

It’s a logistical nightmare, making different ship parts and ammo types, making training versatile crews impossible, causing vulnerability and limiting production capacity. While not a problem for a rebellion – they had to make do with what they could find – it’s just something a government couldn’t have. It would lack any sense of standardisation.

It was a cobbled together force made out of whatever the rebellion could get their hands on, which meant that many different ships from different contributors would have made it up. Taking the military perspective first, audiences should remember how the Rebellion fleet was built. There are two broad reasons for this, both from a military perspective and a political perspective. But why they’re doing this isn’t so clear, and it’s something worth going through. One aspect that gets mentioned in a quick manner is the fact they’re decommissioning their fleet, something that’s already been mentioned in other material.

It shows that while they’ve made some huge strides away from the Empire, such as not killing the enemy officers, but instead trying to reintegrate them, they have a long way to go. Chapter 19 of The Mandalorian finally gives audiences an extended look at the state of the New Republic (NR), one of the only major faction’s not explored in live-action.
