SPECULATION The status of the New Republic

The second scenario. It would give a sense of urgency to the narrative and the fight against the First Order. My guess is that the resistance fleet will be hunted throughout the sequels only to make a final and desperate stand somewhere in VIII or IX. I do think they will do as little politics as they can. The urgency is with defending a way of living not with debating one.

Though I do think the resistance should seriously consider defending its trade routes and not allow to much political freedom to private enterprise. Giving the Trade Federation an official voice in the senate was like giving Shell a place on the UN security council.........

And while they are at it, they should really grant emergency wartime powers to the new chancellor so that he can govern without the direct approval of the new senate. A Winston Churchill figure will do fine. He will not win the post-wartime election anyway...........

Anyway, in the end it is best to do no politics at all. The Star Wars saga posits that the only good guys are the ones who live in undemocratic military regimes with a hierarchical psuedo-aristocratic power structure. For the Rebel Alliance, Mon Mothma, Ackbar, Maideen and Leia will probably tell you what to do whether you want it or not. In the Jedi council the gerontocratic oligarchic council will decide your fate. The Empire would have provided stability and would have had no need for milirary force if it weren't for those mothaf*ing Rebels. Same goes for the First Order. The resistance is a private military organization under the sole leadership of an undemocratically elected general who claims to represent the supressed voice of the people in First Order and neutral space. That is called usurpation.

 

And we must remember that Starkiller was built for one real purpose: to take down the Hosnian system. The First Order clearly has the advantage, despite the loss of Starkiller in an insignificant operation. After the destruction of the Republic the base was redundant anyway. The first order still has its full fleet intact. If those ships in the scene where the hosnian system explodes were indeed the mass of the republic fleet, then the resistance will be even more at a disadvantage. Perhaps the resistance will be more reliant on non-aligned forces and local military organizations than on the former limited military power of the New Republic.

 

Unless the entirety of the New Republic is confined to ONE Star System, then I doubt that it's been completely destroyed. But it's capital has been destroyed, along with most of it's fleet. And presumably most of it's top political leaders are dead now as well, so there'd be chaos and confusion.

The Resistance is actually a mostly private group set up by Leia and co to confront the FO more directly. The Republic was supporting them "under the table," but didn't seem to be at open war with the FO. But now, what's left of it (perhaps led to by the newly elected Chancellor Lando Calrissian) WILL perhaps declare open war on the FO and ally with The Resistance more directly/openly.

 

Well I don't mind the resistance having obvious similarities to the Rebel alliance. I do think the rebel alliance was quite a funny organization. "We resist and fight to resist and fight", seems to have been their objective. The original movies did not explore the true objectives of the Rebel Alliance as they are digressed upon in the EU. We only learned that they were trying to restore the republic after the prequels. Instead, I hope the 'resistance' will be more flashed out. That they are actually fighting for something that is made explicit in the narrative of the sequels, that their fight affects people and that there is a certain logic to their causes and the way they behave and conduct operations. A mixture between symetrical and asymetrical conflict would be a nice and interesting twist to the resistance, and it would make it quite different from the Rebels who were portrayed as engaging only in symetrical warfare (at least in the movies). It would fit in well with the more 'moral' undercurrent of the sequels. What does it mean to be good or bad? It would be nice to see this question reflect on the conduct of the resistance. What are the costs of their actions? What sort of moral lines do they need to cross in order to defeat the First Order. With the attack on Starkiller they blew up a planet. That irony must ring with some resistance leaders.

 

I think both the 1st Order and the New Republic are wounded and reeling. I don't think they wanted to loose their big stick WMD. The Republic will likely regroup but the defeat of its star fleet and destruction of its central government is going to cause big problems. I would expect lots of systems dropping membership to protect themselves. Others will want to back who they think the winning horse will be so expect systems to align with the 1st Order.

 

Very intriguing indeed

 

What happened to Mon Mothma?

 

It's pretty likely that numerous Senators and military leaders were not in the Hosnian system when it was destroyed that can reorganize and lead the New Republic. I mean it would be pretty silly for a galaxy spanning state to have all its government and military assets in one location and then promptly get destroyed in a few minutes. At full strength the New Republic is probably stronger than the First Order. This likely necessitated the Starkiller attack in order to weaken the NR and level the playing field between the two sides in the war.

 

I think it would be fun to see it loved backed to Coruscsnt .

 

If the First Order is completely in charge of the galaxy in VIII then I'll probably rage quit and stick to the EU at that point the Sequel trilogy would just be a reboot of the OT in all but name.

 

Quick ?: Is Mon Marta dead? Is she still the "supreme leader" of the Rebel Alliance? What is her role in the new Senate or Republic?
I did not read the Star Wars novel: Aftermath. I did see trusty crusty old ADM Ackbar in the war room scenes. So I guess he's still a military leader(fleet CiC?).

TFM

 

Mon Mothma was the first Chancellor of the New Republic. I'm not sure if she's still alive, but at the time of TFA, Chancellor Villecham was on Hosnian Prime when it was destroyed. As far as I am aware, Mon Mothma had no involvement with the Resistance, as Leia was the sole founder of the Resistance, and recruited many former members of the Rebel Alliance to her cause.

 

They pulled him from retirement to give his educated opinion about the size and volume of First Order weaponry......"size or magintude?"

Mon Mothma, I don't know. is the actress still alive? I hope she married Lando......She always was a politician first, so perhaps she was in the Hosnian system when things went hot. Leia is the commander of the resistance though she might face charges, simply because she's a republic citizen in serious violation of the 'law'. If Republic law is similar to that of present western states and supernational government, she would be facing the following charges(note that her senators who provide funds to the resistance will face similar charges):

a. Illegal and unsanctioned military operations in neutral and first order territory. Territorial integrity breach.
b. Unsanctioned use of Republic subsidies and funding (some senators are illegaly funding the resistance)
c. Illegal arms trafficking. She buys and receives black market arms supplies and actively particpates in soliciting funds to this purpose. Illegal use and appropriation of New Republic arms, vehicles and supplies.
d. Provoking legal First Order military retaliation because of unsanctioned use of force on foreign sovereign territory.
e. Illegal use of force and deadly violence by a private citizen.
f. Usurpation of local power structures and sovereignity. Over-ruling local and sovereign political constellations.
g. Excessive use of force with grievous costs in human life, have and goods, and mass extermination of transient life forms on the Starkiller base host planet (Starkiller base planetary-wide destruction)
h. Excessive environmental damage through conduct of illegal military operations (Starkiller base planetary-wide destruction)
i. Illegal use of New Republic insignia.
j. Inciting Republic military personnel to defect and enter foreign and illegal military service and engage in unsanctioned use of violent force.
k. idem to par. j : Republic citizens.
l. Illegal and unsanctioned military intervention on Takodana.


similar charges are used for people joining ISIS or any other form of foreign military service.