Republic Military

The **Republic Military**, also known as the **Republic Armed Forces**, was the military of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars, consisting of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Republic Navy. The Supreme Chancellor was the Commander-in-Chief of the Republic Military; the Jedi High Council and the Republic High Command were principle organs by which military policy was carried out. Republic Intelligence served as the Republic Military's intelligence-gathering and covert operations branch.

The Republic Military existed during the Dark Age. After the culmination of that era, they where disbanded in around 1032 BBY, following the Jedi-Sith War and the supposed defeat of the Sith. At the time of the modern Republic Military's inception, the Galactic Republic presided over an era of peace that lasted for a millennium. During the Republic's final years, however, the galaxy was on the verge of civil war as a result of the Separatist Crisis. After discovering that the Confederacy of Independent Systems—a confederation of star systems in rebellion—formed a droid-based military, the Republic acquired an army of clone troopers to serve as the backbone of its own military. Bred from the genetic template of the human bounty hunter Jango Fett, clone troopers fulfilled various functions in every branch of the Republic Military, from infantry soldiers, navigation officers and starfighter pilots, to the elite ARC troopers and clone commandos. Next to the chancellor, the highest-ranking officers in the Republic Military were the Knights of the Jedi Order, who were commissioned as Jedi Generals and served by a cadre of Clone Commanders and non-clone Republic officers.

In 1991, the Republic Military made a contact to an unknown planet located in another Galaxy which was later discovered as Earth or Terra (in latin) which eventually become the Terran Alliance as they forged a Military Alliance during the course of the Clone Wars, they share some similarities and fought-side by side until 19 BBY/1994 AD when Supreme Chancellor Sheeve Palpatine known as Darth Sidious the dark lord of the Sith enacted the Order-66 which leads to the Great Jedi Purge and betraying it's allies. In the Aftermath of the Clone Wars, the Republic Military was reorganized as the Imperial Military of the new Galactic Empire.

## History

After the Seventh Battle of Ruusan and the death of Lord Hoth, the Ruusan Reformation disbanded the Republic's military forces and replaced them with the Judicial Forces. It also placed the Jedi Order under the Senate's control.

When the Confederacy of Independent Systems posed a huge threat to the Republic, the issue of recreating the Republic Military became a large debate and eventually became the Grand Army of the Republic when Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was voted emergency powers by the Senate. The Grand Army made up one part of the Republic Armed Forces ("RAF"), which was headed by Republic High Command, which, until the Battle of Coruscant, was under the command of the Jedi High Council and Galactic Senate, and only afterward came under the total control of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. After the Declaration of a New Order, the Republic Military was transformed into the Imperial Military in 1991AD/22 BBY.

## Branches

The Republic has two different Military branches, the Army and the Navy. However the Army has been disbanded many times and reorganized as Army of Light in 1010 BBY and later as the GAR in 22 BBY.

### Army

* Republic Army (25,053 BBY–1010 BBY)
* Army of Light (1010 BBY–1000 BBY)
* Grand Army of the Republic (22 BBY–19 BBY)

### Navy

* Republic Navy
* Republic Starfighter Corps

### Other

* Military Police
* Republic Intelligence
* Jedi Order (provisionally)

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (First appearance)*

## See Also

* Imperial Military
* Terran Armed Forces