Occupation of Utapau

At the end of the Clone Wars, the Galactic Empire claimed and occupied the Outer Rim planet Utapau.
==Prelude==
Towards the end of the Clone Wars, the Confederacy of Independent Systems made use of the Outer Rim planet Utapau as a hidden base, oppressing the native Utapauns—Utai and Pau'ans—under a military occupation. An undergroundStar Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition Utapaun resistance emerged in that time and waited for a chance to strike. As Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived on Utapau in search of General Grievous, he urged Port Administrator Tion Medon to deploy the resistance. In the ensuing Battle of Utapau, the resistance joined the 7th Sky Corps in fighting off the Separatist occupation.
==The occupation==
With the war's end, however, the clone troopers of the Republic Military were turned against the Jedi Order by Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, who longed to turn the Republic into the Galactic Empire and issued Order 66 as the Battle of Utapau still raged. After firing on Kenobi and shortly after the world's liberation from the Confederacy, the clones turned on the native Utapauns in what was considered one of the most bitter twists of the entire Clone Wars. Beginning an occupation of their own even as the Republic still existed in a legal sense, the clones shut down and arrested members of the Utapaun resistance, including Medon. With the final transformation of the Republic into the Empire on Palpatine's order, the Empire claimed Utapau as its territory and continued the occupation effort started by the clones.
The decision on whether or not to formally join the Empire came down to Utapau's sentorial representative, Daho Sejan, who believed the regime could not be defeated and thus signed over the world to the Empire. After the Empire took over, much of the Pau'an population left the planet and settled in other areas of the galaxy. The Empire set up fortifications across Utapau that guarded the sinkholes where many of the residents of the planet lived. While much of the Utapaun population who remained on world hated Sejan for his role in surrendering the planet, he believed he had given them a future and kept them alive.
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==Sources==
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*Disciples of Harmony
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*Star Wars: Alien Archive
*Star Wars 100 Objects
==Notes and references==
Category:Battles of the Republic Era
Category:Battles of Utapau
Category:Conquests and occupations
Category:Early Imperial campaigns
Category:Events during the Clone Wars
Category:Unidentified campaigns