The Dantooine Investigation
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Summary
1. On the question of the state of Dantooine’s defenses.
1.1. Dantooines Soldiers as of the moment stand at: 400 (all personnel) – This could not be verified, but we find it unrealistic that Dantooine could even enforce the law with these few men let alone man its planetary weapons or oppose an invasion. We would ask the Defense Council to investigate the veracity of the number listed.
1.2. It is to be noted that this investigation finds, on the basis of 400 militia members to defend a whole planet and man its weapons, that the Government of Dantooine has committed an act of extreme negligence in protecting its people.
1.3. Dantooine’s army poseses over 400 vehicles, many of which are personnel carriers or tanks that require crews of over one man, as such this makes the Dantooine Militia able to man less than half in the event of an invasion (if they man their planetary weapons too).
1.4. The vehicles and weapons owned by Dantooine are in some cases very poor quality and in poor repair, also much of the armor possessed is archaic.
1.5. As such this is considered again an act of extreme negligence and fiscal waste.
1.6. These vehicles are stored (presumably fueled and ready for combat), making them a liability if they were captured by an invading force or terrorist group.
1.7. Aside from the New Republic forces present, if the Empire was to land a force of a few hundred stormtroopers it is estimated that Dantooine could be taken overnight.
1.8. The New Republic ground forces stationed at Dantooine have been seen to increasingly use local narcotics and prostitution services as an outlet for what was described as 'sheer boredom', it is to be reccomended that alternative entertainment be provided and ground troops be regularly rotated to more interesting assignments.
2. On the question of good governance and the character of Senator Exar Ray
2.1. This committee finds that in light of the extreme concealment placed around the planetary defense weapons (locating them variously in a rock in a rural area and in an IMC facility) that these weapons are intended to be secret – and as such them not being mentioned with reference to the Dantooine Defense and recovery act.
2.2. As such this committee finds it extremely likely that Senator Exar Ray knowingly lied to the Senate, and calls for him to consider his position.
2.3. Senator Exar Ray threatened to throw the Chaiman of the Defense Council off a cliff during the investigation, causing Senator Kruus to fear for his life – this matter is to be taken up in a legal case.
2.4. Senator Exar Ray followed the Economics Committee investigation around with a camera, keeping them under constant surveillance without their consent or permission.
2.5. It appears the use of spice is becoming common on Dantooine with the local government being simply impotent as their population spends their disaster relief money on cheap narcotics.
2.6. Senator Exar Ray has largely used his position to channel money to Dantooine through various bills and purchases, notably staying completely silent on important defense issues such as the Acherin Blockade, acting poorly for a chairman of the Defense Committee.
2.7. Senator Exar Ray has had his wisdom called into question by being the only Senator to support putting a Sith who actively fought the Republic in the Clone wars in the hallowed legislature of the Senate.
2.8. Senator Exar Ray imposed housing planetary weapons within their civilian facilities on the OSC as a condition of operating on Dantooine, a flagrantly immoral act. 3. On the question of the spending of the money allocated under the Dantooine Defense and Recovery act.
3.1. The ground forces of Dantooine must be Strengthened and made more practical.
3.2. This would be done by selling off much of Dantooine’s older armored vehicles in favour of more modern repulsor vehicles.
3.3. The Dantooine Militia must be raised in numbers to no less than 3,500 members, in order to effectively police the population and act as defense, as it stands Dantooine is utterly (to the point of it being criminally) dependant on the New Republic.
3.4. Dantooine stands as a bulwark against both the Council of Moffs and Pentastar Alignment (to some extend justifying the massive defense spending here) due to its presence in between the two factions space.
3.5 However, this means that if Dantooine is to be a bulwark, it is hardly practical to pay to sustain its non-military economy (for any purpose other than to supply the local garrison).
3.5. We would however recommend that if this is to be the case that Dantooine be declared a Warzone and be placed under New Republic Administration, with as much of the Dantooine public evacuated as possible to other worlds and resettled. While this would result in a certain amount of agricultural loss, it would certainly result in many thousands of lives being saved if the Empire attacks again.
3.6 We recommend that even if this is not the case, the New Republic doubles its garrison for the sake of the undefended people of Dantooine (until Dantooine raises its own forces, and to supervise their training).
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