The First Order, while vast and powerful, is far smaller than the Empire it idolizes, so relying exclusively on an elite force of stormtroopers is a necessity.
The Galactic Empire came to power thanks to the schemes of Palpatine, but the First Order failed to have a full rise like the Empire had before it. Additionally, while the First Order may have been run by Darth Sidious, it was at least publicly run by a military government.
The First Order was markedly smaller than the Empire, with a couple hundred Star Destroyers at best. However, we see that they are able to field a rather large core of Infantry compared to their fleet size. I would estimate they have upwards of 50,000 Stormtroopers, at least.
The First Order was a successor of the Galactic Empire, created when the Empire fell with the deaths of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. After a year of fighting, the fracturing Empire made its last stand above the planet Jakku, where it lost to the New Republic in a battle that caused high casualties on both sides.
What is the difference between First Order and Empire stormtroopers?
Although First Order stormtroopers were non-clone humans like their Imperial precursors, they were trained from an even younger age—virtually from birth—whereas Imperial stormtroopers were recruited in their adolescence.
How the First Order Took Over the Galaxy So Quickly
Did First Order stormtroopers get paid?
They received relatively good pay. Stormtroopers received both wages and time off whilst serving in the corps. We don't know how much money stormtroopers earned, but we do know that stormtroopers were allowed to take compasionate leave in the event of a familal deaths.
Order 99 was an order arranged by Jedi Master CaptainR1. It turned the storm troopers back to side of the new Republic. During the clone wars, clone commando "Roger" refused Order 66. He was very close to the Jedi he was fighting with.
The seeds of the First Order were planted before the Galactic Empire rose to power, as part of a posthumous contingency activated after the death of Darth Sidious, publicly known as Emperor Palpatine, in the Battle of Endor to ensure both his Empire did not outlive him and ensure its rebirth in the Unknown Regions at ...
The New Republic did not consider the emerging First Order from the Unknown Regions to be a threat, even after many star systems defected from the Republic to join it, and the Senate ordered their forces not to engage its military in combat, leading to Leia Organa forming a splinter paramilitary group, the Resistance, ...
Palpatine engineered a puppet ruler, Supreme Leader Snoke, who gathered the remaining high brass from the old Empire and eventually created a new group: the First Order. With Snoke as the dictatorial figurehead, Palpatine controlled the First Order and eventually grew its ranks to massive numbers.
In the context of the story, Snoke is a "genetic strandcast" created by Emperor Palpatine to serve as his proxy in power. Snoke, whom Abrams called "a powerful figure on the dark side of the Force", was introduced as the leader of the First Order and master to the sequel trilogy's main villain, Kylo Ren.
During the time of relative peace up to 25 ABY, the new Jedi Order seemed to be well and truly established as a force in the galaxy once more. The Order now numbered at least 100 Jedi, possibly more, with a number of Jedi Masters actively training new Padawans.
Snoke serves as Supreme Leader of the First Order, which emerged from the remnants of the Galactic Empire, while Kylo leads the Knights of Ren, a group of Force-wielders who take their strength from the dark side. None of them are official Sith.
As further highlighted by Vader and Kylo's redemption stories, it was a lesson that Kylo Ren never fully learned himself, which makes Darth Vader the more powerful user of the Force between the two of them in Star Wars.
He helps Finn, Poe and Chewbacca escape Ren's Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast and has Finn shoot him in the leg so he can feign an effort to stop them. However, he is shot in the chest with a blaster by Pryde after the latter realizes Hux's treason through his cover story.
When Imperial remnants finally ceded control of the planet, Coruscant became a hub for criminal syndicates. The rebellion against the First Order in the sequel trilogy was actually what prompted citizens to take back control of Coruscant.
With help from Ben and the spirits of past Jedi, Rey finally destroys Palpatine. The galaxy rises up against the First Order, ultimately destroying it after 14 years of existing and ending a grand total of 54 years of Imperial rule.
The New Republic Defense Force was significantly reduced as part of demilitarization efforts after the war. In light of this, member worlds raised their own individual planetary defense forces with New Republic support.
The Liberation of Coruscant, also known as the Seizure of Coruscant, the Battle for Coruscant, the Taking of Coruscant, and the Siege of Coruscant, was the battle in 7 ABY in which the fledgling New Republic captured control of the galactic capital planet of Coruscant from the Galactic Empire, hastening an eventual end ...
Thus, while Qui-Gon was less powerful than the likes of Yoda and Mace Windu, Palpatine feared him more. In the simplest terms, he was a wild card, and with the Sidious executing an intricate decades-long plan to seize power and destroy the Jedi, a wild card was something he just couldn't afford.
Rumor had it that his mother was Palpatine's Umbaran aide Sly Moore, who had impregnated herself using DNA from an undisclosed source. Regardless of the veracity of that report, Triclops was regarded as the true son of Palpatine, both by himself and the few high-ranking officials who were aware of his existence.
Order 66, also known as Clone Protocol 66, Protocol 66, or simply "the Order," was one of top-secret contingency orders that identified all Jedi as traitors to the Galactic Republic and, therefore, subject to summary execution by the Grand Army of the Republic.
Order 69(AKA "clean up") was the idea to kill the entire clone army in one sitting, leaving the Jedi defenseless and exposed by the sudden departure. Palpatine knows the Jedi's weakness is empathy and most will try to help the clones and now it should be easy to either drive the Jedi into hiding or have them killed.
