The Citizens' Resistance was a large organization of the desperate, oppressed citizens of the planet Romin, which for many years before the Clone Wars and the rise of the Galactic Empire was ruled by the tyrant-dictator Roy Teda. The organization's goal was to increase their power and resources—as they fought off poverty, disease, and death among their people—in order to find the ideal opportunity where chance and fortune met them, to oust Teda from power, replacing his tyrannical government with one based on peace and justice.