Boom! Boom!!! A series of violent explosions erupted from the spaceport in Sundari, Mandalore's capital. The warehouse rented by Zann Corporation was blown to pieces, and the core device inside, which used more than a dozen Dathomir women as "batteries," was completely destroyed.
The brainwashing control that had blanketed Sundari for nearly a week finally vanished.
Sundari descended into chaos.
Millions of residents awoke from the brainwashing with utter confusion in their minds, having no idea what had happened, as though they had just woken from a dream.
But a dream was one thing. When these residents woke up, they discovered that they had somehow "been" put through a referendum! And it was a referendum on joining the Confederacy of Independent Systems?!
What kind of joke was this?!
Wasn't Mandalore a peaceful neutral planet? Wasn't Sundari a secure city where not even a pistol was allowed to exist?
When had this referendum taken place? Why was there a referendum? Were they not being actively pushed into the abyss of war? What exactly was the Satine Kryze government trying to do?
Riots immediately broke out across the city, and waves of opposition against Duchess Satine Kryze erupted in many places.
Yet strangely, under such circumstances, Satine Kryze never showed herself, as though she had vanished.
With the Duchess missing, the Mandalorian government fell into paralysis.
At that moment, Mandalore Prime Minister Almec stepped forward. He announced the formation of an interim government to take control of Sundari, where the situation had already spiraled out of control.
Before long, Pre Vizsla, governor of Mandalore's moon Concordia, publicly declared his support for Almec's interim government, stating that Mandalore would surely set things right under Almec's leadership. However, rather oddly, the background of his speech indicated that he was aboard a starship.
But the