Galactic Federation of Free Alliances

The Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, also known as the Federal Galactic Republic, but most commonly the Galactic Alliance, was the galactic government directly following the New Republic. Incorporating most of the known galaxy, the Galactic Alliance was the first government to achieve this since the Galactic Empire. Between 40 and 41 ABY, the term New Order had applied to the Alliance for a short period of time. The rest of the time it was the Old Order.

Founding, 28 ABY
Following the New Republic's decisive victory at the Battle of Ebaq 9, Chief of State Cal Omas realized that a new government was needed if the galaxy was to survive the horrors of the Yuuzhan Vong War. During the invasion, political infighting and weak leadership led the New Republic to a great number of defeats. Omas realized that the cumbersome organization of the New Republic could not withstand the pressures of the galactic war. As a result, Omas instituted a massive reorganization and streamlining of the government. Named the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, or Galactic Alliance for short, it began the long task of bringing the galaxy back together. Another name thought of by Omas for the reorganization of the New Republic was the Federal Galactic Republic.

Making the Alliance Galactic
The new government would not be composed of just the old members of the New Republic. Bringing their former adversary, the Imperial Remnant, as well as the Hapes Consortium into the new government, the Alliance achieved what previous governments had long hoped for—a unified government of the known galaxy. This was further achieved with the cooperation of the Chiss Ascendancy, an insular civilization from the Unknown Regions on the edge of the galaxy.

Fighting back the Yuuzhan Vong, 29 ABY
The first capital of the Alliance was Dac, longtime supporter of both the Alliance to Restore the Republic and New Republic. Its location in the Outer Rim Territories and the presence of a massive fleet ensured that the new capital was secure. Once the government was up and running, the task of finding an end to the destructive conflict became its first goal. With the combined efforts of the Galactic Alliance Defense Force, the New Jedi Order, and other allies, the Yuuzhan Vong surrendered following the death of their leader, Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane, during the Liberation of Coruscant.

Galactic reconstruction 30 ABY–35 ABY
Following the defeat of the Yuuzhan Vong, a capital closer to the center of the galaxy was needed. With Coruscant devastated and "Vong-formed" beyond recognition, the government of the Galactic Alliance planned to relocate to Denon, a world in the Inner Rim that had escaped bombardment and occupation by the Yuuzhan Vong. The Alliance began massive reconstruction efforts on Coruscant, in the form of the Reconstruction Authority. The new government devoted itself to rebuilding and repairing the galaxy, left in disorder following the war. By 30 ABY, the Galactic Alliance had relocated its government to Coruscant, though some viewed this as a public relations move, as there was still much work to be done, however the Alliance had officially taken authority of the galaxy. While the problems with repairing Coruscant were great, there were some bright spots, like the construction of the new Jedi Temple and the new Senate and Executive Buildings five years later. Other major construction projects included the massive Defense Force Command Compound, giving the Alliance's military a new command center to coordinate their forces across the galaxy.

Swarm War
The Galactic Alliance faced its first major crisis following the Yuuzhan Vong War, in 35 ABY, when the Killiks were rediscovered. Following the discovery of a Dark Nest of Killiks led by Dark Jedi Lomi Plo, war broke out between the Chiss Ascendancy and the Killik hives. Relations between the Killiks and the Alliance quickly soured, as their addictive black membrosia began to ruin the lives of various insect members of the government. This was further exacerbated by the death of Supreme Commander Sien Sovv, who was killed when a spacecraft piloted by a Vratix drunk on the membrosia collided with the admiral's private transport, killing him and his entire staff. War broke out when Dark Nest hives staged a coup on the Alliance world of Thyferra and tried a similar attack on the Verpine. Fortunately, the efforts of the New Jedi Order and the Galactic Alliance Defense Force ended the conflict before it turned into a full-scale galactic war.

Second Galactic Civil War
In the years following the end of the Swarm War, the Alliance became increasingly controlling of local governments, demanding member states pay taxes to help with reconstruction and pool their military resources for the fleet. Some more independent worlds, especially those with strong industries and patriotic streaks saw themselves as above the legal requirements, began viewing the government as a resurrected Galactic Empire. By 40 ABY, relationships between the Alliance and several local governments had deteriorated to the point that the Alliance decided to show a preemptive display of military might at Corellia. When the Corellians launched a counterstrike at the show of force, full scale galactic war once again loomed. As both sides struggled to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis, mysterious acts of treachery and sabotage threatened to derail peace efforts. To combat the mounting terrorism on Coruscant, Chief of State Omas was forced to institute the Galactic Alliance Guard as a secret police force under Colonel Jacen Solo. This resulted in the resignation of Supreme Commander Gilad Pellaeon, as well as growing discontent over the increasingly draconian system of government, with the most common chant at political protests being 'The Empire is back'. During a confrontation over Hapes, the spiral towards galactic war was temporarily halted.

However, the Sith Lady Lumiya's manipulations of President Fyor Rodan of Commenor and the Bothans led to the formation of the Confederation when the Alliance Blockade of Corellia was defeated by the combined fleet. Omas declared a state of war on Corellia, Bothawui, and Commenor. The Alliance faced a growing crisis as Adumar, Fondor, Bespin, and the remnants of the Hapan Heritage Council separated from the Galactic Alliance to join the rebels. The Hutts and the Imperial Remnant were also encouraged to join, but did not do so. Many other lesser worlds continued to voice their support and the Confederation, already possessing many of the leading shipyards in the galaxy, raised ship production to epic levels and led attacks on Alliance shipyards such as those at Gyndine and Sluis Van with its very own Confederation Fleet. At a confrontation in the Gilatter VIII system, former Imperial Turr Phennir was named Supreme Commander of the Confederation military. As more worlds flocked to the banner of the Confederation, freeing themselves of what they saw as Alliance tyranny, old conflicts broke out. Soon, militarily, the two forces were at similar strengths, and a dangerous GA reliance on Hapes had arisen. When Jacen Solo and Supreme Commander Cha Niathal moved against Omas and deposed him, many saw the action as illegal.

The Confederation pushed towards the Core, and at a major battle over Kuat the Jedi Order withdrew its support from the Galactic Alliance following the assassination of the deposed Cal Omas, believed to have been ordered by Solo and carried out by one of their own. However although the pressure on the Core was relieved when Confederation forces arrived over Kashyyyk to save the Wookiee homeworld from Alliance oppression, the resulting battle saw the Hapes Consortium, comprising over twenty percent of the Alliance military, withdraw its support under the direction of Queen Mother Tenel Ka Djo. Joint Chief of State Solo had earned himself too many enemies for much of the Alliance to view his rule as legal any longer.

The Alliance then fought numerous battles against the Confederation and the Jedi, including the Firing of Centerpoint Station (when Centerpoint Station's main weapon destroyed the Second Fleet) and the Battle of Centerpoint Station. At the Battle of Centerpoint, the ancient space station was destroyed by its own beam misfiring into itself, devastating both the Confederation and Alliance fleets present.

During the Second Battle of Fondor, Admiral Niathal attempted to relieve Jacen Solo from his position of Co-Chief of State after refusing to accept the Fondorian's surrender. Solo, refusing to recognize Niathal's authority, fought against Admiral Daala's Maw Irregular Fleet, resulting in two-thirds of the GA Fleet remaining loyal to Solo and Coruscant and the other third joining Niathal and setting up a Alliance-in-exile on Fondor. After the battle, Jacen revealed that he was responsible for the death of Mara Jade Skywalker and that he was the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Caedus. The galaxy was once again under the rule of the Sith.

Caedus allied the GA with the Moff Council, and attacked the Verpine, hoping to gain control of the valuable munitions facility. During the battle, he dueled his sister, Jaina, and lost his arm, resulting with his blood being splattered on her face, allowing him to make a blood trail and find the Jedi base, Shedu Maad. The GA then attacked the planet without success, leading to the death of Caedus, the capture of his apprentice, Tahiri Veila, and the end of the war. The Jedi, along with Jagged Fel, were able to have the Moff Council join them, and brought the Confederation to the bargaining table. They reformed the GA, and named former Imperial Natasi Daala Chief of State. Daala was able to create an order of stability, and Solo's dream of peace in the galaxy was realized.

Conflict with the Jedi Order
Two years after the end of the war, the three major galactic powers, the GA, the Confederation and the Imperial Remnant; gathered on Coruscant for a summit that was meant to start a political galactic unification. The three Heads of State, former Imperials Natasi Daala, Turr Phennir and Jagged Fel, were all supportive of the summit and met to discuss it.

However, since the end of the war and Jacen Solo's fall to the dark side, the Jedi were seen by many in the galaxy as troublemakers who were merely trying to gain more power. Daala, who was a staunch anti-Jedi, started a policy to take over control of the Jedi Order. To this end, she arrested and had Luke Skywalker tried for dereliction of duty. Luke was exiled from the Order and the GA and left Coruscant with his son Ben.

Daala forced Kenth Hamner, the acting Grand Master of the Jedi Order, to assign observers to each Jedi so as to keep an eye on them. However, Nawara Ven, the attorney representing the Order's interests had the law revoked in the courts.

Slave revolts
At this time, due to the actions of the underground movement named Freedom Flight, public opinion started to turn against slavery in the galaxy with revolts erupting on worlds such as Klatooine and Blaudu Sextus. Daala chose to repress these movements and hired a company of Mandalorian Supercommandos to brutally crush the revolt on Blaudu Sextus. Upon witnessing the massacre, the Jedi decided to move against Daala and stand by the slaves in their bid for freedom. They overthrew Grand Master Hamner whose policies were too aligned with Daala's and launched a fleet of ships to support the slaves.

At the same time, the Head of State of the Imperial Remnant, Jagged Fel, decided that he didn't want to align his government with Daala's after she asked him to assign troops to her to help crush the revolts around the galaxy. He withdrew from the unification talks and left Coruscant.

Some time later, the Jedi organized a plot to overthrow Daala at the same time as Senator Haydnat Treen and General Merratt Jaxton launched their own coup. Daala was successfully removed from power and arrested. So as to keep control of the Alliance, a Triumvirate was formed composed of Saba Sebatyne, acting Grand Master of the Jedi Order, Treen and Jaxton. Decisions were made by having a two-thirds majority in the Triumvirate.

Under the Triumvirate, Luke Skywalker's exile was ended. On his return to Coruscant, the Triumvirate was disbanded, and the entire Jedi Order departed the capital. In their absence, the Lost Tribe of the Sith manipulated the Senate into electing the dark-side entity Abeloth to the post of Chief of State, though the Senate believed she was Senator Rokari Kem of Qaras.

The Ossus Project
In the years following the Second Galactic Civil War, the Imperial Remnant started to gain more and more influence. Under the leadership of the Chairman Lucius, the Remnant slowly began to re-establish itself as an Empire once again.

The Alliance also embarked on an ambitious new program—the Ossus Project. Backed by the New Jedi Order, led by Kol Skywalker and Nei Rin of the Yuuzhan Vong Shaper caste, the planet Ossus was used as a test bed for restoring planetary ecosystems through shaper technology. The results were spectacular, as Ossus emerged into a verdant world of jungles.

One hundred worlds were selected by the Alliance for terraforming. Yet, a resurgent Sith Order sabotaged the projects, causing immense pain and anger among the citizens of the project's selected worlds. The Jedi immediately suspected sabotage, but were unable to prove it. As numerous worlds began to suspect that it was the Yuuzhan Vong who caused the project to fail, the Jedi Order urged the Galactic Alliance government to support the Vong against criticism. Angered, numerous worlds began declaring their independence of the Alliance or neutrality.

Decline (Fanon/Plot-Approved)
For many years now, since the galactic civil war, the Galactic Alliance had been in a state of decline but it was only after the Ossus project that this was becoming much more evident. The galactic senate began to become decadent and despite new fears of senatroial curroption, by member worlds and corporations alike, the senate failed to pass any reforms or legislation that could combat these new forms of curroption. Thus like an untreated poison curroption spread throughout the senate unchecked.

Nationilist Fervour
This senate curroption had the largest effect on the people of the GFFA with many being forced into a state of misery by the senate's continual failure to stand up for anf protect the people. The misery was met by the people with national protests that swept the GFFA member worlds. The senate paralyzed by curroption delegated the power to the member worlds of how to deal with the situation. The lack of direction from the senate swept panic and chaos throughout the people of the GFFA and many peaceful movements were met with a swift crackdown by there member worlds governments. Other governments acted far more faily to these new movements on there planet and began calling for planetary referendums.

Month of Revolt
The brutal crackdown by local governments led many formly peaceful nationalist movements into violent ones that seeked freedom from the GFFA at any cost.

Meanwhile in the senate the corporations and influential governments, worrying of losing planets from there authority through nationlist revolts or planetary referendums of seceeding, began to work through there senators to get GFFA military, security, and intelligence to intervene in the growing crisis. The Chief of State at the time agreed to the intervention and ordered a huge crackdown on all nationalist movements throughout the GFFA declaring such movements as illigal.

The Crackdown was met with brutal revolts by the movements. Many worlds were seeing massacres and violation of rights being squashed by GFFA military and secutiry forces. After nearly a month of ongoing revolt and unrest over 50% of member worlds of the GFFA signed a petition sent to the Chief of state ordering the crackdown to end otherwise they would act to protect there people.

The chief of state, in order to avoid another civil war, Ordered for an end to the crackdown and lifted the ban on the movements however secretly he order all movement leaders to be killed and listed as MIA. With this move civil war was averted and the nationalist revolt was finally surpassed.

Although the revolt had been beaten it left a stain on the people and the governments who tried to protection. The harsh reality of the GFFA had been hit to them in the worst of ways and thus discontent continued to spread throughout the senate and the people. Many senators began to join a secret nationalist party with the ultimate goal of leaving the GFFA.

Despite the chief of states actions in favor of the curropt senators he was used as a scapegoat over the incident and was removed by a unanimous vote of no confidence against him allowing the curropt senators to save face over the incident.

New Jedi Order Problems
The month of revolt hit the Jedi Order quite hard with many now seeing the Galactic Alliance for its true colours. Despite the Alliance's past governments, which should have been lessons to prevent such things, once more the Senate had succumbed to corruption. Many Jedi became disillusioned with the corruption and wished to become completely independent from the Alliance, breaking all ties with them. Others, albeit, wished for the current balance to continue, while some wished to become a much more integrated part of the Galactic Alliance and the Senate's efforts to eliminate corruption on both fronts.

Notwithstanding, a majority of the Jedi remained silent on the matter; only the few who most desired to bring about change voiced their concerns in the Order. No organized movement had begun yet and, at least for the moment, the Keepers of the Peace were sparred the unrest that had come with the rest of the galaxy.

Despite all that occurred, relations between the Galactic Senate and the New Jedi Order became unstable once again, mostly as a result of some senators' feelings toward the Order; they were deemed to have interfered in state affairs for far too long, to have bothered themselves with matters that ought to be resolved by the democratically-appointed planetary representatives. Nevertheless, with darkness--depending on one's view--there is always a beacon of hope. There remains those that respect the, as they would call it, "infinite" wisdom of the Jedi and their unrequested commitment to the protection and preservation of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.

Government and Politics
Governmental changes between the New Republic and the Galactic Alliance included a new constitution, a stronger judicial branch, and a better system of checks and balances that curbed the power that had been almost exclusively in the hands of the Senate. The new federalism properly defined the roles between the government and its member worlds.

The Galactic Alliance government was led by a Chief of State. The chief of state was assisted by an advisory Council that consisted of  members of the Alliance's military, members of the governmental leadership, and representatives appointed by the Chief of State.

The new alliance was a federal republic, properly defining the roles of both the federal government and the member worlds and states. A stronger federal system was the largest change in the overall structure of the government following the dissolution of the New Republic.

Executive Branch
The Alliance, like the New Republic before it, was headed by the Chief of State. The Chief of State was elected by receiving a majority of votes in the Alliance Senate. The Chief of State was also the President of the Senate, again following the similar structure of the old New Republic system. A major difference between the two systems was that the Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance seemed to possess more executive powers, designed to curb the power of the legislature. This form of checks and balances was one of the major differences that set the new government apart from the old. The Chief of State was aided by an Advisory Council, which consisted of the heads of the various governmental, military, and intelligence departments as well as representatives appointed by the chief of state.

Legislative Branch
The main legislative body of the Galactic Alliance was the Senate. The Senate was composed of representatives from all member worlds and states that compose the new government. The powers of the Senate were curbed under the new constitution by a series of checks and balances, namely increasing the powers of both the executive and the judiciary. Despite these changes, the Senate remains a powerful and important part of the Alliance government. Some corruption had begun to creep back into the Senate following the end of the war against the Yuuzhan Vong where is continued to spread.

Judiciary Branch
The judicial branch of the Alliance government received the greatest increase of power under the new Alliance constitution. The increase of judicial oversight and power was designed to help curb any legislative abuse or corruption, which was becoming increasingly common during the last years of the New Republic.

Galactic Alliance Defence Force
The military arm of the government was known as the Galactic Alliance Defence Force. Led by the Supreme Commander, the Defence Force consisted of the Galactic Alliance Navy and Army. These federally controlled forces were tasked with numerous roles, ranging from securing hyperlanes to protecting key worlds, as well as facing any aggressors that sought to attack or harm the Alliance. Its structure was extremely similar to the older New Republic Defence Force, though its size was significantly larger, due to the build up of warships during the war. During the latter stages of the war against the Yuuzhan Vong, the government maintained four strategic fleets. Their tactics often were hit-and-fade strikes popularized by the Rebel Alliance during the Galactic Civil War, due in part to retired Admiral Gial Ackbar helping reorganize the Defence Force in the months leading up to the Battle of Ebaq 9.

Five years after the end of the war, the Defence Fleet seemed to have built back up to pre-war strength, with at least five strategic fleets under the government's command. The Galactic Alliance Fifth Fleet, under Bothan Admiral Nek Bwua'tu, was assigned to patrol the Hydian Way, though it was redeployed during the Killik crisis. Several years later during the Second Galactic Civil War, the Defence Force began fielding numerous new units, including the Galactic-class battle carrier, Mon Cal heavy carrier, and the Aleph-class starfighter.

Planetary Navies
Some key member worlds, like Corellia, maintained private navies and militaries for personal defence. These forces were under the direct control of these member states and seemed to be at least partially autonomous of the Defence Force. By the time of the Second Galactic Civil War, new laws passed by the Alliance government sought to reduce the size of these planetary forces in favour of the more centralized Galactic Alliance Defense Force however planets could still field there own navies as required.