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Synopsis:
"THE TRUTH IS OUT
THERE"
Null ARC Trooper N-5, Prudii, is a specialist in
infiltration, especially infiltrating Separatist Droid
factories. His missions is not to destroy the factories,
but to sabotage the droid production lines so that the
completed droids are easier to destroy on the
battlefield. However, he has been discovering some
notable information. Republic intel, as well as it's
propaganda machine, has been declaring that the
Separatists have access to a quadrillion droids (that's
a thousand-million-million). But according to the
information Prudii has accessed on the factories, each
factory is only generating approximately 1 million units
per year, therefore the Separatists have a
thousand-million factories or, more likely, Republic
Intel is flawed.
Upon relating this news to his sergeant, Kal Skirata,
Prudii is introduced to the complex world of politics -
so long as the civilian population perceive the
Separatist threat to be in the region of a quadrillion
droids (more than enough to invade Coruscant itself),
they will happily fund the Republic Army through their
taxes.
Meanwhile, Prudii's brother Mereel is on Kamino trying
to discover the whereabouts of Ko Sai, the Kaminoan
chief scientist who the Null brothers had sworn to kill,
when he decodes a secret message. It is a hidden
transcription between Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and
Lama Su, the Kamonian Prime Minister, discussing whether
or not Palpatine requires a new order of clones over and
above the original order of 3 million. Lama Su lets slip
that Palpatine has a cloning facility, or at least
"special facilities" on Coruscant. Although
Palpatine's answer is not recorded, it appears that
Palpatine has not given the Kamonians a renewed contract
- which meant that there would be no more clones after
the initial batch of 3 million had been trained (Fellow
Null Ordo predicts that the Grand Army of the Republic
would be overrun within two years with only a total of 3
million clones). What exactly did this mean? If
Palpatine didn't require any more troops, how was he
going to sustain a galactic war for more than two more
years? And why, if droid production was as
"low" as Prudii indicated, didn't Palpatine
order a full-scale assault on the Separatists? why
continue with "the piecemeal approach" of
scattered fronts? As Skirata points out to his
"sons": "the objective of this war isn't
the one we're being told it is".
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