Recopi Empire

The Recopi Empire was an interstellar Human-dominated government based on the planet Recopia in the Core Worlds. The ruler of the Recopi Empire used the title Dynast (dynas in Recopian).

The Humans of the Recopi Empire, the Recopians (copi), spoke the Recopian language (copiqawa), which was completely unrelated to any of the Human languages in neighboring empires, and the culture of the Recopians was considered very similar to Human empires in the Outer Rim. The flag of the Recopi Empire was a star flanked by an eagle's wings.

History
It was a founding member of the Galactic Republic, and was named after the space explorer who discovered the planet, Recopius. The ruler of the Recopi Empire used the title Dynast. During the Clone Wars, the Recopi Empire's ruling dynasty was the Domodra clan, and its ruler at the time was Dynast Sennelbet Ki-Domodra, who survived an assassination attempt by Separatist agents in 21 BBY.

The Recopi Empire became an Imperial puppet state following the Clone Wars, and Dynast Sennelbet disappeared (presumably assassinated) and was replaced with an appointed governor who used the title viceroy. The Recopian warrior caste attempted to revolt against the Imperials, resulting in hundreds of thousands of the caste's members and families being sent to work at slave camps, often until death or crippling injury, an act which Recopia's engineer, doctor, politician, and tradesman castes actually applauded.

Military
The soldiers of the Recopi Empire, who belonged to a fixed warrior caste considered above tradesmen but below engineers, wore bronzium scale armor and wielded a unique hooked vibrosword known as a copesh (from the Recopian words copi " our people" and iesh "sword"; "sword of our people"), a load-out used by Recopian warriors since the Empire's conception. The modern Recopian shield, wielded on the warrior's off-hand, was fitted with an integrated blaster at its center, which fired orange-colored blaster bolts that were about as powerful as the average heavy pistol's.

Recopian warships were known as "war dragons" (guyyabesdo), and each vessel was unique to one-another, though generally followed the same design principles; ornate gilding, engravings, and statues, with two massive wing ornaments that flanked larger vessels. These vehicles, armed with incendiary cannons and explosive harpoons as they were millennia ago, were not capable of space travel. Instead, the Recopians had "commerce birds" (denava), which were unarmed starships that replaced the wing ornaments for flapping solar sails, used to trade with the Recopi Empire's allies.