Civilian Volunteer Corps

"The Separatists are capable of producing droids far faster than we can make clones. If we are going to win this war and retake lost territory at a faster pace, we're going to need to rely on our citizens who are willing to fight."

- Rahm Kota to Chancellor Palpatine The Civilian Volunteer Coprs, also known as the CVC, was a military organization comprised of non-clone soldiers of the Republic Military. It was formed sometime after the outbreak of the Clone Wars with many patriotic citizens of the Galactic Republic who wanted to enlist in defense of the Republic against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Civilian volunteers mainly served as part of the Republic Army while others would be pilots for the Republic Starfighter Corps and the Republic Navy.

Formation
At the start of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, the Galactic Republic was able to muster up the needed clone troops of the Grand Army of the Republic in order to combat the vast droid forces of the Separatist Droid Army which began invading various worlds and expanding Separatist territory across the galaxy. While the clone soldiers were effective, they were much smaller compared to the size of the Separatist droids and vastly outnumbered the clone soldiers. Jedi Generals such as Rahm Kota, Bardan Jusik, and Djinn Altis expressed their complaints and issues with the clone soldiers and requested that civilian volunteers be allowed to join the ranks of the Republic Military in order to boost up the number of personnal and try to get on equal footing with the Separatist droids in terms of numbers.

Palpatine eventually agreed to the offer and using his charisma and the promotion of nationalism across the Republic, convinced the Galactic Senate to allow the creation of a volunteer corps within the Republic Military and so the Civilian Volunteer Corps was founded in 22 BBY a couple of weeks after the First Battle of Geonosis following the passing of the Civilian Volunteer Act. Following the announcement, millions of combat ready and patriotic Republic citizens signed up and began their training in order to defend the Republic against the Confederacy. While many within the senate approved of the decision, many senators such as Bail Organa and Mon Mothma believed that the Chancellor was using the volunteer corps as his own personal army due to the cult of personality that surrounded him and the corps. Most Jedi were reluctant but acceptaning of the corps while some, such as Kota, welcomed the new unit and had their entire squads made up of civilian volunteers.

Early Operations
The first known operations of the Civilian Volunteer Corp occured sometime around seven weeks after the Battle of Geonosis on the Outer Rim world of Christophsis which was under siege by Separatist forces. The vast majority of the Outer Rim Territories along with many parts of the Mid Rim had already fallen to the Separatists and the Republic was desperate to save what little they could in the region along with the rest of the Mid Rim. On Christophsis, many natives had signed up for the volunteer corps and put up a moderate resistance effort against the Separatist forces invading their planet, but could only last so long before they were overrun and called in for Republic help. Republic ground forces eventually made it to the planet's surface, but were quickly bogged down by the Separatist troops who managed to find out about ambush plans and defenses thanks to spies such as Slick and Christophsian volunteers managed to wage a guerilla war against the Separatist droids to relieve the clone soldiers of the pressue that they were facing.

Other volunteers were sent in and they were able to relieve pressure off of the clone soldiers by fighting Separatist droids among the ruins of the cities that were heavily damaged and nearly destroyed by Separatist bombers. The volunteers were able to get the upper hand as the battle droids weren't able to fight a guerilla war and had to divide their forces to keep the insurgents supressed. After some time however, the Separatists were defeated and withdrew from Christophsis leaving the world in the hands of the Republic and proving that the volunteer corps was a reliable fighting force. The next known battle was on Ordonia which fell into civil war when pro-Separatist insurgents rebelled against the pro-Republic government. The Ordonian military was split between the two warring factions and so, Ordonian citizens signed up for the volunteer corps and fought to keep their planet in the Republic. The knowledge of the landscape and terrain by the Ordonian volunteers was critical as the clone troopers were unable to handle such conditions as they weren't knowledgable on Ordonia's geography.