Well, okay...I don't stan them.
But I have mixed feelings about them.
As a kid I was really into Star Wars and looked up to the Jedi, so I think it's a hold over from that.
The Jedi are flawed, foolish, short-sighted and kind of cowardly (among other things) and The Republic is a stagnant beasts with an inefficient anachronistic and byzantine system where the worst kind of poverty has existed for millennia.
...But I still kind of like them, despite their tragic faults.
Well...Idk if I like The Republic as depicted in Star Wars, in some ways I hate it.
But the idea of a galactic society where hundreds if not thousands of peoples and cultures are brought together to coexist is one I really like, and I can understand in the early days why the Jedi would of supported the creation of such an organization.
Of course it is just that, an idea , and the lore is filled with the many ways The Republic as a bourgeoise order failed these ideals.
Ultimately I think the Jedi erred in so closely associating themselves with and mooring themselves to a state.
Their understanding of the force and themselves is also incomplete or lacking, I think.
But at the end of the day I still like the little space wizard monks.
I respect their aim in controlling their emotions (even if it often materializes in suppression instead) and in being diplomats and peacekeepers for the galaxy (even if it often materializes in propping up an unjust status quo).
But now I am starting to ramble about children's media, which is an unforgivable crime, so I'll stop.
A member culture I think, one with several worlds, an errant knight tradition and a sporadic involvement in Republic military actions and politics (they even arrested a chancellor once) but no bigass central temple on Coruscant and meddling in the structure of government until around 5000BBY. It was started, I think by the aftermath of the HYD, but solidified later with the GHW.
Their second major homeworld, Ossus was destroyed around this time, their first Tython was abandoned after the first schism, since the planet responded tectonically to an overabundance of dark or light side users. Ahch-to I think is being retconned as one of the places force-sensitive refugees with proto-Jedi philosophies come from to Tython around 35,000BBY (Jedi be old).
You're right about the New Sith Wars.
There are and have been Republic threatening powers, and there are the Chiss and the (sigh) Vong. The Republic is really restricted to its major trade lanes. Most of the Galaxy is hard to get to.
Nice, nice, glad I know things. lol.
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I remember reading about Xim the despot in some rulebook.
and for some reason a Hutt becoming chancellor sounds familiar.
I didn't know this for the most part, that's pretty interesting.