Galen Malek brandished his Lightsaber and surged forward relentlessly. The Rebel Alliance soldiers had no way to resist him. His Lightsaber was like a barrier; no firepower could penetrate it.
Encountered an Imperial Dark Side Force-sensitive! Suspected Inquisitor! Requesting support!
Confirm the target's identity! Have Master Synk intercept him!
Are there any armored units?! Calling for support!!
The Rebel Alliance soldiers kept calling for reinforcements over the comms. Large numbers of fighters rushed in from all directions, quickly taking advantageous positions and setting up blaster machine guns and rocket launchers before opening fire madly.
Even two AT-ST walkers in the distance were moving in this direction.
Lianna was an industrial planet in the Mid Rim Territories, and the uprising here had been planned for a long time. Lianna primarily produced TIE fighters and their related components for Sith Fleet Systems. After the Rebel Alliance sparked a wave of resistance here, they sent elite forces to attack several factories on the planet. Their objective was clear: seize enough aircraft engines.
The Rebel Alliance currently lacked industrial facilities of its own. Nearly all of its warships and heavy equipment came either from donations or theft. Otherwise, some of their supporters engaged in petty theft—stealing a speeder bike today, a fighter tomorrow, and so on.
Because the Rebel Alliance essentially had no territory that truly belonged to it, its forces were spread throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, yet nowhere in the entire galaxy did it have a foothold. Aside from the territory of the former Galactic Empire 14th Army centered on Rynoth, Rebel Alliance forces elsewhere operated underground.
So even when they did have facilities, they were only small industrial workshops capable of simple modifications to fighters, freighters, and the like.
This time, the Rebel Alliance had launched an uprising on Lianna in