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[opress]

The adrenaline is worthwhile in life or death. It proves your skills are sharp, but a good spar is also acceptable as a fight.

[Savage went a chilly silent. For some reason, he found that question more invasive than any other. Maybe because he had so little 'his' that the idea of talking about it made it seem like he might have to share.]

I like... putting things together.

[ezra_of_lothal]

[Ezra isn't sure what to make of the long silence. Maybe no more questions for a the moment?]

That's cool. Ship repairs and working on buildings can be pretty satisfying, for me, too.

I think I prefer making things grow, though.

[opress]

I haven't done much ship repairs lately. The robotics seem... less than ideal here.

Are you planning on making kits then?

[ezra_of_lothal]

[It take him several seconds to work out what in the world Savage even means by kits. And then...making them?

Oh. Ohhhhhh.]

Uhhhhhh. N-No. Not on my to do list. I mean, I've helped take care of small babies before, and honestly I miss them. But not in a hurry to make...my own.

I had a garden, where I was before I got here. Think I'm going to start another here, although it'll be harder.

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[Oh. Plants. Dathomir wasn't an agricultural hub of anything, but he supposed other green more proliferative planets would have better opportunities.]

Ah, you do not have a mate. That will come with time if you're strong enough to be considered breedable.

[Don't worry, he knows all about such things. Except he doesnt'. Human courtship seemed overly complicated.]

You're not one of those vegetable people, are you? [Vegetarian was the word he actually was looking for but didn't bother to learn.]

[ezra_of_lothal]

Yeah, no mate. Not really looking for one, either? I guess if I met the right person, but I'm not worried about it.

I...like vegetables?

[opress]

Sometimes you don't get a choice, so watch out.

Oh. No wonder you are small.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Uh. I'm not saying not getting a choice doesn't happen -

Savage. Was that...common, where you're from?

[opress]

Males have no choice. We live, fight and die at the will of the Sisters. They choose mates of the strongest of us, and then they kill us when our purpose is served.

[ezra_of_lothal]

[He knows the Nightsister are Darksiders, and he's felt the Darkness steeped into Dathomir, even with the Nightsisters dead.

He's still stunned silent for a long moment.]

Well. You've been...not there, for a while. How do you feel about all that?

[opress]

How do I feel about not being on the planet I was born and raised on? I hated that place, but it remains my home.

Isn't that how most people feel about their planets?

[ezra_of_lothal]

I..don't know about most. I love Lothal.

I only hated what the Empire did to it.

[opress]

You seem like you love too freely compared to most of the people I have spoken to.

What did the Empire do to it?

[ezra_of_lothal]

There's no such thing as loving too freely. Only mistakes made, in action.

The Empire stripped down the local government. Put a governor appointed by the Emperor and a garrison in place. Kicked people out of the homes and off their farms, and push them into shanty towns. Arrested my parents and a bunch of other people for speaking out, and kept them locked up for years and years.

Murdered people for nearly any excuse and called it punishment for treason. Mined out swaths of land, and burned forest, so much the damage could be seen from space. Blockaded it and cut it off from trade. Bombarded the capital city.

I could go on.

[opress]

There is. Like all emotion, if it consumes you, you'll make bad decisions. Love is two-faced with light and dark energies. Love makes people stupid.

[As he had been for loving his brothers, and still remained stupid in his own way for continuing to love his elder brother deeply despite knowing the loss of his younger one. Love was a blight, but he freely accepted it for Maul.]

Why didn't the people stop the Empire? Were they too frightened or unskilled?

[ezra_of_lothal]

Any emotion can become attachment. Yes, sure. To love wisely and compassionately takes discipline. But the Jedi way is to strive to be able to offer that to anyone.

People were both scared and not used to fighting.

[opress]

To the Jedi, I'm a monster. Yet they are as bad as we are with their child soldiers. They don't love wisely or compassionately. They are about control.

If they aren't willing to defend what is theirs, they have no right to keep it from someone or something willing to take it from them.

[ezra_of_lothal]

I'm a Jedi. Do I treat you like a monster? Does Master Kenobi?

And you do realize Darth Sidious set up the entire war, right? That he orchestrated things so he was the one giving orders made in bad faith?

[opress]

No, but you haven't watched me kill clones, Jedi and droids either. You might treat me differently if you saw me in my element. [There was a snort.] He did, yes. Now he seems to have decided to pry me away from my loyalty to my brother, but he's given up on that lately so perhaps he's realized I'm nothing more than a monster and a lost cause.

[He didn't muster much in the way of care. What the Jedi did were their business, and it seemed they had their hands full with Skywalker.]

It wouldn't surprise me, no. He's a Sith, and he was playing the long game to destroy his enemies and consolidate power. But if people don't fight, what they have will be taken from them.

[ezra_of_lothal]

If I see you hurting and killing people, just because you can, then yes, I will try to stop you. I might speak in anger, because anger is natural, and I'm far from perfect.

But my intention would be protecting people. Which is what the Jedi were doing, in the war. Not control.

You control your actions.

[opress]

I kill because I am ordered to, I need to eat, or someone annoyed me enough to earn it.

[He enjoyed fighting and winning, but he actually wasn't particularly interested in killing just because.]

War Generals are not protectors. They are warriors designed to minimize causalities, but they still kill and destroy.

I do.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Civilians were being killed, in masse, by the Separatist army. In a war, that, again, Palpatine had set up to be the only real winner. He had the clone army created, to be a trap, although the Jedi didn't know that. He wanted them to take command.

What, exactly, was the Order supposed to do? If they did nothing, people still died.

[opress]

Sifo-Dyas of the Jedi commissioned the clone army once the Sith were revealed to exist.

[That had been drilled into his head by Darth Tyranus during one of his history lessons.]

Jedi weren't peacekeepers but soldiers same as the clones they commanded.

And even when they did something, people still died. And they died right along with them.

[ezra_of_lothal]

There's some evidence Sifo-Dyas was involved, yes. One Jedi. Maybe. Master Kenobi and I talked about it. Palpatine was definitely involved. The clones have chips in their heads, with orders. The plan is - was- in my time, for Palaptine to use those to take away the clone's free will and have them turn on the Jedi. I've seen evidence these chips exist, for myself. It makes no sense for them to work that way, if the Jedi really were in charge of their creation.

The Council and the rest of the Order didn't know about the clones until the war was breaking out. The Order wasn't perfect, because nothing is, but it did what it could to keep peace for a thousand years. Until Dooku was on one side. Palpatine on the other. Making sure there was a war.

[opress]

[Chips in their heads? He'd never heard of that, but it didn't matter to him either. The clones died just the same with or without these chips.]

Clones had no free will to begin with. They were bred and born to be soldiers. They were slaves with or without chips.

[Though, even he could admit the brilliance of the plan that his Master had only subtly hinted at. Building an army, let it get battle-hardened and then turn it on the very masters they served.

Huh.

Oh.

He'd done that. Sort of. When he turned on his Master and then again on Ventress in the span of a few minutes.]

Darth Tyranus had his own plans in play, but I heard he died too. He wasn't the worst Master.