The rout came with shocking suddenness.
After nearly all their armored vehicles and fighters malfunctioned and lost their combat capability at almost the same time, Bo-Katan Kryze's Rebel Alliance forces immediately descended into chaos.
The government forces launched a counterattack at once. They had already held air superiority, and now their advantage was overwhelming. In particular, once the ten Kom'rk-class fighters within the city joined the battle, these high-performance, heavily armed fighters immediately dealt the Rebel Alliance a devastating blow!
Each Kom'rk-class fighter could deploy twenty-four warriors. Gal Saxon naturally had soldiers equipped with Mandalorian armor under his command. Riding the Kom'rk-class fighters straight into the rear of the Rebel Alliance formation, they disrupted their deployment and left every unit unable to support one another!
Moreover, all the Rebel Alliance's armored vehicles and fighters had malfunctioned simultaneously. There was no doubt that the problem had come from within their own side. So what was going on? Had Bo-Katan Kryze betrayed them? This question haunted everyone's mind.
With one side declining while the other rose, a rout became inevitable!
Rebel Alliance warriors fled in every direction, having completely lost the will to fight. Government soldiers pursued them in hovercars and airspeeders, wildly spraying the fleeing rebels with gunfire as comfortably as if they were shooting at targets.
The rout turned into a massacre!
Even Jango Fett and John 117, despite giving everything they had, could not stop the collapse. Bo-Katan Kryze and her Night Owls were scattered by the countless fleeing troops, broken apart and dispersed.
Worse still, when the upheaval began, Bo-Katan Kryze had been commanding from a Bric-Arol-class airspeeder. After the airspeeder went out of control, she too was thrown to the ground and pursued by government forces.
To keep her from being captured, the Night Owls and Rebel