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The Jupiter Republic was the governing body that controlled the Jupiter Sphere by the UC 0140s, succeeding the Jupiter Empire.

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In UC 0138, two years after the defeat of the Jupiter Empire, Tetenith Dogatie, daughter of former Jovian ruler Crux Dogatie, returns to the Jupiter Sphere and begins to reorganize the colonies there into the Jupiter Republic. By diverting the Jupiter Foundation's finances towards the public good, she managed to avert the government's impending economic collapse. The strict rationing which was formerly a way of life in the Jupter Sphere was ended and Queen Tetenith ushers in a new era of outreach between Jupiter and the Earth Sphere. Jupiter begins three major construction projects: the Argo Odisea, an exploration vessel that would continue to explore the outer solar system, a Minovsky Drive-propelled interplanetary ship, the Manzana Flor, to facilitate travel between Jupiter and the Earth, and they collaborated with Side 2 to create the Angel Halo as a refugee ship. But the new Jupiter Republic Parliament was still split between a dove faction and a hawk faction. Despite Tetenith's noble intentions former-Dogatie loyalists in the government would begin to subvert her agenda towards militaristic ends.

When Side 2 comes under control of the Zanscare Empire, Fonse Kagatie, who had ties to Jupiter, would turn the Angel Halo into a weapon. After the Zanscare War ends the "Servants of Olympus," a faction of warhawks in the government use the scandal to launch a coup d'état and seize control of the Jupiter Republic, exiling Queen Tetenith's family to the Earth Sphere and placing her in cryogenic sleep as "house arrest." In the following decades, the Earth Federation begins to collapse, all the while the Jupiter Republic exports worker mobile suits to Earth and infiltrates agents to foment turmoil and lay the groundwork once again for an invasion.

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