Core World Aristocrats
March 10, 8 BBY. As the incident on Scipio continued to ferment.
Tepasi, the Tagge family's homeworld.
At the top floor of the Tagge Company headquarters, inside a secret conference room, hundreds of figures were densely projected amid dim blue holograms. They were all representatives of the Galactic Empire's great Core World noble houses and the boards of directors of the mega-corporations.
Nearly everyone wore a grave expression, their brows tightly furrowed. What had happened on Scipio had almost instantly ignited every contradiction within the Galactic Empire.
No one had expected the Kingdom of Dawn to launch a second surprise attack on Scipio—and succeed!
Ever since the Clone Wars, Scipio had been built into the Galactic Republic's strongest financial fortress, yet the Kingdom of Dawn had still breached it. That time, it could at least be blamed on internal divisions within the InterGalactic Banking Clan, with Muuns and the Core Five colluding from within and without.
But this time, the Galactic Empire had long since learned its lesson and established an impregnable defensive line on Scipio. Not only had it sealed off the secret route between Scipio and Makito, it had also built up powerful orbital defenses and designated Scipio as a priority defense world.
Even with the battlefields in the Northern Territory and Eastern Territory already in critical condition, the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Guardian had remained stationed at Scipio. It could be said that defense had still been given the utmost priority. Yet even so, the Kingdom of Dawn fleet had passed through every early-warning net and hyperspace blockade like ghosts, striking directly at Scipio!
And in less than a day, they breached the planet's defenses, landed on its surface, routed three million troops with terrifying speed, and finally seized the vaults with their ground