The next involves the Taffral family on Saleucami, whose allegiances lie between the Republic and the Empire. Interrupting the main chapters are occasional interludes, the first occurring on Chandrila, home to the reinstated Galactic Senate of the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire have the planet of Akiva in their sights, where Temmin Wexley runs a shop out of his old home and reunites with his mother Norra, with whom he eludes Imperial forces, along the way meeting bounty hunter Jas Emari and Imperial turncoat Sinjir Rath. In the first of the main chapters, Rebel pilot Wedge Antilles breaks out of hyperspace near an Imperial Star Destroyer overseen by Admiral Sloane, where he becomes a captive of the surviving Imperial Forces. In the prologue, Admiral Ackbar, one of the heroes of the Battle of Endor, indicates that while the rebellion against the Galactic Empire has ended, the war has just begun. However, a rebel scout encounters a secret meeting with top Imperial leaders spearheaded by Admiral Rae Sloane and Grand Moff Valco Pandion. While some systems across the galaxy celebrate, the remnants of the Empire tighten their clutch on others, with the rebels engaging the fractured forces. The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Second Death Star, and Emperor Sheev Palpatine and his lethal enforcer, fellow Sith Lord Darth Vader, are dead. Aftermath was one of the first canon Star Wars books occurring after Return of the Jedi but before The Force Awakens (which its publishers promoted as part of a Journey to Episode VII).