Bureau of Scouting and Exploration Services

The New Republic Scout Service was the official exploration arm of the New Republic. It dealt with NRSS-employed scouts, corporate scouts, and independents. Though the New Republic Provisional Council opposed the creation of the Scout Service, feeling the new government's resources would be better used to assist already settled systems, Mon Mothma stressed the need to reestablish contact with lost colonies (or possibly contact new allies) in Wild Space and the Unknown Regions. The NRSS drew upon the traditions and regulations of the Old Republic's scout service when establishing its practices.