Cold War

"Thus began the unprecedented stalemate. The Jedi reconnecting with their roots, the Republic nursing it's wounds, the Sith consolidating their power in a galaxy divided between darkness and light."

- Jedi Master Gnost-Dural

The Cold War was an intense stand-off between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic after 3,653 BBY. The Treaty of Coruscant ended the Great Galactic War, sealing the Sith Empire's victory. Peace was brought, but tensions between the Sith and the Republic remained high. In the thirty years after the War, fear and uncertainty gripped the galaxy.

Border skirmishes and proxy wars between the Sith and Republic erupted and the uneasy truce between the two foes appeared to be on the verge of collapse. The conflict included small battles in the Outer Rim and other conflicts fought by proxy. One such conflict was the Civil War on Ord Mantell between the corrupt planetary government that remained loyal to the Republic and a guerilla force of separatists wishing to secede.

Although the galactic situation could easily have erupted into another galactic conflict, neither side was ready to wage a full-scale war yet again. During the Cold War, Kel Dor Jedi Master Gnost-Dural made a record of the events surrounding the treaty at the behest of the Jedi Council on Tython.

During this period, the Galactic Senate adopted its signing as a new dating standard, with years preceding the treaty being termed "BTC," or "Before the Treaty of Coruscant," and years after being called "ATC," or "After the Treaty of Coruscant".

Galactic Republic

 * Jedi Order
 * Ord Mantell government

Sith Empire

 * Mandalorians
 * Ord Mantel separatists

Behind the scenes
It is in this "Cold War", as described by the game's creators, that the MMO The Old Republic is set, in the years after the Great Galactic War.

It is highly likely to have been influenced by the real world Cold War between the West, and the Soviet Union and their allies. This conflict never reached open war, but was instead a political arms race, with the goal of having greater global influence.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic