After the attack on Mon Calamari, which was a mixed bag of failure and success, and subsequent to the horrific terrorist attacks on its planets, the Anthos Republic voted President Isjhe Kaant out of office, and reinstated a Senate composed of representatives from each planet and territory.
After reviewing President Kaant's record, and stance towards the galaxy as a whole, the new Senate passed articles into position that essentially locked down the Republic. Almost all official diplomatic and economic ties with the rest of the galaxy have been forcibly severed (many budding intergalactic companies dying or moving out of the Republic because of this action), though it is rumored that several lines of communication are open to leaders of some of the Galaxy's larger governments.
The Senate withdrew a great deal of monies from the military budget, a personal pet of President Kaant's military advisor, and focused it instead upon civilian communications, transportation, health, and other issues. The amount of Vigil patrol groups were increased two-fold, and beefed up with the new Sentry-class patrol craft, while the many heavy cruisers and other more battle-oriented craft were decommissioned. Planetary Defenses, another pet of the former military advisor, were maintained at their traditionally heavy status', though the plans to continue increasing the amount of stations were abandoned in favor of providing defenses to the few planets that, while being in the Anthos sector, were not of the Republic. As said in a press-statement to the public, "We're focusing on increasing security, not preparing for battle."
It was also discovered that President Kaant had ordered, and successfully completed, the construction of a Sovereign-class Super Star Destroyer, complete with superlaser. The investigative council, recognizing the panic news of such a thing could create, immediately had the super weapon disabled, and the ship stripped of its military capacity. A call was made to the Vinda-Corporation, a transaction made, and the empty hulk has been sold. Rumor has it that the Vinda -Corporation has plans on turning the seventeen-kilometer hull into a traveling history museum of past governments from all over the Galaxy.
Also discovered, but kept under wraps, was the location of the long-fabled Aeten system. The Aeten II asteroid belt was searched, but it was apparent from the beginning that President Kaant had strip-mined the system most effectively of any crystals it may, or may not have contained.
Also during their investigation, the investigative council may have uncovered information leading to the discovery of a fabled bounty-hunting group that was believed to be based on the long-lost planet of Mandalore. Unfortunately, both the information and the two men who found it vanished without a trace.
In short, the Anthos Republic has faded back into the shadows of the public eye, from whence it came.
Ok, anyway, I think I'll do an IC-news style documentary for this later, but nothing more. It's been pretty irresponsible of me to have tried to keep this group going over the last few months, I've basically been in serious breech of the rules in regards to having a functioning board, and junk. I'll dump the links later, as well as fix the planet and R&D list when I have time. If Anthos is in any RP's that you wish to finish, feel free to NPC the people out.
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