Suppression of Ghorman

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Suppression of Ghorman

Conflict

Begin

By 4 BBY^[1]

End

2 BBY^[5]

Place

Outcome

Galactic Empire victory^[3]

Battles

Anti-Ghorman whispering campaign^[1]
Maltheen Divide conference^[1]
Ghorman heist^[6]
Event in Corei^[7]
Event in Jel-Novi^[7]
Firebombing at the Imperial Naval Terminal^[7]
Ghorman Massacre^[8]
Arrest of Dasi Oran^[3]
Gouge mining of Ghorman^[9]

Combatants
Galactic Empire^[1] Ghorman project^[1]	Axis network^[6] Ghorman Front^[2]

Commanders
Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine(as Galactic Emperor)^[7] Director Orson Callan Krennic^[1] Admiral Daysar^[1] Admiral Tyzen^[7] Major Lio Partagaz^[1] Captain Kaido^[7] Lieutenant Dedra Meero^[1] Lieutenant Moy^[1] Sergeant Bloy^[7] Unidentified engineer officer^[1] Unidentified science officer^[1] Nisus Osar^[1] Dee Shambo^[1]	Councillor Carro Rylanz^[2] Luthen Rael^[2] Vel Sartha (early)^[2] Cinta Kaz† (early)^[2]

Strength
Advanced Weapons Research^[1] Tarkin Initiative^[1] Imperial Army^[3] Ghorman occupation force^[2] Imperial Bureau of Standards (covertly)^[2] Imperial Navy^[1] Ghorman fleet^[7] Imperial Starfighter Corps^[7] Imperial Security Bureau^[1] ISB Investigations^[7] ISB tech^[7] Ministry of Enlightenment^[1] Science and Engineering Division^[1] Ghorman crisis team (late campaign)^[7]	Ghorman Front resistance fighters^[8] Capso^[8] Dilan†^[8] Dreena^[8] Leeza†^[8] Lezine^[8] Enza Rylanz†^[8] Samm^[8] Tazi†^[8] Thela†^[8] 2 Axis Network Operatives Cassian Jeron Andor^[8] Wilmon Paak^[8]

Casualties
Several casualties sustained^[8]	High casualties^[8]

Civilian casualties
Thousands of Ghorman civilians killed in the Ghorman Massacre alone^[8]

"It's hard to be patient when your world is falling apart."

―Enza Rylanz^[2]

The suppression of Ghorman,^[2] also known as the rebellion on Ghorman,^[9] was a covert campaign initiated by the Galactic Empire by the year 4 BBY. The operation was centered around the planet Ghorman, which the Empire had discovered was home to a depository of kalkite, a material necessary for reactor lenses^[2] on the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station.^[10] The gouge-mining was set to be an invasive, destructive progress that would call for the planet's suppression and abandonment. Planning for the campaign was carried out by the Ghorman project thinktank, who started with the work of the Ministry of Enlightenment and its anti-Ghorman whispering campaign designed to turn galactic opinion against Ghorman to justify the Empire's actions against the Ghorman population. By that time, Ghorman had already been subject to the ministry's propaganda. Furthermore, it had been the site of controversary thanks to the cutoff of Ghorman shipping lanes^[1] and Ghorman Debates.^[11]

At the suggestion of ISB Supervisor Dedra Meero,^[1] who would be given control over the project,^[12] the Empire allowed the local Ghorman Front to grow bolder^[6] so as to give the Empire an excuse to crackdown, with the Empire also arranging a false flag firebombing of the Ghorman Naval Terminal^[7] in 2 BBY.^[5] Shortly thereafter, events culminated in the Ghorman Massacre,^[8] where the Empire slaughtered peaceful protesters^[13] who had taken to the streets in protest to the Empire's crackdown.^[8] The Empire painted the Ghormans as the aggressors and carried out the arrest of Ghorman Senator Dasi Oran, who begged his fellow senators to take notice of his world's fate. While many senators accepted the Imperial narrative, Senator Mon Mothma—herself already a secret rebel organizer—took to the Imperial Senate to condemn the massacre as a genocide and declare Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine as a monster. Afterward, she escaped from the Senate^[3] and officially formed the Alliance to Restore the Republic.^[14]