Oblivion Era

The Dark Age of the Old Republic was a period of time that lasted over 4,000 years, beeing the lowest point of the Galactic Republic. It was the follow up to the disatrous period of chaos that were the Great Machine Wars and it only went worse with the brutal Pius Dea Crusades. The technology of the galaxy went backwards thousands of years and science became almost a myth in many worlds.

General Information
Scientist in all the galaxy started to think that everything was already discovered, so researching stopped and nobody tried to understand the ancient technologies. With the rise to power of the Pius Dea cult in 11,987 BBY, all founds were send to the military force, making the Republic situation even worse. After the fall of the Pius Dea in 10,966 BBY, the galaxy managed to create a short era of peace, but eventually the crisis got unstoppable.

Many worlds were reduced to a primitive age, as many of them started to depend on atomic energy and (in extreme cases) carbon combustion. This resulted in many of the Republic colonies beeing forgotten or lost for centuries and even millenia.

While the Republic managed to rebuild itself around 8000 BBY, the effects of this dark age would continue for thousands of years. Its end isn´t very clear, but some historians mark the end of this period at 7800 BBY, with the years before the Waymancy Storm War, while other historians say that its effect lasted until 4500 BBY.