The so-called "replacement warlords" were the beings who succeeded the thirteen warlords that had been executed by Admiral Daala in 12 ABY. They were located in the Deep Core, where industrial infrastructure had largely been left intact and where planets teemed with Imperial subjects. Few of the replacements possessed the strategic talents or resources commanded by those killed by Daala, but compensated with base cruelty and repression. However, the replacement warlords themselves remained, and re-organized themselves as the Second Imperium.