Thus, a Trandoshan group known as the Warstalkers, led by the veteran Kephess, was hired to prevent the world, and the ores, from falling into the hands of the Sith Empire. However, the mercenaries went rogue and formed an alliance with renegade forces within the Imperial Army.
After the fall of the Eternal Empire, the present Republic forces joined its Alliance replacement. Due to an agreement between Supreme Commander Malcom and the Alliance Commander, Republic personnel who joined the Alliance weren't considered traitors. As such, Denova itself left the Republic for the Eternal Alliance.
Despite the peaceful transfer, General Amos Rike, an extremely loyal Republic soldier, led a full-scale attack on Alliance forces at the baradium mines.
Using a prototype hover tank, artillery, and plenty of soldiers, Rike forced Alliance forces into a small beachhead. It took a small strike team led by the Alliance Commander to remove Rike, his 2nd, and 3rd in command out of the picture.
Investigations into how such a large force could ignore Republic orders so smoothly revealed that the Republic Military had multiple anti-Alliance forces at work. This grew thick tensions between the two powers.