Galactic Minutemen

The Galactic Minutemen were an group during the late days of the , the , and the Post War era. Although the Galactic Minutemen were sometimes depicted as a singular organization, it was simply a loose coalition of rebellions that followed the ideals set forth in their founding document, written in .
Although the Galactic Minutemen were sometimes allied with the , there were also multiple occasions during which GM forces engaged in combat with URF forces on planets like , where the URF had formed a dictatorship. Many of these inter rebellion conflicts took place during the . Despite being usually depicted as violent terrorists in pro- media, it was not unusual for Galactic Minutemen organizations in some of the to be entirely peaceful, although the same could not be said for GM groups in the .
The Galactic Minutemen met its end in the late 2560's, when a GM group and its allies came close to overthrowing the military government of . As a result, the deployed , and assassinated many of the GM's leaders. However, this had the opposite of the intended effect, and the anger of many formerly peaceful Galactic Minutemen groups boiled over, leading to violent gunfights as colonies as deep in territory as .