Escape from Ord Mantell

You play as Terran Syke, former Dark Jedi in search of his Master after the fall of the Empire. After being led to the planet Ord Mantell by a couple of contacts claiming to know where your master is in hiding, you discover that things are not so easy when criminals toying with the Remnant bring themselves favour from the New Republic.

What is the New Republic, its aims and objectives, and to what ends will they go to censor the Sith from the galaxy?