Star Wars: A Hope Reborn

chapter 7

The Fleet of Mandalorian warships was expecting to fight a considerable sized fleet. But there was nothing, On the Only Bridger Class Heavy Battleship, Ezra and Sabine stood on the bridge. Ezra, wondering why the Empire abandoned Lothal. Did his actions give the empire the push they needed to see that the world was useless. No matter, Ezra was quick to give orders. His leadership and warrior like way gave the other Mandalorian's something to aspire to and become. They had made him the Mandalor till someone came bearing the Darksaber.

On the surface, the people of Lothal were not expecting to see the Spark return or Mandalorian's following him. Ezra was fast to rally the people of Lothal to his cause. Soon, a Kom'rk Fighter had taken flight to orbit, looking for the fabled Shipyards that were built by Revan. Ezra was at the controls, Heading towards Lothal's moon, Ezra guided the ship into a space that once inside, was a hangar. The ramp lowered and Ezra, Sabine, HK and serval MandalMotors crew men walked out, Ezra and Sabine made their way to the control centre. Once inside, computers that had been dormant for over 4000 years were covered in dust, Ezra used the force to remove the dust and then he walked over to control panel. He pressed a button and the station came to life, shutting down the clocking field, Ezra revealed the shipyards location to the fleet, and the galaxy.

"These computers have been offline for a long time, they will need time to reboot, but once done,, we should be able to produce warships of large size"

Sabine walked up to Ezra and stood next to her boyfriend. She was impressed by the shipyards, but the fact that the empire had all but left Lothal concerned her, as well as Ezra.

"Why would the empire leave Lothal so fast, and so soon, the rebellion was almost crushed"

Ezra placed an arm around her and replied

"I don't know, but It does concern me"

Many thoughts were going through Ezra's head, was the empire planning a full scale invasion of Lothal, or were they planning to use it as a test bed for something. but it would prove pointless now, Mandalore had taken control over Lothal, and now it was preparing for war.

Ezra walked over to a control panel and pulled up a list of blueprints. the only things on the station that were active over the years, was the scanner, cloaking device and blueprint creator. Every ship that came into Lothal's orbit was scanned, and a blueprint made of it. Then, the station created a counter ship. Ezra checked the power level on the station and saw that it was high, perfect to start creating warships. Ezra pulled up a blueprint on a Star Destroyer, and then looked at the counter blueprint. The ship was covered in turbolaser and ion cannon emplacements. Four giant cannons stuck out from the wings. Two were heavy turbolasers, while the other two were heavy ion cannons. Ezra moved the blueprint to the creation list and the shipyard started to do work. Named years ago as Revan Drive Yards, and so, Ezra was going to keep the name in honour of his family line.

"Ezra, the sound of the station working is wonderful. But not as wonderful as you"

Ezra smiled and hugged Sabine, She hugged back, Ezra kissed her forehead and they stopped hugging. A warrior came running in

"Mandalor, sir"

Ezra tuned to face the warrior that came in and spoke

"What is it"

"An imperial fleet has dropped out of hyperspace"

Ezra looked at Sabine and they ran to the Kom'rk Fighter.

The seventh fleet had dropped out of hyperspace above Lothal, not expecting to Mandalorian warships in orbit. Thrawn then received a call from Garel, Lothal's sister world.