Galactic Empire is a game of space empire building and conquest. It supports a massive environment with fleets, troops and agents to control and see that your side continues to prospire... or else.
In the fictional Star Wars universe, the Galactic Empire is the regime established by the series' leading antagonist, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, to replace the Galactic Republic in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The Galactic Empire is introduced in A New Hope as the totalitarian, galaxy-spanning regime. The Empire also appears eponymously in The Empire Strikes Back, and in Return of the Jedi.
Galactic empires are a fairly common theme in science fiction. Many authors have either used a galaxy-spanning empire as background, or written about the growth or decline of such an empire. The capital of a galactic empire is frequently a core world or home world.
In Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation series of novels, the Galactic Empire is an empire consisting of planets settled by humans across the whole galaxy. Unlike galactic empires in more recent science fiction, Asimov's Galactic Empire appears to be a benign or mostly benign institution.
Galactic Empire was the first game in the Galactic Saga. It was the game that launched Brøderbund software, and though little-known today, exerted a seminal influence on modern space conquest games such as Spaceward Ho! and Master of Orion.
A "former Galactic Empire" is mentioned in several adaptations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. By the time set in the Hitchhiker's series, the government of the Milky Way galaxy is referred to as the "Imperial Galactic Government", though it is further explained that "the term is kept, though it is now an anachronism." In the television adaptation of the series, the name Imperatala Galacticon is used in one graphic as an alternate name for the previous Galactic Empire.
