Message to the Universe

[Odan Thos]

Celestial looked up at HK. "All organics are annoying, but I find them so fascinating that I can deal with it. Someday I truly wise to experience life as they do." Celestial walked out of the shop walking down the street next to HK-47. She was not joking around, she did wise she could be an organic. There were curtain events and experiences which she could not understand which seemed to be locked out of reach sense she was a set of one and zeros. She could mathematically explain the Force, but it was something she could never be a part of. She could create life from nothing and yet she did not even truly alive. She could sleep, but she could not dream. It was the complexity of her own existence which she could not escape. She looked up at HK as they walked. "That body does fit you better than it ever did fit me." Celestial said jokingly as they pushed their way through the street.It would not be long before they reached the HoloNet office. Celestial pulled out her blaster and sonic pistol, setting each to stun.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

Hypothesis: Perhaps it is faulty programming that is giving you this feeling.
Observation: You say you wish to live life as they do. The action of wanting or wishing as I've been told is a meatbag quality.

"Are you trying to say she's partly human because she WANTS to be human?" asked Bermfad as they walked along. He stopped for a second as if realizing something and then shrugged. "Makes a sort of sense really."

Statement: Now the meatbag thinks he's clever.

HK turned to Mandalore before speaking again.

Suggestion: Maybe a shot between the eyes would convince him otherwise?

"Are droids set with the program to hate all people called Bermfad?" asked Bermfad wondering why every droid he seemed to meet hated him.

Retort: Negative, however I am programmed to assassinate sub-level meatbags on site.

HK-47 glanced back at Cele once again returning to the previous conversation.

Query: Surely, you do not wish to live life like those watery, squishy meatbags?

Bermfad scoffed lightly as they were almost to the Holonet office. Cele commented upon the body fitting HK-47 and the suit visor changed a slight color and Bermfad caught it.

"Is it possible that you blushed HK?" asked Bermfad as they stopped in front of the Holonet office.

Exclamatory statement: Preposterous! I am an Assassination droid, not a behavior droid. Clearly you know nothing about droids.

"Clearly." stated Bermfad flatly.

"Cut the chatter." said Canderous as he looked at the Holonet office. "So Cele, how are we going to do this. You didn't look keen to have another repeat of what happened at Go-to's place."

[Odan Thos]

Celestial listened to HK and Bermfad. While HK had a point, what they did not understand was the real meaning behind her desires. She knew this was because they had no clue just how old she was and even if they did, they most likely could not wrap their minds around such a timeframe. "Yes, I do desire the existences as an organic HK, and no it is not an error in my programming. You must understand that I grow and adapt different then most programs. I have been around for so long as a program that all I have left is to dream of being something different just for a change." Celestial said on a slight sad note. She was trapped in limbo, no longer am ordinary program but still not alive.

She looked at Canderous as he noticed her pulling out her pistols. "It is not that. You must understand that the HoloNet is maintained by the military, as such this is a military installation. What we about to do is treason, which is punishable by death in almost all cultures." Celestial said. She was not sure just how much Canderous knew about the HoloNet, but its original design was military use. Now civilians can use it, but it still held its original military role also. This meant that the Republic military; or Imperial military now, maintained it for the galaxy.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

"If you grow and adapt then you are already human. You don't need feelings or dreams, to be human. What makes someone human isn't these things, nor is it simply the material your made out of. A true human aspires to be something, and they know what they think is right, and what they think is wrong." said Bermfad, before Cele explained that they'd be breaking into a military building. "Hey, it's not our culture. Besides right now, somethings telling me these imperial guys deserve it."

Bermfad pulled out his two blasters checking them and setting them to a mild setting. HK looked like he was getting ready and his next sentance said as much.

HK: Initiating Assassination protocols.

"They can try to kill Mandalore, I welcome the challenge." said Canderous as if not bothered by the fact. The building appeared to be at least thirty stories tall if not taller. "I'm assuming you can get the schematics of this building in a moment, just let us know what floor we need to get too, and how you want us to go about doing it. We have your back no matter what way you chose."

[Odan Thos]

Celestial smiled. "I already have they general layout. The upper levels are offices with the main military installation on the lower levels. We need to get go down eight levels to a section called HoloNet Mainframe on level B8." Celestial tapped into their communication protocols and uploaded the schematics of the building as she talked. "I can manage the security doors, but here is the problem." The schematic displaying on their hub rotated and zoomed in on floor B3. "This security room and garrison for the facility. They have a small army of battle droids located and a large number of auto deploying turrets. Unfortunately I cannot slice them remotely; they are on a one way close loop system. So our first objective is to get to the Security Room to deactivate the turrets and droids. Once that objective is achieved, it should be fairly easy to get down the last five levels." Celestial had mapped the best routes, alternate routes and marked most of the obstacles on the schematic she had provide her three companions. The data was well formatted to make it easy to read, made possible because she developed a CIC subroutine during her time in the Republic Navy. She stood ready while the rest of them absorbed the information she had projected to their HUBs.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

"Ah, if that's the case lets use the front door." said Canderous as he waltz his way straight up the stairs and inside. Bermfad looked at Cele and HK for a moment before shrugging and following. HK followed soon behind, and when the man at the front desk looked up he looked worried and hovered his hand beneath a button for security. He had heard what had happened to the Renrut building upon Coruscant and since they security had gotten tighter.

"I'm afraid we've lost our way, would you happen to know the way to the Jek Jek Tarr?" asked Canderous, and it took a moment but the man's body language relaxed a bit and his suspicion wasn't as high. Canderous reading his body language made his next move very carefully. There was a quick hand movement below the desk and Bermfad caught it as Canderous put one arm up on the counter, and the other one was held open.

"I'm afraid I don't hang out with places like that sir, but there is an information center around the corner and down two levels. If you have a map on your holopad I can show you." said the clerk, and as Bermfad walked up to Canderous and off to the side he slipped Canderous one of his blasters.

"Oh, that's perfectly fine, I have a map but can't read it very well..." said Canderous as he pulled up his other hand setting it upon the counter and spinning the blaster. He had set the setting to stun, and he stopped the blaster just before the clerk had realized that it wasn't a holopad with a map on it or anything of the store. His look of shock as a stun bolt hit him almost point blank disappeared behind the desk as he fell. Turning to Cele, Mandalore off handily threw Bermfad's blaster back to him.

Disappointed Statement: Why master, you have all the fun. Though I must say, that meatbag didn't see it coming. Shall I terminate him for you?

"No, leave him alive. Cele, I suggest we use his desk to shut off some of the camera systems. Hopefully the rest of them are like this lout, and not paying attention to their screens." Said Canderous as he looked over to HK again. "You say here at the desk, if anyone comes by act like you work here. If they don't believe you then feel free to use any means necessary to subdue them. You two are with me."

Canderous hoped that Cele was done with the Camera's for he wasn't going to stop moving for long, they needed to get down a few floors, well they had two choices. The stairs or the elevator. Mandalore figured they could risk the elevator, if they tried to shut down the system Cele was with them, and they could just climb down if worse came to worse.

"Par te kote Mandalore." spoke Bermfad in his natural Mandalorian language as he wished his had his music for the battles he was about to go into. He followed Mandalore with his blasters drawn, as they waited for the elevator. HK took a position behind the help desk looking like a menacing security droid.

As the elevator dinged, it opened up they saw that no one was within the elevator. They entered the Elevator, and calmly hit the second floor basement button. Standard elevator music started to play furthering Bermfad's notion that the galaxy generally had a poor taste in music.

[Odan Thos]

Celestial hopped over the desk and pulled out a computer plug. She slipped it into her right ear and into the computer terminal. She looked at Canderous. "Give me two minutes. I can do one better then shutting of the cameras." Celestial said as she recorded the images on the cameras of the empty corridors. As she recorded she pulled out a datapad and uploading them and creating an infinite loop. She then plugged the datapad into the system and set it to autorun.

It was at this time that the lift came up and open. She looked at Canderous and shook her head. "You are kidding me right. This is the type of thing I thought Bermfad would do, not you Canderous." She said as she stepped onto the lift and took a deep breath; even though she did not breathe, as she pushed to the back. "If something bad happens and this thing plunges twenty seven floors; HK and I will send your corpse back to Mandalore." Celestial said as the lift started to go down.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

"Actually HK will deactivate." said Canderous as the elevator continued to go down.

"I'm offended, just because I weight more then you doesn't mean I'd bring the elevator down." said Bermfad grinning as the door opened up. Looking at his hud briefly, he saw that the security center was forward down the hall and guarded by a few more hallways with turrets and two sets of battle droids. "What can you expect? Humans are just so unpredictable."

He thought for a moment about adding ladies first however decided against it and instead exited the elevator at a jog. He put one gun back in the holster and drew a handle from his strapped on belt. Two droids came around the corner as he was about to reach it and Bermfad flipped the handle forward and a lightwhip shot out from it slashing the droids in half as they pulled their guns up to shoot. Assorted noises came from the sputtering droids as they fell and clattered to the ground. Bermfad deactivated the whip before it even touched the ground and looked back at them. You could tell he was grinning wide by his posture before rushing off around the corner as more blaster shots went off. Over his com he sent them a message. "If you two love birds don't hurry up I'm going to take this place on all by myself."

Canderous looked to Cele for a moment not saying anything at first and then began to walk slowly down the hall. "He's obsessed with that thing." said Canderous to Cele as he continued to walk forward. He was of course referring to the lightwhip. "He picked it up off a bounty hunter some time ago and has practiced with it enough to wield it like a Jedi. Well whatever suits his fancy. I prefer a blaster."

Bermfad came to the last corridor before the security room, alarm's were going off now, and red light's flashed it seemed they would have to speed things up a bit. The droids that had seen them at first must have been connected to an alarm system wirelessly. He glanced around the corner and saw two odd looking droids with cloaks, red eyes, and a tall staff. Two turrets to either side of them. He took a deep breath holding it as he came around the corner and shot the turrets first for they where the only thing that looked long range from here. He managed to nail the turrets before any substantial damage had been done to him. He had taken a shot that grazed off his armored shoulder and a blast blackening the red line on his armored plate.

The droids themselves had watched this quick volley of fire before deciding to move. One of them tilted their head to the side as if curious, and then long staff's extended from each droids hand and electricity flowed from both ends. Bermfad lifted his blaster and shot at the droids who moved with greater agility then he had predicted dodging aside and one of them threw it's staff straight at Bermfad who dodged aside. The staff impacted the wall behind him and implanted itself straight out. The droids rushed forward with even greater speed, one on it's feet the other one jumped onto the wall crawling on all fours along the wall and then up to the roof.

Bermfad having no time to pick and chose what to aim at flipped his lightwhip on and back out at the one without the staff however his whip met the Phrik staff of the one on the roof who stopped and pulled hard.

"You got to be..." started Bermfad but he was pulled forward right into the other charging droid who had already caught up to Bermfad. It nailed a flying Jump kick to Bermfad who flew straight into it, and then back into the wall with the staff above him. It came forward pulling it's staff from the wall and putting a metal foot upon Bermfad to hold him down. It looked like it was about to try and impale him but heavy blaster fire erupted from the side, as a heavy repeater blasted into the side of the droid. It turned almost instantly giving a shrieking cry of frustration and began to crawl on all fours and constantly move up down, and around the hallway walls. Canderous continued his fire trying to hit the droid as much as possible as it came at him.

"Come on bugger." said Canderous as it continued to get closer, he activated his implant boosting his bodies capabilities, he was assuming Cele would have his back if the droid came too close however he wouldn't take any chances. Meanwhile during this two Droidika mark-II's came rolling out the open door to the security room and deployed from ball mode half way down the hallway, their shields forming a dual barrier over each other. The second original droid which Bermfad spotted an IG upon probably indicating the model, had been busy getting the lightwhip off it's staff. This allowed Bermfad enough time to stand up and charge forward at it Vibroblade cutting through some of the metal of the back of it but not enough to damage the droid completely as it turned spinning around slashing. Bermfad jumped backwards dodging the initial blow and then blocked the staff right before his face with his Vibroblade, the electricity sparking in his face....

[Odan Thos]

Celestial walked out behind Canderous as Bermfad headed down the hall. When Bermfad said they needed to pick up the pace, Celestial replied in turn. "You are the only one that has something to prove kid." Celestial assumed Bermfad understood what she meant. HK and she were not a Mandalorians so they did not need to earn honor in battle, and Mandalore had already earned more honor of ten Mandalorians.

She continued to walk down the hall when Bermfad killed the droids with the lightwipe and the alarms started to go off. She pulled out her disruptor pistol knowing droids would be sent. She also pulled a phrik combat knife. She started to up her tactical subroutines and her ultrasonic mapping system. She moved forward at the same rate as Canderous, focusing not the droid that was attacking Bermfad at the moment, but instead realizing the larger threat to the two Mandalorian’s came from the energy shield of the droid Destroy Droids. She brought the disruptor to aim and fired two rounds into each of the droids in quick succession. Each round stuck in the same place as the previous. This meant the first melted through the armor and the second punched into the central processor. The Destroyer Droids just went lifeless with their brains been destroyed.

She quickly turned her attention to more droids coming down the hall. She switched to her blaster pistol setting it to max. She would need conserve he disruptor shots, incase more Destroyers were deployed. She quickly selected a new target and open fired.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

The droid had sustained multiple shots on it's way to Canderous but was still moving. As it jumped forward Canderous dropped his Heavy repeater finally and grabbed the droids arms as it tried to strike him. His hands where like vices holding the droid in place not allowing it to strike him with the phirk staff it was weilding. Up close the droid looked scortched and falling apart, but he was about to make it look quite a lot worse. Slamming it against the wall he shot a wrist vibroblade through the droid's chest, and pinning it with this blade he sent a second vibroblade into the droid's head where most of the time where the processor was. He had hit both likely spots of where they where in order to take the droid out. With a groan the droid fell limp and Canderous pulled back grabbing his heavy repeater once again and moved for cover up ahead while Bermfad continued his melee with the droid.

Bermfad barely ducked beneath the spinning staff, and rammed his metal shoulder into the droid force it to slide back slightly. It's legs clamping on the ground and making a screeching noise as it rubbed against the metal floor tearing scrap marks into it. Bermfad's vibrosword clashed with the droids as it brought it swiftly up to block but what it wasn't expecting as Bermfad to let his blade loose in his hand and attack with the hilt end instead of the point. He slammed his fists and hilt into the droids face making it stumble backwards. Taking the opertunity presented bermfad lunched catching the droid between the chest and it's legs. He ripped the sharp, vibrating sword out the side sending sparks flying and the droid sprawling to the floor.

"Do you still have that birthday present I gave you?" asked Canderous over open com to Bermfad. He didn't responce right away however as the droid began to crawl away with two hands. Bermfad not wanting to let the droid get away stepped upon the thing weighting it down, it was still trying to get away but was slowed down, and easy prey for Bermfad's vibroblade. He then looked to Mandalore and the droids pooring out down the hallway.

"I think I know which one your talking about, I still have three of them out of the ten you gave me." said Bermfad who pulled a rather curious orb from a side poutch, about the size of a baseball. Whether he did this for dramtic effect or just to throw it as far away as possible he pitched the ball straight down the hallway sailing down the hallway and nailing a droid straight in the chest cuasing a dent. The orb began to tick it's last seconds, while Bermfad sought cover, and to anyone who had seen one before it was a thermol detonator.

[Odan Thos]

Celestial looked at the thermal detonator, calculated its blast radius and took three large steps backwards when it was thrown. Did not find cover because the nature of the Thermal Detonator. Most things outside its blast radius was the limit of its destruction; making it an excellent weapon. She simple shot droids that would be outside the blast radius.

The thermal detonator exploded in a flash, melting and vaporizing the droids in the radius. As the blast collapsed, Celestial took off down the hull at max speed. She turned into a room and shot the operators with her blaster on stun. She then pulled out a computer plug. She simple activated the system shutdown the defenses, locked down all the areas but were they were going, and took down all the communications out of the base other then the HoloNet mainframe. She then shot the council and looked at the Mandalorians. "Okay, let’s go. Resistance should be a minimum now. I however locked down the lifts; that means we use the stairs." She smiled slightly, did not using the lift while in a combat mission. This just seemed too stupid to her, and she would not allow it.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

After the explosion Bermfad rushed around the corner with Mandalore, they however weren't quite as fast as Cele. They where right on her tail however and entered the room as she began to hack the terminal. She shot it probably to keep anyone else from accessing the same one.

"I'm glad your not above breaking a few laws." commented Bermfad sheathing his vibroblade, as well as his lightwhip. "I'm sure destruction of private property is up there, on the list of 'illegal' things we are doing. The worst of which is denying an old man the commodities of an elevator."

Bermfad felt a blow to his back but the armor had absorbed most of the blow, as Canderous walked by. "Good to hear, I'm not much of a spokesperson but I'm eager to get the message out. Unless of course you'd like to make an idiot of yourself and your people instead Bermfad."

"Nope, I'll leave that up to you." commented Bermfad as they headed for the stairs. The stairs spiraled down a few floors and Bermfad checked his hud for a moment before started down them.

"I'll take point." said Bermfad his voice getting serious once again. Things where quite all the way down, and they finally came to the fifth sub-level and entered into it. He opened the door to see droids down the hall lined with turrets which did nothing. "Looks like she has a way of turning off technology. Though she can do that to organic's just as well."

Proceeding forward Canderous looked at Cele for a moment. "Some how I get the feeling he got the bad side of the gene pool." said Canderous smirking underneath his mask before following in after Bermfad who knocked down the droids in the way with a push and then found the door to the holonet and dramatically bowed while opening the door.

[Odan Thos]

Celestial looked at Bermfad. "This is more than destruction of private property; this is destruction of government property." She placed the combat knife back in her boot and kept the one blaster drawn. It did not really matter if it was government property or private property to Celestial. She only followed them not to cause too many problems, but she felt she was above the laws of men.

She followed Canderous to the stares and continued along the way to the HoloNet mainframe. She stood at the door and smiled when Canderous made a comment about Bermfad being from the bad side of the gene pool. "You know, I can fix that. Hell, I could make him a girl if you rather have a granddaughter." Celestial said as she walked into the room.

Inside the room were rows of computers. She walked to the back of the room and pulled out her uplink cable. She slipped on plug into her right ear and the other into the computer port. Her body went ridged as she linked up with the computer system and uploaded her program. In cyberspace she started her work. She started to break down the HoloNet firewalls, taking a few seconds to get the civilian channels, and only about a minute to get military and the remaining channels. From here she sent out two virus; one which was simple cause any computer to connect to the HoloNet to display the message that Mandalore recorded and the second was an override virus. The override simple made every monitor infected with the virus replay the message over and over again. Each virus would be fairly simple to destroy in an hour or so by a good computer programmer, but it meant it would play across the galaxy before that point.

Celestial body came back to life and she unplugged from the computer. She walked out off the room and to a nearby room turning on the monitor. As she flipped through the channels the same message played on every channel. She turned to Canderous and Bermfad. “Damn I am good.” She said with a cocky smile on her face. She leaned up against the wall and looked at the two Mandalorian. “Anything else you boys may need? I can still fix those flawed genes of Bermfad.” She could not help but make a joke. She figured they would simple head up and then go their separate ways. She may have had a superb ability for logistics and even command; she was not a Mandalorians.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

Bermfad crossed his arms for a moment after Cele's comment. She entered the room, and the two followed. "Have it your way princess." said Bermfad as he shut the door for the moment. Cele's body went limp and Canderous turned his attention to another room with monitors and Bermfad stood in the doorway between the monitors and where Cele was hacking the system.

"Mandalore, what do you think would happen if someone managed to form a weapon against one such as her? If a simple change in her programming went undetected?" asked Bermfad as he continued to wait for something to happen. Canderous looked back for a moment at Bermfad to the screen.

"I'm not quit sure that is possible, but if it is they would have to be really clever, perhaps they would have to be someone equal to her to pull it off which at the moment I know of no one." said Canderous as his attention turned back to the monitors and the image of him popped up. Bermfad also turned his attention to the message as Cele came in turning on her own monitor.




Mando'ad draar digu. (A Mandalorian Never forgets)

This is Mandalore, the True Mandalore and I claim my right by the mask I now wear. I have come to give my Ad, Vod, and the galaxy a message. The Mandalorian Wars are over, and have been for a long time. We found glory along the way but many of our Vod(Brothers and sisters) were lost, not only in death but in the Mandalorian way.

When I look out into the galaxy to see what our glorious people have become, I seek Merc's hired as thugs, contract killers, bouncers, and many innumerable second rate jobs. I see that Mandalorians as a whole, who were once a proud people have now become what we despised. It is not the Mandalorian way to hide amongst the sink holes of the galaxy. Those who have forgotten their way I bid you to return to us. Mandalorians who have lost their path, we shall find you. I offer a hand to all those who have found themselves in Solus.(Alone) Aaray bal A'den te aru'e. (Pain and Anger are the enemy)

All Mandalorians who find the strength within themselves to face te Kote(the glory) of their ancestors and te Kote that is the Mando'ad people.

To those who may fear, or even loath us the Mandalorian people, know this. It was you who greeted us with Fear and anger. We honored you. It is you who won the war. We are not bitter. It is you who disbanded us. You cannot hold us apart. You thought the Mandalorians were done for. We have only just begun.

The children of Mandalore were lost, but now we shall return. Any who wish to join us in the way of Mando is free to follow. I shall bode no ill feelings of those who do not come with Clan Ordo to our home Mandalore, but I shall only ask of you once.


Aliit ori'shya tal'din. (Family is more then Bloodline)


"Not bad old man. You may get more then just a few mandalorians to follow us." said Bermfad and then turned to Cele with her joking comment. "Now, I didn't know robots could like the same sex. I have a feeling you'd like me a lot better if I were female."

Bermfad went silent for a second before shrugging. Apparently a lot of droids didn't like him, save for his Basilisk War Droid that was forming a personality of it's own. "Besides, being defective is part of what makes us humans, human." said Bermfad finishing his thoughts out loud and then turning to Mandalore. "So what's the next step, Mandalore?"

Canderous had been watching the screen run through the message one more time and then he pried his eyes way from the screen for a moment. "We return to Mandalore, You are free to join us Cele. No one should be alone, in their journeys. Trust me, I would know." said Canderous reflecting for a brief moment on his memories of Revan, and his excessive need for solitude. He decided since the other two had cracked a joke he might as well join in a little on the fun. "Besides, Bermfad could use the company."

Bermfad got the subtle hint in Canderous and retorted. "You'd better not be trying to hook me up with a droid now. You already tried that with flesh and blood, I don't think Synthetic's is going to work much better."

"I don't know what your talking about," said Canderous innocently, turning off the monitor. "Cele would you mind showing us the way out?"

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Celestial looked at Bermfad and just shook her head. "This body appears an organic female; it does not imply that I myself am a female. In fact I am I was design without a gender bias. I choose the female form base off of the nature of the males in this universe. This form opens a lot of doors." Celestial shut off the monitor and walked out of the room. “Anyways, as you said, even humans have defects, and I seem to see more of them than your good qualities.” Celestial added just before Canderous made the offer to join them.

She looked down the hallway and headed back towards the turbolift. When Bermfad recoiled about being hooked up with a droid Celestial smiled and looked back. "Canderous, you know he is not my type anyways. Just like you when you were with Revan, too much brawns, not enough brains. He would only be good for the one function you were and this body, unlike my old one, is not even design to simulate that organic process." She said with a slight smile as she open up the turbolift panel. She thought she would give Bermfad the wrong impression on purpose, just to see how he would react.

She plugged into the port and the doors open to reveal the lift. She stepped onto to it and looked back. She waited for them to climb aboard. She figured they would not even worry about resistance at this point; they would simple be in a panic about the hack to do anything. “This way if you don’t feel like climbing eight flights of stairs.” Celestial said, she could beat the lift up eight flights of stairs, but for the organics this would be faster.