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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 4555082" data-attributes="member: 360">Just a little background here that I've kind of internalized, but haven't posted anywhere.When Imperial resistance began to stiffen a few months after the Battle of Endor, Admiral Ackbar, Mon Mothma, and Leia Solo -- with a lot of advice from others -- began to realize that cutting off the head of the Empire was not sufficient to kill it, and began working on how to structure a government and a military that would preserve democracy and the values they cared about against the backdrop of a long war.They needed a govenrment that would be stable, strong, and democratic. Hence a single executive, with a long (6-year) term, that can only seek two terms, and only a third of the Republic Senate faces voters every two years.They needed to convince the public that they took the war seriously, hence no weasel words in government organization names. They have a Minister of War, not a Minister of Defense. A President, not a Chief of State.The need to make sure everyone believed that all sectors of society were doing their part is why neither Leia nor the government have objected to -- and in fact the government has strongly supported -- the military's aggressive recruiting efforts in the elite institutions of the Republic. Including the Jedi order, and the most exclusive universities in the richest worlds in the Republic. Jedi and core worlds nobility make only a tiny fraction of the Republic's officers (how could it be otherwise; the Navy is far too big to rely on them to any large degree), but it's seen as very important that they fight and sometimes die alongside people who grew up as a slaves in the Empire. Joining the Navy is also one of the easiest ways to work your way out of poverty in the Republic (assuming you live through it); a lot of poor kids who made something of themselves have done a term of service in the Navy or Marines.The need to fund the largest naval construction program in the history of the galaxy -- there was no way they could sustain fighting the Empire with ships built in secret and captured waships -- has meant an absolute mania for driving out economic inefficiency and increasing technological innovation. Not just in war-related fields either; every additional credit in taxes helps, and a fast-growing economy (or at least faster-growing than the Empire) is essential to the Republic.And in the midst of all that recruiting and building, the Navy also needed to restructure itself from a ragtag collection of rebels into a fully integrated, professional force based on long-service volunteers (since no one in the Republic government would abide by using conscripts, droids, or clones).In large part, all these tranisitions are pretty much complete within systems than have been part of the Republic for over a decade. In fact, some more radical analysts think the assassination of Leia Solo and Darth Gaida's new offensive are more a sign that the Empire is desperate than that the Republic is. That's a distinct minority view; the Republic is still half the size of the Empire. But the effective strength (i.e. not counting forces tied up in occupation duties) of the Republic Navy is a lot more than half of the Imperial Navy's, and the Republic's economy is a lot more than half the size of the Empire's.</blockquote>

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