Back when Master Yoda launched his surprise attack on the Modell Sector, it was the pulse-activated universal core mounted on the Sperm Whale-class that had withstood the sustained bombardment of the entire Galactic Republic fleet on its own, giving the Kingdom of Dawn a chance to turn the tide.
In this overlooked field, the United Mining Group's shipbuilding capabilities were in no way inferior to those of the Kingdom of Dawn's other major military-industrial conglomerates.
By now, the industrial ships produced by the United Mining Group had begun to be widely exported throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, engaging in fierce competition with the Galactic Empire's Corellia Engineering Company in the fields of engineering vessels and mining ships.
It could be said that the reason Corellia Engineering Company had not caused the Galactic Empire much trouble even now was partly due to the United Mining Group—they wanted to use the Empire's hand to eliminate this rising star.
Finally, within the Kingdom of Dawn, the United Mining Group was the most powerful military entity apart from the military itself.
In truth, most people knew nothing of this.
But it was easy enough to understand. The United Mining Group had previously mined and transported resources across the Milky Way Galaxy, and to ensure the safety of those routes, it had built an enormous escort fleet.
Many people simply failed to realize this, because establishing escort fleets for cargo transport was perfectly normal.
However, if all of the United Mining Group's several thousand escort fleets were counted together, they possessed more than 100 second-line capital ships, over 800 Heavy Cruisers, more than 5,000 Light Cruisers, and over 17,000 frigates and destroyers. They also had 2,000 Gray Horse-class light Escort Carriers, along with more than 90,000 fighters and bombers of all types!
Although these were