betrayed the First Order by sending out information to the Resistance as he felt disillusioned under Kylo's leadership, so Pryde executes Hux for treason.
After dueling and being saved by Rey on the ruins of the second Death Star, Kylo Ren severs his ties with the dark side and the First Order, redeeming himself and becoming Ben Solo again. This causes Palpatine to usurp the full control of the First Order from Kylo, as Allegiant General Pryde pledged himself to the Sith Lord. Palpatine ordered Pryde to show the galaxy the Sith Eternal's power, so Pryde sends a Sith Star Destroyer, the Derriphan, to destroy Kijimi. Later, Pryde took the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast, and went to Exegol to lead the battle to destroy the Resistance forces and then launch the attack of the Sith fleet against the galaxy.
As Rey heads over to Exegol to confront her grandfather, she is horrified to find out that he is awaiting for her arrival and that he intends for her to kill him so that his soul can be transfered to her body. Palpatine also revealed that he had tricked Rey into leading the entire Resistance forces into a trap in Exegol so that the Sith Eternal forces will wipe them out. Ben arrives on Exegol to rescue Rey, and upon seeing them together, the Emperor is surprised to realize that they are a dyad. Palpatine starts to drain the life force of their powerful connection to strengthen his imperfect cloned body, before casting Ben down a pit. Rey receives the strength of all the past Jedi and uses it to destroy the Sith Lord for good. With Palpatine finally destroyed, the Resistance and the citizens' fleet were able to destroy the remaining Sith forces. With the Sith fleet destroyed at Exegol, the galaxy was inspired to retaliate against the First Order across the galaxy. The uprisings resulted in the collapse of the First Order as peace was brought to the entire galaxy.
Organization
Government
| “ | The First Order is not the Empire. We are purer. We have been through the crucible and emerged stronger. | „ |
| ~ Phasma about the First Order. |
The First Order is a military dictatorship similar to that of the former Galactic Empire. The regime is lead by the Supreme Leader as its head of state and overall leader. Snoke was the first Supreme Leader as he ruled with an iron fist similar to that of his creator Emperor Sheev Palpatine, in how he governed his subjects and subordinates. Much like that of Darth Vader, Kylo Ren held a position of power that was outside the formal rank of the First Order military and this would lead to conflict between Kylo and other members of the First Order military hierarchy, primarily General Hux, whenever their objectives and agendas conflicted with each other. The only Force-sensitives existing within the ranks of the First Order were Snoke, Kylo, and the Knights of Ren, as the regime lacks members of either the Sith Order or the Inquisitorius due to the extinction of both dark side organizations respectively, with the exception of Palpatine, whom unbeknownst to them until 35 ABY, ressuscitated himself and is their secret benefactor and true leader.
Much like the New Republic, the First Order lacks any official capital and uses a mobile headquarters instead. Starkiller Base served its purpose as the unofficial capital of the First Order due to it being used as the main military base of operations by the leadership of the First Order prior to the destruction of the base at the hands of the Resistance. The Supremacy also served this purpose as it was the flagship of the First Order Navy and the personal headquarters for Supreme Leader Snoke. After both were destroyed, the First Order remains active, but continues to lack a central capital and most likely has a rotation system in which they switch between various unofficial capitals like the New Republic does with their government.
The First Order Security Bureau acts as the intelligence agency of the First Order and helps reinforce the regime across the galaxy both within and beyond the Unknown Regions. One notable agent was Terex, a known crime lord and former Stormtrooper. The other was Agent Tierny.
After Snoke's death, the First Order was governed by Kylo Ren and the Supreme Council until its dissolution in 35 ABY, caused by the death of many members, including Kylo Ren.
Foreign Affairs
| “ | When Major Vonreg and Commander Pyre first proposed the idea of collaborating with pirates, I was skeptical. Since then, you have done little to prove me wrong. | „ |
| ~ Captain Phasma to Kragan Gorr. |
Due to the terms of the Galactic Concordance on the defeated remnants of the Galactic Empire, the First Order denounced the New Republic as an illegitimate government and fled to the Unknown Regions where they plotted how to undermine the new galactic government. During its early years, the First Order operated in deep secrecy and slowly rebuilt supported only by a select few group of people. As it rearmed and violated the Galactic Concordance, reports of its activities by the Senate Intelligence Committee were leaked, but the New Republic and its Senate did nothing. Seeking to make sure the New Republic didn't take any action against them, the First Order made deals with the Corporate Sector to influence members of the Galactic Senate such as Senator Erudo Ro-Kiintor to prevent the senate from imposing sanctions on the First Order and expanding the size and strength of the New Republic Defense Fleet.
As the First Order grew, it used diplomacy and established diplomatic connections with various groups, organizations and independent governments to grow its influence. It managed to secure deals with the Corporate Sector Authority and secured funding and support from the organization. The First Order managed to secure support and informants from sympathetic beings such as Imanuel Doza, a former Imperial Officer, and various different criminal organizations such as Warbird Gang on Castilion. After thirty years of subverting the New Republic, the First Order attacked them by destroying their capital of Hosnian Prime and invading their territories while the government was destroyed. The First Order also secured deals and agreements with various arms companies that later manufactured the starships and weapons they'd use in their campaigns of conquest.
Military
| “ | They're flying state-of-the-art TIEs, they're using commando boarding parties and latest-generation attack shuttles in clear violation of the Galactic Concordance. | „ |
| ~ Poe Dameron on the strength of the First Order military. |
The First Order military is the armed wing of the regime as well as its most important and dominant aspect. Formed from fleeing Imperials seeking to escape the New Republic and the Galactic Concordance, the First Order would eventually rebuild itself over the course of thirty years after the end of the Galactic Civil War through Project Resurrection, a rearmaments program which saw the rapid growth and expansion of the First Order military through secret deals and the abduction of children to conscript into their own ranks. The First Order soon grew and conquered much of the Unknown Regions and managed to secure deals with major arms companies such as BlasTech Industries and Merr-Sonn Munitions. Both companies, seeking to support the First Order and avoid being caught due to supporting them being a criminal offense, created a subsidiary called Sonn-Blas Corporation within First Order space and armed the order with its weapons.
Years of expansion has allowed the First Order to establish arms factories and produce state of the art weapons from TIE fighters to blasters and other weapons. The Sinear-Jaemus Fleet Systems company created many of the ships and starfighters the First Order uses such as the Upsilon-class command shuttle, TIE/fo space superiority fighters and many others. Kuat-Entralla Engineering helped create and develop the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer for the First Order Navy which had both heavy firepower and invoked the fearful image of their predecessor, the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. One of the largest ships ever fielded by the First Order was the Supremacy, a Mega-class Star Dreadnought that served as their mobile capital and flagship of Supreme Leader Snoke before his downfall and death.
Just like their predecessors, the First Order fields a large army comprised of stormtroopers that formed the backbone of its army and the First Order Stormtrooper Corps. First Order Stormtroopers were usually either conscripts from when they were taken as kids and raised to fight or enlisted men from member worlds and go through tough and rigorous training with consistent standards and trained in the art of counter-insurgency tactics and improvisation. Many different variants exist such as heavy assault troopers, snowtroopers, and riot control troopers with different types appearing per every ten regular stormtroopers in a First Order Army unit. First Order Stormtroopers are highly trained, high quality professional soldiers that are battle-hardened warriors and have higher quality compared to their Imperial predecessors, especially since they lack the numerical advantage the Imperial Stormtroopers had. Since many of the stormtroopers were trained from infancy, they remain fierce and formidable warriors on the frontlines.
One of the many planets under First Order control is the snowy planet of Starkiller Base, a planet-sized superweapon capable of destroying entire star systems, was used as a major training ground and station for countless stormtroopers and other First Order personnel. The base was lead by an unofficial command triumvirate comprised of Kylo Ren, General Hux, and Captain Phasma; prior to its destruction by the Resistance. Despite its loss, the First Order had formed a massive army from decades of secret buildup and its size and scale shocked the New Republic who believed that the First Order's military was made up only of local planetary defense forces and ceremonial guards. Since the Resistance monitored their activities, they believed that the First Order was hiding more weapons than were known such as the Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought.
Judiciary
The First Order is governed as an authoritarian military junta and as a result have strict laws that are met with harsh punishments for those who break them. The First Order is merciless towards anyone accused of the act of treason and is met with the death penalty via public execution. Loyalty among the troopers is key for the First Order and will punish anyone for even the slightest breach of loyalty every day. Those responsible for public executions come from those in the Stormtrooper Corps and the executioners are rotated constantly and are random unlike standardized execution troopers that the Galactic Empire had. Stormtroopers who are chosen for public executions are picked at random and have their identifies kept anonymous. Executioner troopers have stormtrooper armor with black markings and carry laser axes for executions.
It's unknown what other laws exist within the First Order's borders, but they're most likely strict and other harsh punishments exist for those who break them beyond execution. Riot Control Stormtroopers act as the law enforcement branch of the First Order and are stationed on worlds under the order's control to maintain law and order on the worlds and keep them in line. They're given F-11D Blaster Rifles, like regular troopers, and only use them if riots grow out of control. They also have regular non-lethal weapons like shields and batons.
Science and Technology
| “ | Miniaturized Death Star tech. It'll crack that door open like an egg. | „ |
| ~ Finn describing the superlaser siege cannon. |
Just like their predecessors in the Galactic Empire, the First Order is a highly advanced society with state of the art technology. The First Order continued weapons development and research into dark energy translations and hyperspace tunneling, the latter of which was also done under the Empire prior to their collapse. Starkiller Base was one of the proudest achievements of the First Order due to the sheer power and technological advancement the base had and was a testament to the First Order's technological capabilities. Starkiller Base was powered by quintessence, a form of dark energy, that kept the superweapon mobile and functioning and it was capable of draining energy from nearby stars so it could have the power to destroy entire star systems. Another advanced weapon that the First Order has is the superlaser siege cannons with a range of 200 meters and being made from miniaturized Death Star technology, though this weapon did require support due to its power and had a tracer beam to support its accuracy. It was used during the Battle of Crait and blew open the large blast door on the abandoned Rebel base used by the surviving remnants of the Resistance.
Known Members
Leaders
- Emperor Sheev Palpatine - Shadow Benefactor / De-Facto Ruler / Secret Leader of the Knights of Ren / Secret Master of Kylo Ren / Shadow Puppeteer of Snoke / Dark Lord of the Sith (deceased)
- Snoke - Founder / Previous Supreme Leader / Previous Commander-in-Chief of the First Order Military / Previous Head of First Order High Command / Owner of the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy / Puppet of Emperor Palpatine / Master of Kylo Ren (deceased)
- Kylo Ren - Current Supreme Leader / Master of the Knights of Ren / Warlord / Current Commander-in-Chief of the First Order Military / Current Head of First Order High Command / Founder and Head of the First Order Supreme Council / Commanding Officer of the 709th Legion / Commander of the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy and the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer / Owner of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast / Secret Apprentice of Emperor Palpatine / Chief Enforcer and Apprentice of Supreme Leader Snoke (deserted the First Order after redeeming himself; deceased)
- Enric Pryde - Allegiant General and De-Facto Commander-in-Chief of the First Order Military / De-Facto Supreme Leader / De-Facto Head of First Order High Command and the First Order Supreme Council / Former Aide to Supreme Leader Kylo Ren / Owner of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast (deceased)
- Rae Sloane - Initial Leader / Grand Admiral in the First Order Navy / Initial Commander-in-Chief of the First Order Military
- Brendol Hux - Initial Leader / General in the First Order Army / Founder of the First Order Stormtrooper Corps and Project Resurrection / Founder and Previous Head of the First Order's Stormtrooper Training Program (deceased)
Supreme Council
- Armitage Hux - General and Head of the First Order Army / Member of First Order High Command and the First Order Supreme Council / Head of the First Order Stormtrooper Corps and Project Resurrection / Current Head of the First Order's Stormtrooper Training Program / Commander of Starkiller Base, the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy, and the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast (betrayed the First Order in an attempt to overthrow Kylo Ren and take control; deceased)
- Amret Engell - General in the First Order Army / Member of First Order High Command and the First Order Supreme Council / Current Deputy Head of the First Order Stormtrooper Corps and the First Order's Stormtrooper Training Program (deceased)
- Frantis Griss - Admiral in the First Order Navy / Member of First Order High Command and the First Order Supreme Council / Aide to Allegiant General Pryde / Commanding Officer of the Steadfast Battlegroup / Commander of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast (deceased)
- Bellava Parnadee - General in the First Order Army / Member of First Order High Command and the First Order Supreme Council
- Domaric Quinn - General in the First Order Army / Member of First Order High Command and the First Order Supreme Council (deceased)
- Draper - Lieutenant in the First Order Military / Member of First Order High Command and the First Order Supreme Council
Military Officers, Officials, and Operatives
- Phasma - Stormtrooper Captain and Previous Deputy Head of the First Order Stormtrooper Corps and the First Order's Stormtrooper Training Program / Deputy Head of Project Resurrection / Commanding Officer of the FN Corps and the Resurgent-class Star Destroyers Finalizer and Absolution / Crewmember of the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy (deceased)
- Terex - Agent of the First Order Security Bureau / Officer of the First Order Military
- Tierny - Agent of the First Order Security Bureau / Commander of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Thunderer / Commanding Officer of the Colossus Garrison (deceased)
- Pyre - Stormtrooper Commander in the First Order Stormtrooper Corps / Commander of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Thunderer / Commanding Officer of the Colossus Garrison (deceased)
- Baron Elrik Vonreg - Major in the First Order Special Forces / TIE Fighter Pilot in the First Order Starfighter Corps / Commanding Officer of the Colossus Garrison (deceased)
- Galek - Lieutenant and Flight Instructor in the First Order Navy / TIE Fighter Pilot in the First Order Starfighter Corps / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Thunderer (deceased)
- Tamara Ryvora/Cadet DD-533 - Second Squadron Commander in the First Order Navy / TIE Fighter Pilot in the First Order Starfighter Corps / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Thunderer (defected)
- Jace Rucklin/Cadet DT-798 - TIE Fighter Pilot in the First Order Starfighter Corps / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Thunderer (deceased)
- Lin Gaava - TIE Fighter Pilot in the First Order Starfighter Corps / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Thunderer
- Lady Carise Sindian - Senator of Arkanis / Member of the Elder Houses (secretly)
- Gideon Hask - Commander in the First Order Military / Member of Project Resurrection / Owner of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Retribution (deceased)
- Gleb - Protectorate of Jinata Security / Deputy Head of Project Resurrection (deceased)
- Edrison Peavey - Captain in the First Order Navy / Aide to General Armitage Hux / Crewmember of the Mega-class Star Dreadnought Supremacy / Commander of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer
- Kaplan - Colonel in the First Order Army / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer (deceased)
- Thanisson - Petty Officer in the First Order Navy / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer (deceased)
- Masir Trach - Commander in the First Order Navy / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyers Steadfast and Finalizer (deceased)
- Lanzora Garan - Lieutenant in the First Order Navy / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast (deceased)
- Tishra Kandia - Intelligence Officer in the First Order Military / Crewmember of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast (deceased)
- Erich S. Datoo - Colonel in the First Order Army / Crewmember of Starkiller Base (deceased)
- Rodinon - Lieutenant in the First Order Military / Crewmember of Starkiller Base (missing-in-action)
- Mandetat - Technician on Starkiller Base (missing-in-action)
- Wanten - Commander in the First Order Military / Crewmember on Starkiller Base (deceased)
- Moden Canady - Captain in the First Order Navy / Commander of the Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought Fulminatrix (deceased)
- Goneril - Adjutant in the First Order Navy / Aide to Captain Canady / Crewmember of the Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought Fulminatrix (deceased)
- Suday Bascus - Warrant Officer in the First Order Navy / Crewmember of the Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought Fulminatrix (deceased)
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Trivia
- They have many broad similarities to the Imperial Remnant faction(s) from the original Expanded Universe novels - particularly the later Hand of Thrawn period novels when they had been pushed back to only a handful of backward sectors in the fringes of the Outer Rim. Both groups are forced by necessity to abandon the old Galactic Empire's expedient mentality in order to preserve their few remaining forces. Both groups abandoned many of the old Empire's prejudices along the way: the First Order has a lot more visible female and non-white human members.
- In contrast to the Empire, the First Order employs a different military strategy emphasizing quality over quantity, similar to Nazi Germany.
- The First Order Emblem is vaguely similar to that of Imperial Japan during World War II, although it is black on red as opposed to red on white.
- As a hermit state populated by fanatics devoted to their Supreme Leader and who believe that the outside world is completely decadent while its conquest is inevitable, the First Order is also similar to North Korea.
- Their combination of unbridled fanaticism and strict military hierarchy, usage of child soldiers and terror tactics, and their ultimate goal of rebuilding one of the most powerful empires in world history are similar to modern Jihadist terrorist groups like the Taliban, Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State. Meanwhile, the fact that they are ruled by a religious figure who answers to the title of "Supreme Leader" brings to mind the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) and Post-Revolutionary Iran.
- The First Order symbol has a hexagonal shape like the one of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and its inner circle is like the one of the Empire symbol. This possibly was a hint of Palpatine being behind of this organization too.
