Project War-Mantle/Legends

## Project War-Mantle

Project War-Mantle was a project set up by Supreme Chancellor Valorum in 0 BBY to tranform the Republic from a Military Superpower to what it was before the eruption of the Clone Wars, a rich democracy. The project involved shutting down the cloning facilities on Kamino, slowly replacing the at the time dominant clone troopers with regular human recruits and selling most of the republic's warships and vessels to put the Republic out of their massive debt caused by the Clone Wars.

War-Mantle was announced to the public in 0 ABY and the total change took over three years. The project was completed in 4 ABY.

## Clone Wars Eruption

Only months before the eruption of the Clone Wars, the supreme chancellor at the time, Supreme Chancellor Skywalker declared that the Republic would create the biggest military force of all time; A Clone Army consisting of millions of units, trained from birth to be fierce and loyal soldiers. The military budget of the Republic would also be bumbed massivley from a measly number of 691 billion credits to an initial massive number of 89 trillion credits. This, of course bankruped the Republic and most Senators were in opposition to this massive military budget increase. Most senators hated this for the bankruptcy that it would cause to the Republic but a group of Senators hated it for a very different reason.

This group of senators contained Finnis Valorum, Ray Batoni, Armidia Pryce and Ryder Azati. This group hated this announcement because it meant their profit and income would drop substantially. Because the Republic was pretty much only investing in the military and the war effort at this point, it meant that these senators' mining companies, oil refineries etc would no longer be funded and invested in by the Republic. Their feares were even confirmed when Finnis Valorum's oil refiniery and Armidia Pryce's mining center were targeted by pirates and completely robbed in their resources.

Valorum and Pryce went to Chancellor Skywalker himself and begged him to give them the credits to replenish their resources. It was at that point were Skywalker saw the greed behind mostly Valorum. Arya refused their offer. In the next senate session Supreme Chancellor Skywalker declared that Valorum's Refinery and Pryce's Mining would no longer be supported by the Republic which meant no investments or funding would go towards it, whatsoever. This enraged Valorum who would always hold a deep hatred for Skywalker.

## Skywalker's Death

After the death of Supreme Chancellor Skywalker at the Battle of Downsend in 1 BBY the senate and republic errupted into sheer chaos. Arya was the founder of The new Republic and he had not pointed out a suggested successor, Vice-Chair Mass Ameda took control of the republic until a new Chancellor was elected. During this time, republic forces had mounted several victories on remaining imperial remmenants scattered across the Outer Rim and Unknown Regions. Valorum decided to use this chance to gain popularity so he could be elected to be the next Supreme Chancellor. His main competitor was Rios Organa, son of beloved senator Bail Organa. Valorum knew that if no action was taken, Rios would win by a land-slide so he decided to have him taken out of the game. He hired two bounty hunters to silence Rios. They did just that and with no competitor, Valorum won the election in 0 BBY

## New Age

It was a new age for the Republic. The devestating Clone Wars had left the Republic shattered and now it was beggining to slowly re-heal itself. When Valorum was elected for Supreme Chancellor, hundreds of senators argued against this stating that Valorum was using this position for his own personal gain. This was the birth of Project War-Mantle

## Project War Mantle

At the time of Valorum's election, the republic was still very much a military superpower. There were still millions, if not billions of clone troopers serving the republic with over 5,000 clones created a day in the Republic's hundreds of cloning facilities. There were millions of republic warships and Star Destroyers. At this time also the death of Gallius Rax, who had controlled the largest left imperial remminant. With the empire no longer a threat at this point the clones just sat around waiting for the call to go into action.

With Arimida Pryce as his Administrator they knew that the time was right to slowly transform the Republic back into it's former state before the Clone Wars. A couple of weeks after his election Valorum gave a speech to the senate hinting to Project War-Mantle

*"...The Clone Wars has devestated quintillions of lives across the galaxy, it has made us forget what the Republic represented, what it was! A democracy. We have let our peaceful democracy transform into a military! I assumed we would learn our mistake from the 1st War which lead to Palpatine becoming Emperor and the Jedi's extinction. This terrible war has wiped out 8% of the galaxy's population. Now we must recover, the empire is DEAD! The war is OVER! And now my glorious senators, change BEGINS!"*

Weeks after this speech, Valorum put Project War-Mantle into full production. The changes would be very slow for the public to catch wind of. The first serious major change was the change of armour for the clones. All clones were fitted with new armour that actually looked quite a lot like the armour for Stormtroops. We never get any confirmation of why Valorum chose new armour for the military but most people believe he wants to seperate the new republic with the old republic under Skywalker's leadership. Commando units, the 501st and the 601st were not fitted with this new armour.

A year after this new armour change, the first official republic cloning facility was shut down. Valorum excused the shut down explaining that the facility was full of traitorous Kaminoans who were comprimising the clones. All clones in that facility were discretely transported to unknown locations.