Galactic Republic

Learn about the Galactic Republic's bonuses, history, and fall in Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core. Prefabs hold 1 more population.

Civilization Bonus: Prefabs hold 1 more population. Holocron gives more Nova. Jedi and Jedi Temple are cheaper.

Team Bonus: Med Droids heal twice as fast. Jedi gain +10% speed.

Fortress Bonus: Fortresses heal garrisoned units 33% faster.

A democratic union of millions of star systems that lasted for more than 25,000 years, the Galactic Republic spread peace and prosperity throughout the known galaxy. However, as time passed and the Republic’s size grew, it eventually became too unwieldy for the Senate to oversee and the Jedi Order to protect. Corruption spread wildly, weakening the Senate and causing dissent among many systems and corporate interests.

Thirty-two years before the Battle of Yavin, the first signs of the Senate’s ineffectiveness surfaced when it proved unable to protect peaceful Naboo from the Trade Federation. The corporation blockaded the planet, followed soon after by a full-scale invasion of the pastoral world. During the subsequent political maneuverings, Supreme Chancellor Valorum was quickly ousted and replaced by Senator Palpatine from Naboo. Despite Palpatine’s leadership, over the next decade Senators became more and more corrupt, and in response, the Confederacy of Independent Systems was born. The ranks of the CIS quickly grew, causing the Senate to endlessly debate the idea of forming an army to protect those systems that remained loyal to the Republic.

But it wasn’t until Senate Representative Jar Jar Binks from Naboo put forward a motion to give Supreme Chancellor Palpatine emergency powers that the first army of the Republic was organized. Led by Jedi Master Yoda, the clone army of the Republic descended into an arena on Geonosis to save the last surviving members of a Jedi strike force led by Mace Windu, thus starting the Clone Wars.

In the turbulent years following the Clone Wars, the Galactic Senate lost a great deal of power to the Supreme Chancellor’s office, paving the way for the eventual rise of the Emperor. Under the Emperor’s rule, the Republic became the Galactic Empire, an oppressive government designed to rule the galaxy through fear. Although the Senate remained in place for some time after the Emperor’s ascent to power, it was eventually disbanded shortly before the Battle of Yavin. Following the Empire’s defeat at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance founded the New Republic in an attempt to recapture the ideals of the galaxy’s original ruling body; since that time, the former Galactic Republic has become more generally known as the "Old Republic".