Driven into a desperate corner, Sanya Tagge learned through her intelligence network that Tang Xiao, as a Sith Lord, possessed the power to control life and death. Thus, when her second son, Cassio Tagge, was captured and she came to negotiate his ransom, Sanya Tagge also made a request for treatment.
Seeing one of the Milky Way Galaxy's greatest aristocratic dynasties, the Tagge family, come knocking at his door, Tang Xiao naturally had no reason to refuse. He first kept Cassio Tagge behind, having him study under Volgograd Kanidi in the Modell Sector, and openly stated without reservation that Cassio Tagge had the qualifications to command a fleet.
This won Sanya Tagge's favor and also aligned with the interests of the Tagge family.
At that time, although the Confederacy of Independent Systems was still putting up a desperate struggle, the situation across the Milky Way Galaxy had already become clear—the future would inevitably see the Duchy of Dawn and the Galactic Empire competing as two great powers. The Tagge family was therefore quite willing to place bets on both sides.
There was another important matter: Sanya Tagge and her husband, the retired Killian Tagge, were in fact Separatists and among Count Dooku's followers. When the Clone Wars broke out, they had genuinely hoped to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Had they done so, the Confederacy would have gained the Tagge Group.
But after rationally weighing the pros and cons, they made the wise choice—immediately pledging their loyalty to the Galactic Republic and Sheev Palpatine.
Especially compared with the other great aristocratic families of the Core Worlds, Sanya Tagge had a far deeper impression of the Duchy of Dawn's hidden strength. She understood perfectly well that while her son Cassio Tagge lacked experience, he was by no means incompetent. Yet