We are thrilled to announce that the alpha release of Star Wars: Rebellion 2 is now available!

What is Rebellion 2?

Rebellion 2 is a community-developed recreation of the original Star Wars: Rebellion, rebuilt in Unity, and with support for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

This release includes a largely complete campaign playable from beginning to end and numerous quality of life improvements, upscaled cutscenes, improved visuals, and support for 4K displays. 3D tactical combat and multiplayer are not yet available but will come in future releases.

This is an early alpha, so expect bugs, unfinished features, and changes as development continues. Feedback and bug reports are welcome and will help improve future releases.

How to Install

You must own Star Wars: Rebellion or Star Wars: Empire at War: Gold Pack on Steam or GOG. The launcher verifies ownership before downloading game content. You can download the appropriate installer from downloads page. Installation instructions for each OS can be found here.

How to Report a Bug / Request a Feature

Bug reports and feature request can be made here. Note that a GitHub account is required to file a report/request. Alternatively, you can join the SWRebellion Discord channel and post your findings in the #dev-rebellion2 channel.

Thank you to the SWRebellion community for keeping the original alive all these years. We're excited to share this with you!

The official invite link to our Discord is https://swrebellion.link/discord. This is a special redirect set up that points to our permanent invite code. Please refrain from using any other links. If you are finding that you keep getting kicked for no apparent reason (no actual staff kick message), - please know it is not us, it is Discord- the solution: manually leave the server then manually rejoin using the link above.

If you continue to have issues, make sure you have a forum account and create an issue ticket by posting here --> https://swrebellion.net/forums/forum/45-private-feedback-issues/. (posts made to this forum are only visible between you and staff)

This year has been busy for a small team in our community. To celebrate the game's 25th anniversary, a few of us decided to update the game a bit. A huge amount of work went into it, but now it's ready. We present you the 25th Anniversary patch!

Star Wars Rebellion 25th Anniversary Patch Features:

• New Galaxy map using top 200 star wars planets (called systems in game) from 2023 canon mostly positioned as accurately as possible within game engine limits!
• 200 unique system images for in-game and encyclopedia (instead of 26 original sprites)
• 200 new systems encyclopedia entries
• 61 new character sprites (from Rebellion Remastered)
• Option to view skills and abilities of each character on their sprites in-game (see screenshots below)
• high definition 3d models for capital ships (updates are still coming)
• 80 high definition sprites for starfighters
• Game's 1.02 community update
• Dgvoodoo 2.81.1 (2023-07-24) directx libraries

The patch will receive updates in the near future with new stuff coming. Make sure you redownload the editor every now and then.

HOW TO INSTALL

You can get this mod with MetaSharp's StarWarsRebellionEditor. Download the editor here, install, define where your game is installed, then click the Death Star icon (last icon) in the editor to patch your game (see screenshots).

The team

Metasharp - The new editor, reverse engineering and exe patching, the new galaxy model, ship models, planet sprites and encyclopedia entries, fighter sprites
Lord La forge - character sprites, planet sprites
Hexdragon - reverse engineering and exe patching
Mercure_cobra - ship models
geir389 - encyclopedia entries

Let our team know how you liked the patch!

Also please consider joining our Discord channel "Star Wars Rebellion". You can reach out to us there.

As we approach the 25th Anniversary of the release of PC Game, Star Wars: Rebellion , our community will be hosting a multiplayer (head-2-head) tournament in February. Please visit the tournament website to view more information and register today.

A member of our community, @Metasharp  (exca on Discord) has been working on a new SWRebellion Editor with the goal to be an ultimate RebEd replacement. Metasharp has published the source code on Github. It is an ongoing project with constant updates, so we won't have it listed on the downloads page for now, but we now have links to the GIthub project on our Main Menu under "Game Editor" and on our side menus. (Look for SWRE). You can also get there via our shortlink https://swrebellion.link/swre .

Link to Github Project: https://github.com/MetasharpNet/StarWarsRebellionEditor.NET

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This program is Freeware and may be distributed and used by anyone with a legal copy of Star Wars Rebellion.  It is built from past works of the community such as SWRDE, RebEd, etc.  Bitmaps and Sounds, Copyright © 1998,LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC and are used without permission. This software is provided 'as is' and is NOT warrented in any way, no support is provided, and its creator is not liable for ANY data loss that may occur. Use it at your own risk

We are changing our name as it displays on the website headers, page titles, and outbound emails to reflect that we are a non-profit community of gamers, and not a for-profit entity. It is a small but significant change.

1. Admin Validation No Longer Required for Account Signup

One of the biggest complaints was not being able to get access to the site until I approved it at the end of each week. Effective immediately, administrator validation is no longer required at signup. Email validation is still required.  We are also requiring linking and/or providing your Discord username when registering.

 If we start to see a large increase in spambots, we will re-enable administrator validation for new accounts. 

2. New social integrations/login methods have been added. If you already have an account, you may associate any of these account integrations (after logging in normally) for future login methods. Instead of using a password at our site, you can use "Sign in with ..."

Account Integration Methods (for login or signup)
-Google, Microsoft, Discord, Twitch, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter

Change Log

• Discord : I have resolved the issues for logging in with Discord and have enabled "Sign up with Discord" as an option. In order to create an account on the website (regardless of what authentication/login method), Discord username is required.
• Twitch : Users can now sign up or login to SWR using their Twitch account.
• Spotify : Spotify users can now sign up or login using Spotify.
• Profile Fields : I have added optional profile fields that you can edit after registration for listing social media and gaming such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Steam, Twitch, Spotify, GOG, Origin (EA).
• Account Validation on Signup: Administrator validation no longer required. Email validation is still required to combat spambots.

Since the launch of our new website, visitors to our site have been unable to download files that we host for Rebellion without first creating an account. This was not my intention, but rather it was a default permissions setting. I have now unlocked downloads to all website visitors, and effective immediately they can be downloaded without creating an account on our website. As it was with our previous website policies, only registered users can upload files for public consumption or post in the forums. Happy gaming!

We welcome you to the SWRebellion Network, a fan-based community based on the LucasArts(R) game Star Wars: Rebellion. We are a not for profit website, and our staff members are made up of volunteers from the community, and receive no monetary compensation. We are not affiliated with LucasFilm Ltd or Disney in any way. We do sometimes display Google Ads to help pay for our website, but often turn them off because they can be an eyesore.

We do not allow registration of users under the age of 13, and comply with COPPA laws. We do not allow piracy of any kind of licensed software or game, and we encourage all members of the community and the general public to purchase a legal copy of the game from an authorized vendor, none of which we have any affiliation with.

Our website (we've moved!): https://swrebellion.net 
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/swrebellion
Twitter: @swrebellion

By accessing any website on our server and/or submitting content you agree to be bound by the following policies which are applicable to you and your use. 

• Privacy Policy - https://legal.swrebellion.com/privacy.html 
• Cookies Policy - https://legal.swrebellion.com/cookies.html
• Terms & Conditions - https://legal.swrebellion.com/termsconditions.html
• Disclaimer - https://legal.swrebellion.com/disclaimer.html
• Acceptable Use Policy - https://legal.swrebellion.com/aup.htm

Technical:

1. Uptime Robot (Live Monitoring): http://uptime.swrebellion.com/
2. GalaxyServer Status Pages - http://status.galaxyserver.net/   (Manual Server Incident Updates)
3. Backup Server Monitoring (Live Pings) - http://status.swrebellion.com/ 

Star Wars: Rebellion -- The Game & Additional Resources
Looking for Rebellion? Buy a digital copy from one of these vendors:

• Steam: https://swrebellion.link/steam
• GOG: https://swrebellion.link/gog
• Origin: https://swrebellion.link/origin

Find a (used) physical copy (CD) on eBay or Amazon:

• Amazon: https://swrebellion.link/amazon
• eBay: https://swrebellion.link/ebay
• Get RebEd: https://swrebellion.link/rebed

Community Patch/Fix for Star Wars: Rebellion (by @TruthRealm ? https://swrebellion.link/fix
Disclaimer: We have no affiliation with any of the vendors above nor do we get any monetary reward for clicking the links above.

While we do not currently offer automated process of deleting your account, if you registered an account with us using Facebook, you may request your account be deleted. Your posted content will be maintained, but your user profile and login will be deleted. This post will be updated when the process changes. For now, please send create a new support request in our Private Support forum  or email privacy[at]swrebellion.com with your request. Please include your current username and email address.

This was not a feature we were planning to implement, but it is required by various networks which we allow integrated logins/registration, such as Facebook, Microsoft, Google, etc.