The Alsakan Crisis was a conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Alsakan Union in 13,000 BBY. The conflict was the result of numerous other engagements between the two governments in the previous centuries. The Alsakan Union believed that it was their duty to take over Coruscant and re-create the capital of the Republic on Alsakan while Coruscant was terraformed into more natural habitat rather than the city-world that it had become. This belief stemmed from their religious doctrines that taught nature over technology, and this had caused a great deal of hostility between the two societies starting just after the formation of the Galactic Republic.