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[Standard Villain Filter with emphasis again Knives, Legato, and Yuber // 100% Unhackable]

Those of you who met a little girl during the last experiment, who might have said her name was Tesla, she was not a little girl. She was my brother, Knives. He was looking for me and if you told him you knew me, [a pause] you could be in danger. I’m sorry, but any of my friends, even if you don’t know me that well, [even if you don’t know me] you shouldn’t leave yourself unprotected. I don’t know what he might be thinking or planning, but he’s never treated people I know very well.

Knives looks a lot like me, but with shorter and lighter hair. He also has a man named Legato working for him. He has blue hair and yellow eyes. Stay away from them if you can. If they come after you, call for help. They are very strong and have mental abilities that can turn even the strongest fighter into a rag doll. Please, do not go after them on your own.

[After answering the questions people may ask, Vash decides to work off some of this building frustration and anger towards his brother. He’s at the battle dome and he’ll be in there until he’s kicked out, finger bleeding, shooting at anything the simulation will throw at him without killing the targets. Feel free to catch him setting everything up or as he’s coming out.]

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[Wow. You're really, really professional about this. Vash isn't even really sure how to respond. He was never good with military sounding type stuff.]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... affirmative?

Military language is restricted for UNSC Spartans, sir. [That's self-mockery at work, Vash. At least she's becoming aware that she's a fish out of water.

Either way, the Chief Petty Officer decides to ask. She needs to know her enemies.]

What do you suggest against them, sir?

To stay away from them.

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With all due respect, running won't always be an option. Especially against a stronger enemy. [She knows this too well.]

I know what's above me. But I need to know how to fight them.

I'm not really sure how. I don't know of any weakness against their body controlling abilities.

[This was troubling. They would need to be treated as hostile ordnance. Taken down by whole groups, and ambushed. Somehow.]

What about physical? Plasma? Fire?

Plasma!? Fire!? I don't want to kill them!

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[They have two threats against the residents, and he wants to spare them? Her tone remains as neutral, but with a small tone of irritation.]

They are enemies, sir. They are a threat to every resident here.

[The Chief has a hint on what to use, at least.]

No one has the right to take the life of another.

You mean people that can only watch as their planet is glassed?

[She pauses for a moment, aware of her outburst.]

Not everyone is a superhuman, Mr. Vash. Not everyone can subdue anyone that seeks to kill them without injuring them.

No one should take the life of another. But no one should be blamed for taking an enemy's life to protect his own, or a loved one's.

There's always another way. A way to solve things without killing.

If that were true, sir, we would not be here.

In all likelyhood, no one here would even know how to fight.

((OOC: Sorry. Thought about making a post private, but after I cut down the post a lot, I forgot I had defined it as filtered.))

It is true.

(ooc: It's fine!)

Is it?

In my world, we are fighting a losing war. Our enemy appeared out of nowhere, burned a colony to glass with only a handful of their ships, and the first message they gave to mankind was this:

"Your destruction is the will of the gods. And we are their instruments."

Our enemy refuses to even dialogue. They have burned planets from orbit and commited atrocities not to military, but to civilians; They do not destroy warships to turn our worlds into colonies. They are there erase our species. Even innocents. Even children. All in the name of their faith.

Ironically, had it not been for them, we would've been knee-deep in civil war. Because now? It is killing, or extinction.

How do you solve a conflict of that magnitude? Against something that only wishes your destruction? All, without the death of a single person?

One person alone can't do that. They can however be an example and do their best to keep everyone they can safe. If we keep our vision clear then we can see the future.

For us... It's been only five years, but we are not seeing a future.

Sir. I believe you are noble, and everyone here seems to trust you with their lives. But I don't believe peace would ever be a fearsible option. Or a permanent one.

[This is spoken in a resigned voice. Sometimes, in spite of how alive she feels on the battlefield, she wishes it was.]

Thank you for the intel, Mr. Vash. For all the lives you saved with this warning.

That's not true. One day there will be peace. Where people can live out their lives in peaceful days. With no war or stealing, but we have to work now to make it that way.

For hundreds of years, war has been a part for humanity, as much as they've wished peace. I doubt other sentients would have it different.

If it ever happens, it will still come with sweat and blood.

We weren't born to kill and hurt, so there can be peace and it can be brought without blood. If we're willing to work for it.

But we were made to survive.

We don't have to kill to survive.

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