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- "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!"
- ―Senator Sheev Palpatine
In the last decades of the Galactic Republic, the Free Trade Zones were untaxed trading areas within the territories controlled by the galaxy-spanning government. The Trade Federation often used them in their business.
Around 32 BBY, the Galactic Senate passed Prop 31-814D, making the Free Trade zones eligible for taxation.[2] The Trade Federation retaliated by invading the remote planet of Naboo with its private droid force, secretly backed up and manipulated by a malevolent Dark Lord of the Sith named Darth Sidious.[3]
Appearances[]
- Queen's Peril (Indirect mention only)
- Queen's Peril audiobook (Indirect mention only)
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only)
- Tarkin (Mentioned only)
- Tarkin audiobook (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
Star Wars: Card Trader (Card: Lott Dod - Senator - Base Series 1) (First identified as Free Trade Zone)- Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy
- Rise of the Separatists
- Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
"The Noble and the Wild" — Star Wars - The Official Magazine 96- Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy
- Star Wars: Timelines
