Location:
Shabuir
Objective: Fight back boarders
Allies: UCM and Defenders
Enemies: SJO and Attackers
Equipment: In BIO under "Things always with Adenn" and
beskad, armor in sig
Tags: [member="Allya Vi'Dreya"]
Troops: 20
Beskad Elite, various Mandalorian soldiers on board the Shabuir
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The two of them engaged then disengaged, circling each other, looking for weaknesses, or at least Adenn was. Allya spoke during that time after another short engagement. They did that, off and on fighting, with one or the other party saying their peace in between or during the weapons clashes. Adenn listened to her speak and she listened to him, then they fought again, and again, so on and so forth. He had made sure long ago that his helmet camera was always on, and now was no different, he'd look over what she said at a later date, for now though, he continued on, listening while she spoke and rebutting when his 'turn' came.
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My clan is my family, those I fight beside as well. I can't speak for the Mand'alor nor for the regime at the time, but I know that many see such measures as justified, after all it was Force users who practically destroyed Mandalore. Not for the first time either. I don't condone forcing Mandalorians away simply because of the Force, it's simply another weapon for a Mando'ade." Adenn shook his head to her statement about him being pointless. "
How are your actions different from ours? We fight to protect our aliit, you do the same, though for different leaders. Buildings are buildings, they can be rebuilt in a years time or sooner, lives, those take decades to reform, if they reform at all. I put myself in charge of the defense of the hospital, because I would never allow anyone to be at the mercy of the CIS. Another Mando had that defense in order, the building itself was built by the population, they are the ones who secured that shield for themselves."
Adenn sneered behind his helmet, what she said was theoretically true, and he'd have to look over the data once more to see what went wrong. But that was neither here nor there as he attacked again, swinging at her once, twice, then backing off again. All to begin another bout of speech. This time it wasn't directed at him, but his guards, and they weren't pleased. They'd fought just as hard, led the charge alongside Adenn. The leader took a menacing step forward before spitting out a contemptuous reply, voice laced with venom.
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I led the charge alongside my Alor, fought against you chakaar who didn't even face us in combat, instead bombarding us. We protected our vode and the civvies from the CIS, from you." Snarling in anger, the captain continued. "
You prevented the escape of those wounded, those where the last to go, and your presence prevented proper medical ships to arrive. We would never use our aliit as shields, not even if our own lives depended on it!"
Adenn spoke up then, voice still filled with anger, especially at the verbal desecration of the Mandos memory.
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My own family was there, blood family, born of my wife, and my own three children. I also had wounded soldiers from my clan there, You clearly didn't see our defenses tidkasa(lapdog), everything we set up was to prevent anyone from getting close. We put ourselves in the line of fire so the wounded wouldn't be in danger of getting hit. Good thing too, because some shabs decided to attack the place. We fought off against rabid animals and zombies right out of a comic. Then we fought droids and other things. No, we were right to defend that place, because if we weren't there, the wounded would've been shredded by your peoples attacks. If you doubt me, I have the proof of it. I don't regret putting my men in harms way to protect those who couldn't protect themselves, not for an instant."
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We didn't cower, we led the charge against your pitiful FOB, and were only stopped by the bombardment." Adenn chuckled at the hypocrisy of Allya. "
I was under the bombardment from start to finish, I survived that with some of my men. You... you just survived a bombing run of comparatively weak fighters, so don't try to claim high ground for that." Then she said that it was her who called in the targets, causing Adenn to be enraged even further. Using his arm blaster, Adenn aimed at Allya and let loose a flurry of bolts before jumping forward with his jetpack again to strike at her. "
You know nothing!" Adenn roared out. "Everything we've done was to prevent their deaths, yet you twist everything to suit your own needs! No matter what we do or why, you always say it's for evil, when it's all done to protect them from you!"
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That destroyer wasn't ours, the worms weren't ours, but you blame it all on us! Regardless of the facts, of the reasoning behind our action, we are always the evil ones in your stories. We have tried communication, they were denied, tried peace, and you blame us for attacks we didn't even do!" Adenn kept swinging with his blade, with his fist, doing his best to keep attacking while ranting at her. "
You've done similar, you've done worse no doubt. You say there were civilians in there, we only had your word for it. The same goes for our hospital, there were only wounded in there, they couldn't fight, so we protected them. Yet you force them to be targets, simply because we are doing our duty to protect them. If we left them alone you'd say we were monsters for leaving them, but we protect them and we're still monsters!" Another heavy swing, and then came a spin kick to knock her off her feet before a fist jabbed out to stab her in a weak point of the armor, using the spikes on his hand.
Adenn snarled behind his helmet, even as he continued to attack. Even then, he continued on, as there was nothing else for him to do.
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One man? He attacked blocks in one city, your people destroyed half if not the entire place! Your lot instigated war on every imaginable front, attacked us for perceived slights. And then you claim it's all for peace!" He punched out again with his fist, this time aiming for the armpit of her left arm. "
With all your brainwashing, you think that trial would be fair?! Why not try to have a trial the Mando way, but you haven't considered that, have you? Mandos have done far worse things and the galaxy kept on turning. The deaths of some slavers hardly seems like a reason to bring war to an entire people with the sole purpose of exterminating them. Not that you even could, not with a hundred years, not with a thousand, or ten thousand. The Mando'ade have survived for eons and will survive for eons more. You won't be able to destroy us, for we are an ideal and you can't kill ideals, but we can certainly kill you."
Adenn backed off then, circling again, panting slightly from all the speaking and fighting.
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The only thing we have that you'd leave us be is your word, and that's been broken often enough for us to never trust you again. You say mistakes, I say correct actions! The bombardment of slavers is something good, yet you only saw Eshani there, not what they were doing. The stupidity at hand is because of your Metus! How many have lost their lives because of you and yours, hm? The Mando'ade haven't attacked anyone for such a long time, yet you say we're war mongers! Who has been attacking whom the past few years? YOU! The CIS, the SJO, the CIC, all of you have been attacking us, blaming us for things we never did." Taking a deep breath, his eyes never leaving Allyas helmet, he continued, voice softer and somewhat calmer now, though still with anger in it.
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We fight and defend our own people, you invade us. No matter what happens, you'll always claim we're the bad people, the boogy men." Shaking his head once more, Adenn sighed. "
You were once a Mandalorian, you could be again someday. Today is not that day though, I don't know when, if ever, you can really be a Mando." Gritting his teeth, Adenn prepared for another attack. "
Come back once you've cleared your eyes of the brainwashing, once you've looked at both sides. I have and it's cleared things up. You fight to bring peace, but in that way only bring war. My men and I, the entirety of the UCM perhaps, we fight for our aliit. We defend them with our lives against you and yours. You won't end anything adiik, for there is nothing to end here except your own failures and misgivings. We fight for our aliit, for the chance to see another day and to watch our kids become Mando'ade. You... you seek to destroy that, for all of us. No adiik, you are the monsters, the killers. The same things you say about us apply to you. We fight to defend ourselves, defend our homes and our aliits. You fight to destroy us, annihilate us wholesale." Adenn shook his head, sighing in disappointment, even as he prepared his beskad to fight once more.
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Adiik, who has brought war to more systems and planets these past few years? The UCM or the CIS and its allies. We haven't attacked anyone in a long time and have been defending for so long it's practically all we're doing. But who has been attacking constantly, year after year, month after month, day after day. I've heard your rallying cries, we didn't do Umbara, Yasha herself confirmed that, I was there, those were not Caderas. I've heard H'rrath was a point of contestion, the UCM didn't condone that, nor did it commit that attack. Then there's Eshan, a few blocks destroyed, and you claim that's what has caused all this death and destruction, that one man did it." He shook his head again. "
No... Kaine bombed some blocks, but he didn't invade anyone then, it was you who started hostilities, who began these battles, this war. The CIS has caused far more damage than the UCM, yet you blame us for everything. Look at yourself before you blame others for crimes you've committed."
Adenn felt oddly at peace with himself, he didn't know why. There was a battle raging, an infuriating child before him, and he'd recently lost a lot of his clan members. But he was still at peace with himself, though he didn't know why. Closing his eyes for a moment, Adenn opened his eyes and was very much a predator in that moment. He saw and heard everything, senses heightened because of his internal awakening. It wasn't the Force, no, it was something that everyone could attain, if they knew where to look, or if they were lucky. It was the primal history and knowledge of the present combined into one entity of war and conflict. Adenn felt himself as if he embodied those aspects, even if it was only to himself, but he was far more in tune with himself now. The girl had given him new insight, and that had lifted a weight from his shoulders.
Flipping his blade into a reverse grip, Adenn had attacked. She charged as well, allowing herself to be hit by the backhand, something Adenn noticed and prepared himself for a counter attack. The counter attack was ingenious, but Adenn was semi ready for it. Positioning his blade in between the blaster butt and his crotch. The beskad caught the blow for the most part before transferring the rest of the impact to his armored thigh. The electricity hit him full on, causing him to roar in pain, only further heightening his senses, but causing him tremendous pain in that moment. Knocking the blaster butt away from him as well as he could, Adenn didn't notice the EMP until she told him "cheers."
The EMP went off and left him practically deaf and dumb, he could hear well enough through the helmet, and see through the visor, and as such saw what was happening. Everything in his armor was down because of the EMP, but he didn't need tech to hurt her, or even better, kill her. The explosive decompression was sudden, thankfully his guards activated their mag boots in time, but his were disabled due to the EMP. The first thing to come back was oxygen flow, something that was good as they were being sucked/had been sucked into space at this point. Using his arm, Adenn would try to hold himself steady against her before slamming his helmet forward. Her armor may be designed for kinetic damage, but he doubted the armor weave would be good against the tusks on his helmet. As such, Adenn aimed to gouge her neck or upper chest/shoulder area with the tusks while also trying to head butting her. His systems would slowly be coming back online, but he also had his beskad in his hand, and he used that to try and jab it into her jetpack. That way it might explode and injure her further, while also limiting her escape options. Snarling behind his helmet, Adenn went to head butt/gouge her again, fully intending to maim or kill her.
The dead starfighters did damage that wouldn't be able to be fixed anytime soon. In fact, the damage was rather disruptive for what the crew was working on. Systems were sent to secondary works while the crew continued to battle with everything going on. Meanwhile the battle computer that had been fighting the virus used part of itself to help speed up Adenns armor processes, that way he'd have access to everything sooner. At the same time it refocused and cut off the comms unit that had been infected, instead looping it against itself to try and use against the CIS ships. The shields at the engines were strengthened at the cost of shields elsewhere, but they began to make evasive manuevers, hoping to find safety in their fellow UCM ships. The shields held, for now, but the crew didn't know for how long it'd last.
The Beskad Elite opened fire on the droids that were in the same corridor as them the second Adenn and Allya were outside, as the droids were now free game. Then the side rooms opened up with 10 more Beskad Elite armed with more heavy blasters and their boarding shields. The second group made their way straight towards the new group that was trying to head to the engine room. They put themselves in the direct path of the droids, forming a beskar wall, even as they opened fire on the group, a majority of the shots aimed at the big droid in the middle. Whenever the first 10 beskad elite finished with their droids, they moved to flank the droids and hit them from the side and back. The first groups cry of "For our aliit!" would eventually mix with the second groups same cry.
