Its assets are seized by local governments throughout space, and many of its executives are imprisoned or killed. When the New Order falls to The Rebel Alliance, TaggeCo bears the brunt of the aftermath. For a while, the company's oft-lampooned slogan "TaggeCo: We're Everywhere You Are" is absolutely true. It expands most rapidly during Palpatine's reign as Chancellor of the Republic and becomes a symbol of his New Order during the Empire. In less than a generation, the Tagges go from being lowlifes to rubbing elbows with the galactic elite.Īt its height, TaggeCo owns hundreds of subsidiaries, including publishing houses, news agencies, Starship design firms, shipyards, computer companies, security providers, speeder design and manufacturing firms, medical and pharmaceutical corporations, and more. The grateful government grants Tarzen a chain of islands as a hereditary barony. The various industries started by Tarzen Tagge and his brother feed the legitimate economy of their homeworld, sparking a boom that Tepasi has not seen since its initial colonization. The shipyard that builds the Mining Explorers also does a booming side business in knock-off parts for other ships. Meanwhile, the ships' labs serve as drug refining centers. The Mining Explorers carry everything needed to survey planetary systems and perform analyses of samples on location, and they double as mobile bases for establishing planetary operations. In the background, the criminal enterprise continues. Soon, the company has its own multipurpose bulk freighter/survey ship/colony transport, the highly sophisticated House of Tagge Mining Explorer. When established megacorporations try to stop this rapidly growing upstart by refusing to sell it scout ships and supplies, the Tagges acquire a small company that specializes in customizing ships and convert it to a full-fledged ship construction and design firm by extending employment offers (of the kind that cannot be refused) to a handful of engineers. Tarzen receives permission to explore a large group of planets that were set aside centuries ago for corporate development by the Republic. Although Tarzen first attempts to fall back on old habits- stealing supplies from the competition- his brother Halven suggests that they start their own supply chain to locate and mine resources. In fact, suppliers cannot keep up with the company's demand for construction materials when it lands a contract to expand a starport on Wroona. The end result is a reputation so sterling that the company competes on a galactic scale within a few short decades. While the company secures and works construction contracts on other worlds, the criminal side of the enterprise uses those opportunities to smuggle goods to new markets.Įven though his construction firm is a front, Tarzen insists that it deliver top-notch work because he does not want the facade to become the target of complaints or investigations. By the time the area's production facilities and roads are rebuilt, the foundation of TaggeCo is also in place.Īlthough Tarzen Tagge could have taken this chance to convert his enterprise into a legitimate business, he is so entrenched in the criminal mindset that he sees the construction company as the perfect front for his smuggling operation. TaggeCo is founded 200 years before the Battle of Yavin when a crime boss, Tarzen Tagge, becomes a local hero on his Mid Rim homeworld of Tepasl by using his fleet of small freighters (and a couple of hijacked bulk freighters) to ferry supplies and crews to a part of the world devastated by a series of groundquakes. By the time of the Clone Wars, however, it transforms into a legitimate business operation, even if it continues to operate in a brutal fashion. It starts as a heavy construction, mining, and exploration company that, to a large degree, is a front for a crime syndicate with an extensive interest in counterfeiting and contraband. The Tagge Company (TaggeCo) is one of the most diversified megacorporations in the galaxy. TRANSPORTS.Reference Book: Star Wars Saga Edition Galaxy of Intrigue Han Solo and the Corporate SectorSaga Edition Sourcebook
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