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"Think of your words, all of you." Arda spoke, "Think of your words and your actions and your inaction." she emphasized as she looked to where Alys once stood and now absent, and then back to the Rebel who seemed to have also disappeared some time ago after a mission to Nubia. "The meeting with the Manda'lor was an offer to continue to broker peace between us, until then we have remained neutral. I had offered the GA to join them, to fight along side, but he believed that would not be necessary, we needed to prove ourselves, it was then I had vision, the Force showed me the future, the darkness that still eats away at the galaxy and us, the Jedi, the Mandalorians are at its mercy...we are rats that he will drive back into extinction." explained the Grandmaster, uncertain of what her Rebels and members of the Alliance wanted in validating this recent war call from the Mandalore.
"Peace, Teran, does mean we do everything before flying into violence, but Peace for a Jedi is not just a term for war." she looked back to her Jedi Knights and Padawans, "Will you be able to live in peace with yourself if we, the Jedi, decided to fall back into hiding? To allow ourselves to be hunted as we did five centuries prior where the Masters at the time decided to abandoned the galaxy? To leave everyone here to fight the darkness that still exists alone?" she rhetorically asked, "Sometimes it will require to pick up our sabers and fight for what we believe is right, to stand, yes, in courage as we face the fear that spreads through the galaxy. It does not mean we no longer serve the people, service has many facets." She looked around the room.
"What do you think the Mandalor's genocide of the Jedi mean for the Republic? Even after one of ours declared us Jedi as their Knights for their Republic. What do you think his hunt will mean for all the worlds that we have grown close to over the years? We do not just abandon our allies." Arda shook her head, "The Manda'lor may not believe in the Force or the dark side, but I felt it, it surrounded his words, his hatred for us and it will tear him apart as much as anyone who is able to sense the Force. He has made his decision and now I am looking to make ours. If the Jedi are alone in this fight, then we may have to hide once more, alone we cannot survive. I cannot justify to put younglings or the rest of you in harms way if this is something you do not want to do." Her voice grew quiet and uncertain.