New Republic Senate

The New Republic Senate, also known as the Galactic Senate, Galactic Congress, High Senate and early on as the Provisional Senate, was the legislative assembly of the New Republic. It had representatives various worlds from the across the galaxy and possessed legislative supremacy. The New Republic Senate also contained committees, which were charged to deal with a specific issue in detail.

The New Republic Senate was the restoration of the Galactic Senate of the Galactic Republic, which became a formal advisory body known as the Imperial Senate during the era of the Galactic Empire. In 1 BBY, Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine announced the Imperial Senate's dissolution and allowed regional governors to take direct control of their territories.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Endor, the Alliance to Restore the Republic founded the New Republic and restored the Senate as its principal governing body. With the signing of the Galactic Concordance, the peace treaty that ended the Galactic Civil War. With the Empire seamlessly destroyed, the New Republic became the dominant government of the galaxy. At that point, the Senate demilitarized the military and set out to bring peace and harmony to the galaxy. Mon Mothma, the first chancellor of the New Republic Senate, eliminated the emergency powers that had been given to Palpatine—the last Supreme Chancellor of the Old Republic—during the Clone Wars. She intended the Senate and the Republic to be forces for peace.

Decades later, the emergence of the First Order threatened to destroy that peace. General Leia Organa founded the Resistance to serve as a check against the First Order, but despite her efforts to convince the Galactic Senate to take action. However, it did not believe that the First Order was a threat, so the Republic remained militarily unengaged. The First Order ultimately turned its superweapon, Starkiller Base, towards the Republic and destroyed the capital of Hosnian Prime, eliminating the Senate along with it.

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