In fact, even before the war broke out, Tang Xiao had already used the InterGalactic Banking Clan's connections at the time to begin constructing large-scale factories and space docks on Onderon.
At the same time, Count Dooku had Sanji Rush launch a coup to replace the old king, Ramses Dundup, causing the planet to completely side with the Separatists. The factories on the planet at the time had been jointly built by Tyran Heavy Industries and the InterGalactic Banking Clan, and their scale was enormous.
Over the following years, Onderon stood firmly with the Separatists. The Galactic Republic also had many reservations about this Core Worlds planet at the time. After all, the political influence of Core Worlds planets was not comparable to that of the Mid Rim and Outer Rim, so the Republic still hoped to prioritize peaceful change.
After all, Onderon had merely leaned toward the Separatists politically on the surface at the time, without engaging in any particularly obvious wartime actions. However, when the Galactic Republic later discovered that Onderon was producing Behemoth-class battlecruisers for the Separatists, they realized something was seriously wrong.
But by then, the war was already in full swing. Coupled with their lingering hopes of supporting the planet's local Rebel Alliance in bringing about an internal transfer of power, the Galactic Republic had never managed to pull out this thorn in its side.
In truth, it was because of greed. The Galactic Republic's calculation at the time was that, if the Rebel Alliance succeeded, they might have a chance to take over the Behemoth-class battlecruiser production line intact. If that could be achieved, it would indeed be a tremendous improvement for the Galactic Republic, which had always been at a disadvantage in warship performance.
Honestly, if Tang Xiao had known about the Galactic