1374. Current status of Onderon
Onderon, in fact, before the war broke out, Tang Xiao had already started to build large-scale factories and interstellar shipyards on this planet through the relationship of the InterGalactic Banking Clan at that time.
At the same time, Count Dooku also let Sanji-Rush launch a coup to replace the old king Ramses-Dundup, which completely turned the planet towards Separatists. And the factory on this planet at that time was jointly built by Tyran Heavy Industries and InterGalactic Banking Clan, and the scale was very huge.
In the next few years, Onderon stood firmly on the side of Separatists, and Galactic Republic also had a lot of feelings for the planet Inner Rim at that time. Don't worry about it. After all, Core Worlds's political influence is no greater than that of Mid Rim and Outer Rim, so Galactic Republic still hopes to focus on peaceful evolution.
After all, at that time Onderon was only openly leaning towards Separatists in terms of political leanings, but there was no very obvious act of war. However, when Galactic Republic discovered that Onderon was actually producing Behemoth-class battlecruiser for Separatists, they discovered that something was wrong.
However, the war was already in full swing at that time, and Galactic Republic still had illusions about the internal power-grabbing behavior of the Rebel Alliance, which supported the local planet. Galactic Republic has never been able to remove this thorn in its side.
In fact, it was because of greed - Galactic Republic's calculation at the time was that if Rebel Alliance's behavior could succeed, then they might have the opportunity to completely take over the Behemoth-class battlecruiser production line. If this could be realized, it would indeed be a huge improvement for Galactic Republic, which had been suffering from battleship performance.
To be honest, if Tang Xiao knew about Galactic Republic's plan, he would definitely sneer and tell Galactic Republic: You are thinking about Taozi (please read Taozi in English).
For Onderon, because of the InterGalactic Banking Clan's huge investment and the huge factory complex and interstellar shipyard built by Tyran Heavy Industries on Dexen, one of the four satellites of the planet, this has provided the planet with millions of jobs and very considerable financial income.
At least in the past, Onderon, whose population was only 4 million, never imagined that one day he would have such a huge income. And now the population has skyrocketed to about 20 million, which has further improved the strength of the planet.
This has allowed Onderon to develop rapidly. In addition, as one of Core Worlds, Onderon naturally has an excellent industrial and technological foundation. This is mainly reflected in the fact that Onderon originally has factories capable of processing some high-precision parts, and it also has a very complete higher education system that can provide a large number of outstanding talents.
Tang Xiao, who was eager to establish its own peripheral industrial system at that time, did not think too much and directly decided on the planet located on Inner Rim to develop and produce Behemoth-class battlecruiser.
After all, if you choose a Outer Rim planets, on the one hand, you may be targeted by Count Dooku, who was still obsessed with Das-Sidious at the time. On the other hand, most of Outer Rim planets's industrial and scientific research foundations are too weak. If it is left behind Outer Rim, it is safe, but the advent and mass production of Behemoth-class battlecruiser will definitely be delayed for one or two years.
At least Tang Xiao's plan at that time was to hope that Onderon could be like the Givin's Yago-Dur planet, able to repeatedly jump between Galactic Republic and Separatists for a while.
His plan was half successful and half failed.
Half of the success is that Onderon has indeed developed Behemoth-class battlecruiser under the nose of Galactic Republic, much earlier than expected, and neither Count Dooku nor Galactic Republic noticed it - this is the dark under the light, Onderon was really inconspicuous before this.
Moreover, Onderon also produced dozens of prototype ships, and some of them even participated in the battle of Christophsis in the early days of the war.
Half of the failure is that now Tang Xiao has to face the crisis that Onderon has a high probability of being captured by Galactic Republic.
For the people of Onderon, their hostility towards Galactic Republic is also obvious. As a planet with a good industrial foundation but a sparse population and insufficient size, Onderon does not enjoy many benefits as Core Worlds. On the contrary, they themselves are also the targets of exploitation by Galactic Republic's big capitalists.
Therefore, after Tyran Heavy Industries settled in, many people of Onderon accepted employment. After all, manufacturing warships is not just a matter of one or two industries. This is a huge system involving dozens of fields and hundreds of millions of processes. Just such a battleship is enough to make the entire planet revolve around this production line.
Therefore, people on Onderon take the salary of Tyran Heavy Industries, enjoy benefits, and experience the improvement of their status in interstellar affairs. Naturally, they have no good impression of Galactic Republic.
What is even more fatal is the rebellion movement led by Cable-Gerrera and Steele-Gerrera on Onderon.
Because of wrong strategies, Jean-Gerrera went more and more extreme. Not only did their rebel movement fail to overthrow the Separatists government, but they also caused a large number of civilian casualties and destruction of livelihood facilities due to numerous terrorist attacks and sabotage operations, which turned them into street rats.
Later, under deliberate propaganda, the rebel movement of So-Gerrera was portrayed as terrorists supported by Galactic Republic, which made the people on the planet even more hostile to Galactic Republic.
After the design severely damaged the rebel movement, Super Tactical Droid General Kalani sent by Count Dooku to Onderon publicly executed Council Representative Mina-Bontri and others suspected of secretly colluding with the rebel movement, and killed Planet Regent, the already discredited Sanji-Rush, claiming that he died trying to assassinate the former king Ramses-Dundup.
Afterwards, General Kalani publicly announced the release of Ramses-Dundup who was imprisoned by Sanji-Rush, and publicly invited the former king Dundup to return to the throne of the king. This series of actions by Company One shows the wisdom of General Kalani. He is no longer an ordinary Super Tactical Droid. He is the only one among many tactical robots that has developed self-awareness.
Ramses-Dundup understood that General Kalani's plan was to use his reputation to let Onderon fight Galactic Republic to the death, so he did not respond and just disappeared from the public eye.
He knew that whether he refused or agreed, it was the wrong choice.
But General Kalani's actions did not stop. He announced that Onderon would enter military control, and then...
Fully prepared for war!