Pride of the Core

" Valmair we need a Government! We need a Government Powerful enough to keep the entire Galaxy in shape. A Government established with the fundamentals of Freedom, Democracy, and Justice." - Phil Hall

Pride of the Core, known mostly as The Core was established 27,835 BBY by two Jedi named Phil Hall and Valmair, they both belived a Galactic Goverment was needed to keep the peace.

Pride of the Core was a representative democracy, composed of various star systems, sectors and member worlds throughout most of the known galaxy. Its central government consisted of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. The first was the Galactic Senate, a body of elected or appointed representatives. Its main duties included mediating disputes over issues ranging from planetary to galactic-scale, regulating trade routes between star systems, and in theory, represented the interests of Republic citizens. The Office of the Supreme President was the Senate's executive counterpart. The Supreme President was elected from the ranks of the Senate by its members. As the leader of the Senate and the overall representative of the Republic, the President also held the titles Head of State. The judicial branch consisted of the Supreme Court and the lower Regional Courts. The Supreme Court was composed of twelve justices, one of whom held the leadership position of Chief Justice.

Throughout most of its history as one of the Galaxy's Governments, Pride of the Core did not style itself as a strong centralized government, but rather as a union of sovereign planets for the purposes of collective security and economic prosperity. It was said that its complete history could "fill a thousand libraries." In the last decades that preceded the rise of Emperor Palpatine's New Order in the Galactic Republic, Pride of the Core was a benevolent—though ineffectual—government tied up in layers of bureaucracy, hampered by political and corporate corruption.

History
Pride of the Core was established in 27,835 BBY by work of two Jedi, Phil Hall and Valmair. Phil Hall and Valmair got entire planets on their sides and by 27,835 BBY Pride of the Core was established. The founding planets were Boz Pity, Abregado-rae, Bespin, Mon Calamari, Muunilinst, Ord Mantell, Talus, Ryloth, Stewjon, and Sullest. Once Established the two Jedi found Boz Pity the best Planet for their Capital and by 27,834 BBY Boz Pity became Pride of the Core's Capital. Most of the Government officials were Human with a couple Duros and Sullustans.

Civilians that lived under Pride of the Core's jurisdiction called Pride of the Core peaceful, and were happy to be a part of it. There were Galactic Conflicts, such as the Mintooine Civil War, the Great Hutt War, Pride of the Core Civil War, and The Mandalorian Trade War that occurred throughout it's history.

In 25,053 BBY the Galactic Republic was established, witch came as a shock to Pride of the Core. Pride of the Core was OK with the Republic's establishment, they knew that the Republic had the same Values that they had, yet there was an uneasy feeling but that started to ease when the Republic became the Dominate Government in the Galaxy. The two Governments became Allies and had a good relationship, and they even had representatives from both sides come and talk about each others decisions. Pride of the Core's Military came up with a lot of Military weapons that would change the galaxy, and set Pride of the Core's miltary bigger on the scale. During the Jedi Civil War, any Jedi that were part of Pride of the Core had to leave to be part of the Jedi Civil War. The Jedi who were part of Pride of the Core came back at the end of the Jedi Civil War.

Early History
Shortly after it's setup, Pride of the Core was declared war on by the Hutts. Seeing them as a Rival, the Hutts wanted to end them while they were small. Pride of the Core's military wasn't too powerful but they were the elite of the galaxy during that time. The Hutts and Pride of the Core waged tons of battles across tons of Hutt and Pride of the Core controlled worlds. The War Started around 27,500 BBY and ended 27,490 BBY with Pride of the Core winning the war. This was a tremendous victory for Pride of the Core, now they showed the galaxy that they weren't to be messed with. After the war Pride of the Core wished for a slow expansion but it didn't work out that way, Pride of the Core started to have planets ask to be in their jurisdiction, and by 26,999 BBY 9 planets asked to join Pride of the Core. The Planets were Mygetto, Kashyykk, Taris, Byss, Duro, Naboo, Bothawui, Bothan, and Kuat.

After all these planets joined Pride of the Core, Phil and Valmair asked the Senate if a Expansion to get more planets was needed, the Senate said yes and requested that a expansion would start within the next few days. After a couple days Phil and Valmair traveled to different systems asking them to join Pride of the Core. Phil first went to Cammas, a highly populated core world. Phil almost got Cammas to join the Pride of the Core but they decided to join the Republic instead of Pride of the Core. Valmair went to Denon, a city covered world, his talks succeeded and Denon joined Pride of the Core. This Expansion went on for a whole year, sixteen more planets joined Pride of the Core. After that Valmair re setup Pride of the Core and it became almost an exact copy of the Republic.

Pride of the Core Civil War
24,990 BBY ~ 24,800 BBY

Out of the 35 systems that were joined with Pride of the Core, ten systems were in dislike of how Pride of the Core was leading the Senate and the Courts. The Systems formed an Alliance and became their own fraction, the Confederation Alliance. Without any questions the new Alliance declared war on Pride of the Core, and both of the Governmental Factions not ready for war, they found themselves fighting a bloody war. Phil and Valmair led campaigns across multiple systems, all of them leading up a huge battle at and on Mygetto.

The Battle of Mygetto
24,550 BBY Pride of the Core was heavily guarding a space station at Mygetto with their new ship, the Rex Destroyer. They had an entire fleet of Rex Destroyers, and the Space station was holding millions of small Star fighters, if anything tried to attack them would most likely be eradicated. But unknown to Pride of the Core, the Confederation Alliance was gathering it's entire fleet to take over Mygetto. Out of no where the Alliance's fleet jumped out of Hyperspace right at in front of the space station, destroying 3 Rex Destroyers just a minute into battle, over 3 million star fighters were launched into battle from both sides. Both Fleets had suffered huge losses, but out of 60 Rex Destroyers all but 5 were destroyed. The Last of the Rex Destroyers were destroyed and the ground assault on Mygetto began. Pride of the Core had its best Legions on Mygetto and they couldn't get off the planet, evac shuttles were on the ground ready to go when the first of the Alliance's troops landed. At Jygat a major city on Mygetto, the 1021 Legion of POC (Pride of the Core) ran right into Confederate Forces, the battle of Jyhat began. Commander Lytus who was leading the 1021 Legion knew just what to do to win the battle. The First 500 troops would stay where they were fighting and the rest would attack the Confederate Forces from the sides and behind, finally after the plan was fully executed the Confederate Troops had no choice but to Surrender. Though more Confederate troops could come for aid, the Confederate Fleet Admiral Shaken said no, and instead made the fleet blockade the system so none of the POC's troops could leave. Pride of the Core finally got their entire fleet together and they attacked the blockade at Mygetto, destroying the entire Confederate fleet and finishing the war.

Peace and Death
Peace lasted in Pride of the Core from 24,550 till the fall in 19 BBY.

The Confederation rejoined Pride of the Core and they finally had peace. The Republic however had wars across the entire Galaxy, Pride of the Core made sure to keep out of their way. By the time of 32 BBY Pride of the Core sensed a plot to destroy the Republic but they didn't act on their senses because they never knew. Yet as the Clone Wars began, the Jedi Leaders of Pride of the Core knew something was wrong about Chancellor Palpatine but again they never acted on it, they never would act with the Republic again. Before the Battle of Naboo, Pride of the Core never acted with the Republic, and kept to themselves until the Jedi Purge and the Death of the Republic in 19 BBY. The Jedi Leaders of POC knew what they had to do, they disbanded Pride of the Core, until they were sure they could come back and not be harmed. The Two Jedi leaders were hunted down by Darth Vader and slaughtered, Pride of the Core a work of the Jedi and just like the Jedi it had its Purge.

Restoration
The New Republic came in 4 ABY, and in 10 ABY Pride of the Core was again established, this time not by Jedi but by the Planet Boz Pity. Boz Pity followed the same values that Phil Hall and Valmair created but this time they were going to be bigger than ever. The New Republic However was getting more support than Pride of the Core and after much sorrow from Boz Pity, Pride of the Core remained the government of only Boz Pity.

Government and politics
Pride of the Core began as a mutual protection and economic alliance among a number of planets in the galactic core. Pride of the Core's greatest failing was its lack of formal organization. Much of its operation was based on non-binding constitutional conventions, which were more often ignored and undermined by corrupt and power-hungry politicians than heeded. Coalition governments were common, with special interests defining the legislative agenda. The Senate, in the later years of the Pride of the Core, was so ineffectual that many politically connected corporations and informal blocs of ideologically like minded planets could essentially do what they wanted.

However, the waning years of Pride of the Core were a time of corruption and great social injustice. The Senate became divided between those who genuinely wished to uphold the values and ideals of the Pride of the Core, and those who wished to further their own goals. After a series of weak and ineffectual Presidents meant the time had come for strong leadership to end the corruption.

Within the government, much of the bureaucracy was handled by the General Ministry. Within this body were the Ministries of State, Intelligence, Commerce, Defense, Education, Finance, License and Permits, Public Information, Science, Security and Intelligence, Internal Security, and Science and Education.

Legislative branch
Each member state (system governments) returned a representative (a senator) to a central legislative body (the Senate). Senators were the ambassadors of their home worlds, and member worlds were able to maintain their government and society in accordance with local beliefs, customs, and traditions. There was a wide variety of different local governments along the political spectrum: from monarchies to republics to hive-like communes. In some systems, the senator was elected to that post; in others, the world government appointed the senator. Naboo's monarch appointed their senators, while the Alderaan Council of Elders elected their senator out of their own ranks (usually the heir to the Royal House of Organa, as the heir was also the leader of the council).

When Pride of the Cores's power and influence expanded, many new areas of the galaxy were incorporated into Pride of the Core. The most common organization for these new territories was to group regions into sectors of approximately fifty inhabited worlds. Each sector was represented by a senatorial delegation. When the number of senators became too large, sectors were organized into roughly a thousand regions, each represented by one delegation to the Senate.

The Senate was headquartered in an enormous building containing many floating platforms, each of which contained several senators. Each platform in the Senate represented a "sector" of the galaxy, with one senator from each planet in that sector. Some platforms represented individual worlds, others the powerful corporations and guilds such as the Trade Federation. Along with the senators, the leaders of the individual member planets also had the power to vote in the Senate and introduce legislation. The Senate followed such parliamentary rules as a Vote of No Confidence (voting the Supreme President out of office).

Senators received one vote in all matters—procedural and substantive. The Chancellor was elected from within the Senate. The assembly was in turn divided into individual committees, each specializing in specific fields of government administration, and which were responsible for creating legislation to be reviewed by the full assembly.

Although legislation passed by the Senate was binding to all member worlds, most of the everyday legislation followed by citizens of the Republic was created at the planetary, sector, or regional level. Therefore, the main functions of the Senate were to mediate disputes between members, provide for the common defense, and regulate inter-system trade.

Executive branch
The members of the Senate would then elect a Supreme President from amongst their ranks who would serve as Pride of the Core's head of government (and, by default, head of state) and chief diplomat.

The office was largely powerless in the last years of the Core, and the President served mainly as an officiator of parliamentary procedure and the first among equals in the Senate. However, it had the authority to call an Extraordinary Session of the Senate, and could invoke "President's prerogative" in circumventing minor aspects of the Senate's parliamentary procedure. He also was the head of the Senatorial Council.

It was still a very prestigious position, however, and the President had a grand office in both the Senate Rotunda's Chancellery and in the dome-like Senate Office Building in Galactic City. The President was properly addressed as "Your Excellency." The symbol of the office of the President, as well as the Galactic Senate as a whole, was a fanned spear. This cygnet was also emblazoned prominently on the Chancellor's podium in the center of the Senate Rotunda's Main Chamber. When in the Main Chamber, the President usually wore a Veda cloth robe. The President was elected from among the senators who made up the Galactic Senate and served a term of office that lasted for four standard years. A President could legally serve only two consecutive four-year terms before he or she had to step down due to term limits.

The office became much more powerful during the term of Supreme President Qustrodon, who was able to convince the Senate to grant him a range of "emergency" powers due to the Civil War, including an unconstitutional extension of his term of office after 24 BBY for the duration of the Separatist Crisis and authority as commander-in-chief of their new military during the Civil War. The President was given more direct power over administrative concerns, and he was allowed to overrule local planetary and sectoral governments. The Sector Governance Decree allowed him to appoint military governors to every planet in the Republic, and the Security Act amendment gave him complete control over the Republic military, stripping both the Jedi and the Senate of their previous oversight.

Judicial branch
The Supreme Court was the highest court of law in Pride of the Core, and composed the judicial branch of the Core's government. The Supreme Court was headquartered in the Galactic Courts of Justice Building on Boz Pity.

The Court consisted of twelve justices (each addressed as "Your Honor"); one of them was the Chief Justice who headed both the Court and the judicial branch. The Supreme President apparently could influence appointments to the Court in some way (at least during Qustrodon's tenure), most likely through nominations.

In addition to serving as a "court of last resort" and as a determiner of constitutional legality, the Supreme Court also tried cases involving the highest politicians and most noteworthy people in the Republic. However, at least some cases (including the trial of senators for treason) were handled by the Senate.

Economy
At the heart of the galactic economy was planetary trade. Interplanetary trade could support a local economy, but, in many cases, the high levels of economic interaction and the massive scale of exchange required for an advanced society could only be funded by interplanetary exports. While some planets maintained their own shipping fleets, most relied on large freight firms, such as Xizor Transport Systems, or independent freight haulers to carry their goods along major hyperlanes.

The Corporate Sector was first formed in 490 BBY to free the Republic lawmakers and the Corporate moneymakers from their differences. In the last millennia of the Core, commercial interests began to form guilds to increase their influence on relevant legislation and achieve greater efficiency.

Thousands of currencies were used across the galaxy. The Galactic Republic's dataries were perhaps the most widespread form of currency. Because of the Republic's exceptional membership, dataries were accepted on all but the most remote planets. From its inception, the credit was backed by the immense wealth of the planet Muunilinst and the InterGalactic Banking Clan. During the Clone Wars, the IGBC backed the currencies of both sides.

All working beings were required to pay income taxes, which were collected by the Core Tax Collection Agency. In the later years of the Core, a transit tax of 15% was levied to raise revenue for the government.

Society and culture
The Core had a very diverse culture. Member worlds were able to maintain their own culture in accordance with local beliefs, customs, and traditions. There was a wide variety of different cultures within the Republic: from religious communities like the Jedi to hive-like communes.

The Core had a liberal policy towards arts also. The dominant aesthetic style of The Core was opulence and ornamentation.

Although Humanocentrism was technically outlawed by the Rights of Sentience clause of the Galactic Constitution, it still very much existed throughout the life of the Core. Human-led organizations such as Czerka enslaved entire nonhuman races, while planetary governments such as that of Taris reserved the best sections of the world for Humans, while forcing non-humans into ghettos. The majority of slaves in the galaxy were non-humans.

Military
" Valmair, we need an Army. A "Grand Army". Then we really will be able to maintain peace." - Phil Hall to Valmair on Boz Pity

The Core's earliest days were not peaceful ones, since, as the Core expanded across the galaxy, it encountered many warlike species. The Core realized the need for an army and navy to keep the peace. The Core's military forces would serve throughout many conflicts, including the Mintooine Civil War, the Great Hutt War, Pride of the Core Civil War, and The Mandalorian Trade War.

Several trade corporations, such as the Trade Federation, the InterGalactic Banking Clan, and the Commerce Guild, kept their own security forces in order to protect their profits, but they often abused this power, such as in the Battle of Naboo. Individual sectors also maintained their own security forces, such as Naboo's Royal Naboo Security Forces or CorSec from Corellia, and these were sometimes used to combat small threats. However there was no centralized command, and the members of the late-period Core loathed change.

Jedi Rahm Kota didn't like the idea of Clone Troopers, neither did The Core. The Core's military was just normal humans, no clones. And that instilled that an order like the Republic's Order 66 could not be ordered.

Astrography
There isnt one part of the galaxy where Pride of the Core resinates, its all over the Galaxy. Phil Hall belived having one part of the galaxy be the Pride of the Cores wasnt fair and beleived whoever wanted and didnt want to join the Core could.

Aperences
Star Wars The Old Republic