As war suddenly erupted on Malastare, Haruun Kal was mired in chaos.
First, a new organization called the Highland Liberation Front suddenly emerged, attacking the smugglers' outlying strongholds everywhere despite the harsh winter.
The planetary capital, Pelek-Baw City, was enormous. Precisely because of that, it depended heavily on resources from the surrounding areas, including food cultivation, food processing, mineral extraction, and import-export trade.
The Highland Liberation Front targeted those outlying facilities, and their attacks were utterly merciless, leaving no survivors! Yet no matter how tight the smugglers' defenses were, they would be destroyed!
Then internal unrest broke out in Pelek-Baw City. The spaceport was bombed, completely cutting off the city's foreign trade for a time. After all, they were only making deliveries; there was no need to send cargo ships into Haruun Kal's harmful atmosphere and suffer severe losses.
To deal with the chaos, the smugglers' leader, Colonel Loz Gepton, ordered the city sealed off.
That order cut off contact between Pelek-Baw City and the outside. The Highland Liberation Front's attacks grew even more frenzied, destroying seven farms and strongholds in just a few days and inflicting devastating losses on the smugglers.
But even so, the chaos did not end.
The three Dark Jedi Knight advisers stationed on Haruun Kal by the Confederacy of Independent Systems were ambushed while pursuing the attacker, who was very likely a Jedi Knight. The brothers Karoc and Vinoc were killed on the spot, while Quinlan Vos was wounded and forced to retreat.
Then Pelek-Baw City Hall was also raided by that Jedi Knight. Colonel Loz Gepton was killed, and the secret weapon he had prepared for the Korunnai, the Organic Resonator, was destroyed as well.
The only good news was that, despite his injuries, Quinlan Vos fought the powerful Jedi Knight. With the support