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Galactic Republic
General information
Organization type
Unicameral federal democratic republic[1]
Founding document
Galactic Constitution[2]
Constitution
Galactic Constitution[2]
Head of state
Supreme Chancellor[3]
Head of government
Supreme Chancellor[3]
Commander-in-chief
Supreme Commander[4]
Executive branch
Office of the Supreme Chancellor[5]
Legislative branch
Galactic Senate[6]
Judicial branch
Supreme Court[7]
Military branch
Republic Military[8]
Societal information
Capital
Coruscant[9]
Official language
Old Galactic Standard[10]
Galactic Basic Standard[10]
Currency
Galactic Credit Standard[11]
Official holiday
Republic Day[12]
Anthem
"All Stars Burn as One"[13]
Historical information
Date established
25,053 BBY[2]
Date fragmented
1100 BBY[14]
Date reorganized
1000 BBY, Ruusan Reformation[15]
Date dissolved
19 BBY[5] (Reorganized into Galactic Empire)
Date restored
4 ABY as the New Republic[16]
Other information
Era(s)
Old Republic era[2]
Rise of the Empire era[5]
[Source]
"The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No
need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that it was the
Republic."
?From the Journal of the Whills[src]
The Galactic Republic was the ruling government of the galaxy that existed for more
than 25 thousand years, until it's reformation into the first Galactic Empire in 19
BBY. Throughout its existence, the state was commonly known as the Republic. In the
post-Republic era and beyond, it was remembered as the Old Republic; it was also
rarely known as the Old Galactic Republic or First Galactic Republic. At times, the
term Old Order was used to describe the Republic but was not common.

The Galactic Republic was a representative democracy, composed of various star

systems, sectors and member worlds throughout most of the known galaxy. Its central
government consisted of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. The
first was the Galactic Senate, a body of elected or appointed representatives. Its
main duties included mediating disputes over issues ranging from planetary to
galactic-scale, regulating trade routes between star systems, and in theory,
represented the interests of Republic citizens. The Office of the Supreme
Chancellor was the Senate's executive counterpart. The Supreme Chancellor was
elected from the ranks of the Senate by its members. As the leader of the Senate
and the overall representative of the Republic, the Chancellor also held the titles
Head of State and President. The judicial branch consisted of the Supreme Court and
the lower Regional Courts. The Supreme Court was composed of twelve justices, one
of whom held the leadership position of Chief Justice.
Throughout most of its history as the dominant galactic power, the Republic did not
style itself as a strong centralized government, but rather as a union of sovereign
planets for the purposes of collective security and economic prosperity. It was
said that its complete history could "fill a thousand libraries." In the last
decades that preceded the rise of Emperor Palpatine's New Order, the Republic was a
benevolentthough ineffectualgovernment tied up in layers of bureaucracy, hampered
by political and corporate corruption. The Galactic Republic, which had existed for
at least 25,034 years, was brought down by the Sith, when they transformed it into
the Galactic Empire. This however, was just the first of seven regime changes, that
replaced the Republic, over the next 157 years.
Contents[show]
HistoryEdit
FormationEdit
"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and
justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the Empire."
?Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker[src]
Atlas pre-republic
The Human Core around which the Republic was formed
The Republic was born with the ratification of the Galactic Constitution in 25,053
BBY, during the Unification Wars. During that time Humans and Duros reverse-
engineered the Force-based technologies of the Infinite Empire to create the first
hyperdrive, allowing Coruscant to become the capital of the Galactic Republic 53
years later and would remain that way for twenty-five thousand years. The founding
members of the government, largely Humans from the Core Worlds were protected from
outside influence by the clandestine group known as the GenoHaradan, an
organization which wished to see the government flourish and whose existence was
unknown to the galactic populace, even the Jedi Order.

Shortly after the formation of the Republic, the Perlemian Trade Route was mapped,
linking Coruscant to Ossus, and bringing the Jedi Knights into the Republic. A key
world of this route was Muunilinst which was the source of the Republic credit that
traded with the native Muun who controlled the newly formed InterGalactic Banking
Clan. Over the next millennia, the Corellian Run was mapped, linking Coruscant to
Corellia and beyond. The wedge defined by the two trade routes became known as "the
Slice." Since the stretch of hyperspace galactic-west of Coruscant was anomaly-
ridden and impassable for the current Republic technology, the government expanded
eastward instead. The Core Worlds portion of the Slice was known as the Arrowhead,
and soon the Republic expanded into the Colonies.
Though history often recalls the Republic as peaceful, numerous galactic conflicts,
such as the Hundred-Year Darkness, the Old Sith Wars, the Vultar Cataclysm, the
Mandalorian Wars, the Jedi Civil War, the New Sith Wars, and the Clone Wars,
occurred throughout its existence.
Early historyEdit
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Former symbol of the Republic, before being replaced with later symbols.
At first, the government on Coruscant wished for slow expansion, despite its
promotion of hyperspace exploration. However, against the government's wishes, the
membership of the Republic boomed for its first millennium of existence, mainly due
to worlds wishing to join as protection against the Hutt Empire. In 25,000 BBY its
capital had officially become a galactic hub.

For years, the Jedi Knights and the ancient armies and navies of the Republic
defended against violence. Around 24,500 BBY, the First Great Schism occurred,
after the Legions of Lettow were established by dissident Jedi who believed that
true power was achieved not through passive meditation, as taught by their Jedi
Masters, but through emotion. The tension between the Jedi and these dissident
Fallen Jedi, led first by Xendor, and then after Xendor's death, by Arden Lyn, grew
until conflict erupted.
In 24,000 BBY, the Republic entered into the Tionese War against the Honorable
Union of Desevro & Tion. The war traveled up and down the Perlemian, and the
respective capitals of Coruscant and Desevro both suffered volleys of pressure
bombs. The Republic eventually won the war by stirring up the Hutts against the
Tionese. Within a century, most of the Tion Cluster swore allegiance to Coruscant,
except for Desevro, which chose to remain independent.
Atlas early republic
The early Republic around 22,000 BBY.
During the Great Manifest Period (20,000 17,000 BBY), the Republic expanded
eastwards across the galaxy. Despite this, the Slice would remain the heart of
navigable space. Eventually, the Republic expanded past the galactic-northern and
-southern borders of the Slice, though most of the galaxy was still unknown, except
for outposts such as Ord Mantell (12,000 BBY) and Malastare (8000 BBY). The space
west of Coruscant still remained unexplored since analogues to the Perlemian Trade
Route and the Corellian Run in that direction still had not been discovered. Worse,
progress was limited to dangerous one- or two-light-year jumps into a stretch of
hyperspatial anomalies. During this period, the Expansion Region was formed.
However, this region suffered greatly as a result of the Alsakan attempting to
snatch control of the Republic from Coruscant. This resulted in seventeen Alsakan
Conflicts, spanning from 17,000 BBY to 3000 BBY. However, most of the fighting took
place between their holdings in the Expansion Region, rather than in the Core
itself. For the most part, Coruscant won every conflict it fought, though the
seventh one was a notable exception.

During this period, the First Arkanian Conflict also took place. The Arkanian
geneticists also began a series of genetic experiments of other sentient species,
most notably bundling away several six-armed Xexto from Troiken, and transforming
them into a new species known as the Quermians.
In 15,500 BBY, after a disastrous first contact, Coruscant was assaulted by Star
Dragons in the Duinuogwuin Contention. The conflict was peacefully resolved by
Supreme Chancellor Fillorean and the Star Dragon philosopher Borz'Mat'oh, who
together founded the University of Coruscant. At some time prior to 12,000 BBY, the
Galactic Museum was established on Coruscant.
Oldrepublic 05 07
The Senate Hall.
Around 12,000 BBY, Contispex I became Supreme Chancellor. He and his descendants
belonged to the theocratic Pius Dea cult that would control the Republic for the
next 1,000 years. These fanatic Supreme Chancellors sanctioned "crusades" against
rival alien sects in the Rim. After 11,000 BBY the cult may have violently
dissolved. The tensions from the fallout of the crusades would deepen the rifts
between the Core Worlds and those of the Rim, which Emperor Palpatine would exploit
during his reign millennia later.

Around 9000 BBY, Blotus the Hutt became Supreme Chancellor and ruled the Galactic
Republic for 275 years during the Rianitus Period. Unlike most other Hutts, Blotus
was a distinguished and just ruler. At least by 7308 BBY, the Galactic Standard
Calendar was fixed.
In 7003 BBY, the Second Great Schism occurred when a group of fallen Jedi
discovered a Force technique that could alter lifeforms. This started the
centuries-long Hundred-Year Darkness, which saw the creation of monstrous
creatures, most notably the serpentine Leviathans, which drew life-energies into
blister-traps on their backs. At the Battle of Corbos in 6900 BBY, the Jedi crushed
the rebellion and banished these fallen Jedi from known space. However, the fallen
Jedi discovered Korriban, a desolate world inhabited by the relatively primitive
but unusually Force-sensitive Sith people.
Using their training in the Force, the fallen Jedi amazed the Sith and elevated
themselves to god-like status on nearby Ziost, becoming the rulers of the Sith
people. As years passed, and interbreeding occurred between the fallen Jedi and the
Sith, the term "Sith" came to mean not only the original inhabitants of Korriban
and Ziost, but also their fallen Jedi masters.
Battle of Coruscant (Great Hyperspace War)
Coruscant, the Galactic capital, assaulted during the Great Hyperspace War.
In 5000 BBY, the Jedi and the Sith Empire clashed in the Great Hyperspace War. Many
worlds were forever scarred in that battle, but the Jedi were able to repulse the
invaders. After that, the Republic granted the Jedi land over a Force nexus: a
sacred mountain on Coruscant over which the Jedi Temple was constructed.

In 4250 BBY, the Third Great Schism occurred, which involved fighting on Coruscant.
The surviving Dark Jedi were forced to flee to the Vultar system, where they
discovered ancient technology indicating that the system's worlds were artificial
constructs, probably the creations of the mysterious Celestials who had also built
the Corellian system. These Dark Jedi took over these machines, including the
Cosmic Turbine, but could not control them, and soon destroyed the whole system and
everything in them during the Vultar Cataclysm. Around 4000 BBY, four Jedi Masters
(two Warrior Masters and two Sage Masters) established the ziggurat of the Jedi
Temple over the Force nexus on Coruscant, which would stand for over four thousand
years.
Old Sith WarsEdit
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"The Republic is a stagnant beast that had been killing its people for years before
the war began."
?Canderous Ordo, referring to the Mandalorian Wars[src]
The year 4015 BBY saw the Great Droid Revolution on Coruscant, led by HK-01, who
was eventually defeated by Arca Jeth and the Jedi. During the conflict, Arca Jeth
discovered techniques for disabling machines through the use of the Force.

Following those conflicts were those of the Old Sith Wars, that began of c.4000 BBY
which almost destroyed the Republic. During the Great Sith War (4000 BBY3996 BBY),
the Sith Lords Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma, along with their Krath and Mandalorian
allies, waged war on the Republic, causing devastation until they were defeated by
the combined Jedi and Republic forces. Afterward, the Cleansing of the Nine Houses
and subsequently the Great Hunt occurred (39953993 BBY).
Battle of Vanquo
Republic and Mandalorian fleets clash at the Battle of Vanquo.
These would be followed by the Mandalorian Wars (39763960 BBY). They were fought
between Mandalorian forces hoping to expand their colonies beyond the Outer Rim
Territories and the Galactic Republic, which feared further incursions. The
Mandalorian Wars were a prelude to the more devastating Jedi Civil War (39593956
BBY). The Jedi Civil War, also known to some as the War of the Star Forge, was
fought between the Republic and the Sith Empire under Darth Revan and Darth Malak.
It was possibly the most destructive conflict of that entire era, with many worlds,
including Taris, Dantooine, and Telos IV, being devastated by the Sith fleet. After
the Jedi Civil War, the Sith remnants, fought each other, exterminated the
remaining Jedi and waged a secret war with the Republic, until the Battle of
Malachor (3956-3951 BBY). One year later, the Sith Civil War ended, with a sole
survivor on Korriban, who began the rule of two, by finding a Sith Apprentice. This
was the end of the Old Sith Wars.

In 3900 BBY, Queen Elsinor den Tasia of the Core World of Grizmallt sponsored an
expansion fleet of three vesselsBeneficent Tasia, Constant, and Mother Vima. This
fleet was led by the Republic explorer Kwilaan, and would discover the planet
Naboo.
From 3970 3670 BBY, the Kanz Disorders took place in the Kanz sector. During that
time, the Provisional Governor Myrial of Argazda seceded from the Republic and
established a military regime throughout the Kanz Sector. During the conflict that
followed, her military forces invaded planets that resisted her reign throughout
the Kanz Sector, including Lorrd. She often enslaved their inhabitants, most
notably the Lorrdians of Lorrd.
The enslaved Lorrdians were forbidden by their masters from communicating with each
other. As a result, they were forced to develop a system of subtle gestures, facial
expressions, and body postures to talk to each other. This nonverbal form of
communication would still be in use over four millennia later. After three
centuries and the loss of over five billion lives, including those of some 500
million Lorrdians, the Kanz Disorders finally ended when Jedi/Republic efforts
toppled the regime in 3670 BBY.
In 3700 BBY, the pioneer woman and Brentaal IV native Freia Kallea discovered the
Hydian Way, which spanned the entire north-south width of the galaxy. This allowed
the Republic to expand past the Slice into the worlds of the Mid and Outer Rims,
and also led to the discovery of more hyperspace routes, including the Corellian
Trade Spine, thus starting the Second Expansion Wave.
StupidRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit
Symbol of the Republic during the Sith Empire's return.
In 3681 BBY, the Sith Empire returned to wage war against the Republic in the Great
Galactic War. The War greatly weakened the Republic, culminating in the Sacking of
Coruscant and the signing of the Treaty of Coruscant in 3653 BBY. The Treaty of
Coruscant placed several major burdens on the Republic. A large economic depression
began, slowing the rebuilding process and stalling efforts to restore peace. The
Treaty of Coruscant also forced the Republic to abandon many long-time allies,
including the Bothans. The Republic was forced to relinquish control of many
planets to the Sith Empire, such as Balmorra. As a result of the Great Galactic War
and its subsequent treaty, which left the Republic in an unfavorable position, many
star systems began withdrawing from the Republic. The Mantellian Separatist
Movement took over Ord Mantell, beginning the Separatist War, while Alderaan
seceded from the Republic altogether, beginning the Alderaan Civil War. The
Republic was plagued with an insurmountable supply crisis and chaos in the streets
of Coruscant; and the Senate was left paralyzed. Confused by the chaos, the
insolvent Senate blamed the War and its current problems on the Jedi, sparking a
feud with the Order that saw their departure from Coruscant and relocation to their
ancestral homeworld of Tython. After the Great Galactic War, the Cold War began,
lasting for 11 years before the tense peace collapsed in 3642 BBY, beginning the
Galactic War.
In 3000 BBY, the Seventeenth Alsakan Conflict ended with the final defeat of
Alsakan, and the introduction of the Invincible-class Dreadnaught into the Republic
fleet.

New Sith WarsEdit

Blue Glass Arrow Main article: New Sith Wars
"I will not let this Republic that has stood for a thousand years be split in two."
?Palpatine[src]
NewSithWars
The Ruusan campaign put an end to the Sith threat
In 2000 BBY, the Republic once more faced the menace of the Sith in the New Sith.
This time, the Jedi took the forefront of the war. The conflict fluctuated until
the Battle of Mizra in 1466 BBY, which saw one of the largest Sith victories in the
entire war. The losses for the Republic were so catastrophic that a dark age began,
with widespread social unrest and economic collapse.

The Republic itself shrunk to a mere rump state surrounding the Core Worlds, Inner
Colonies, and few other worlds outside it, with the Sith Empire encompassing
virtually the rest of the entire galaxy. The Jedi took over absolute authority,
ruling the remainder of the Republic directly. The Senate was bypassed, with sole
governing power residing in the Jedi, while the Republic's armed forces were
absorbed into the Jedi Army of Light.
After nearly five hundred years of continued war, the Army of Light had beat back
the Sith to the planet Ruusan. They were finally defeated in 1000 BBY at the
Seventh Battle of Ruusan, although almost all the forces of the Army of Light that
were on Ruusan also perished. The lone Sith survivor, Darth Bane, subsequenty
initiated the Rule of Two, meaning that at any given time there would only be one
Sith Master, and an apprentice. They continued this method over the next
millennium, in secrecy, waiting patiently for the right moment to bring down the
Jedi.
Following the battle, the Ruusan Reformation was enacted by Chancellor Tarsus
Valorum. It returned power to the Senate, placed the Jedi under the authority of
the Republic government, and disbanded the vast majority of its remaining military.
At long last, with war after war, peace and prosperity came to the Republic. Yet
with it came a dangerous complacency. Vast armies and navies were downscaled, and
the Republic came to rely on the Jedi more and more for the maintenance of
civility. Despite a few isolated flash pointslike the Stark Hyperspace War and the
Battle of Naboofull-scale military conflict remained a distant memory.
Nonetheless, remote planets theoretically under jurisdiction of the Republic hardly
could find the technology that was commonly available near the Core.[17] Feeling
little interest for those planets, the Republic did not even chart them properly or
classify all of their flora and fauna.[18]
The decline of the RepublicEdit
"The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling
delegates. There is no interest in the common good."
?Senator Palpatine[src]
As the Republic grew more and more powerful, many of the bureaucrats and Senators
that ran the government grew increasingly corrupt or complacent. The bureaucracy
that had grown and festered over millennia choked any attempt at effective
government. Furthermore, patron politics and personal agendas also hampered
effective governing, and due to the increasing collusion of decadent governmental
agents and politicians with favored groups, corporations like the Trade Federation
and Techno Union grew in power and even formed their own militaries. It is likely,
given the eventual result of this decline, that it was nurtured and accelerated
(and perhaps even started) by the Sith during the centuries they spent in hiding
after the Battle of Ruusan.

Republic Emblem (unification wars)

Bendu-inspired symbol used during the later stages of the Clone Wars.
During this time (32 BBY) the Senator of Naboo was Palpatine. His home world was
under siege by the Trade Federation. Despite the full-scale invasion of the planet,
the call to condemn the invasion was tied up in bureaucratic procedure. When Queen
Amidalathe elected leader of the sovereign system of Naboospoke before the
Senate, calling for action, she also called for a Vote of No Confidence in the
leadership of the Republic, under the persuasion of Palpatine, and Chancellor Finis
Valorum was voted out of office. This led to the increasingly-popular Palpatine's
election as the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic.

Clone WarsEdit
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Clone Wars
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Coruscant under attack during the last phase of the Clone Wars
"There hasn't been a full-scale war since the formation of the Republic."
?Sio Bibble[src]
Traditionally, the Chancellor could only serve two four-year terms, but Palpatine
stayed in office much longer, due to the prolonged Separatist Crisis.

The crisis occurred when several of the Republic's star systems and commercial
organizations, fed up with the corruption and obliviousness to their issues and
concerns in the Republic, united in order to separate from the Republic. This
unified front became known as the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Tensions
between the Republic and the Separatists eventually escalated into all-out war
after a Jedi strike team came to Geonosis, which started the First Battle of
Geonosisand the Clone Wars. The Senate granted Palpatine emergency powers to deal
with the Separatist Confederacy in a motion introduced by the Naboo representative
Jar Jar Binks. Palpatine's first move, widely supported at the time, was to create
a vast army of clone warriors to serve as the Republic's fighting force against the
Confederacy. The Republic had not previously needed an army, since until then any
small conflicts within the Republic could be solved by recourse to the peacekeeping
Jedi, or to local navies and militias. However, the fact that the Confederacy had
access to an enormous army of droid soldiers required the Republic to construct a
more formal federal military in order to effectively fight.
However at least one enemy of the Republic managed to turn away from the CIS and
ally itself with the galactic government, it was Jabba Desilijic Tiure's criminal
empire, for rescuing their leader's son, secretly held captive by the Separatists,
thus the Republic had some advantage over the CIS during the war. Along with their
allegiance with the Hutts, the Republic was allowed use of the Hutts' hyperspace
lanes.
In the ensuing years, the Senate increasingly gave more power to Palpatine, who
became the war's political Commander-in-Chief. Such actions were justified in the
name of security, and eventually Palpatine did not need the approval of the Senate
for many of his actions. Since the Chancellor held the loyalties of a vast majority
of supporters in the Senate, this was considered a perfectly reasonable way to
increase the wartime government's efficiency. The citizens of the galaxy, who had
long since lost faith in the corrupt and inefficient Republic itself, came to see
Palpatine personally as their protector from the droid armies and their terrible
commander, General Grievous.
The end of democracyEdit
"So this is how liberty dies with thunderous applause."
?Padm Amidala, to Bail Organa following the Declaration of a New Order Gnome-
speakernotesListen (file info)[src]
Declaration
Palpatine replaces the Republic with the Galactic Empire.
Tension between Chancellor Palpatine and the Jedi Order grew as the Council became
increasingly wary of the Chancellor's lust for greater power. As the Chancellor
continued to increase his authority through a variety of emergency powers, the
Council became ever more suspicious of Palpatine's intentions and ultimately
disapproved of the Republic's gradual slide into autocracy, especially at the
expense of the Senatethe only governmental body that the Order was legally
obligated to serve.[19]

With the help of Anakin Skywalker, the Council discovered that Palpatine was
actually the elusive Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith, and thus they conspired
to arrest the Republic's own head of state. The Jedi coup d'tat ended in failure,
however, when Palpatine killed all four of the Jedi Masters, including Mace Windu,
that tried to take him into custody. He then responded by declaring all Jedi as
enemies of the Republic and won the Senate's support after portraying them as
assassins bent on taking over the Republic. Through Order 66, the Chancellor
realized the Sith's long-awaited dream of the Jedi Order's destruction. Without
warning, the clone troopers of the Grand Army betrayed and murdered most of their
Jedi officers.[19]
As the Clone Wars ended with the onset of the Great Jedi Purge in 19 BBY, Palpatine
addressed the Senate and declared the rise of a New Order, beginning with the
Republic's immediate transformation into the Galactic Empire. Palpatine, who had
been grotesquely disfigured during the attempt on his life, proclaimed himself
emperor of the galaxy, thus transforming the office of the Supreme Chancellor into
what it had already becomean absolute dictatorship. Deluded by Palpatine's charm
and skill, in conjunction with the effects of his dark side powers of persuasion,
the majority of the Senate cheered him on loudly in approval. Soon afterward,
industries were nationalized and the Republic was replaced by the totalitarian
Empire, ruled by a megalomaniac autocrat.[19]
Imperial Emblem
The emblem of the Galactic Empire is a redesign of the Old Republic's symbol.
After more than 25,000 years, the Galactic Republic had ceased to exist. Only a
shrunken, powerless Imperial Senate remained as the last symbol of the old galactic
government. Prior to its dissolution two decades after the rise of the Empire, the
Senate was nothing more than an ineffective advisory board that Palpatine tolerated
until his reign was consolidated enough for him to rule without the stagnant
bureaucracy. With the last remnant of the Old Republic destroyed by the very man
whom they supported, the Senate's responsibilities were redirected to the Moffs and
regional governors, all of whom were empowered to rule over their respective
territories in the name of Emperor Palpatine.[19][20]

LegacyEdit
"We, the Beings of the Galaxy, in order to form a free union of planets, establish
justice, provide for common peace and prosperity, and to secure liberty for all
beings, do ordain and establish this New Republic. Let the stars sing! Let the
planets shout! Let the Republic begin!"
?Excerpt from the Declaration of a New Republic[src]
Gavrisompellaeon
After decades of Imperial oppression, the restoration of the Republic is officially
recognized with the Empire's capitulation.
Barely a year into the reign of Emperor Palpatine, the Empire's precursor state
became known as the "Old" Republic, mainly to emphasize the various excuses behind
the Republic's fall and the creation of the Empire.[21] Though the Emperor focused
much of his reign towards the gradual elimination of all remaining symbols that
reminded the Imperial populace of their democratic past and heritage, the long
history and cherished principles of the Old Republic were secretly held dear by a
growing number of Imperial citizens that became disillusioned with the Empire due
to the oppressive measures that Palpatine enacted to further strengthen his hold
over the galaxy.[20]

By 2 BBY, the Emperor's tyranny motivated several dissidents within the Imperial
Senate to create the Alliance to Restore the Republic, thus initiating the Galactic
Civil War.[22] Six years later, the deaths of both Emperor Palpatine and Darth
Vader at the climactic Battle of Endor enabled the struggling Alliance to rebound
from certain defeat while the Empire descended into chaos and disorder.[23]
In the following week, the Rebellion fought in the Bakura Incident, immediately
after that conflict the Alliance to Restore the Republic, was reorganized into the
Alliance of Free Planets, in the following month, the Alliance of Free Planets
fought in the Nagai Tof War and immediately after the conflict, the new alliance,
was reorganized into the New Republic. In 6.5 ABY, the New Republic, took
Coruscant, twice, from the local Imperial faction, thus the restored Republic, had
officially claimed authority over the galaxy. In 11 ABY, the New Jedi Order was
created in the Jedi Praxeum, on Yavin 4. After the Imperial Reunification in 12
ABY, the Imperial Civil War had ended and unified the feuding Imperial factions
into the Imperial Remnant.[24] In 19 ABY, the New Republic and the Imperial
Remnant, signed a peace treaty that ended the Galactic Civil War, fifteen years
after the Battle of Endor. The memory of the Old Republic, along with many of its
ideals, were further carried on after the New Republic reorganized itself into the
Galactic Alliance, due to the war with the extra galactic Yuuzhan Vong, who
themselves had briefly taken over the galaxy.[25] Until the outbreak of the
SithImperial War (127-130 ABY), the Alliance and the Imperial Remnant, which in 44
ABY, at the aftermath of the Lost Tribe War, was reorganized into the Fel Empire,
coexisted peacefullysometimes with great difficultyfor over a century.[26] In 130
ABY, the Fel Empire had finally taken over the Galaxy, only for their dominance to
be short lived to a few months, when the resurgent empire became Darth Krayt's
Galactic Empire, which divided the previous government into the Empire in exile and
the Galactic Alliance Remnant, who began the Second Imperial Civil War and the
Third Jedi Purge. In 138 ABY, Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire, was taken down by an
allegiance of the Galactic Alliance Remnant, the Empire-in-exile and the fragmented
New Jedi Order and created the new democratic government, known as the Galactic
Federation Triumvirate. Two year later, the GFT, would defeat the Sith and allow
the galaxy, to enter an era of peace.
Government and politicsEdit
"I love democracy. I love the Republic."
?Palpatine[src]
Galactic Senate
The Senate building, behind the Avenue of the Core Founders.
The Republic began as a mutual protection and economic alliance among a number of
planets in the galactic core. The Republic's greatest failing was its lack of
formal organization. Much of its operation was based on nonbinding constitutional
conventions, which were more often ignored and undermined by corrupt and power-
hungry politicians than heeded. Coalition governments were common, with special
interests defining the legislative agenda. The Senate, in the later years of the
Republic, was so ineffectual that many politically connected corporations and
informal blocs of ideologically like-minded planets could essentially do what they
wanted; corrupt governmental bodies even made it possible for certain entities,
such as the Trade Federation, to construct de facto sovereign and immense military
forces.

However, the waning years of the Republic were a time of corruption and great
social injustice. The Senate became divided between those who genuinely wished to
uphold the values and ideals of the Republic, and those who wished to further their
own goals. After a series of weak and ineffectual Chancellors and a crisis
involving the invasion of the planet Naboo by the Trade Federation over a tariff
passed in the Senate, the time had come for strong leadership to end the
corruption.
Within the government, much of the bureaucracy was handled by the General Ministry.
Within this body were the Ministries of State, Intelligence, Commerce, Defense,
Education, Finance, Licenses and Permits, Public Information, Science, Security and
Intelligence, Internal Security, and Science and Education.
Legislative branchEdit
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Galactic Senate
Each member state (system governments) returned a representative (a senator) to a
central legislative body (the Senate). Senators were the ambassadors of their home
worlds, and member worlds were able to maintain their government and society in
accordance with local beliefs, customs, and traditions. There was a wide variety of
different local governments along the political spectrum: from monarchies to
republics to hive-like communes. In some systems, the senator was elected to that
post; in others, the world government appointed the senator. Naboo's monarch
appointed their senators, while the Alderaan Council of Elders elected their
senator out of their own ranks (usually the heir to the Royal House of Organa, as
the heir was also the leader of the council).

Galacticsenate
The Senate Rotunda.
When the Republic's power and influence expanded, many new areas of the galaxy were
incorporated into the Republic. A reorganization of senatorial representation
occurred in the year 1000 BBY, during the Ruusan Reformation. The most common
organization for these new territories was to group regions into sectors of
approximately fifty inhabited worlds. Each sector was represented by a senatorial
delegation. When the number of senators became too large, sectors were organized
into roughly a thousand regions, each represented by one delegation to the Senate.

The Senate was headquartered in an enormous building containing many floating

platforms, each of which contained several senators. Each platform in the Senate
represented a "sector" of the galaxy, with one senator from each planet in that
sector. Some platforms represented individual worlds, others the powerful
corporations and guilds such as the Trade Federation. Along with the senators, the
leaders of the individual member planets also had the power to vote in the Senate
and introduce legislation. The Senate followed such parliamentary rules as a Vote
of No Confidence, such as that introduced by Queen Amidala of Naboo which forced
Chancellor Finis Valorum out of office in 32 BBY.
TF Senate
Senator Lott Dod of the Trade Federation addresses the Senate.
Senators received one vote in all mattersprocedural and substantive. The
Chancellor was elected from within the Senate. The assembly was in turn divided
into individual committees, each specializing in specific fields of government
administration, and which were responsible for creating legislation to be reviewed
by the full assembly.

Although legislation passed by the Senate was binding to all member worlds, most of
the everyday legislation followed by citizens of the Republic was created at the
planetary, sector, or regional level. Therefore, the main functions of the Senate
were to mediate disputes between members, provide for the common defense, and
regulate inter-system trade.
Executive branchEdit
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Supreme Chancellor
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Office of the Supreme Chancellor
The members of the Senate would then elect a Supreme Chancellor from amongst their
ranks who would serve as the Republic's head of government (and, by default, head
of state) and chief diplomat.

The office was largely powerless in the last years of the Republic, especially
after the Ruusan Reformation, and the Chancellor served mainly as an officiator of
parliamentary procedure and the first among equals in the Senate. However, it had
the authority to call an Extraordinary Session of the Senate, and could invoke
"Chancellor's prerogative" in circumventing minor aspects of the Senate's
parliamentary procedure. He also was the head of the Senatorial Council.
It was still a very prestigious position, however, and the Chancellor had a grand
office in both the Senate Rotunda's Chancellery and in the dome-like Senate Office
Building in Galactic City. The Chancellor was properly addressed as "Your
Excellency." The symbol of the office of the Chancellor, as well as the Galactic
Senate as a whole, was a fanned spear. This cygnet was also emblazoned prominently
on the Chancellor's podium in the center of the Senate Rotunda's Main Chamber. When
in the Main Chamber, the Chancellor usually wore a Veda cloth robe. The Chancellor
was elected from among the senators who made up the Galactic Senate and served a
term of office that lasted for four standard years. A Chancellor could legally
serve only two consecutive four-year terms before he or she had to step down due to
term limits.
The office became much more powerful during the term of Chancellor Palpatine, who
was able to convince the Senate to grant him a range of "emergency" powers due to
the Separatist Crisis and then the Clone Wars, including an unconstitutional
extension of his term of office after 24 BBY for the duration of the Separatist
Crisis and authority as commander-in-chief of their new military during the Clone
Wars. The Chancellor was given more direct power over administrative concerns, and
he was allowed to overrule local planetary and sectoral governments. The Sector
Governance Decree allowed him to appoint military governors to every planet in the
Republic, and the Security Act amendment gave him complete control over the Jedi
Order and Republic military, stripping both the Jedi and the Senate of their
previous oversight.
Eventually, Palpatine became a dictator and proclaimed himself Emperor of the
galaxy, thus abolishing the office of Chancellor and transforming the Galactic
Republic into the Galactic Empire. The position was not revived by the New
Republic, which chose instead to call its chief executive the Chief of State.
Ironically, Palpatine's thirteen years in office, added to his reign as Galactic
Emperor, forever tainted the once noble and prestigious position of Chancellor so
much so that it was far too controversial to revive in the New Republic even though
before Palpatine it had been a symbol of good in the Old Republic.
Judicial branchEdit
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Supreme Court
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Regional Court
The Supreme Court was the highest court of law in the Old Republic, and composed
the judicial branch of the Republic's government. The Supreme Court was
headquartered in the Galactic Courts of Justice Building on Coruscant.
The Court consisted of twelve justices (each addressed as "Your Honor"); one of
them was the Chief Justice who headed both the Court and the judicial branch. The
Supreme Chancellor apparently could influence appointments to the Court in some way
(at least during Palpatine's tenure), most likely through nominations.
In addition to serving as a "court of last resort" and as a determiner of
constitutional legality, the Supreme Court also tried cases involving the highest
politicians and most noteworthy people in the Republic. However, at least some
cases (including the trial of senators for treason) were handled by the Senate.
Relationship with the Jedi OrderEdit
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Jedi Order
"The Republic keeps the Jedi in check. It maintains control and imposes order
across thousands of worlds. But if the Republic falls, a score of new interstellar
governments and galactic organizations will rise. It is far easier to manipulate
and control a single enemy than twenty. That it is why we must seek out radical
separatist groups, identify the ones that have the potential to become true
threats, then encourage them to strike before they are ready. We must exploit them,
playing them off against the Republic. We must let our enemies weaken one another
while we stay hidden and grow strong. One day the Republic will fall and the Jedi
will be wiped out. But it will not happen until we are ready to seize that power
for ourselves."
?Darth Bane[src]
JediTemple-TZBSB
The Jedi Temple, headquarters of the Order on Coruscant.
When the formation of the Galactic Republic occurred in 25,053 BBY,[2] the Jedi
Order had already existed for several hundred years on the planet Tython.[27]
Within a century since the Republic's conception, the Order pledged its support for
the new government, and thus became formally answerable to the Galactic Senate. But
despite the Jedi's allegiance to the Senate, the Order had always enjoyed a great
degree of autonomy to act as they saw fit, especially regarding internal Jedi
affairs. Nevertheless, for thousands of years the Jedi Order's members consistently
served the Senate in a variety of capacitieswhether as special emissaries,
peacekeepers, or warriors.[28][29]

But as the Republic gradually expanded its sphere of influence over the known
galaxy, the unprecedented level of peace and prosperity also led to a virtually
irreversible trend in corruption, decadence and stagnation, especially amongst the
elected officials of the Senate. Yet throughout all of that time, the Jedi Order
maintained its traditions and principles, often acting as a beacon of honor and
integrity within a society that was becoming increasingly amoral and unjust. The
Republic government's decline into greed and complacency was not lost on the Jedi
either; many within the Order loathed the thought of being accountable to an
ineffectual system that was too large and disorganized to efficiently counter the
growing list of problems that plagued the Republic and its citizens.[30][31]
Throughout its long history, the Jedi were forced to intervene on "behalf" of the
Senate by diffusing internal and external threats to the Republic's stability.
During the New Sith Wars, the Order was even forced to take a more "hands on"
approach to government itself, mainly by commandeering the executive office of
Supreme Chancellor due to the Senate's inability to counter the danger that the
Sith posed to Republic primacy throughout the galaxy; it would take an entire
millennium before the Jedi could risk leaving the government to its own devices
once more.[32][33]
After the Sith were presumably destroyed in the conclusion of the Seventh Battle of
Ruusan, the Jedi Order was able to enjoy a thousand years of keeping the peace
throughout the Republic without having to worry about another galactic-scale war.
Though the demilitarization of the Republic armed forces placed an even greater
burden on the Order, the Jedi handled their responsibilities well enough to ensure
that the Republic's stability was not threatened by the sudden lack of a strong
military force.[30][31]
Clone Army Charge
When necessary, the Jedi defend the Republic on behalf of the Galactic Senate.
As the Republic reached the twilight of its existence, relations between the Jedi
Order and the galactic government on Coruscant had grown strained more than ever.
The Senate was filled by a large majority of self-serving delegates who cared
nothing for the troubles of their constituents, effectively reducing the few honest
members to an ineffective collection of senators with little hope of restoring
honesty to the august body. The Jedi Council grew ever more disdainful of the
Senate to the point where they believed that no politician could ever be trusted.
Likewise, the Senate began losing faith in their ancient protectors. As the
Separatist Crisis worsened to the point where the galaxy was on the verge of being
split in half, many senators came to doubt the Order's ability to safeguard the
Republic or its government.[31]

Despite the evident animosity between the Order and the legislature, the Senate
wasted no time in commissioning the Jedi as officers in the newly formed Grand Army
of the Republic. Throughout the conflict with the Separatists, the Jedi Order acted
once more as the Senate's armed instrument by leading millions of soldiers and
amassing countless victories on various battlefields throughout the galaxy. But
even as the Jedi championed the Republic cause and led its army to ultimate victory
over the Separatists, the relationship between the Order and the Senate was nowhere
near any improvement. The tension reached its climax when the Jedi Council
contemplated seizing control of the Senate, an action they would have only had to
take had they removed Chancellor Palpatine from office by force. Hence, the Council
had evidently lost all faith in the Senate's ability to preserve the Republic's
stability in time of crisis.[19]
After the Council failed to arrest Palpatine, the public facade of the Sith Lord
Darth Sidious, the Senate did not hesitate to rid itself of its Jedi guardians by
doing nothing as the Great Jedi Purge commenced with Order 66 and Operation:
Knightfall. With the Jedi virtually neutralized, and with the Senate under the
control of the Sith, Palpatine easily reorganized the Republic into the first
Galactic Empire with himself as emperor. Throughout Palpatine's Declaration of a
New Order, the vast majority of the Senate applauded the extremely radical
amendments that officially brought an end to a Republic that had existed for over
25,000 years. At the same time, the Jedi were being hunted down and annihilated by
the Empire while the Senate made no attempt to intercede on behalf of the
organization that had protected them since the founding of the Republic. For
thousands of years, the Jedi Order stayed true to their allegiance to the Galactic
Senate, even in the worst of times when the legislature reached the zenith of its
corruption, only to be betrayed and abandoned by the elected officials that they
were sworn to serve and protect.[19]
When the Senate was reformed after the fall of the Empire and the rise of the New
Republic, the undeniable advantages that the Jedi contributed to the Old Republic
convinced the New Senate to promote the restoration of the Jedi Order.[23]
Throughout most of its history, the Jedi Order personified the nobility of the
Galactic Republic; the mere existence of the Order enabled the Republic to exist as
the pinnacle of galactic civilization in spite of an incredibly corrupt and
inefficient legislature.[28] Without the Jedi Order, the Republic would have
collapsed under the Senate's dead weight long before its timea fact that was
proven when the near elimination of the Jedi allowed Darth Sidious to transform the
Republic into the Empire.[19]
Chancellors Office
The Jedi Council and the Supreme Chancellor, leader of the Galactic Senate, work
together for the good of the Republic.
To better improve the chances of preserving the fledgling New Republic, the Senate
recognized the necessity of ensuring the Order's full reconstitution. Even after
the New Republic reorganized itself into the Galactic Alliance, a government that
more closely resembled the Old Republic, the Jedi gradually resumed their former
role as peacekeepers and emissaries for the Galactic Alliance Senate. By 44 ABY,
the relationship between the Jedi and the government was strikingly similar to
their former association with the Old Republic's Senate, which culminated with
another Jedi coup d'tat against the governmentone that actually succeeded in the
overthrow of a tyrannical head of state and with the approval of the Senate.[34]

EconomyEdit
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Galactic economy
The Galactic Republic's influence on the galactic economy was linked to its
regulatory powers, production of Republic dataries, and authorization of relevant
bodies.

At the heart of the galactic economy was planetary trade. Interplanetary trade
could support a local economy, but, in many cases, the high levels of economic
interaction and the massive scale of exchange required for an advanced society
could only be funded by interplanetary exports. While some planets maintained their
own shipping fleets, most relied on large freight firms, such as Xizor Transport
Systems, or independent freight haulers to carry their goods along major
hyperlanes.
The Corporate Sector was first formed in 490 BBY to free the Republic lawmakers and
the Corporate moneymakers from their differences. In the last millennia of the
Galactic Republic, commercial interests began to form guilds to increase their
influence on relevant legislation and achieve greater efficiency. While most of
these guilds, like the Trade Federation, Techno Union, and the Commerce Guild,
collapsed after the Clone Wars, a number of surviving members flocked to the
Corporate Sector Authority.
Thousands of currencies were used across the galaxy. The Galactic Republic's
dataries were perhaps the most widespread form of currency. Because of the
Republic's exceptional membership, dataries were accepted on all but the most
remote planets. From its inception, the credit was backed by the immense wealth of
the planet Muunilinst and the InterGalactic Banking Clan. During the Clone Wars,
the IGBC backed the currencies of both sides.
All working beings were required to pay income taxes, which were collected by the
Republic Tax Collection Agency. In the later years of the Galactic Republic, a
transit tax of 15% was levied to raise revenue for the government.
Society and cultureEdit
"The Republic is civilization. It's the only one we have."
?Mace Windu[src]
Javyar&#039;s Cantina
The stage of a cantina on Taris.
The Galactic Republic had a very diverse culture. Member worlds were able to
maintain their own culture in accordance with local beliefs, customs, and
traditions. There was a wide variety of different cultures within the Republic:
from religious communities like the Jedi to hive-like communes.

The Republic had a liberal policy towards arts also. The dominant aesthetic style
of Galactic Republic-era was opulence and ornamentation.
Although Humanocentrism was technically outlawed by the Rights of Sentience clause
of the Galactic Constitution, it still very much existed throughout the life of the
Galactic Republic. Human-led organizations such as Czerka enslaved entire nonhuman
races, while planetary governments such as that of Taris reserved the best sections
of the world for Humans, while forcing non-humans into ghettos. The majority of
slaves in the galaxy were non-humans. At the time the Clone Wars broke out, there
were still lawsuits pending about pro-Human bias in the Republic government.
MilitaryEdit
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Republic Military
"I will create a Grand Army of the Republic to counter the increasing threats of
the Separatists."
?Palpatine[src]
Republicfleetkotor
A Republic fleet during the Jedi Civil War.
The Republic's earliest days were not peaceful ones, since, as the Republic
expanded across the galaxy, it encountered many warlike species. The Republic
realized the need for an army and navy to keep the peace. The Republic's military
forces would serve throughout many conflicts, including the Great Hyperspace War,
the various conflicts of the Old Sith Wars, and the New Sith Wars as well as the
absolutely ravenous Great Galactic War.

After the Ruusan campaign, the Republic decommissioned much of its military,
retaining a small force only for security purposes. This force would later become
known as the Judicial Department. This was to display the Republic's peaceful
ideals, as the Republic used Jedi Knights as "keepers of the peace."
Several trade corporations, such as the Trade Federation, the InterGalactic Banking
Clan, and the Commerce Guild, kept their own security forces in order to protect
their profits, but they often abused this power, such as in the Battle of Naboo.
Individual sectors also maintained their own security forces, such as Naboo's Royal
Naboo Security Forces or CorSec from Corellia, and these were sometimes used to
combat small threats. However there was no centralized command, and the members of
the late-period Republic loathed change.
Republic Assault
The Grand Army of the Republic leading the charge on Geonosis.
The Clone Wars changed all this. The Republic had no standing military to combat
the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and thus a Military Creation Act was
proposed, which was strongly opposed by many of the Republic's pacifist leaders
such as Padm Amidala of Naboo, who feared the possibility of going to war.
Supporters of the Military Creation Act included Orn Free Taa of Ryloth and Ask Aak
of Malastare.

However, a clone army had already been created in secret on the remote planet
Kamino, ten years earlier. When it became clear the Confederacy had no intention of
negotiating with the Republic, the Republic adopted this army, along with AT-TE
walkers, LAAT/i and LAAT/c gunships, A5 and A6 Juggernauts, Acclamator-class
assault ships, Victory I-class Star Destroyers, and Venator-class Star Destroyers,
BARC speeders, among numerous other craft and vehicles, in a combined force known
as the Grand Army of the Republic. The army was unleashed in 22 BBY on Geonosis
against the Separatist droid forces. These loyal troops would serve on many battles
throughout the conflict and on worlds such as Muunilinst, Dac, Jabiim, Praesitlyn,
Cato Neimoidia, and even Coruscant. Ever since the unveiling of the Republic's
secret clone army, the clones found themselves to be at the center of a great deal
of controversy throughout the Clone Wars. While virtually all of the clones
professed their unwavering loyalty to the Republic and their desire to fight and
die for it, ultimately clones were either pitied by some sympathizing individuals
or despised and not trusted by others. While Jedi such as Etain Tur-Mukan
sympathized with the clones and developed an affinity for them, others like Rahm
Kota immensely distrusted the clones and felt that non-clone combatants made better
soldiers on the battlefield. Regardless of the perceived "slave army" status and
all attempts to treat the clones humanely, sympathy and an increasing reliance on
the clones was a grievous error on the Republic's part as Order 66 and the rise of
the Empire would prove. Under the Galactic Republic, there were those who cared for
the clones and how they felt. Under the Galactic Empire, they would never be
perceived as anything more than what they always were: a product and a disposable
army of droid-like human soldiers.
In 19 BBY, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine transformed the Galactic Republic into the
Galactic Empire. The loyal clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic would
become the dreaded stormtroopers of the Stormtrooper Corps, while the regulars and
starships were segmented into the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy, respectively.
However, due to the fact that the clones aged at twice the rate of ordinary humans,
regular human recruits would finally be implemented into the stormtrooper ranks -
much to the quiet dismay of Jango Fett's clones. While the Stormtrooper Corps
remained evenly divided between clones and birth-born soldiers, cloning had been
virtually phased out as the remnants of the fallen Empire were forced to rely
completely on ordinary humans and non-humans alike - thus phasing out the last
remnants of the Galactic Republic's clone army.
AstrographyEdit
The Galactic Republic was composed of a significant portion of the known galaxy,
stretching from the Core Worlds to, at least partially, the Outer Rim Territories,
though it was widely believed that the government held little power in the outlying
regions, and preferred to focus its attentions on the Core Worlds and Colonies. The
exact number of planets in the Republic fluctuated, ranging from three million
worlds to just over a thousand, but in 21 BBY it was a little less than 1.3 million
planets, with some 10-40,000 systems controlled by the Separatists[35]. The Senate
was in control of thousands of star systems[36] while more than two hundred systems
had defected to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems[37] by the time
Palpatine finally ended the Republic.

The capital of the Galactic Republic was Coruscant, a planet considered to be the
cultural and economical center of the galaxy, despite being located outside of the
Deep Core. To signify its importance in galactic affairs, Coruscant was given
coordinates 0-0-0 in the standard galactic coordinate system.
Behind the scenesEdit
In the Expanded Universe, the Republic is well established to be extant for 25,000
years, based on Obi-Wan Kenobi's line in A New Hope that the Jedi had been "the
guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic" "for over a thousand
generations." For a long time, EU sources were the only works set during the
Republic eramost notably, the popular Tales of the Jedi sagas. However, in Star
Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, Palpatine mentioned the Republic had "stood
for a thousand years." This would seem to conflict with both the C-canon EU
history, and the G-canon internal continuity within the films. However, the Ruusan
Reformationin which the Republic is reorganized following the already-established
defeat of the Sith a thousand years prior to the filmswas invented by subsequent
writers to give an alternate explanation on Palpatine's line, thus bringing all
these sources into relative harmony. Palpatine could also be considering the
Republic Dark Ages as a temporary disbandment, the Republic essentially reforming
after the Ruusan Reformation in 1000 BBY.

During Cannes Film Festival in 2005, franchise creator George Lucas when presenting
the film and explaining the themes of democracy being allowed by the people to
become a dictatorship implied that the overall state of the Galactic Republic in
the prequel trilogy, especially the leadup to the Galactic Empire in particular,
was based on that of the Roman Republic around the time of Caesar's assassination
prior to Augustus taking control, Robespierre's First French Republic after the
execution of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution yet before Napoleon took
over and created the French Empire, and the Weimar Republic of Germany in the
aftermath of World War I prior to Hitler's appointment into the Chancellorship and
the creation of the Third Reich.[38][39]
AppearancesEdit
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi The Golden Age of the Sith
Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi The Freedon Nadd Uprising
Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi The Sith War
Tales of the Jedi: Redemption
Tales of the Jedi series (First appearance)
Knights of the Old Republic 0: Crossroads (Mentioned only)
Knights of the Old Republic 48: Demon, Part 2
The Betrayal of Darth Revan
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
The Old Republic: Smuggler's Vanguard
Timeline 6: Onslaught of the Sith Empire (Mentioned only)
Timeline 10: The Exar Kun War (Appears in hologram)
Timeline 11: Rebirth of the Sith Empire (Mentioned only)
Timeline 12: The Great Hyperspace War (Appears in hologram)
The Old Republic, Blood of the Empire Act 1: Shades of the Sith (Mentioned only)
The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
Star Wars: The Old Republic
The Old RepublicThe Lost Suns 1
The Old RepublicThe Lost Suns 2
The Old RepublicThe Lost Suns 3 (Mentioned only)
The Old RepublicThe Lost Suns 4 (Mentioned only)
The Old RepublicThe Lost Suns 5
The Old Republic: Annihilation
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Strongholds
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan
SWTOR mini One Night in the Dealer's Den on The Old Republic's official website
(article) (backup link)
SWTOR mini Regrets on The Old Republic's official website (article) (backup link)
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne
Lost Tribe of the Sith: Pandemonium (Mentioned only)
Knight Errant (Mentioned only)
Darth Plagueis
Star Wars: The Wrath of Darth Maul
The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader
Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: The Followers (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Republic
Darth Maul: Saboteur
Cloak of Deception
Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace novel
Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace junior novel
"End Game"
Star Wars: Battlefront
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Republic Commando: Triple Zero
Outbound Flight
Jedi Quest: The False Peace
Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
The Approaching Storm
Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
Boba Fett: Part I: Survival
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones junior novel
HyperspaceIcon "Precipice" on Hyperspace (article) (content removed from
StarWars.com; new link on Suvudu; backup link on Archive.org) (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars video game
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Boba Fett: Crossfire
Boba Fett: Maze of Deception
CWACite "No Way Out"Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 9
Star Wars: Clone Wars
The Clone Wars: Shadowed
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "ARC Troopers"
The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Crisis on Coruscant
The Clone Wars 11: Hero of the Confederacy, Part 2
Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
The Clone Wars: Prelude
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Clones vs. Droids
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Live Fire
Fierce Twilight
Path of the Jedi
The Clone Wars: Shakedown
The Clone Wars: Procedure
The Clone Wars: Agenda
The Clone Wars: Mouse Hunt
The Clone Wars: Departure
The Clone Wars: Transfer
The Clone Wars: Headgames
The Clone Wars: Cold Snap
The Clone Wars: The Valley
The Clone Wars: Covetous (Indirect mention only)
The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part I)
Gunship Over Florrum
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part II)
Swamp Station Sweep
The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part III)
Droids Over Iego
The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct
The Clone Wars: The Valsedian Operation
"A Little Help on Hakara"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.9
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Grievous Intrigue"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Deserter"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Zillo Beast"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Mandalore Plot"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Death Trap"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "R2 Come Home"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Lethal Trackdown"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Assassin"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Point of No Return"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Sabotage"
The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Dooku's Secret Army
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Academy"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Citadel Rescue"(Mentioned only)
"Inside Job"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.1
Omega Squad: Targets
Storm Fleet Warnings (Mentioned only)
Odds
Republic Commando: True Colors
MedStar II: Jedi Healer
Clone Wars Adventures
CWACite "Life Below"Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 9
Star Wars: Obsession
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
Labyrinth of Evil
Reversal of Fortune
Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novel
Imperial Commando: 501st (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Mist Encounter"Star Wars Adventure Journal 7 (Mentioned only)
Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight (Mentioned only)
Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows (Mentioned only)
The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web (Mentioned only)
Dark Times 14: Blue Harvest, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "The Final Exit"Star Wars Adventure Journal 4
SWAJsmall "Out of the Cradle"Star Wars Adventure Journal 2
The Paradise Snare (Mentioned only)
Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu (Mentioned only)
Domain of Evil
WEG icon2 "Domain of Evil"Classic Adventures: Volume Two (Reprint)
Rebel Dawn (Mentioned only) (As Old Republic)
Han Solo and the Lost Legacy (Mentioned only) (As Old Republic)
Interlude at Darkknell (Mentioned only)
Death Star (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Breaking Free: The Adventures of Dannen Lifehold"Star Wars Adventure
Journal 1 (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Changing the Odds: The Adventures of Dannen Lifehold"Star Wars
Adventure Journal 3 (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Galaxywide NewsNets"Star Wars Adventure Journal 3 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Rebellion (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novel (First mentioned)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope junior novel (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 1 (Mentioned only)
Jedi's Honor (Mentioned only)
Tatooine Manhunt (Mentioned only)
Strike Force: Shantipole (Mentioned only)
Battle for the Golden Sun (Mentioned only)
Starfall (Mentioned only)
Riders of the Maelstrom (Mentioned only)
Crisis on Cloud City (Mentioned only)
The Isis Coordinates (Mentioned only)
Death in the Undercity (Mentioned only)
Graveyard of Alderaan (Mentioned only)
Mission to Lianna (Mentioned only)
The Abduction (Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "The Abduction of Crying Dawn Singer"Classic Adventures (Mentioned only)
(Reprint)
WEG icon2 "The Mynock Conspiracy"Supernova (Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "The Evacuation of Jatee"Supernova (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "The Spira Regatta"Star Wars Adventure Journal 1 (Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "The Spira Regatta"The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Issues
1-4 (Mentioned only) (Reprint)
SWAJsmall "Stranded"Star Wars Adventure Journal 1 (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "You're in the Army Now!"Star Wars Adventure Journal 2 (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "The Void Terror"Star Wars Adventure Journal 3 (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Galaxywide NewsNets"Star Wars Adventure Journal 4
SWAJsmall "Enemies for Life"Star Wars Adventure Journal 4
SWAJsmall "Loyalties"Star Wars Adventure Journal 4 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 8: Eight for Aduba-3 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 13: Day of the Dragon Lords (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 14: The Sound of Armageddon
Star Wars 24: Silent Drifting (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 29: Dark Encounter (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Missions 7: Ithorian Invasion (Mentioned only)
Choices of One (Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "The Briefing of Spacetrooper Platoon 243-XT"The Star Wars Sourcebook
(Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "The Briefing of Spacetrooper Platoon 243-XT"Star Wars Sourcebook,
Second Edition (Mentioned only) (Reprint)
Star Wars: Rebellion (Mentioned only)
Imperial Double-Cross (Mentioned only)
"Walking the Path That's Given"Star Wars Tales 21 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Missions 14: The Monsters of Dweem (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Missions 15: Voyage to the Underworld (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "The Capture of Imperial Hazard"Star Wars Adventure Journal 10
(Mentioned only)
Star Wars Adventures: The Will of Darth Vader (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Slaying Dragons"Star Wars Adventure Journal 9 (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Death-Hunter"Star Wars Adventure Journal 9 (Mentioned only) (As "Old
Republic")
Under a Black Sun (Mentioned only)
Debts to Pay (Mentioned only)
Beyond the Rim (Mentioned only)
FFG "Phantoms in the Dark"Strongholds of Resistance (Mentioned only)
The Long Arm of the Hutt (Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "We Are Made of Suffering"Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook (Mentioned
only)
The Mandalorian Armor (Mentioned only)
Slave Ship (Mentioned only)
One Last Night in the Mos Eisley Cantina: The Tale of the Wolfman and the Lamproid
(Mentioned only)
Star Wars 82: Diplomacy (Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "Lazerian IV"Twin Stars of Kira
WEG icon2 "Den of Spies"Twin Stars of Kira
WEG icon2 "Ropagi II"Twin Stars of Kira
SWAJsmall "A Glimmer of Hope"Star Wars Adventure Journal 1
SWAJsmall "Mission to Zila"Star Wars Adventure Journal 3
X-Wing: Rogue Squadron (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: The Krytos Trap (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Wraith Squadron (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Solo Command (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "First Contact"Star Wars Adventure Journal 1 (Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "The Politics of Contraband"The Politics of Contraband (Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "The Politics of Contraband"Classic Adventures (Mentioned only)
(Reprint)
Heir to the Empire (Mentioned only)
Dark Force Rising (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Isard's Revenge (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar (Mentioned only)
Fool's Bargain (Mentioned only)
Legacy of the Force: Exile (Mentioned only)
Millennium Falcon
Fate of the Jedi: Outcast (Mentioned only)
Fate of the Jedi: Conviction (Mentioned only)
Legacy 1: Broken, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Legacy 2: Broken, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
Legacy 18: Claws of the Dragon, Part 5 (Mentioned only)
Legacy 33: Fight Another Day, Part 2 (Indirect mention only)
SWGsmall "Reckonings"Star Wars Gamer 7 (Mentioned only)
Non-canon appearancesEdit
Jedi Academy: The Phantom Bully (Non-canonical mention)
LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Kowakian Monkey-Lizard
Giant spiders are awesome....
Always count your clones before take-off
You can't hit the brakes in space
LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 game
LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 film
LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles video game
LEGO SW Microfighters - mini logo LEGO Star Wars: Microfighters "video game"
LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace
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Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Shu Mai)
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Dominant galactic government
Hutt Empire

? 25,053 BBY1000 BBY (39593956 BBY concurrent with the Darth Revan's Sith
Empire),(3653 BBYc. 3636 BBY concurrent with the Great War/Cold War Sith Empire)
Galactic Republic (PostRuusan Reformation)

?
Dominant galactic government
Galactic Republic (PreRuusan Reformation)

? 100019 BBY Galactic Empire

?
Notes and referencesEdit
? The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 311 ("Galactic Republic")
? 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia
? 3.0 3.1 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 200 ("Supreme
Chancellor of the Republic")
? The Essential Guide to Warfare
? 5.0 5.1 5.2 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novel
? The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 311 ("Galactic Senate")
? Cloak of Deception
? The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
? The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 146 ("Coruscant")
? 10.0 10.1 HyperspaceIcon "The Written Word" on Hyperspace (article) (content
removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
? The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 151 ("Credit")
? The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 94 ("Republic Day")
? The Cestus Deception
? The Essential Atlas
? Darth Bane: Rule of Two
? Heir to the Empire Sourcebook
? SWGsmall "Reckonings"Star Wars Gamer 7
? SWGsmall "Bartyn's Landing"Star Wars Gamer 7
? 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
? 20.0 20.1 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
? The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook
? Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (video game)
? 23.0 23.1 Dark Empire
? Vision of the Future
? The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant
? Star Wars: Legacy 0
? Timeline 1: Treaty of Coruscant
? 28.0 28.1 Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
? CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 20"
? 30.0 30.1 Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
? 31.0 31.1 31.2 Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
? The New Essential Chronology
? Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
? Fate of the Jedi: Conviction
? Shatterpoint, p. needed
? Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars III: "The Chancellor will not be able to control the
thousands of star systems without keeping the Senate intact."
? Padm Amidala in Star Wars II: "About two hundred" [systems have joined the
Rebellion]
? Revenge of the Sith invites Bush Comparisons, page 2 on CBSNews.com
"Lucas said he patterned his story after historical transformations from freedom to
fascism, never figuring when he started his prequel trilogy in the late 1990s that
current events might parallel his space fantasy.
"As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So
it's just one of those recurring things," Lucas said at a Cannes news conference.
"I hope this doesn't come true in our country.
"Maybe the film will waken people to the situation," Lucas joked
[...]
"When I wrote it, [the 2003 Iraq war] didn't exist," Lucas said, laughing.
"We were just funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction. We
didn't think of him as an enemy at that time. We were going after Iran and using
him as our surrogate, just as we were doing in Vietnam. ... The parallels between
what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable."
The prequel trilogy is based on a back-story outline Lucas created in the mid-1970s
for the original three "Star Wars" movies, so the themes percolated out of the
Vietnam War and the Nixon-Watergate era, he said.
Lucas began researching how democracies can turn into dictatorships with full
consent of the electorate.In ancient Rome, "why did the senate after killing Caesar
turn around and give the government to his nephew?" Lucas said. "Why did France
after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to
Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.
"You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a
dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same
kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control. A democratic
body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody's squabbling,
there's corruption.""
? https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-05-15-cannes-lucas_x.htm
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