
As the conflict quickly escalated, the New Jedi Order battled the rebels alongside the Alliance.

The conflict began when the Corellian system seceded from the Alliance over local defense limitations and increased taxes to pay for reconstruction in the aftermath of the Yuuzhan Vong War, and gained allies such as Bothawui, Bespin, and Fondor, forming the Confederation.

The Second Galactic Civil War, alternatively known as the Corellia-GA war, Alliance-Confederation War, Confederation-Galactic Alliance War, Corellian-Galactic Alliance War, New Galactic Alliance War, New Galactic Civil War, the second Corellian Insurrection, or simply CivWar Two, lasting from 40 ABY to 41 ABY, was a conflict originally between the Five Worlds-which later grew to become an interstellar alliance known as the Confederation-and the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. Because that's what it might come to, a rebellion-a stupid and unnecessary one." ― Luke Skywalker, 40 ABY " It's foolish to cast the Galactic Alliance as the Empire and Corellia as the Rebel Alliance.

