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Melyc'inya Staff Sergeant

Title: Combat Medic Number of posts: 111 Credits: 159 Rep: 14 Registration date: 2009-05-02
 | Subject: Re: Death Watch, yo. Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:24 am | |
| Hahaha. 'S nothin' dirty, if that's where you were goin' with that...he's just nearly blown up two planets, imploded a ship we were borrowing from the Jedi temple, turned a Death Star-esque ship into the "Yarmulke of Doom," and just sold the plans for his WMD to...damn, I forget. Someone. Oh, and he nearly melted all our gear and ships and everything metal within the area with a random grenade he made from scratch (much akin to the happy-fun-time green stuff in GI Joe), but we were lucky and it fell into a hole and just melted some underground stuff that pretty much disabled the entire area, we found out later, when all the shops were in a tizzy. ^_^' |
|  | | Gratulor's body Warrior

Title: Mirsh'kyramud Number of posts: 144 Planet/System: Fantasy land Credits: 165 Rep: 16 Registration date: 2009-03-25
 | Subject: Re: Death Watch, yo. Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:13 pm | |
| Awesome! The Death Watch are really my favourite Mandos in the prequel era because they are so nasty. My RP character on SWG, Cuir (the one on the far right in the banner image) is supposed to have been one of them. Good to see others having an interest in them. And when in the RP I sought out all the info I wanted on them also. In a nutshell, the Death Watch (Kyr'tsad in Mando'a, meaning Death Society but also know as Death Squad) was founded as the answer to Jaster Mereel's standardization of a moral code ca. 60 BBY. They adhered to no moral codes themselves, and this made them likely to do just about anything. The leader, an egomaniac named Tor Vizsla, proclaimed to be preparing the Mandalorians for a war on the galaxy like their forefathers instead of settling with being a simple and forgotten people, which in fact he didn't directly act on appearently. But that's basically why the other Mandalorians didn't like them. Amoral and wishing to raid and pillage instead of making an honest living as mercenaries. They saw themselves as superiour to anyone and took what they wanted. Like we see in Open Seasons: they killed children, made "evidence" to frame others and there was also a hint that when in town, they would commit war rapes. Ask away if you need to know something specific, but sadly there's little to know about them. I combed the internet and sourcebooks in the last 4 years to put together something useful for RP.  |
|  | | Melyc'inya Staff Sergeant

Title: Combat Medic Number of posts: 111 Credits: 159 Rep: 14 Registration date: 2009-05-02
 | Subject: Re: Death Watch, yo. Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:25 pm | |
| Wayii! That's an excellent summary of 'em right there, Gratulor.  (Although, to my amusement, summing up what you said makes them equate to pirates in my mind.  ) It'll be another week or two, at least, before we'll get to play again, but I've definitely got a handle on what to think of the clan now (upon asking for clarification, Bastion cleared it up that the "Death Watch" my mando has been invited to join is simply their clan who feel the same general way the future Death Watch do). Still amuses me that Kasi gets to go through two trials; first, the traditional Zabrak one for adulthood, and now one to join the pseudo-cult clan. XD |
|  | | Buruk Sergeant

Title: Survivor of Galidraan Number of posts: 61 Planet/System: Concord Dawn Credits: 79 Rep: 3 Registration date: 2009-08-24
 | Subject: Re: Death Watch, yo. Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:10 pm | |
| I'd say rather than pirates, they're even more like space vikings than the rest of the Mandos  |
|  | | Melyc'inya Staff Sergeant

Title: Combat Medic Number of posts: 111 Credits: 159 Rep: 14 Registration date: 2009-05-02
 | Subject: Re: Death Watch, yo. Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:33 pm | |
| Hahaha. Another good way ta put it, aye.  |
|  | | Kote Warrior

Number of posts: 144 Planet/System: currently on deep scouting mission in the Unknown Regions Credits: 143 Rep: 15 Registration date: 2009-03-19
 | Subject: Re: Death Watch, yo. Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:09 am | |
| And as far as I remember, DW members were famous for boozing and debauchery on board their vessels as well.  Can't remember the source, though. Concernng Hokan - I didn't actually get an impression that he was some kind of crazy sadistic bastard, which is certainly implied when it's told he even had to leave Death Watch because he was too tough (or something) for them. He did his job and he did it well. So it leaves me wondering if DW was really as bad as they're said to have been. |
|  | | Gratulor's body Warrior

Title: Mirsh'kyramud Number of posts: 144 Planet/System: Fantasy land Credits: 165 Rep: 16 Registration date: 2009-03-25
 | Subject: Re: Death Watch, yo. Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:07 am | |
| | Kote wrote: | And as far as I remember, DW members were famous for boozing and debauchery on board their vessels as well. Can't remember the source, though.
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That came from the History of the Mandalorians article from Insider. They appearently boozed on Mandallian Necrolathe (sounds bad doesn't it, Nacrolathe - makes me think of a mix between Teqilua and Cocaine) and were constantly at each other's throats.
| Quote: | | Concernng Hokan - I didn't actually get an impression that he was some kind of crazy sadistic bastard, which is certainly implied when it's told he even had to leave Death Watch because he was too tough (or something) for them. He did his job and he did it well. So it leaves me wondering if DW was really as bad as they're said to have been. |
It's actually been put forth as a question in the new novel if he actually was a Death Watchman or not, and a certain character (don't want to spoil anything) said that it was a nasty rumour because he was a hard-liner. But yeah, I've never really gotten the impression that they were any worse than the Crusaders and Neo-Crusaders of the Kotor era... but then again the Crusaders had a code of conduct when the Death Watch had none. Perhaps that's where they get worse because they really could have gotten way beyond antisocial with their Mando training, upbringing and without any guidelines where to draw the line. |
|  | | Kote Warrior

Number of posts: 144 Planet/System: currently on deep scouting mission in the Unknown Regions Credits: 143 Rep: 15 Registration date: 2009-03-19
 | Subject: Re: Death Watch, yo. Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:02 am | |
| | Quote: | They appearently boozed on Mandallian Necrolathe (sounds bad doesn't it, Nacrolathe - makes me think of a mix between Teqilua and Cocaine) and were constantly at each other's throats.
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Oh yeah, it does sound terrible. Reminds of berserk, too - psychodelic and warlike.
But Death Watch had this agenda of recreating Mandalorian glory and honour, didn't they? So, I guess, there were both hooligans, who wanted only to drink, fight and pillage, and hard-liners, who were attracted by the said agenda, but probably later had to leave because they were outnumbered by the "hooligan"-party. |
|  | | Gratulor's body Warrior

Title: Mirsh'kyramud Number of posts: 144 Planet/System: Fantasy land Credits: 165 Rep: 16 Registration date: 2009-03-25
 | Subject: Re: Death Watch, yo. Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:29 pm | |
| | Kote wrote: |
But Death Watch had this agenda of recreating Mandalorian glory and honour, didn't they? |
From what my understanding is that they opposed going back to codes of coduct, but they wished to start a war on the galaxy. Which was why they were against the True Mandalorians, who wanted to be simpke mercs for hire and used a strict code to guide behaviour. |
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