The current galactic landscape is a fragmented one, dominated by hundreds of species, including the Klingons, The Kree, The Nova Empire, The Romulans, and The Skrulls, Even amongst the oldest living races, few remember a time when the Milky Way Galaxy was united under a single banner.
A long, long time ago such a government existed, known as The Galactic Republic. From the urban world of Coruscant, the Republic drew in planets across the galaxy, granting them seats in their enormous Senate. So pervasive was their reach that for most of its history it had no need for a standing military to protect it. Its only defenders were the quasi-religious order known as The Jedi Order, who boasted psychic abilities.
The Jedi Order may have been the first to tap individuals latent meta-gene to create their Jedi Knights. Little remains of their skills and training but those that do mention The Midichlorian Process which helped Force-sensitives tap into their potential power.
The seeds of the Republic's end were sown by the Jedi themselves. Rogue members of the Order known as The Sith worked within the government to sow dissension and paranoia. They created the Separatists in order to spark what would be known as the Clone Wars, forcing the Republic to create a standing army for the first time in millennia.
After the defeat of the Separatists, they turned the Republic against the Jedi, resulting in the Great Jedi Purge. The Senate passed emergency powers and almost overnight the Republic was reformed into The Galactic Empire.
The Empire itself was short-lived, defeated within forty years by galaxy-wide rebellion. The New Republic was formed in its place but was never able to unite the known universe as its predecessor. Eventually, the government fell apart and disbanded, with Xandar and the Nova Empire as the only reminder of those earlier times.
Coruscant still is a center of trade and civilization, its overcrowded towers pushing even further into the sky. Sections of the Galactic Empire that were never fully conquered by the New Republic would eventually unite into a new government known as The First Order.
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