I began as the alliance and played for 100 days when the empire kept attacking and i had shortfalls coming out of my ass so i sent all my forces to courasaunt in a last effort. i got the results quickly, to my surprise, i won!!!!!!! i was in shock!!!!! i destoyed their defences qickly and got darth. about 600 days later i ran into palpatine on a SSD. i only had 3 mon cals, 3 corvetts, and 3 b-wings, they had 1 SSD, 1 interdictor, 7 fighter sqaudrons. i won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i deafeted the empire for the FIRST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!