Ruusan Reformation
The
Ruusan Reformation was a
fictional event in the
Star Wars universe when the Republic Measures and Standards Bureau reset the year zero to year of the
Battle of Ruusan, which is 1,000
BBY by the current date system.
Due to
Palpatine's comment in
Attack of the Clones that
the Republic had only existed for a thousand years (instead of a thousand
generations as stated by
Obi-Wan Kenobi in
A New Hope) and that there had been no "full-scale" war for all the Republic's history, the
Expanded Universe literature has established that the
Battle of Ruusan ended a war with the
Sith Order, the Republic had to be built from the ground up, making the Ruusan Reformation much more than a simple change of the dating system.
The system of government did not seem to change too dramatically (as the Republic had been ruled by a
Supreme Chancellor and
Galactic Senate as early as 4,000 BBY), but the
Jedi Order underwent a significant adjustment. In symbolic measures, largely to convince the Republic that they would not become a conquering army, the Jedi abandoned their battle armor, renounced all military ranks (such as '
Lord'), disbanded their armies and placed themselves under the supervision of the
Supreme Chancellor and the
Judicial Department. In order to lessen the chance of a Sith resurgence, the Order began molding children from birth. In addition, the training of
Padawans was centralized on
Coruscant, to remove the danger of unsupervised students delving into forbidden Sith knowledge.
#Ref.
Power of the Jedi Sourcebook.*
Ruusan Reformation at
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