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On Zanbar, a hologram of Buchanan appeared from the holoprojector in the tent with his helmet removed and under his arm, revealing that he was a human with light skin, dark blonde hair and green eyes as Bo-Katan, Rau, Satele, Sabine, Janus, Tristan, Ursa, Alrich, Leto, Ara, Karai, Daniel and Axe looked at him.
"What more do you have to report, Buchanan?" Bo-Katan asked him.
"This Gideon that you told me and a few other us spies about, Manda'lor, mentioned that the captain of his Star Destroyer is named Captain Orion Vane," Buchanan answered, "He told him that a few Star Destroyers aside from his own, a couple of Light Cruisers and Dreadnoughts just jumped out of Hyperspace over Mandalore and began blockading the planet."
"Who exactly is this Vane, Buchanan?" Tristan asked him as he crossed his arms.
"Gideon told Governor Saxon, his wife and Commander Kast that he went to the Imperial Academy on Coruscant, Tristan," Buchanan answered.
"I suspected that he did," Bo-Katan muttered.
"As did I," Ursa stated.
"Me too," Alrich said, agreeing with his wife.
"I also suspected as much," Satele told him.
"So, I guess we all did," Sabine surmised.
"It seems that we did, Sabine," Janus told his fianceé's sister.
"Without seeing this Vane in person, we won't know if he's extremely loyal to the Empire or if Gideon just thinks he is," Bo-Katan stated.
"You're right, Manda'lor," Rau said, agreeing with her.
"Yeah, I agree," Ursa muttered, agreeing with her, "Without seeing him in person, we won't know if this Vane really is loyal to the Empire or not."
"Maybe eventually, we could have one of our people infiltrate the Empire on Mandalore to see if he's telling the truth or not," Tristan suggested.
"Yeah, that's a good idea, Tris," Satele told her brother with a smile on her face.
"I agree, that's a great suggestion, Tristan," Sabine said as she looked at him.
"They're right, that's an excellent idea, Tristan," Janus stated as he looked at his fianceé's brother.
"Great thinking, Tristan," Ursa told her son.
"Yeah, that's a great idea, Tristan," Alrich muttered, agreeing with them.
"I agree, it's a good idea," Bo-Katan said, agreeing with them, "But when we do have someone infiltrate the Empire on Mandalore, it'll have to be someone within the Mandalorian resistance that isn't that well-known."
"That's a great, idea, Manda'lor," Rau stated, agreeing with her, "That would make it harder for the Empire to identify them."
"I agree with you both," Leto said, agreeing with them, "That indeed would make it harder for them to identify our infiltrator."
"I also agree with you," Ara muttered, agreeing with them.
"As do I," Daniel stated, agreeing with them.
"Me too," Karai said, agreeing with them.
"When we do send an infiltrator to infiltrate the Empire on Mandalore, they would have to be from a not very well known clan within the Mandalorian resistance," Bo-Katan stated, "I'll decide who it will be later on."
Meanwhile on Mandalore, Gideon, Mical, Yelena and Esa were still walking down Imperial park with a couple of Imperial super commandos patrolling the street a distance away from them.
"I wonder how we'll be able to defeat Bo-Katan and her Mandalorian resistance," Yelena said as she looked at her husband, Elsa and Gideon.
Well, we can't use my Dark Troopers, considering that they just began production," Gideon stated as he placed his left hand over his chin and held the elbow of his left arm with his right hand.
I wish we could use them against Bo-Katan and her Mandalorian resistance," Mical told them.
"I agree, I wish we could use them against Bo-Katan and her Mandalorian resistance as well," Yelena said, agreeing with her husband.
"I also agree with you," Gideon muttered as he lowered his arms, "But due to my project being in its early development, we'll have to think of something else to defeat them."
"I have an idea," Mical told them.
"What is it, Governor Saxon?" Gideon asked him.
"It'll partially involve some of our Imperial super commandos," Mical answered.
"What do you want the Imperial super commandos for?" Elsa asked him.
"Commander Kast, you'll lead them during the operation," Mical told her, "And I want you along with them to lure some of Bo-Katan's forces away from their base of operations on Zanbar."
"It's a good plan, Mical," Yelena said with a smile as she looked at her husband.
"I agree," Gideon muttered as he smiled as well.
"Me too, that's a great plan, Governor," Elsa told Mical before she pulled out a comlink as she held it in her right hand as she activated it, "Lieutenant Rennar."
"What is it, Commander?" A feminine voice asked her from the comlink.
"Gather up some of our Imperial super commandos, Lieutenant," Elsa told her, "Governor Saxon just gave us a mission to lure some of Bo-Katan's forces away from Zanbar."
"Yes, Commander," Rennar replied before Elsa deactivated her comlink and put it away.
"Who were you just speaking to?" Gideon asked her.
"It was one of my lieutenants," Elsa answered, "And she was one of my sister's lieutenants as well."
"My father made her one of the lieutenants of her sister before they perished on his Star Destroyer," Mical added, "And she also joined the Empire around the same time as Clans Saxon and Kast."
"Mical's uncle also knew her before he was killed by Ursa Wren and her daughter, Satele on Krownest a few years ago," Yelena told the ISB officer.
"Let's just hope that you, her and the rest of your Imperial super commandos will succeed," Gideon muttered as he looked at Gideon.
"I assure you that we will," Elsa assured him.
Back on Zanbar a few hours later, Bo-Katan, Satele, Sabine, Janus and the others were still inside the tent within their camp at the Mandalorian resistance base.
"So, I think the only way to defeat this Gideon, Governor Saxon, his wife and Commander Kast is…" Bo-Katan began to say when they all suddenly heard an alarm blaring from one of the computer systems inside the tent and began to approach it as Axe activated the computer system before she saw a ship of Mandalorian design, but painted in an Imperial color scheme, "So it seems that they've finally decided to attack us." She then turned around towards everyone, "Rau, gather everyone up. I want to speak to them about this impending attack."
"Yes, Manda'lor," Rau replied as he began to leave.
"Rau!" Satele, Sabine and Janus all called out to the Protector, causing him to stop and turn back around towards him.
"What is it?" Rau asked them.
"See you in a bit," Satele told him with a smile on her face.
"Yeah, see you once you gather everyone up for Manda'lor's speech," Sabine said, agreeing with her sister.
"I agree, see you in a while," Janus muttered, agreeing with his fiancé and her sister.
"I agree as well, Rau," Ursa said, agreeing with her daughters and Janus.
"Me too," Tristan stated, agreeing with his sisters, mother and Janus.
"As do I," Alrich told Rau, agreeing with his wife, daughters, son and Janus.
"I agree with them as well," Leto said, agreeing with his brother, sister-in-law, nieces, nephew and Janus.
"I also agree," Ara muttered, agreeing with them.
"Me too," Karai told the Protector, agreeing with them.
"So do I," Daniel stated, agreeing with them.
"Yeah, see you in a bit, Rau," Axe said, agreeing with everyone else as he looked at him.
"See you after you gather everyone up," Bo-Katan told the Protector with a smile on her face.
"Yeah, see you guys in a bit," Rau replied before he left the tent to gather everyone within the Mandalorian resistance up for Bo-Katan's speech.
Somewhere else within the Mandalorian resistance base half an hour later, Bo-Katan was standing on a stage as she was speaking to every single member of the Mandalorian resistance including Satele, Sabine, Janus, Tristan, Ursa, Alrich, Leto, Karai, Ara and Daniel with Rau standing next to her.
"And I suspect that the twin sister of the late Rook Kast, Elsa is leading the attack," Bo-Katan told everyone, causing everyone, but Satele, Sabine, Janus, Tristan, Ursa, Alrich, Leto, Karai, Ara and Daniel to gasp, "The ship that she is arriving on is a Kom'rk."
"I know you are all shocked about this news, but we were expecting this to happen sooner or later," Rau stated as he stepped forward.
"You expected that they would eventually find our base?" Janus asked the protector with shock in his voice.
"Yes we did," Bo-Katan confirmed, "But we didn't exactly know when they would attack our base."
"So, they decided to attack about a few hours after me, Sabine and Janus arrived here," Satele muttered to herself with disbelief in her voice.
"You're right, Sis," Sabine said, agreeing with her twin sister, "They've decided to attack just as we arrived."
"What should we do, Manda'lor?" Daniel asked Bo-Katan.
"We'll have to evacuate," Bo-Katan answered.
"Where will we relocate to?" Ursa asked her.
"Dxun in the Onderon System," Rau answered.
"We know that it's not part of Mandalore Space, but Senator Bonteri has allowed us to temporarily set up a base there, even if the system is controlled by the Empire," Bo-Katan added.
"Didn't Dxun have a role in the Mandalorian Wars?" Ursa asked them.
"You're correct, Ursa," Rau confirmed with his voice being filled with regret, "It was there where we invaded Onderon during the Mandalorian Wars with Basilisk war droids. And it was there where Manda'lor the Preserver had a base of operations for when he was reuniting our people during the Dark Wars."
"I clearly regret the actions of our ancestors using those droids when they invaded Onderon during the Mandalorian Wars," Bo-Katan stated with regret in her voice.
"Once we arrive on the moon, where will we set up camp?" Ursa asked them.
"Ursa, it'll be one of the ones that our ancestors used during the Mandalorian Wars," Bo-Katan answered.
Meanwhile in space above Zanbar, Elsa's Kom'rk-class fighter jumped out of Hyperspace as it slowly began to approach the moon, the Imperial super commando stood inside her fighter's troop bay with Rennar and her other Imperial super commandos with their helmets removed as they all had light skin and brown hair with a couple of them being male, while the others were female as Rennar and a few of them having blue eyes with some of them having brown and green eyes, while one of them had purple eyes.
"So, how do we attack them, Commander?" One of the Imperial super commandos asked Elsa.
"We attack them by splitting them up," Elsa answered.
"How will we split Bo-Katan's forces?" One of the other Imperial super commandos asked her.
"We'll have the pilot of the Kom'rk-class fighter split them up by attacking them," ELsa explained, "While that's happening, Bo-Katan and her forces will be distracted by the Kom'rk-class fighter, which will give us the advantage to capture some of her forces."
"That's a great plan, Commander," Rennar told her with a smile on her face.
"Yeah, that's an excellent plan," one of the other Imperial super commandos said, agreeing with her.
"I think it's a good plan as well, Commander," another of the Imperial super commandos stated, agreeing with them before the rest of them nodded a response as they also agreed with them.
"Okay, so here's how we'll execute the plan," Elsa said as the Kom'rk-class fighter entered Zanbar's atmosphere, "We'll use the ship's deployment racks and during the ensuing battle, we'll sneak up on a few of the members of Bo-Katan's Mandalorian resistance and capture them."
Back on Zanbar's surface, Bo-Katan and the members of the Mandalorian resistance heard the engines of a Kom'rk-class fighter approaching them in the sky.
"They've arrived," Bo-Katan muttered to herself as she placed her helmet over her head.
"Men, get yourself ready!" Rau ordered multiple members of the Mandalorian resistance as he also placed his helmet over his head before they began speaking at once as they got themselves ready and placed their helmets over their heads as well.
"Let's do as he says," Satele told her sister, fiancé, brother, parents and aunts and uncles.
"You heard her!" Sabine said, agreeing with her.
"Yeah, let's do as Satele says," Janus stated, agreeing with his fianceé as they all placed their helmets over their heads as well.
"Right," Tristan muttered as he pulled out his WESTAR-35s from his armor's holsters.
"We;re coming," Daniel said as he and the others pulled out their WESTAR-35s as well.
The Kom'rk-class fighter then approached the base of the Mandalorian resistance as its deployment rack lowered before Elsa and her Imperial super commandos, who had their helmets over their heads departed the ship from the deployment rack and activated their jetpacks' thrusters as they began to approach the members of the Mandalorian resistance.
"Everyone, battle positions!" Bo-Katan ordered everyone as she pulled out her WESTAR-35s from their holsters and began to fire them at the Imperial super commandos.
"You heard her, everyone get into battle positions!" Rau said, agreeing with Bo-Katan as he pulled out his WESTAR-35s as well and began firing them at the Imperial super commandos as well before everyone else did the same.
"Yeah, everyone, do as he says!" Sabine told everyone, agreeing with the Protector as she and the others pulled out their WESTAR-35s as well and began firing them at the Imperial super commandos.
As they fired their blasters at the Imperial super commandos, Rau, Bo-Katan and Tristan made gestures with their hands before Tristan flipped down his helmet's macrobinocular viewplate's rangefinder.
"They're coming from the north!" Tristan reported as he flipped his helmet's macrobinocular viewplate's rangefinder back up.
"Yeah, we can see that," Daniel told him.
"Yeah, I also see them coming from the north, Tris," Satele said, agreeing with their uncle.
"They're right, Tristan, we all can see them coming from that direction," Sabine stated, agreeing with them.
"I also see them heading from the north," Janus told him
"You don't have to tell us that when we can see it, Tristan," Ursa said as she looked at him with the corner of her eye.
"Well, then let's get them," Alrich stated as they continued firing their WESTAR-35s.
"Yeah, let's do as Alrich says," Leto said, agreeing with his brother.
"You heard them!" Ara told everyone, agreeing with her brothers.
"Let's take them down!" Ara stated as she continued to fire her WESTAR-35s at the Imperial super commandos.
"Yeah, let's do it!" Karai muttered as she continued to fire her WESTAR-35s at the Imperial super commandos as well.
"You heard them!" Rau said, agreeing with them.
"Everyone do as Rau and the others say and take them down!" Bo-Katan ordered everyone, agreeing with them.
"Lieutenant Rennar, and everyone else, follow me!" Elsa ordered her Imperial Super commandos before they nodded their heads and flew towards a group of random members of the Mandalorian Resistance with Satele, Sabine, Janus, Tristan, Ursa, Alrich, Leto, Ara, Daniel, Karai, Bo-Katan and Rau watching it happen.
"Members of Clan Wren, Kryze, Qarl and Vizsla, get out of there!" Bo-Katan yelled at the members of the Mandalorian resistance that were surrounded by Elsa's Imperial super commandos before she grabbed the darksaber from her armor's belt and ignited its blade as she activated her jetpack's thrusters and flew towards them.
As Bo-Katan flew towards the Imperial super commandos, she slashed the darksaber against their jetpacks, surprising them as it was so quick before they could react as they were flown up into the air as their jetpacks exploded, killing them instantly.
It took a while before Elsa even saw what happened to a few of her Imperial super commandos.
"Come on, let's head for the ships while they're distracted!" Tristan ordered everyone before Daniel nodded his head as they all began running backwards towards their Kom'rk-class fighters as they fired their WESTAR-35s back at the Imperial super commandos.
As they all reached their ships, they quickly entered their ships at the same time with Satele, Sabine and Janus entering the Brentol Star, while the others entered the other Kom'rk-class fighters before Satele and Sabine sat down on the pilot and co-pilot seats of the Brentol Star as Satele powered up her ship.
"Manda'lor, can you read me?" Satele said, contacting Bo-Katan with the Brentol Star's communications system.
"I read you loud and clear, Commander Wren," Bo-Katan replied from the Brentol Star's communications system.
"Me, Sabine and Janus have reached our ship," Satele told Bo-Katan, "How about you?"
"I have done the same thing," Bo-Katan stated, "And Rau is with me."
"I'll be ready to leave when you are, Manda'lor," Satele told her.
"We'll wait till everyone else checks in, Commander," Bo-Katan stated from the Brentol Star's communications system.
"This is Darhk Fett, and we've had all systems of our ship ready as well," a member of Clan Fett said from the Brentol Star's communications system.
"Oliver Ordo here, we also have our ship's systems ready as well," a member of Clan Ordo told them from the Brentol Star's communications system.
"Okay then, everyone get ready for take off," Bo-Katan said from her Kom'rk-class fighter as she sat on the seat behind the pilot seat and Rau sitting n the seat across from her and behind the co-pilot seat as Axe was sitting on the ship's pilot seat and Koska sitting on the ship's co-pilot seat.
As soon as she said that, all four Kom'rk-class fighters lifted off from the ground with their wings tilting downwards and began to fly away from the Mandalorian resistance's base.
"Target their ship," Bo-Katan ordered Axe and Koska.
"Copy that, Manda'lor," Axe replied.
"Roger that," Koska muttered before she and Axe clicked a few buttons on the ship's console, causing its wings to spin around as it slowly flew towards Elsa's Kom'rk-class fighter as it began to fire its laser cannons at the Imperial Kom'rk-class fighter, destroying it after a few of the lasers from Bo-Katan's Kom'rk-class fighter collided with it as the Kom'rk-class fighter exploded, killing its pilots instantly.
Back on the surface of Zanbar, Elsa watched as her ship exploded as she widened her eyes in anger before clenching her right hand and raised it into a fist in anger as she growled with anger in her voice as she watched as Bo-Katan's Kom'rk-class fighter, the Brentol Star and the other two Kom'rk class-fighters left Zanbar's atmosphere.
As the Brentol Star and the other Kom'rk-class fighters were traveling through Hyperspace, holograms of Bo-Katan, Rau, Ursa, Alrich, Tristan, Ara Daniel, Leto and Karai were being projected from the Brentol Star's holocommunicator with Bo-Katan, Rau and Ursa having their arms crossed as they were discussing what to do once they arrive on Dxun.
"Once we arrive on Dxun, we'll have to replace the equipment that was left there thousands of years ago," Bo-Katan informed everyone.
"Well, maybe some of it can remain and just be repaired," Sabine suggested, "Me and Satele can do it if it is possible."
"That's a good idea, Captain Wren," Bo-Katan told her.
"I agree, that's a great idea, Sabine," Ursa stated as she stared at her eldest daughter, agreeing with Bo-Katan.
"Yeah, that's a brilliant idea, Sabine," Alrich said with a smile on his face, agreeing with them.
"I also think it's an excellent idea," Tristan told his older sister, agreeing with them.
"I think it's a great and strategic idea as well," Leto stated, agreeing with them.
"As do I," Ara said, agreeing with them as well.
"I also agree with them," Daniel told them.
"Me too," Karai muttered, agreeing with them as well.
"Like the others said, that's a wonderful idea, Sabine," Rau said, agreeing with them.
"Yeah, that will certainly make it easier when we arrive on Dxun," Janus stated.
"It certainty will, Jan'ika," Satele told her fiancé, "But let's talk more about what to do when we arrive on Dxun when we get there. We need to inform Hera, Zeb and the rest of the Rebellion what transpired on Zanbar."
"Will do, Commander Wren," Bo-katan replied before her hologram along with the others disappeared from the Brentol Star's holocommunicator.
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