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... Oh for the love of-
Please tell me we're not doing this again. Can't you just make a separate thread for the EU vs. Disney debate?
Ask and ye shall receive!
Personally, I just feel as though the timescales aren't really believable. Jakku was what, a year after Endor? There is just no way that the rebellion conquered the Galaxy that quickly. I find the splintering and subsequent mop-up we see in the X-wing series to be much more realistic. Not to mention that the Wikipedia article implies that the Empire lost most of its fleet strength at endor, which just doesn't compute for me: the Star Wars Galaxy is a huge place, and would need a huge Navy to actually maintain control over it, deal with pirates, etc.
This. The Legends New Republic was stupid sometimes, but at least they were not crippled to the point of being incapable of governing.
I also have a real problem that the NR even could get wiped out by the destruction of a measly 6 planets, compared to the vast size of the galaxy. Or at least the idea that their fleet was destroyed along with the planets. What about (again) stuff like anti-piracy patrols?
The Disney canon has Palpatine explicitly rig the Empire to go down in flames in the case of his death, because it's his empire and fuck anyone who dares to take over after him.
The Disney New Republic is also a deliberate overreaction to the excesses of the Empire: it was weak, decentralized, and ineffectual, such that a strong central authority could never again rise.
One constant thread we see through the entire post-Ruusan canon is an extreme reluctance from the entrenched powers of the galaxy to trust the Republic -- and its successor -- with enough military strength to compel member worlds to actually follow Republic law to the letter.
If you read between the lines of the actual force depositions from the various conflicts the New Republic engaged in and take into account the origin of the fleet as ships essentially on loan from various governments, what you find is that the New Republic probably operated by calling up ships from various planetary and/or corporate fleets, supplemented by a comparably lean federal fleet maintained as an anti-Imperial bludgeon/emergency response force.
The New Fleet program featured in the Black Fleet Crisis would be emblematic of this, and we can also surmise that the Lusankya and other captured Imperial vessels (Rebel Dream, Liberator & Emancipator, etc) were part of this category. I think it's reasonable to put classes like the Ranger and Rejuvenator here as well.
On the other side of the coin, you have the Corellians and Bothans who provide concrete proof that member worlds had significant leeway to maintain their own militaries. I'd argue that the Ralroost being first and foremost a Bothan warship is what gave Traest Kre'fay the ability to thumb his nose at Coruscant and take an active stance against the Vong early in the war.
OLD NEW REPUBLIC VS NEW OLD REPUBLIC! and other such things.