This in turn invited increasing compromise, corruption and profiteering in the highest spheres of Alliance power.Īlthough it can be argued that such changes had been rather slow and gradual, they had become more pronounced in the 790s UC under the Sanford Administration, where defeating the 'evil' of the Galactic Empire and the re-election of the High Council became much more important than the economic and social situation of the Alliance in general. The influx of refugees from the Empire - not all of them republican-minded - and constant need to maintain a powerful military fleet caused a shift to a militaristic, nationalistic, viewpoint. Originally a highly democratic population dedicated to the principles of democracy, the long war had seen several changes occurring in its psychological makeup.
The causes of the civil war can be traced back to changes in ideology in the Alliance.
