New Republic Defense Force

The New Republic Defense Force, also known as the New Republic military, was the combined military maintained by the New Republic, composed of the land-based army, the naval defense fleet, and special operations forces, all overseen by New Republic High Command.

The New Republic Defense Force served as the restoration of the military branch of the Galactic Republic and was formed from the forces of the Alliance to Restore the Republic following their victory against the Galactic Empire at the Battle of Endor. However, following continued action during the last phase of the Galactic Civil War, training and funding was allocated primarily to the local planetary defense forces, and the New Republic Defense Force was heavily reduced in accordance with the Military Disarmament Act upon the end of the war.

The New Republic did not consider the emerging First Order from the Unknown Regions to be a threat, even after many star systems defected from the Republic to join it, and the Senate ordered their forces not to engage its military in combat, leading to Leia Organa forming a splinter paramilitary group, the Resistance, to observe the actions of the First Order. However, this policy of non-aggression would backfire when the First Order's Starkiller Base destroyed the Hosnian system, which hosted the Republic's capital world at the time, Hosnian Prime, and the home fleet, the largest fleet of the New Republic. The fracture of the military would follow with the most important member worlds dissolving the unified task forces in order to recall what was left of the Defense Forces to protect their own systems.

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