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Senate Select Committee for Refugees

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known as SELCORE, this New Republic Senate-approved committee was formed to address the problem of the incredible number of refugees who were forced to flee their homeworlds in the face of the Yuuzhna Vong invasion. The committee held the Conclave on the Plight of the Refugees in order to gain the agreement of planets to house, feed, and protect the refugees. Their ultimate goal was to establish species-specific enclaves for the peoples of the Tingel Arm and the Corporate Sector, matching compatible species in order to help maximize space. While the committee ran itself well enough, stretching every credit and every resource to its utmost degreee to keep beings fed and housed, the continual advance of the Yuuzhan Vong kept the number of new refugees growing at an alarming rate. Unexpected help came in the form of humanitarian aide from the Hapes Consortium, which gave SELCORE much needed supplies and resources. What they lacked, however, were enough safeworlds on which to transplant the refugees. This situation was compounded by the fact that the Senators of the New Republic continued to argue about which planets to defend and which to abandon, and Senators from many well-defended worlds did not want their already strained resources to be diluted to accommodate refugees. After Viqi Shesh was exposed as a traitor and the Yuuzhan Vong captured Coruscant, SELCORE was more or less disbanded as the government splintered and fled into the Outer Rim.