Possibly. My Star Wars lore is light weight though, I've only seen the films, and played both Dark Forces and KOTR.

Man I feel old. 

Anyone wanna suggest some further reading for me? If possible, I don't want to have to go through swathes of the starwars wiki if I can bring myself up to speed with a synopsis instead. For example, the RP mentions the Empire. Empire as in stormtroopers? If the Republic lost the battle, wouldn't the Empire not be around? Or is it another Empire?

Either way, I'm interested, I just need to go beef up my knowledge first. List me as a hopeful maybe.