Legender:
Palpatine hänvisade till Ruusan Reformation , en händelse där republiken reformerades och omstrukturerades. Det inträffade ungefär 1000 år innan Palpatine gjorde uttalandet. I huvudsak skapades en ny republik.
Den ursprungliga republiken började i cirka 25 000 BBY. Den moderna Jedi-ordningen började i cirka 26 000 BBY. Så Jedi tjänade republiken för allas existens.
Detta skapades speciellt för att förhindra ett kontinuitetsfel.
Från den länkade artikeln:
The Ruusan Reformation was introduced in the timeline in order to explain several differences between the Old Republic as presented in the comics, and the one which appeared in the prequel trilogy.
In the Expanded Universe, the Republic is well established to be extant for 25,000 years, based on Obi-Wan Kenobi's line in A New Hope that the Jedi had been "the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic" "for over a thousand generations." For a long time, EU sources were the only works set during the Republic era—most notably the popular Tales of the Jedi sagas. However, in Attack of the Clones, Palpatine mentioned the Republic had "stood for a thousand years." This at first seemed to conflict with both the C-canon EU history and the G-canon internal continuity in the films. However, the Ruusan Reformation—in which the Republic is reorganized following the already-established defeat of the Sith a thousand years prior to the films at the Seventh Battle of Ruusan—was invented by subsequent writers to give an alternate explanation on Palpatine's line, thus bringing all these sources into relative harmony through a retcon. It also explains how Sio Bibble could claim, in Attack of the Clones, that there had not been a full-scale war since the formation of the Republic.