Quarren Isolation League

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• Homeworld:
  Mon Calamari

• Affiliation:
  Confederacy of Independent Systems

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From the Expanded Universe

Given the strong undercurrent of resentment toward their Mon Calamari cousins and the galaxy at large, it would seem strange to outsiders that the Quarren ever bothered with galactic representation. Yet for the last few decades of the Old Republic, Quarren interests exclusively represented their planet in the Galactic Senate.

It was the Quarren who mined the depths of Mon Calamari's ocean floor for the ores that made the immense floating cities used by the Mon Cals, and the majestic Calamarian starships that soared through space. When the Quarren miners joined the Commerce Guild, they gained considerable political clout. The Commerce Guild was able to buy a majority Quarren presence on the Mon Calamari Council, and installed Senator Tikkes through several terms in office. The Mon Calamari people did their best to have their voices heard, but corporate interests and Quarren isolationism won out time and again.

Senator Tikkes was exposed as a corrupt official during the Separatist crisis, and avoided Republic prosecution by fleeing into Separatist space. He pledged his planet's resources to the growing Separatist movement, joining as one of the founding members of the Confederacy of Independent Systems when the Clone Wars erupted. But he didn't have the right to speak for his people, since a more progressive Quarren, Tundra Dowmeia, was named Senator following his censuring. The resulting political conflict sparked a civil war on Mon Calamari, and Tikkes' supporters became the Quarren Isolation League.

The League sought to reject all Republic presence from their oceans, and took up arms against Mon Cals and Quarren alike to achieve those aims. The isolationists included Quarren mining barons who had grown rich from Commerce Guild funding, and they were able to secure Confederacy support in exchange for continued shipments of raw ores to the guilds. It was Tikkes himself who signed a treaty with Count Dooku, which resulted in the League obtaining advanced underwater weaponry crafted by the Trade Federation and the Techno Union.

In the civil war that ensued, the valiant Mon Calamari Knights did their best to defend their cities and the Calamari Council. The Republic soon arrived, and with clone trooper forces led by General Kit Fisto, they defeated the Quarren Isolation League.