• The Declaration of a New Order was a proclamation made by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine first as an address to an Extraordinary Session of the Galactic Senate and then to the general populace. In it, he proclaimed himself Emperor of the Galaxy, revealed the treason of the Jedi Order, and outlined his vision of transforming the thenceforth-abolished Galactic Republic into the new Galactic Empire. • COMPOR (the Commission for the Preservation of the Republic) has been replaced by a new organization, COMPNOR (the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order).