"Newt Gunray, that idiot!" Tang Xiao ground his teeth. But he also knew that the Trade Federation could not be blamed for Yuri Orlov's sacrifice. In the end, Yuri had died for the Fourth Civilization.
If not for the Fourth Civilization's strategic interests, someone as shrewd as Yuri Orlov would never have touched the Trade Federation, such a hot potato. One could even say that if Yuri Orlov had not supplied the Trade Federation with vast quantities of weapons and equipment, the Trade Federation, trapped on Wealth World, might have been crushed by the Galactic Empire in a single landing operation.
Tang Xiao rubbed his forehead. At this moment, countless emotions surged through him, along with an overwhelming sorrow.
Yuri Orlov had been one of the first people he awakened, only slightly later than Cun Te among the Legendary figures. When Tang Xiao had first considered awakening him, he had felt extremely wary. The main reason was that he feared Yuri Orlov would lack any sense of belonging toward the Fourth Civilization—merchants pursued profit, and the Fourth Civilization at the time clearly had none to offer.
Too much had happened afterward, and Yuri Orlov had always supported them from the shadows. From backing Gaddula Besadi against Jabba, to later sparking the Cerean civil war, and then the battle on Planet Tis, Yuri Orlov had played an important role in all of it.
The arms trade network Yuri Orlov established had initially sold the Fourth Civilization's outdated conventional assault rifles to chaotic planets like Tatooine. He then purchased more advanced equipment from industrially developed places like Corellia, gradually building the Fourth Civilization's arms trade system through such dealings.
It could be said that during its early development, much of the Fourth Civilization's weaponry had been brought in by Yuri Orlov.
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