I hope so. Someone just said there is some way people come here from alternate timelines. It's hard to think of our galaxy existing in more than one reality, but I guess anything is possible. It might explain why we've had such different history.
We never had anything by that name, First Order. Leia has gotten irritated at the politics of the New Republic at times, but they haven't ever ignored her completely.
I certainly hope so. I'm starting to get a headache making sense of all this.