Trope
The empire and the rebellion
The convention of a small band of rebels resisting a vast, oppressive galactic or imperial power.
The empire and the rebellion in fiction: 6 works
The Foundation resists and outlasts the crumbling Galactic Empire.
A lunar penal colony revolts against Earth's rule in a war of independence.
A ragtag Rebellion resists the oppressive Galactic Empire, the saga's central conflict.
Former rebels evade the totalizing Alliance that won the war.
Independent players resist a corporation trying to seize control of the virtual world.
It chronicles the grassroots birth of the Rebellion against the Empire.