The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2265. Whatever you see

"Dead Angel? Who is this?" Gar-Saxon was very unfamiliar with this name.

That's right, he had not experienced the beginning of the Separatist crisis, and the ten years until the Clone Wars, he had never heard of the name of the Sith Lord who rose at a rapid speed, the 'Dead Angel'.

Asajj Ventress said coldly: "Perhaps you are more familiar with his other name - Grand Duke of Dawn, Tang Xiao."

Gar-Saxon's face changed, and he even took a step back.

Grand Duke of Dawn Tang Xiao!!

Compared with Palpatine, the Emperor of the Galactic Empire who openly admitted that he was a Sith Lord, Grand Duke of Dawn Tang Xiao was obviously much more low-key, and he had never admitted that he was a Sith Lord on any occasion. However, the Grand Duke of Dawn was another powerful Sith Lord, and this fact was confirmed by many people. However, due to the lack of official statements, there are many different versions about Tang Xiao, which has led to some outrageous versions being widely spread, causing many people who do not know the truth to have a fear of Tang Xiao.

Gar-Saxon is one of them, and from his perspective, this incident may mean something more serious.

"Do you mean that the Principality of Dawn has begun to intervene in Mandalore?"

"It is not confirmed yet, but it is very likely." Asajj Ventress said, "But he is unlikely to come to Mandalore in person, so it is very likely that his men will come."

Gar-Saxon said: "Now Severance Tann's fleet is approaching. If we want to add such a person, how should we deal with it?"

Asajj Ventress said coldly: "Our master naturally has a perfect plan, you just need to do your own thing."

After that, he turned around and left, no longer paying attention to Gar-Saxon.

Being ignored like this, Gar-Saxon's face was a little gloomy, but his troubles now are not limited to this. Just yesterday, the Galactic Empire issued an executive order directly from the public level, requiring Mandalore to pay the taxes owed for the past 9 years, a total of 3.3 billion imperial credit points.

These 9 years are calculated from the disappearance of Grand Duchess Satine Kryze in the referendum on Mandalore.

This is simply blackmail! Because Mandalore has experienced so many years of turmoil, it is not said to be penniless, but at least it is impoverished. Most of the 5 billion investment of the Zahn Consortium is not in cash, which can directly allow Gar-Saxon to ambitiously launch a five-year plan. Now they have to take out 3.3 billion in cash, and you can't get so much money even if you scratch the land of Mandalore!

However, this is actually forcing Mandalore to surrender. At this time, Gar-Saxon symbolically took out some money, then wrote an IOU, accepted the investigation of the Imperial Investigation Team, and then provided good food and drink, and then filled the trunk of the investigation team's hovercraft, and basically the matter was over.

But the problem is that Gar-Saxon is just a puppet. Tiber-Zane has made it clear that he can't give a penny to the Galactic Empire. But at the same time, it also requires Mandalore to never break up with the Galactic Empire. At this time, it needs to be delayed.

This is playing politics.

You let Gar-Saxon lead the troops to fight and kill seven in and seven out of the enemy's formation, he can do it. But you let him pretend to be a snake and play a show? This is really difficult for him.

So Gar-Saxon thought for a long time and simply told the people on the Galactic Empire that his Mandalorian warriors were attacked. And he exaggerated that the dead were in a strange situation and their vitality was completely drained. It seemed that it was done by Grand Duke Tang Xiao of Dawn.

But the problem is that Tang Xiao has been building momentum on Dawn these two days, and has been promoting the peaceful and friendly relations between the Principality of Dawn and the Galactic Empire. He has made many speeches, clearly expressing the peace intention of the Principality of Dawn and building momentum for Francis Underwood who is visiting the Galactic Empire.

This news directly made the Galactic Empire attach great importance to it. If what Gar-Saxon said was true, then even if it was not Tang Xiao's own action, it was definitely related to him.

So the Galactic Empire sent a task force of 10 Imperial-class Star Destroyers to Mandalore, but they did not dare to get too close, after all, Severance Tann's fleet was also nearby, so the Galactic Empire's fleet was temporarily stationed on the periphery.

This move actually did not have much impact on the overall situation of the Mandalore star region. That is, the Galactic Empire and the Principality of Dawn were watching each other from a distance and prevented each other from going to Mandalore to cause trouble.

But for the top leaders of the Galactic Empire, the situation was completely different.

11BBY, January 30.

Wilhuff Tarkin, the governor of the Fourth Army of the Galactic Empire, submitted a report to the Emperor Palpatine. According to his report, it was claimed that the Principality of Dawn was infiltrating Mandalore, just as they had done to Hutt Space and the Trade Federation before.

Governor Tarkin said that if the Galactic Empire did not respond in time, "the planet Mandalore would become an important part of the Dawn Principality's encirclement of the Galactic Empire."

However, after the report was submitted, Palpatine handed it over to the Imperial Senate for discussion. The final conclusion was that it was not suitable for armed intervention under the current unclear situation on the Mandalore planet. It was recommended to maintain the military presence in the Mandalore star zone and wait and see.

Waiting and seeing what happens became the common choice of the Galactic Empire and the Principality of Dawn.

However, two days later, on January 32, the situation changed again! The incident happened on Nar Shada, the base of Black Sun.

The Nar Shada satellite, the moon of smugglers, is the well-deserved core of Hutt space. The satellite of the planet Nar-Herta is not large in size, but it accommodates 100 billion people, and there is no order or law here at all, only disorder and chaos.

Even now that the Gorensla family nominally integrated and unified the Hutt space, Oruba-Gorensla was helpless against Nar Shada, and he had no way to manage this place at all.

This has led to Nar Shada being a lawless place even now.

And the current headquarters of Black Sun, once the largest gang organization in the galaxy, is here. They originally had a nest on Mustafar, but since Mustafar was mortgaged to the Principality of Dawn by the Enterprise Alliance, Black Sun's underground activities there could not be hidden, so they left Mustafar one after another.

Of course, in Nar Shada, let alone Black Sun, at least half of the gangs in the entire galaxy have their own bases here. If someone directly blew up Nar Shada, the crime rate in the entire galaxy might drop by ten percentage points.

Now, in a seemingly extremely luxurious club in Nar Shada, more than a dozen Farin people wearing luxurious robes are having a meeting, and the Farin who is leading the meeting with two small mustaches is the current leader of Black Sun - Xomite-Glenset!

Opposite these Farin people, there stood a charming Nightsister, Selre.

"Are you trying to tell me that the Zann Consortium wants to cooperate with us? Hehehe." Glenset sneered.