Continuity

Rulership of the Empire

The information from both canons is assumed to be true, and instead merely mutually incomplete.

A Shadow Council rules, ostensibly carrying out Emperor Palpatine's Operation: Cinder. A Grand Vizier sits on Coruscant who is mostly powerless and slowly losing control over even the planet he resides in.

At the same time. Ysanne Isard has established full command over Imperial Intelligence, and rules it almost like an empire of her own. Several admirals and moffs respond to her before the Shadow Council. The two factions jockey in the shadows, rather than in overt war.

A lot of the Empire's territory was lost not to the Republic, but to Warlords who set themselves up as independent, unchecked rulers over their own territories. Many of these used to be Admirals and Moffs in the Empire. The self-destructive commands given as part of Operation: Cinder greatly exacerbated this, and in turn this disloyalty ensured that the Operation has thus far had limited success.

Many former imperial officers, including many of their best minds in fields as diverse as science and naval strategy, are simply unaccounted for. Their fate may or may not be discovered over the course of ongoing storylines.