New Republic

The **New Republic**, or simply the **Republic**, was an interstellar republic and restoration of the Galactic Republic that sought to replace the Galactic Empire as the new galactic authority at the end of the Galactic Civil War. The Republic was composed of various member worlds spread across light-years of space. Instead of affixing its Senate to Coruscant, the galaxy's historical seat of government, the capital shifted from one Republic world to another on a rotating basis. Beginning with the Core World Chandrila, homeworld of Chancellor Mon Mothma, the new system culminated in Hosnian Prime, which served as the Republic's final capital approximately three decades into the New Republic Era.

## Politics

### Overview

The New Republic was initially strong under the charismatic leadership of Mon Mothma, who would later on become the Chancellor of the Galactic Alliance Defense Initiative, before succeeding chancellors after her were found to be weak and lacking the charisma that Mothma once had. The result is a divided New Republic Senate due to partisanship and the lack of control by the chancellors over the coalition parties, causing administrative friction within the established political structure. Even more damaging is the rise of the First Order, a rapidly spreading authoritarian ideology which valued the New Order and secretly the public form of the hated Sith Empire, a significant geopolitical event that disrupted the status quo fundamentally; groups aligned with the First Order advocated the centralization of authority and power, militarization of society, and actively downplayed many of the worst aspects of the Galactic Empire. The fact the New Republic was slow to initially address the situation complicates the situation further.

This would prove to be the most fatal mistake as the New Republic was utterly crippled by the destruction of the Hosnian system, destroying the New Republic Senate alongside Lanever Villecham but also serving as the signal for the Novayan-led Void Coalition expeditionary force, now allied with the GADI, United Nations Space Command and Swords of Sanghelios, to wage open war against the First Order. Remnants of the New Republic, especially those willing to fight the First Order and in the form of Volunteer Groups, have been aided by and assisted Coalition forces in driving the First Order back and retaking worlds already taken. Among the most prominent of the Volunteer Groups is "The Resistance", led by General Leia Organa and aided by the New Republic's intelligence services which were investigating the sudden movement of FIrst Order-aligned groups.

After the defeat of the Eternal Empire and the First Order, in turn destroying the Sith Empire, the New Republic was restored. Reconstruction efforts already begun until the One Sith War, a war that lasts for three months. Refugees from various medieval and/or modern fantasy worlds and modern Earths arrived at the various worlds of the New Republic as well as Novayan, Saiyanese, and Meridian colonies in Galaxy FFA, which leads to a sociocultural upheaval as mundane and magical society encounter the various alien cultures. The New Republic and other neutral worlds and star systems were aided by reinforcements composed of hastily-assembled NSC military units remaining available during the Novayan Near-Anarchy, which shook the NSC to its very core, as well as expeditionary units from the NSC Armed Forces' hyperworlds and staging grounds established outside the Void. The New Republic initially saw several of its worlds fall to the One Sith, with refugees already arriving at other safe worlds that also have refugees, before the arrival of NSC and SSF fleets and armies turned the tide.

After the One Sith War was over, reconstruction efforts were resumed but progress is slow due to the culture shocks between the aliens and the normal and fantasy races. To help in reconstruction efforts the NSC, SSF and Indepol agreed to pool their resources into constructing on structures necessary to feed and house the refugees and locals and produce materials, foodstuffs, goods and services needed to support them. As part of Project New Soil Novayan, Saiyanese and Indepol personnel were involved in the transformation/rehabilitation of barren worlds into habitable worlds - that is, utilizing transformation-type gigastructures to do so (at the discretion of the joint NSC-SSF-Indepol committee) such as the folowing:

* Global Land Unification Engine or GLUE, which can fix shattered/broken worlds and put them back together;
* Geothermal Stabilizers which stabilize magma worlds into barren worlds;
* Atmospheric Purifiers, designed to purify the worlds' atmospheres of deadly elements; and
* Substellar Compressors, capable of giving failed stars to become what they were truly meant to be;

Other non-transformation-type gigastructures were built to house the refugees at the discretion of the joint NSC-SSF-Indepol. Among them were:

* Orbital Elysiums, which orbits different planets;
* Interstellar Habitats, constructed within interstellar space to provide more room for refugees;
* Orbital Arcologies, which to cram out just a few more districts from already overcrowded worlds;
* Ringworlds, which are constructed in four layers of ringworlds like ogres;
* Alderson Disks, which offers tremendous living spaces and can be customized to suit the needs of the people; and
* Orbital Habitats, that can be built in orbit around dead worlds.

The NSC government, having already resolved the internal chaos wrought about by the divisions between the main families and branch families of the Norsoutha-Tomoshima families as well as those within the main families and now reformed under the directions of Grand Marshal Daniel Norsoutha and Prime Minister Wilhelm Brandt, poured its resources to build and terraform. Joining the efforts were the New Roman Empire, International Union of Armanya, several Void Coalition member-states, Seleucian Empire, and Sinyettan Polystellar Alignment. A few Neutronium Gigaforges and Nidavellir Hyperforges, Yggdrasil Orchids, Penrose Spheres, Equatorial Shipyards, Matrioshka Brains, Orbital Military structures (Planetary Dockyards, Defense Nexuses, and Drive Yards), HRAE-MCs, and Hyperstructural Assembly Yards were built to help produce resources and ships necessary to fuel the industries as well as establish residential fleets.

## Military

The New Republic Defense Forces, the military of the New Republic, is composed of the planetary-based New Republic Army, New Republic Fleet, and paramilitary New Republic Ranger Corps. The New Republic Army, considered the smallest of the other military branches, consist of a headquarters unit permanently attached only a single legion. The New Republic Army lacked heavy walkers, artillery, or other forms of combat support and is primary a light infantry formation. It operates at a level of constant readiness, allowing to rapidly deploy to a combat zone. The New Republic Navy is much larger and a permanent force. Each fleet varies in size is centered around a fleet carrier. The New Republic Navy also have two sub-branches, the New Republic Fleet Starfighter Arm and the New Republic Naval Infantry. The New Republic Ranger Corps fulfills certain civilian duties, are equal part fighter pilots and equal-part bounty hunters, and were deployed mainly to independent star systems in the Outer Rim. The Planetary Defense Forces were primary responsible for security and deterrence, and they differ from star system to star system, government to government. The Corellian Defense Forces, the Royal Naboo Security Forces, and the Coruscanti Guard approached or matched the federal military in sophistication, but most are underfunded and underequipped and only used to deter space piracy elements.

Due to the nature of the New Republic Army and the Planetery Defense Forces, volunteer groups were introduced to fight and win a sustainable conflict. Under New Republic law, corporations, businesses or individuals able to raise, train and equip a volunteer force can lead them as fully-sanctioned military units. The constant need for security forces in the Outer Rim means these groups operate almost independently. Lack of oversight cause a number of public embarrassment due to undisciplined, unprofessional volunteer groups were incapable or no better than the criminals they were meant to combat, but some were the source of surprising successes, destroying slaver groups, disrupting spy rings, and other destabilizing elements. The Volunteer Groups' nature attracted unique kinds of New Republic citizens as well as voidwalkerss, interdimensional refugees, and Earthborn humans. As a result the Volunteer Groups have different natures and quirks significantly, more so than the planetary defense forces.

Some of the Volunteer Groups were Clan Tyrell, a force of Neo-Mandalorian Crusaders; the 34th Droid Legion scavenged from Separatist ruins; the Flying Blurgs, composed of smugglers and freelancers from Nar Shaddaa; a company of AT-series Heavy Walkers under a former Imperial general; the Zakuulan Legion, a battalion-strength force composed of heavy infantry, armored vehicles, tanks and air support; the Ementholosian Rangers, men and women who ride on horseback and are fast but light; the Elegassoan Volunteer Unit, highly-trained and highly-equipped volunteers; the New Torringhill Exploratory Group, composed of explorers and adventurers seeking to find whatever is hidden and are basically the Indiana Jones-style folks; the Sakanan Mechanized Corps, three battalions of mechanized infantry, armored vehicles and tanks with some mobile artillery; the New Neithan Hunters, a small formation of elite snipers who can snipe the heck out of the enemy leadership and cause a massive chain reaction caused by the deaths of the collective enemy leadership through the top-down approach or the bottom-up approach; the Byssian Panzers, a brigade of tanks, mechanized infantry, APCs and IFVs, but mostly tanks widely known for the tank desant; and the Nova Roman Legionaries, who are purely composed of heavy infantry.

## Trivia and notes

The New Republic displayed is based on The Templin Institute's The New Republic Reimagined video.