Originally posted by Sinious
The old republic enjoyed peace for 300 years where the NR constantly suffered from devastating conflicts.The Old Republic at that point seems to be pretty powerful. Unless there are major technological differences, I wouldn't be surprised to see them survive the Vong better than the NR.
There are some pretty big tech differences. Ship wise, droid wise, armaments, so on and so forth.
Really depends on when you're talking about.
The Vong would be too big for the Republic of the Great Hyperspace War era, and would crush that comparatively small Republic.
The KotoR Republic, would likewise lose without much question, though in a better fight.
TOR era, that could be a fairly good battle. It's smaller than the Republic that the Vong faced, but does have plenty of Jedi and a strong military. I'd think it'd be quite possible to lose, and the Vong will certainly go very far, but the Republic may be able to make them hit their logistics limit again (unlike Sith, Vong can't really recruit locally to bolster themselves, save with their lowest-end forces, the actual warrior caste has a limited amount) and then slowly push them back. It would be a very painful experience, however. Vong ships are stronger than theirs are, and they have nothing that'd be too good against the Vong's combat capable worldship (it took a suicide SSD bomb to take it out by the NR).
I could easily see them getting 75~% of the Republic at max extension. And if there's major bad moves made, defeat is possible.
The old republic is a clearv long storyline.....
And I use the same rule than use to put SW universe at is best when I nerd fight the fan of warhammer 40 000.... I mix the time line best element.
And for the crew that's not a problem :
http://assiste.free.fr/kotor_2/effectifs_militaires_de_revan.html