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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9838462" data-attributes="member: 7808">There's no standing centralized army.  But we see the army Naboo has.  If even 10% of the planets shown in the Senate are packing that level of heat, it stands to reason there's an awful lot of distributed firepower that could be organized on short notice.  In the ANH books and radio play (canon when TPM was made) it's noted that the snub fighters they use in the Battle of Yavin are older than the Clone Wars, so they have to be around somewhere. And that's all without bringing the EU into question (which was in a weird state when TPM came out), which would tell us that there's fleets full of Dreadnaughts, Z95 Headhunders, and lots of other artillery somewhere.But the bigger consideration is the enormous potential the Republic has.  Remember, the economic powerhouse of the Republic is what became the Empire, and managed to build the entire fleet in ~20 years.  Including the Executor and two Death Stars.  No, we never see exactly what the Republic could have churned out on short notice.  But that's kind of the point of what I said before.  Palpatine doesn't want to have those resources destroyed in war before he comes to power.  He wants to rule it.  Which is what turning the Trade Federation against the Jedi let him do.</blockquote>