The Challat Compromise was an agreement that settled the questions of Galactic Senate representation after the First Alsakan Conflict between the Galactic Republic and Alsakan around 17,000 BBY. It resolved the question of how to govern the millions of sectors that had Senate representation, which consequently made debate interminably slow and the Republic almost ungovernable. Under the Compromise, the Republic adopted the idea of a seated Senate, whose members had full rights of address, and an unseated Senate, whose members had to petition for such rights.