Onderon, Izzy City, Unifar Temple.
This massive twin-towered structure was also the planet's administrative core. But now, the hexagonal flags of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and the flag of Onderon, hanging on either side before the temple, were being taken down and set ablaze.
The enormous flags, each more than two hundred meters long, burned fiercely as they fell from the Unifar Temple hundreds of meters above, the flames growing ever more intense like two gigantic fireballs.
Onderon's administrative core had been captured by the Galactic Republic.
General Akhenaten Tandin, Onderon's Supreme Military Commander, had underestimated the Galactic Republic's resolve and misjudged the situation within the country. While his main force was doing everything it could to halt the advance of Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano's ground troops, Sola Gerrera stabbed him in the back.
Sola Gerrera completely disregarded civilian casualties. Months earlier, he had already begun preparing for the Galactic Republic's ground invasion, planting Proton Bombs in buildings around major thoroughfares, and they played a tremendous role at this very moment.
At the cost of nearly a hundred thousand civilian casualties, he held General Tandin's main force at the outskirts of the city.
Then Wilhuff Tarkin directly ordered the Republic's landing forces to press forward regardless of casualties, forcing their way through Izzy City's dense anti-aircraft fire.
He likewise paid the price of nearly a hundred thousand men, but in the end, they still captured the Unifar Temple.
And it had been only twenty-seven standard hours since the Galactic Republic officially began its landing. Since Onderon completed one rotation every twenty-six standard hours, it had been almost exactly one day.
The moment the Galactic Republic's cogwheel flag unfurled across the walls of the Unifar Temple, the planetary regime that had endured since the reign of former King Ramses