Madam, You Wouldn't Want Your Son...
"Lead the family defense fleet... fight pirates..." Cassio Tagge said in a trembling voice. "Who doesn't know that our family's main businesses are all in the Inner Rim and the Core Worlds? Who doesn't know that although our family defense fleet has been continuously upgraded over the past ten thousand years, it has never once been deployed?"
"You should feel honored, Cassio," Sanya Tagge said. "Our family defense fleet has always maintained a strength of five thousand warships. Though they are mostly small and medium-sized vessels, that scale already surpasses the fleets of most planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. On top of that, there is a million-strong family defense army, all under your command. That hardly buries the Halo of a top military academy graduate like you."
But half of what she said was actually meant for Tang Xiao, who stood nearby.
That was right. The Tagge family had been one of the founding families when the Galactic Republic was established twenty-five thousand years ago. They could be called one of the oldest and noblest families in the Milky Way Galaxy!
Their family operated a massive conglomerate, Tagge Company. Its hundreds of subsidiaries reached into virtually every field, with businesses spread throughout the Core Worlds and Inner Rim.
And just as Sanya Tagge had said, in order to protect the family's interests, the Tagge family possessed a fleet of as many as five thousand warships, along with a ground force one million strong! Neither during the fiercest period of the Clone Wars nor later, when Palpatine issued an order as Chancellor abolishing all Planetary Defense Fleets, had that force been affected in the slightest!
Palpatine was not foolish enough to challenge the deeply entrenched influence of such an ancient and powerful family. Besides,