On the surface of Rendili Planet, the coup launched by the Urlan family was still ongoing.
However, with the Planetary Shield raised, the Provisional Military Government established by the Urlan family gradually brought the situation under control. Upon seeing the Planetary Shield, the cities and factions still loyal to the Galactic Republic understood that they could no longer receive any support from the Galactic Republic. Many whose resolve to resist had never been firm chose to surrender.
Yet there were still many stubbornly holding out, and no one expected much combat power from the provisional army made up of police officers by the Rendili military government. Aside from the battle at the Planetary Shield control center, where the situation quickly became clear because both the Jedi Knights and Darth Malthael had intervened in turn, many other battlefields remained locked in a pathetic slugfest.
How pathetic was it?
The most obvious sign was that neither side could even guarantee every combatant a Blaster rifle! Much of the time, they were shooting at each other with Blaster pistols.
Across the Milky Way Galaxy, especially on an important Core Worlds planet like Rendili, demilitarization had been particularly pronounced after the Rusan Reforms. They had no regular army at all, only public security forces, whose standard equipment was basically stun guns and Blaster pistols.
Even the Planetary Defense Fleet had possessed only a handful of capital ships for a long time, permanently stationed at their berths and serving only as a deterrent. Many space defense platforms and Planetary Defense Fleet warships had only been added gradually after the war broke out, and every such reinforcement had to be applied for and registered with the Galactic Republic.
Because neither the Galactic Republic authorities nor the noble classes on those planets wanted to see any heavy