Thaereian military

The Thaereian military was the military of the Thaereian system. In the last years of the Galactic Republic, the Thaereians agreed to protect the Cularin system, which had recently joined the Republic. The Trade Federation had been forced out of the Cularin system in the Trade Wars, so there was no longer a unified force counteracting the system's pirate groups. Cularin's Senator, Lavina Wren, was concerned about the pirates, and one of her first acts was to officially ask for a military presence in Cularin. Thaere responded, but the response failed to impress.

Thaere assigned an unpopular officer, Colonel Jir Tramsig, to the task, and he brought a much smaller force than his commanders had authorized. He initially set up a small base on Dorumaa, and attacked a few pirates from there while surveying the situation. He eventually brought in more ships, and established a larger base on Cularin&mdash;Soboll. A year after the Trade Wars, his forces in the Cularin system included two divisions, four capital ships, and eighteen patrol craft.

The Thaereian forces were unpopular in the Cularin system. They frequently interfered with shipping on the pretense of preventative measures against piracy, but they failed to make any real strides in preventing anything but piracy on the largest scale. In fact, the pirates always seemed to strike when there were no patrol craft around.

Many suspected the Thaereians of having their own agenda, and in truth, Colonel Tramsig was partaking in secret actions. He was requisitioning excess materials, he had a relationship with Nirama to resupply supplies he had supposedly lost to pirates, and he had secret bases built on Tilnes and Ulbasca, along with a deep sea landing platform on Dorumaa that was not part of the original base.

In the middle of the Clone Wars, the Thaereians joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems. By this time, volunteers in the Cularin system had formed the Cularin Militia.

Notable members

 * Colonel Jir Tramsig
 * Major Kurth San

Behind the scenes
The Living Force Campaign Guide was written before Attack of the Clones established that the Republic did not have a standing military, so it had Colonel Tramsig leading Republic military forces. When AotC came out, it was established that the military units in the Cularin system were instead from a nearby system, Thaere. In the original version, it was clear that the Jir Tramsig was up to something, but it was probably not the apparent expansionist agenda it became under the Thaereian version.