The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2247, Mandalore Civil War (III)

That night, Bo-Katan Kryze locked herself in the room and had a long talk with Vitaly Orlov through hyperspace communication.

Finally, she made up her mind.

Now, no matter who is behind the scenes and what the purpose is, it is time to stand up and resist. Otherwise, when the massacre of Chang'an Vizla is further promoted, perhaps the entire planet will really succumb to the tyranny of Chang'an Vizla.

Then the next day, Bo-Katan Kryze secretly went to Mandal Motors, the largest industrial enterprise on the planet Mandalore, hoping to get their support. The Mandalorians' affairs are to be solved by the Mandalorians themselves, so under the premise of refusing external forces to intervene, Bo-Katan Kryze actually has few options.

But fortunately, the meeting was effective. Mandal Motors said that they were also afraid of Chang'an Vizla's reign of terror, so they were willing to support Bo-Katan Kryze's resistance.

But at the same time, Mandal Engines also said that as a large industrial enterprise, they could not openly resist Super Vizla. The only way was to secretly provide weapons and equipment to Bo-Katan Kryze, and at the same time, passively slow down the orders from Super Vizla.

Not only that, Mandal Engines told Bo-Katan Kryze that because Super Vizla owed them a large amount of order funds, after destroying Super Vizla, they hoped to take the deserved part from the seized Death Guards' property as compensation.

This was equivalent to negotiating conditions, and Bo-Katan Kryze had no choice but to agree.

Then, Mandal Engines immediately decided to give Bo-Katan Kryze 150 Brick-Arol-class airspeeders (equivalent to high-speed hovercrafts). This type of airspeeder is now widely used by the security forces of the Mandalore planet, but they are all unarmed versions. And what Mandal Engines gave Bo-Katan was an armed version with three blaster machine guns installed. This type of airspeed boat is actually widely used by the Death Watch, but no matter what, it can narrow the gap in strength between the two sides.

In addition, Mandal Engines is building the Kom'rk-class fighter/transport for the Death Watch. This is a 58.3-meter-long super-heavy fighter, which is not an exaggeration to say that it is a frigate. It has powerful weapons, flexible maneuvers, and enough preparation space to deploy 24 Death Watch fighters. This is also the most powerful air force in the hands of the Death Watch. The Death Watch is equipped with at least 100 ships.

Because this super-heavy fighter is too sensitive, Mandal Engines said that they could not provide it to Bo-Katan-Kryze. As an alternative, they are willing to give her a newly developed light fighter-M3-A Scyk fighter.

This ultra-light fighter is only 8.7 meters long and has a pair of variable-angle trapezoidal wings. The shape of this wing is actually very similar to the Kom'rk-class starfighter, which can be regarded as the style of Mandal Engines.

As an ultralight fighter, the Shek fighter is actually the counterpart of the TIE/LN light fighter of the Galactic Empire. The design ideas of the two are exactly the same, both of which are designed with mobility as the main focus, and almost no consideration is given to protection.

However, the Shek fighter is more extreme. Compared with the TIE fighter, this fighter has reduced firepower and added a shield system. However, the reduced firepower can be solved by wing plug-ins. On the contrary, most of the time, the firepower actually exceeds that of the TIE fighter.

In addition, the flight control system of the Shek fighter is not as intelligent as that of the TIE fighter, which means that the requirements for pilots are higher.

But the best thing is that the Shek fighter is very cheap. A Shek fighter is only priced at 55,000 credit points. In contrast, the TIE/LN fighter is priced at 60,000 credit points, while the V-wing fighter that shined in the late Clone Wars is priced at 102,500 credit points, and the ARC-170 heavy fighter is priced at 180,000. The fighters designed for Jedi Knights are even more expensive. The standard Delta-7 fighter costs 180,000, and the standard Eta-2 fighter costs as much as 290,000!

In addition, because the Sik fighter had just been developed and developed not long ago, and Super Vizsla had always owed Mandal Engines money, this cheap and excellent fighter was not given to Super Vizsla for use, and he did not know the existence of this new fighter.

Then, Mandal Engines also told Bo-Katan Kryze that they could act as a middleman to help her buy more weapons and equipment on the black market, and only need to charge a little agency fee. However, Bo-Katan Kryze refused this, and she trusted Vitaly Orlov more.

After confirming the support, on the third day after Super Vizsla began to massacre civilians, Bo-Katan Kryze finally stood up and raised the banner of resistance!

She first denounced the massacre of Super-Vizla in her capacity as the sister of former Grand Duchess of Mandalore Satine Kryze, and declared that Super-Vizla and the Death Watch were illegal regimes that could only be classified as terrorists.

Then, Bo-Katan-Kryze declared that she would stand up and lead all the Mandalorians who yearn for freedom to resolutely resist the Super-Vizla.

At the same time, Bo-Katan-Kryze also announced a major decision-the Mandalorian Restoration Army headed by Jango-Fett will also be incorporated into Bo-Katan-Kryze and become the backbone of the resistance organization.

Bo-Katan-Kryze declared that she would become the temporary leader of the resistance organization. After overthrowing Super-Vizla, she would automatically step down and leave the choice of the regime to the Mandalorian people.

This declaration officially kicked off the civil war on the planet Mandalore!

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In fact, Bo-Katan-Kryze had secretly established her own force to resist Super-Vizla with the help of Vitaly-Orlov a long time ago. This force will become the backbone of the resistance. With these members as the core, the resistance began to recruit soldiers and build their own army.

The first thing they need to solve is the government forces of Super-Vizla who are slaughtering everywhere. They organized militias in various places. These militias did not expect to confront the government army head-on because they lacked weapons and training. Once they really went to the battlefield, they would only be slaughtered.

However, the militias could assist the evacuation of civilians, sabotage supplies and transportation, and slow down the advance of the government army. After all, although these government troops all set out from the Concordia satellite, after arriving on the ground, their supplies could not be completely dependent on satellites, and a large part of their supplies still had to come from the ground.

And those ground transport teams were the targets of the rebels' attacks!