The facts proved that, at least on Dak Planet, the policies pursued by Lin Nanyi had achieved considerable results.
By igniting conflicts between races and driving the Quarren completely into the Kingdom of Dawn's camp, the price paid was merely the interests of more than ten billion Mon Calamari. Perhaps tens of millions, even over a hundred million Mon Calamari would die in the process, but who would care?
In this Milky Way Galaxy, struggles between races had only ever offered two choices: your death or mine. That was the underlying logic hidden beneath freedom and democracy.
The two races on Dak Planet had merely taken this inevitable path several thousand years after the civil war that had nearly driven the Quarren to extinction.
Mina-Tills, the Mon Calamari leader who had long since committed suicide, would never have imagined that Nossori, the Quarren leader she hated to the bone, had been the one truly protecting them.
When the Quarren's first king, Carl-Venga, ascended the throne, that was when the Mon Calamari nightmare truly began.
Carl-Venga also began pushing forward a reconstruction plan for Iskalon planet. Its former ruler had been the Iskalon Alliance, an organization formed by several aquatic races of the Eastern Territory. But because the planet had sheltered Gial Ackbar's Deep Sea Fleet, it was subjected to Orbital Bombardment by Death Squadron under Darth Vader's command.
Iskalon planet, with a population of over thirty million, suffered devastating casualties in that Orbital Bombardment. In the end, fewer than six million people remained there, barely clinging to life. Moreover, this ocean planet lost trillions of tons of seawater, its sea level fell by more than ten meters, and its average temperature rose by three degrees!
The seawater vaporized by the Orbital Bombardment had even formed an icy crystal Star Ring