|| in my head , after malachor and being exiled , she just partied , lived a wandering life of nothingness and chased after day to day fulfillment in an attempt to numb the guilt
that you accept your part in tearing from me my very soul and called it duty. along with the souls of all those we ferried.
free choice ... how can we say this too all those that had their choice twisted ? shrouded in darkness ? did malachor v have a choice ?
(She looks at her for a long moment)
What do you want to hear from me? That I'm sorry? That it is all my fault? That I forced you to all that? That you would be much happier and better without me around?
Is that what you wish to hear, Meetra?
we can't change what happened , no. we are stuck with that choice. that doesn't mean we have to think it was the right one , though. or to pretend - letting us justify any act of barbarity in the future.
yes. we made that choice. now we choose if we accept our guilt in it.
(Long sigh.)
Whatever our views are on this...we both cannot change what happened.
I wish Malachor V wouldn't be...this destroyed, but it is now.
We all made our choices.
then that should've been what we did.
what we did was the worst possible thing we could have done. no , we saw the worst possible option we could use and we used it. an easy way to go about it. we used our strategic thinking for a direct win. we traded our souls for infamy.
That would have taken longer, only prolonged this campaign of Mand'alor.
What we did was the best we could at the time, Meetra. All other choices would have allowed the Mandalorians to make things worse...or would have made us worse.
necessary ? we could have , failing all else , simply fought them in the same way as we had been and achieved your sought after military victory. we didn't have to do what we did.
i'm not bitter. i'm aware.
we lost. simply put.
a tactical and strategic blow , a political victory does not equal winning when the price you pay outweighs it.
we ripped a hole into the force itself. we are not peace makers. we are monsters. i'm just the only one apparently willing to admit it.
Meetra. Honey. My dear Meetra...
We won. We saved so many lives. We defeated the Mandalorians and stopped their crusade.
No price is too high for such victory. We were saviors, heroes. You are a hero, Meetra.