Collaboration and Resistance
Kryze’s rule would last even shorter than her sister’s. Almost immediately after Maul’s arrest, the Clone War was brought to an abrupt end with the extermination of the Jedi and the reformation of the Republic into a Galactic Empire. Now-Imperial forces that had, in the weeks beforehand, helped wrest control of Mandalore from the Shadow Collective, remained on the world as an occupying force. Kryze was ousted by the Imperial-backed Gar Saxon and his clan, who became established as Mandalore’s Viceroy for the Empire.
Under Saxon, Mandalore became another world for the training and recruitment of non-Clone forces in the Imperial military. Utilizing a superweapon inadvertently created by a Mandalorian recruit at the Imperial Academy established on Mandalore—capable of targeting the beskar alloy in Mandalorian armor and electrocuting its wearer—Saxon and his personal guard of Mandalorian Supercommandos suppressed resistance to the regime for the best part of two decades, driving Kryze and her resistance underground.
Aided by members of local cell from the nascent Rebel Alliance, however, Kryze and her forces were able to mount a successful uprising against Saxon and the Empire. They rallied once again under the rule of the Darksaber, and for the first time since the outbreak of the civil war, Mandalore was united and at peace.
