Praetoria

Praetoria was a planet in the Core Worlds. Its Human inhabitants were known as the Praetorians.

The world was seemingly lost to history, leading many modern historians to believe that it may have never existed. Many archaeologists have also claimed that Praetoria did exist, and was in fact what came to be known as Anaxes.

History
While Praetoria's existence was heavily debated by historians, it was widely accepted that the Praetorians themselves existed and were known for their utilization in the Galactic Republic's ancient armies as mercenaries and, at times, as guards of the Supreme Chancellor. The first appearance of Praetorian soldiers was during the Pius Dea Crusades, particularly during incursions into Hutt Space, in which the Praetorians fought alongside armies from Coruscant, Corellia, and Alderaan against the Hutts' armies of Weequay and Nikto slave-soldiers. They spent the following millennia serving as bodyguards rather than soldiers, though returned to their warrior culture during the planet Rendili's failed revolt against the Republic in c. 9000 BBY, in which a Praetorian army numbering more than 200,000 warriors, equipped with outdated segmentata armor and vibroswords, defeated a force of around 700,000 Rendilians. Following this war, the Praetorians largely disappeared from the galaxy, with the last of their kind remaining in servitude to the Republic as guardsmen. The last Praetorian guardsman units were disbanded in c. 5000 BBY.

Over the following millennia, many worlds would established unrelated guard units named after the Praetorians, and during the existence of the First Order - a remnant of the Galactic Empire - an elite unit known as the Praetorian Guard served the First Order's secretive supreme leader.