Supremacy Movement

The Supremacy Movement, contemporaneously the Anti-Republicans, and derisively the Supremacists, was a political movement in the Shantarak Republic from 2253 until the collapse of the Republic in 2299.

Founded by a small group of senators in 2253, the Supremacy Movement was intended to encourage a military build-up to counter incursions into the Republic by the various Houses of the Volkar Stellar Imperium. Initially enjoying very little widespread support, the Movement began to gain support following the Republic's defeat in the Second Shantarak War.

In 2299, following the Republic's defeat in the Third Shantarak War, and the loss of its most populous core worlds to the Stellar Imperium, supporters of the Supremacy Movement took advantage of the lack of a Republic military to overthrow the remnants of the Senate and initiate a military build-up. The government they initiated, the Coalition of Shantar, was no longer democratic, as they considered the survival of an independent Shantarak state to be of greater importance.