Sundari

Sundari was the domed capital city of the New Mandalorian faction of Mandalorians, located on the Outer Rim world of Mandalore, where it stood alongside Mandalore's traditional capital of Keldabe. Situated within one of Mandalore's white-sand desert regions, the bio-cube city of Sundari hosted a large number of New Mandalorians by the time of the Clone Wars, including the sect's leader, Duchess Satine Kryze. Automated transports ferried individuals from the city's docks into its interior, which was filled with high-technology structures made of permacrete, beskar iron, and transparisteel. Sundari was guarded by its dedicated police force, and the city's skylanes were patrolled by their Buirk'alor-class airspeeders.

During the early stages of the Clone Wars, Sundari's Memorial Shrine was the target of a terrorist attack, orchestrated by the radical and violent Mandalorian splinter group known as the Death Watch. Some time later, the city was struck by an epidemic of poisonings among its youth, the source of which was traced to a shipment of tainted tea delivered to Sundari by a contingent of Moogan smugglers. This incident was part of a larger trend of corruption among its government's officials, leading to the arrest of New Mandalorian Prime Minister Almec for his role in allowing the black market to operate on Mandalore, and his subsequent incarceration in a Sundari prison.

Two years later, in 20 BBY, Sundari was the primary target of the Death Watch's coup against the New Mandalorian regime. Having entered into an alliance with the Sith Lord Darth Maul and assembled an army of criminals known as the Shadow Collective, Death Watch played the role of heroic saviors combating the ordered onslaught of the Collective's crime lords who, in secret, terrorized Sundari at Darth Maul's command, in order to prove the New Mandalorian government an ineffective body. Winning the favor of the public by protecting Sundari's populous when Duchess Satine Kryze and her administration could not, Death Watch deposed the duchess, while their leader, Pre Vizsla, replaced Kryze as the ruler of the New Mandalorians. However, Vizsla's command was usurped shortly thereafter by Darth Maul, causing a divide in the ranks of Death Watch between those who pledged their loyalty to the Sith, and those who followed Vizsla's former lieutenant Bo-Katan Kryze and refused to recognize the rule of a non-Mandalorian, eventually leading to a vicious battle on the outskirts of Sundari between the two factions.

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