Mando War VIII

The date was now 7 BBY. An uneasy peace still existed between the Thug Sector (the area controlled by the Thug Army) and the rest of Mandalore. Revan and Nitro had been joined by a new ally by the name of Fili. Fili ran a mismatched force of soldiers, including reprogrammed Separatist Battle Droids from the Clone Wars.

The GAM had finally come to accept that Darin Shi would not return. The GAM knew that war was gathering in the Thug Sector. On a dreary winter day, not wanting to put it off, the GAM held a memorial for Darin Shi.

Fli Fett, after the memorial, was skillfully captured by Revan and a few undercover SOC troops. Next, Revan and his team deactivated or destroyed the GAM’s antiaircraft cannons. X, while leading the GAM fleets in his new ship, The Conquer, was captured by Nitro. These moves on the part of the Thug Army were all very tactful. They were the first to capture Fli Fett, which proved a critical move.

Voltis, feeling the Thug Army was too ruthless, cast aside his past grudges against the GAM and allied with them. Again, the Allied Forces gave the GAM backup, and assisted them in every way possible.

The Thug Army claimed that they were attacking because the GAM had refused their “peace treaties.” Revan, feeling that the GAM needed a little “push,” wandered secretly through the capitol, destroying buildings with detonators and a flamethrower. Fili, leading the ground forces, pressed into the capitol. Soon, he had won it.

Meanwhile, Fli Fett and X escaped imprisonment onboard Nitro’s flagship. Regaining the Conquer, they headed back to the surface of Mandalore. There, they rallied the troops retreating from the capitol, and stormed back in.

The battle in the capitol ended with the death of Fili at the hands of Fli Fett, and Fili’s troops fleeing before the wrath of the GAM. Revan, wanting vengeance for his fallen comrade, dueled Fli Fett alone. The fierce duel ended when both had received fatal injuries at the hands of each other. Fli’s force-healer sister, Karissa Fett, saved Fli’s life just before he became one with the Force. Revan did not survive.

The GAM, having now only Nitro to deal with, raided his flagship. There was a fierce duel between Fli Fett and Nitro in the vacuum of space atop the bridge of Nitro’s flagship. Fli Fett escaped the burning wreckage of Nitro’s crashing ship. The ship was obliterated, but Nitro survived.