THIS IS A FAN-FICTION BUT CONTAINS SPOILERS !

Julien Sita, 4th February 2021.

The Senate of the Galactic Republic

Prolegomena

In the Star Wars Galaxy, a senator wrote about the faillure of the galactic senate; the representative assembly he was part most of his life. His first hand experiences in the senate pushed him to meditate on the downfall of the republic, the tyranny of the sith and the rise of the first order. In his memoirs he wrote in details his life as well as the history of his home planet and thus of his galaxy.

Special Thanks to my Friends from Rutania: Valečo Źaźouč, Thomaźō Timotious and my beloved Naya Rhi-Mwân.

Part I: The History of Hundred Years of Corruption and Incompetence

The Senators brought down the Republic twice and couldn’t avoid three galactic wars. The corruption and inefficacity oft most Senators led to a civil war, whereas the honest senators, being manipulated by the corrupt, made fatal mistakes. The democratic Republic had so the ideal circumstances to be refomed in an autocracy. The Chancellor Palpatine knew how to take the advantage of this preconditions. The divided Senate coulnd’t reach important compromises and was to great to be coherent. Chancellor Palpatine, who made himself emperor, promising the to make political descisions more effective and faster. By abusing his political powers and governing like a dictator he made himself many ennemies. When some senators joined the rebellion, the emperor simply dissolved the senate and reigned through terror instead with the rubberstamp senate. After the death of Palpatine and the republican restauration, the senate of the second galactic republic quarreled three decades blocking himself to make descisions. By believing naivly that the leadership of the First Order would respect the peace treaty, the senators where attacked and eliminated by the first offensive. The central government of the second galactic republic collapsed during the first moment of the third galactic war. The first attack was basically the first step of a coup d’Etat by which the First Order became Master of the Galaxy.

From this years I learned that consistency and attitude to compromise are important factors for a stable and good functionning senate. A Tribunal or commission to force senatorial majority to make an compromise. An democratic representative assembly should not be too much fractured and not too much polarised. In times of emergency a powerfull commission should supervise the executive or have the executive’s powers.

Part II: The History of The Rutanians

Rutan was relativly late integrated inside the galactic republic. The superich were in an century-long social struggle with the impoverished masses. Rebellions of famine multiplied. After the fourth planetary civil war, the rutanians agreed to form a balanced system to protect the interests of the masses as well as the privileges of the few. After the rutanian system was adopted into the republic, the rutanian senators were often troubblemakers during important senate sessions.

Long before the senate and within the central authority of the new republic was overthrown by a new authocratic order, the leaders of the Planet Rutan were pretty concerned about the underestimation of the menace of the First Order. The council of the Ten* took many mesures independently from the disputed galactic senate and formed the greatest planetary army within the republic. The iron will and discipline of the Rutanians is well known in many systems of the galaxy. The systems allied with Rutan formed an independant State after the collapse of the New Republic. The Resistance was abandonned by the Rutanians briefly before the death of Luke Skywalker. Rutan, didn’t wanted to use its military after the resistance suffered many casulaties. Only a few rutanian admirals urged their hierarchical superiors to revise their position. The Central Military Command of Rutan decided to repeal all rutanian and allied ships to their home systems. Many commanders lost hope, courage and feared that their system defence lacked military power in case of an offensive. Rimilio Ocko, the son of the famous rutanian Senator Uberto Ocko**, was furious of his government’s descision to retreat and abandon all promised help to the Resistance.

Ocko proposed then a motion to form a expiditory troup to patroll the sensible boders of the rutanian commonwealth. His motion was rejected, which made him angry and triggered a tough fight in the parliament building. Three days later, Ocko was put under house arrest, but his motion was eventually adaopted when the First Order attacked a few planets which were allied with Rutania. The Council of the Ten decided one more time not to intervene, until all the armies were ready. Even more politicians, soldiers and civilians pressured the government to act quickly. Ocko said furiously that if the covards in the Council of the Ten had acted directly, the resistence would not have been so strongly decimated and the march of the Order troop could have been slowed down. Ocko knew that the millions rutanian soldiers plus millions of paramilitaries were eager to defend their system and home planet, but even as Rutania knew that the peace promises from the First Order were are farce and so the Ten created decades ago the greatest planetary army in the republic, they failled to react to the first attack of the First Order.

The rutanian reinforcements didn’t came to save the resistance, but retreated before fighting a decisive battle. After the retreat of the few last survivors of the resistance, when Ocko as free from arrest, Rutania called for the general mobilisation against all intrusions into their juridiction. Ocko was elected admiral took the command of a few bataillions. The Council of the Ten was replaced by the trnasitory High Security Council (HSC), who took command over the executive during war times. Actually the installation of the HSC came for many far too late. The first decree from the HSC was the reconquest of the allied planet.

Ocko led the attack, but was wounded. Republikaner-Unionisten. Separatisten. Nationalisten-Neutrale. Konservative, Republikaner und Unionisten. Internationale Separatisten. Nationale Separatisten. Nationale Imperialisten. Galaktische Imperialisten. Rebellen. Republikaner. Resistance.

*The Council of the Ten is the Name of the rutenian planetary government. It is called so, beacause it has at least 10 senior councilliors. The others are the First Chair, which and the junior councilliors.

**Senator Uberto Ocko was known as an fervent opposer to humanoid war-machines, fearing, that they could kill anyone if their possessor give them the order. The Jedi-Master Osnik who called him an ridiculous philosopher with unrealistic views was killed by drones after Palpatines gave the Order 66.

Note: The High Authoritative Commission (HAC – Mediator between the two councils, can force a compromise law after 9 weeks of blockage, can propose planetary pacts and constitutional charter for the planet). The Great Council (Pressure Groups for particular interests, can veto laws). The Council of Delegates (Public interest, can propose laws). The Kitarchons (judges, who are also city mayors and city-council-members, one must serve as Kitarchon to be a council member).

Part III: An Enquiery on the Philosophy of the Force

The scholars of rutania found an old manuscript during the reign of Palpatine and kept it totally secret. Even before the fall of the Empire, they analysed the scripture which gave precise insights into the Jedi religion. (…) The Metaphysic of the Force is monist worldview, where every thing is connected by an active principle, which enables causes and effects of every changes and constancy.

• According to the Jedi: Tranquillity of the soul is peace, peace is plesure. Protection of the balance of the force is the goal. For the Jedi-Knights there is a special ethic and honor code for them.

• According to the Sith: Power, destruction and excess means plesure. The disturbance, and so disbalance, of the force is the goal. For the Sith-Warriors there is a special elitist code. Desires who can bring yourself and others in dangers are seen as the principles of the way of life of the Siths.

The jedii way of life is much closer to the rutanian norms than those of the siths. The Jedi have an sense of loborious iron discipline and a sense of friendly cooperation inside a commonwealth for the common good. This explains the commitement of the jedi to the values of the republic: freedom, justice and peace. (…) The objective norm of the jedi are a good source of autodisciplinarian spirituality. The practice of the Jedi-religion gave some interested scholars tranquility of mind during the harsch years of political repression. Rutania was traumatised by the destruction of Alderaan and the forced recruits into the imperial army during the civil war. I begun to study the metaphysics and ethics of the jedi only after Palpatine’s death.

The universallity of the things connected by the same being gave the Jedi a sense of identity with the cosmos. Thid kind of universal identification was also the base for their help for others and sense of sacrifice for the good of the many. Rutanian soldiers are well known to be one of the best soldiers in the galaxy, but their sense of sacrifice has a more patriotic or nationalistic sense than the cosmopolite Jedi. Although the Rutanian soldiers were always loyal toward their allies in the battlefied and never abondanned them in the most hash situations. Although rutanian leaders were often backstabbers, which led many friends dying without sending reinforcements. The three civil wars were therefore times of dishonor for my home planet, now known for its national egoism and covardism of their rulers. This planet, with so many brave legionairies, had many covard governors.

With this words, I will at my 150th Birthday took the initiative to save the galaxy once more from the tyrants from the dark side of the Force. May the Force tend to its bright side.

Signed: Umberto Ocko