Post by Vasemmasti on Sept 27, 2011 14:56:29 GMT -5
Faction: Mandalorian
Department: Navy
Rank: Petty Office 2nd Class
Name: Karios Varnak
Race: Human
Age: 28
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 184 lbs
Birth place: Commenor
Appearance: Karios wears blue Neo-Crusader armor passed down from his father. He is of about average height for a human at 5 feet and 9 inches. He is fair-skinned and fairly muscular, though it hardly ever shows due to his armor. He has a heavy blaster in a holster by his right hip. By his left hip, he keeps a sword in a sheath.
Karios is a man in the prime of his life, sporting a barely noticeable beard, mostly the result of shaving just a little too seldom. His hair is a very dark shade of brown, almost black, and cut fairly short despite its general bushiness. However, due to his frequent wearing of a neo-crusader armor helmet, his hair is most often matted down in an irregular wave pattern.
His face is short and angled, somewhat boxy, while his chin matches the image with a rough appearance, somewhere opposite of a glass jaw. His nose is also sharply angular and pointed, matching with the rest of his face. He has a thin mouth, and green, slanted eyes. His facial features in general make him look rather sharp and tough.
Personality: Karios has been thoroughly raised a mandalorian. He finds honor and glory in battle against worthy foes, but he is much like his father in that he is willing to let his personal pursuit for glory slip for the benefit of mandalorian society as a whole. He is, above all, loyal, both to the mandalorians as a whole, and to his family, even after their deaths.
While generally clever and possessing of respectable capability to learn, Karios can do some downright stupid and thoughtless things when shocked or angered, and he lacks the ability to really push things aside. His wrath is a hindrance to himself, and his mind only works when calmed. When provoked, he has a tendency to charge into action headlong, regardless of the potential consequences of his actions, leaving him somewhat unreliable in a true crisis. However, when not provoked, he is about as adept tactically as the average military sergeant.
While his stupidity when provoked is his greatest flaw, he is rarely provoked by mere taunts, though he does have a psychological weak point in his dead parents. He can also think clearly about grudges and long-time targets of his hate, his judgement is simply clouded in momentary anger.
He is typically cordial to people he views as worthy of respect or honorable, but disdainful and venomous to those he views as cowardly, in particular if they are supposed to be warriors. He would be willing to let noncombatants get on with their lives even in an invasion, even if he does not think that they are particularly deserving of respect.
Apart from his concepts of honor, he is a rather friendly, outgoing and fun guy as long as you're not on the other side of a battle he is in. Sometimes even then, if his opponent fits his ideals of a worthy opponent.
Skills: Mechanics (mostly starship and weapon systems), excavation (Archeology, ruins, searching relics) and mandalorian combat styles.
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 6
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 5
Leadership: 5
Unarmed: 6
Melee Weapons: 6
Ranged Weapons: 6
Alignment: 0
Bio: After the treaty that broke the mandalorians as a group, many mandalorians had to leave their clans and head for other planets to work as mercenaries, bounty hunters, or whatever else struck their fancy. Karios' father, Arkos was no exception. When clan Varnak disbanded, Arkos took his ship and left, moving on to work as a relic hunter and a mercenary. This led to him traveling from world to world, amassing wealth and waiting for a chance for the mandalorians to return to power.
In one of his travels, he met Lima, a mandalorian woman working alongside him. They connected very well, having similar aspirations and ideals. However, while most people with similar goals would simply become friends or allies, Arkos and Lima had a different spark. They fell in love, and eventually settled on Commenor for the first few years of Karios' life.
Lime and Arkos were, by most standards, rather rich. Both were capable warriors who could command high pay rates as mercenaries, and while they did not have much material possessions, they had an impressive amount of credits and investments between them. Thus, when they left Commenor with the 4-year old Karios, they largely stopped taking work as a mercenary, instead choosing to take up relic hunting as a primary profession. This fit their interests more, and they believed that by locating the war-machines of old, they could aid the eventual restoration of the mandalorian culture. They sold everything else they found on the side.
Such values were naturally passed on to their son. Karios was raised a mandalorian, and as soon as he could, he took part in their work. He was quite close to his father, who, according to the tenets of mandalorian culture, was to handle most of his upbringing. Karios was thus raised a mandalorian. However, while in mandalorian society, any education could be found within the society, mandalorian society didn't exist in organized form during Karios' childhood. He was sent to school to learn "something useful" as his father put it. He chose mechanics, chiefly those of starships. However, once he was done, he was once again taken on the family's salvage hunts.
As a result of his work, Karios was not only raised as a warrior, but he was also put to work with the machines gathered from old battlegrounds and ancient caches. This eventually taught him the skills to handle old technology, maintain it and repair it, as well as the skills to search places without disturbing them. There was surprising diligence to be found in the young and brash mandalorian warrior.
They continued working as Karios approached his prime, though his parents were growing old already. Karios was a child born late in his parents' lives, and when he was 20, his father was already 65, and his mother 62. Their age was beginning to show, though they didn't want to let it. They were mandalorians. A mandalorian did not stop fighting for petty concerns such as age. His father was not ready to admit that he was an old man, and his mother was not ready to admit that she was an old woman. But Karios worried. Their twilight years were not kind to them. Perhaps a lifetime of battle had simply spent them, and they would not do much more. However, they would have never admitted that.
So they moved on. Eventually, the family made its way to Cathar to obtain the remains of the old mandalorian war effort that left the populace destroyed. They began scouring the surface, but did not find much more than beetles. However, Lima found an old, shot down starship that had likely crashed on the surface of Cathar in the early stages of the invasion. She went to check out the wreckage herself without realizing that an underground kiltik hive was nearby, and her hearing wasn't as sharp as it used to be. She was slain by a beast striking from below, seeing it coming just a second too late. Arkos and Karios went to search for her, but the only thing they could do was bring her body back from the wreckage for cremation.
Arkos became more quiet for a while after that, and Karios suspected that he would have cried were it not for his desire to seem more like a real male rolemodel for his son. Eventually, he realized that while he had lost the love of his life, he still had their child who he should cherish all the more after her death. In the end, the ordeal had served to make father and son closer.
But life would go on, and the two Varnaks would reach many destinations yet. They periodically returned to Mandalore, both to stash away the old weapons of war they had found, and to pay their respects at Lima's grave. They were both waiting for the mandalorians' return to power, and they were both preparing, and though they did not know it yet, it would only be a few years until the crusade was reinstated.
Following a rumor, they set off to Dxun, hoping to find weapons abandoned from the mandalorian wars to fuel a new crusade. While Dxunian climate would degrade many weapons, Arkos and Karios were confident that they could get functional items out of them still. They found an old military base that still had weapons in it, though many of them had stopped working over the years. They split up in the base, Arkos moving onward through the base with Karios stayed behind to inspect the weapons to see how many of them were in good enough shape to be repaired. However, they were not alone in the military base ruins. An opportunistic group of space pirates had landed and was now trying to strip clean the ruins, unaware of the two mandalorians searching the same base from the other end. That is, until Arkos ran into them. They had thought they could threaten a mandalorian for his salvage 6 to 1. The pirates had blaster pistols. Arkos had Beskar'gam. Hearing gunfire, Karios rushed to his father's aid. 2 mandalorians against 6 pirate scum. It should've been a foregone conclusion, and it seemed like it until the pirates got help. 2 more came to the scene with a small mass-driver cannon. Arkos was hit, and while the simple slug could not penetrate his armor, it delivered nearly its full force through the armor, leaving him with severe internal damage.
Karios killed the rest, but Arkos could not be saved. He died of internal bleeding, and while Arkos assured that his life had ended like that of a mandalorian should, but Karios didn't really accept it. Space pirates were not worthy foes. They were honorless dogs who only cared for themselves, the sort who would happily stab each other in the back for a few measly credits, only working together because they had to. But it was too late for Arkos, Karios could only cremate his father and continue their work. The pirates he left for the cannoks. It was only fitting. He then made his way back to the spaceship, but ran into a pack of cannoks on the way. He fought them off, but one of them ate his blaster, necessitating that he fix one of the old blasters he had found for his personal use.
He gathered what he could into the spaceship, an old Mark I KPX freighter, and assumed his father's armor. It was of neo-crusader style, and far older than even his father, who was 70 when he died. As his son, it was his job to continue his work, though without the expertise and connections of his father, Karios couldn't do nearly as well as a salvager.
Then the new Mandalore appeared, rallying the scattered mandalorians. Karios was quick to answer the call, and flew to the planet of Mandalore. Those of the Varnak clan that had distinguished themselves as mercenaries during the fragmented times gravitated towards leading position, while people like Karios started from the ground up. His first act as a true Varnak clan member was to donate the contents of their weapon stash to the clan, as his father would have done, also obtaining a new sword from a clan Varnak weaponsmith.
He joined the new mandalorian crusade as a starship mechanic, participating in the reclaiming of Shogun and Concord Dawn, though mostly from space. In general, he has not seen much battle from his position as a mechanic, especially since the battles he participated in were not much of a challenge for the mandalorians.
Still, despite having not seen much real combat, he has managed to gain a fair bit of appreciation among the mandalores due to his skills as a mechanic, skills that are very valuable to any fighting force in space.
Password: Bylgia
RP Sample: "How has even half of this survived?" Karios muttered, examining an old heavy blaster he had found in the old decrepit military base in Dxun he and his father had been searching through.
Most of the weapons had long since deteriorated to complete uselessness, even as parts, but this one still had functional parts. It would actually be more efficient to fix this one than to make a new blaster.
He heard sounds. His father and him had recently split up in the complex, Karios staying to examine the weapons they had found while Arkos explored further. The sounds were those of blaster fire, and they came from where Arkos had headed to. While he figured that his father could handle most threats that might come their way, he was still an old man who was too proud to admit that someone might best him. Karios had best go help.
He dropped the blaster, figuring he could come collect it later and stood up. He started hustling to where the sounds came from, but he had to stop to listen every once in a while to not take the wrong turn. The blaster sounds were getting stronger, but there were too many for them to have been caused by just his father. They had company.
His suspicions were confirmed when he reached a courtyard on the other end of the complex. His father was there, fighting what used to be a total of 6 pirates. Now there were only 3 still standing. None of them were using blasters anymore. His father had somehow been disarmed, and the pirates had holstered their blasters. They probably couldn't even penetrate mandalorian armor.
A pirate tried to cut him with a vibroblade, only to get parried by his armored wristplates. While a vibroblade could cause immense damage even with glancing blows, mandalorian iron was not easily sundered. Arkos managed to throw the pirate a fair distance by his arms, but he remained on his feet, and another pirate surprised him. Managing to bend his arms behind his back. Arkos was already trying to throw the pirate behind him over his back when the one with a vibroblade charged again, trying to strike a proper blow into the elderly mandalorian. Such a strike might have even penetrated his armor, if Karios had not stepped in.
He shot the mandalorian mid strike as Arkos threw the pirate holding over him in a neat flip, stomping on his chest immediately afterwards. There was only one more pirate left. "Shouldn't have challenged a mando, eh?" Karios noted, laughing immediately afterwards. He pointed his blaster at the last pirate. He was about to shoot when he noticed something coming from another building with a door to the courtyard. Another two pirates.. carrying a mass driver cannon. Arkos picked up his blaster and aimed as the two pirates set the cannon down.
Too late did Arkos realize that he was the target. The cannon was fired, and although he tried to evade it, even a slugthrower projectile was too fast to dodge once it had been launched. His blaster shot went wide and the pellet classified as light artillery smashed into his gut, sending him flying several meters. A deteriorated starfighter broke his flight, and he wound up slumped against it.
Karios charged, running straight at the two men by the cannon, ignoring the blaster bolt fired by the third pirate that was nullified by his armor. He shot one of the men by the cannons as the other drew a blaster, only to be tackled by Karios.
The battle was over quickly. 2 pirates were no match for an armored mandalorian. With the immediate threat over, Karios rushed to his father's aid. His father tried to seem like he was fine, but the injuries could still be heard, just in his voice. People on the verge of death had a tendency to show it.
"That was a dumb move, son." He spoke, his voice slightly raspy. "Think of what would've happened if they were real opponents." Karios shook his head. His father chose this time to dole out tactical advice? "Nevermind that, lets just get you back to the ship. Can you walk?" He was deceiving himself. People hit by artillery rounds did not live long. Still, his father wouldn't admit it either.
"Look, no, I'll just rest here for a bit." His father answered, and closed his eyes, as Karios could see through the visor. "Father?" He waited for an answer. He got none. He tried, and his father wouldn't respond. He wouldn't, because when he closed his eyes, he drifted away. His father was never one to let his troubles show, and it persisted to the moment of his death.
A warrior was not supposed to cry. Neither was a man, or a mandalorian. But sometimes, you couldn't help it. He cried at his loss, he cried at the absurdity of it all. How those that could not defeat them while outnumbering him and his father 4 to 1 could still take his father's life. It wasn't within his capacity to accept.
But he would. He had to.
Department: Navy
Rank: Petty Office 2nd Class
Name: Karios Varnak
Race: Human
Age: 28
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 184 lbs
Birth place: Commenor
Appearance: Karios wears blue Neo-Crusader armor passed down from his father. He is of about average height for a human at 5 feet and 9 inches. He is fair-skinned and fairly muscular, though it hardly ever shows due to his armor. He has a heavy blaster in a holster by his right hip. By his left hip, he keeps a sword in a sheath.
Karios is a man in the prime of his life, sporting a barely noticeable beard, mostly the result of shaving just a little too seldom. His hair is a very dark shade of brown, almost black, and cut fairly short despite its general bushiness. However, due to his frequent wearing of a neo-crusader armor helmet, his hair is most often matted down in an irregular wave pattern.
His face is short and angled, somewhat boxy, while his chin matches the image with a rough appearance, somewhere opposite of a glass jaw. His nose is also sharply angular and pointed, matching with the rest of his face. He has a thin mouth, and green, slanted eyes. His facial features in general make him look rather sharp and tough.
Personality: Karios has been thoroughly raised a mandalorian. He finds honor and glory in battle against worthy foes, but he is much like his father in that he is willing to let his personal pursuit for glory slip for the benefit of mandalorian society as a whole. He is, above all, loyal, both to the mandalorians as a whole, and to his family, even after their deaths.
While generally clever and possessing of respectable capability to learn, Karios can do some downright stupid and thoughtless things when shocked or angered, and he lacks the ability to really push things aside. His wrath is a hindrance to himself, and his mind only works when calmed. When provoked, he has a tendency to charge into action headlong, regardless of the potential consequences of his actions, leaving him somewhat unreliable in a true crisis. However, when not provoked, he is about as adept tactically as the average military sergeant.
While his stupidity when provoked is his greatest flaw, he is rarely provoked by mere taunts, though he does have a psychological weak point in his dead parents. He can also think clearly about grudges and long-time targets of his hate, his judgement is simply clouded in momentary anger.
He is typically cordial to people he views as worthy of respect or honorable, but disdainful and venomous to those he views as cowardly, in particular if they are supposed to be warriors. He would be willing to let noncombatants get on with their lives even in an invasion, even if he does not think that they are particularly deserving of respect.
Apart from his concepts of honor, he is a rather friendly, outgoing and fun guy as long as you're not on the other side of a battle he is in. Sometimes even then, if his opponent fits his ideals of a worthy opponent.
Skills: Mechanics (mostly starship and weapon systems), excavation (Archeology, ruins, searching relics) and mandalorian combat styles.
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 6
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 5
Leadership: 5
Unarmed: 6
Melee Weapons: 6
Ranged Weapons: 6
Alignment: 0
Bio: After the treaty that broke the mandalorians as a group, many mandalorians had to leave their clans and head for other planets to work as mercenaries, bounty hunters, or whatever else struck their fancy. Karios' father, Arkos was no exception. When clan Varnak disbanded, Arkos took his ship and left, moving on to work as a relic hunter and a mercenary. This led to him traveling from world to world, amassing wealth and waiting for a chance for the mandalorians to return to power.
In one of his travels, he met Lima, a mandalorian woman working alongside him. They connected very well, having similar aspirations and ideals. However, while most people with similar goals would simply become friends or allies, Arkos and Lima had a different spark. They fell in love, and eventually settled on Commenor for the first few years of Karios' life.
Lime and Arkos were, by most standards, rather rich. Both were capable warriors who could command high pay rates as mercenaries, and while they did not have much material possessions, they had an impressive amount of credits and investments between them. Thus, when they left Commenor with the 4-year old Karios, they largely stopped taking work as a mercenary, instead choosing to take up relic hunting as a primary profession. This fit their interests more, and they believed that by locating the war-machines of old, they could aid the eventual restoration of the mandalorian culture. They sold everything else they found on the side.
Such values were naturally passed on to their son. Karios was raised a mandalorian, and as soon as he could, he took part in their work. He was quite close to his father, who, according to the tenets of mandalorian culture, was to handle most of his upbringing. Karios was thus raised a mandalorian. However, while in mandalorian society, any education could be found within the society, mandalorian society didn't exist in organized form during Karios' childhood. He was sent to school to learn "something useful" as his father put it. He chose mechanics, chiefly those of starships. However, once he was done, he was once again taken on the family's salvage hunts.
As a result of his work, Karios was not only raised as a warrior, but he was also put to work with the machines gathered from old battlegrounds and ancient caches. This eventually taught him the skills to handle old technology, maintain it and repair it, as well as the skills to search places without disturbing them. There was surprising diligence to be found in the young and brash mandalorian warrior.
They continued working as Karios approached his prime, though his parents were growing old already. Karios was a child born late in his parents' lives, and when he was 20, his father was already 65, and his mother 62. Their age was beginning to show, though they didn't want to let it. They were mandalorians. A mandalorian did not stop fighting for petty concerns such as age. His father was not ready to admit that he was an old man, and his mother was not ready to admit that she was an old woman. But Karios worried. Their twilight years were not kind to them. Perhaps a lifetime of battle had simply spent them, and they would not do much more. However, they would have never admitted that.
So they moved on. Eventually, the family made its way to Cathar to obtain the remains of the old mandalorian war effort that left the populace destroyed. They began scouring the surface, but did not find much more than beetles. However, Lima found an old, shot down starship that had likely crashed on the surface of Cathar in the early stages of the invasion. She went to check out the wreckage herself without realizing that an underground kiltik hive was nearby, and her hearing wasn't as sharp as it used to be. She was slain by a beast striking from below, seeing it coming just a second too late. Arkos and Karios went to search for her, but the only thing they could do was bring her body back from the wreckage for cremation.
Arkos became more quiet for a while after that, and Karios suspected that he would have cried were it not for his desire to seem more like a real male rolemodel for his son. Eventually, he realized that while he had lost the love of his life, he still had their child who he should cherish all the more after her death. In the end, the ordeal had served to make father and son closer.
But life would go on, and the two Varnaks would reach many destinations yet. They periodically returned to Mandalore, both to stash away the old weapons of war they had found, and to pay their respects at Lima's grave. They were both waiting for the mandalorians' return to power, and they were both preparing, and though they did not know it yet, it would only be a few years until the crusade was reinstated.
Following a rumor, they set off to Dxun, hoping to find weapons abandoned from the mandalorian wars to fuel a new crusade. While Dxunian climate would degrade many weapons, Arkos and Karios were confident that they could get functional items out of them still. They found an old military base that still had weapons in it, though many of them had stopped working over the years. They split up in the base, Arkos moving onward through the base with Karios stayed behind to inspect the weapons to see how many of them were in good enough shape to be repaired. However, they were not alone in the military base ruins. An opportunistic group of space pirates had landed and was now trying to strip clean the ruins, unaware of the two mandalorians searching the same base from the other end. That is, until Arkos ran into them. They had thought they could threaten a mandalorian for his salvage 6 to 1. The pirates had blaster pistols. Arkos had Beskar'gam. Hearing gunfire, Karios rushed to his father's aid. 2 mandalorians against 6 pirate scum. It should've been a foregone conclusion, and it seemed like it until the pirates got help. 2 more came to the scene with a small mass-driver cannon. Arkos was hit, and while the simple slug could not penetrate his armor, it delivered nearly its full force through the armor, leaving him with severe internal damage.
Karios killed the rest, but Arkos could not be saved. He died of internal bleeding, and while Arkos assured that his life had ended like that of a mandalorian should, but Karios didn't really accept it. Space pirates were not worthy foes. They were honorless dogs who only cared for themselves, the sort who would happily stab each other in the back for a few measly credits, only working together because they had to. But it was too late for Arkos, Karios could only cremate his father and continue their work. The pirates he left for the cannoks. It was only fitting. He then made his way back to the spaceship, but ran into a pack of cannoks on the way. He fought them off, but one of them ate his blaster, necessitating that he fix one of the old blasters he had found for his personal use.
He gathered what he could into the spaceship, an old Mark I KPX freighter, and assumed his father's armor. It was of neo-crusader style, and far older than even his father, who was 70 when he died. As his son, it was his job to continue his work, though without the expertise and connections of his father, Karios couldn't do nearly as well as a salvager.
Then the new Mandalore appeared, rallying the scattered mandalorians. Karios was quick to answer the call, and flew to the planet of Mandalore. Those of the Varnak clan that had distinguished themselves as mercenaries during the fragmented times gravitated towards leading position, while people like Karios started from the ground up. His first act as a true Varnak clan member was to donate the contents of their weapon stash to the clan, as his father would have done, also obtaining a new sword from a clan Varnak weaponsmith.
He joined the new mandalorian crusade as a starship mechanic, participating in the reclaiming of Shogun and Concord Dawn, though mostly from space. In general, he has not seen much battle from his position as a mechanic, especially since the battles he participated in were not much of a challenge for the mandalorians.
Still, despite having not seen much real combat, he has managed to gain a fair bit of appreciation among the mandalores due to his skills as a mechanic, skills that are very valuable to any fighting force in space.
Password: Bylgia
RP Sample: "How has even half of this survived?" Karios muttered, examining an old heavy blaster he had found in the old decrepit military base in Dxun he and his father had been searching through.
Most of the weapons had long since deteriorated to complete uselessness, even as parts, but this one still had functional parts. It would actually be more efficient to fix this one than to make a new blaster.
He heard sounds. His father and him had recently split up in the complex, Karios staying to examine the weapons they had found while Arkos explored further. The sounds were those of blaster fire, and they came from where Arkos had headed to. While he figured that his father could handle most threats that might come their way, he was still an old man who was too proud to admit that someone might best him. Karios had best go help.
He dropped the blaster, figuring he could come collect it later and stood up. He started hustling to where the sounds came from, but he had to stop to listen every once in a while to not take the wrong turn. The blaster sounds were getting stronger, but there were too many for them to have been caused by just his father. They had company.
His suspicions were confirmed when he reached a courtyard on the other end of the complex. His father was there, fighting what used to be a total of 6 pirates. Now there were only 3 still standing. None of them were using blasters anymore. His father had somehow been disarmed, and the pirates had holstered their blasters. They probably couldn't even penetrate mandalorian armor.
A pirate tried to cut him with a vibroblade, only to get parried by his armored wristplates. While a vibroblade could cause immense damage even with glancing blows, mandalorian iron was not easily sundered. Arkos managed to throw the pirate a fair distance by his arms, but he remained on his feet, and another pirate surprised him. Managing to bend his arms behind his back. Arkos was already trying to throw the pirate behind him over his back when the one with a vibroblade charged again, trying to strike a proper blow into the elderly mandalorian. Such a strike might have even penetrated his armor, if Karios had not stepped in.
He shot the mandalorian mid strike as Arkos threw the pirate holding over him in a neat flip, stomping on his chest immediately afterwards. There was only one more pirate left. "Shouldn't have challenged a mando, eh?" Karios noted, laughing immediately afterwards. He pointed his blaster at the last pirate. He was about to shoot when he noticed something coming from another building with a door to the courtyard. Another two pirates.. carrying a mass driver cannon. Arkos picked up his blaster and aimed as the two pirates set the cannon down.
Too late did Arkos realize that he was the target. The cannon was fired, and although he tried to evade it, even a slugthrower projectile was too fast to dodge once it had been launched. His blaster shot went wide and the pellet classified as light artillery smashed into his gut, sending him flying several meters. A deteriorated starfighter broke his flight, and he wound up slumped against it.
Karios charged, running straight at the two men by the cannon, ignoring the blaster bolt fired by the third pirate that was nullified by his armor. He shot one of the men by the cannons as the other drew a blaster, only to be tackled by Karios.
The battle was over quickly. 2 pirates were no match for an armored mandalorian. With the immediate threat over, Karios rushed to his father's aid. His father tried to seem like he was fine, but the injuries could still be heard, just in his voice. People on the verge of death had a tendency to show it.
"That was a dumb move, son." He spoke, his voice slightly raspy. "Think of what would've happened if they were real opponents." Karios shook his head. His father chose this time to dole out tactical advice? "Nevermind that, lets just get you back to the ship. Can you walk?" He was deceiving himself. People hit by artillery rounds did not live long. Still, his father wouldn't admit it either.
"Look, no, I'll just rest here for a bit." His father answered, and closed his eyes, as Karios could see through the visor. "Father?" He waited for an answer. He got none. He tried, and his father wouldn't respond. He wouldn't, because when he closed his eyes, he drifted away. His father was never one to let his troubles show, and it persisted to the moment of his death.
A warrior was not supposed to cry. Neither was a man, or a mandalorian. But sometimes, you couldn't help it. He cried at his loss, he cried at the absurdity of it all. How those that could not defeat them while outnumbering him and his father 4 to 1 could still take his father's life. It wasn't within his capacity to accept.
But he would. He had to.
