Erayyxa Civil Defense League

"The ECDL, two of my uncles fought in the ECDL during the Clone Wars, twenty years before I was born. Out of those three, only my uncle survived. His wife, my aunt Iryne, was a medic in the ECDL and she was killed. Their son, my cousin Benthar, was an infant and he wound up on a foster home on Duro somehow. My uncle Zerrand was a soldier in the ECDL. He was killed in the Clone Wars too."

- Marthrull Strayfiend to B-6TT on the high casualty rates of the ECDL

The Erayyxa Civil Defense League, commonly referred to as the ECDL, was the entire defense force of the planet Erayyxa and all its systems. It was founded shortly before the, reorganized from the League of Civil Defenders by Warlord Sarqi Polpotta when he unified Erayyxa under his authority. Because Erayyxa sided with the, the ECDL was disbanded for nearly forty-five years after their defeat. However, Polpotta survived and reestablished himself as dictator, restoring the ECDL under Jaxe Minzo. Erayyxa declared war on the and lost and the ECDL was disbanded. Former ECDL soldier and  Eddie Zynish was elected president of the planet and he reinstated the Erayyxa Civil Defense League under the command of Polpotta's niece, Gwirim. Although Erayyxa was occupied by the the ECDL managed to survive the war and continue on as the valiant defenders of Erayyxa.