
This thirteen-year period from 32 BBY to 19 BBY became known as the fall of the Republic. The Invasion of Naboo, followed by the Separatist Crisis and the Clone Wars, marked the Republic's transition from a democracy to a military dictatorship under Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine.

Aided by the Knights of the Jedi Order, the Galactic Senate of the Republic governed the galaxy in a time of peace that lasted for roughly a millennium.Īccording to Janyor, the Republic gradually declined under a stagnant bureaucracy and political corruption, and its final years were remembered as the Twilight of the Republic or the Twilight of the Old Republic.

Following the fall of the Old Republic, the Republic Era commenced with the establishment of the modern Galactic Republic. The Republic Era, also known as the era of the Republic, the Age of Republic or the Great Peace, was a period in galactic history marked by the rise and fall of the Galactic Republic.

Historians rebuke the people of this last age for being taken in by such circuses when their attentions should have been focused on the malfeasances and corruption in the Senate and other governing institutions." ―Janyor " Before the outbreak of war, the twilight of the Republic was an era of distractions, with citizens from all walks of life following escapist pursuits.
