Armed With:
Energy Bow Pistol (1),
Obsolete Blaster SMG (1)
Nathan's Saberstaff
Have Armed Locals with:
GWE-002,
Obsolete Blaster SMG,
Outdated Plasma Grenade
Wearing:
Prototype Armor
Objective: Shadow Crown
Nathan still didn't understand why the other Jedi were so distressed. They
lamented the breakdown of peace, as though it wasn't
inevitable...
It was always inevitable, no matter who it was.
He teleported across the buildings of Ukatis, relaying the movements of Mandalorians across the city to Alliance Personnel, to make mortar attacks more effective.
He would, of course, take sniping opportunities. He didn't really have the hangups a lot of Jedi have with explosives or firearms, having been forced into so many situations in the Gulag Era to where a Lightsaber would have only caused more problems than it solved, that he couldn't
fathom the continued resistance the Jedi had to using them.
Did they even
want to win?
Nathan wasn't sure about
anything the Order was doing. And he wasn't about to voice his misgivings, as he knew the only response he would receive would be some variation of "Trust in the Force." And every time he heard
that response, it threatened to legit give him
ulcers.
Again, as he teleported across the buildings, occasionally picking off a Mandalorian on the streets, he was reminded of Laertia's words, that she would let the Jedi
themselves make her arguments for her when it came to him.
What had they really achieved so far? They did not
need this distraction with the Sith Empire getting stronger. If their conquest was going to be stymied, it had to be now.
He casually observed Jedi fighting them up front and honorably and sighed. Never give a Mando an honorable fight. Against such an opponent, you go in ready to kill in any way possible.
Nathan sniped a Mando right in the middle of his duel with another Jedi he had been overpowering, getting him right in the kidney, and stumbling backward, in pain.
Nathan suppressed a snort of annoyance as the Jedi hesitated, his honor clearly preventing him from striking at a now helpless opponent. Nathan grimaced as the Code now prevented
him from finishing the job also...you can't kill someone beaten and helpless, and unfortunately, the hips and part of the back were the only part on the Mandalorian's armor that was less armored than the rest.
He sighed. Too many
Diplomats.
Appeasers,
Pencil Pushers,
Soft-Hearted Sorts. At least five percent of them, more than likely, should have never accessed the Force or picked up a lightsaber to begin with: They weren't cut out for it. They waffle with it, become indecisive. It's not like all the heroic holodramas they read.
There is actual blood and chaos, and People often aren't happy to see you any more than they would be if you were an outright Sith.
Because the people have learned that where the Order raises it's sword, madness and corpses follow.
Can there be any victory for The Order at all if the only reason Jedi are needed/tolerated in society,
any society, is their assured ability to cause casualties amongst people you don't like?
He gave another shake of his head and a snort of disgust as he watched that Knight retreat. The Code bound
both of them in insanity and stupidity during moments like this. Maybe he
should just kill the wounded, defenseless prick...it was what he'd do to them, if their situations in were reversed.
But then what real difference would there be between him and That Mandalorian?
I'd be alive, and he would become worm food? A nasty part of him that had no more use for empathy mused. He tried not to listen to that part of him, as he knew indulging it was dangerous.
He pulled back. This is why he usually struck to kill dangerous opponents on the first go. He moved across the buildings, stopped as he spotted a familiar figure in an alley with an eviscerated squad of Mandalorians. Her real name was
Westenra Mina
, but most in the Alliance knew her as Lynda, The Demon of Jedha.
Lynda had gotten that moniker after her
vicious rampage against the Mawites at New Jedha City, doing
catastrophic damage to entire companies of Mawites, seemingly trying to John Wick the entire Maw Brotherhood to avenge her pet rabbit, and a pet turtle.
Nathan teleported down into the alley. The blood flowed freely on the stone, and the
loose meat sloshed around in it. Lynda pulled her sword out of a newly dead Mandalorian woman. Lynda was not the frenzied, frothing at the mouth Killer Nathan had met at Exogal, but he was still wary of her. Lynda, in a lot of ways, had been utterly
broken by her conflict with the Maw.
In a lot of ways, Lynda's situation reminded him of the one he was in with the Cult: Destroying them was his sole passion in life the way destroying the Maw had been hers. Taking from them what they had taken from him. There was no moral equivalency between him and the Cult: They were savage monsters that no innocent was safe from, no matter their age. Nathan was
probably a monster. But not to the level the Cult was.
"Making new friends, I see..." Nathan muttered (Transcendence: 500 XP).
"Feth you, Nathan." She replied, not looking at him, having sniffed him out.
"At least it's more friends than
you have."
"But I value them when I obtain them..." Nathan replied, stepping up next to her to stare at the dead Mando.
"While your relationship with
this one, on the other hand, seems to have already run it's full course." he observed in his typically icy manner.
Lynda folded her arms. "Casual acquaintance, at best."
"Ah." Nathan remarked. "Good to see you, Lynda. Did you just arrive?"
"Yes. The locals who want to fight need a leader...all the damned Jedi will do is tell them to stay put."
"I supplied certain select groups here with rifles and grenades. I'll tell them you're coming..."
"Testing your products out?" Lynda quipped cynically.
"Yep." he replied bluntly, turning around. "Take care of yourself, Lynda. Try not to get your head blown off."
"Likewise...good hunting."
Nathan teleported back to the roofs to continue conducting scouting and sniper work...
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