During the previous two and a half years of the Clone Wars and the four years of the Siege of Sarukami—a total of six and a half, nearly seven years of war—the Galactic Republic, Galactic Empire, Confederacy of Independent Systems, and Duchy of Dawn had all produced outstanding commanders.
These commanders had steadily grown amid the flames of war. Combining theory with practice, they quickly developed their own command styles and shone brilliantly in their battles against one another.
But Hutt Space, by contrast, had nothing but savagery and madness. The former glory of the Hutt Empire had long since vanished. All that remained were two gangs.
There was no officer training system, no theoretical study. During combat, most advice came from T-series tactical robots bought on the black market—and such tactical command robots could never be purchased through legitimate channels. As for the performance of the tactical robots that found their way onto the black market, that went without saying.
The result of this crude, direct fighting was a sharp rise in losses on both sides. Then, to replace their lost warships, the warring Desilijic kajidic and Besadi kajidic began wildly throwing money around to buy warships on the black market.
But who knew how many of those capital ships entering the black market had actually been secretly sold off by the governments of the Galactic Empire and Duchy of Dawn?
Thus, this civil war in Hutt Space had, to a certain extent, unexpectedly done quite a bit to fuel the current arms race between the Galactic Empire and the Duchy of Dawn.
In truth, neither the Desilijic kajidic nor the Besadi kajidic had anticipated this battle around Planet Barab. The planet was extremely remote. Even within Hutt Space, it was usually such a desolate backwater that few paid