The Empire spread across the entire galaxy, millions of planets were under their control and even some outside the galaxy. The ones that fought back were crushed until they gave in or died, some were strategically neutral, some were too small to have the Empire pay them any notice.

[ the empire was... well, massive seems like an understatement at this point. the galaxy is unfathomably large and the empire controlled so much of it. no wonder it took the rebellion two decades to start making a dent.

now. how to explain clone without saying... clone. ]

The clone troopers were their army. They made copies of a human man, produced thousands of them at a time. Millions. The other side was fighting with a droid army, um. Robots? Millions of those, too.

[ her mouth slants in a small frown, turning her normal resting bitch face all the more solemn. she didn't have nightmares about droids the way her father did but nor did she grow up with them the way most people in the galaxy did. ]