Tarzan Tagge's son was equally capable and ambitious. He had always worried that an incompetent son might expose the smuggling operation behind the scenes, so he had also placed great importance on his son's education.
Having lived on Tepasi for a long time, his son had access to stable, first-rate schooling. As a result, he too became an outstanding head of the family.
Thus, Tagge Company gradually began to transform. With Tepasi's construction industry becoming increasingly saturated, the company started branching into other fields, including droid manufacturing, mineral extraction, materials transport, speeder production, and even starship construction.
They established numerous subsidiaries, and nearly everything their business required was built in-house: droids, mining machinery, transport ships, cargo speeders, various types of airspeeders, and more. Not only that, they also produced night-vision equipment, scopes, military snow-combat gear, and even had their own food company!
Tagge Company thus became the true controller of Tepasi, one of the Core Worlds' most prominent planets. They had their hands in virtually every aspect of Tepasi's life and economy. Even the planet's capital had been renamed Unlos Tagge City.
Moreover, because of Tepasi's commercial traditions and Tagge Company's broad business reach, the people they had always exploited were actually those on the downstream planets. On Tepasi itself, they had consistently maintained an excellent reputation.
For a long time, Tagge Company had not particularly cared who served as Planet Governor or senator, because whoever it was would be one of their own people.
Later, when the Trade Federation and the Technological Alliance rose to prominence, Tagge Company joined both organizations in succession, as it was indeed involved in many logistics, transportation, and machinery manufacturing sectors.
After the Battle of Naboo, the Separatists emerged. The Tagge family was deeply influenced by Count Dooku's Separatist ideology and had once intended