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1873. The current situation of the planet Mandalore (Part 1)

Time goes back to 16BBY, the planet Mandalore.

Now under the rule of Grand Duchess Bo-Katan Kryze of Mandalore, the planet Mandalore shows a false prosperity. The planet looks orderly on the surface, but in fact, all contradictions are forcibly suppressed.

The Death Guard possesses absolute force. They are originally known for their fanatical military doctrine and extremism. Although they were not many in number at first, everyone is an extremely ferocious warrior. They are tempered, they are murderous, and they are ruthless. In front of these terrible executioners, those Mandalorians who live in peaceful times are no match at all.

If Satine Kryze made any mistakes, it might be that she put everything on Mandalore on her shoulders. You can say that she avoided the destruction of Mandalore and saved the people on Mandalore, but you can also say that she did not fully mobilize the power of the people.

When Super Vizsla led the Death Guard and Almec, the Prime Minister of the Mandalorian planet, to fight for power, a three-person team of the Death Guard often appeared and chased Almec's temporarily organized defense force of thousands of people. Case!

The Death Guard killed all parties in that conflict, and their methods were cruel. After the defense forces were defeated, they would often use the mobility of their jetpacks to massacre the fleeing soldiers! Fire rockets, use a flamethrower to spray deadly flames from the sky, or even use a grappling hook to pick up broken soldiers, climb hundreds of meters into the air and drop them directly!

Some psychopathic Death Guard soldiers would even fly in the sky, following these defeated soldiers who fell from high altitudes, admiring their frightened expressions and hysterical screams.

Now, Prime Minister Almek has been defeated and is accused of being a coup d'état and is imprisoned in an underground prison in the capital, Sundali City. The extraordinary Vizsla who rules the entire planet Mandalore has also established a powerful army.

Extraordinary Vizsla is not stupid. He knows that the move to expand the army and prepare for war will be hated by the Galactic Empire, but he must go all the way to the dark side. The first reason was that this was the plan of that terrifying master, Darth Tenebrous. After seeing the terrifying power of the other party, the extraordinary Vizsla did not dare to show any disobedience.

The second reason is to expand the military, prepare for war, and establish a military government. This is the ideological program of the Death Guard. Once Chaos-Vizla wants to break this program, he will lose the loyalty of the Death Guards to him.

In the three years after defeating Almec, Chao-Vizla built an army of one million men and conducted rigorous training for this army.

At the same time, in order to meet the demand for manufacturing equipment for this army, Chaofan Vizsla expanded the Beskar Steel Smelting Plant and produced Beskar Steel in large quantities. At the same time, some private factories were forcibly nationalized and transformed into production lines for the production of blasters and combat armor.

Of course, Beskar steel with limited production cannot be equipped for this ragtag army that can only be regarded as cannon fodder compared to the Death Guard soldiers. The initial equipment of this motley army was a Mandalorian helmet made of ordinary steel, plus combat uniforms with bulletproof steel plates inserted.

Compared with the Mandalorian Crusaders who once dominated the galaxy, this army is not even a beggar version. But on the current planet of Mandalore, it is invincible!

Moreover, this army also solved the urgent problem of the small number of Death Guard soldiers. When suppressing uprisings that broke out in some places, there was no need to bother the powerful Death Guard soldiers to take action, and they could just pull them over and crush them.

However, in this environment, just having an army is not enough, but there is also a lack of battleships on the planet Mandalore, or to put it bluntly, there are almost none.

In order to build a basic fleet, Transcendent Vizsla continued to target private enterprises on the planet Mandalore. This time he is eyeing Mandal Motors, the largest company on the planet Mandalore.

The Mandal Engine Company is a company that mainly manufactures civilian spaceships and has always been the main industrial enterprise on the planet Mandalore. In addition to some unarmed spaceships, the company's current main product is the Buirk'alor-class airspeeder, which was also Satine Kryze's new Mandalorian. An unarmed patrol boat widely equipped by the People's Government.

Now this air speed craft has been modified by Chao Chao Vizsla. Three blaster machine guns and a missile launcher are installed on it, giving it good firepower.

But this was not enough. Although Chaofan Vizsla did not dare to directly annex Mandal Engine Company like other small and medium-sized private enterprises, he still directly issued mandatory orders to this enterprise and ordered them to adjust their production lines immediately. , began building a starfighter for him.

Forced by the power of Chao Chao-Vizla, Mandal Engine Company had to agree, and at the same time organized its own R\u0026D and design team to start preparing to build fighter jets. And after accumulating a certain amount of experience, he began to build battleships.

In fact, judging from the size of the company, Mandal Engine Company is fully capable of building warships, but their main business was not in this direction before. Of course, transformation is actually not that troublesome. After all, this company originally manufactured airspeed craft and civilian spaceships. If it slightly changes the engine and structure, installs weapons and fire control, it will become a fighter jet.

However, the planet Mandalore still had peace for too long after all. Moreover, even before Satine Kryze implemented the demilitarization policy, Mandalore's military industry had been destroyed for at least a thousand years. It was not easy to restart military production now.

Therefore, Chao Chao-Vizla also orders weapons and fighter jets from underground companies walking in the dark on the black market.

The so-called underground companies are companies that are not officially recognized by the Galactic Empire. As long as they are detected by customs, they are directly regarded as contraband. These companies are especially active in the outer ring of the Milky Way. It is worth mentioning that the Golden Nice Shipyard, which was occupied during the Inchori rebellion a long time ago and was later transferred to the Fourth Civilization by the Inchori, is such an underground company.

It is even said that the Fourth Group was punished by the Galactic Republic after the Battle of Marastal Fjord 20 years ago. For a period of time after that, the Fourth Group was also an underground company. It was not until later that they reconnected with Sheev Palpatine, who was still a congressman at the time, that they came into contact with the punishment of the Fourth Group.

However, Chao Chao Vizsla did not go to Yuri Orlov, an arms dealer who had become famous in recent years, nor did he go to the Hutt who specialized in various smuggling. The company he was looking for was called...

Zann Consortium! !