Cal Omas was an Alderaanian who served as the last Chief of State of the New Republic and the first for the Galactic Federation of Free Alliance, which he helped found. His record of service goes far back, stretching to the Rebel Alliance through the New Republic, where he served as Alderaan Sector’s senator.
Biography[]
Post-Yuuzhan Vong War[]
Following the Yuuzhan Vong War Cal Omas continued to serve as Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance. There were some concerns about his ability to serve as a peace time Chief of State, and the office had clearly taken a toll on him physically. The immense weight of leading the galaxy during this period of reconstruction was so demanding that it was wondered if anyone could bear the stresses. The once easy going and lighthearted Omas became more standoffish and quicker to anger or frustration. His relationship with the Jedi was also not what it used to be. While the Jedi and Omas did not enjoy the cordial relationship they had during the war, Omas realized the advantages of the Jedi. He considered them servants of the Galactic Alliance just as much as himself and attempted on numerous occasions to circumvent the power of the Grand Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
This gave him the enmity of many Jedi of the time, including Jasca Ducato who believed that Cal Omas wanted to dissolve the Jedi Order or at the very least turn it into his personal guard.
After the Second Correllian Crisis Cal Omas, fearing for his position issued Presidential Order 0001/A; which clearly stated that any attempt to remove him from power was treason.
And so, for the next few decades, Cal Omas controlled the GFFA unchallenged. But, with murmurs of a secretive military force building up its strength in the Unknown Regions, Omas was determined to avoid yet another conflict.
Just one year after the close of the Second Corellian Insurrection word reached Omas that Luke Skywalker was preparing the Jedi for conflict, and he feared that, should word of this get out, the populous of the Alliance would revolt. Omas ordered Skywalker to cease his build-up, and, after being refused threatened Skywalker with Presidential Order 0189/L and so forced him to agree.
The government begins to collapse[]
For over a decade the Jedi kept an eye on the Unknown Regions, whilst themselves being watched by the Chief-of-State. Cal Omas had began to believe that the "threat" that Skywalker had feared was nothing more than space pirates and ordered the Jedi to stand down. Skywalker, infuriated, refused outright and informed the Chief-of-State that any further attempts to blackmail the Jedi would be met with force.
Omas, enraged ordered his forces to open fire on the Jedi, but was overruled by his aids, who refused to pass on the order. They correctly believed that a civil war between the Jedi and the GFFA was the last thing the galaxy needed.
Cal Omas began to feel that his government was slowly being torn apart from within by the Jedi and his own assistants and withdrew himself from public life. He remained in recluse throughout the Sith invasions of the Imperial Remnant and the Chiss Ascendancy and throughout the vast majority of the negotiations surrounding the Treaty of Secessions. Omas realized that the treaty was the last hope for the GFFA but still resented it.
Unable to cope with the pressures surrounding the treaty, Omas had a breakdown, and power temporarily passed on to Luke Skywalker, who kept the Alliance fleets along the border. After Omas regained his health and resumed control of the Alliance he ordered the GFFA fleets to remove themselves from the border, for fear that the Sith could be provoked. The vast majority of the fleets complied, but some, including that of Admiral Argos refused, following the orders of Skywalker two years before hand.
Omas, infuriated with this blatant refusal of his rule attempted to withdraw Argos from his command, but was vetoed by Skywalker. Who, rather unfortunately for the Alliance, could foresee the oncoming storm. In the year 61 ABY, the Sith invaded.