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The Empire soon landed a full invasion force, which prompted the Republic to come to the planet's aid and deploy the Republic Military there. With the orbital defense satellites and towers offline, the Empire then bombarded the surface, devastating Balmorra's military forces and its central government in order to forestall a unified response to their assault. However, the virus worked more than the Empire intended: the factory's defense systems and droids became independent, resuming production and attacking any biological life that approached the factory. Imperial technicians infiltrated the automated Okara Droid Factory and uploaded a virus to the factory's computers in hopes of turning its droids-some of the the finest military droids in the galaxy-against the Balmorrans. Lab 352, which had been experimenting on Colicoids in hopes of turning them into bioweapons, was quickly overrun by the creatures when Imperial saboteurs released them from the facility, leading the area to become known as "Bugtown." These efforts included the release of a number of mutated Colicoids, an insectoid sentient species, from the genetic research facility Lab 352. In an assault planned by Admiral Ivernus, the Empire began their assault by slicing and reprogramming the networked security systems of the planet's laboratories, factories, and weaponry, turning the planet's defenses against the people. Sometime before 3670 BBY, the Empire set its sights on Balmorra, believing that the planet's proximity to the Core Worlds and its weapons production facilities were a major strategic resource. When the Great Galactic War started, the Republic offered ships and troops to protect Balmorra as its trading partner. Balmorra's government was a corporate-run oligarchic democracy that was centered in the capital city of Bin Prime. A number of powerful corporations effectively controlled the planet, including the Okara Droid Company, Traken Industries, and Balmorran Arms, and Balmorra maintained a close relationship with the Republic but the planet's corporations kept the world largely independent of most galactic conflicts. In the years before the war, the planet Balmorra was one of the galaxy's leading independent industrial worlds, producing weapons and droids in its many factories and manufacturing plants across the planet. In 3681 BBY, the Sith Empire returned to the galaxy and began the Great Galactic War against the Galactic Republic. 2.2.2 Operation Breaking Point and the capture of Balmorran Arms.
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After several years of this guerrilla warfare, the Republic began to once again ramp up its military presence on Balmorra, thereby pushing the limits of the Treaty of Coruscant in an effort to free the world's workers from Sith servitude. Even as the Great Galactic War came to a close with the Treaty of Coruscant, the Resistance continued to fight the Sith, and even did so with the covert aid of an illegally operating Republic contingent. As their allies gradually pulled out of the conflict, the Balmorran freedom fighters were left to battle the Empire largely on their own-a battle that resulted in the Empire gaining control of the planet's industries. Although the relief effort was maintained for a length of time, the continuing war elsewhere in the galaxy forced Republic Military leaders to reassign the units that were fighting on the world. Recognizing the threat posed by a Sith-controlled Balmorra, the Galactic Republic dispatched military and Jedi forces to aid the Balmorran resistance. In response, the Balmorrans organized a resistance group to fight against the invaders and maintain their political independence. Early in their war against the Republic, the Imperials resolved to take control of Balmorra's manufacturing capabilities, and so launched an invasion of the world that killed numerous citizens and displaced thousands of others as refugees. This reputation, along with the world's strategic positioning, attracted the attention of the Sith upon their return to the known galaxy in 3681 BBY.

Balmorra was a historically violent, yet ardently independent world that was renowned for its highly developed military manufacturing sector. The Battle of Balmorra was a major conflict between the Galactic Republic, the Sith Empire, and the people of Balmorra during the Great Galactic War and the period of Cold War that followed. " We will not bow, to these invaders or any other. Severe damage to the planet's ecosystem Near-extinction of the bormu species
