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The Line Part Two: Challenge for Mand'alor

Having heard enough Aedan finally moved using the force he yanked the banner away from the pup looking disgustedly down at the item in his hand before heft it and slamming it over his knee breaking the haft in two before tossing it onto the ground snorting. He turned his gaze towards pup a small dark smirk on his lips as he cracked his neck and muttered calmly. "Keep quiet while the grown ups talk next time boy." He laughs seeing the man turn to leave his eyes bored as he followed his motions pressing a button on his comlink he muttered to the ship in orbit calmly. "Apply a tracing lock on the Fang fighter landed near my position I want it tracked to its point of origin. If needed dispatch one of our Attrition-class destroyers to tail it and keep an eye on its destination." Turning his attention back to the discussion between Mand'alor and Alor Dem'adas he remained respectful to both members and stayed silent.

[member="Vilaz Munin"] [member="Jekai Almec"] [member="Olivia Dem'adas"]
 
A shabby spacer came into the firelight, shaking sand from his clothes. Without interrupting the solemnity of the moment, he unslung his pack and unbundled his wares: twelve-inch lengths of flat wood marked in eighth-inch increments. There seemed to be a good deal of competitive measuring tonight, as on most nights around here. Business ought to be solid.

He laid out his wares on a cloth, alongside a small placard:

SOLE RULER - The Only Ruler You'll Ever Need​
 
[member="Aedan Miles"] attempted to remove his banner with the force. However, since he hardly believed in such things, was force sensitive himself, and most Sith power came from illusion and the belief that it worked, it remained firmly in his hands, the cultist's force power making it blow patriotically in the wind. His will and disbelief in it was relatively strong. However, since the mandalorian was near 28 years of age, with most honorable sorts dying before they reached the age of 40, he looked at him for a moment with a slightly canted head - the force cultist knowing as much about age as he did about being a mandalorian. "Neat. You ever grow a spine, let me know. I'm down for a Death Duel anytime", he says, placing it into his fighter.

The ship takes off, but since only the direction of which they travel can be traced without a physical item ON the ship, as soon as it took a jump from another system, it was lost.
 
Behind her true face, Olivia Dem'adas closed her eyes and clenched her jaw. Munin's ignorant, narrow view and goading were getting to her. She wanted so very much to rip her chest plate off and fight the man 'tits out', if only to shut the bastard up. But no Mando'ad worth their salt would expose themselves in the face of an enemy like that. She wanted so very much to shout at Munin, correcting his every twisted word and overlooked fact. She wanted to remind him that Raxis hadn't been declared Dar'manda until after that fight. She wanted to remind him of all the challenges for the title of Mand'alor that had taken place in years gone by. Of the challenges for the title that Gilamar Skirata had endured, and the challenges that had taken place after his dealth. Of the honor duel between Alor Rekali and the fool Alor that had insulted him at a council meeting and of the numerous historic duels for the title throughout the ages. Olivia wanted to set the fool straight, educate him on the history of his people beyond simply himself and Ra Vizla... But she knew that such things would be lost on the Exile.

Instead, Olivia simply forced these urges down, opened her eyes, and glared at the man through her visor. She would not give in to such petty goading. She had faced the beast of war time and again. In armored assaults upon foreign and claimed worlds and in the mighty warships of her clan. She had even fought Death Watch wearing nothing but a towel, claiming her tank for her Beskar'gam in the face of her enemy.

Those were good times. Good battles.

This was disgraceful.

The man who had smuggled weapons into a diplomatic meeting with Jetii and half the galaxy, a meeting that his own people had orchestrated, and had thrown it all away for a botched assassination attempt... THIS man dared to speak down to her about honor. THIS man tried to goad her out of her second skin. THIS man. THIS man who failed to recognize the threat Ijaat posed. THIS man that failed to protect his people... This man needed to die.

"Shut your mouth and fight me, coward." Olivia said coldly before charging the man, the blue blade within her hand leaving an arc of light in it's wake as she closed the distance between herself and Munin, powered servos in her armor lending strength to each step, hurling herself at the man faster than she should have been able to without activating her jump pack.

He deserved no respect from her. No mercy. No restraint.

Even Death Watch had shown the loyalty and courage required to stay with their home. To defend it when Aruetii came for Manda'yaim.

Death Watch deserved more respect from her than this man did.

In the blink of an eye, Olivia disappeared from view. For a moment, the barest of moments, Olivia was simply gone, her saber included. Only to return to reality closer to Munin than she had been before. Closer than if she had kept running at the man. Closer than she should have been.

On her thigh, sliding upon the dirt with her armor's jump pack activated, Olivia's right boot aimed squarely for Munin's left knee as her right hand gripped firm her saber and her left remained empty.

[member="Vilaz Munin"]


Skira Beskar'gam



  • (OOC: [member="Jekai Almec"] that's not how force abilities work on this forum, nor would "disbelief" effect a psychokinetic ability done on something other than your body anyway. There are plenty of tricks and toys for blocking or defending against force abilities, and Mandalorians utilize all of them in one form or another, but that just isn't one. Also, the Mandalorians have space stations throughout the sector that monitor hyperspace for ship signatures. So long as you remain in this part of the galaxy, and don't have any tech specifically for avoiding such detection, Aeden can track you.)
 
Kurayami was confused as to why exactly the woman sat down next to him, but it didn't really matter all that much right now. Then there was more posturing and some more self-indugent bantha shit being spewed by the kid or whatever he was. Even drunk as he was, Kurayami knew more about the traditions and customs of this ancient culture. He just shook his head, swaying along with the motion and for a small time after he decided that was a bad idea. What took some time to set in though was that when [member="Face"] sat next to him his link to the Force was cut.

The reaction was not what would be expected of a Force user, he just sighed, unsure where the disturbance came from. Didn't really matter after all, not like he had much need for the Force right now. Once Pup was done with his ranting and raving, and after he grabbed his banner again, [member="Aedan Miles"] pulled it over to himself and snapped it in half. This lead to a great cheer from the drunken Corellian on the sidelines.

"Fuckin' sweet! We gots more firewood guys. I mean it's not alot but is some more, hey Pirate Dude, throw that thing in the fire so we can keep it goin' longer man. Least tha's how I 'member fire workin'. That it only works when theres stuff to burn. Or something like that...yea. I mean, like, I'd do it myself, but that means walking and that's a bad idea right now, and the Force is like, it's all like, ya know, numb and stuffs. So I can't throw it like how i grabbed the bottle a few minutes ago."

He looked over to his drinking companion and mirrored the motion of tilting the tapered end of the bottle towards her. His head cocked slightly to the side a bit as if he was thinking. Right now, it was not all that likely that any coherent thoughts were in what precious little was left of his brain. He just smirked and continued drinking as he moved his gaze back to the seemingly infinitely long challenge between Olivia and Vilaz.
 
[member="Olivia Dem'adas"]

(OOC: I was told by an admin to limit my interactions with this individual ( [member="Aedan Miles"] )based on prior experiences between us. To that degree, the force and universe worked in a single moment to keep us from interacting with each other in even the most menial way as per directions from somebody who makes those calls. The character, while not a wielder, is force sensitive. I.E, some cosmic thing that nobody understands happened in order to prevent a potential problem.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_resistancehttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_shield. As for disbelief in the force, even skills like this can manifest by accident if needs be.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5cVCfruVFQ

As for 'tracking me', space stations have to have a direct order to do that, and there are many mandalorian fighters in system. Aiden is one clan member and alor, not somebody in charge of every space station and military asset. It'd track about as far as a single jump or two, before his jurisdiction no longer mattered. It's not omnipresent or omnipotent. I can and will remain in this portion of the galaxy, as insurrections happen in Mandalorian space all the time, and there are many different factions and beliefs of individuals within it. (Also have approval just fine to do that) (Source: Tarkin Novilization and many others) If they feel like dueling, or something of that nature, that's fine. We'll thread, and they can IM me and work it out. May be they found him, maybe not. I'm not unreasonable. Obvious power game attempts are obvious, though.

The hatred of forcilorians is an IC thing, not OOC. The taking of it OOC has been so ridiculous as to warrant me posting out to give most of you peace of mind. The breaking of that would keep me here, and require an honor duel to the death. I'm willing to do that, with a combat system - and his consent along with mine. Otherwise, I intend to have the character depart to give you all a bit of peace, and to let things work themselves out. On an OOC Level, I am actually invested and interested in watching it, for the record. )

[member="Kurayami Bloodborn"] No such god modding thing happened with his banner. You're not sure why. It remained there, blowing patriotically, before it was put in the fighter, and the character was soon gone. Whoosh!
 
Cole found himself torn in that moment not sure what to feel. The Echani in him found it extremely dishonorable to see Olivia violate the terms of the duel and charge Vilaz in full armor. However the man in him was glad to see that the two appeared to exactly be prepared to fight instead of just hurl insults at each other.

Cole was a bit lost. He had only witness one other Manda'lor challenge. That one had occurred in front of the Council in a place of historical and cultural significance. Not only that but a much more controlled environment.

This however had been an exercise in unadulterated chaos from the moment Cole arrived. He decided in that moment he would do a little digging into the past. More specifically into the Manda'lor challenges of the past. Maybe even a little bit into what had been happening since Cole left Mandalore after assisting in the evacuation of the planet.

[member="Stardust Raxis"] [member="Keira Ticon"] [member="Artemis Lux"] [member="Olivia Dem'adas"] [member="Vilaz Munin"] [member="Kurayami Bloodborn"] [member="Darian Beviin"]
 
The Matador followed his rules, he done what any Mandolorian should. But what he saw before him, was not Mandolorian. He, and his people were of the old ways. These people around him did not look or act Mandolorian, it disheartened him greatly. He saw around him division and immaturity. Not a Mandolorian mentality, not that of warriors. He watched silently, he didn't know how to vocalise his concerns to these people.

Because, they were not his people. They were not Mandolorian's of old, they didn't remind him of any tale of glory or honor. Around him stood what seemed like puppets to emotion and greed. There were some that reminded him of true Mandolorians and acted accordingly, however there were many that did not.

The Matador placed the Knight's lightsabers back on his belt; and folded his arms over, placing his hands on the Beskar pauldrons of his armour. They needed to be united, and neither of the two warriors that stood before him seemed capable of that. It troubled him greatly, watching from his position as what many would view as a pawn in a much greater game.
 

HK-36

The Iron Lord Protector (Neutral Good)
[member="Jekai Almec"],

Seeing Jekai leave and all the turmoil that came with it, with Shroedinger's flag that may or may not have been ripped out of his hand and may or may not have been patriotically whipping in the air while it happened and now it may or may not have been carried off planet or just floated there in the air like some sort of abomination of physics themselves, HK moved over closer to [member="Aedan Miles"], shuffling towards the pirate Mandalorian.

"Hey Aedan, hey psst, it is me, HK."

As if Aedan would not recognize the droid at first, HK wasn't even disguised that time, although most of his disguised consisted of a fake pair of mustache crudely glued to his faceplate anyway,

"Who the feth was that guy? I thought he came in with you."

The droid asked, motioning with his head towards the direction Jekai left,

"You know, because you always attract a specific type of people."

HK quipped in a whisper.


Until then the droid was more or less just silently watching what was going on in their immediate area, all the discussion and chaos that came with a challenge to Mandalore's rule. It occurred to the machine that the Mandalorians and Metal Lords were not so different in their politics, things for both of them consisted of about 90% just squabbling and yelling at each other, 9% storming out, and 1% of actually being productive. However the Mandalorians nowadays seemed to have been much more hostile towards each other than the droids, at least from what he saw today and the exchange between Jekai and Aedan.

Of course the droid was not really involved with the Mandalorian politics since the ages long past when he served as one of the soldiers in the army of Mandalore the Ultimate. Those were still the good glory days to the machine, and he would probably found himself agreeing with more traditional and conservative members of the gathering like [member="The Matador"], unless of course they would oppose to a droid being classified as a Mandalorian, although the machine followed the Code and celebrated their culture, plus the way he saw it he did more than his share of killing and warring for the Mandalore to be considered a Mandalorian. Plus he always came to their bigger gatherings and tried to aid the Mandalorians whenever he could, for example during the Cataclysm or the Siege of Mandalore.


Either way, as he waited for Aedan to respond to the machine's attention focused back on [member="Olivia Dem'adas"] and [member="Vilaz Munin"] as it seemed their duel finally kicked off.
 
Vilaz simply snorted at Olivia's comment before charging at him. She showed her true personality to all her brethren. Honorless. Afraid. Opportunistic. Dependent. When in combat on the battlefield against the Jedi, soldiers, and whatever hostiles did he use whatever assets to survive and help to have the tide be in his favor. For the mantle, however, he didn't.

His HUD was tracking a fast paced Olivia and being smart and tactical of how to respond to the forward assault, he simply rolled to the right and dodged the attack.

"Dem'adas, your challenge is dismissed. Now stand down," Vilaz said as he held his assault rifle with slugs ready to be unloaded.

He wasn't afraid to lose the mantle nor was he greedy of it. If someone were to strip it from him fair and square and have a great, then he would follow them. Someone like Olivia he would not follow. Every proven Mandalorian had the right to lead the Sons and Daughters of Mandalore if done with honor. Traits that Olivia lacked in.

[member="Olivia Dem'adas"]
 

HK-36

The Iron Lord Protector (Neutral Good)
[member="Vilaz Munin"],

After a moment of silence looking around the gathering to check their reaction as in the end Vilaz denied Olivia her challenge, the droid raised his hand,

"Oy, Vilaz!"

He called out to the man, waving the six-fingered limb back and forth slightly,

"If you are not going to fight her then I challenge you to a duel for the title of Mandalore!"

The droid put forth his own claim on the leadership of the Mandalorians and pretty much immediately gave it up by adding,

"I do not care for the rank and I do not want to lead our people, but I want you to prove that you still have a spine and you are still willing to fight for your right to be the One Sole Ruler."

HK would step forward slightly, scanning over Vilaz as his red glowing eyes rested in his direction,

"Show me that you will still fight for the Mandalorian people."
 
Preliat uncrossed his arms as [member="HK-36"] made his claim. He had been quiet, and watchful. He was here for a myriad of reasons, though not one in particular.

"Only a Mandalorian should challenge for the title. You have a connection to the Mando'ade."

Preliat's armored body turned to face the droid. Eyes narrowed. Fists curled. Beskar ground against beskar.

"But you are not one of us. And should not be a contender."
 

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