That was right. Those senior officials and Elder Council members who truly had the power to stop all this had all remained silent! The ones making the biggest fuss now were actually just relatively marginal figures!
Even Adelaide Tagge found it hard to judge whether these people truly opposed it or were merely putting on an act.
There was nothing to be done about it. Orman Tagge's influence within the family was simply too great now.
Orman Tagge was Sanya Tagge's eldest son and had originally been the family's first heir. On top of that, he had been hailed as a super genius at a young age. At seventeen, he had independently designed the L8-L9 battle droid, capable of competing with the B-1 battle droid. Not only that, he was also a Super Soldier with extraordinary strength.
He had already possessed great prestige within the family. Combined with his status as first heir, many of the family's elders and senior figures stood by his side, for no reason other than their desire to climb aboard this great tree as soon as possible.
By comparison, the team around the current patriarch, Sanya Tagge, had long been essentially fixed, making it exceedingly difficult for anyone else to squeeze in. Thus, those capable and ambitious people who had no more room for advancement mostly gathered around Orman Tagge.
As time passed, Orman Tagge also began constantly accusing Sanya Tagge's wavering policies of preventing the Tagge family from reaping the dividends of war. He repeatedly compared them to the rise of Sith Fleet Systems, claiming that it was Sanya's conservatism that had caused them to miss their chance. Otherwise, Tagge Company could easily have swallowed Sith Fleet Systems' entire current market share. By then, merely spinning off Tagge Company's military-industrial division would have been