Welcome back, my beautiful freaks, to Sean's Workshop! It's time to continue Mamine's tale!
Mamine stood in the training area watching her Padawan and her boyfriend train in lightsaber combat. It turned out that Arcann's Niman was still sloppy and Suthazi still needed further training in both Soresu, her preferred style, and Ataru, the style Mamine was teaching the Padawan so she would have avenues of attack. Training was cut short by a droid informing Mamine of a message in the war room. It turned out to be Krex General Ardinondu Dipolus Daeruun of
the Republic army. General Daeruun wanted to talk to Mamine about the
Jedi, and how the Republic needed them, and Mamine mentioned that, outside her Alliance, she hadn't seen or heard from any Jedi in a while. Daeruun said she wasn't alone in that fact,
and mentioned that there was a colony of Jedi on the former library
world of Ossus, and asked Mamine to assist them in their evacuations.
Mamine, along with Suthazi, took a shuttle to Ossus and were immediately met by two faces Mamine
recognized; Nadia Grell, now full Knight of the Order, and her former lover and
friend Doc Kimble. Doc, so happy to see whom he perceived to be the
greatest Jedi warrior ever, told everyone that they should call the
evacuation off, but Nadia and Gnost-Dural, former keeper of the Jedi
archives, still stressed the need to evacuate. After a brief moment to
catch up with Doc, who told Mamine that he didn't know where Kira was, Mamine was met by a familiar looking dark skinned human, though she
couldn't place from where. The human was Tau Idair, another powerful
Jedi warrior, who unfortunately felt that her prowess in battle made her
a less than stellar Jedi.
Gnost-Dural had Mamine and Suthazi take Tau and go out into the mountains and close off
some passages to prevent genetically modified geonosians from hampering
their escape. And it was during this that Tau revealed why she looked
familiar to Mamine; during the previous war, she had served in Mamine's
Jedi Army on Corellia. She was likely still a Padawan at the time and
her first battle left her mentally traumatized; a Sith jumped aboard her
transport and slew her companions in quick
succession with his two lightsabers. Tau killed the Sith in brutal
fashion, using her bare hands to beat him when he turned on the pilot,
then pushing him out of the ship with his grenade in his mouth.
Mamine understood being traumatized by battle. After extensive meditation, Mamine realized that the first time she saw blood that wasn't her own was a group of hunters being slaughtered by kiltiks during a giant horned hopper hunt; Mamine's first hunt. She was the only survivor out of that group, having killed the kiltiks with her claws and fangs, and this left a mark on Mamine. But instead of it haunting her, Mamine became obsessed with bloodshed, likely a quirk of her unique condition, and descended into the Dark Side before her exile by her people.
During the mission to evacuate the Jedi, Mamine and Suthazi discovered how they had
managed to create viable farms on a world as toxic as Ossus. Ossus had
been devastated by the Cron Supernova a little over 300 years earlier,
and that data could help the Republic create more efficient farms on
many other member worlds. They, and Tau aided Nadia in protecting a droid
trying to download the information, and Nadia returned to the colony to
finish the evacuation.
They were also part of a discussion between Gnost-Dural and Tau about Tau taking on a Padawan, where Gnost-Dural talking about how all the things that Tau thought made her a bad Jedi were actually the very experiences that made her wise, a sentiment that Mamine echoed; teaching Suthazi had reinforced lessons that Mamine had thought she had forgotten.
Eventually, they made it to the Library, which was full of Imperials.
Fighting their way through them, they found a heavily injured
Gnost-Dural and a crazed Sith woman ranting about the mess made of the
library. Mamine and Tau engaged the Sith, while Suthazi did what she could to stabilize Gnost-Dural with her medpacks and meager healing talents. After the battle, the Sith, Darth Malora, revealed that Darth
Malgus still lived, a fact that Mamine balked at; Malgus was dead. She nearly tore him apart with her claws over the Battle of Ilum. Malora mocked Mamine, saying that the
death didn't take, only for the sound of fighters and bombers to scream
outside them. Luckily, Daeruun managed to deploy fighters onto the
scene, saving the colony and sending Malgus' shuttle to the ground.
After capturing Malora, Mamine, Suthazi and Tau returned to the colony to find
that Doc had treated Gnost-Dural and Daeruun had landed to take control
of the situation. The colony would still be evacuated, and a small
contingent would be left behind to ensure that the Imperials couldn't
get anything from the computers, but that was it. Tau announced that
the Jedi would be rejoining the Republic, and Doc chose to join Mamine's
Alliance.
Once on Odessen, Mamine talked to Doc to find out what he'd been up to;
he followed Kira and Scourge for a while before they got separated. And
that was when he heard about the Ossus colony needed a doctor, and Doc
got right into things. And it was that moment that Arcann made his way into the cantina, forcing Mamine to introduce her old lover to her bondmate. It was as awkward as Mamine thought it would be, but eventually, Doc said that if Arcann made Mamine happy, then it made him happy, a marked improvement over his anger years ago. Mamine saw this as a good sign that they were all becoming better people.
And that's it for the Rise of Mamine sequel, Mamine at War. Stay tuned for Onslaught Part 1.
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