As the Senate underwent changes, the Galactic Senate Building was also renovated and was now called the Republic Senate Building. All the statues in the surrounding plaza were torn down and destroyed, because they had commemorated the martyrs of the Galactic Republic. In their place stood countless statues of Palpatine himself. Walking through the plaza, one would feel Palpatine's gaze almost everywhere.
In fact, that was indeed the case. Surveillance equipment had been installed inside those statues.
While the Senate was reorganized into the Imperial Senate, the former Galactic Republic military also underwent sweeping reforms.
First, the Galactic Republic Supreme Strategic Command was dissolved, and the entire Republic army was reorganized into three branches—the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Army, and the Stormtroopers.
All three branches answered directly to Emperor Palpatine and remained independent of one another, so there was no need to establish another department above them.
In truth, the Supreme Strategic Command had only existed because, during the early stages of the war, it had been created to coordinate the utterly chaotic Republic army. At the time, the Republic army included Republic fighter forces, warship forces, orbital forces, the Grand Army of the Republic, and more. Their responsibilities overlapped, making the whole structure chaotic and bloated.
Now that the Galactic Empire had been established, everything was being rebuilt from scratch. Naturally, the military, being of paramount importance, also needed reform.
The Imperial Navy, responsible for space combat, and the Imperial Army, responsible for fighting on planetary surfaces, had clearly defined duties. The Stormtroopers, meanwhile, were reorganized from the Clone Army and became an elite force directly under the Emperor's command.
To ensure the Stormtroopers' combat power, Palpatine ordered the growth period of the one-year Spartan clones to be extended slightly, making the soldiers more stable.
After the Clone Army