In the height of the New Republic, the use of the Futhork alphabet was already three and a half millennia old. Ancient legends were written in this informal script, including the tale of Veré and Set, two eternal lovers. In the last decades of the Galactic Republic, the art of writing in Futhork was still taught at school, and the six-year-old Ryoo Naberrie, niece of the famous Senator Padmé Amidala, was known to dislike this subject. At that time, even the farmers could write in both Aurebesh—the most universal written form of the Basic language—and Futhork fluently.