New Republic Senate



The Senate Assembly

Senators | Historical References

Members

Historical References

With nearly a thousand Senators already - and with each one representing fifty to two hundred entire worlds - there was no possible way Coruscant could truly look after the interest of all of the beings making up the New Republic. This latest modification of the Senate had reduced its role to little more than providing for the common defense and mediating disputes between member sectors. The more commonplace day-to-day governing was handled at the sector, system, planetary, regional, district, and local levels.

A few of the Senators, remembering the glory days of the Old Republic, occasionally grumbled about the Senate being reduced to what they saw as little more than an elaborate debating society. For the majority, the more vivid memory was that of Coruscant's domination during the dark days of the Empire. A relatively weak central government was exactly what they wanted.

Specter of the Past, p112