#But if the war and horrors came to Mandalore's doorstep and started breaking the people down and salting what little earth was left...

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I think she deserves a cool facial scar. As a treat.

Running with the Rebellion. She's too powerful a symbol to be allowed to take her seat as Duchess back, especially if she decides to work with Bo-Katan; pacifism may be incredibly important to her, but there is a limit to how far you can push someone before they engage in self-defense, and even as ardent a pacifist as Satine will rally her people to survive the Empire. With her and Bo working together, they can do a lot... and that's why the Empire will absolutely not allow either of them to become leader of Mandalore again. (So it goes to Korkie, who the Empire believes is little more than a puppet. They think they know about his little violations of the law, and so they miss the big ones, like smuggling force-sensitive children and O66-survivors away from the Empire.)

She doesn't know Obi-Wan is alive, because Bail forgot to get permission to tell her, until 10 years post-RotS... when Bail invites her to greet "Ben" and Leia on their return to safety on Alderaan. She promises to visit him, if there's a chance.

(She doesn't. Instead, he visits her. Satine is far more likely to be tracked to Tatooine than he is, after all.)

She still doesn't pick up a blaster, though; canon gives us some pretty solid evidence for her PTSD preventing her from being any use at it. However, she's very convincing and is very good at getting on-the-fence politicians on the Rebellion's side... and donating credits, rations, and transports to the cause. (Some even donate weapons. She... tries to ignore that part. She lets it happen, but... it hurts.)

#satine kryze #I genuinely believe she would hit her breaking point if the Empire took Mandalore #Part of the issue with involving Mandalore in the Clone War was that they were still recovering and too weak economically #and in other ways to even consider joining a war that hadn't touched them yet #part of it was overall pacifism and part of it was not being told about the CIS war crimes and so not KNOWING why diplomacy wouldn't work #but part of it was also just that they Could Not Afford It; a half-dead mid rim planet had so much more to risk than like. Alderaan #But if the war and horrors came to Mandalore's doorstep and started breaking the people down and salting what little earth was left... #what choice is there if they want to survive? They couldn't join TCW because it would kill what was left of them. #They couldn't NOT join the war on the Empire because it was already killing what was left of them #star wars #phoenix answers memes