Despite this, Senator Lott Dod kept denying claims of the Federation backing Count Dooku's Separatists, always asserting its corporate neutrality.

Escaping imprisonment and being welcomed into Count Dooku's entourage, Viceroy Gunray pledged his droid armies to the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and the Federation's forces fought both the Galactic Republic's military and the Jedi Order throughout the Clone Wars. The alliance between the Trade Federation and the Sith Order led to the invasion of the peaceful planet of Naboo and caused a crisis in the Republic's government, although the occupation was thwarted by Queen Padmé Amidala and her forces. As a result, one ambitious cabal of Neimoidians jumped into the power vacuum, anointing the then- Senator Nute Gunray as the new Viceroy of the Trade Federation, who secretly conceded to a pact with the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. The Trade Federation would often force planets into exclusive contracts, which, in several circumstances, gave them the ability to blockade planets and control system politics.ĭuring the Eriadu Conference, the Directors of the Trade Federation were killed by the Nebula Front. Overtime, it became locked into a power struggle with the Republic that raged on for decades as the Federation grew in size, prestige, and power under the Neimoidian species. Founded in 350 BBY before the onset of the High Republic Era, it rose to prosperity in the Outer Rim and maintained it own private military. It grew so powerful during the waning years of the Galactic Republic, that it had its own representatives in the Galactic Senate. The Trade Federation was a megacorporation that worked as an interstellar shipping and trade conglomerate. ' This is outrageous! I object to the senator's statements.' ―Sheev Palpatine and Lott Dod ' Supreme Chancellor, delegates of the Senate, a tragedy has occurred, which started right here with the taxation of trade routes, and has now engulfed our entire planet in the oppression of the Trade Federation.'

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