The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2264 As far as the eye can see

2265: As Far as Sight Can Reach

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

That's right, he didn't experience the beginning of the Separatist crisis, and the ten years until the Clone Wars, he had never heard of the name of 'Angel of the Dead', a Sith Lord who rose at a very fast speed.

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 Tang Xiao of Liming!!

Compared to Galactic Emperor Palpatine who openly admitted that he was a Sith Lord, Grand Duke of Dawn Tang Xiao was obviously much more low-key, and he never admitted that he was a Sith Lord on any occasion. However, many people have confirmed that Grand Duke of Dawn is another powerful Sith Lord. However, due to the lack of an official statement, there are many different versions about Tang Xiao, resulting in some outrageous versions being widely spread, causing many people who do not know the truth to feel fear towards Tang Xiao.

Gar Saxon is one of them, and from his perspective, this incident may mean something even worse.

"You mean to say that the Principality of Dawn has begun to interfere in the planet Mandalore?"

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

Gar Saxon said: "Now Severance Tann's fleet is approaching. If there is another person like this, 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 saying that, he turned and left, no longer paying attention to Gar Saxon.

Being ignored like this, Gar-Saxon looked a little gloomy, but his troubles were not over yet. Just yesterday, the Galactic Empire directly issued an executive order from the public level, requiring the planet Mandalore to pay the taxes owed for the past 9 years, a total of 33 billion imperial credit points.

These nine years began with the referendum on Mandalore and the disappearance of Grand Duchess Satine Kryze.

  This is simply blackmail! Because Mandalore has experienced so many years of turmoil, it is not completely destitute, but at least it is poor. Most of the 50 billion investment of the Zahn Consortium is not in cash, which can directly allow Gar-Saxon to launch an ambitious five-year plan. Now they are asked to take out 33 billion in cash. Even if you scrape the land of Mandalore, you still can't get that much money!

However, this was actually forcing Mandalore to surrender. At this time, Gar-Saxon symbolically took out some money, wrote an IOU, accepted the investigation of the Imperial Investigation Team, and then provided him with good food and drink, and 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, and Tiber Zahn has made it clear that he will not give a penny to the Galactic Empire. But at the same time, he also requires Mandalore to never break up with the Galactic Empire. At this time, it needs to be delayed.

This is playing politics.

You ask Gar-Saxon to lead the troops and kill his way in and out of the enemy's formation, he can do it. But you ask him to be vain and act according to circumstances? That's really difficult for him.

So Gar-Saxon thought for a long time and simply told the people in the Galactic Empire about the attack on his Mandalorian warriors. He also exaggerated that the deceased was in a strange condition and his vitality was completely drained. It seemed that it was done by Grand Duke Tang Xiao of the Dawn.

But the problem is that Tang Xiao has been promoting the peaceful and friendly relations between the Principality of Dawn and the Galactic Empire these days. He has made many speeches, clearly expressing the peace intentions of the Principality of Dawn and promoting Francis Underwood who is visiting the Galactic Empire. This news directly made the Galactic Empire pay great attention to it. If what Gar Saxon said is true, then even if Tang Xiao did not do it himself, he is definitely involved.

So the Galactic Empire sent a task force consisting of 10 Imperial-class Star Destroyers to the planet 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 zone. The Galactic Empire and the Principality of Dawn were just keeping an eye on each other from a distance to prevent the other side from causing trouble on the Mandalore planet.

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

11BBY, April 1.

Wilhuff Tarkin, the governor of the Fourth Army of the Galactic Empire, submitted a report to the Imperial Emperor Palpatine, according to which he claimed that the Principality of Dawn was infiltrating the planet Mandalore, just as they had previously done to places like Hutt space and the Trade Federation.

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 submitting the report, Palpatine handed it over to the Imperial Senate for discussion, and the final conclusion was that it was not suitable for armed intervention at the moment given the unclear situation on Mandalore, and it was recommended to maintain a military presence in the Mandalore sector and wait and see.

Waiting and watching the situation became the common choice of the Galactic Empire and the Principality of Dawn.

However, two days later, on January 1, the situation changed again! The incident happened in Nar Shadda, the base of the Black Sun.

The Smuggler's Moon, Nashada, is the undisputed core of Hutt Space. This 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, only disorder and chaos.

Even now that the Gorensla family has nominally integrated and unified the Hutt space, Oruba-Gorensla is helpless against Nashada. He has no way to manage this place at all.

This has resulted in Narshada being a lawless place even now.

The current headquarters of the Black Sun, the largest mafia organization in the galaxy, is here. They originally had a base on Mustafar, but after Mustafar was mortgaged to the Principality of Dawn by the Corporate Alliance, Black Sun's underground activities there could no longer be hidden, so they left Mustafar one after another.

Of course, in Nar Shada, not to mention Black Sun, at least half of the gangs in the entire galaxy have their 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 clubhouse in Nashada that looks extremely luxurious, more than a dozen Farin people wearing luxurious robes are having a meeting. The Farin man with two tufts of mustache in the lead is the current leader of Black Sun - Xomite Glenset!

Opposite these Falleens stood a charming nightsister, Sairai.

"Are you trying to tell me that the Zane Group wants to cooperate with us? Haha." Glenset said with a sneer.