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Techno Union
Topic Started: Feb 13 2012, 11:41:21 PM (253 Views)
Sylus
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Nailed it.

The Techno Union
  • The Techno Union was one of the Republic commerce guilds. It was a large coalition of high technology firms formed primarily of heavy manufacturing concerns. The Techno Union lobbied the Galactic Senate on behalf of its members' interests and attempted to ensure fair commerce between its members. In time, the Techno Union would grow to include galactic shipping magnates to further ensure the free flow of goods.

    The Techno Union was one of the first to pledge its support to the newly formed Confederacy of Independent Systems. The Techno Union went on to be one of the major suppliers of starships, battle droids, and other weapons for the Separatist cause during the Clone Wars. The Techno Union also created many research and development projects for the CIS ranging from superweapons to cloning experiments.

    In 19 BBY, the Techno Union was dissolved when Foreman Wat Tambor was slain with the rest of the Separatist Council at the hands of Darth Vader. The company was then imperialized by the newly-formed Galactic Empire, only to fall once more under new management. Soon after the defeat of the Empire and the emergence of the Galactic Federation, the Techno Union was once more moved under the watchful eye of the Federation of Free Alliances. Their trading franchise still in tact as was their ability to produce military systems for the Alliance.

    History
    In the last decades of the Galactic Republic, Foreman Wat Tambor modeled the Union's behavior after the Trade Federation, earning a seat in the Senate and the right to defend itself with a droid army. The Techno Union was known to have claimed the planet Saleucami in 35 BBY with the intention of transforming it into one of their mechworlds. When the Separatist Crisis came to a head, the Techno Union was one of the first to pledge its support to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. This was despite the misgivings of several high ranking members of the Techno Union and led to the Galactic Senate expelling their representatives leading to them joining the Separatist Movement.

    As the conflict grew into the Clone Wars, the Techno Union was one of the Confederacy's key suppliers of starships, battle droids, and weapons. It is clear that at this point the union was split, with some individual members choosing to support the Republic. BlasTech and CEC left, wishing to stay loyal to the Republic, TaggeCo switched to the Republic during the war, while Arakyd remained neutral and sold to both factions.

    In 20 BBY, the Republic attacked their base on Xagobah. During the course of the battle, Boba Fett tried to assassinate Wat Tambor, only to be stopped by General Grievous who was there at the time. Eventually however, the Republic liberated Xagobah.

    In the years prior to the Wars, Kuat Drive Yards was a member and experimented with new and larger capital ship designs under the auspices of the Union. At some point, the company split with the organization, with Kuat preferring to create ships for the Republic from that point on. The information gained with these projects, provided the Techno Union with some intellectual clout later on, as a representative of the Union's neutral Research and Development Wing participated in a debate on the nature of the mysterious Separatist superweapon that was active early in the Clone Wars.

    At some point during the war, the Techno Union had prepared plans for an Advanced Battle Droid model at one of the facilities. Knowledge of this was discovered by the Republic who dispatched Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano to infiltrate the planet in order to steal those schematics. This led to General Skywalker masquerading as a wealthy merchant by the name of trader Kwarelsky with Ahsoka pretending to be his slave. As Kwarelsky, Anakin intended to donate a considerable amount of money to the Separatist cause due to the great expense faced in fielding droids for warfare. After seeing that Kwarelsky suffered from apparent allergies, the grateful Skakoans intended to upgrade him into a cybernetic being which was when Skywalker revealed his true allegiance to the Republic. Padawan Tano in the mean time managed to defeat the droid security forces and steal the data she needed whereupon she freed her master before he could be converted into a cyborg.

    In 19 BBY, unhappy with the progress of the Separatist Droid Army and in awe of the prowess of General Grievous, Wat Tambor commissioned research into developing alternative infantry. These included constructing cloning facilities in Saleucami's underground caverns for the production of the Confederacy's own clone army—Morgukai clones trained by Anzat assassin and the establishment of a secret laboratory on Nelvaan to experiment on the creation of mutants and cyborg control devices.

    However, this base was powered by a siphon generator that drained a captured geothermal crystal, keeping Rokrul region in a wintery state by draining all the thermal energy from the land. The base also transformed all the males of the nearby Rokrul village into savage mutants. However, the base was destroyed by Anakin Skywalker at the Battle of Nelvaan.

    Following the end of the Clone Wars and the rise of the Galactic Empire, the remnants of the Techno Union were likely folded into the Empire's military-industrial complex along with the other manufacturing interests of the defeated Confederacy. Soon after the defeat of the Empire and the emergence of the Galactic Federation, the Techno Union was once more moved under the watchful eye of the Federation of Free Alliances. Their trading franchise still in tact as was their ability to produce military systems for the Alliance.
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  • Foundry
  • Mechis III
  • Telti
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  • Tar Morden
  • Ord Cestus
  • Xagobah
  • Nelvaan
  • Saleucami
  • Vulpter
  • Mustafar
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