Yes. There won't be another Emperor but the First Order will be a restoration of the Empire as it should have been.

[He didn't regret the sacrifices he had made and everything he had to endure his entire life. He couldn't imagine anything else or any other path ahead of him. Perhaps it would end in disaster, he had long since accepted that this would be something that could cost him his life at one point, if he wasn't careful.

And now he had failed with Starkiller's destruction. Even if it hadn't been him directly, the responsibility still sat on his shoulders and he knew he would be called to answer for his shortcomings.

But he answered Rey with honesty, however though he wasn't sure what he could say about Kylo Ren. Snoke had always made it clear that Hux wasn't to question anything to do with Ren. He honestly had no answers for her.]

The Republic attempted to restore peace by force as well. They forced Imperial systems to bow down against their will and forced the remains of the Imperial leadership into the Galactic Concordance on Republic terms.

A treaty and disarmament the Republic soon turned around and broke.

There was never any true peace.