This transitional page gathers technical observations about the
condition of the Galactic Republic as seen in The Phantom
Menace. The topics covered here may eventually be divided and
integrated with other pages dealing with more general subjects.
However the temporary organisation may turn out to be
practically semi-permanent. The Galactic Republic is called the
Old Republic in the classic-era STAR WARS literature, and it is
not entirely mysterious. The Prologue of the A New Hope novel
briefly describes the fall from greatness of this system of
government. Spin-off references such as roleplaying game
sourcebooks have reiterated the same information, with a few
reasonable assumptions. The Tales of the Jedi comics have shown
events in the Galactic Republic a few millennia before the time
of the Skywalkers, and the civilisation portrayed in these works
is the same in scope as the Galactic Empire, accounting for some
cosmetic, cyclic changes of fashion. The Galactic Republic
appears to have kept the entire galax