"The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that… it was the Republic."From the Journal of the Whills^[ 

 The Republic was born with the signing of the Galactic Constitution in 25,053 BBY, during the Unification Wars

Though history often recalls the Republic as peaceful; numerous galactic conflicts, such as the Hundred-Year Darkness, the Old Sith Wars, the Vultar Cataclysm, the Mandalorian Wars, the Jedi Civil War, the New Sith Wars, and the Clone Wars—occurred throughout its 25,034 year history. 

 The Republic, led by a Supreme Chancellor, had a supposedly democratic government that was able to sustain itself for over a twenty-five thousand year period. For most of its duration as the dominant galactic power, the Republic did not style itself as a strong centralized government, but rather as a union of sovereign planets for the purposes of promoting trade, mediating disputes, and ensuring mutual protection. It is said that its complete history would "fill a thousand libraries".

 In its latest years, it was a benevolent—though ineffectual—government tied up in layers of bureaucracy.

 "For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the Empire."Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker^[

For years, the Jedi Knights and the ancient armies and navies of the Republic defended against violence, and thus as a guild of Republic Protectors we continue in the struggle..

May The Force Be With Us All